Food 4 Your Brain http://f4yb.heaven.fr heaven is feeding your brain posterous.com Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:40:00 -0700 Forrester: évolution des comportements sociaux http://f4yb.heaven.fr/forrester-evolution-des-comportements-sociaux http://f4yb.heaven.fr/forrester-evolution-des-comportements-sociaux

Le dernier rapport de Forrester : « A Global Update Of Social Technographics» qui se fonde sur les réponses de plus de 275 000 consommateurs en Asie Pacifique, Europe et Amérique du Nord, constitue un état des lieux de l’adoption des technologies sociales.

La participation croissante aux réseaux sociaux est l’une des principales tendances de cet état des lieux. L’Europe, en particulier, a connu une croissance a deux chiffres dans ce domaine, soit une augmentation de  11%, comparable à l’Australie (11%) et loin derrière la Chine (18%). L’Amérique du Nord a quant à elle connu une croissance de 8% seulement. 66% des adultes français sont aujourd’hui impliqués dans des activités online, contre 61% en 2009 et 58% in 2008.

En revanche, entre 2009 et 2010, aucun marché n’a progressé si l’on observe la proportion des internautes ayant créé du contenu social ; l’Europe se maintenant par exemple autour de 15%.

Selon Jacqueline Anderson, « La faible croissance des créations sociales se traduit par un manque d’idées fraiches, de contenu et de perspective ». « Par exemple, un tiers des consommateurs nord-américains regardent régulièrement des vidéos générées par des utilisateurs sur des sites comme YouTube. Mais seulement 10% d’entre eux téléchargent des vidéos qu’ils ont eux-mêmes créées. Les spécificités requises pour créer du contenu social sont uniques et, pour l’instant, le nombre de consommateurs intéressés par ces comportements a atteint un pallier. »

Focus France

  • Au niveau national, la France a connu une croissance significative des individus adhérant à un réseau social ou y entretenant leur profil : de 25% en 2009 à 40% en 2010.
  • Mais les consommateurs français sont moins enclins à créer du contenu social : environ 11% des adultes français sont des « Créateurs » de contenus sociaux, c’est-à-dire qu’ils ont posté un billet sur un blog, mis à jour une page web, ou téléchargé une vidéo qu’ils ont créé.
  • Ils sont toutefois 19% a pouvoir être classés parmi les « Critiques » : ils commentent les billets de bloggeurs ou publient des avis sur des sites d’eCommerce.
  • Environ 22% des Français sont des « Collectionneurs », abonnés aux flux RSS ou faisant usage des aggrégateurs du type wikio.
  • 28% des consommateurs français entrent dans la catégorie nouvellement créée des « participants aux Conversations » (Conversationalists), autrement dit les personnes qui utilisent Twitter ou mettent à jour leur statut sur leur réseau social au moins une fois par semaine.
  • Enfin, les « Spectateurs », qui se content de lire les tweets, billets ou commentaires d’autres internautes sont 52%, représentant le groupe le plus important en France.

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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:49:00 -0700 Volkswagen Plants Audio Ad in Print Newspaper http://f4yb.heaven.fr/volkswagen-plants-audio-ad-in-print-newspaper http://f4yb.heaven.fr/volkswagen-plants-audio-ad-in-print-newspaper


Readers of The Times of India heard an audio advertisement when they unfolded the print edition of the newspaper this morning. (You read that right.)

Volkswagen paid the publication to fit an audio chip inside the pages (above) that plays in an endless loop until you close the paper, according to tech blog Digital Inspiration. For power, the chip appears to incorporate a photodiode, a photo detector that converts light into current or voltage. That’s pretty clever.

Not a believer? Check out the video below showing the audio ad in action.

It’s clearly a publicity stunt on VW’s part, and it seems kind of creepy, but most readers are reacting positively to the ad on Twitter. And we’re sure The Times is enjoying the extra cash from the eccentric ad, like any print publication would these days.

“One of those rare days when ppl in #mumbai will buy times of india to see (also hear) the Volkswagen advertisement and not for news,” tweeted Moulin Parikh.

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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:45:00 -0700 China, India Offer Marketers Opportunities for Scalable Ideas http://f4yb.heaven.fr/china-india-offer-marketers-opportunities-for http://f4yb.heaven.fr/china-india-offer-marketers-opportunities-for
How many campaigns can you think of which have the potential to reach 384 million consumers? Every digital campaign in China has that potential. A recent campaign that tapped effectively into this market was the Experience New Zealand Right Now campaign, which rolled out in April 2010. Tourism New Zealand teamed up with filmmaker Lu Chuan and celebrity blogger Hung Huang to promote New Zealand to Chinese travelers. Capitalizing on the star power of these big names, Tourism New Zealand rolled out mini video travelogues showing great experiences these stars had in New Zealand. The content was shared on a range of media platforms including social-media sites like Kaixin.com, video-sharing sites like Tudou.com, blogs, online communities, and Tourism New Zealand's Chinese-language website.

It was the simplest idea: real-life stories of great experiences at a holiday destination. But it fulfilled a criterion that is key in Asia: does the idea scale?

There were three simple consumer insights that made this idea scale. First, celebrities have enormous credibility in China, and their opinions and insights are highly valued. Second, the Chinese consumer is digitally very well-connected and loves to share content. Third, everyone loves a good story! These consumer insights were gleaned not through mind-blowing genius, but through plain and simple sensitivity. Asian creativity relies on ideas which leverage on simple consumer insight and create a buzz among the people.

Asia's other enormous market, India, is also a place where scalable ideas spread like fire. A typical example is Gillette's Shave India Movement. This initiative started in 2008 under the mantle of "To Shave Or Not To Shave?" The public debated the merits of stubble versus the clean-shaven look. Last year, the movement took a new avatar as "Women Against Lazy Stubble," in which women who preferred the clean-shaven look created a movement persuading men to shave.

The Shave India Movement recognized the fact that Indians love to debate. By tying up with major media channels such as The Times of India, Gillette created a conduit for the average Indian to voice opinions on a personal issue. Cricket players and Bollywood stars, as celebrities with fanatical followings, were roped into the debate. The world's largest public shave took place in Mumbai in December 2009, and close to 2,000 men took part. Most importantly, Gillette, a brand with good awareness and respectability but lacking the oomph factor, finally exploded onto the Indian consciousness. It was reflected in a 38% increase in sales and a 35% increase in market share.

In a country where a multitude of citizens debate cricket, politics and movies at roadside chaat stalls and thattukadas, getting people to argue passionately about an issue is never a problem. But it required sensitive consumer insight to uncover these basic truths about the Indian consumer and create an idea that scaled.

In these respects, Asia is significantly different from mature markets like Western Europe or North America. In these markets, digital technology is often ahead of other regions, and the consumer engages with the online medium at a deeper level. Ideas that "wow" you and break through the clutter in a big way are more successful here. This could explain why European agencies like AMV BBDO and Jung von Matt outscore Asian agencies in sheer number of creative awards. Even in the Asia-Pacific region, the markets that win a disproportionate number of awards are Australia and New Zealand, both mature markets not very different from Western Europe and North America.

A typical example of good creativity in a developed market is Jung von Matt's Sounds of Hamburg campaign for the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra. CCTV cameras were installed at landmarks in the city to stream live videos to a site, and every user of the site could create a unique symphony for these videos. The user selected objects in the video and dragged-and-dropped musical instruments onto these objects. Every movement of the selected objects was algorithmically converted into a musical score, creating unique sounds representing everyday scenes in Hamburg. While a success in Germany, such an idea is unlikely to scale in Asia, where classical music is very much a niche pursuit. Campaigns that rely on innovation and novelty find their ideal home in developed markets.

In Asia, the marketer with the sensitivity and insight to reach this large population with scalable ideas will be the marketer who scores.

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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:42:00 -0700 How To Replace A Social Media Super Star http://f4yb.heaven.fr/how-to-replace-a-social-media-super-star http://f4yb.heaven.fr/how-to-replace-a-social-media-super-star

Yesterday's NY Times featured a cover story about an increasingly common problem of turnover that many Broadway musical productions are facing. As more and more of these shows feature recognizable star actors as headliners like The Producers with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, they run into the inevitable problem of trying to keep the production going without the stars who have become "irreplaceable" in their roles.

Some shows manage to keep up the buzz by replacing one star with another, while others fail because the show was too closely bonded with the actors who brought it to life. I started thinking about this distinction because it is a challenge that keeps many organizations awake at night when considering their efforts in social media as well.

To use social media effectively, you often need to foster the individual talents of employees who have a natural ability to use these tools and may be actively using them in their own personal lives. These are the individuals who frequently start social media innovation within the companies where they work. So what happens when they leave?

Having seen this happen at several organizations, there are a few case studies that I would point to as demonstrating the 3 different ways that companies can deal with this situation of having a vocal and public social media figure leaving their organization for any reason.

  1. The Handover - This is the ideal case where the branded efforts on behalf of the company can be handed over to another individual within the company. It is how Boeing chose to deal with popular CMO blogger Randy Baseler retiring when he handed over his blog called Randy's Journal to the new CMO, Randy Tinseth (who also incidentally happened to be named Randy). A more recent example is how Comcast has continued the @comcastcares http://twitter.com/comcastcares Twitter handle with a new voice behind it (Bill Gerth) because the original creator, my friend Frank Eliason, has moved on to a new job working with Citibank.
  2. The Farewell - A technique most commonly seen in the world of media is simply shutting down a blog when a popular blogger leaves an organization for any reason. There have been numerous journalists who chose (or were compelled to) shut down their blogs when they left the organization they wrote for. On the corporate side, the most recognizable example is likely how Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, wrote a farewell post and shut down his personal blog when Sun was acquired by Oracle. 
  3. The Springboard - The less common alternative that I have not seen as frequently is a third option that involves taking inspiration from the individual who is leaving, but to continue their work through a related but separate initiative. This could mean starting a new blog to take over for a popular older one, or rebranding or changing an existing blog to evolve to the next level after the original author departs.

Each of these are valid ways to deal with the challenge of having a social media super star leave your organization. More importantly, don't let a fear of this situation keep you from embracing the emerging stars and "accidental spokespeople" within your organization who have a genuine passion and desire to share their insights with the world. They can be one of your best assets - and it's not the end of the world in case they do eventually decide to leave.

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:33:00 -0700 Le réseau social détermine aussi la portée d'une information http://f4yb.heaven.fr/le-reseau-social-determine-aussi-la-portee-du http://f4yb.heaven.fr/le-reseau-social-determine-aussi-la-portee-du

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.

 
 

 

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:39:56 -0700 Le premier «.com» célèbre son 25e anniversaire http://f4yb.heaven.fr/le-premier-com-celebre-son-25e-anniversaire http://f4yb.heaven.fr/le-premier-com-celebre-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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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:38:45 -0700 Twitter @anywhere http://f4yb.heaven.fr/twitter-anywhere-2 http://f4yb.heaven.fr/twitter-anywhere-2

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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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:38:26 -0800 [F4YB] WSJ: Facebook Revenues For 2010 Could Hit Between $1.2 To $2 Billion http://f4yb.heaven.fr/f4yb-wsj-facebook-revenues-for-2010-could-hit http://f4yb.heaven.fr/f4yb-wsj-facebook-revenues-for-2010-could-hit

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.”

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:29:28 -0800 [F4YB] Apple vs Google? Apple vs Amazon! http://f4yb.heaven.fr/f4yb-apple-vs-google-apple-vs-amazon http://f4yb.heaven.fr/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]

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:33:38 -0800 Twitter Speeding Towards 10 Billion Tweets http://f4yb.heaven.fr/twitter-speeding-towards-10-billion-tweets-1 http://f4yb.heaven.fr/twitter-speeding-towards-10-billion-tweets-1

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?

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:32:05 -0800 Skinput Turns Your Body Into a Touchscreen [VIDEO] http://f4yb.heaven.fr/skinput-turns-your-body-into-a-touchscreen-vi-0 http://f4yb.heaven.fr/skinput-turns-your-body-into-a-touchscreen-vi-0

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?


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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:28:55 -0800 Google throws weight behind HTC in Apple suit http://f4yb.heaven.fr/google-throws-weight-behind-htc-in-apple-suit http://f4yb.heaven.fr/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.

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:16:09 -0800 News | Ren Media http://f4yb.heaven.fr/news-ren-media-0 http://f4yb.heaven.fr/news-ren-media-0

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.

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:10:18 -0800 First Live Images of a BlackBerry Slider; Could This be the Storm3? http://f4yb.heaven.fr/first-live-images-of-a-blackberry-slider-coul http://f4yb.heaven.fr/first-live-images-of-a-blackberry-slider-coul


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?

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:07:46 -0800 Google comments on Apple-HTC suit http://f4yb.heaven.fr/google-comments-on-apple-htc-suit http://f4yb.heaven.fr/google-comments-on-apple-htc-suit

Google surely has an opinion on the bombshell news that Apple is suing HTC for patent infringement, right?  I mean, they are who Apple is really after — it isn't HTC's Windows Mobile 6.5 phones is it?

Except nobody officially asked Google how they felt about it.  So they got proactive and actually sent out a comment to their mouthpiece of late, TechCrunch:

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,” a Google spokesperson emailed us.

It is extremely interesting to note that the lawsuit comes exactly a month to the day after Google enabled multi-touch on its flagship Nexus One phone via a software.  I chronicled the software update in a post called Google's Nexus One gets multi-touch, Apple's patents be damned.

It should be noted that multi-touch is only one of the 20 patents Apple has disputed.

Up until the point of the update, Google had held off on multi-touch (at least in the US) at the behest of Apple in what was called a "Gentleman's agreement".

La guerre est ouverte !

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:28:21 -0800 Facebook brevete le fil d’information http://f4yb.heaven.fr/facebook-brevete-le-fil-dinformation http://f4yb.heaven.fr/facebook-brevete-le-fil-dinformation

Facebook vient d’obtenir un brevet lui reconnaissant la propriété du concept du fil d’information au sein d’un réseau social. La découverte a été faite par Nick O’Neil de AllFacebook qui a fait la découverte en premier, et affirme que cela pourrait être le brevet le plus important de la décennie en matière de web social.

Si toute manipulation algorithmique, classement et affichage des activités d’un réseau social tombent dans le giron de ce brevet, que Facebook a déposé en aout 2006 (un mois avant le lancement de son fil d’information, très controversé à l’époque), de nombreux sites web vont se retrouver en grande difficulté.

Nous avons échangé de nombreux emails et eu plusieurs conversations téléphoniques avec des représentants de Facebook, et nous n’avons pas finit de vous parler de ce sujet. Vous pouvez d’ailleurs en discuter (en anglais) avec nous sur Google Buzz pour suivre cette histoire au fur et à mesure qu’elle se développe.

Pour résumer, ce brevet semble couvrir principalement la mise à jour d’activités implicitement faites par les utilisateurs d’un réseau social (telles que “X a changé d’employeur”, ou “Y a changé le statut de sa relation amoureuse”, ou bien encore “X et Y sont devenus amis”) ainsi que le classement dynamique de ces éléments quand ceux ci sont affichés au sein d’un réseau social.

Autrement dit, dans le contexte de Facebook, cela couvre probablement le fil d’info (Le Newsfeed) mais pas les changements de statuts (le Livefeed).

Cela ne devrait pas du coup concerner Twitter, mais cela pourrait par contre affecter de nombreux autres réseaux sociaux, comme Linkedin, Ning, ainsi que d’autres qui n’ont même pas vu le jour. Il n’est pas impossible cependant que Facebook n’utilise ce brevet que pour se défendre [ndt: de copies telles qu’on a vu en apparaitre en Allemagne ou en Russie]. Seul le temps nous dira quelles sont les intentions de Facebook.

Il y a dix huit mois, nous écrivions dans un billet, au moment où les sites sociaux adoptaient les uns après les autres le concept du News Feed :

“Aujourd’hui, il faut bien admettre que le fil d’information (newsfeed) est la métaphore dominante de l’internet d’aujourd’hui : la cascade de miseà jour en provenance de vos amis, parsemée de commentaires s’y aggrégeant est un modèle que l’on voit désormais partout.”

MySpace, Flickr, Yahoo!, l’interface de partage de Google Reader et bien sûr Google Buzz, tous ces sites ont-ils, au cœur de l’expérience sociale qu’ils proposent à leurs utilisateurs, quelque chose qui tombe sous le coup du brevet de Facebook ? Twitter est probablement à abri, au vu de la façon dont est rédigé le brevet, mais pour les autres, c’est moins évident.

Le texte du brevet

Voici le résumé (abstract) du brevet, déposé le 11 aout 2006, listant Mark Zuckerberg comme le premier inventeur. [nde: Désolé, mais comme la plupart des texte de brevet, c’est assez cryptique]

“Une méthode pour afficher un fil d’information dans un environnement de réseau social est décrite. Cette méthode inclue la génération d’éléments d’informations concernant les activités associées à un utilisateur d’un réseau social, ainsi qu’un lien associé avec au moins une de ces activités, à au moins un des éléments d’information, ainsi qu’un accès limité à ces éléments d’informations à un groupe d’utilisateur prédéterminés, et dans un ordre de classement particulier. La méthode peut par la suite inclure l’affichage les éléments d’informations dans un ordre prédéterminé à au moins un utilisateur qui le consulte au sein du groupe prédéterminé, et limiter dynamiquement le nombre d’éléments d’information affichés”

La première réaction de Chris Messina de Google, le leader du groupe de standardisation des flux d’activité, qui compte Facebook parmi ses membres, est la suivante :

“J’espère que Facebook fait cela de façon défensive et qu’il ne compte pas faire un usage abusif de ce brevet. C’est la raison même pour laquelle l’Open Web Foundation a été mise en place, afin que nous puissions travailler sur ce type de fonctionnalités sans qu’une entreprise invoque un brevet. C’est un exemple de plus qui montre que la façon dont le système des brevet est conçu ne peut soutenir l’innovation dont nous avons besoin”.

Pour tous les sites qui utilisent ce type de fils d’information, sachez que si Facebook se comporte de façon agressive avec ce brevet, vous pourriez être contraints de revenir à une présentation des flux par ordre chronologique, qui n’implique pas d’algorithmie, ou vous pourriez acquérir une licence auprès de Facebook. Je n’ai aucune idée, par contre, de ce que cela implique pour la plateforme Facebook ou Facebook connect.

Tout cela peut sembler fou. Facebook a-t-il vraiment inventé le fil d’information géré par un algorithme ? Messina n’a pas voulu se prononcer sur ce sujet, mais ce n’est pas forcément évident : “Facebook a très certainement lancé le phénomène du fil d’information” admet-il.

(ne manquez pas l’opinion de Dave Winer sur ce sujet)

Nick O’Neil qui a découvert le brevet a publié la mise à jour suivante, mais je n’adhère pas à ses conclusions :

“il semble que ce brevet concerne les actions implicites. Ce qui signifie que les mises à jour de statuts (par nature explicites), ce qui est la base de Twitter, ne tombent pas sous le coup de ce brevet. C’est plutôt les informations sur les actions des amis d’un utilisateur qui sont concernées. Même si c’est important, les conséquences pour les concurrents de Facebook ne sont pas substantielles.”

Les actions implicites sont importantes. Un contact Linkedin qui établit de nouvelles connexion ou qui change d’employeur est un exemple particulièrement frappant. Si fournir un flux de mise à jour de tout ce qui n’est pas un changement de statut est quelque chose de réservé à Facebook, ce serait une grosse perte pour le web social.

La conversation continue sur la page de Google Buzz que nous avons ouvert sur le sujet (en anglais, désolé, dans la mesure où RWW touche désormais cinq langue, il nous faut choisir la plus usitée). RWW expérimente depuis quelques semaines le traitement collaboratif de l’information entre la communauté des lecteurs et les rédacteurs de RWW worldwide, nous utilisons pour cela Google Buzz.

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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:30:27 -0800 [F4YB] Microsoft announces that 90 million copies of Windows 7 have been sold http://f4yb.heaven.fr/f4yb-microsoft-announces-that-90-million-copi http://f4yb.heaven.fr/f4yb-microsoft-announces-that-90-million-copi

Today at a Morgan Stanley Tech Conference, Microsoft’s Peter Klien announced that 90 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold to date, making it the fastest selling operating system in history.

Microsoft released Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. The operating system has received praise from consumers, businesses and the media. In November 2009, Windows 7 managed to surpass Apple's Snow Leopard market share in just two weeks. In early February it was revealed that Windows 7 had reached 10% market share in just three months.

Screenshots of a Windows 7 post RTM build showed up on the web in February, fueling speculation that Microsoft is compiling early Windows 8 builds. The successor to Windows 7 will likely be available in 2011 as an ex-Microsoft worker penned July 2011 as the RTM date for Windows 8.

Microsoft is currently readying its first Service Pack for Windows 7. A beta version is expected in June with a public release in September this year.

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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:43:14 -0800 The State of Community Management 2010 http://f4yb.heaven.fr/the-state-of-community-management-2010-0 http://f4yb.heaven.fr/the-state-of-community-management-2010-0

The State of Community Management 2010

by Rachel Happe on March 1, 2010

Community management is emerging as a critical discipline for managing social initiatives. From those focused on marketing, to those focused on support, collaboration, knowledge management, human resource development and innovation, community managers are the glue that hold it all together. Yet, most organizations are just beginning to understand how to incorporate community management into their processes and organizational structures.

The Community Roundtable was created to help companies understand and integrate the role of community management into their day-to-day processes. The State of Community Management is our groundbreaking work in aggregating the best practices and lessons learned from our members who have been leading the practice of community management in a variety of contexts – B2B, B2C, marketing, support, and employee oriented.

Our members work in over 35 companies ranging in size from SAP, PerkinElmer, Ernst & Young, Allstate, & EMC to smaller ones like TripAdvisor, SolarWinds, Immaculate Baking, and GHY – provide a rich range of experience and perspectives to share and we are grateful to them for their participation, questions, suggestions, and experience. You’ll hear their collective voice in The State of Community Management and it represents over 180+ years of community management experience.

The State of Community Management is structured around the competencies in the Community Maturity Model – a management framework that articulates the competencies required to effectively management communities – and links high level analysis to very specific tactical lessons learned about how to execute social programs. It provides guidance that can be used to:

  1. Improve your community management practices
  2. Educate peers, colleagues, and stakeholders
  3. Create a baseline for your community strategy or plans
  4. Identify topics for further research and investigation
  5. Find additional resources

We would like to thank our sponsors – Fuze Box, Powered and Rosetta – who have made it possible to widely distribute The State of Community Management 2010 which was written as a summary of what we learned from members of The Community Roundtable over the course of 2009.

To download the 60+ page report,

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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:35:03 -0800 Browser Wars: Google Chrome Wins a Round, at Everyone Else's Expense http://f4yb.heaven.fr/browser-wars-google-chrome-wins-a-round-at-ev http://f4yb.heaven.fr/browser-wars-google-chrome-wins-a-round-at-ev

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The Net browser wars have just taken an interesting turn: For the month of February, Google's Chrome was the only one to demonstrate a growth in market share. It was a tiny change, but a strangely interesting one. What's Chrome's secret?

The market percentages for browsers in February 2010, according to Net Applications analytics run as follows:

  • Chrome: 5.61%, up 0.39% from January
  • IE: 61.58%, down 0.54%
  • Firefox: 24.23%, down 0.2%
  • Safari: 4.45%, down 0.08%
  • Opera: 2.35%, down 0.03%

Now, Net Applications statistics are created by analyzing some 160 million unique visitors per month, across about 40,000 target Web sites, and then some weighting and tweaking goes on to account for the active Net population count in the source countries. In other words, the percentages quoted here are not 100% precise, and you should remember this particularly when you're looking at some of the smaller market shares.

But the message is still clear. For February, all other big-names lost tiny chunks of the market, while Chrome was the only browser to improve its position. How did that happen? It's probably a result of several tweaks Google's made over the last couple of months--not the least of which is the Chrome for Mac beta edition at the end of 2009. We know that Apple's been building its marketshare in the PC space recently, so one would maybe expect that Safari's market share had risen...but perhaps Apple's users feel less bound to one browser than the typical PC user, and have been adopting Chrome like mad.

Or perhaps users have read about the great Internet Explorer debacle, and though not conscious of the business-monopoly issues behind the E.U.'s browser ballot decision, have become aware that there's a different solution available to them, and they've gone for the big name Google. It could also be the new browser "extensions" for both Mac and PC versions of Chrome that turn the little browser that could into a more heavy-hitting Web browser that competes with features that Firefox, IE and others have offered for ages.

The only thing Google should worry about is maintaining this momentum, and grabbing yet more market space. The E.U. browser ballot may help, but Google probably needs to engage in some serious PR promotions to get Chrome into the public consciousness--it's easy to see it being the browser of choice for the code-heads and boffins among the Net community at the moment.

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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:43:30 -0800 Choix du navigateurs : 77% des Français ne sont pas au courant http://f4yb.heaven.fr/choix-du-navigateurs-77-des-francais-ne-sont http://f4yb.heaven.fr/choix-du-navigateurs-77-des-francais-ne-sont

Ce lundi, la Fondation Mozilla Europe publiait les résultats d’une étude IPSOS Mori. 77% des personnes interrogées en France ignoraient que Microsoft avait désormais le devoir de présenter un écran de choix du navigateur.

L’écran d’accueil doit permettre de choisir son navigateur (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera ou Internet Explorer) dans les nouvelles versions de Windows. Visiblement, soit le public européen n’en a cure, soit il est mal informé - ou peut-être un peu des deux ?

La situation est relativement stable en Europe : on compte parmi les "ignorants" 75 % des répondants en Italie, 70 en Pologne, 81 en Espagne, 77 en Allemagne et en Angleterre.

Face à ce qu’elle appelle le "manque de visibilité de cet écran de choix des navigateurs pour les utilisateurs de Microsoft Windows (ballot screen), Mozilla renouvelle son appelle à débat sur le site opentochoice.org/fr.

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