Live Video-Tweeting: Twitter enrichie le Web temps réel

Le Telegraph nous apprend que Twitter va lancer un service de Live Video-Tweeting. Les 140 caractères vont se transformer en quelques secondes de vidéo pour partager sa vie en direct. Mieux que 12seconds, Twitter nous promet un Web en temps réel enrichi. Live Video-Tweeting: So what! Tweetube, ...

By Laurent Maisonnave • Oct. 13, 2009

Project Gaydar and online privacy (or what you might be telling the world)

Image by Alicakes* via Flickr An experiment by students at MIT has shown that they were able to 'successfully' predict the sexuality of people based on their friends on Facebook. The so-called 'Project Gaydar'* showed that by looking at information that a person's friends share online (in ...

By Matt Rhodes • Oct. 10, 2009

The FTC Tête-Ã -Tête on Twitter

If you've been following the digital discourse set off by the alleged $11,000 fine levied by the FTC against some bloggers, then you might enjoy Thursday evening's Twitter exchange between BuzzMachine's Jeff Jarvis and Mediashift's Mark Glazer (@mediatwit).In case you've been out of the country...

By Peter Himler • Oct. 9, 2009

Facebook détecte le bonhneur

Ca ne marche qu'aux Etats-Unis, mais ça devrait arriver chez nous dans les prochains mois. A partir de l'analyse sémantique des statuts de ses membres ("super journée", "moral en peu en berne ce matin"...), Facebook évalue leur niveau de bonheur national, s'il vous plaît ! D'après l'article du...

By Emilie Ogez • Oct. 8, 2009

Facebook, cause de rupture dans les couples?

Quelle influence de Facebook sur la vie des couples?Prenons les choses dans l'ordre. Facebook, c'est:Une liste d'ami(e)s et d'inconnu(e)s Une situation amoureuse détaillée au point qu'on peut spécifier si "c'est compliqué"Un chat et des discussions avec des personnes qu'on ne connait pas forcém...

By Mehdi Lamloum • Oct. 6, 2009

La vie privée sur les sites de réseau social : analyse comparative de 6 sites

Cet été, le Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada a réussi à faire plier Facebook ; il a obtenu du réseau social qu'il fasse plusieurs modifications. Il a également publié un rapport (PDF) dans lequel on trouve une analyse comparative du traitement des renseignements personn...

By Emilie Ogez • Oct. 6, 2009

Twitter, quantité ou qualité?

La question de la quantité ou de la qualité sur Twitter n'est pas nouvelle, et pourtant j'aimerai vous donner mon point de vue (et connaitre le votre!) pour 2 raisons: la première est que ma réflexion sur la question est désormais appuyée par des chiffres concrets, la seconde à cause d'une di...

By Elie Prudhomme • Oct. 3, 2009

Twitter Tips: How to Use Twitter to Job Hunt

C.G Lynch interviewed me about some Twitter tips for job seekers. You can see how I use Twitter in action, by following me @philreCareered. I've highlighted my comments in bold:Though LinkedIn tops the list of professionally-oriented social networks for job seeking, you can also use Twitter to g...

By Phil Rosenberg • Oct. 3, 2009

Leçon d'un con

On connait tous l'histoire. Sur Facebook, cette semaine, un sondage généré par un utilisateur sur Facebook demandait « Obama doit-il être assassiné ? ». Rien de moins. Les services secret du président en question ont vite retrouvé les traces du délinquant... un ado."Attention à ce que vous post...

By Martin Lessard • Oct. 2, 2009

New Feature Makes LinkedIn More Like a CRM Tool

This content from: Duct Tape MarketingLinkedIn pushed an upgraded feature through today that makes it a much more powerful small business prospecting and relationship tool in my book.When prospecting on LinkedIn in the past you could type in a keyword or specific company search and locate peopl...

By John Jantsch • Oct. 1, 2009

Le Poète voyageur

Arthur Rimbaud, Joachim du Bellay, Jean Tardieu, Blaise Cendrars, Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Aznavour, Georges Moustaki, Jacques Brel, Claude Nougaro... voici quelques uns des textes et chansons qu'interprétera André Nerman dans son spectacle Poète voyageur, Ã la Scène ...

By Yann Dubois • Sept. 29, 2009

Has Twitter's growth rate finally bottomed out?

With the micro-blogging platform Twitter being valued a staggering $1 billion, Hitwise North America analyst Bill Tancer provides some food for thought. In particular Bill asks whether the micro-blogging platform with the stated aim of being 'the pulse of the planet' is running out of steam bas...

By Dirk Singer • Sept. 26, 2009

Everything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You

It should hardly need repeating at this point: When you post stuff to the Internet, people will see it, and quite possibly use it in ways that you don't intend. And yet, either people keep finding new ways to make the same mistakes, or other people keep finding ways to use that information.Two re...

By Shashi Bellamkonda • Sept. 23, 2009

Imitation and Obsolescence - Facebook Guns for Twitter

Revenge is a dish best served via status updates. When you look in the rearview mirror, you realize the greed and comparative savvy of the leadership of uber-successful online startups has ramifications on us all. What if Myspace hadn't sold to Fox? What if Yahoo had sold to Microsoft? What if ...

By Jay Baer • Sept. 23, 2009

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By ç›— ç›— • Sept. 22, 2009

Facebook abandonne son Beacon

Beacon est un programme développé par Facebook et qui permet de suivre les actions que les internautes connectés sur Facebook font ailleurs sur le web.Facebook le défini de la sorte dans la page consacré Ã Beacon:Facebook Beacon is a way for you to bring actions you take online into Facebook. B...

By Mehdi Lamloum • Sept. 20, 2009

Social Media (Facebook) Helps Aid In Search of Teen

SGV Tribune posted an article on how a missing person search was established by private citizens (not police) using Facebook. A young man named Vincent Giovanazzi went missing and unfortunately he ended his life before he could be located. A family friend of Giovanazzi's parents set up a mi...

By • Sept. 20, 2009

Making Twitter Sticky

There are a lot of changes happening over at Twitter at the minute. They recently updated their Terms of Service and now they're working on Project ReTweet, where sharing someone else's tweet with your connections will be performed differently from the current user-generated method. As is usual ...

Sept. 20, 2009

Bon voyage Renée

La nouvelle a déchiré mes fils web. Comme une tenaille qui te saisit brusquement le coeur. Puis cette sensation d'incrédulité fragile qui frénétiquement te pousse à emprunter la lignée de liens de plus en plus vite vers la page fatale. Et là , Twitter s'emballe. Tout déboule de partout. Confirm...

By Martin Lessard • Sept. 19, 2009

Want to get re-tweeted? Here's the formula

A recent addition to the herd here at Cow is Louise Doherty, who joined us from Fubra.com, a network of 100 odd price comparison websites. The other day, a post Louise wrote in February on getting re-tweeted got picked up by Robin Broitman in an article on writing effectively for twitter and ...

By Dirk Singer • Sept. 18, 2009

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ReadTwit 是一个基于Twitterçš„RSS产å"ï¼Œå®ƒå¯ä»¥è®©ç"¨æˆ·ç›´æŽ¥è®¢é˜...Twitter上出现的有趣é"¾æŽ¥ï¼Œè€Œä¸éœ€è¦é¢å¤-æ‰"开。 ReadTwit 是一款相对有趣的Twitter衍ç"Ÿäº§å"ï¼Œå®ƒä¼šæœ‰é€‰æ‹©æ€§åœ°è¿‡æ»¤æŽ‰å¥½å‹çš„Tweets，æˆ-è€...屏è"½#æ ‡ç­¾ï¼ˆHash-tag），然后将那äº...

By ç›— ç›— • Sept. 17, 2009

Fallacious Celebrations of Facebook Fans

Guest Post by Dr. Mark Drapeau - read his blog, follow him on Twitter Source: Shutterstock ImagesPublishing "top 10″ lists is unfortunately a staple of modern journalism. But alas, writers must drive readers' eyeballs, even when discussing serious topics like the government. And so we find ...

By Brian Solis • Sept. 17, 2009

HabitatUK return to Twitter

It was in June that HabitatUK learnt the power of social media when they jumped on Twitter and used trending topic hashtags (the most tasteless was the Iran Election) to push signups to their marketing database and furniture discounts . As the blogger who broke the news, and then watched it bre...

By Tiphereth Gloria • Sept. 16, 2009

Le crowdsourcing : dompter la folie des foules

«Le crowdsourcing qu'est-ce que c'est?» C'était la question que l'animateur Benoit Cantin, ce matin, me posait au téléphone, en direct de la radio de Radio-Canada à Toronto. Hésitation. Quand on cause "crowdsourcing" à une émission grand public, le matin, avant 09h00, on sent que l'on vient de...

By Martin Lessard • Sept. 16, 2009

Facebook becomes more like Twitter with @ mentions

Image via Wikipedia People often describe Twitter as "Facebook reduced only to the status update". I always found this a poor description, as there was always a significant difference between my Twitter updates and Facebook statuses. With Facebook I can only tell people about me; with Twit...

By Matt Rhodes • Sept. 14, 2009