We keep working with our teacher even if we can't go to the school (strikes again and again)
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
3 ways to become famous on the Internet
1. Britney Spears
If you're already famous in the real world but you have some problems of visibility or image in the traditional medias, Internet could be a good solution for you to make buzz or modify your image. By using blogs, fan forums, specialised people websites and some social networks (MySpace is the main for the stars), you can try to diffuse news about you, videos, try to improve your image or create a rumor.
2. Chris Crocker
If you're not yet a star but wants to become one, Internet could be a good way for you to become more than just nobody. Chris Crocker is a terrific exemple of how Internet is redefining famous traditional definition. Here is the famous video of Chris Crocker, who become famous by crying about the Britney Spears's mediatic treatement.
If you're already famous in the real world but you have some problems of visibility or image in the traditional medias, Internet could be a good solution for you to make buzz or modify your image. By using blogs, fan forums, specialised people websites and some social networks (MySpace is the main for the stars), you can try to diffuse news about you, videos, try to improve your image or create a rumor.
2. Chris Crocker
If you're not yet a star but wants to become one, Internet could be a good way for you to become more than just nobody. Chris Crocker is a terrific exemple of how Internet is redefining famous traditional definition. Here is the famous video of Chris Crocker, who become famous by crying about the Britney Spears's mediatic treatement.
Leave Britney Alone
envoyé par PeteRock
His video uses the famous of Britney Spears to make himself become famous. It's one of the originality of the Internet to give you the possibility to show yourself and say what you want.
3. Bilal, rappeur du 92 and Clement le Nolife : the dangers of being fast famous on the Net.
But Internet can also be very dangerous for your public image. In France, two recents exemples show us how Internet could make of you a star...of ridiculous. The rappeur du 92 is a teenage boy who posted a video on him on YouTube a few monts ago where he raps about one of his classmates. The video becomes very quickly one of the most viewed on YouTube. The comments about the video improve also very quickly. Just take a look on the video, you will maybe understand what is his famous potential.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Without Ending Facebook Story
I would like to tell you today the incredible story of Mark Zuckerberg
Google is useful but worried
How I use Google and the Google services?
The most positive but also worried thing about Google and its Google services is the centrality. All Google services are in the same place. When you create an account, you can choose wich services you want to use and how you want to present your google page, feeds and pictures. The main services I use are :
What I like with Google is that all the services you need on the Net is given by the Google Services. But, what I dislike so much is the monopoly of the company in the domain. Can we really trust Google? I've read a lot of articles about the security problems, the fact that all your informations are kept by Google. We don't know what they could made with it (a first example : put specific adds at the top of your email box in fonction of the content of your emails)
The most positive but also worried thing about Google and its Google services is the centrality. All Google services are in the same place. When you create an account, you can choose wich services you want to use and how you want to present your google page, feeds and pictures. The main services I use are :
- Gmail for my emails,
- Google docs for sharing documents with my friends (we share cours, homeworks, ideas together) or for working online on my thesis or other things,
- Google Webmasters Tools for having specific webtools,
- Blogger : my blog and two others are made with blogger which is very simple and useful if you don't want to create a sophisticated blog.
What I like with Google is that all the services you need on the Net is given by the Google Services. But, what I dislike so much is the monopoly of the company in the domain. Can we really trust Google? I've read a lot of articles about the security problems, the fact that all your informations are kept by Google. We don't know what they could made with it (a first example : put specific adds at the top of your email box in fonction of the content of your emails)
prosper youplaboum!
Prosper.com seems to be at the first sight a very strange site. On Prosper.com, you can be a lender or a borrower. A very efficient system control your identity and you can then put your profile on the site and tell everyone about your story and why you need a loan. People who trust in you can borrow you some money (oft about 50$). You have three years to pay them back und so use the money efficiently. The site is only available in the United States. You had to have a social security account and to prove your identity.
This typically 2.0 website is a great exemple of what can be very useful but also very frightened for your own security on the web. That people can trust so much some other people to borrow them money is one of the best example of how can Internet be a media who change mentalities. I think it can be a part of the Internet spirit of mind : sharing generosity, helping other people, connecting with different people all around the world.
Prosper.com might be a good example of what could happened in the future. The trust in medias and in other people will not come from the face-to-face, to direct contact but will be also possible with virtual identities. Somebody who speak about themself on the Net, with the confidence of an ID verification with the computer system, is capable to establish useful and intimate connexions with somebody else.
This typically 2.0 website is a great exemple of what can be very useful but also very frightened for your own security on the web. That people can trust so much some other people to borrow them money is one of the best example of how can Internet be a media who change mentalities. I think it can be a part of the Internet spirit of mind : sharing generosity, helping other people, connecting with different people all around the world.
Prosper.com might be a good example of what could happened in the future. The trust in medias and in other people will not come from the face-to-face, to direct contact but will be also possible with virtual identities. Somebody who speak about themself on the Net, with the confidence of an ID verification with the computer system, is capable to establish useful and intimate connexions with somebody else.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Why I've decided to use GNU/Linux
Since now four months, I use Kubuntu on my laptop. I'm totally fond of my new OS. Installation was fast and easy. The GUI is very user-friendly and I've quickly forgotten Windows XP. What is good with this distribution is the possibility of customizing each element of the interface very easily . I've downloaded and installed icons pack for my tasks bar and change order and names of the K Menu's elements. In the contrary of Windows there is no .exe files and no need to download weird softwares on websites. To install new packages, go in your Adept Install Manager (a library of all the Debian packages available) and click on install. The package find automatically its right place on your computer and appear in the previous category in your menu - as games, multimedia, internet or what you want.
Of course, problems are possible but help forums are very active and I think each problem can find its solution on Internet. My main problems (read DVDs, use my webcam) will be soon solve.
I don't think I will change of OS until a long time :)
Of course, problems are possible but help forums are very active and I think each problem can find its solution on Internet. My main problems (read DVDs, use my webcam) will be soon solve.
I don't think I will change of OS until a long time :)
Saturday, October 6, 2007
How wiki can prevent you from losing friends
Last year, me and four of my classmates had to make a thesis together. We didn't have much time to see each other and only a few month to write 30 pages, prepare an oral presentation and a Powerpoint presentation. Everybody had to write something and put it together with the work of others. The question was : which web tools could we use to be more efficient ?We began to send us emails which is of course the classical way of working together. But mails aren't the simplest way to work on the content. I think they're useful to organize material problems such as fixing a meeting time, saying what your problems are or explaining your point of view on the subject. But it isn't easy to work with attached files because you can't see exactly how your work is progressing.
Then, as we haven't find a day for a meeting since two weeks, we decided to meet us on MSN. The meeting was good and efficient. In our situation, I think it was a good way to write instead of speak. The group had some difficulties to speak calmly and our meetings seemed more as a big chaos than something else. With MSN, we only wrote what was important for our subject and
make real progress in our report.
The problem at this time was that nobody knew exactly who had written what and what still needed to be done. We decided to create a collaborative document on Google docs and put on it each part of our work. The puzzle was reconstituted. Each member could write something, make changes they wanted, give their opinion. Google docs is a kind of simple wiki. But, instead of Metawiki for example, the structur of the pages looks more like the "My Documents" folder in Windows, with a lot of files inside that you can link. In Metawiki, the wiki seems to me more like a real website, that you can customize (with a little css knowledge) and a tags structur which can be very useful if you've a lot of pages. They're more than 80 wiki browsers on the Net, so don't hesitate to try some of them!Friday, October 5, 2007
Geek culture
I'm so fond of people who can live for their passion, don't ask themselves to many questions and keep their mind in the same direction, to the goal of their life. I've always been very interesting by this kind of passionate people : artists who spend their time drawing alone, passionated business men who found successful or completely crazy companies, and, of course, geeks.
Geeks and hackers are just a passionate community cause of their capacity to forget the world around them, the survey boundaries (except drink coffee and bier ;), the real social life and concentrate them on their passions : computers, games, programming and all.
That's why I've decided to work on geek culture during this year, for my master report. I haven't found a lot of books on it (except the excellent one of Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells about The Hacker Ethic) but I've already a lot of ideas to begin to work.
Geeks and hackers are just a passionate community cause of their capacity to forget the world around them, the survey boundaries (except drink coffee and bier ;), the real social life and concentrate them on their passions : computers, games, programming and all.
That's why I've decided to work on geek culture during this year, for my master report. I haven't found a lot of books on it (except the excellent one of Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells about The Hacker Ethic) but I've already a lot of ideas to begin to work.
I use Twitter but my friends aren't. So I haven't seen all the possibilities of this new web application even if I'm very exciting about it. It's a very special kind of social network. I don't think it's a real social network but it's a good complement to keep in touch with his friends.
When you're a member of the Twitter website, you have a page profile on which you can (and HAVE TO) say what you're doing right now. But a lot of people don't use it only to say this kind of thing. Channels and online newspapers have discovered new functions of Twitter, who seemed to be not so interesting on first view. They inform us in real time, in a very few words. With Twitter, we have the quintessence of information about your friends and the world.
I don't use Twitter on the Twitter website but on my Facebook profile. When Facebook has allowed everyone to create new applications for them, Twitter has proposed a little application that you can put on your profile page to show to your friends what you're doing. It's a very simple way for me to say something about me to my friends and to show that I think to them.
Professionally, it can be a very useful idea. Propose in real time new ideas to coworkers, show on which projects you're working, explain what you're thinking about news or other informations and of course see what are doing your coworkers can be a good way to make work more efficient.
When you're a member of the Twitter website, you have a page profile on which you can (and HAVE TO) say what you're doing right now. But a lot of people don't use it only to say this kind of thing. Channels and online newspapers have discovered new functions of Twitter, who seemed to be not so interesting on first view. They inform us in real time, in a very few words. With Twitter, we have the quintessence of information about your friends and the world.I don't use Twitter on the Twitter website but on my Facebook profile. When Facebook has allowed everyone to create new applications for them, Twitter has proposed a little application that you can put on your profile page to show to your friends what you're doing. It's a very simple way for me to say something about me to my friends and to show that I think to them.
Professionally, it can be a very useful idea. Propose in real time new ideas to coworkers, show on which projects you're working, explain what you're thinking about news or other informations and of course see what are doing your coworkers can be a good way to make work more efficient.
All you need is crow
Crowdsourcing is one of the most interesting possibility on the web to make great things together. If Wikipedia is the first site who comes in mind when we think about crowdsourcing, it's a mistake because Wikipedia isn't a profit company. There are many more websites who are founded on the sharing of people's knowledge and work. Crowdsourcing, as outsourcing (when production is delocalized in countries as China or India) is a business.
Threadless is a very famous tee-shirts webstore where tee-shirts are made by users. First, you have to create a great design for your tee-shirt. Then, propose it to others members of the site. If your tee-shirt is selected by other users, you can be a part of the Threadless store. Most rated people win the contest, his tee-shirt is saled and he wins 2,000$ cash. The french site LaFraise has been founded on the same model.
Crowdsourcing is a business model who can be very dangerous for more traditional companies. Unpaid or low-paid amateurs create content for a company and sometimes are paid back. An other interest of crowdsourcing for companies is to pre-evaluate the success of a product and to be more innovative as the others. The japan store Muji, for example, uses people's creativity on his website. When more than 300 customers command a product online, it goes into production.
An other example of crowdsourced webcompany is Istockphoto. On this site you can buy packs of pictures taken by users with very few money (1$ for 56 pictures). For many buyers, amateur quality pictures (which can be very professional) is enough. Small prices are a good claim.
Threadless is a very famous tee-shirts webstore where tee-shirts are made by users. First, you have to create a great design for your tee-shirt. Then, propose it to others members of the site. If your tee-shirt is selected by other users, you can be a part of the Threadless store. Most rated people win the contest, his tee-shirt is saled and he wins 2,000$ cash. The french site LaFraise has been founded on the same model.
Crowdsourcing is a business model who can be very dangerous for more traditional companies. Unpaid or low-paid amateurs create content for a company and sometimes are paid back. An other interest of crowdsourcing for companies is to pre-evaluate the success of a product and to be more innovative as the others. The japan store Muji, for example, uses people's creativity on his website. When more than 300 customers command a product online, it goes into production.
An other example of crowdsourced webcompany is Istockphoto. On this site you can buy packs of pictures taken by users with very few money (1$ for 56 pictures). For many buyers, amateur quality pictures (which can be very professional) is enough. Small prices are a good claim.
Monday, October 1, 2007
10 rules to make a good blog
1. Don't speak too much about you. Be personal but not selfish.
Just as Unlitredechips.
2. Don't speak about everything. Choose a subject field.
Just as Etienne Mineur about print.
3. Post regularly.
Just as Pierre Assouline.
4. Use web ressources...
Just as Techcrunch.
5. ...But create your own content.
Just as Parti Mou.
6. Be creative.
Just as Penelope JoliCoeur.
7. Adapt design to content.
Just as the drawer Boulet.
8. Don't write too much.
Just as Le dernier kilomètre.
9. Avoid languages mistakes.
Just not as Yo le bogoss on skyblog.
10. Have blogger friends. Let coms.
Without adds or injuries.
Just as Unlitredechips.
2. Don't speak about everything. Choose a subject field.
Just as Etienne Mineur about print.
3. Post regularly.
Just as Pierre Assouline.
4. Use web ressources...
Just as Techcrunch.
5. ...But create your own content.
Just as Parti Mou.
6. Be creative.
Just as Penelope JoliCoeur.
7. Adapt design to content.
Just as the drawer Boulet.
8. Don't write too much.
Just as Le dernier kilomètre.
9. Avoid languages mistakes.
Just not as Yo le bogoss on skyblog.
10. Have blogger friends. Let coms.
Without adds or injuries.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Be generous
True generosity
When you do something for someone without waiting for anything back.
OpenSource Communities of developpers, for example, are giving a lot of their time and knowledge to improve capacities of packages and computers. They try to help poor countries giving us computers with GNU/Linux. Wikipedia is an other good example of true generosity.
Exchange generosity
When you do something for someone and receive something back.
For example, when you put a link for someone on your webpage, you aren't sure there will be a link about you on his too but it's possible.
Generosity as a business model
When it's not someone but a company who give something without waiting for anything back.
I think it's the business model of a lot of web companies. They give us services (Twitter, Facebook and so more), ideas, knowledge (podcasts...) but their business model only depend on publicity. Deezer, for example, stands on this idea of generosity as a business model : everyone can heard music but can't theft it. They have conclude agreements with majors of industry music.
When you do something for someone without waiting for anything back.
OpenSource Communities of developpers, for example, are giving a lot of their time and knowledge to improve capacities of packages and computers. They try to help poor countries giving us computers with GNU/Linux. Wikipedia is an other good example of true generosity.
Exchange generosity
When you do something for someone and receive something back.
For example, when you put a link for someone on your webpage, you aren't sure there will be a link about you on his too but it's possible.
Generosity as a business model
When it's not someone but a company who give something without waiting for anything back.
I think it's the business model of a lot of web companies. They give us services (Twitter, Facebook and so more), ideas, knowledge (podcasts...) but their business model only depend on publicity. Deezer, for example, stands on this idea of generosity as a business model : everyone can heard music but can't theft it. They have conclude agreements with majors of industry music.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
How I use Facebook
My first feeling about Facebook when I discovered it 6 months ago was "cool, I could find old friends and exchange my pictures with new" but also "oh, and what about my privacy?"
I've hesitated giving my real name on the website, but I would be very stupid giving a pseudonym if I wanted to be find by friends... I've just decided no to giving a lot of personal informations (as for example my phone number, adress and mail) and refused to let my entire profile be seen by everybody.
What I really appreciate with Facebook are funny groups (as a way of showing his personal interests and sense of humour) and multiple degrees of keeping in touch with his friends : from the most public (wall, social feeds and gifts) to the classical but how useful inbox.
Most of Facebook applications are gagdets and not very adapted to the design of the profile page. To chaotic and heavy. But interesting for developers students and starts-up, I guess.
The Facebook song :)
I've hesitated giving my real name on the website, but I would be very stupid giving a pseudonym if I wanted to be find by friends... I've just decided no to giving a lot of personal informations (as for example my phone number, adress and mail) and refused to let my entire profile be seen by everybody.
What I really appreciate with Facebook are funny groups (as a way of showing his personal interests and sense of humour) and multiple degrees of keeping in touch with his friends : from the most public (wall, social feeds and gifts) to the classical but how useful inbox.
Most of Facebook applications are gagdets and not very adapted to the design of the profile page. To chaotic and heavy. But interesting for developers students and starts-up, I guess.
The Facebook song :)
Saturday, September 22, 2007
cineseventies
You want to know everything about seventies movies? It will be soon possible with the new website I try to make.
I've noticed that nothing exists on french web about this period. French movies websites as allocine, objectif-cinema, critikat, or le ciné-club de Caen, don't speak about this particular period in movies history. So I thought it'll be a good idea to create a site specifically about seventies movies and a good way for me to learn website creation.
I used Drupal, a very flexible and user-friendly CMS. Then, I tried to play with css but I was a bit disappointed to confirm how I was new with web design. So I've decided to avoid huge theme modifications and stay with simple design.
The next step, and not the smallest, is now the content :)
You will see my incredible masterpiece in a few weeks on =^-^=. (I'll tell you later)
As an apetizer, an extract of the psychedelic movie of french seducer Christian Marquand, Candy (1968).
I've noticed that nothing exists on french web about this period. French movies websites as allocine, objectif-cinema, critikat, or le ciné-club de Caen, don't speak about this particular period in movies history. So I thought it'll be a good idea to create a site specifically about seventies movies and a good way for me to learn website creation.
I used Drupal, a very flexible and user-friendly CMS. Then, I tried to play with css but I was a bit disappointed to confirm how I was new with web design. So I've decided to avoid huge theme modifications and stay with simple design.
The next step, and not the smallest, is now the content :)
You will see my incredible masterpiece in a few weeks on =^-^=. (I'll tell you later)
As an apetizer, an extract of the psychedelic movie of french seducer Christian Marquand, Candy (1968).
Friday, September 21, 2007
Mozilla24
Last saturday I've been to the mozilla24 event in Paris, at the Ecole des Télécommunications. I've seen the info three days earlier reading my Netvibes feeds.
The journey was just amazing. We were connected with members of the opensource family in Japan and Thailand. In Paris there were Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Europe CEO, François Bancilhon, the Chief Executive Officer of Mandriva, Charles Schulz, who work for OpenOffice.org as a lead of Native-Language Confederation and Pierre Baudoin, president of Wikimedia France. You can see the list of all the participants here.
Andrei took some pictures :
They've talked about progresses and hopes of the opensource movement. GNU/Linux could be a great chance for poor countries to receive access to the Internet and improve their capacities being connected to the world.
I've particularly appreciate Tristan Nitot and François Bancilhon speak for the optimism and lucidity of their ideas. A lot of things have been said during this event and I was very enthusiastic of all the generosity who was there.
Thanks Mozilla for all the stuff we bring back at home :)
The journey was just amazing. We were connected with members of the opensource family in Japan and Thailand. In Paris there were Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Europe CEO, François Bancilhon, the Chief Executive Officer of Mandriva, Charles Schulz, who work for OpenOffice.org as a lead of Native-Language Confederation and Pierre Baudoin, president of Wikimedia France. You can see the list of all the participants here.
Andrei took some pictures :
They've talked about progresses and hopes of the opensource movement. GNU/Linux could be a great chance for poor countries to receive access to the Internet and improve their capacities being connected to the world.
I've particularly appreciate Tristan Nitot and François Bancilhon speak for the optimism and lucidity of their ideas. A lot of things have been said during this event and I was very enthusiastic of all the generosity who was there.
Thanks Mozilla for all the stuff we bring back at home :)
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