Overblog To Launch With A Bang At BlogWorld NYC With Jason Falls And Keenan Cahill. Paris/New York, May 29, 2012 – Overblog, the French social blogging platform, announces a star-studded launch for its U.S. platform as well as the first ever release of the most comprehensive worldwide study on blogging, in partnership with BlogWorld & New Media Expo, to be held in New York, June 5th-7th, 2012.
Overblog is a new breed of blogging platform that brings together the fragmented social postings of bloggerse across the web into one stream. Check-ins, status updates, Instagram pictures, blog posts... from individual bloggers become more visible, easier to read and to follow as they are gathered on one single page – a real-time, personal magazine. With a true Made in France stamp, Overblog mixes elegance, social savvyness and ease of use as it requires no technical knowledge to get going.
For the U.S. launch of the all-new platform, the Overblog team will come all the way from Paris to show bloggers some love, including by hosting a series of unmissable events: Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley. SXSW Notes: The Curators and the Curated. Here is another in my series on SXSW events. I am pleased to be attending SXSW for the first time.
I am grateful for Adobe Acrobat for enabling me to attend. I will be attending their all day Creative Camp Event on March 12, as well as some other Adobe sponsored sessions. As I do with other events I will be posting my notes from most of the sessions I attend. "At the heart of our conversation: the relationship between publishers of original content and the web’s most influential curators. The first speaker said the theme for the session was about “David Carr giving us advice.” The term curation is getting over used and has many definitions. In the act of curation you making a decision about what is important. David Carr said we should not get to hung up on curation as new.
David said when the consumer Web started we thought we are going to learn new things. What is the relationship between curation and original content? At longform they post four stories every day. Questions started: Facebook: The Last Great Company of the Desktop Age, Playing Catch-Up in a Mobile World | Epicenter. Mobile is half of #FB, but it’s a revenue black hole— Evan Hansen (@evanatwired) February 1, 2012 “Facebook was not originally created to be a company,” Mark Zuckerberg writes in the company’s IPO filing. It also wasn’t created to be a part of the mobile web. Facebook for iOS. Image via iTunes' App Store Facebook may be the last great company of the desktop age.
Mobile is Facebook’s future, and its frontier. If you’re (rightly) wondering how Facebook will continue to grow after it has already amalgamated nearly a billion users, the answer is through mobile — both by adding mobile users and by more aggressively generating mobile revenue from the users it already has. “The jury is still out on how Facebook can monetize its huge mobile audience,” Forrester analyst Thomas Husson tells Wired. Look at the trend lines from the S-1: 425 million of Facebook monthly active users are mobile — just over half of the company’s active user base. 1) Facebook needs to get serious about mobile advertising. Twitter Is Selling Your Old Tweets [REPORT]
Digg Data Reveals What We Read But Are Too Scared or Embarrassed To Share. Digg’s January saw an increase in page views by 35 percent and was its highest traffic month since October 2010. When it dug into why, it found we’re proud to look smart, hip, or funny by sharing tech news and offbeat content, but we keep our guilty pleasure entertainment and divisive political reading to ourselves. Specifically, Digg analyzed what people read vs what they shared to their Facebook Timeline in part through the new Digg Social Reader Open Graph which has helped boost Facebook referral traffic by 67 percent. It discovered telling psychological trends in how people want to portray idealized versions of themselves.
According to Digg’s data, “Entertainment stories were 14 percent of all stories read but less than 4 percent of those added to the Timeline. Likewise, political stories comprise less than 2 percent of those added to a user’s Timeline but close to 10 percent of what people read”. Gaming was another content type rarely shared. Screw that. All About Buttons: Inspiration, PSDs for Download, CSS Generators and Frameworks. Whether they are used to subscribe to services, send a contact form or simply to call the user’s attention to a specific page, buttons are a very important part of websites. When well designed, they have the power to change conversion rates, bring new customers to a service or help users perform and validate specific tasks.
No wonder web designers tend to put so much time and effort into creating nice, appealing buttons. In this article, we will present a showcase of websites that can inspire designers in their quest for the perfect button design, some websites to find and download nice PSD button templates. We will then take a look at some online tools to create nice HTML CSS buttons using CSS3 goodness, and finish with a showcase of pretty CSS button frameworks ready for use.
All About Buttons Finding Inspiration on the Web: Button Showcases House of Buttons House of buttons is a nice Tumblr website that showcases great UI buttons spotted all over the web. CSS Button Makers Conclusion. Pinterest is to Facebook as Storify’s new iPad app is to Twitter. Back in 2010 I wrote this article about the need for content curation software. Storify is it. Here’s a look at its new iPad app which is very awesome. Why is this important? Well, let’s look at the past 10 years. 2000 (about) Blogging with Blogger or Radio Userland. 2007 Twitter 2008 Facebook 2010 Tumblr 2011 Pinterest and Google+. What’s the trend? Storify is even easier than Pinterest, in quite a few ways. Anyway, this is being used by tons of news organizations around the world and the White House and even big influential conferences like the World Economic Forum. Good job Storify. Steve Rosenbaum: Fred Wilson, Uri Milner: Is Curation VC's Big New Thing?
There are some things we all agree are broken. Finding stuff on the web is broken. The volume of 'stuff' has rapidly exceeded the tools we've counted on for the past 10 years or so. And, the speed of 'stuff' makes validating new data harder and harder. Now a number of the web's most trusted voices (and interestingly, deepest pockets) have started to embrace a concept that could have massive ramifications. To manage, and make useful, the massive growth of content on the web, sites must embrace curation. Fred Wilson, who's blog AVC often heralds the changing nature of the web, explored the trend yesterday in a blog post titled "Curation.
" We largely invest in consumer web services with a large number of engaged users where the users create the content. And, adding his voice to the growing chorus of investors who value curation, Russian Mega Investor Yuri Milner of Digital Sky Technologies (DST) told the Abu Dhabi Media Summit: "I think the next big theme is basically curation. " With v2.0, Flud Wants To Do For Social News Reading What Spotify Is Doing For Music. You may be familiar with Flud as the news reader app that’s trying to build an appealing alternative to Flipboard and Pulse.
Flud launched iOS platform back at the end of 2010 with a heavy focus on design — and a simple user interface. Fast Company even gave Flud the 2010 Design Award of The Year. The startup has since launched its social news sharing app on Android, raised $1 million in seed from Ludlow Ventures, Scott Belsky, and Detroit Venture Partners, and is re-tooling its app for Mango, as Jordan reported last month, for release in January. It’s been off to a great start, but to really offer a service that competes with the big boys, Flud is on a mission to build a personalized news-sharing ecosystem.
Today, the startup is adding some important functionality into its app in an effort to do just that, as Flud 2.0 now allows users to create and broadcast their own news personalities. For more on Flud 2.0, you can find the app here or at home here. Faceted classification. Definition[edit] Faceted classification is used in faceted search systems that enable a user to navigate information along multiple paths corresponding to different orderings of the facets.
This contrasts with traditional taxonomies in which the hierarchy of categories is fixed and unchanging. In other words, once information is categorized using multiple facets, it can also be retrieved using multiple facets. Thus, a user would not be restricted to one identifying search term in order to retrieve an item. He or she could use a single term or link together multiple terms which increases his or her chances of retrieving the exact information that is being sought [3] Examples of Faceted Classification[edit] The colon classification developed by S. Vanda Broughton compiled a chart that showed how a collection of socks would be classified using faceted classification. Another example of faceted structure was presented in a study done by Mystic Seaport. Advantages and disadvantages[edit] Notable | Smashing Mag, Laptop Post. Valoriser une société dégageant un chiffre d'affaires - Valorisation des start-up. Si une société dégage du chiffre d'affaires mais n'est pas encore rentable, sa valorisation ne sera toujours pas calculée en fonction de son excédent brut d'exploitation (Ebitda), qui correspond au solde entre les produits d'exploitation et les charges d'exploitation.
"On dit dans ce cas que son excédent brut d'exploitation n'est pas normatif, la valorisation sera alors calculée en fonction du taux de croissance du chiffre d'affaires ou de sa marge brute" précise Benoist Grossmann. Comme dans le cas d'une société en phase de création, "une valorisation est le plus souvent proportionnelle à l'argent levé. Dans la plupart des cas, un investisseur prendra 30% du capital, qu'il injecte un ou cinq millions d'euros.
On multiplie donc par trois la somme investie pour connaître la valorisation post-money, ce qui nous permet de savoir combien la société était valorisée en pre-money, c'est-à-dire deux fois le montant de la somme investie". Le cas des sociétés rentables Quelques exemples. Professional Online Publishing: New Media Trends, Communication Skills, Online Marketing - Robin Good's MasterNewMedia. Gerrit Visser: Use Smart Knowledge Networks to Be a Curator.
Gerrit Visser has been digitally curating content since “just after the internet was invented” in 1996. Curation has come a long way and today he’s curating on Paper.li using smart knowledge networks — people in the know who can be trusted. There are many faces to Gerrit Visser: digital curator, blogger at SmartMobs and thinker at Brainstorms (virtual communities set up by Howard Rheingold), expert on knowledge management and learning, and nomadic worker. He has a breadth of insight and experience that can’t be captured in one interview. So when he talked to Paper.li from home in Drenthe, the Netherlands, it was mostly about the future of curation… although other topics sneaked in. Exciting: the growth of ‘social search’ where people look for what their peers think, rather than marketing messages.
This will more and more influence major decisions — especially buying decisions. It started in 1996 shortly after the internet was invented! Interviewer’s note: I am not sure I agree with this. SmallRivers. Regardez la télévision depuis les années… 1900 ! Bonjour Ce matin sur Graphism.fr, je vous présente un site assez étonnant, il s’agit de »EUScreen ». Présenté comme un site d’archives numériques, EUScreen vise à préserver le patrimoine de la télévision européenne… de 1900 jusqu’à nos jours ! L’idée est d’explorer l’Europe et son histoire, sa culture riche et diversifiée…tout ça au travers du petit écran Un site dans lequel on se perd, on explore, on rebondit… À noter que le site vise déjà les 30 000 articles et développe un certain nombre de fonctionnalités interactives pour s’implanter dans les différentes plateformes culturelles, éducatives européennes. source Ces articles peuvent aussi vous intéresser:
Four Free Tools For Better Tweeting. Just because you're not ready to shell out $99 per month to figure out the best times to tweet and post Facebook status updates doesn't mean you can't take better control of understanding your social media output. Indeed, paid Twitter analytics services may offer way more than the average user needs.
And despite increasing sophistication of their competitors, some of the best analytics tools remain free for users, either on a trial or permanent basis. Here are four free tools to get you started in better understanding how and when to tweet. TweetLevel: Edelman's "nifty little measurement tool" was indeed nifty when we used it to analyze Twitter hash tags, but not so much when we used it to analyze individual users. HashTracking: The site is still in closed beta, but anyone can run a free analysis of a Twitter hash tag to check out the service. And as far as freebies goes, HashTracking offers quite a bit. Photo courtesy of ShutterStock. F#*k status quo! Steve Jobs: Innovation is Saying "No" to 1,000 things by ZURB.
Nike CEO, Mark Parker says that shortly after becoming CEO and working on Nike+ with Apple he talked to Steve Jobs on the phone. "Do you have any advice? "' Parker asked Jobs. Here is what Jobs had to say: Nike makes some of the best products in the world. Products that you lust after. "He was absolutely right," said Parker. Jobs followed this very advice himself back in 1998 when he shrunk Apple's product line from 350 to 10. The lesson here is that if your ultimate goal is to produce outstanding work, no matter which industry you're in, you must be comfortable with the fact that most of the work you produce you'll have to throw out.
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. Whether it's design or business strategy subtraction adds value. Update: There is an important point we forgot to mention in this post which we talk about in the follow-up post: Innovation is About Exploring 1,000 Things Worth ThrowingA'Away. Infographic: How, When & Where People Share Content. Www.iab.net/media/file/Sharing_MoreThanJustFansFriendsFollowers.pdf.
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