Monthly Archive for April, 2010

The FB "like" button API

De manière générale, plus on avance plus la question du rapport entre le déploiement d’une stratégie entreprise 2.0 et les process de l’entreprise se pose. Chez certains cela se règle quasi intuitivement, pour d’autres il faut une approche plus analytique, plus construite (…)

Pendant vingt à trente ans, 250.000 utilisateurs de téléphone portable seront suivis dans cinq pays pour mettre en évidence l'éventuel effet des ondes sur l'apparition de cancers mais aussi d'autres pathologies. Une étude de plus, après bien d'autres, qui n'ont apparemment pas donné de résultats concluants.

A team of researchers from Japan and Michigan have built a molecular computer whose operation mimics a human brain. The tiny circuit, comprised of organic molecules on a gold substrate, is capable of super-fast concurrent calculations that rival the firing of neurons (…)

The battle to control type-1 diabetes in children could get a little easier — as long as the kids keep playing with their Nintendos. Bayer Diabetes Care unveiled a new gadget Monday that aims to help kids manage their disease by tapping into their love for video games…

via @mfavez

change your ipod's battery for dummies. via @podsandblogs

Amazing facts about google

8,5 % de l'e-commerce pourrait se faire via mobile en 2015 aux USA
Le m-commerce pourrait atteindre 23,8 milliards de dollars aux Etats-Unis en 2015 selon Coda Research Consultancy qui estime que le nombre de mobinautes sera alors de 158 millions et que le nombre de détenteurs de smartphones atteindra 190 millions. Le m-commerce américain représenterait alors 20 % du m-commerce mondial, 8,5 % du commerce électronique aux Etats-Unis, mais seulement 0,5 % du commerce tous canaux confondus outre-Atlantique.

all the figures about the current trends on the internet (social media, mobile penetration, cloud computing, etc.)
The progression of Android struck me: mobile OS usage share as of Feb 2010:
44% iPhone
42% Android (that's really close!!)
7% RIM (BlackBerry)
2% Windows
5% Others (Palm+Hiptop) (slide 44)

- 105'779'710 registered users
- 300'000 new users a day
- 600 million search queries a day
- 175 employees

1.1 Visual-spatial
1.2 Verbal-linguistic
1.3 Logical-mathematical
1.4 Bodily-kinesthetic
1.5 Musical-rhythmic
1.6 Interpersonal
1.7 Intrapersonal
1.8 Naturalistic
1.9 Existential

Basarab Eftimie Nicolescu (b. March 25, 1942, Ploieşti, Romania) is a theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He is also a Professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Docteur ès-Sciences Physiques (PhD), 1972, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
He is the president and founder of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET), a non-profit organization.
He is also a specialist in the theory of elementary particles and a major advocate of the transdisciplinary reconciliation between science and the humanities. He has published many articles on the role of science in contemporary culture in journals in France, Romania, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina, Japan and in the USA. 
(Via TVRI)

Facebook has taken a clear lead, with nearly half of driven traffic, with StumbleUpon in a surprising second place position, accounting for nearly a quarter of all traffic, and Twitter just behind that with one out of every 10 hits to websites from social media. Myspace, on the other hand, has virtually disappeared, dropping from 16% of hits to nearly 1% this month.

(…) La barre symbolique des 50% de taux d’installation a été dépassée en Mars 2010 (…)

An intranet that features multiple social media tools for most or all employees to use as collaboration vehicles for sharing knowledge with other employees. A social intranet may feature blogs, wikis, discussion forums, social networking, or a combination of these or any other Web 2.0 (intranet 2.0) tool with at least some or limited exposure (optional) from the main intranet or portal home page (…)

1. # of registered users: 105,779,710 (1,500% growth over the last three years.)
2. # of new sign-ups per day: ~ 300,000 (More recently, 60% of new accounts were from outside the U.S.)
3. # of new tweets per day: 55 million
4. # of unique daily visitors to the site twitter.com: ~ 180 million. (That's actually dwarfed by the traffic that flows through twitter's API — 75% of traffic is through the API.)
5. # of API requests per day: 3 billion
6. # of registered apps: 100,000 (from 50,000 in Dec/2009)
7. # of search queries per day: 600 milion
8. Twitter's instance, of their recently open-sourced graph database (FlockDB), has 300 13 billion edges and handles 100,000 reads per second.
9. # of servers1: "… in the hundreds"
10. Blackberry's just released twitter app accounted for 7% of new sign-ups over the last few days
11. A NY Times story gets tweeted every 4 seconds.

Un vrai blog d'opinion, altermondialiste à souhait.
via Anto

Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow.
Via @niptechpodcast

Geek quotes, via @niptechpodcast