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Mediapart. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.

Mediapart

Mediapart (à prononcer « à l'anglaise ») est un site web d'information et d'opinion créé en 2008 par François Bonnet, Gérard Desportes, Laurent Mauduit et Edwy Plenel[1]. Un abonnement payant est nécessaire pour lire les articles du site. Alexandra David-Néel. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir David et Néel. Milh – La mercerie en ligne. High-Tech Blocks Help Battle Brainstorming Slumps. If sticky notes, whiteboards and yellow legal pads just aren't inspiring your team brainstorming sessions anymore, it's time to break out some toys.

High-Tech Blocks Help Battle Brainstorming Slumps

The folks at Smart Design's Smart Interaction Lab designed toy-like TOTEM blocks that can help teams improve idea-generating sessions, as explained in the video above. The creators presented these brainstorming tools at Barcelona's first Maker Faire. The three unique blocks — Batón, Echo and Alterego — all have different functions ina team meeting. The "Batón" is passed around like a talking stick, so whoever is holding it is allowed to speak. The gadget will vibrate when it's time to pass it to the next person.

The "Echo" records background sounds and sound bytes and can play those back. The "Alterego" is meant to make the group think outside the comfort zone without biases. Blue Apron: All the ingredients you need to cook a meal. Yahoo! "Carry Heavy Attachments" New Delhi Bridge Billboard Ad. Bitcoin – The Honey Badger of Money San Jose Billboard Ad 1.64K Views3 Likes Thanks to evoorhees and Gerndown, I found this on funny Honey Badger Bitcoin Bilboard ad on Reddit today and LOLed for about 20 minutes!

Yahoo! "Carry Heavy Attachments" New Delhi Bridge Billboard Ad

If you're familiar with Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining the remix lyrics to the now... Cost Per Like: A Subjective Valuation of Your Facebook Fans. "Cost per Like" often crops up in conversations about Facebook advertising, though it isn't a term officially sanctioned by Facebook.

Cost Per Like: A Subjective Valuation of Your Facebook Fans

So what exactly does it mean? Cost per Like refers to the cost of acquiring a new fan for a Facebook page, either through paid advertisements or, less directly, through earned media efforts. This Is The Best Ad Campaign In App History. What better way for an anti-social app to get noticed than by insulting its target audience?

This Is The Best Ad Campaign In App History

London-based app design studio ustwo has just put up a pair of billboards in the hipster heartland of Shoreditch, East London, a stone’s throw from where its own studio is based, which brazenly proclaim: You have no friends and No one likes you. The billboards, which will be teasing Shoreditch’s hipsters for two weeks, are an experimental ad campaign for one of ustwo’s recent apps: random photo-sharing app Rando, which launched back in March on iOS.

Rando has now also been rolled out on to Android and Windows Phone. Last month ustwo said the app had racked up a full five million of its entirely social-less random photo shares after around two months in the wild. Boatbound Launches ‘Pier-To-Pier’ Boat Rental Marketplace. Today Boatbound, the Airbnb for boats, launches its service to help boat owners offset the cost of ownership and let more people experience the joys of the water.

Boatbound Launches ‘Pier-To-Pier’ Boat Rental Marketplace

With over $1 million in funding led by Benjamin Ling and 500 Startups, Boatbound’s listings website lets pre-screened captains rent fully insured vessels across the country ranging from basic motorboats to sailboats to yachts. Back in February, co-founder Aaron Hall gave us the first interview about Boatbound as it went into private beta. He explained how most boats sit unused for 95 percent of the year, making ownership incredibly expensive for the value it provides. That’s why boats have even more potential than homes for the sharing economy. With a few rentals a month, most boats could pay for themselves with little inconvenience to the owner. The challenge is making those owners confident that their boats won’t be damaged, and if they are, they’ll be paid for in full.

En Corée, les magasins flottent au-dessus des passants. Des ballons volants facilitent l'accès au magasin en ligne E-mart en Corée du Sud.

En Corée, les magasins flottent au-dessus des passants

En Corée du Sud, de mystérieux ballons gonflés d’hélium se baladent dans les allées commerçantes ou dans les couloirs du métro. Sous leurs allures enfantines, ces ballons constituent un nouveau pan de la stratégie marketing de chox d’E-mart, le leader local de la grande distribution. Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was. Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone.

Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was

Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house. John began developing his new collection of photographs, some 100,000 negatives in total, that had been abandoned in a storage locker in Chicago before they ended up at the auction house.