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Je suis de plus en plus excédé par le caractère quasi obligatoire aujourd'hui dans nos milieux webranchouillardeux d'avoir un compte gmail, d'utiliser Google reader pour lire ses feeds, Google doc pour partager ses documents, Gtalk pour papoter... [1]. Donc, pour ne pas avoir à le répéter et à m'en expliquer moult fois, je le clame ici : non je n'utilise aucun des services des adogoosoftoo, ni messagerie ni plate-forme collaborative, et je me refuse à le faire, que ce soit à titre privé ou professionnel. Point. (ce qui ne m'empêche pas d'avoir une vie numérique épanouie, je vous remercie).

Les raisons en sont multiples et leur exposé demanderait un long billet. Comme cela n'intéresse personne et que je n'ai pas le temps ce soir, voici un simple rapide résumé de quelques pistes.

Quel prix accordez-vous à votre vie privée ?

Lorsque je communique par mail ou par messagerie instantanée, je considère qu'il s'agit de conversations privées [2]. Peu importe le contenu de cette conversation, elle ne regarde que mes interlocuteurs et moi. Je dénie le droit à quiconque d'y mettre son nez. Or, Google analyse tous les messages afin d'afficher des publicités contextuelles. Cette analyse est certes le fait d'un robot, mais son résultat contient des informations sur le sens du contenu du message, informations qui peuvent être conservées, consultées par des opérateurs humains, etc. [3]

Tous ces services prétendument gratuits ne le sont bien sûr pas. Google ou Microsoft ne sont pas des philanthropes guidés uniquement par le désir d'aider leurs semblables. En échange des services qu'ils vous rendent, ils vous font signer des licences qui leur donnent le droit de lire vos mails, analyser vos comportements, vos recherches, dresser la cartographie de vos relations, bref, essayer de vous connaître mieux que quiconque. Le but avoué, pour l'instant, est de vous refourguer leur came ou celle de leurs partenaires. De même que la mission de la télévision est de vendre aux publicitaires du temps de cerveau disponible, selon la désormais célèbre maxime d'un ex dirigeant d'entreprise, celle des mastodontes du web est de tout savoir de vous pour vous inciter à consommer. Bref, en échange de quelques gigas de stockage pour vos données et d'interfaces sexy, vous autorisez ces compagnies à violer votre intimité. A chacun de voir la valeur qu'il accorde à son intimité et à la protection de sa vie privée. Pour ma part, elle est bien supérieure aux petites bénéfices annexes que je pourrais tirer de l'utilisation de gmail et consort.

Nous vivons malheureusement dans des dictatures douces où l'état s'arroge le droit de violer notre vie privée, par exemple en mettant en place d'innombrables formes de surveillance. Tous nos échanges, électroniques ou non, sont donc potentiellement surveillés. Mais ce n'est pas une raison pour ne pas essayer de protéger notre intimité lorsque nous le pouvons. Par exemple en refusant d'accorder à des entités privées les privilèges que s'arroge l'état.

Tomber de formats fermés en nuages verrouillés ?

Pendant des années, nos données ont été prisonnières des formats de fichier fermés de Microsoft. Nous avions besoin des leurs logiciels pour pouvoir relire les documents que nous avions créés. Aujourd'hui, sous la pression entre autres des logiciels libres, les formats ouverts s'imposent, nous redonnant le contrôle total des documents que nous créons. Est-ce le moment d'abandonner à nouveau la main de nos données en allant les stocker dans des nuages, sans grandes garanties sur la qualité du service, son accessibilité (les conditions d'utilisations sont souvent pleines de clauses permettant la coupure du service selon la simple volonté du fournisseur), les possibilités qu'il offre de récupérer un jour toutes ses données ? Ce point mérite qu'on s'y attarde, et j'essaierai d'y revenir à l'occasion, mais en attendant je vous conseille si ça vous intéresse la lecture de ces deux articles : "Open Source and Cloud Computing" de Tim O'Reilly et "A l'ère de l'« informatique en nuages »" d'Hervé Le Crosnier dans le Diplo de ce mois-ci, toujours en kiosque.

Confieriez-vous toutes vos données au gouvernement chinois ?

Autre point qui me pose problème, le pays dont dépendent juridiquement la plupart des grands fournisseurs de service est l'un de ceux dont les gouvernements successifs sont parmi les plus liberticides. Il est de bon ton en ce moment de dénoncer les atteintes aux libertés commises par le gouvernement chinois, mais celui des USA n'a rien à lui envier. Sous divers prétextes fallacieux, des lois d'exception, comme le Patriot Act, sont devenues la norme dans ce pays. Et outre les atteintes sans arrêt plus grandes aux libertés, les USA ont démontré depuis des années leur volonté d'étendre leur contrôle bien au delà de leurs frontières, ce qui les rendent bien plus à craindre que bon nombres d'autres pays généralement dénoncés pour leur mesures liberticides.

Alors, stockeriez-vous vos données sur des serveurs dépendant du gouvernement chinois ? Pour ma part, je refuse de déposer les miennes sur des machines dépendant de la législation étasunienne. La france ne vaut certes guère mieux, mais je m'en contente pour l'instant en attendant de trouver une opportunité de confiance pour migrer ma vie numérique vers des serveurs hébergés sous des cieux moins craignos.

C'est bien beau de critiquer, mais qu'est-ce que tu proposes ?

Refuser d'utiliser gmail et consort ne signifie pas retourner à l'âge de pierre. On peut sans problème profiter pleinement du réseau sans tomber entre les griffes des différents Moloch. C'est bien sûr un peu plus compliqué, moins pratique, cela demande des efforts, comme la plupart des démarches émancipatrices. Cela demande d'étudier le fonctionnement du réseau, d'apprendre à le faire fonctionner, de construire ses propres espaces, hébergement, serveurs de messagerie, de stockage, lieu d'élaborations collective... Mais tous les outils sont disponibles librement, il n'y a qu'à les prendre et les utiliser. Et la démarche est de plus en plus simple grâce à l'existence de nombreuses initiatives qui vont dans ces sens et de communautés qui pratiquent l'entraide, l'échange d'expérience, le partage de bande passante et de services. Bref, il s'agit de devenir acteurs de nos vies numériques et non de simples consommateurs de services pré-mâchés.

[1] et ce n'est sans doute encore rien face à la pression des ados entre eux pour être sur MSN ou Facebook

[2] sauf bien sûr si je poste sur une liste publique

[3] Je conseille accessoirement la lecture de l'article 11, Licence du Contenu, des conditions d'utilisation de Google, où par exemple vous concédez à Google une "une licence perpétuelle, irrévocable, pour le monde entier, à titre gratuit et non-exclusive pour reproduire, adapter, modifier, traduire, publier, représenter, afficher et distribuer tout Contenu que vous soumettez, affichez ou publiez sur les Services, ou par le biais des Services". Impossible de savoir si cela concerne la messagerie électronique.

Gwendolyn DeBard Strong was born on October 4, 2007 and was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 (SMA1) in April 2008. SMA1 is a terminal genetic disease that results in loss of nerves in the spinal cord and weakness of the muscles connected with those nerves.

Her parents are asking that you consider signing a petition asking Congress to fund research into a cure for the disease. The NIH has said that a cure is possibly only a few years away.

The petition is here. Please read and sign it, and pass this on to others. The goal is 50,000 signatures. If each of you reading this sign now, we’ll get to that number in just a few hours.

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TO HELP CURE SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY, THE #1 GENETIC KILLER OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 2.

We need your help to move landmark legislation through Congress that will allocate federal resources to non-profit and research organizations focused on finding a treatment and/or cure for SMA.

o SMA is an inherited genetic disease that results in loss of nerves in the spinal cord and weakness of the muscles connected with those nerves.
o SMA is the #1 genetic killer of children under the age of 2.
o SMA is estimated to occur in nearly 1 out of every 6,000 births.
o The gene mutation that causes SMA is carried by 1 in every 40 people or nearly 7.5 million Americans.
o There is currently no cure, but the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) have selected SMA as the disease closest to treatment of more than 600 neurological disorders.
o Researchers estimate that we are as close as only a few years away from finding a treatment and/or cure.

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Our precious daughter, Gwendolyn (http://www.GwendolynStrong.com), was born perfectly healthy in October 2007 and diagnosed with SMA at the age of 6 months. SMA is a degenerative disease that destroys the nerves controlling voluntary muscle movement, which affects crawling, walking, breathing, head and neck control, and even swallowing. Gwendolyn has Type 1 SMA, which is the most aggressive, terminal form of the disease. Gwendolyn’s mind, heart, and spirit are no different from any other baby, but her body is failing her. We will most likely lose our little girl to this disease before she reaches the age of 2.

Gwendolyn is one of thousands of children coping with this devastating disease. In fact, 600 new babies will be born in the United States with SMA this year alone. The good news is hope is on the horizon. The National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) have selected SMA as the disease closest to treatment of more than 600 neurological disorders and researchers estimate that we are as close as only a few years away from finding a treatment and/or cure for SMA. However, funding is needed to make that last and crucial leap. THAT’S WHERE WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!

For the first time, legislation has been proposed in the United States Congress to allocate federal resources to non-profit and research organizations focused solely on finding a treatment and/or cure for SMA. The SMA Treatment Acceleration Act (H.R. 3334/S. 2042) was introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 3334 by Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and in the Senate as S. 2042 by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) in August 2007 and September 2007, respectively. This legislation is supported by Families of SMA, the SMA Foundation, Fight SMA, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The passage of this legislation could change the lives of thousands of children and give them the future they so deserve.

The SMA Treatment Acceleration Act specifically authorizes federal funding in order to:

* Upgrade and unify existing SMA clinical trials sites and establish a national clinical trials network for SMA.
* Establish a Data Coordinating Center to provide expert assistance and advice to SMA clinical trials sites.
* Expand and intensify federally supported research programs with respect to pre-clinical translational research related to SMA.
* Establish a research collaborative at the National Institutes of Health to ensure cooperation across multiple institutes regarding research related to SMA.
* Enhance and provide ongoing support to the existing SMA patient registry in order to provide for expanded research on the epidemiology of SMA.
* Establish an SMA Coordinating Committee, consisting of representatives from relevant government agencies and the public, to coordinate government activities relating to SMA, serve as the principal advisor to agency heads, and conduct a study to identify barriers to the development of drugs for treating SMA and report findings and legislative recommendations to Congress.
* Require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collaborate with the FDA and the Coordinating Committee to make recommendations for improving and expanding existing industry incentives to promote SMA drug development.
* Establish and implement a program for providing information and education on SMA to health professionals and the general public related to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of SMA and the provision of care to SMA patients.

Although SMA has been selected by the NIH and NINDS as the closest disease to treatment of more than 600 neurological disorders and The SMA Treatment Acceleration Act will initially focus on SMA, the results and benefits will extend well beyond SMA. As researchers make progress unlocking a cure for SMA, their work is also making strides toward understanding and possibly curing a number of other rare and not so rare conditions. The following diseases and disorders will receive a “collateral benefit” from SMA research:

* ALS/Lou Gehrig’s Disease
* Alzheimer’s Disease
* Parkinson’s Disease
* Deafness-Dystonia
* Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
* Fragile X, Friedreich’s ataxia
* Gaucher Disease
* GM2A (AB Variant of GM2 Gangliosidosis)
* Machado-Joseph Disease,
* Menkes Disease
* Metachromatic Leukodystrophy: Late Infantile
* Myotonic Dystrophy
* Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (Batten Disease): Infantile, Late Infantile, Classic Late Infantile, and
* Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD)
* Sialidosis and Galactosialidosis
* Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1
* Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2/Episodic ataxia type 2
* Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6,
* Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 7 (olivopontocerebellar atrophy with retinal degeneration)
* Tay-Sachs Sandhoff, and X-Linked Andrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)

As you know, legislation like this will only move through Congress with broad support and Members are significantly more likely to cosponsor and support legislation if their constituents are actively urging them to lobby for support of the bill on their behalf. Thus, to help move this legislation through the process WE NEED YOUR HELP IN SIGNING THIS PETITION to make sure your Senators and district Representatives know that this is an important piece of legislation to cosponsor.

As of July 12, 2008, there are 18 Senators and 63 Representatives in Congress cosponsoring this legislation.

Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn't know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is "next candidate, please." In today's business world, job-seekers are expected to stay current with the happenings taking place in their area of interest. There was a time when those happenings were very much job-specific and anything having to do with technology fell squarely on the shoulders of I.T. That time has passed. Web 2.0 technologies lifted the veil of mystery surrounding computing technology and made it accessible to everyone. Today, if you're not staying current with Web 2.0 technologies' impact on business, then you're just not staying current. Period.

Web 2.0 Is Everywhere

No matter which department you're in, Web 2.0 technologies have had an impact. If you've been ignoring their prevalence and adoption, you're at risk of falling behind in your career and your business is at risk of losing ground to its competitors who are tuned into this trend.

Here at ReadWriteWeb, we deliver news about Web 2.0's impact on business in addition to news about web technologies in general. Depending on your area of interest, you can find a lot of great information on this subject in our archives. Or simply bookmark this post for easy reference.

Document Collaboration Suites

GroupSwim is an innovative company which has created an intelligent community building and collaboration SaaS solution. They aim to connect individuals and build knowledge utilizing social based methodologies. Read more.

DreamFactory's suite of Enterprise 2.0 applications consists of a Project Management module, a Time and Expense Module, a Document Manager, and a Team Calendar. Originally, the company was available on Amazon Web Services, but now DreamFactory's software will be available on Intuit's QuickBase platform, too. Read more.

Box.net offers collaboration functionality which allows any Box.net user can invite collaborators to any folder in their account. The collaboration feature is also fully compatible with all the OpenBox services, which extends online collaboration beyond just word processor documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, similar to what Google Docs currently offers. Read more.

The term groupware refers to applications that facilitate real-time communication, coordination and collaboration amongst groups of people. A number of startups are working hard to develop the nascent groupware market, so in this post we identify some of those startups and provide an overview of where the market is heading...read more.

What's the Deal With Wikis?

Only a handful of years ago, it was common to hear people laugh at Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it! How could you take it seriously? These days, just as blogs are, wikis are on their way to winning a reputation as serious publishing platforms. Wikis are now serious business. Read more.

Atlassian Confluence, makers of one of the most popular enterprise wiki solutions, offers Microsoft Office and SharePoint integration in their release of the Confluence 2.9 software. With these new tools, users no longer have to know the technicalities of wiki markup or even how to use the included rich-text WYSIWYG editor in order to make changes to the wiki - they can simply open up a Microsoft Office document instead. Read more.

WetPaint, a popular hosted Wiki solution, provides person-to-person and private messaging between users of their Wiki network. This means that Wetpaint Wiki users can now send single or multi-person private messages, to connect and collaborate with others about their interests. This post introduces wikis and discusees who is using them and for what purpose.First, wikis are described and then the range of wiki products in the market right now is explored. Read more.

Leave it to people in the wiki market to know how to collaborate. Nearly 20 different wiki providers have teamed up to offer a new Firefox extension that will notify users whenever they are on a page that is publicly editable, using a standard icon that sits in the same place the RSS autodiscovery icon appears. Clicking on the icon (img. on the left) will take you to that page's editing interface. Read more.

What's Office 2.0?

Web Office Defined: A Web Office suite is a combination of productivity, publishing and collaboration features. A Web Office both embraces the functionality of desktop office suites (e.g. Microsoft Office) and extends it by using Web Native features. Read more.

The State of Office 2.0: Over the past 10 years, Corel, Sun, IBM and others have tried to compete with Microsoft in the office software business, but thus far none of them have been able to take a significant chunk of Microsoft's large market share, which generates revenues exceeding $15 billion each year. These companies have tried everything; including Sun open sourcing their StarOffice suite and releasing it as the free OpenOffice. Yet, even this very compelling move has not been able to make a serious dent in the market. Read more.

Microsoft announced their Office Live Workspace is publicly available for everyone to access. The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online and share your work with others. Some say that the service's launch is a direct response to Google's entry into the web office space with their Google Docs online service. If that's so, then the question now is: did Microsoft just trump Google Docs? Or does Google Docs still rule online office suites? Read more.

The Web Office was a market that underwent a lot of changes in 2007. Our definition of Web Office is: A Web Office suite is a combination of productivity, publishing and collaboration features. A Web Office both embraces the functionality of desktop office suites (e.g. Microsoft Office) and extends it by using Web Native features. The 2007 year in review: Read more.

This is the perspective of a "skeptical, later early adopter"; the sort of person who Microsoft needs to retain and should have been able to retain easily. I don't spend time on productivity tools that may at some date make me more productive, but which today are just a frustrating time sink. That describes the majority of people. MS Office can be annoying, but it does work. So any serious alternative has to offer a significant advantage and at the same time make adoption a total breeze. Read more.

EditGrid, the main product of HongKong-based company Team and Concepts (TnC) Ltd., is a leading Web 2.0 online spreadsheet service that focuses on online collaboration and interoperability. Read more.

eXpresso was named as one of PC World's 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year for 2007. PC World succinctly summed the product up: "[it] allows Excel users to share their spreadsheets, online or off." eXpresso is different from the web office contenders that you normally hear about on ReadWriteWeb for three reasons...Read more.

Zimbra is looking to expand its platform to the iPhone. Recently they announced Zimbra Mobile for iPhone 2.0. Zimbra Mobile for iPhone 2.0 will allow iPhone users over-the-air two-way synchronization of e-mails, calendar, contacts, and photos between user mailboxes and mobile devices, and seamless "push" e-mail service for all Zimbra Collaboration Suite users. Read more.

News from the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, 2008. Read more.

What's Happening in the Enterprise 2.0 Space?

A report released by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years. This increase will include more spending on social networking tools, mashups, and RSS, with the end result being a global enterprise market of $4.6 billion by the year 2013. Read more.

Enterprise 2.0 is Happening: If you're a business who has been ignoring the Web 2.0 trend and the spread of social media: look out, the tide is shifting and you're about to be left behind. The rise of social media didn't happen overnight, the power of the internet to unite people, the ubiquity of broadband, the rise of Gen Y, the development of new technologies for socializing on the web - all of these things and more have led to the rise of social media. And this new force is affecting change in the way that companies do business - now and for many years to come.

The break-up of behemoth, vertically integrated enterprises commenced in the 1970's, got a boost from junk bond financing in the 1980's, and accelerated in the 1990's with globalization. Now, late in the 2000's, Social Media (aka Web 2.0) is adding another gear that will accelerate the fundamental restructuring of the enterprise. Read more.

Most enterprise software sucks. That is my considered opinion from 30 years in the software biz. Words that come to mind are: bloated, inflexible and user hostile. The good news is that it is getting better, a lot better. The driver for change is what I call the consumerization of enterprise software. These new software champions typically have some if not all of these 8 main attributes...Read more.

The Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad program is a program that allows companies to showcase their products and compete for the opportunity to present their ideas to the community at this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference. This competition, organized by Stowe Boyd, began in April when companies were invited to post their video pitches to the E2 web site. After the community voted, the list of contenders was narrowed down to five finalists who will now compete for the final spot. For that grand prize winner, the prize is free exhibit space at the upcoming conference. Read more.

SharePoint to run Enterprise 2.0? 9 companies are saying "yes," having recently launched Enterprise 2.0 offerings that integrate with SharePoint technology. If there's one thing that any I.T. pro knows it's the value of "maximizing their investment" in whatever servers they run, technology they use, or services they've signed up for. With strict budgets in place, no I.T. purchases are bought on a whim. Instead, each decision is researched, tested, thoughtfully considered, and, if worthy, purchased, then rolled out to become a part of the I.T. infrastructure. SharePoint is no exception. Read more.

Is 2.0 Affecting My Industry?

Yes! Check out the examples below of Web 2.0's impact on various industries and fields.

Finance/Banking

Google is announced that after more than a year of work on the problem, Google Finance is now offering real-time price quotes for any stock traded on NASDAQ. Read more.

Strands, the recommendation and lifestreaming service we've written about here before, announced a much anticipated deal that will put it in the driver's seat for financial recommendations served up to millions of online banking customers around the world. The company's recommendation test-case in music is no longer all they will be known for around the world. Read more.

We reported on a survey that revealed that 48% of online banking customers between the ages of 18 and 34 would be interested in using "secure gadgets for personal banking" if their bank offered them. More than a quarter of bank customers would consider switching to another bank if it took better advantage of web 2.0 technologies. While that survey was flawed in some ways, there is another access point to banking information that customer may want more than secure widgets: mobile. Read more.

48% of Bank Customers Want Web 2.0 Gadgets. WorkLight, a startup that offers enterprise 2.0 products, recently did a survey among Facebook users to find out their willingness to use Web 2.0 tools for secure banking. The survey was conducted among 1000 Facebook users between the ages of 18-34. The fact that the survey was conducted among Facebook users gives it a bias towards tech-savvy people. However there are some surprising findings. Read more.

Accounting

Online Accounting: State of the Market: Accounting software for small business and personal use is increasingly moving from the desktop to online. However, compared to other office software, this transition to online has been relatively slow. Partly that's due to user reticence: writing a document online and sharing it with others (via Google Docs, Office Live, Zoho, or whatever you use) is one thing. Entering sensitive financial information into your browser is harder to adjust to. Read more.

Project Management

Add this one to your web office toolkit - LiquidPlanner is an online, hosted project management tool that lets you access and update projects anywhere you have an internet connection. The service offers you and your team a complete project environment, social networking and collaboration features, and a probabilistic scheduling engine which tells you the probability of completing each task - and ultimately the entire project - by a certain date. With everything organized into a centralized dashboard that can be customized for each team member, everyone on your team can stay focused on their tasks and how they relate to the project as a whole. Read more.

The Clarizen project management software came out of stealth mode last year and has now just launched a new version with additional features. The latest version, Clarizen v 2.0, will be demoed at the "Under the Radar Conference," an event held on Microsoft's campus whose current theme is "The Business of Web Apps: Where the Web Goes to Work." Read more.

Enterprise 2.0 is a rapidly growing trend that takes the concepts and tools of social media (social networking, RSS, wikis, blogs, etc.) and re-purposes them for business use, wrapping them up into applications that make the tools at work seem more like the tools we use in our day-to-day lives. While these enterprise 2.0 apps give us that web 2.0 feel, it's rarer to see actual Web 2.0 services like Facebook or Twitter used by businesses. And although we've seen many people promoting the business use of Twitter, we had not yet heard about anyone actually going so far as to integrate Twitter into a non-consumer focused application. However, that's just what Joint Contact has done. Their PM tool now shows how tweeting can actually be a productive activity. Read more.

37Signals offers a range of applications, from simple, single-function apps like Ta-Da Lists (to-do lists), Writeboard (collaborative word processor), and Campfire (group chat) to more complicated apps like Basecamp (project management) and Highrise (group contact manager). Read more.

eProject is an on-demand Project Management company. More than 100,000 users at 650 companies currently use eProject's solutions. They run the gamut from Fortune 500 companies to medium-sized fast growing organizations. Read more.

Health

Health 2.0, web-based apps and services for the healthcare sector, is a nascent but potentially huge market for web 2.0. As of now, many of these apps have an emphasis on communication, information sharing and community. These are relatively easy things to address using Web tools. However we're starting to see health 2.0 apps try to tackle the enormous inefficiencies in the healthcare system - check out our description of Carol.com below. Also, in the longer term, we will see the Web being used in medical diagnosis and practice. Read more.

The Health 2.0 Conference is reviewed here and some of the health web apps that caught our eye as well as trends that are discussed. Read more.

Google announced the public availability of Google Health, after initially launching as a closed beta back in February. It is described as "a safe and secure way to collect, store, and manage [your] medical records and health information online" and is being positioned as a way for users to control their own medical records. Read more.

HR

Traditional resumes are boring. They become stale and out-of-date, they can't really showcase your work or achievements, and they end up just sitting in the bottom of someone's inbox. A paper resume, while professional, doesn't really let an employer get to know you. Many sites are trying to solve the problems of traditional resumes by providing job seekers a new way to stand out in the crowd. Read more.

The iPhone has been making headway in its battle to become a business-ready tool. Obviously, the addition of Microsoft Exchange support was a big step towards being considered a viable alternative to the traditional smartphones used at work, like Blackberry and Windows Mobile. However, beyond simply supporting enterprise email, the iPhone platform has a lot of potential to cater to the needs of its business users, too. Read more.

LinkedIn has an audience that is both younger (41 vs 48) and richer ($106k vs $98K). LinkedIn was also naturally crowing about their growth (189% for year ending Oct. '07) and the chart from Nielsen which shows comparative Facebook growth at 125%. Note that Facebook growth is from a higher base and the law of large numbers applies, but Facebook has always crowed about their growth rates vs the larger MySpace, so they have to live with growth rate comparisons to LinkedIn now. Read more.

Marketing

Viral marketing, user-generated content, online buzz: over the past few years, these terms have been representative of a new way of marketing to consumers that takes advantage of the current popularity of the social web. This new technique involves companies encouraging its customers to create content of their own in order to generate interest in the company's brand. Unfortunately, one of the potential side effects of this strategy is the potential for negative buzz. Despite this fact, a surprisingly low percentage of marketers are monitoring for negative responses. Read more.

Using the new pilot program from a company called Involver, Kiva launched a video campaign on Facebook to draw users to their site to lend directly to these developing nations. The video even features a button that appears at the end of the video encouraging you to "lend" money. Read more.

Mobile marketing startup, TextBound, has big plans to make text messages the new mass media for advertisers. Like we mentioned earlier, more and more companies are going to be betting on location based mobile ads this year, and TextBound hopes to capitalize on this trend. But unlike mobile social network/marketing vehicle, Fluc, TextBound isn't about connecting with your friends, it's about delivering ads to your cell phone via text message, then taking you to the mobile web for more details.

Wikipedia, l’encyclopédie collaborative en ligne, est devenue trop anti chrétienne et anti américaine!

- Web 2.0 - Wikipedia, l'encyclopédie collaborative en ligne, est devenue trop "anti chrétienne et anti américaine" pour les conservateurs aux États-Unis qui ont donc décidé de répliquer en mettant en ligne Conservapedia, qui "favorise les valeurs chrétiennes et américaines".

Source : Le Buzz Info (s'abonner)

Explorer : Internet, Wikipedia

Wikis began as free, open, public spaces for anyone at all to contribute and share their knowledge, expertise, and wisdom. Businesses have begun to recognize, however, the power of the wiki model for accomplishing internal collaborative tasks, like revising HR documents, producing specifications, and communicating across time and space. Call it Wiki 2.0 -- and it's the newest thing in enterprise software. "The wiki is a tool that groups can use as an extension of their workspace," wiki expert Stewart Mader.

When Hurricane Gustav hit the Gulf Coast, the evacuation of the area went much more smoothly than during Hurricane Katrina three years ago. This time, the local, state and national agencies were more prepared for a potential disaster.

Similarly, online media outlets and volunteer efforts were also better prepared for this hurricane, having learned their lessons from the Katrina disaster, when they were scrambling to deal with the chaotic scene of widespread destruction and mass evacuation.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune’s NOLA.com website, for example, spent the past three years optimizing its site for breaking news coverage, adding blogs, increasing opportunities for citizen contributions and arming staffers with videocameras. And NPR social media strategist (and fellow PBS blogger) Andy Carvin was able to quickly mobilize volunteers online to create the Gustav Information Center hub and wiki thanks to his experience covering Katrina, the Southeast Asian tsunami and 9/11 — not to mention the wiki templates from these earlier projects.

In both cases, previous experiences helped inform a more mature response to the oncoming storm.

How Things Have Changed

In 2005, NOLA.com editor in chief Jon Donley told me in an OJR story that his staff had to radically redesign the site to effectively cover Katrina, as New Orleans became a one-story town, and the site was inundated with 30 million page views in one day.

“Our website got a complete redesign [on the fly],” Donley said. “By the time we evacuated we (had) a completely different design.”

Ultimately, NOLA.com forums and blogs actually helped rescue teams find stranded people in homes, and the site helped the newspaper win a Pulitzer Prize for its Katrina coverage. Today, not just the site’s features and design, but also its editorial processes, reflect lessons learned during Katrina.

In a recent interview, Donley told me that the paper’s reporters all file stories online first; editors then decide which stories to pull and put into the print newspaper each day. This makes it much easier for print reporters to consider the web as their primary publishing platform during breaking news coverage, such as Gustav, when the newspaper couldn’t be printed because of power outages. Plus, NOLA.com staffers all carry videocameras with them around town in case they see breaking news. So it was easy for them to file video reports of damage and rescue operations as they traveled around New Orleans after Gustav hit.