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3 quesitons about E-cultures !

2005-05-20T01:53:00.000-07:00

Question 1 : blogs characteristics

Nowadays, the blogs became a huge success story of the web. Some survey count more than 8 Millions of blogs only in United States. The wanadot Technorati (which is blog crawler) has more than 6 millions blogs in its database. Blogs provides to anyone the possibility to publish on the internet, If they where at the beginning a way to describe the private life now blogs becomes more professional and are even use in the company as an intern communication tool.

In blog you can easily find the previous post by using the diary included. In this way we can say that blog is not impermanency. You can always find the old article on the blog, nothing is loose. We even could imagine blog as the memory of the web opposite to corporate web site which are changing constantly to attract people. Just imagine if blogs where existing in 1659 how many testimonies we could have now.

Blog is not material at all it’s only communication. In this way people should not holding onto things. In some case people could be an alternative to news paper (and not only the online versions). We talked a lot about war blogs which are a new way for journalist to write to their reader that’s mean some professional embrace this new technology even in a paperless use. Another example is what the Costa Nostra Times editor (Chris Lopez) done on his blog, he published the front page of his news paper on his blog before the release !

Blogs are definitely a place for transparency in good way and bad as well.

People could publish everything they want in their blogs (only limited by the law of the country). And they can reveal some exclusive news about specifics subjects. It was the case with blogs dealing about the tsunami.

There is a lot of definition for precious opportunities. The one I prefer is the fact to be able for people to find precise information or a person. For exemple Max in his blog found a very efficient way to connect people.

Question 2 : E-culture pro-social or anti-social ?

Nowadays social networking is a big trend in the web. The aim is to make connection between people. Some project want to link people by friendly reason (freindster), professional ones (linkind), or for a romantic or sexual aims (lovedatings). We can ask ourselves if theses projects are not raised because the social link where broken by new technologies. But at the opposite Howard Reingold a specialist of new technologies and “social networking” thinks than internet create new meetings opportunities for people. For example it could develop the notion of FOAF (friend of a friend). Things are going faster right now and new technologies like MOSOSO (Mobiles Socials Software) are using by young generation (especially in Asian country like Core). New technology is neither pro-social nor anti-social but it changes socials habits dramatically: it break social links in one hand and create new one in the other … the only question is: “Is there more links created than links broken ?”

Question 3 : six personal qualities

I think generosity is not only give away something it’s more makes something accessible. On the web sometime we could believe in a generosity but in reality it’s not. Sometimes people could believe they obtain a huge discount on web, but in reality it’s often more an opportunity for the online shop than for the customer: This is not generosity! It’s business. In the other hand bloggers are more generous coz they share freely and often sincerely their thoughts and knowledge: they contribute the internet life. But there is a major quality for the blogger in order to be generous: he has to be disciplined … One post on his blog is not generosity … I heard a survey concerning the blood donors which tells that best donors are the frequent donors in a way it’s a bit the same thing for the web (but not for the same reasons).

Patience and perseverance is the key to achieve something when we are working with the NTIC. Often we have to be conscious than we depend of the computer or the machine. And often things could be difficult for uncontrollable reasons (like a computer crash) we have to keep on walking in spite of the glitch. Even if sometime some people can lose the control.

Insight and analysis could fit together if you consider that a good analysis is the key for a good insight. We could say: “there is no Insight without a good analysis”. And then we can admit that every thing are linked (a bit like in the web by the way)

try and guess !

2005-05-08T14:53:00.000-07:00

I'm really impressed by that and artificial inteligence game.
It guess my object after only one false attempt !
Tell me if it worked for you ?

discover new artist thanks to internet

2005-04-20T07:34:00.000-07:00

internet help you to share your opinion and your tastes. It allow to people to discover some new artists they may like. it's the aim of the site musicplasma. Maybe we can called this precious opportunities.

The Big Google Brother

2005-04-18T12:17:00.000-07:00

Google is a very successful website. And because it's a really successful web site it has plenty of money. That why google has the power to provide some amazing innovation on the web. As I wrote a lot about google on this blog I decide to continue! I will show you 4 innovations of google.

Google map since few weeks allows people to have a powerful satellite image of their neighbourhood … fortunately it is not real time but the future will certainly be surprising!
We’ve got the same in France (only for certain big town) thanks to mappy.

Now Google mail has the record of the largest public webmail on the internet. It provide 2 Gb mail box to store your mail ! Amazing you’re going to say? Of course it is, but you have to consider the fact that google bots (software robots) will scan your personal mail in order to display very personalized ads!

It’s not enough for google to provide some web content the company plan to launch brand new product on the American market. Just one precision this news was displayed for the 1^st of april.

The future web

2005-04-13T10:36:00.000-07:00

The internet is changing. Everyday things disappear and other appears. Concerning technologies it is faster and sometimes people could be a bit loose. I will show you what the representations of our possible internet future are.

Google has maybe the most representative web site of the web. And a lot projection are based on google species. For exemple some people imagine the mix between google and mac os X desktop.

Some people imagine for use a story of the web based on the google and amazone supremacy. It’s just a fiction but it’s surprising how technology could help creativity. This film called epic and it relate the story of googlzone.

From a usefull point of view collaboration is one key of the next internet. Big companies begin to produce software that allows to many people to work on the same document: for example Microsoft groove network.

12 Killer applications (the end...)

2005-04-05T09:56:00.000-07:00

Treat your assets as liabilities
Is the fact to consider that you have more things to improve than things you own. The aim is to keep the motivation in doing his work.

Destroy your value chain
You have to be ready to change the way you read your information in function of the internet way of life for example. In another way if you have to destroy your work do it yourself for produce another things. I remember a website called clust.com which during the internet crazy year’s launch a community website and now it’s became a price comparison website.

Manage innovation as a portfolio of option
Your innovation must be useful in your strategy. Innovation is an investisment and you must use them to promote your choices even if they are not used for nothing else. The capability to prove a good use of technology could be a great demonstration of your ability. Google again understood this perfectly and they prove that with the google labs.

Hire the children
The young people are very sensitive to new technologies and they are a good public. Every producer have to take care of this public coz it will build the tomorrows web. I think that yahoo understood this when you see the apparence young and flashy of his instant messenger web based home page.

Killer Applications

2005-04-02T11:06:00.000-08:00

It's suprising how technologies could change the practices. The "killers applications" (Killer Apps) makes the links between practices. In order to define what a killer app is we are going to details 12 foundamentals principes :

Outsource to the customer

It's the fact for the client to participate to the service provide by a company. For the company it could be a way to save money and for the client to find faster the information or get easier the service. the e-administration is a good exemple of outsourcing. since few year you can fill out your taxes on line.

Cannibalize your market

Sometime a structure has no choice to change. For someones evolution could mean abandon some profitable markets. But with the arrival of new technologies it's necessary for company to conquere new markets (like e-market). the question is particulary accurate when it deals with the internet position of a company.
For exemple the french yellow pages has abandon their profitable minitel service to take a position on internet even if in this case it's free for the customer.

Treat each customer as a market segment of one

To attract the client a lot of companies provide a customized service in function of the customer profile. People are always looking for personalized information. And as each personne has specific wishes the company must imagine several ways to bring information to clients. Tivo and Replay TV are very successful offers in US : they allow to public to personalized his numéric TV tape recorder.

create communities of value

Now the company couldn't based their external communication only on their owns ressources. In order to gain efficacity and audiance the company must involve his consumer in his communication strategy. And in some cases the clients could be more efficient than the company itself to promote the label. For exemple fans could be precious to a structure.
A very clever idea of auto-promoted comunity is the network games which include converted money inside the game. Project entropia is kind of self-living project supported only by the gamer ... and their money.
game entropia

Replace rude interfaces with learning interfaces

The links between computer and users are more and more intuitive. Even if it could be more complex from an data processoring point of view, it tend to be more and more simple for the people who have to use it. Nowaday it's going futher when we speak of "learning interface" , intuitive or "user friendly".
Could you imagine a speaking google ? here comes speegle !

Ensure continuity for customer, not yourself

the evolution must be very contious in order to not loose people in way. It's a complicated exercice coz if you go to slow your concurent could be faster, and if you are to slow you can loose clients if they are not ready to switch to new technologies, or don't want to loose advantages of the old concept (changing is a renoucment)
for exemple altavista is a company which are not changed as quickly when google came they tried to lauch raging a google clone ! but it was to late !

give away as much information as you can

The culture of internet is based on free exchange of information. The fact that internet is a free ressource is common idea. that's mean that internet company must include a free part of their project if they want to promote it a a large range of person. Their is often a two way strategy : one reduce offer free,
and another one you have to pay. for exemple skype is a solution of IP phone by internet, you can reach a skype user anywhere in the world without any charge added. But if you want to call à real phone you have to pay.

structure every transaction as a joint venture

Every transaction has a value in itself, and web technologie is using to include it in his own strategy. When we look carrefully on the web every exchange as a value and both part have something to gain. we can sumarize this notion by "every connection is valuable". All the companies who allow you to send free SMS could in exchange build a very precious list of phone number for their clients.

4 basics qualities

2005-03-24T06:43:00.000-08:00

Impermanance

Nothing lasts on internet, everything is passing. The best exemple are the web pages which are changing everytime. We cannot keep an address and be sure that the page will stay in the same state the day after.

When you search for something with google or yahoo, you will find the present state of the web site you are looking for. To see the previous appearance of page you have to use archive.org.

Holding onto things

For exemple the way people listen to music has changed nowadays. But some people still refuse to buy music by internet coz they love the record as an object.
Those people still hesitate to buy music from internet not because they don't want to give their credit card number but because they don't imagine to buy music without any object. They have the feeling to buy nothing.

Now there is a lot of internet music shop which sells only MP3 (or other specifics formats). Among them we can quote itunes (maybe the most popular created by apple) or napster (which now become legal)

Transparency : Everything could be known

Internet allows people to communicate quickly to a wide range of persons. Maybe we can call it "the over communication". Everything could be written to everyone. Of course this fact raises problems of privacy. It's suprising how fast an information could be diffused wide spread with the internet media. Sometimes it could have a very important impact on persons or companies. For example a famous U-lock for bikes has had a problem with a rumour on internet. The pity for them was that rumour was right.

For exemple the case Kriptonite deal with how people discovered a way to open the famous U-lock with a single pen and how the new has been wide spread on the internet.

Precious opportunity

Internet could have many faces and some could bring people to things they are looking for or to allow them to find completely new stuff.

Internet allows people to find some rare stuff. It allows as well people with a common passion to get in touch quickly. For example the stamp fans could easily swap their collection with other fans over the world. This kind of opportunities were not possible before the web. For exemple internet is a precious tool for stamps fans from all over the world.

My very first message

2005-03-24T05:55:00.000-08:00

Hello everybody !
This is my very first message. I'm really happy to open this new space and sharing my english homework with the world. I'm sure I will have a great success ... Maybe this blog could become a cult object of the web ... Just imagine !