How Gmail destroyed Outlook As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages. Desktop programs like Microsoft Outlook have always been able to access your old mail. There is a certain bliss to this; if you've got a pile of letters that demand well-composed, delicate responses (say you're explaining to your boss why you ordered that $85,000 rug), unplugging the Internet can be the fastest way to get things done. Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of True Enough. Follow Google's not alone in providing this option. To get offline access, you first need to download and install a small program called Google Gears (except if you're using Google's Chrome browser, which comes with Gears built in). Now that Gmail has bested the Outlooks of the world, it's a good time to assess the state of desktop software. The shift has been a long time coming. Desktop e-mail presented its own challenges, though.
Amazon vs The World – An Infographic Amazon has come a long way from *just* being the world's largest bookseller. This year alone the company has launched three new products or service offerings that challenge the market dominance of an established player. Check out the infographic (A CPC Strategy First!) Feel free to share this infographic with your friends or repost on your on blog <a href=" ><img src=" alt="Amazon Infographic" width="613" border="0" /></a></p><p>Source: <a href=" >CPC Strategy Blog</a></p><p> About the AuthorNii is COO of CPC Strategy, a shopping feed management agency and is responsible for day-to-day business operations and long-term financial, tactical and strategic planning for the company.
Web development and deployment tools: CodeRun You Don’t Have to Tweet to Twitter November 15, 2011: [Follow Me on Twitter] “In a brand new direction A change of perception On a brand new trajection” - UB40 [Disclosure: Benchmark Capital is a major investor in Twitter, and my partner Peter Fenton sits on the Twitter BOD.] Twitter is having a remarkable year. Active users have soared to over 100 million per month, with daily actives now above 50 million. So, Twitter’s traffic has been growing in leaps and bounds. Twitter suffers from two key misperceptions that need to be resolved before the business can reach its true potential. As its roots are in communication, a key part of the Facebook value proposition is sharing information. The second, and more critical, Twitter misperception is that you need to tweet, to have something to say and broadcast, for the service to be meaningful to you. Twitter is an innovative and remarkable information service. Some who understand this point have suggested that Twitter is merely a “Better RSS reader.”
Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube Revolutionize Television? On a rainy night in late November, Robert Kyncl was in Google’s New York City offices, on Ninth Avenue, whiteboarding the future of TV. Kyncl holds a senior position at YouTube, which Google owns. He is the architect of the single largest cultural transformation in YouTube’s seven-year history. Wielding a black Magic Marker, he charted the big bang of channel expansion and audience fragmentation that has propelled television history so far, from the age of the three networks, each with a mass audience, to the hundreds of cable channels, each serving a niche audience—twenty-four-hour news, food, sports, weather, music—and on to the dawning age of Internet video, bringing channels by the tens of thousands. Kyncl puts his whole body into his whiteboard performances, and you can almost see the champion skier he used to be. People prefer niches because “the experience is more immersive,” Kyncl went on. Isn’t that more or less what happened thirty years ago?
Le futur du Web sera social, intelligent et proactif – (1) La révolution Sirienne Après le Web 1.0 de l’information et le Web 2.0 du social, le Web 3.0 s’annonce comme étant intelligent et symbiotique. Avec Siri, Apple ouvre une nouvelle ère. Mais déjà se dessine la génération suivante, le Web Proactif. Lorsque le 4 octobre dernier, Apple dévoile son nouvel iPhone, c’est la grande déception. La révolution de l’interface vocale Pour beaucoup, ce n’est qu’un nouveau gadget qui amuse les sites tels que STSR (Shit That Siri Says) ou siri-et-moi. Comme à son habitude, Apple n’a inventé aucune technologie, mais sait avec génie populariser un usage. La reconnaissance vocale, ou plus exactement la reconnaissance automatique de parole, est née dans les années 50, peu après l’informatique. De son côté, l’intelligence artificielle, née aussi dans les années 50, est longtemps restée dans les laboratoires. De HAL 9000 à Siri En 2003, le Pentagone (via le DARPA) initie le projet CALO (Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organize). En avril 2010, Apple rachète Siri. [photo: Thinkgeek]
"Groupon Is A Disaster" Dan Frommer, Business Insider NEW YORK (AP) -- Only a few months ago, Groupon was the Internet's next great thing. Business media christened it the fastest growing company ever. Today, the startup that pioneered online daily deals for coupons is an example of how fast an Internet darling can fall. Groupon, which had to delay its initial public offering of stock this summer after regulators raised concerns about the way it counts revenue, is discounting its expectations for the IPO. It's the latest twist for Groupon's IPO, which was one of the most anticipated offerings this year. Now, Groupon faces concerns about the viability of its daily deals business model. "Groupon is a disaster," says Sucharita Mulpuru, a Forrester Research analyst. Groupon shows what can happen when a startup experiences steroidal growth in an unproven industry. Longtime IPO analyst Scott Sweet, the owner of IPO Boutique, said Groupon is now expected to go public the first week of November. Groupon's beginning
Twitter, the Startup That Wouldn't Die Life inside successful Web startups—especially the really successful ones—can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders. Venture capitalist Peter Fenton calls this phenomenon “the violence of a startup.” And nowhere has the violence been fiercer, or more public, than at a company Fenton invested in and has helped to guide: Twitter. Throughout its first five years of existence, Twitter always seemed on the verge of committing some excruciating form of startup seppuku. Photograph by Robert Twomey for Bloomberg BusinessweekDick Costolo, CEO Now something freakish is happening in San Francisco. In the past, Twitter’s too-cool-for-revenue attitude enhanced its Silicon Valley mystique. Brands are using the hashtag in part because it links them directly to an intense and nonstop online conversation. Illustration by Bigshot Toyworks He pauses again.
Tu comprends, c’est pour le web Ceux qui bossent dans le digital (qui mettent vraiment les mains dedans, pas ceux qui en parlent, hein) connaissent ces phrases toutes faites qui vous hérissent le poil. Ces phrases qui montrent que votre client, voire même votre collègue de bureau, ne comprend vraiment rien à Internet. Ces phrases qui existent pour presque tous les métiers du digital, de la stratégie à la réalisation en passant par la création et même le storytelling transmedia. C’est un rendez-vous qui commence bien. Ha. Bon d’accord, mais que doit-on “comprendre” ? Tu comprends l’annonceur n’est pas encore mûr sur le digital. Traduction : On a déjà tout claqué en TV. Tu comprends, le web c’est encore nouveau. Traduction : c’est pas que c’est nouveau, c’est que nos metrics sont pas vraiment au point, en plus quand on bullshite ça se voit et on se fait moins de marge dessus, alors bon. Tu comprends, le client, il a besoin d’être rassuré. Tu comprends, sur le web on peut faire le buzz avec une vidéo amateur. Sur ce site:
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Magazine In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin. None of the list’s veterans had heard of him, and what little information could be gleaned was murky and contradictory. In an online profile, he said he lived in Japan. His email address was from a free German service. Google searches for his name turned up no relevant information; it was clearly a pseudonym. But while Nakamoto himself may have been a puzzle, his creation cracked a problem that had stumped cryptographers for decades. One of the core challenges of designing a digital currency involves something called the double-spending problem. Bitcoin did away with the third party by publicly distributing the ledger, what Nakamoto called the “block chain.” When Nakamoto’s paper came out in 2008, trust in the ability of governments and banks to manage the economy and the money supply was at its nadir.
Apple Discovers a New Market in China: Rich Boyfriends - Nathan T. Washburn by Nathan T. Washburn | 11:30 AM May 4, 2012 The 8 million iPhones that Apple sold in China last quarter are a lot like exotic pets: They're cute and they make great gifts for rich young men to give to their girlfriends, but outside of their native ecosystem, their survival prospects don't look very good. The unexpected sales boom in China (8 million is my rough estimate) went a long way toward offsetting the company's less-than-robust performance in the U.S. market and helps explain Apple's record-breaking profits . Analysts and investors are excited by Apple's performance in China, but predictions of the company's sustained growth there are premature. In its native U.S. ecosystem, the iPhone functions beautifully. And then there's the problem of input. So Chinese users are cobbling together an iPhone experience from a variety of sources, and the overall experience is not very good. Who in their right mind would buy this phone?
5 outils en ligne pour tester vos sites Si vous êtes web designer ou développeur Web, alors vous devez savoir à quel point il est important de s’assurer que le produit final est dépourvu de tous bugs ou erreurs. Les cinq sites que voue je vais décrire dans la suite de cet article, vont aider les développeurs et les concepteurs de sites Web à valider et vérifier le code du site Web et ce, afin de déceler toute sorte d’erreurs. Le W3C Markup Validation Service permet aux utilisateurs de valider leurs sites Web soit en fournissant un lien en ligne vers le fichier HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML ou soit par le téléchargement du fichier, dans le même format que mentionné précédemment. Si vous avez juste besoin de vérifier une partie spécifique du code, vous pouvez manuellement coller votre portion de code depuis l’onglet « Validate by Direct Input » pour le valider. Note : Un autre service, W3C CSS Validation Service, va réaliser à l’identique le traitement offert par le service « Markup », mais concernant la CSS.
Forget the fantasy of porn-free youth - Pornography Brits have been in an uproar this week over a supposed attempt to ban Internet porn. But, despite initial reports suggesting that Prime Minister David Cameron was moving to censor all online adult material, the reality is that the U.K.’s top four Internet service providers have agreed to ask new customers to choose either unlimited access or “kid safe” surfing. In short, what we have here is just another case of adults foolishly attempting to prevent determined minors from accessing online pornography. The U.S. has tried to do so, first with the Communications Decency Act and then the Child Online Protect Act, both of which were deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. So, in the U.S., if a minor has access to the Internet at home, at a friend’s house or on their smartphone, the only thing standing in their way is the gateway question found on most free X-rated sites: “Are you 18 years of age or older?”