Le Community management vs. la démocratie
Ça fait quoi, deux-trois semaines que je suis sur Quora ? J’en avais entendu parler longtemps avant vous, parce que je suis super branché, mais à l’époque il était très difficile d’obtenir une invitation. Aujourd’hui c’est assez facile, le nombre d’inscription a explosé depuis décembre environ et après les articles "Quora va-t-il détrôner Twitter ?" (vous vous rappellez des "Twitter va-t-il détrôner Facebook ?"
The Measurement of Science
Albert Einstein’s greatest scientific “blunder” (his word) came as a sequel to his greatest scientific achievement. That achievement was his theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity, which he introduced in 1915. Two years later, in 1917, Einstein ran into a problem while trying to apply general relativity to the Universe as a whole. At the time, Einstein believed that on large scales the Universe is static and unchanging. But he realized that general relativity predicts that such a Universe can’t exist: it would spontaneously collapse in on itself. To solve this problem, Einstein modified the equations of general relativity, adding an extra term involving what is called the “cosmological constant” , which, roughly speaking, is a type of pressure which keeps a static Universe from collapsing.
Twitter, relais plus qu'initiateur de sujets populaires ?
C'est le contenu d'un micro-blog qui fait qu'il prendra de l'ampleur sur le réseau, plus que le fait qu'il soit véhiculé par un internaute disposant de beaucoup d'abonnés. Un contenu souvent issu de médias traditionnels. Quels sont les facteurs qui expliquent la formation et la persistance de sujets dits tendances sur les réseaux sociaux ? Une équipe du Social Computing Lab de chez HP s'est penchée sur la question, en se focalisant sur Twitter.
Now trending: the internet could usher in an Independent revolution that topples the two-party establishment
As the country remains highly polarized and chronically dissatisfied with the performance of the two major parties, the internet, and advent of social media in particular, could catalyze the historic campaign of an Independent presidential candidate as early as 2012. Joe Trippi, the internet guru behind Howard Dean’s remarkable 2004 presidential campaign and the mind behind Jerry Brown’s 800 number fundraising effort during his 1992 presidential run, echoed this sentiment at the South by Southwest Interactive festival’s recent gathering. Author of the book The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything, Trippi discusses how he leveraged the internet’s enabling ability of allowing a two-way interaction between candidate and voter to spur a people-driven movement for Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential run. Aided by the fluid medium of the internet, the impending doom of the two-party system might just arrive sooner rather than later.
Top 10 analytics tools for social media
Participating in social media for brands is no longer a question of if, or even a how. Even the stuffiest of CEOs and their companies have joined the conversations, and they've hired social media experts and PR firms to advise them on how to build campaigns and engage customers. In fact, eMarketer's recent study "Social Media in the Marketing Mix: Budgeting for 2011" estimates that 80 percent of U.S. businesses with 100 or more employees will use social media marketing this year. So now that we are all here, the questions shift.
The end of the net as we know it
Posted on 21 Jan 2011 at 13:34 ISPs are threatening to cripple websites that don't pay them first. Barry Collins fears a disastrous end to net neutrality
To Facebook the answer must be no.
I am very familiar with the Friendfeed API, so when I saw the presentation today by Bret Taylor, who is now one of the leading guys at Facebook, it felt very familiar. They design clean and simple APIs. This one is no exception. I would be playing with it right now except for two things:
Big Internet Guide
The f8 Preview: How Facebook Plans to Take Over the Web
Mark Zuckerberg @ SXSW 2008 by Deney Terreio via Flickr Facebook’s third f8 developer conference kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco and online, with the social networking company likely to announce what is essentially a game plan to not only socialize the web, but to marginalize the pre-social web. But while such a plan indicates a tussle with fellow upstart Twitter, the real battle is Facebook vs.
