Sunday, November 25, 2007
Space & Time
No Strike Zone !
A new serie appears recently on the Internet. It's dedicated to net users, you can watch it on the BestOf Wiki (which literally is !!!). Here is the first episode :
It is true ! With e-comms, You can much more control space and time. For example the time-shifting mode on your remote control give you access to a self centered vision of the time, one individual can control a broadcast program for himself.
With the SlingBox you can manage your own recording from anywhere. If you have paid for two hundreds channels on your tv, you'll get access to them wherever you are on the earth if you have internet.
In class, e-comms are great when there are problems (strikes, weather, handicaps). Every teacher should do video podcast of his own courses and publish it freely on the Internet.
Here are some interesting links :
A new serie appears recently on the Internet. It's dedicated to net users, you can watch it on the BestOf Wiki (which literally is !!!). Here is the first episode :
It is true ! With e-comms, You can much more control space and time. For example the time-shifting mode on your remote control give you access to a self centered vision of the time, one individual can control a broadcast program for himself.
With the SlingBox you can manage your own recording from anywhere. If you have paid for two hundreds channels on your tv, you'll get access to them wherever you are on the earth if you have internet.
In class, e-comms are great when there are problems (strikes, weather, handicaps). Every teacher should do video podcast of his own courses and publish it freely on the Internet.
Here are some interesting links :
The future of e-culture ?
As "Wikipedia-like-projects" for example "We are smarter than we", the most relevant innovations on the web, are applications that connect human brains and produce knowledge.
These kind of project are based on the Collective Intelligence : Everyone knows something and everyone can share and improve the community well fare.
If everyone knows something, nobody knows everything.
Next steps are several :
- Find non-intrusive business models - Ads, season tickets, patron ? (hosting data costs a lot, that is why Google propose to Wikipedia to help a bit...)
- Bring in Internet all personn on earth to participate
- Create an organisation to handle and anticipate problems on the Internet composed various profils, independent of a specific country.
These kind of project are based on the Collective Intelligence : Everyone knows something and everyone can share and improve the community well fare.
If everyone knows something, nobody knows everything.
Next steps are several :
- Find non-intrusive business models - Ads, season tickets, patron ? (hosting data costs a lot, that is why Google propose to Wikipedia to help a bit...)
- Bring in Internet all personn on earth to participate
- Create an organisation to handle and anticipate problems on the Internet composed various profils, independent of a specific country.
Global instance ?
After the incident in Finland...
Few days ago there was a post about Police & Web on BlangBlangBlog
What if viewers, net users were more involved in the community and help it by preventing this sort of incident. Because there are no way to control all the web spectators must be more reactive than on other media to warn a web site holder when there is something wrong on his site.
Some consciousness raising should be done to give more importance to the fact that the web is a Place. In the cyberspace, as in the real life, You have to help someone when He is in danger.
Maybe that a "Digital Right" document should be produce and protected on the Internet by an International institution. Here you can find the Netiquette Guideline, It defines how to behave on the Internet.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Google or not ?
Today one of the main problem for Google is to become next "Microsoft" on the Web. So well implemented that anyone fear it.
When success leads to problem. Google is doing so well that anyone could be a bit afraid of being trapped into database with all all all : name, age, grandpa name, grandpa age, passion, daughter passion, favorite bike, next hollyday, etc...
A Google Addict put his life in google's databases : mail, instant message, request, video, blog, mash-up, mobile (?). Google has not done any Big Brother things but already a phantasm is showing :
But is It a good trial ?
For instance, Google "has just" followed the rules of each country in which it is implemented, special subjects, taboo are censured... Maybe to show that Google has some philantropic intentions much more than Evil it'll be that the giant firm show the example. Google should discuss and launch debats to see with net users why the censhorship is on !
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Young Creators - NetVibes case.
Tariq Krim sucess story
The son of well-to-do Algerian immigrants, Mr Krim grew up in the Marais, a chic Paris neighbourhood. He was given a computer at the age of nine, and by the age of 12 he was cooking up his own software for Minitel, France's national data network, which predated the web. In secondary school he insisted on being taught English with an American accent, corresponded with an American pen pal and spent a few weeks as an exchange student at a high school in New York.
After completing his studies in engineering at ENST in Paris, one of France's grandes écoles, he went back to America for an internship at Sun Microsystems, a computer-maker that was expanding fast as the internet took off.
Today's trend is for start-ups to attract a large audience and then sell themselves to a giant such as Google, Yahoo! or eBay. Mr Krim's co-chief executive at Netvibes, Pierre Chappaz, did just that, selling Kelkoo (a comparison-shopping site) to Yahoo! for $575m in 2004. As the leader in personalised home pages—its MyYahoo! service has over 50m users, though it is less sophisticated than Netvibes—Yahoo! would be an obvious buyer.
Police & Web
Web, Rampage and YouTube
Tuesday 8th November 2007, seven schoolchildren and their principal were killed when a student opened fire in a town near Helsinki, in the deadliest shooting in Finland's history. The gunman shot himself in the head and died later in hospital. Two hours before police learned of the shootings, the gunman posted a warning with pictures of the campus and an armed man on YouTube, an online video service of Google Inc.
It is probably impossible for the police to check every video like this on YouTube. Internet is not about Control, it should be about knowledge and sharing... About this terrible story, the best way to stop this trends is to inform and communicate about this sort of rampage and to know why it is happening. No auto script control on video can get how desperate this man was.
The best way to help is propably in the Real Life, and to put some original contents online for each country, written by specialists to help people and to prevent this sort of act.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
History of new media
"Sometime, I look back in the past... To refresh my memory... To see how the Web could be in few years... and I see Bob smiling".
Vinton Cerf, in front of a PC. 2005.
1991. World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee.
1991. E-commerce.
1995. The Vatican comes on-line.
1998. La Fête de l'Internet, a country-wide Internet fest, is held in France 20-21 March
If you want a developped timeline go to this website.
Vinton Cerf, in front of a PC. 2005.
1642. Pascal's calculator.
1674. Leibniz's machine.
1835. Morse. Invented by Samuel Morse.
1837. Telegraph. By William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1849. Boolean algebra. George Boole (UK) invents Boolean algebra
1876. Bell's telephone. Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
1889. Hollerith's tabulating machine.
1896. Herman Hollerith founds a company that would later become IBM.
1911. IBM. Tabulating Machine Company of the US becomes International Business Machines.
1926. Television by John Logie Baird
1943. Turing's Colossus. Turing conceives of the code-breaking machine Colossus.
1944. Hitler's Enigma. Hitler uses his cutting-edge hardware,
1947. Transistor. William Shockley and others at Bell Labs invent the transistor.
1948. According to the OED, the first computer, the Manchester Mark I, is installed at Manchester University.
1950s. Interactive graphics. JCR Licklider has a chance encounter Wes Clark at MIT's Lincoln Lab.
1954. FORTRAN. The first high level programming language, FORTRAN.
1958. ARPA
1960. The first e-mail programme called Mailbox is installed on a time-sharing computer at MIT
1960. Satellite telephone
1974. Ethernet, a protocol for many local networks, an outgrowth of Harvard student Bob Metcalfe's dissertation on "Packet Networks."
1984. Domain Name Server (DNS) introduced.
1984. CD-ROM.
1984. "Cyberspace" . William Gibson publishes Neuromancer, in which he coins the word cyberspace.
1984. Apple Macintosh. Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface.
1991. World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee.
1991. E-commerce.
1995. The Vatican comes on-line.
1998. La Fête de l'Internet, a country-wide Internet fest, is held in France 20-21 March
If you want a developped timeline go to this website.
Do's & Don'ts - email
"Dear Grandma,
I got a letter from you today. It is always nice to get a letter from you. Keep writing. I appreciate knowing that you are doing well. We hear that it is a very cold and snowy winter in the States this year. I hope you are keeping warm. The winter here has been warmer on the average than usual. However, the days it has been cold it has been much colder than normal for here. Last month they had the biggest snowfall here in a hundred years. It was also much colder than it had been in years. It was only in the 20's, but that is really cold here. The houses are not built for such cold weather. It got to 48 degrees in our house. Again this week it got real cold, but only for a couple of days... etc"...
Some cool websites explain how to write a good mail. There are no strict rules... The basics are to fit to the recipient, to use wisely the "subject" line, to be clear and composed, more than in a mail.
I got a letter from you today. It is always nice to get a letter from you. Keep writing. I appreciate knowing that you are doing well. We hear that it is a very cold and snowy winter in the States this year. I hope you are keeping warm. The winter here has been warmer on the average than usual. However, the days it has been cold it has been much colder than normal for here. Last month they had the biggest snowfall here in a hundred years. It was also much colder than it had been in years. It was only in the 20's, but that is really cold here. The houses are not built for such cold weather. It got to 48 degrees in our house. Again this week it got real cold, but only for a couple of days... etc"...
A mail is not an email !
Some cool websites explain how to write a good mail. There are no strict rules... The basics are to fit to the recipient, to use wisely the "subject" line, to be clear and composed, more than in a mail.As it is said in this article of Wired, the main quality of an email are :
- Brevity : It’s the soul of wit, you know. You may have lots of information to share, but in email you are in a long list of others competing for your recipient’s attention.
- Context. If you sent an email, you have a point. Get to it.
- Something to act on : Make your requests clear.
- A deadline : There comes a time when the response you seek is no longer useful.
See also an article on. HOWTO write ass-kicking emails and get a response on BoingBoing
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Quick Response Code !
QRCode has been invented by Denso-Wave in 1994. It is a code containing information, like a code bar in 2 dimensions.
In Japan associated with SMS, it is working great. In the street, in the subway, you can find QRCodes, eventually send them to decrypt and win couponing. From this technology you can imagine some amazing micro promotionnal operation for a baker (get some fun by following a sort of quest, and you finaly arrive in a bakery with some discounts if you say the magic word).
Here, the colorized image represents the first 12 stanzas of the famous poem of Lewis Carroll "The Walrus and The Carpenter". This is about 2300 characters, encoded in binary mode.
Labels: SMS QRCode Japan
Collective intelligence
Two men (or 2x2 brains) : Barry Libert, Shared Insights CEO and Jon Spector, ex Wharton dean, Pennsylvania University, and CEO of “Conference Board”, They published a book called "We are smarter than me".
Down, you can find the (California) Speech about the book. It's about "Wisdom of Crowds"
The book has been written trought the idea of participation. As the Segolene Royal Politic Program, they used collective intelligence (via Internet) to regroup all the good ideas and write the best book possible about this subject.
Certainly, this a great idea to get different points of view. Also this is really interesting for companies, such as Dell to get ideas to perfectly fit to the needs (check Dell IdeaStorm). And one of the main feature following form this concept of Collective intelligence is Saving ! Contents are generated by users not by the Firms. And by this way, the consumer is proud of what "we have done" and is much linked to the brand.
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Voluntary submissivness
Give all your informations and those of your best friends to salesman.It's free for you ! Because you are so special so unique (like everyone). Wanna enter your mum birhdate ? check Facebook.
If Microsoft bought a tiny share of Facebook ($240 millions), it is very significative of the importance of individual information. What is so perfect with facebook is that users will enter their information themselves, and will give also more about their entourage. During many decades companies were looking for this by phone, by mail, get infos by answering... Now user push it !!! To have a social life on the Web.
How will grow this social network ? Will the Ad programs search trought your personnal online information to "inform" you about the best product you'll love to buy ? We will see that in few months as Microsoft is now co-responsable of ads on this site.
Get money from 'ano'
Today I wish we could discuss briefly Prosper.
Prosper defines itself as the "the leading online community for people to people lending. Borrow or lend money in a secure P2P loan marketplace".
As you can get DIVX and MP3 from someone you do not know on eMule, it is now possible to get fre$h ca$h from anonyms on Prosper. Off course you'll have to pay back with interest depending on the rate defined by a compromise between the "borrower" and the "lender"...
But as in real life, it is much more easy to borrow money when you do not have money problem.
So a system of "credit grades" is on to know if you are "serious" or not, a letter to know if your safety dregree : "Prosper obtains your Experian Scorex PLUSSM credit score from your credit report, and assigns one of seven credit grades". In fact Prosper is a sort of Mix between MySpace and Ebay which the first leading trusted people to people sales platform.
In the future we can imagine others "go-between" about informations. This intermediary are essential when so many sources exist online. Things like "label" and Webring may appear to give credit to blog or online paper for example.Synchro Work
Collaboration, collective intelligence and … Harshness !
With Google Docs, You and Your team can work on the same documents. Technologically as easy as it sounds, this collaborative tool involves new constraints : synchronious work.
Few principles to make it work :
* Focus on objectives. The main idea is to use technology not to be used by it. Bring out your favorite patient skill to stick with the situation and see what’s going on !
* Respect the others. By respecting contribution, you respect contributors. Imagine if anyone is deleting others works. This new tool requires to respect the value of each person, each point of view. If not…
* Prepare yourself. It is easy to make every one loses time ! Prepare your account, your knowledge with technology, and write thinks only when you’re quite sure of it.
That’s all folks !
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Hit of 2007 ?
The second life is not a new concept at all. Le deuxieme monde was existing since 1994 in France, a virutal Paris, in which you could do whatever you want... Hmmm Hmmm... or indeed the same thing as in Second Life.
But anyway, Second Life will probably be a success in 2007 because of many reasons. In fact it is the place to be ! Msn exists to link everyoby in real time. But Msn do not propose this recreationnal version of the chat. It is true that the Net is full of RPG (Role Playing Game) World of Warcraft, Everquest, etc... but They are too far from the reality... The second life incarnes the virtual reality in which every internet surfer can take shape.
But anyway, Second Life will probably be a success in 2007 because of many reasons. In fact it is the place to be ! Msn exists to link everyoby in real time. But Msn do not propose this recreationnal version of the chat. It is true that the Net is full of RPG (Role Playing Game) World of Warcraft, Everquest, etc... but They are too far from the reality... The second life incarnes the virtual reality in which every internet surfer can take shape.
Public question
One of my favorite and unique visitor asked me this question :
"What would be the best qualities of a Video CV (or resume) posted on the internet? What is the main purpose? What are the essential qualities? What links or additional features should it have?"
First, i'd like to salute him. Sometimes his questions are a bit innocent, but as would have they Yoda : this one, i will answer. Your video CV, is not a text CV, that is sure... Yoda would have said the same.
Caracteristic and expectation are different from a basic CV. So the visual aspect is much more important, you've entered the world of appareance, your speech can be pointless, if you're visual hot : it is cool. So this videos has to be visualy attractive, short (because you do not have to bother the watcher, but it has to be revealing of your personnality. It is not necessary to lie... Anyway, if you're reading this text you're already a sort of genious :)
You should also incrust in your video the address of a website centralizing your CV text and incrust your email address.
A sort of e-CV online - Watch this.
"What would be the best qualities of a Video CV (or resume) posted on the internet? What is the main purpose? What are the essential qualities? What links or additional features should it have?"
First, i'd like to salute him. Sometimes his questions are a bit innocent, but as would have they Yoda : this one, i will answer. Your video CV, is not a text CV, that is sure... Yoda would have said the same.
Caracteristic and expectation are different from a basic CV. So the visual aspect is much more important, you've entered the world of appareance, your speech can be pointless, if you're visual hot : it is cool. So this videos has to be visualy attractive, short (because you do not have to bother the watcher, but it has to be revealing of your personnality. It is not necessary to lie... Anyway, if you're reading this text you're already a sort of genious :)
You should also incrust in your video the address of a website centralizing your CV text and incrust your email address.
A sort of e-CV online - Watch this.
Hey dude ? We know each other ?
It is also about privacy. In our thematic about paranoia and new media, Facebook stalking can't be ignored...
Facebook is a concept from US, it is a sort of collection of students studying (or who were studying in a university). In fact it is a website where students can know each others and keep in touch... A sort of community.
You can post different infos : age, sex, hobbies etc... But the problem is that Facebook can be read from any pc's connected to Internet. So your private infos can be stolen and used for other things. What for ? For example : Marketing, spamming, identity thief etc... So use this tools, but beware (as ever) !
An example of facebook
Facebook is a concept from US, it is a sort of collection of students studying (or who were studying in a university). In fact it is a website where students can know each others and keep in touch... A sort of community.
You can post different infos : age, sex, hobbies etc... But the problem is that Facebook can be read from any pc's connected to Internet. So your private infos can be stolen and used for other things. What for ? For example : Marketing, spamming, identity thief etc... So use this tools, but beware (as ever) !
An example of facebook
Privacy Pollution
Have you ever followed on the Net ?
Maybe ... in fact it is possible... and some companies make money on registering your profil. For some, The objective is to build strong database with many different profil, and a lot of infos : name, age, sex, hobbies, email address, real address, a dog ? a pet ? in couple ? married ? Have you bought a lawnmower recently ? do you need one ? etc... etc....
For the user the pollution takes shape of spam, undesirable email. And this spam is source of pollution, it represents a huge waste of money for providers
You can know more about threaten and menace and the art of possible with the CNIL
Maybe ... in fact it is possible... and some companies make money on registering your profil. For some, The objective is to build strong database with many different profil, and a lot of infos : name, age, sex, hobbies, email address, real address, a dog ? a pet ? in couple ? married ? Have you bought a lawnmower recently ? do you need one ? etc... etc....
For the user the pollution takes shape of spam, undesirable email. And this spam is source of pollution, it represents a huge waste of money for providers
You can know more about threaten and menace and the art of possible with the CNIL
Subtitled Resume ;)
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Now it is sure.
If you want to be "in", just create a YouTube Account.
How ? Just go to YouTube website. But Why ? Not just because it is free. But because if you want to promote something, someone or discover e-culture, it is a place to be !
You access to a large community and so, you can keep in touch or meet many person linked to you hobbit or interessed by your stuff. In fact instead of you "netcasting" your videos on the Internet, YouTube offers you some well craft application...
You can build your own net TV with your favorite videos, you can build a sort of web ring with your friends, you got also your own mail, a system to subscire to group, and a place (a page)
to describe you.
We didn't discuss about the main thing that is making YouTube. It is a central website on the Internet, is value is also coming from all the people, trafic ! If your stuff is well accepted on YouTube, your work can circulate through millions of computers.
How ? Just go to YouTube website. But Why ? Not just because it is free. But because if you want to promote something, someone or discover e-culture, it is a place to be !
You access to a large community and so, you can keep in touch or meet many person linked to you hobbit or interessed by your stuff. In fact instead of you "netcasting" your videos on the Internet, YouTube offers you some well craft application...
You can build your own net TV with your favorite videos, you can build a sort of web ring with your friends, you got also your own mail, a system to subscire to group, and a place (a page)
to describe you.
We didn't discuss about the main thing that is making YouTube. It is a central website on the Internet, is value is also coming from all the people, trafic ! If your stuff is well accepted on YouTube, your work can circulate through millions of computers.
Backup my friend.
Your PC can get damage, broken, full of coffee, destroyed by micro asteroid. So you must protect, save your data. Howto ? Many different are possible, and the best is too use them all.
First you can get an external hard drive. Lacie are cool and strong. You stock your work on them regulary.
Antother thing, you get save your datas on the web, private servors exist. And you can get a huge virtual disk accessible from everywhere. Free offer you this possibility. BUT you have to be aware about the security risk. Do not leave these sort of material without passwords etc...
Watch out about security and web with htaccess file.
First you can get an external hard drive. Lacie are cool and strong. You stock your work on them regulary.
Antother thing, you get save your datas on the web, private servors exist. And you can get a huge virtual disk accessible from everywhere. Free offer you this possibility. BUT you have to be aware about the security risk. Do not leave these sort of material without passwords etc...
Watch out about security and web with htaccess file.
Upload !
The easiest way to create your page ! CMS - Content Management System. You don't know HTML, PHP, python, CSS, you don't care, but you want to have some pages online to put texts, images, videos etc... A rich website without very specific technical skills.
Few years ago, it wasn't possible on Internet. And now thanks to developpers all over the world, you can easily build and put content on the Web.
The most well known example for CMS : a Blog. You put your texts in cases and choose your title blog, its skin and some other things and in few seconds your website is online. While few years ago, many hours would have been necessary. Other example : Wikipedia. A big CMS everyone can manage contents, on every pages.
Blogger profides free offer to host your Blog, like this one.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Where can you find new information on the Net ?
That a big question ! New sources are created all the day. Blogs, Wikis... What is sure for now, is that Cybersrategies is your allied. First, you can bookmark us and get informed about e-culture, plus we offer you some special links today to be update on many subjects, here they are :
Inextenso, a webcrawler.
Internetactu, some news about the Web
Lamoooche, a french website about Internet
You can suscribe to this awesome news letter about NTIC & societe.
It is made by a french senator : Mr. Tregouet
