January 2012
5 posts
“[R&D shifts toward Asia] The U.S. is rapidly losing high-technology jobs as...”
– U.S. Loses Out as R&D Shifts to Asia - WSJ.com
“[On the team work behind Watson, the victorious “Jeopardy” Computer]...”
– Building the ‘Watson’ Team of Scientists - NYTimes.com
“[surveiller pour pas cher] le coût de stockage de l’enregistrement de tous les...”
– http://htl.li/8gpNJ
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“Perhaps to the chagrin of cellphone carriers, all signs point to text...”
– Text Messaging Is in Decline in Some Countries - NYTimes.com
December 2011
2 posts
“En Afrique, le Kenya a marqué l’Histoire en étant le premier pays de l’Afrique...”
– De l’Open Data à l’Open Action | Fhimt.com
In Defense of Friction
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Facebook’s birthday reminders have “ruined birthdays” by “commoditizing” social interactions and people’s social skills. Furthermore, some have argued that “Facebook is ruining sharing” by making it frictionless. In many scenarios, automation is quite useful, but with social interactions, removing friction can have a harmful effect on the social bonds...
November 2011
5 posts
Afrique : Des voix africaines pour raconter...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Africa: What’s Your Story? (Afrique, quelle est ton histoire?) est le tout dernier projet d’A24 Media. Celui-ci cherche à souligner les problèmes que les Africains ont en commun et à promouvoir transparence et responsabilité. Via fr.globalvoicesonline.org
BULLET SKAN trouva sur Twitter la sécurité quand...
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Grâce à Twitter, des pêcheurs japonais vendent...
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DR. WILLY MUTUNGAa incité les tribunaux africains...
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Anonymous Mexico denies threat to Los Zetas drug...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Anyone challenging the drug cartels in Mexico, whether they are a part of Anonymous or not, is taking a dangerous step, but with the escalating violence and inability of the authorities to control the cartels, it may be a risk that some feel driven to take.
October 2011
10 posts
There Posts the Neighborhood
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Facebook has reconnected far-flung friends and family, and LinkedIn gives people a way to stay in touch with professional contacts. Nextdoor is the social network for people near enough to each other to borrow a cup of sugar. The San Francisco company on Wednesday is opening a social networking site for neighborhoods so that anyone can create a private online...
Maroc : Facebook est devenu un thermomètre social…...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media “3 905 080 Marocains sur Facebook.” Show original
Tunisie : Une carte en ligne collaborative pour...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media “Les citoyens tunisiens sont encouragés à signaler les irrégularités dont ils peuvent être témoins durant le scrutin qui a lieu aujourd’hui 23 octobre en Tunisie.” Show original
Egyptian Facebook user jailed for 3 years for...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media An Egyptian court has sentenced a Facebook user to three years’ prison for creating a page on the social networking site to publish opinions thought to be offensive to Islam and the Prophet Mohamed. Show original
Mobile phone: Weapon against global poverty -...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media “The cell phone is the single most transformative technology for development,” said Sachs, head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of the 2005 book “The End of Poverty.”“Poverty is almost equated with isolation in many places of the world. Poverty results from the lack of access to markets, to emergency...
Mapping the Thailand Flooding Disaster
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media As of the time of writing, 252 people have already died in Thailand due to more than two months of heavy rains. Many parts of Bangkok, the country’s capital, are already submerged in floodwaters. Online maps have been created to monitor the floods and inform the public on the extent of the flooding disaster.
Arab Bloggers meet in Tunis
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media On Monday in Tunis, the 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting kicked off with a day-long public conference. The meeting is co-hosted by Global Voices, Nawaat and Heinrich Böll Foundation and is attended by around 100 bloggers from nearly all Arab countries. Naturally, the conference was well-blogged, not only on the official Arab Bloggers blog, but also by many...
Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Hangout...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media “His Holiness the Dalai Lama will have a conversation with Archbishop Desmond Tutu by live video over a Hangout as part of the Inaugural Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 8, 2011, starting at 10:30am South African time (GMT+2.00). A link to the Google+ Hangout will be available approximately 20-30 minutes before the event...
Google launches YouTube in Kenya
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Search giant, Google launched YouTube in Kenya today. Through Youtube.co.ke, Kenyans would be able to discover and view local content as well as instantly view the most popular videos … Show original
Le Business Tunisien en quête de startups
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Beaucoup d’entre elles essaient en ce moment de se débarrasser de ce lourd fardeau laissé par l’ancien régime. Des associations professionnelles se sont également jointes aux partis politiques pour mettre en avant le besoin urgent d’investissements destinés à créer des emplois, garants d’une stabilité à long terme. Les mesures préconisées vont du simple...
September 2011
9 posts
Al Jazeera's Laudable Embrace of Creative Commons...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media While poking around their site and materials at the conference, I discovered that Al Jazeera has been offering up video, photographs, and even full-fledged blog articles for public use under Creative Commons (“CC”) licenses since January 2009. Show original
“Dabbawallahs pick up the home cooked lunches in the suburbs, hop on trains, and...”
– The incredible delivery system of India’s dabbawallahs - (37signals)
francispisani: @csmbeggen Merci de m'avoir signalé... →
francispisani: @jaer primero el viaje alrededor... →
francispisani: EN México, sin entrevistas hoy.... →
Andy Carvin: the man who tweets revolutions
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media When Libya’s uprising boiled over two weeks ago, Carvin surpassed even his own record by tweeting nearly 1,200 times in 48 hours. But that statistic is misleading, he explains. “If it’s a big story that’s playing out over a couple of days then those tweets are going to add up. But the number of words actually written is certainly less...
“[Qui contróle l’internet?] En raison de sa nature décentralisée, Internet...”
– Qui contrôle Internet ? - LeMonde.fr
“[Computers in the classroom] to many education experts, something is not adding...”
– Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com
'Twitter terrorists' face 30 years after being...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media A man and a woman are facing 30-year prison terms in Mexico for allegedly using Twitter to spread panic over a series of child kidnappings. Gilberto Martinez Vera, 48, a private school teacher, and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola, a radio presenter, were accused of spreading false reports that gunmen were attacking schools in the south-eastern city of Veracruz....
August 2011
13 posts
“[They have one drone] The Libyan revolutionaries are more of a band of...”
– Libyan Rebels Are Flying Their Own Minidrone | Danger Room | Wired.com
“The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors...”
– Steve Jobs’s Patents - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Le New York Times ouvre un labo d'innovation en...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Le quotidien américain met lecteurs et journalistes à contribution pour repenser l’information numérique. … Une étude publiée fin juin par le cabinet de conseil italien Innova e Bella a élu le New York Times comme journal faisant le meilleur usage de Facebook. Le quotidien y réunit plus d’un million de fans, contre 577.000 en 2010....
Google's Real Names Policy is Evil
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Google’s horrible new policy on using real names in Google+ effectively means that the service is now a danger to real people. You have to ask yourself why a company that pledged to not be evil would do this. It’s hard to understand why Google would embark on such a wrong-headed policy. The most likely answer is that this is a pure identity play....
NYPD Launches Social Media Unit! | PerezHilton.com
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media In light of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter essentially taking over the lives of everyone ever, the NYPD will reportedly be launching a new juvenile justice department, focusing exclusively on tracking criminal activity using the websites, which will be known as the ‘Social Media Unit.’Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor will be in charge, due to...
Social media role in U.K. riots mirror Vancouver...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media “The media stories that started out in London were about social media starting the riot. It was exact the same in Vancouver,” Simon Fraser Univeristy communication professor Peter Chow-White said. Similar to Vancouver, social media in London was initially used as an alternative media source for citizen journalism, people caught in hot zones trying to get out,...
The Dark Figure Of Social Media: What Can Twitter...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media As a criminologist I think a lot about how social media can be utilized in my field and in the field of police sciences. We can study attitudes about crime, fear of crime, urban myths, moral panics, laws, legislation, police services, victim impact, sentencing reform, prison reform and restorative justice. We can look at social media studies and compare them...
The Vidiots strategy: From commodities to...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media The Times had a noteworthy article in yesterday’s paper, about the approaches independent video rental stores are taking as they battle behemoths like RedBox and Netflix. Vidiots, a popular video-rental spot in L.A., opened a community space, the Annex, last year. It uses the space to hold classes (“Film Studies“) and to host events: lectures from filmmakers,...
“Gamification is most often defined as the use of gameplay mechanics for non-game...”
– Gamification: How Competition Is Reinventing Business, Marketing & Everyday Life
“Google Takeout. As the name suggests, Google Takeout lets you take your data out...”
– How to Liberate Your Data from Google (And Why It Matters That You Can)
How the Web Is Responding to the Horn of Africa...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media The Horn of Africa is in the midst of the worst famine the region has seen in over 60 years. Creative attempts to help are sprouting up across the Internet. Like most major international crises today, Twitter is the go-to forum for Africans to discuss the situation on the ground. Users are asking for the international community to send aid to the starving...
Report: Only 15% of Small Business Facebook Fans...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media A new study released today by Roost, a technology company that helps companies with social media, determined that: …only 15 percent of the average local… Show original
Australian businesses lagging on social media:...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Australian businesses are failing to integrate social media into their operations compared to international rivals despite our high use of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, a KPMG survey has found. The professional services and auditing firm surveyed 1850 managers and 2016 employees from 10 countries and found that Australian businesses have a social media...
July 2011
27 posts
Iceland Unveils Crowdsourced Constitution
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Icelanders on Friday delivered what may set the template for other governments: a crowdsourced constitution. A group of 25 citizens presented a draft of the constitution to Iceland’s parliament. The group, which is made up of ordinary residents, compiled the document online with the help of hundreds of others. The constitution council posted the first draft in...
Cancer Survivors Build Social Network For Social...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media launch of a new social network called I Had Cancer, which has created an engaging, Web-centric support system for cancer fighters, survivors, and their friends and family. Show original
How newspapers are leading the way in social...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media The news industry has long been regarded as the slowest to adapt to social media, as digital was ignored by newspapers for so long. Show original
Cairo named the as world’s most 24-hour city - Odd...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Cairo has been named as the world’s most 24-hour city after an analysis of social media interactions around the world. The study - conducted by website Badoo - looked at what time most people are online chatting and how long they spend doing so. It was discovered that people in Cairo tended to be online at 12.45 pm - that’s 75 minutes later than in...
We Ain't Flash Mobbing, We Flash Robbing (PHOTOS)
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Flash robbing is a new trend that is getting way out of hand, very quickly. This is not to be confused with a ‘flashmob,’ where a group of people meet in a designated place and perform a dance number. This new craze involves a group of people bum-rushing a retail store, grabbing everything they can and running out. Read more:...
Africa's new generation is using social media to...
Via Scoop.it - World of Social Media Marieme Jamme: Social media is transforming communication about a continent that did not always have the chance to speak for itself… Africa’s “cheetahs” are changing their continent by investing seed capital in small businesses such as agricultural programmes, or helping young women to develop small businesses, and social entrepreneurs...