The turning point of the News Business

Here two greats article on the media sector. First, from the Financial Times, the internet advertising will soon close the gap on newspapers in UK.

Second, the democratization of the News Business from Chris Peck at Commercialappeal.com

• News will be generated by the people who are chosen, not the chosen people.
• News will be more a conversation about making sense of the world, less of a sermon from on high.
• News will rely on the wisdom of the many, not the insight of the few, with journalists being knowledge leaders.
• News will be multilayered, from very personal accounts to highly evolved overviews by real pros.
• News will be available anytime, from your phone, computer or new technologically advanced device.
• News will be framed according to your social networks, your age and your tribe.

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ICANN has had no comment on domain kiting

35 million names registered in April. 32 million were part of a kiting scheme.

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Pay per Click fraudulent BotNet Network

After DDOS, hackers have found more lucrative way to make some money. Rent some network of computers infected with the bot Clickbot.A. Their become a genuine business model for cyber-crooks according to Help Net Security !
Technorati Tags: pay-per-click, fraud, botnet

Little interview in french about SEO and SEM

A little interview i've done with Philippe Martin and a "old" friend of the TI here in Quebec M. Christian Aubry of Économie Logique Communication. Nice work and thanks to Philippe and Christian and another special thanks to MCeTech2006 and Michel Leblanc!

Eric Baillargeon-Intercommunication
Vidéo envoyée par pmartin

Skype open up free calls to all US & CA phone

Really a useful thing Skype and the Web give us this week. Any call from a PC to an ordinay phone or cellular are now free anywhere, -in and for-, United States and Canada.
Skype launch this yesterday but I was only able to use it today because they have some bugs with certains IP addresses starting with 69 to 73.

Even conference calls up to 4 peoples also work with that. Great !

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Tuangou : A new chinese craze for BargainMob

You know what is a Flash Mob ? Now the chineses do the same for shopping in group to get discount.

Google Trends

Google Trends have been release today at the Press Day.
This new service show you the trends of keywords since 2004 on a graph with associate articles. The upper part of the graph show you the searches trends while the bottom one give you the news volume. You can also drill down by cities, countries and languages.

Comparison tool

As you can see you can also use it for comparison up to 5 subjects.

It will be an excellent tool for the marketing people. The asiatic data seem a bit poor but will see over time.

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Hummer Laptop

Are the battery last longer than 15 minutes and how many watts it is using when plug with the DC ? ;-)

Google to put hands on Olive Software ?

A rumor by the Mercury News SiliconBeat blog tell us that Google is negociating to buy Olive Software of Santa Clara. Seem full of sense when you look what products Olive have developped.

Theirs featured demos section is very informative about the technology involved. It's a great technology who pleased everybody. The embeded flash presentation give you the fealing of reading a real magazine and the XML treatment of the information is great for SE.

If that transaction go through we may be see a Google Catalog 2 ?

Technorati Tags: google, olive+software, google+catalog, xml

State of the WeboSphere

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