Monthly Archive for May, 2010

The holy grail in web search technology is to be able to ask a simple question, in natural language, and get a simple answer. With Google's announcement today of Google Squared coming to its search results, the search engine has moved one step closer to that grail.

According to the company's blog from one year ago today, when Google Squared first launched, "unlike a normal search engine, Google Squared doesn't find webpages about your topic — instead, it automatically fetches and organizes facts from across the Internet."

always useful…

Social intranet: 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.

The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network: an open and respectful alternative to facebook!

Parts of the planet could start to become too hot and humid for people to survive in a century or so if we fail to limit global warming. So says a startling study published last week in PNAS, which most of us journalists seem to have missed until now. (…)

Some regions would start to become too hot and humid for human habitation with a global temperature rise of 7 °C, the paper says. With a rise of 11 °C or more, most of the human population as currently distributed would either have to move or rely on air conditioning to avoid dying of heat stress.

Le community manager existe déjà en interne dans les entreprises. Il ne faut pas aller chercher en dehors de vos murs le community manager idéal. C’est un mouton à 5 pattes qui, par définition, n’existe pas. Il vaut mieux capitaliser sur des personnes qui ont une logique et une compréhension des enjeux de l’entreprise plutôt qu’une personne qui sur le CV vous vantera ses capacités web, rédactionnelles, relationnelles ou d’expertise en social media. Votre community manager existe : il suffit de le trouver au sein de votre entreprise et de le faire accompagner par des experts.

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Qualities of Good Fans/Likers:
1. Attention
2. Participation
3. Interaction
4. Leadership
5. Loyalty
6. Evangelism (…)

Le nouveau kiosque à journaux numérique sera lancé à d’ici à la fin de l’année par les grands éditeurs helvétiques, Orell Füssli et Swisscom. La plate-forme payante délivrera journaux et livres. De plus, l’offre sera combinée avec une tablette électronique A4.
Comme le dit Luc Debraine dans le Temps, « les éditeurs de presse passent à l’action ».
Edipresse, Ringier, Tamedia et NZZ réunissent leur force et donneront par la suite la possibilité à d’autres de les rejoinde en ligne pour proposer leurs titres. Les périodiques de ces groupes de presse seront complétés par les livres en allemand et anglais de la maison Orell Füssli.
L’utilisateur pourra s’y connecter à partir d’un ordinateur, d’un téléphone, d’une télévision, ou d’une tablette. Un accès au kiosque qui se fera à travers Swisscom. Ce partenariat avec une entreprise de télécommunications est une particularité en comparaison internationale.

Bump™ makes sharing with people quick and easy. Just pick what you want to send, then hold your phones and gently bump hands with another person using Bump™. Share photos and contacts, compare friends, or become Facebook friends in seconds! via @bcurdy

With vaccine supplies limited, social butterflies on Facebook could find themselves targeted for real-world injections. Stanford University researchers have created an algorithm that uses social networking data to identify the people who are "bridges" between different tight-knit circles of friends or communities, so that limited vaccine supplies can be used wisely.

y a des chiffres qui refroidissent. Et sacrément. En février, la FEVAD sortait les chiffres du e-commerce 2009 (en BtoC, c’est important).

One of the biggest issues business owners have with social media is its propensity to become, what’s the word…oh yes…a time suck! If you’re responsible for answering blog comments, tweets, status updates, discussion threads, etc, when does any of that “real” work get done? While using social media tools to reach out and connect with your customers is important, you have to give them something to connect with. That means you can’t simply log onto Twitter and let the rest of your company fall to the wayside. I mean, what if Twitter went away. Or your followers did? Would your company still move forward? (…)

Web Engagement Management (WEM) is a strategy for how an organization brings together its human and technology resources to optimize its digital presence. In the article What is Web Engagement Management (WEM)? we outlined 5 core WEM components. But we just skimmed the surface. Here's more on what we think is at the center of WEM.
1. Content Optimization
2. Multi-channel Management
3. Conversational Engagement
4. Demand Generation
5. Sales & Relationship Automation

iPod facts and figures, 2001-2010, in one image

Cette étude américaine date de près de dix mois. Ses résultats n’en sont pas moins bons à rappeler.
D’après le bureau Pean, Schoen & Belrand Associates, trois consommateurs américains sur quatre seraient prêts à à payer plus cher des produits dont il est démontré qu’ils sont socialement responsables. (…)

via @mfavez

via @fforestier

The speed of that debt-meter is just flabbergasting! An excellent illustration of how crazy and uncontrollable the model has become…

- génération "Why", remet systématiquement en cause les contraintes que l'on peut lui imposer
- impatiente, "a la culture Google. Elle s'est habituée à obtenir sa réponse dans la seconde"
- pas facile à manager, "n'hésite pas à quitter un job qui ne lui convient pas"
- mobile et multi-tâches, "recherche d'équqilibre entre le bureau et la vie privée"
- engagée au coup par coup
- consumérisme tiraillé… Conformiste le lundi et anticonformiste le mardi

via @jeanlucr

The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it premiered with a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s now classic 1932 novel, Brave New World. Huxley himself introduced and narrated the program, and now this classic radio drama has resurfaced online.

Security experts, industry analysts and even Microsoft recommend that IT departments upgrade Internet Explorer 6, yet new research shows that while there may have recently been a mock funeral for the aging browser, IE6 is still around and doing well, especially during standard business hours.
via Headshift

Social CRM is the business strategy of engaging customers through Social Media with goal of building trust and brand loyalty.
via Headshift

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