Par Novitch,
Wednesday 30 August 2006 à 10:17 ::Interview
The future of creating demand doesn't lie at the head of the curve (like the most popular hits created by big media) but rather down the "Long Tail" of niches.
Google launched a WiFi network in their hometown of Mountain View. Radios hanging on lampposts throughout the city are now broadcasting a "GoogleWiFi" wireless (802.11b/g) signal that brings wireless Internet access to the city's residents, businesses, and visitors. All anyone needs is a laptop or other wireless-enabled device and a web browser to get online. Then Mountain View users can select the "GoogleWiFi" signal, open their web browser and sign in with a free Google Account.
Paris - France is on the point to get its own Wifi network in the 2d district (arrondissement) of Paris. This project ready to launch in September/October is called Quartier Numerique. It means numeric district and is a will to put Paris on a top level wifi's city in the world. It will be a super high flow network provided by optic fiber that will allow residents and companies to connect at 100 Mbits/s. More info soon on the subject.
Whereas, AdAge stikes a severe analyse on blogs, RSS, new media usage and finds that most folks still get their content the old-fashioned way. This extends across all demographics. They cite the following data points:
- 7% of American adults write blogs and 22% read them (Jupiter)
- About 8% listen to podcasts and 5% use RSS feeds (Jupiter)
- 88% of the at-work audience doesn't know what RSS is (WorkPlace Print Media)
- 92% of brand conversations were taking place offline (Keller Fay)
Par Novitch,
Wednesday 16 August 2006 à 17:12 ::General
The internet connection i have at home is now broken for a couple of days, which unfortunately obliged me to go outside, not for shopping either running or just bohème at a parisian coffee. Imagine that I had to go out to in order to find a wifi cofee to be able to post this. Not so easy in Paris specially in August to find a free wifi connection. So Thanks to Starbuck's which provides wifi connection to its customers. Good coffee smell, no tabacco, you just have to spend money on a lacte combo powder whatever coffee and be able to listen shalow elevator music (no comment on that)
It reminds me that without the web, we are so far away from emails, networking, informations and posting possibility. It reminds me that the project of QUARTIER NUMERIQUE IN PARIS, is a première in Paris and that it will allow people to have free access to the internet in the whole 2eme arrondissement de Paris. This project, ready to launch in October is supported by Erenis, Fon and the Silicon Sentier. It's a great initiative and I hope people will realize how important the web is and that without it, the numeric gasp is violent (specially when you are used to use the web) I think that we all are looking forward to have this free innovation access to high techno in Paris.
Par Novitch,
Monday 14 August 2006 à 18:18 ::General
This boot up of the IBM 5150 with DOS reminds us the introduction in our lives of PCs. Since August 1981, some 1,6 billion PC have been sold in the world. I hope you enjoyed the video.
Par Novitch,
Monday 14 August 2006 à 14:34 ::Tutorial
Between Peter Pan, Mary Popins or even Superman, GOGGLES is a flight sim that allows you to fly over the different major cities of the world. Have fun and fasten your seatbelt.
Par Novitch,
Thursday 10 August 2006 à 11:46 ::General
Eathrow is closed to most European flights and several Airlines carriers have cancelled UK flights. British authorities thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up several aircraft between the United States and Britain using explosives smuggled in hand luggages.
Par Novitch,
Tuesday 8 August 2006 à 13:19 ::insolite
21 year old Kate Tanner, a shop worker at Blue Banana (a clothing store) in Cardiff, Wales was recently fired from her job by SMS. The text said her services would no longer be required, adding: "Thank you for your time with us." Boss Ian Bisbie defended his decision to fire the young employee by saying, "youth business and our staff are all part of the youth culture that uses SMS messaging."
Par Novitch,
Tuesday 8 August 2006 à 12:15 ::General
- Technorati is now tracking more than 50 Million weblogs
- The blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.
- Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months.
- From January 2004 until July 2006, almost two and a half years later, the number of blogs that Technorati tracks has continued to double every 5-7 months.
- As of July 2006, about 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are more than 2 blogs created each second of each day.
- The total posting volume of the blogosphere continues to rise, showing about 1.6 Million postings per day, or about 18.6 posts per second. This is about double the volume of about a year ago
- As you continue down the long tail of media sites, the number of blogs starts to grow - to 11 of the top 90 sites, or 12.2% of the total, especially given the budget differentials
- The most prevalent times for English-language posting is between the hours of 10AM and 2PM Pacific time, with an additional spike at around 5PM Pacific time.
Par Novitch,
Friday 4 August 2006 à 13:00 ::General
I know we’re getting a bit heavy on the MySpace posts, but this one is too good to pass up. California-based MySpace Guardian, which launched on Monday according to this press release, is a toolbar for MySpace users that provides a “Sexual Predator Locator�. Moreover, the danger of social networking is now taught in college and high school at the same level as drugs, endeptment and sex.
Par Novitch,
Friday 4 August 2006 à 12:47 ::General
The CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, has put together a summary of the way things at Google are done. Google's setup a sort of mini-democracy, where every employee has a say in how things are done. They are more concerned about the well-being of their engineers, than they are about their bankers or money managers. Here they are:
Par Novitch,
Wednesday 2 August 2006 à 18:58 ::General
Newswatch India says:
PARIS: Already famed for angry labour strikes and philosophical debates in smoke-filled cafes, the French have now brought these passions online to become some of the world’s most intensive bloggers.
The French distinguish themselves, both statistically and anecdotally, ahead of Germans, Britons and even Americans in their obsession with the personal and public journals of the Internet age.
60% of French Internet users visited a blog in May, ahead of Britain with 40% and little more than a third in the United States, according to Comscore, an Internet ratings service.
Likewise, French bloggers spent more than an hour in June visiting France’s top-rated blog site, far ahead of the 12 minutes spent by Americans doing the same and the less than three minutes by Germans, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, a sister company to the television ratings giant.
“You cannot be elected president of France without a blog,� said Benjamin Griveaux, director of Web strategy for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former finance minister and current member of Parliament who in 2004 was among the first politicians to start a blog.
“Blogs have not replaced traditional media, but they are absolutely necessary for every politician.� Some bloggers even harbour a faint hope that flourishing online discussions might curb the French population’s penchant for taking to the streets in protest.
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