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Neutralité du Net: "principe fondateur d'internet qui exclut toute discrimination à l'égard de la source, de la destination ou du contenu de l'information transmise sur le réseau" (Wikipédia) L'heure est à la discussion sur la "Neutralité du Net". On fait souvent de procès aux méchants Telcos de privilégier tel ou tel service, tel ou tel abonné, et d'installer ainsi un internet à plusieurs vitesses.
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Well, Identi.ca is not only for canadians and has a lot of users from the open software/society at least in Fance. @nitot is the FireFox's european voice and he tweets via Identica, @boogieplayer is the boss of "In Libro Veritas" (french open books editors) is there too, for exemple. Well, may be the GNU licence is a good reason to go there for people who work in open businesses. by Jan 22
Now You Can Turn Your Tweets into Klingon
Yes, that language that was created for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (and has somehow managed to become something that people actually speak) is now available to all in a Twitter translator. Want to share something with the world that only five people can understand? Tweet in Klingon is for you! OK, it’s easy to make fun of this concept — but pure brilliance of this campaign is that this is all a promotional tool for the Star Trek Online MMOG that hits stores in February. Cryptic Studios worked with Friend2Friend to create the site, which offers English to Klingon translations.
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The Dalai Lama Officially Joins Twitter
More and more celebrity holdouts are joining the Twitter bandwagon. First Bill Gates started tweeting , then yesterday rapper Lil Wayne joined the service. Today, another famous figure has his own Twitter presence: The Dalai Lama . There has been an @DalaiLama account for some time. In fact, a fake Dalai Lama fooled the media and the twitterverse early last year, which was part of what spurred the creation of verified Twitter accounts . This Dalai Lama is verified by Twitter, though — it is the real deal.
Southwest Tweets, Blogs Apology to Kevin Smith
Filmmaker Kevin Smith sent a series of exasperated Tweets this weekend claiming that he’d been kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for being “too fat”. Proving, perhaps, the speed at which Twitter can spread messages about your brand, the Tweets have been picked up by the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC and other major outlets. The incident, which took place on Saturday, resulted in dozens of Tweets on Smith’s account (he has 1.6 million followers at the time of writing). A brief sampling: Dear @SouthwestAir, I’m on another one of your planes, safely seated & buckled-in again, waiting to be dragged off in front of the normies. (accompanied by a Twitpic , top right)Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More Here’s a good virtual parlor game.
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Le débat court depuis plusieurs mois, et même depuis les débuts de Twitter , en fait, sans être réellement tranché : si Twitter (et dans une autre mesure, Facebook , mais maintenant également Google Buzz) participe à la grande dispersion des discussions , il pose un autre dilemme aux blogueurs, à savoir sur quel support publier sa littérature. Si la question n’est pas vraiment réglée, l’expérience nous apporte quand même un début de réponse : sur le blog les billets plus travaillés et réfléchis, bref, l’analyse, et sur Twitter les petites conneries, les brèves, les liens. On le voit, un vrai problème de riche. Je fais long parce-que je n’ai pas le temps de faire court Sauf que l’équation n’est peut-être pas aussi simple que cela. Tout d’abord parce-que la longueur et la densité d’un billet ne garantissent pas sa qualité ni son intérêt.Paris-based Semiocast , which helps brands understand and interact with real-time Web services, has performed a semantic and quantitative study of Twitter based on an analysis of 2.8 million tweets. Turns out roughly half the tweets posted on the micro-sharing service are in English, down 25% from last year, even though the company is based in the U.S. and has more users and momentum in English-speaking countries than anywhere else on the planet. The analysis further showed that the top 5 languages used on Twitter are English, Japanese, Portuguese, Malay and Spanish. Semiocast says the study was conducted on messages gathered over a period of 48 hours, from February 8 to February 10, with the sole aim of determining which languages were most often used on Twitter. The messages were processed with the company’s own analysis tools, which it says can identify the language used in short messages for some 41 languages, including Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Tamil, etc.
