Les experts disponibles pour vos projets à : #Paris. Facebook achète une start-up créée par des Français. Le réseau social américain Facebook a racheté la start-up californienne Wit.ai, spécialisée dans les applications de reconnaissance vocale et créée par trois Français, a annoncé cette dernière lundi. "Wit.ai rejoint Facebook. C'est une accélération incroyable dans la mise en oeuvre de notre projet", écrit cette société fondée il y a un an et demi à San Francisco par Alexandre Lebrun, Willy Blandin et Alexandre Landowski. Le montant de la transaction n'est pas précisé.
Wit.ai cherche à concevoir des logiciels permettant d'utiliser la reconnaissance vocale pour contrôler entièrement son téléphone portable, régler la température dans son logement ou servir d'interface avec les objets connectés à Internet. Le premier réseau social mondial a prévenu fin octobre qu'il continuerait à sortir son carnet de chèques pour racheter des sociétés et nourrir son développement. After New York & London, all-in-one public transit guide Citymapper launches in Paris. New to Paris and looking to get around using public transportation? You may want to give Citymapper a try.
The all-in-one travel planner, which previously has been available in New York City & London, combines all form of transit – Buses, Metro, RER, Velib (public bikes) – to provide a comprehensive, one-stop A-to-B travel planner. Available on iOS & Android, as well as via their web app, Citymapper founder Azmat Yusuf raised a seed round from Connect Ventures in September 2012, led by partner Sitar Teli, and has been focused on developing the product, adapting & evolving it for each new market. For those of you who have commuted around major cities like New York, London or Paris, you know that, beyond the ridiculous learning curve that tourists go through figuring out how to use the public transport, answering the simple question of “what is the easiest way for me to get to X?”
Is not as easy as it should be – at least not until Citymapper. Robert Scoble's answer to What are some tips for getting your startup featured on TechCrunch, Mashable, and other tech blogs.
Books. Augmentedreality. Nithya Sambasivan. Starting in May 2012, I will be a User Experience Researcher at Google.org , the non-profit division of Google, doing ICT4D research in Africa. My research interests are in technology design for socio-economic development (ICT4D) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). I have a PhD. in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Irvine. I was advised by Prof. Bonnie Nardi , and worked closely with Ed Cutrell and Profs. Alladi Venkatesh , Don Patterson , and Bill Maurer . My dissertation focussed on re-conceptualizing "the user" and understanding sharing in low-income communities in India--in urban microenterprises, sex workers, and slum communities. I spent three summers doing ICT4D research at Microsoft Research India. I (occasionally) write a world music blog with a friend.