Eurozone. Curation Becomes Social: Pearltrees Launches 'Team' Version. Posted by Tom Foremski - December 7, 2010 [For much of this year I have been working with Pearltrees, which offers a visual web site curation service based on the visual metaphor of 'pearls' please see below for an example.] Pearltrees this week launched a "Team" version of its curation service that allows groups of people to collaborate on curating a topic. Up until now each Pearltree was the responsibility of one person. Alexia Tsotsis at Techcrunch reported: Ideally this goes down as such: You really care about fashion so you search for fashion in the Pearltrees search box and are confronted with really elaborate visual cluster displays of fashion blogs, each blog its own “pearl.”
You decide that anyone who likes The Sartorialist is probably a good egg and click on the puzzle piece in the Pearltrees detail window in order to ask if you can join the team. Pearltrees is part of a growing number of companies that offer curation services. Please see: Curation And The Human Web... #LeWeb : l'Asie, sa vie numérique, ses milliards. On s'est gentiment moqué, hier, sur Twitter, du biais anglosaxon de LeWeb, conduisant 2 Français à se parler en anglais. Mais en réalité la conférence de Loïc Le Meur est loin de faire du "valley-centrisme", et a eu l'excellente idée de convoquer ce matin une table ronde sur "l'Asie : vie numérique, vrai milliards".
Un sujet qui fait écho à nos interrogations en série ici bas, sur le "web demain qui sera oriental, ou pas". Participent : Naoki Aoyaki, Senior Vice President, Business Development CFO de GREE (réseau social mobile au Japon, 20 millions d'utilisateurs, va atteindre 500-600 millions de dollars de CA cette année et valorisé 3 milliards de dollars à la Bourse) ;Takuya Miyata, Senior Vice President, Global Business de mixi (pionnier du réseau social au Japon, 20 millions d'utilisateurs, Web et mobile, premier au monde à avoir une plateforme mobile, vaut près de 1 milliards de dollars en Bourse).
Takuya Miyata : "Nous mettons l'accès sur les contenus. Raphaël Briner - Jason Goldman, VP Twitter @leweb Paris, cc-by-sa. Facebook: We Spend More Time and Resources Thinking About Privacy Than Any Other Company in the World. During his keynote interview TechCrunch's editor Michael Arrington at LeWeb10 in Paris this morning, Facebook's director for the company's developer network Ethan Beard noted that "no other company in the world currently spends us much time and resources on privacy as Facebook. " He also categorically denied the existence of a Facebook phone. No Facebook Phone Asked about the mythical Facebook phone, Beard noted that he could categorically deny that it exists. Instead, Facebook is more interested in working with partners to integrate Facebook into other phones and platforms.
Privacy Asked about the public perception of Facebook as an "evil" company that often disrespects its users privacy, Beard noted that Facebook wants to give its users control. Nissan Wants to Make the Car Modern Again. Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of automobile giants Renault and Nissan, says that the automobile industry has failed for decades to innovate, but that the electric car is the breakthrough that will bring the motor vehicle into the modern age.
During his keynote at the LeWeb conference in Paris, Ghosn explained that "cars have stopped being perceived as symbols of modernity. " He stated that automobiles rank 17th in interest in Japan, easily beaten by cellphones, computers and video games. The reason for this, he says, is due to the auto industry's choice to focus on optimization over innovation. Optimization is all about reducing risk, while innovation is about increasing it in order to achieve the breakthrough that will push a business to the next level. Ghosn claims that there have been no real breakthroughs in the auto industry in the past few decades. He also says that hybrids are not a breakthrough, but an optimization. That's why he's placing a big bet on the electric car. Twitter: We Need to Create a Better Consumption Experience for Our Users. Jason Goldman, Twitter's vice president of product, just joined TechCrunch's MG Siegler on stage at this year's LeWeb in Paris.
During this interview, he noted that Twitter will ramp up its integration with third-party apps in the near future and roll out more partnerships shortly. Asked about Twitter's product plans for the future, Goldman noted that he hopes that Twitter can improve the content consumption experience for its users. LeWeb Startups: Phonedeck puts your mobile on your desktop. The holy grail of real social graph is the phone, they say. Phonedeck is a call management application which attempts to connect the mobile phone with the computer. When you get a call the app shows who is calling and offers various options to react, like send to voicemail. You can also make calls form the computer. If you want to call someone you can browse the phone book conveniently on your computer and start the call with one click. So you install the app on your desktop. LeWeb Startups: Deways bring P2P car sharing to France.
Le Web Startups: Badgeville is a modern loyalty rewards platform to drive engagement. Badgeville is a badge system for web publishers allowing them to reward their users for checking-in and participating on their site. The idea is to get users to game their activity on the site. They have a had a $2.5 million series A funding round so far.
The startup has come out of the Netherlands but has also put down a base in Palo Alto, CA. It has a white label social loyalty, rewards, and analytics platform. We did a fairly extensive review here, since Badgevill has already appeared at TechCrunch Disrupt, but the skinny is that if users do things on your site, like comment or Like a page, they get badges and eventually rewards. And the site gets more traffic and can thus selling more ads. Badgeville already has 10 customers signed up representing 400 million monthly pageviews. Badgeville, The Behavior Platform, is the global gamification leader. La Silicon Valley en force dans le 93, actualité Une idée derrière la tech : Le Point.
Durant deux jours, les 8 et 9 décembre, la Seine-Saint-Denis va accueillir le Davos des nouvelles technologies. Un gros contingent de la Silicon Valley fera le déplacement, dont Marissa Mayer, vice-présidente de Google, Michael Arrington, le charismatique fondateur du site TechCrunch, Ethan Beard, qui gère les relations avec les développeurs chez Facebook, ou encore Dennis Crowley, le créateur du service de géolocalisation Foursquare. Tous s'apprêtent à intervenir à l'occasion de la conférence Le Web devant 2.500 personnes venues de plus de 60 pays aux Docks de Paris, de gigantesques halles situées à la Plaine Saint-Denis, aux portes de la capitale. Parmi les intervenants, on compte des Américains donc, mais aussi des Japonais, comme Tomoko Namba, créatrice de DeNA, un réseau social mobile, l'Israélien Shai Agassi, à l'origine d'une voiture électrique, ou encore le Suisse Bertrand Piccard, qui a mis au point un avion solaire.
Le Web Main Stage, Ustream.TV: The #1 European Internet event, where 2500 entrepreneurs, leaders, investors, bloggers, journalists will gather together for.