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March 2010

Le réseau social détermine aussi la portée d'une information

La structure d'une plate-forme collaborative influence directement la manière dont son contenu est divulgué. D'où la nécessité pour les marketeurs de maîtriser cet aspect pour optimiser la diffusion de leur message.

Réseau social

La structure d'un réseau social détermine en grande partie les dynamiques des flux d'information", expliquent deux chercheurs de l'université de Californie du sud dans une étude comparative de Digg et Twitter. Prendre en compte ces différences structurelles permet d'optimiser la diffusion d'une information, selon eux. "Une information atteint plus rapidement les membres du réseau Digg, qui est plus dense que Twitter. Mais sur ce dernier elle se propage plus largement", précisent-ils. "De fait, les internautes présents sur Digg sont généralement plus technophiles", explique à L'Atelier Gregory Pouy, directeur de la stratégie de contact chez Nurun. "Twitter compte beaucoup plus de leaders d'opinions, ce qui permet au message de sortir du microcosme que représente le réseau social", ajoute-t-il.

 

Prendre en compte la structure du réseau avant de lancer une opération marketing

 

Ainsi, le potentiel de Twitter est beaucoup plus fort, selon le spécialiste. En ce qui concerne Digg, les chercheurs insistent dans leur étude sur la densité et l'interconnectivité de la plate-forme. L'un des avantages étant qu'une information demeure accessible plus longtemps que sur le site de gazouillis. "D'une certaine façon, Digg historise" confirme le consultant. "Twitter fonctionne sur un système de flux qui se réactualise sans cesse. Quand Digg apporte une profondeur qui peut s'avérer intéressante" ajoute-t-il. Prendre en compte la différence de structure des réseaux sociaux s'avère ainsi crucial pour mener à bien une opération de marketing. "Mais ce qui compte avant tout, c'est la question de la cible"précise le consultant.

 

La structure importe, mais aussi et surtout la cible correspondante

 

"La structure importe, mais ce sont les usages qui sont faits de ces médias sociaux qui sont surtout déterminants" poursuit-il. Selon lui, il ne faut pas adapter le message au réseau social mais à la cible à laquelle il correspond. Par ailleurs, la plate-forme choisie détermine le type de communication. Comme le suggère l'étude, et comme le confirme Gregory Pouy. Twitter permet de créer du relationnel avec le consommateur, quand Digg se prête plus à l'exposition de la marque ou au référencement naturel, par exemple. "Il faut néanmoins avoir à l'esprit que tout n'est pas imperméable, et que les informations qui circulent sur Twitter se retrouvent la plupart du temps sur Digg, et vice versa" conclut le spécialiste.

 
 

 

Posted by Jose P. 

Le premier «.com» célèbre son 25e anniversaire

Il y a exactement 25 ans, le manufacturier informatique Symbolics inc. enregistrait le premier nom de domaine «.com»: symbolics.com.

Il ne faut pas comparer ce premier site aux standards actuels mais la glace était brisée.

L'entreprise en elle-même - aujourd'hui disparue - n'est pas passée à l'histoire mais ce que l'on retient, c'est tout l'effet d'entraînement que cela a engendré. En 1997, un million de noms de domaines furent enregistrés. Trois ans plus tard, la bulle .com éclata, avec des répercussions à l'échelle mondiale.

Si ce crash de l'économie «virtuelle» a prouvé hors de tout doute qu'un nom d'entreprise bien choisi n'est pas nécessairement gage de succès, les .com jouent encore un rôle très important dans notre vie en ligne. Ce nom de domaine est encore celui qui représente le plus le World Wide Web aux yeux des gens.

Encore aujourd'hui, environ 668 000 sites sont enregistrés sous .com par mois! Ce qui représente un bond que l'on peut qualifier d'important si on compare ce chiffre aux six noms de domaines enregistrés en 1985.

Un site web a été ouvert pour célébrer les 25 années du .com.

Joyeux anniversaire!

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Posted by Jose P. 

Twitter @anywhere

Le CEO de Twitter Evan Williams vient d’annoncer à la SXSW que le service de microblogging vient de franchir un nouveau dans son approche de convergence / intégration au sein d’autres plateformes en lançant @anywhere (Les sites web tierces pourront ainsi être en mesure de pluguer des fonctionnalités basiques de Twitter sans avoir à renvoyer leurs utilisateurs sur le service de microblogging).

Lorsque vous visitez un site web qui supporte @anywhere, vous serez en mesure de devenir “follower” n’importe quel compte associé au site sans avoir à vous rendre sur Twitter.com ou encore de partager une vidéo YouTube sans avoir même à quitter la page ou arrêter son visionnage

Et ce n’est que “le début” affirme Evan Williams qui prévoit plus de fonctionnalités par la suite du lancement durant lequel sont associés des partenaires comme Amazon, AdAge, Bing, Citysearch, Digg, eBay, The Huffington Post, Meebo, MSNBC.com ou encore The New York Times, Salesforce.com, Yahoo, et YouTube.

Plus d’infos sur le compte Twitter dédié @anywhere

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Posted by Jose P. 

[F4YB] WSJ: Facebook Revenues For 2010 Could Hit Between $1.2 To $2 Billion

by Jason Kincaid on Mar 3, 2010

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Late last year, we published a list of the top 10 IPO candidates of 2010.  Leading that list was Facebook, which has grown to 400 million users and is finally starting to turn on the revenue pumps as it works toward its inevitable IPO. But this evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article
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 penned by Jessica Vascellaro that may dash the hopes of anyone who thinks that will happen in the immediate future. The lengthy piece, which is well worth reading in its entirety, touches on quite a few issues related to Facebook’s history and its future, and largely revolves around CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who doesn’t sound all that keen to take his company public.

While the article covers a lot of familiar territory about Facebook’s past, there’s plenty of new information too. Of note, the article says that Facebook executives have “discussed how revenues for 2010 could hit between $1.2 to $2 billion” — figures that exceed even the $1.1 billion InsideFacebook’s Eric Eldon reported

 yesterday (clearly, the number is looking big). The article also asserts that Facebook is working on a tool for sharing your physical location with Facebook (something that we’ve been hearing about for quite a while, and that I believe will be key in the future).

With regard to Facebook’s IPO, the article discusses Zuckerberg’s penchant for “delayed gratification”, which he says he has a special capacity for.  And because Zuckerberg still maintains firm control over the company, and when it will IPO, delayed gratification seems to be the law of the land.

There are also a handful of interesting anecdotes about Zuckerberg. According to the article, a Facebook engineer once wrote an internal memo called “Working With Zuck”, in which he warned other employees not to hope for much in the way of back-patting from their CEO, explaining they should not “expect acknowledgment for your role in moving the discussion forward; getting the product right should be its own reward.”

Posted by arthurkannas 

[F4YB] Apple vs Google? Apple vs Amazon!

In Case You Were Wondering How Amazon and Apple Felt About Each Other [Apple]

 

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Amazon MP3 Store has a promotion called Daily Deal, where they prominently highlight an album that'll rake in sales for cheap—in exchange, labels have been giving them a one-day exclusive before the street date. Surprise, iTunes got pissed.

For example, Amazon sold Mariah Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" for $6 and Vampire Weekend's "Contra" for $4, both a day before the street date in a Daily Deal promo. So, after telling labels it wasn't the wisest move to give Amazon any kind of exclusive window over iTunes, iTunes has apparently been pulling marketing support for music featured in Amazon's Daily Deals. Acording to Billboard, record labels Capitol and Jive backed out of Amazon Daily Deal promos they were considering for artists like Ke$ha, and Hollywood Records turned down Amazon's offer entirely to do a Daily Deal on Nick Jonas' new album, as result.

Amazon and Apple have been fighting it out over music for years—Amazon beat iTunes to being DRM-free, largely because labels feared iTunes' massive influence over the industry, given the iPod's 70 percent marketshare. So, they hoped to build up a credible threat in Amazon (which is why it's not entirely surprising to see them still give Amazon some favorable treatment, since it's essentially the MP3 store the labels built). Now with books in the content mix, it's even more tense. Though when it comes to publishing, the shoe's on the other foot: The publishers are flocking to Apple because they're afraid of Amazon, who commands between 80 and 90 percent of the ebook market.

Admittedly, part of the reason I hope Amazon eventually does buy Netflix is to make the fight over content even bloodier, like a proper gladiatorial deathmatch. [Billboard via Techmeme]

Posted by arthurkannas 

Twitter Speeding Towards 10 Billion Tweets

About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, 5 billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets.

Notice the trend? Although Twitter has been somewhat struggling with traffic (compared to its earlier immense growth) in the last couple of months, it still managed to go from five to ten billion tweets in four months; quite a remarkable achievement.

Counting tweets is actually quite easy: just look at the URL of any tweet. The number at the end of the URL seems to be the number of that tweet, and at this moment the number of one of the latest tweets is 9917803012. If this seems like a long way to go before we reach one billion, check out this counter. Yup, we’re getting there fast.

The five billionth (now deleted) tweet was a simple “Oh lord,” written by Robin Sloan. I wonder what the ten billionth tweet will say?

Posted by Jose P. 

Skinput Turns Your Body Into a Touchscreen [VIDEO]

Forget LCD, OLED, and AMOLED: the next trend in touchscreens could be your skin. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft’s Redmond research lab have developed a working prototype of a system called Skinput that effectively turns your body surface into both screen and input device.

Skinput makes use of a microchip-sized pico projector embedded in an armband to beam an image onto a user’s forearm or hand. When the user taps a menu item or other control icon on the skin, an acoustic detector also in the armband analyzes the ultralow-frequency sound to determine which region of the display has been activated.

You can check out more specifics on the technology behind Skinput in the paper the group will present [warning: PDF link] in April at the Computer-Human Interaction conference in Atlanta. Another innovative muscle-based control scheme we profiled recently comes to mind as an example of where the intersection of biology and computing might be heading. Both systems are still in the early prototype stages, but offer an exciting glimpse of what the future might hold in terms of human-computer interactions.

Check out the video below and let us know what you think: would you be interested in turning your skin into a touchscreen?


Posted by Jose P. 

Google throws weight behind HTC in Apple suit

Google has given its support to HTC in the recent lawsuit Apple has raised over alleged patents.

Given that the patent claims made by Apple appear to be more about Android than specific HTC phones in most cases, we contacted Google to see if it had a response.

A Google spokesperson told TechRadar: "We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it."

Battle royale brewing

The fact that Google has spoken out at all over the issue shows that there are likely some patent allegations facing the Android operating system, as Apple never specifically mentions it in the documents filed.

Google has been viewed as a threat to Apple, especially in the mobile space, since Eric Schmidt left Jobs' board of directors last year, so competition was always expected between the two firms.

But this lawsuit shows that Apple is clearly worried about the threat Google and Android are providing in the phone arena, so it will be interesting to see whether this spat is handled quickly or rumbles on for years and years.

Posted by Jose P. 

News | Ren Media

Top 10 reasons to use Chinese Social Media

Top 10 reasons why your business should use Chinese social media.

We're sure that by now, we don't need to tell you how important social media is. What we do need to tell you is that Chinese social media is more important than you think.

If you're in an industry that markets to the Chinese; whether it's consumers, tourists, business to business or the public sector, you could be missing out on a huge potential audience. 

Here are our top 10 reasons to use Chinese social media:

1) China has about 400 million internet users. Never mind all the Chinese speakers that live in other countries.

2) 92% of Chinese netizens use Social Media.

3) Every social media user owns on average 2.78 social media accounts

4) "But, we already use Twitter." Newsflash! The Chinese government doesn't like Twitter, and blocks it. Good luck marketing yourself in China if that's your only strategy.  

5) "We've got a Facebook Page" Also blocked.

6) Oh and by the way, you thought Facebook was big? QQ has one billion registered accounts and 500 million monthly active users.

7) 233 million mobile internet users

8) About 50 Million outbound tourists travelled out of China last year. 7/10 Chinese Travellers use the internet to source information about their destination.

9) 50% of netizens blog.

10) "I'm already ranked on Google." Heard of Baidu? It beats Google hands down in China. Last year's earnings were a 42% improvement on 2008 and it has at least a 75% market share.

Posted by Livia Labussiere 

First Live Images of a BlackBerry Slider; Could This be the Storm3?


Now here is something very interesting! It appears to be the first live images of a BlackBerry Slider! While we cannot confirm the legitimacy of these images just yet, they do seem ever so convincing. All of the characteristics fall into place (from what we can see). The buttons are up-to-date and "built-in" to the touchscreen. There is a touchpad, which makes sense, for additional navigation.

 

Just about everything we can currently observe (despite the blurriness of the photos) seem to be on par with the rumored body style of the BlackBerry Slider or otherwise known as the possible Storm3. It will be interesting to see if this device comes with all of the rumored OS specs, including OS 6.0 we've heard so much and so little about.

Do you think this could be the real BlackBerry Slider aka Storm3?

Posted by Damien Guinet