Si vous êtes un éditeur de grande, moyenne ou petite taille (bloggeur compris) vous connaissez bien le problème: votre contenu est souvent repris de manière illicite par d’autres sites, parfois de manière automatique, soit via RSS ou “page scrapping” (lecture de la page) et est reproduit de manière intégrale. Cela peut poser plusieurs niveaux de problèmes: le premier étant que votre contenu sera indexé dans Google par un autre site qui ne fait pas référence à vous parfois mieux que votre propre site. Résultats: les lecteurs ne savent que vous avez écrit cette note et pire, le site en question peut faire des revenus sur votre dos en plaçant des publicités sur sa page et sans même vous renvoyer du traffic ou pire sans même donner un crédit nécessaire à votre travail.

Attributor, une startup américaine lancée il y a quelques mois aux USA (voir notre billet d’origine) ouvre aujourd’hui son service en France (site pas encore traduit) et quelques autres pays européens, veut aider les éditeurs à résoudre ce problème. Attributor permet d’abord d’identifier les sites qui reprennent vos contenus en analysant votre site et en temps quasi réel et le mettent en regard avec leur index de pages pour trouver des similarités. Attributor vous fournit un tableau de bord avec les sites contrevenants avec un certain nombres d’informations utiles: ces sites placent ils un lien vers votre contenu, monetisent ils la page en question et si oui avec quel réseau publicitaire

Une fois le problème identifié Attributor vous donne les moyens d’agir: solliciter le retrait de votre article (du site lui même ou directement -et mieux encore - depuis le moteur de recherche), solliciter un lien auprès du site copieur (qui dans beaucoup de cas suffira à résoudre le problème car tout le monde ou presque aime les liens) en retour pour optimiser votre référencement, vendre une license de votre contenu (à mon avis pas très utile), solliciter le retrait du site auprès du réseau publicitaire servant à monétiser le site (par exemple Google Adsense)

Leur technologie fonctionne pour le moment avec le texte et est en version d’essai avec des fichiers images, sons et vidéos. Il s’agit d’un service payant qui peut couter relativement cher (quelques dizaines à centaines de milliers d’euros) et est dirigé de facto à des éditeurs de taille importante qui observent un grand manque à gagner via la copie de leur contenu. Mais l’équipe d’Attributor prépare une version pour bloggeurs qui sera lancée sous peu

Attributor et le marché Français

En France, pour le moment, Attributor couvre 200 sites d’actualités et plus de 50 000 blogs. Cela leur permet d’ajouter environ d’ajouter 90 000 nouvelles pages en français sur leur service. Attributor nous a proposé de faire un test avec quelques billets originaux de TechCrunch France pour savoir qui sont les enfoirés sites qui copient notre contenu. Ci dessous quelques captures d’écran de billets reproduits. Queques conclusions intéressantes produites par Attributor sur fr.techcrunch.com

- 73% des copies ne mettent pas de lien en retour (35% sur TC.com pour information)
- 59% de ces sites ont des publicités (62 sur TC.com)
- En moyenne 50% du contenu est copié (soit 107 mots) - 56 sur Tc.com
- Chaque billet est copié environ 8 fois en moyenne - 94 sur TC.com

Concernant les sites copieurs je les avais d’ailleurs déjà dans le collimateur car ils se permettent en plus de faire des trackbacks sur TechCrunch France (ils sont depuis un moment mis en blacklist sur Wordpress et leur trackback n’apparaissent plus). A ma modeste échelle j’ai observé que cela n’avait que peu d’impact à ce jour sur la bonne continuité du blog et je ne crois que je serais près à payer un service comme Attributor même si je le trouve très utile et très bien. Une offre freemium pourrait peut être me convertir. Généralement quand je repère un problème (ou que quelqu’un me l’indique) je met un commentaire sur le blog en question ou je le mets en demeurre de retirer mon contenu et la plupart du temps cela suffit. Si le site mentionne la source et le lien d’origine cela me va aussi. Le reste est si peu significatif que l’effort n’en vaut pas la peine. Je pars du principe qu’un blog ne peut réussir qu’avec une audience fidèle (généralement abonné au RSS ou mise en bookmark). Ces copieurs généralement ne sont pas capables de reproduire l’ame d’un blog et leur succès d’audience et économique est condamné d’avance par le lecteur lui même.

Mais Attributor sera très utile pour des sites de grandes tailles où les enjeux économiques sont capitaux et où ce travail de modération a posteriori est fastidieux et couteux si fait manuellement (disons plutôt impossible à gérer manuellement). D’ailleurs c’est pour cette raison qu’ils ont réussi à convaincre des clients comme les agences de presse Reteurs, l’Associated Press et DPA en Allemagne.

Attributor a levé 20 millions de dollars avec Sigma Partners, JAFCO Ventures, Turner Broadcasting, First Round Capital et Draper Richards.

Pour ceux que cela intéresse CopyScape permet aussi de repérer les copieurs, mais il est moins étoffé qu’Attributor

ps: désolé à tous les twitter friends de TCFR qui ont essayé hier de trouvé le nom du service qui ouvrirait sur le marché français aujourd’hui. C’était pas évident.

Promo: CrunchBoard France: Il serait temps de trouver un nouveau job, non?

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Les déclarations, le 16 juillet 2008, dans le cabinet du juge Roger Le Loire, chargé de découvrir à qui plus de 20 millions en argent liquide ont été distribués par l'UIMM, de Jacques Gagliardi, longtemps chargé des relations avec le monde politique ou économique au sein de la fédération métallurgique, causent quelques soucis à d'anciens patrons du MEDEF. br /Notamment le prédécesseur de Laurence Parisot, le baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière : le juge l'a convoqué pour l'entendre comme témoin le (...)

The six-disc DVD boxed gift set features two-disc special editions of It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, and 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition. Each film is available in a brilliant colorized version, in addition to the pristine, digitally-restored black & white original version, and viewers are able to toggle between the two as they please. Also included in the gift set is a collectible Ymir figurine based on Ray Harryhausen’s original 1957 hand-crafted design and signed by Ray Harryhausen himself.

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The six-disc DVD boxed gift set features two-disc special editions of It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, and 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition. Each film is available in a brilliant colorized version, in addition to the pristine, digitally-restored black & white original version, and viewers are able to toggle between the two as they please. Also included in the gift set is a collectible Ymir figurine based on Ray Harryhausen’s original 1957 hand-crafted design and signed by Ray Harryhausen himself.

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The six-disc DVD boxed gift set features two-disc special editions of It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, and 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition. Each film is available in a brilliant colorized version, in addition to the pristine, digitally-restored black & white original version, and viewers are able to toggle between the two as they please. Also included in the gift set is a collectible Ymir figurine based on Ray Harryhausen’s original 1957 hand-crafted design and signed by Ray Harryhausen himself.

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/sleepingbeautyzonah.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" style="display:block;" /Giz Pick of the Week: emSleeping Beauty/em/p pYes, Blu-ray is a high definition gimmick to make you repurchase old movies. But in the case of emSleeping Beauty/em, Disney claims that the original 70mm print has never been viewed with less image cropping than on BDmdash;even in theaters. Presented in super wide 2.55:1, if the image alone isn't enough to convince you, then enjoy the four original songs that were cut from the film, a 3D walkthrough of Sleeping Beauty Castle and the ability to watch the film with friends while text chatting over Disney's BD Live network...along with a bunch of other legitimately good looking documentary content. Other releases:/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/634_1_large.jpg" class="center" style="display:block;" //p blockquote pbull; The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Sony)br bull; The Amityville Horror (1979) (MGM)br bull; Beetlejuice (Warner)br bull; Body Heat (Warner)br bull; Carrie (1976) (MGM)br bull; Faces of Death (Gorgon)br bull; The Happening (Fox)br bull; Korn: Live on the Other Side (Image)br bull; The Omen (1976) (Fox)br bull; The Omen: The Collection (Fox)br bull; Otis: Uncut (Warner)br bull; Ray Harryhausen Collection (20 Million Miles to Earth, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, It Came From Beneath the Sea, 7th Voyage of Sinbad) (Sony)br bull; Rest Stop (Warner)br bull; Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (Warner)br bull; Stuck (Image)br bull; The Visitor (2008) (Starz)br bull; You Don't Mess with The Zohan (Sony)br bull; Young Frankenstein (Fox)/p /blockquote p[a href="http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html"hidef digest/a and a href="http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=555show=review"blu-ray.com/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=482403d4b1624976f6347ceebe7ae693" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=482403d4b1624976f6347ceebe7ae693" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/gizmodo/full?a=zVAgVv"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/gizmodo/full?i=zVAgVv" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=ZEkGM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=ZEkGM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=JNjvM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=JNjvM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=uWxIm"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=uWxIm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=NWlem"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=NWlem" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/413845572" height="1" width="1"/

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It's evident by now that the credit crisis will cast a pall over the ad sector, but how bad will it get? One indicator of the future health of the space is the abundance of venture capital. Are any marketing technology start-ups still boasting new funding rounds?

Well, there's the one anyway.

BlackArrow said today it has scored a $20 million B round investment to continue development of its on-demand ad management system for TV and other platforms. Its new investors are the same as the old ones: Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners.

The BlackArrow system is designed to dynamically serve ads into live and time shifted TV content. It's compatible with a variety of ad types, sales models, and distribution methods, or so the company claims. Here's what we wrote about the company last year:

"What Black Arrow provides could be used by all the venues that serve up advertising," said Gerry Kaufhold, an analyst with In-Stat who was briefed on the technology. With its contextual, time of day and demographic targeting capabilities, he said Black Arrow's system can "make a real time decision about which group of ads fits [and] which actual ad gets served," which is of course the longstanding secret sauce of online ad serving.

Of course it's too early to say whether the big money will gravitate to cross-platform plays like BlackArrow's and away from pure Web start-ups, but it's interesting to see multiplatform video win a vote of confidence in such a bleak season.

Oberon Media has raised $20 million in funding for its casual gaming business.

The company aims to expand its business overseas and establish a foothold in China--a key battleground for casual gaming services.

The company aims to expand its business overseas and establish a foothold in China--a key battleground for casual gaming services.

The company aims to expand its business overseas and establish a foothold in China--a key battleground for casual gaming services.

New York - Oberon Media, a multi-platform distributor of casual video games, announced on Monday that it has received a $20 million investment from the Infinity I-China Fund, as part of an agreement whereby the two will expand the casual game publishing and distribution business and establish new partnerships in China.

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Online video advertising firm, BlackArrow has raised an additional $20 million in funding.

Online video advertising firm, BlackArrow has raised an additional $20 million in funding.

San Mateo, Calif. - BlackArrow, an independent provider of multiplatform ad management systems for viewer-controlled video, announced on Monday that is has secured $20 million in new funding.

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After months of management shuffling and restructuring, NYC-based casual gaming firm Oberon Media has closed another round of funding: The company has raised a $20 million round from the Infinity I-China Fund.

Oberon doesn't explicitly say in its release what it'll do with the money, but it's part of a "larger global strategy" that will include "establishing new partnerships in China" and expanding its business there.

Oberon operates a casual gaming platform for computers, mobile handsets, and interactive TV, and a game publishing business that includes production, development, and distribution.

In June, we'd heard that there was a "growing sense of loss of direction and confidence in the company," including key staff departures; that Oberon is having a hard time shifting to Web-based games; and that its community platform is weak. No word on the mood since Don Ryan took over as COO.

Previous investors include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Oak Investment Partners, and Lehman Brothers.

See Also:
Oberon Media CFO Epstein Out
Oberon/I-play Exec Kucharz Out, Ryan Named COO

Publication Date: 2008 Oct 2 PMID: 18833277br/Authors: Deconto, R. M. - Pollard, D. - Wilson, P. A. - Palike, H. - Lear, C. H. - Pagani, M.br/Journal: Naturebr/br/The long-standing view of Earth's Cenozoic glacial history calls for the first continental-scale glaciation of Antarctica in the earliest Oligocene epoch ( approximately 33.6 million years ago), followed by the onset of northern-hemispheric glacial cycles in the late Pliocene epoch, about 31 million years later. The pivotal early Oligocene event is characterized by a rapid shift of 1.5 parts per thousand in deep-sea benthic oxygen-isotope values (Oi-1) within a few hundred thousand years, reflecting a combination of terrestrial ice growth and deep-sea cooling. The apparent absence of contemporaneous cooling in deep-sea Mg/Ca records, however, has been argued to reflect the growth of more ice than can be accommodated on Antarctica; this, combined with new evidence of continental cooling and ice-rafted debris in the Northern Hemisphere during this period, raises the possibility that Oi-1 represents a precursory bipolar glaciation. Here we test this hypothesis using an isotope-capable global climate/ice-sheet model that accommodates both the long-term decline of Cenozoic atmospheric CO(2) levels and the effects of orbital forcing. We show that the CO(2) threshold below which glaciation occurs in the Northern Hemisphere ( approximately 280 p.p.m.v.) is much lower than that for Antarctica ( approximately 750 p.p.m.v.). Therefore, the growth of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere immediately following Antarctic glaciation would have required rapid CO(2) drawdown within the Oi-1 timeframe, to levels lower than those estimated by geochemical proxies and carbon-cycle models. Instead of bipolar glaciation, we find that Oi-1 is best explained by Antarctic glaciation alone, combined with deep-sea cooling of up to 4 degrees C and Antarctic ice that is less isotopically depleted (-30 to -35 per thousand) than previously suggested. Proxy CO(2) estimates remain above our model's northern-hemispheric glaciation threshold of approximately 280 p.p.m.v. until approximately 25 Myr ago, but have been near or below that level ever since. This implies that episodic northern-hemispheric ice sheets have been possible some 20 million years earlier than currently assumed (although still much later than Oi-1) and could explain some of the variability in Miocene sea-level records.br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D18833277title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- For video start-ups, it appears the well is far from dry. BlackArrow, a video-ad-targeting firm focused on the cable TV industry, raised $20 million from returning investors Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- For video start-ups, it appears the well is far from dry. BlackArrow, a video-ad-targeting firm focused on the cable TV industry, raised $20 million from returning investors Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners.