Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire

What Was the Hipster? If I speak of the degeneration of our most visible recent subculture, the hipster, it’s an awkward occasion. Someone will point out that hipsters are not dead, they still breathe, they live on my block. Yet it is evident that we have reached the end of an epoch in the life of the type. Novelty books on the order of Stuff Hipsters Hate and Look at This Fucking Hipster began appearing again this year, reliving the hipster’s previous near death in 2003 (titles then: A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster; The Hipster Handbook). Elsewhere—and especially in Europe—the deathbed scene looks more like an apotheosis. A key myth repeated about the hipster, by both the innocent and the underhanded, is that it has no definition. We do know what hipster means—or at least we should. The longer we go without an attempt to explain the term simply and clearly, the longer we are at the mercy of its underlying magic.

emotional selling point Emotional Selling Proposition – Better Than A Unique Selling Proposition? Qui le ecommerce enrichit-il ? Le ecommerce, ce n'est pas l'Eldorado (photo par Truus, Bob & Jan too!) Le ecommerce peut-il rendre riche ? Gagne-t-on vraiment de l’argent en vendant en ligne ? Et si on en gagne, combien en gagne-t-on ? Comme tout bon entrepreneur, je suis sans cesse en quête de la bonne idée de business. Mais ce rêve peut-il devenir possible en devenant ecommerçant ? Les chiffres, hélas, semble démontrer, pour l’instant, le contraire. Les pure-players peu rentables Si on s’attarde sur les grands comptes en pure player, par exemple, hormis Vente-privée.com, peu sont réellement rentables (Cdiscount, Pixmania ou Rueducommerce le sont à peine et les profits qu’ils dégagent semblent insuffisant à assurer une réelle pérennité hors le soutien de financeurs sur le long terme). Peu d’exceptions Bien sûr, si on regarde les 80,000 ecommerçants français, un certain nombre tirent sans doute bien mieux leur épingle du jeu et même parfois très bien (comme Motoblouz.com dont je vous parlerai bientôt).

The Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map Top 10 augmented reality demos that will revolutionize video games Augmented Reality (AR) has the potential to do something parents can’t: free gamers from their couches and usher them into the real world, to play. ***UPDATE***if you find this interesting – check out the recent post Top AR Games of All Time. Here is my countdown of the top 10 best AR demos poised to revolutionize video games: 10. Human Pac Man When Dr. 9. In 2006 the Come Out & Play Festival turned New York City into a playground for a weekend, then did the same for the city of Amsterdam in 2007. None of the games played in the festival made it to my top ten list – individually. 8. Tobias Lang and Blair MacIntyre (GA Tech) give us an extraordinary glance at what happens when the virtual world “leaks” into the real world. The world is the battlefield, your phone is your weapon. 6. “Magical monsters appear from shadows cast by the hands of participants, reacting to gestures with sound and animation. 5. What if everyone could overlay reality with their own virtual creation? 4. 3. 2. 1.

Les dix entrepreneurs de moins de 30 ans qui incarnent la nouvelle génération de l’internet français. Première publication, le 28/02/11. Depuis 1 an, l’équipe de Frenchweb.fr a rencontré un grand nombre d’acteurs de la scène internet française, que nous vous présentons chaque jour au travers de leurs actualités. Nous avons souhaité vous faire découvrir 10 entrepreneurs de moins de 30 ans qui incarnent à nos yeux la nouvelle génération. Nous avons retenu pour cette promotion 2011:Jules Vo Dinh, fondateur de Typhon.

Secrets of Social Media Revealed 50 Years Ago - David Aaker - The Conversation by David Aaker | 8:00 AM June 17, 2011 Almost 50 years ago Ernest Dichter, the father of motivation research, did a large study of word of mouth persuasion that revealed secrets of how to use social media to build brands and businesses. The study was reported in a 1966 article in HBR. A major Dichter finding, very relevant today, was the identification of four motivations for a person to communicate about brands. Looking at the social media role in brand building, I suspect that these same four motivations explain why some brands have been successful in using social media. A second finding was that listeners are primarily concerned with two conditions. Another implication is that a firm should promote a dialogue because a listener will be more likely to accept judgments from someone with whom there is an interaction going on. A third finding was that recommenders had on average a huge impact on purchase running to 80% for some products.

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Forum 2011 Découvrez l’interview de Thierry Happe, co-fondateur de l'observatoire Netexplo, dans Good Morning Business, qui revient sur le fonctionnement de Clic and Walk et le déroulement du forum Netexplo. Trois jours pour révéler le meilleur d’une année d'observation de l’innovation numérique mondiale et imaginer de nouveaux usages pour votre entrepriseWeb 2.0, médias sociaux, internet mobile, objets communicants, réalité augmentée, nouvelles interfaces hommes machine, robotiques, intelligence artificielle... Netexplo, la société de demain en avant-première Chaque année Netexplo identifie dans le monde plus de 500 usages émergents du digital qui dessinent la société de demain. Netexplo, le digital du monde entier Le digital ne s'arrête pas à la Silicon Valley. Netexplo, de nouveaux usages pour votre entreprise Seules 2% d'entreprises dans le monde sont nativement digitales. L’UNESCO, partenaire du Forum Netexplo

AR.Drone - Game Developer Zone - Start building iPhone and iPod touch applications compatible with AR.Drone! “Create high-quality and stable movie shots” The Director mode lets you program automaticmovements so that you can shoot great videos justlike a movie director. Choose your movement: traveling, pan, crane… Adjust speed and moves in real time to compose your video sequence Stabilization system and video post-processing to get clean smooth shots Tune camera settings such as white balance, exposure and luminosity Selection of key sequences in the video Video sharing on YouTube and AR.Drone Academy *In-app purchase on ar.freeflight Learn more Camera moves

Vente-privée.com : ce que veut faire son PDG fondateur Jacques-Antoine Granjon de "vente privée.com" La Tribune - Jacques-Antoine Granjon, PDG de Vente-privée.com, vous aviez prévu que 2010 serait une année de consolidation. Qu'en a-t-il été ? Jacques-Antoine Granjon - Bien sûr, le chiffre d'affaires de Vente-privée a progressé. Notre volume d'affaires s'est établi à 969 millions d'euros, soit 15 % de progression. C'est à peu près ce que nous avions prévu. - Quelle a été l'évolution de votre rentabilité ? - Vente-privée dégage toujours une marge nette comprise entre 6 et 7 %. - Comment analysez-vous leurs acquisitions ? - Amazon et eBay font beaucoup dans la croissance externe. - 2011, sera-t-elle une autre année de consolidation ? - Oui, car l'Internet n'en est qu'à ses balbutiements en France. - Pourquoi alors sont-ils aussi mauvais ? - Que voulez-vous, Carrefour veut encore que son client porte ses bouteilles d'eau, fasse le plein dans ses stations-service et achète dans la galerie de son hypermarché... - Et vous, que visez-vous ?

ANZIBA Conference 2012 12 - 14 April 2012, University of South Australia ANZIBA is the leading association of scholars in the field of international business in Australia and New Zealand. The Centre for Asian Business and the International Graduate School of Business, University of South Australia will be hosting the ANZIBA annual conference on 12 to 14 April 2012. 'Fusion or Fracturing? ANZIBA 2012 Conference Program (PDF 5mb)Contact ANZIBA Hosted by: Partner institutions:

#Code: The Programmed Revolution Android app can recognize a person, pull up his status updates Imagine you’re at a conference and want to know something about the people around you. A new mobile application called Recognizr can identify a person’s face via your phone camera and deliver not only profile information about that person but also show you their latest status updates. Swedish computer vision specialists Polar Rose combined forces with interface designers TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) to create the Recognizr as a prototype application for Android phones to show off Polar Rose’s mobile face recognition library. Polar Rose’s software recognizes individuals, while TAT’s interface uses augmented reality to show profile information from sites like Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn and the latest status updates from the recognized person. [youtube Recognizr uses FaceLib, a mobile face recognition library from Polar Rose, which is available for Android and iPhone.