Télévision - Article - Numericable enrichit son offre de VOD 3D grâce aux films Warner. Disney Acquires Social Network For Kids Togetherville. 2010 In Movies, As Seen On Foursquare [Graphic] Kindle e-book piracy accelerates | Fully Equipped. Several months ago I set up a Google alert for my book, "Knife Music," to keep abreast of anything anybody was saying--good or bad--about the thing.
Over the months I've received news of the occasional blog post and tweets, but more recently I popped open an alert to learn that my book was being pirated--both as a separate file and part of two larger Torrents called 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks (iPod, iPad, Nook, Sony Reader) and 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks for Kindle (MOBI). I had the strange reaction of being both dismayed and weirdly honored that someone had selected my book to strip free of its copy-protection (DRM) and include as part of a collection of "quality" e-books, many of which were from very good authors.
OK, so the use of the term "quality" was a reference to the formatting of the e-books and not the quality of the actual work, but for a moment I wasn't too bothered. Well, obviously, for big authors, this whole pirating thing presents a bigger problem--and a bigger loss. Google adds e-books to Android Market | Android Atlas. HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Event Marketing. Matthias Galica is CEO of ShareSquare. Via a self-serve mobile web app CMS and QR codes, the ShareSquare platform enhances real world promotions for artists, agencies & brands.
Mashable readers can sign up for the private beta for free by clicking here. He will also be presenting on topic of QR code adoption at the Where 2.0 Conference. Nearly every year since 1994 has been hyped as the year that QR codes pierce the mainstream, but in 2011 the hubbub is finally reaching a fever pitch. This is thanks to a confluence of factors: Critical mass in smartphone penetration, a large installed base of many barcode-scanning apps, and an approaching social tipping point of awareness. Combine this with the fact that enhancing real world promotions in music, film and brand marketing is among the best applications of this technology, and next month’s SXSW has the potential to be the breakout event for QR codes in America. How Social Media Is Having a Positive Impact On Our Culture [OPINION] This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication. Josh Rose is the EVP, digital creative director of ad agency Deutsch LA, who -- when time permits -- moonlights as a photographer.
Follow him at @joshrose. Two events today, although worlds apart, seem inextricably tied together. And the bond between them is as human as it is electronic. First, on my way to go sit down and read the newspaper at my coffee shop, I got a message from my 10-year-old son, just saying good morning and letting me know he was going to a birthday party today. The amount of calming satisfaction it gives me to be able to communicate with him through technology is undeniably palpable and human. I guess one man’s TMI is another man’s treasure. Moments later, I sat down and opened the paper. The Paradox of Online Closeness I recently asked the question to my Facebook friends: “Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare … is all this making you feel closer to people or farther away?”
How the Internet Gets Inside Us. When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched. And so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion. The idea that a wizard in training might have, instead, a magic pad where she could inscribe a name and in half a second have an avalanche of news stories, scholarly articles, books, and images (including images she shouldn’t be looking at) was a Quidditch broom too far.
Now, having been stuck with the library shtick, she has to go on working the stacks in the Harry Potter movies, while the kids who have since come of age nudge their parents. “Why is she doing that?” They whisper. “Why doesn’t she just Google it?” The scale of the transformation is such that an ever-expanding literature has emerged to censure or celebrate it. Nearly Half of Americans Use Facebook; Only 7% Use Twitter [STUDY] Why Not Call It A Facebook Revolution? Tunisians filled the streets with the help of Twitter. Egypt's protests were coordinated on Facebook pages like that of Internet activist Wael Ghonim. Libyan dissenters spread the word about their "day of rage" last week the same way. And yet, in these heady days when the entire Middle East seems to be inspired to organize online in revolt against autocracy, it has become fashionable for experts to dismiss the role of social media in 2011's revolutions.
"People protested and brought down governments before Facebook was invented," the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell opined on February 2. A few weeks later, The Financial Times' Gideon Rachman reminded us that "the French managed to storm the Bastille without the help of Twitter — and the Bolsheviks took the Winter Palace without pausing to post photos of each other on Facebook. " True enough — and utterly irrelevant. Yes, of course, technology alone doesn't make revolutions; the will of the people is the most vital ingredient.
Amazon va bientôt proposer du streaming illimité. Amazon inaugure un service de film en streaming en forfait illimité. Le groupe américain de distribution sur internet Amazon a lancé mardi un service de diffusion de films en flux sur internet (streaming) le plaçant en concurrence directe avec le loueur Netflix. Les abonnés au service Prime d'Amazon, qui moyennant un forfait annuel de 79 dollars ont droit à des livraisons gratuites pour tous leurs achats sur le site, ont désormais accès également à un catalogue de 5.000 films et séries télévisées diffusés via internet sans téléchargement.
Ces internautes peuvent regarder autant de programmes qu'ils le veulent sans supplément de prix. Ce service est annoncé un mois après qu'Amazon eut annoncé qu'il détenait la totalité de la société européenne des services de vidéo en ligne Lovefilm, spécialiste de ce mode de diffusion. Par ailleurs plus de 90.000 programmes sont disponibles sur le service payant de vidéos à la demande d'Amazon, baptisé "Instant Video". (22 Février 2011 - Afp) © 2011 AFP.