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1. Facebook's Global Position
By the end of the year Facebook will be the principal social network in all but 25 countries across the globe. However, there will be significant gaps in its coverage that will be based on language issues, particularly in countries like Brazil, Russia, India, China and Japan.
In September 2009, Facebook had 300 million members with a predicted membership of 600 million by the end this year — including inactive accounts and multiple account users — based on growth patterns in 2009.
The result is that marketing and customer relationship management will have to change from working across a number of social networking sites to three or four sites that will cover the main languages.
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Just in case…
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via Leo via Arthur
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"Up until now, the various lawsuits filed against the LHC have faltered. But if the right kind of claim is filed in the proper court, a judge may soon have to face the question of whether an injunction might be needed to save the world." Not even a joke!!
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mouais… Via secrets2moteurs
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If you see a student dozing in the library or a co-worker catching 40 winks in her cubicle, don't roll your eyes. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that an hour's nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power. Indeed, the findings suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter.
Via boingboing
Monthly Archive for February, 2010
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-Choose a meeting space with a timer
-Don’t wait for late or missing attendees
-Tell the other attendees that you have to log off at a certain time.Make an agenda and enforce it
-Chop the guest list
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Imagine…
-If we stopped automating social media
-If we only shared things we actually liked
-If we looked at social media like a tool
-If we learned how to disagree
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At first there were brands, next came search, algorithms, human links… And then algorithmic authority and predictive creation? Not sure I fully understand and even less agree with the 2 latest points, but very interesting analysis anyway.
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Despite the increasing integration of Online Social Networks (OSNs) activity into everyday life, however, there has been no research on the most fundamental question about OSN profiles: Do they convey accurate impressions of profile owners?
A widely held assumption, supported by content analyses, suggests that OSN profiles are used to create and communicate idealized selves (Manago, Graham, Greenfield, & Salimkhan, 2008). According to this idealized virtual-identity hypothesis, profile owners display idealized characteristics that do not reflect their actual personalities. Thus, personality impressions based on OSN profiles should reflect profile owners’ ideal-self views rather than what the owners are actually like.
A contrasting view holds that OSNs may constitute an extended social context in which to express one’s actual personality characteristics, thus fostering accurate interpersonal perceptions.
Which is true? A brilliant study by the University of Mainz.
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Useless but real fun! Music generated using the source code of any given web page. Via korben.info
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via secrets2moteurs
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Cloud backup system for iPhone contacts. Via Alain Helg
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Here are 5 steps for intranet 2.0 change management planning:
1- Intranet governance model (if you don’t have an explicit, documented governance model for the overall intranet, you’re going nowhere fast).
2- Social media policy (who can do what, when, how, and the rules for doing so).
3- Executive sponsorship (ensure you have a senior executive in your corner to help promote your new tools).
4- Communications plan (promote these tools by email, newsletter, the intranet home page, and buzz marketing activities).
5- Active conversations (lead and promote the conversation with topical posts (e.g. new blog post or wiki) that are well targeted and promoted to potential subject matter experts and keeners).
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wow! it IS happening… People spent more time on Facebook than on all other sites added. Via @niptechpodcast
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For the most part, it is a moot point: employees don’t want to blog. There are always keeners and exceptions to the rule, but employees have no interest in blogging. Even at IBM, one of the most technology and social media savvy employee populations on the planet, with more than 350,000 employees, there exists about 15,000 employee blogs (less than 5% of the population).
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I must be gulping down tons of that protein without even remembering it
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What's happening is that our privacy has become a kind of currency. It's what we use to pay for online services. Google charges nothing for Gmail; instead, it reads your e-mail and sends you advertisements based on keywords in your private messages.
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Les Américains passent une moyenne de trois heures par jour à consulter Internet depuis leur cellulaire.
- 62 % des détenteurs de cellulaire l'utilisent pour poster des messages instantanés,
- 58 % transfèrent des messages,
- 45 % d'entre eux postent des messages sur les réseaux sociaux,
- 43 % se connectent à leurs amis via les réseaux sociaux,
- 40 % à partager du contenu avec les autres et
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via b-spirit
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Southwest Airlines a subi les foudres d'un client mécontent sur Twitter. Incident qui soulève la question de l'impact des medias sociaux sur des règlements jusqu'ici bien acceptés. Via Olivier Gosset
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AUPEO!
MeeMix
Moodstream
Stereomood
Musicovery
Haven't tried them out yet, but I'm a little skeptical… I'm almost sure that matching my mood in realtime would require a computer with a brain "the size of a planet"… -
Beautiful!
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News, made for the Web.
The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country's leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post.All in one place
Complete coverage of an on-going story is gathered together and prioritized on one URL. You can now quickly navigate between news articles, opinion pieces and features without long waits for pages to load.Easy to explore
Each story has an evolving summary of current developments as a well as an interactive timeline of critical events. Stories can be explored by themes, significant participants or multimedia.Smarter reading
Updates to the story are highlighted each time you come back, and older news is summarized.
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Des milliers de PME sur les réseaux sociaux:
24% de PME, aux Etats-Unis, selon le Small Business Success Index, sont désormais actives sur les réseaux sociaux (blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter…).
En un an, cette proportion a doublé.
Selon l’étude, les médias sociaux seront le troisième poste d’investissement des PME américaines dans les deux prochaines années.
61% des PME actives sur les réseaux sociaux disent entrer en relation avec de nouveaux prospects grâce aux réseaux sociaux.
Quasiment la moitié d’entre elles ont trouvé de nouvelles idées de produits.
Les petites et moyennens entreprises interrogées indiquent également être reconnues, grâce à leur activité et leur input sur les réseaux sociaux, comme des experts. Elles sont devenues des sources d’information crédibles pour des personnes d’influence, y compris des journalistes.
L’étude ci-dessus a été validée par l’Université du Maryland. -
2010 Content Technology Vendor Map
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et répartition de l'âge des utilisateurs par réseau social… Instructif. Via, euh, oublié désolé…
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via secrets2moteurs
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why the sky's dark at night eventhough there are bright stars everywhere… via @doctorkarl
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"what we want is news, not newspapers!"
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Where the devil does he find the time to translate all this into English??
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# Avoid the fishbowl syndrome
# Avoid glut and overload
# Avoid knee-jerk reactions
# Avoid overreaching and overstating.
# Avoid the shingle phenomenon
# Avoid the big plunge
# Avoid the quick hit
# Avoid the numbers game
# Avoid the silos
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Distribution of shared items
Facebook: 44%
Twitter: 29%
Yahoo:18%
MySpace:9%News sites:
Facebook: 31%
Google: 30%
Yahoo: 25%
Twitter: 11%
AOL: 3%Entertainment sites:
Facebook: 52%
Google: 17%
Yahoo: 12%
Twitter: 11%
MySpace: 7%
AOL: 1%Live Event Chat:
Facebook: 56%
Twitter: 28%
Yahoo: 9%
MySpace: 7%add.this Top 10 Services, Overall
Facebook: 33%
Email: 13%
Print:9%
Twitter: 9%
Favorites: 8%
Google: 6%
MySpace: 6%
Digg: 3%
Live: 3%
Delicious: 3% -
Subscene
OpenSubtitles
Subtitles.Images.O2.CZ
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TuneGlue
Music-Map
Music Roamer
Bloson
Zune
One Track Mind
The Hype Machine
TheSixtyOne
OurStage
PureVolume
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I had totally forgotten the name of this brilliant concept (and app), thx le Temps!
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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it: Amazon.co.uk: Philip Ball: BooksThe Music Instinct, by Philip Ball: on my wishlist…
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Author of the "Music Instinct"
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Naomi Klein: "Our debt to Haiti stems from four main sources: slavery, the US occupation, dictatorship and climate change. These claims are not fantastical, nor are they merely rhetorical. They rest on multiple violations of legal norms and agreements. Here, far too briefly, are highlights of the Haiti case." Fully documented article (as always), straight to the point!
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Quelques liens intéressants: Videdressing.com, Trenzup.com, Greencommerce.fr, Consoglobe.com
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most people are consumers, rather than creators (hence the blog stats levelling out) and they still want all the content that sits outside the social web, but they want to be able to choose when and where they get it i.e. mobile, social site integration, etc.
All the latest trends from various sources regarding teens, social media, web ubiquity and mobile access. Useful -
Twuffer
FutureTweets
twAitter
SocialOomph
Hootsuite (ah?)
CoTweet
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HTC Desire, frère jumeau du NexusOne avec la couche d'interface HTC en bonus. Via Nico
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The whole concept of brand2.0 in 38 slides, brilliant! via @digitariel
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The Science behind the Sitcom. Awesome!! via @bcurdy
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Evolution of major Internet brands websites over 10 years: Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo. Instructive. via JulienFerla
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Si peu de marques proposent des espaces participatifs que le chiffre est à prendre avec des baguettes, mais sur le fond, pas franchement surprenant
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awsome! The ultimate SEO tool. Via MakeUseOf.com
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Worst practices on the web
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find people via their twitter bios. Via @niptechpodcast and @alexip
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… my last hope to get decent performance back out of my pro DELL Latitude E4200…
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Obviously not true for all the websites, but I suppose the trend is real and is, indeed, changing everything! Via MicroPersuasion
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A new way of using the genetic code has been created, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world. The breakthrough could eventually lead to the creation of new or "improved" life forms incorporating these new materials into their tissue.
In all existing life forms, the four "letters" of the genetic code, called nucleotides, are read in triplets, so that every three nucleotides encode a single amino acid.
Not any more. Jason Chin at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues have now redesigned the cell's machinery so that it reads the genetic code in quadruplets (…)
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via Mathieu Favez
