Damien Van Achter

Voici quelques articles dont la pertinence/l’intérêt m’ont marqué au cours des derniers jours. Faites-en bon usage ! :-)

• Personal brands vs. corporate brands: Who are the real superstars? (via @owyang ) – It’s always interesting to see when superstars emerge out of existing brands. And it is fascinating to watch when they choose to leave for something new.
• TableSurfing: You’ll never eat alone again … (via @TheAfter) – Tablesurfing is a bit like Couchsurfing, but then with tables…
• Kazaa founder Kevin Bermeister turns music piracy fighter – A few short years ago, Kevin Bermeister was the music industry’s public enemy number one, pursued by lawyers and private investigators over his file sharing business Kazaa. Now Mr Bermeister, who paid out a reported $150 million in a 2005 legal settlement with the majors, has created a new weapon against music piracy that could make him the industry’s new best friend.Called Copyrouter, it is technology that detects when a user is trying to download a copyright-infringing version of a song from a peer-to-peer file sharing network, and replaces it with a legitimate – paid – version. The user is asked before the download if they agree to pay for the copyright-protected version through their next monthly ISP bill.
• 10 Really Tangible Ways To Measure Social Media Success | Microgeist (via @jeanlucr ) – This isn’t a number some may say not even tangible, but you won’t get anywhere unless you’ve actually defined some processes that can be measured. A lot of people are just going on these sites, putting up a profile and waiting for something to happen. Having an outline and plan of action is a sign of success, it shows that you have at least a basic understanding of social media and some of its components. This is your first benchmark. It is also important to realize that these plans are not static and require constant appraisal for effectiveness.
• Twitter Launches a Geolocation API (via @jeffjarvis) – We’re gearing up to launch a new feature which makes Twitter truly location-aware. A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. Folks will need to activate this new feature by choice because it will be off by default and the exact location data won’t be stored for an extended period of time. However, if people do opt-in to sharing location on a tweet-by-tweet basis, compelling context will be added to each burst of information.
• PayPal enters agreement with mobile credit card transaction company – Transaction Wireless, a mobile commerce payment and marketing company, has announced an agreement with PayPal™ to power the company’s wCharge Credit Card Terminal by Transaction Wireless™, allowing small merchants to accept credit card payments virtually anywhere, securely and conveniently using only a mobile phone and a PayPal account.
• At its peak, the conversation about Michael Jackson’s death proceeded at a rate of 78 tweets/second (via @Digidave) – Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters: Sentiment Analysis and Mourning Michael Jackson on TwitterUsers tweeting about Jackson’s death tend to use far more words associated with negative emotions than are found in ‘everyday’ tweets.
  Roughly 3/4 of tweets about Jackson’s death that use the word “sad” actually express sadness, suggesting that sentiment analysis based on word usage is fairly accurate.
  That said, there is extensive disagreement between human coders about the emotional content of tweets, even for emotions that we might expect would be clear (like sadness).
  Tweets expressing personal, emotional sadness about the Jackson’s death showed strong agreement among coders while commentary on the auxiliary social effects of Jackson’s death showed strong disagreement.
  We argue that this pattern in the “understandability” of certain types of communication across Twitter is due to the way the platform structures the expression of its users.
• Digital music sales will nearly equal CD sales by the end of 2010. (PC Magazine) – CD purchases made up 65 percent of all music sold in the first half of 2009, while paid digital downloads came in at 35 percent. In 2007, downloads accounted for 20 percent of music purchases. That jumped to 30 percent in 2008. iTunes, The Apple-owned music store, now accounts for 25 percent of music units sold, according to Tuesday data from the NPD Group.
• Comment des demandeuses d’emploi deviennent expertes en veille économique internationale ( via @EGlobale) -
• Demand Media prend une participation dans CoverItLive, monétisation en vue ! – Les outils sociaux développés par Demand Media dans sa suite “Pluck” vont progressivement être intégrés à CoverItLive et des solutions “Entreprises” vont également être développées.

Voici quelques articles dont la pertinence/l’intérêt m’ont marqué au cours des dernières 24H. Faites-en bon usage ! :-)

• Les banquiers n’ont peur ni de l’opinion, ni des politiques | @slatefr – Les grandes banques à peine sorties de leurs soi-disant marasme financier reprennent leur train de vie d’antan, mais cette fois-ci avec une nouvelle donne: les rémunérations de leurs cadres sont désormais déconnectés de leurs résultas financiers.
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  Contrairement à la crise de 1929, les Etats ont payé les erreurs des financiers de suite, sans contrepartie. C’est pourquoi, aujourd’hui les dirigeants de banques se considèrent désormais «irremplaçables», perdent pied avec la réalité, et se rémunèrent en conséquence avec le plus grand des cynismes. Responsables mais pas coupables, ils affichent désormais leur ambition en matière de rémunération. Ils n’ont plus rien à craindre, aucune épée de Damoclès, à peine quelques conseils proférés par les pouvoirs publiques à entendre et quelques articles irritants à lire. Alors pourquoi s’en priver ?
• US digital music sales to eclipse CDs by 2010 – Ars Technica – Despite the popularity of digital music, from single-track purchases to subscriptions, physical media has continued to generate the most music revenue in (almost) every market in the world. According to data from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), though, that will soon change: revenue from digital music sales worldwide are on track to equal that of physical sales as early as 2016, and by 2010 in the United States.
• 10 vérités sur les “explosions” d’iPhone – @benjaminferran – Cela fait quatre jours que cela dure. Et la polémique sur les iPhone explosés, implosés ou tout simplement brisés, ne faiblit pas. Pourtant, depuis le début de cette histoire, plusieurs précisions essentielles ont été apportées, qui devraient permettre d’aborder cette histoire avec prudence et sérénité. En voici un récapitulatif en dix points.

Voici quelques articles dont la pertinence/l’intérêt m’ont marqué au cours de dernières 24H. Faites-en bon usage ! :-)

• BBC Hovers On iPhone Apps Due To Apple Terms | mocoNews – While Apple’s iPhone App Store has clocked up a billion downloads and revolutionised the delivery of mobile services in its first year, one notable absentee on the store has been the BBC. While BBC Worldwide debuted Radio Times and Lonely Planet apps, and Livestation is distribution a BBC World News app, the public service broadcaster is still missing.paidContent:UK understands this is due to BBC anxieties over Apple’s terms and conditions – in particular, a concern that it would be left open to “unlimited liability”.

  The corporation is nervous that this would compel it to set aside a large amount of money in case of actions arising from this liability, according to a source – a difficult pill to swallow in these belt-tightening times. Auntie is now negotiating with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for an agreement that would mean a smaller financial commitment for it, another source says.

• Tribune Launches Its Own Local HuffPost – Promoted at its beta launch as “Huffington Post meets Facebook,” Chicago Now aggregates and curates local bloggers, which it recruits and compensates on the basis of visits by Chicago-area users, and other content. It also has social networking elements and looks to offer advertisers targeted results.Bloggers are being added regularly, but among those already contributing to the mix are former Chicago White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell, Miss Illinois 2009 Ashley Bond, commentator Dennis Byrne and the band I Fight Dragons. The Chicago Now network also includes blogs such as the CTA Tattler, District 299 and Gapers Block and the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye Web site.
• How Journalists Can Use Google Voice to Improve Their Reporting – The new, free Google Voice service is a game changer for journalists. It gives you flexibility and control over who you talk to, and it can save you a lot of time. Google Voice is currently available by invitation only at google.com/voice. Product Manager Craig Walker said in a recent interview with me that if you request an invite today, the wait “shouldn’t be too long.”

Voici quelques articles dont la pertinence/l’intérêt m’ont marqué au cours des dernières 24H. Faites-en bon usage ! :-)

• On demand in command; 51% of young ‘Net users view TV online (Ars Technica) – In the six months between September 2008 and April 2009, long-form streaming video exploded in popularity—the percentage of US Internet users watching online TV shows and movies doubled in that timeframe alone.
• No fee, no FT: newspaper joins rush to charge for the internet (The Independent) – The Financial Times is in talks to introduce a “pay-per-article” system inspired by the Apple iTunes model, which could change the culture of reading news on the internet.Senior sources at the FT have confirmed that the group is in discussions with a number of payment processor companies to establish a simple “one -lick” procedure that would enable consumers to pay a small fee for single articles that would otherwise be available only to subscribers.
• “Hey TechCrunch, Sweden is not the worst greenhouse gas emitter” #techcrunchfail (Media Culpa – @kullin) – A blogger writes a provocative post with claims that turn out to be completely false. It happens every day, why should I care? Well, if the blog in question is no other than TechCrunch, things start to get a bit problematic. The site is so influential that its content reaches many thousands of people. As you may have read in my previous post, TechCrunch posted an article on July 31 claiming that Sweden and Canada are among the worst emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. This turned out to be at least partly bogus but TechCrunch shows no interest in correcting the misleading information.Actually I don’t really care if people lose trust in TechCrunch, but when disinformation about my country keeps on spreading across the web, I feel I need to raise my voice. The false article is bad enough, I could live with that. But due to the authority of TechCrunch and the behaviour of its readers, the false statements continue to have an impact for a very long time.

  Here’s why:

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• “10 pc des iPhones/iPod Touch sont jailbrakés” (Jay Freeman – Cydia AppStore) Wired.com – That restriction spawned the most successful Cydia app to date, 3G Unrestrictor, developed by Streich. 3G Unrestrictor, a $2 app that has sold 9,500 copies, allows the iPhone to circumvent any network limitations imposed by Apple. For example, the app enables SlingPlayer users to stream TV over 3G as well as Wi-Fi; and when using the VOIP app Skype to place phone calls, customers can also use the cellular connection, whereas normally the app only enables users to dial over Wi-Fi.“It’s just amazing what you can do on such a little cellphone, and Apple just forbids customers from doing these things, and it’s just a shame,” Streich said. “That’s why I’m so happy there’s a Cydia store.”

Chronique diffusée ce lundi à 6h20 dans Matin Première (RTBF)
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La crise de la grippe porcine envahit aussi le web. Depuis 72 heures nous assistons à un véritable déferlement d’informations en tout genre. Des centaines d’internautes ont ainsi créé des cartes, des blogs et des comptes twitter entièrement consacré au suivi de la crise sanitaire en cours.

Et le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que la dimension virale du web prend ici vraiment tout son sens.

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“Now I’m angry and this is why I have written a whole blog post full of Apple brand, iPhone product name and Apple Logo of death mentions, to spam blog indexes with my anger while restoring my iPhone. I started the process at 5pm and it finally completed at 8pm. I can now submit this blog post.”

Fallait pas niquer l’update firmware du précieux de Brice…  J’ose à peine imaginer le billet qu’il pondra le jour où un mécano foirera la vidange de sa jag’ :-)

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