February 2010
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To Beat a Book: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous...
The Dispossessed is not a difficult book. The setup is based on a thought experiment: two planets face each other, one is governed by a radically anarchist government, the other one is governed under a no-less radical class system.
But Le Guin excels at tearing the thing apart. The nonlinear story forces the reader to recollect the events and the logics of the book, allowing step by step to...
The new worldwide startup →
For once, I really agree with Scoble.
The infrastructure needed for a startup now exists everywhere in the world.
PR is being decentralized. Thanks to blogs, Skype, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook you can get onto TechCrunch no matter where in the world you are.
Costs are coming way down. And it’s probably cheaper to hire French people than to try to get some fresh SF graduates.
Silicon...
WatchWelcom back in the 70s.
Videocracy (2009) - Alden Volney
Atelier Open Music Data le 2 mars à 20h00 à la... →
Le groupe musique de Think Digital organise avec Collibri (la communauté web 20/logiciel libre de Cap Digital) un atelier le 2 mars à 20h00, à la Cantine sur le thème “Open music data”: une heure pour débattre ensemble des enjeux liés aux données de l’industrie de la musique :
Données de…
Twitter Users Sending 50 Million Tweets Each Day →
“While most people are worried about getting paid for their work, I’m more...”
– Sheelah Kolhatkar
Have Keyboard, Will Travel - NYTimes.com
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“One of the trick for a manager to learn is that you don’t need to be the...”
– This comes from Ed Catmull in this video taken at Stanford University, and it was a delight to hear.
Indeed, I am so fed up by people who tend to believe that the communication structure of an institution should mimic its hierarchical structure.
They come to you, and they ask why they were not...
“In short, Chatroulette is pretty much the best site going on the internet right...”
– Chatroulette
Probably the best explanation of chatroulette that I’ve read. Good work kottke!
WatchCoke’s ‘fans first’ approach in social communities
Really interesting. It’s impressive to see Coca-Cola stating that Coke’s homepage “isn’t just coke.com, it’s google.com” and even “hyves.nl, youtube.com, facebook.com”.
On Facebook alone, they got 95 videos, 4 600 photos (!), 90 000 comments (!!), 500 000 likes...
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BlueKiwi is featured on TechCrunch
blueKiwi Rides the Freemium Wave
It’s not that common to see a French company featured on Techcrunch. Especially when they are in the perimeter of Cap Digital.
After getting some funding, BlueKiwi is going east and will try to compete in the US market.
Aardvark's success hints at the decline of...
The people from Aardvark wrote a research paper titled Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine. It has just been accepted to WWW2010, the same conference where the classic Google paper Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine was published 12 years ago.
The paper seems to describe and categorize the behaviour of Aardvark’s users which is interesting in itself.
But...
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Universities could disappear just like the music...
It’s the first article where I see a link between the decline of the music industry, and the coming decline of Universities.
And once you got the point, it’s clear as magic.
The idea comes from Don Tapscott and is basic: Encyclopedias, newspapers, and record labels have a lot in common. They all are in the business of producing content.
Not convinced?
Here are a few numbers and...
Publishers are pushing to sell ebooks at the same...
Amazon’s ebook pricing structure has crumbled. Hachette’s the third major publisher to push for the agency model, following MacMillan and HarperCollins: They’ll set the ebook prices (higher, natch) and the bookseller takes a cut. The $9.99 ebook? Poof.
The $9.99 Ebook Is Dead: Third Major Publisher Hachette Dumps on Amazon [Amazon]
details about Chinese attacks on Google should...
For the past 5 years, I have been working on several very secretive projects. And I have always been amazed at their total lack of digital security understanding: sending unencrypted confidential emails via gmail (why bother after all - and why not allow anyone to come to their meetings), storing data on personal laptops, using instant messenging, archiving every godamn conversations, etc.
This...
Google Chrome tablet UI begins taking shape in...
Google Chrome tablet UI begins taking shape in Chromium nightly builds
I was certain that we would not have to wait for long before this kind of announcement… here it is: google tablet.
How will they call it? The chrompad? Sounds funny :-)
WatchOne of the two or three best inventors in the world… and an incredible presentation!
Henri Verdier Blog: L’ordinateur sans ordinateur
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WatchMock-ups Show a Google Chrome OS Tablet
Everybody will make tablets in 2010. Some will be bigger than the iPad, some will be smaller. But it seems like it will be the trend to go.
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Henri Verdier Blog: Chris Anderson : "la nouvelle... →
“Offrir une autoroute aux véhicules californiens ?”
– Petit déjeuner avec Christian Estrosi “Favoriser la croissance de l’Industrie numérique”
J’aime bien l’image qui décrit assez bien l’état de l’industrie numérique aujourd’hui : des acteurs américains qui tirent leurs profits de la créativité et des...
The war between book publishers and their online...
This is a very important topic. In the short term, the Publishing Industry is going to evolve extremely rapidly with enormous impact on authors, editors… and the public of course.
The first act of this evolution can probably be dated to the launch of the Kindle by Amazon : online ebooks on a small device, convenient, cheap and ubiquitous.
The second act just begun last week when...