links for 2009-11-29

Les principaux points positifs de Google Wave :
- Le concept est séduisant
- L’endroit permet de centraliser toutes les conversations
- Le travail collaboratif est facilité
- Les extensions utilisables sont intéressantes

Les principaux points négatifs de Google Wave :
- La gestion des invitations est mauvaise
- L’intégration avec d’autres outils est limitée
- La vitesse est trop lente lorsque la Wave regroupe beaucoup de monde

Male/female site user statistics:
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* 84% (16 out of 19) of the site have more female than male users.
* The social news sites Digg, Reddit and Slashdot have significantly more male users than female. The standout here is Slashdot which takes male geekdom to new heights with 82% male users.
* If we hadn’t included the three social news sites, all of the sites would have had more females than males.
* Twitter and Facebook have almost the same male-female ratio; Twitter with 59% female users and Facebook with 57%.
* The most female-dominated site? Bebo (66% female users), closely followed by MySpace and Classmates.com (64%).
* The average ratio of all 19 sites was 47% male, 53% female.
Via Olivier Tripet

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1- Audience specific content (well-written & subject focused).
2- Current, fresh content (timely).
3- Easy to navigate (content categories).
4- Social media integration (bookmarking, sharing options, Twitter).
5- Audience engagement (user comments & responding to comments).
6- Clean design (not cluttered with ads and crap).
7- Cross promoting the business (without blatant advertising).
8- Text + Multimedia (large blocks of text turn-off readers)