pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=492411ec14b9b9e500c14c35maxX=140maxY=157" border="0" alt="Rosenblatt.jpg" title="Rosenblatt.jpg" width="140" height="157" /After three rounds of polling the results are in: Readers say Yahoo (YHOO) should hire David Rosenblatt for its next CEO./p pRosenblatt is the guy who cut costs while building revenues at DoubleClick before selling it to Google (GOOG) for $3.1 billion. He beat out Google's head of sales Tim Armstrong and former AOL CEO Jon Miller in our final round of voting./p pWe haven't heard from Rosenblatt about whether he'd even take the job, but we decided to collect recommendations to send to Yahoo's board anyway./p pWe started with another former CEO of DoubleClick, cofounder Kevin Ryan, who also happens to work in our office as SAI chairman. Kevin loves the idea of Rosenblatt-run Yahoo. He gave us five reasons why:/p ul listrongHe's experienced./strong Rosenblatt successfully managed an Internet company with more than 1,000 employees./li listrongHe owns the niche/strong. DoubleClick wasn't just a tech company and it wasn't just an advertising company. It was both -- like Yahoo.br //li listrongHe can cut and grow Yahoo at the same time/strong. At DoubleClick, Rosenblatt cut headcount from 2,000 to 1,000 between 2001 and 2003. br //li listrongHe can cut emand/em grow/strong. While selling off businesses DoubleClick needed to get out of, Rosenblatt managed to increase its revenues anyway. /li listrongHe's new./strong Yahoo needs someone who isn't responsible -- and isn't interested in defending -- past decisions./li /ul pCurrent DoubleClick/Google employees crush on Rosenblatt, too. One told me: "There is nothing not to love about him. [Rosenblatt taking the Yahoo CEO gig] would be great for him. Huge loss for us."/p pA few readers told us why they chose Rosenblatt:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"David Rosenblatt is a incredibly smart and an amazing manager; he turned Doubleclick around and was behind the entire sale to Google. He is far and away the best man for the job. Yahoo would be crazy to let him get away.../p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Rosenblatt's banking connections prob facilitate another deal with MSFT quickly./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"DR!!! Worked for him. Smart guy, understands the business and surrounds himself with strong people./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"David R. Thats what people at DCLK call him. A great CEO worked with him, even played basketball with him (he was part of the DCLK b'ball team) in the league in nyc. A great competitor./p pOne reader composed a list of ten reason while Rosenblatt will get the job:/p ol /ol ul listrongTurned around DoubleClick as CEO/strong, gave it a rebirth and sold to Google for 5x in less than 2 years /li listrongUnlike the AOL guys/strong, has had a history of success in the online business-- success follows people and breeds more success... /li listrongIs not a homegrown, loyal Google guy/strong like [Tim Armstrong] and would probably leave /li listrongHas seen the insides of Google/strong, whose organization is most likely factorial worse than Yahoo only masked by the 1 phenomenal revenue stream /li liProbably strongmade 95% of his DCLK acquisition money already/strong-- time to diversify! /li liAs President of Display, hestrong will always be the step child to the search guys [at Google]/strong/li listrongIs highly ethical /strong/li listrongIs a technologist/strong who gets the advertising space, exactly what Yahoo! needs with its open strategy and apt platform /li listrongIs smart/strong-- street smarts combined with cognitive intelligences (Yale and Stanford MBA) /li listrongIs respected/strong in the industry-- advertisers, publishers, agencies AND investors./li /ul ol /olol /ol pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="../../2008/11/everyone-s-pick-for-yahoo-ceo"br /Everyone's Pick For Yahoo CEO/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/4zt7XM_vpDBmh85ttOKHmSNvYJs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/4zt7XM_vpDBmh85ttOKHmSNvYJs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=D0bUDPYe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=D0bUDPYe" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Pr6CfhiZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=pIbLDVG7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=zQnmYJfS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=zQnmYJfS" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=dfbfibW6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=klli2NRD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=UYXhozwm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=KpetsAd1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/mzjYG0vX3dc" height="1" width="1"/

BedsideTableFilter: With the advent of December comes the annual ranking of the book industry's over-saturated market. Along with the garden variety a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5236390.ece"Best/a a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081129.BK100S29/TPStory/Entertainment/Books"Books/a a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/100Notable-t.htm"of/a a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6610357.html"2008 /alists, niche critics weigh in on the best cookbooks (a href="http://www.projectfoodie.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=1199Itemid=122"baking/a and a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97223384ft=1f=1032"regular/a), a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/multimedia/slideshows/content/books-2008.html"most trustworthy business publications/a, a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/11/06/books/20081109ILLUSTRATEDBOOKS_index.html"best children's book illustrations/a, a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97110660ft=1f=1032"safest bets for literary holiday gifts/a, and, of course, a href="http://nytimesbooks.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-favorites-of-2008.html"the prettiest book covers./a br /

Chris Snyder is an online journalist specializing in new media. He writes about the tech biz for Wired.com’s Epicenter blog.

It’s a long road to a victory in the browser wars. Just ask Firefox. The open source browser which launched in 2004 just cracked the 20 percent threshold of the market share for November, according to Net Applications, pushing it a step closer but still miles away from IE.

Recently a few new players have also thrown their hats in the ring, including Google with its much-hyped Chrome and the lesser known, Mozilla-based social web browser Flock, which released its 2.0 version this past October. But do these newcomers even stand a chance?

The Basics

Firefox is gaining ground for good reason: it’s simple, reliable and secure. Its tabbed browsing led to a similar remodel in IE and it has a slew of add-ons that give it a leg up over the competition. It’s slowly becoming the new standard with a steady audience, and that will be hard to beat anytime soon. And its open source platform leaves room for alternatives and experimental niche browsers like Flock.

Flock 2.0 is basically a Firefox with a lot of perks and pre-installed add-ons for those heavy into social networking.  Think of it as a FriendFeed of the browser world, which brings all of your friends from 23 various networks together in a sidebar. It is also one of the first browsers to incorporate media feeds for photos and videos.  Flock is all about sharing what you find on the web as you surf, and it allows you to accomplish this pretty easily by dragging and dropping them either into an email or onto a friend.

Chrome is the polar opposite of Flock, and its big advantage is that it’s even simpler than Firefox, or any other browser out there right now.  The search bar is also integrated into the address bar, which seems to be the wave of the future, at least for those who swear by Google search and don’t need any bells and whistles. Unfortunately, Chrome’s only available for PCs at the moment.

Usability

Chrome wins hands down on getting the job done.  It’s quick and painless with a clear focus of searching for information using Google’s engine.  Dynamic tabbed browsing is a staple now, and if anything crashes, only that tab will go down, not your entire session, which is nice. But if you want a richer web browsing experience stick with Firefox or Flock.  There’s also no easy way to subscribe to RSS feeds from the search bar as there is with Firefox.

Flock can feel a bit overwhelming at times with all of the sidebars of information, but once you get everything set up and get the hang of it, it’s pretty convenient and preferable to keeping a million tabs open for sites like Twitter and Facebook. The drag and drop interface is great.  When you just want to email a YouTube video or picture it’s much easier than copying any URLs, although it does also seem a bit too easy to share something that you might not want shared.

The only other problem with the social networks is that you can’t really fit all of that functionality into a sidebar.  It’s a good way of consolidating friends, but it’s more like a giant address book than anything else. Simple things like posting tweets are a bit confusing, with no clear box for entering in text. When a friend adds content, however, it will open up the profile in the main browser in full view, so you still need to go back to the source.

Speed

Despite the extra features, Flock is surprisingly just as fast as Chrome or Firefox, at least on a medium grade PC.  Looks like they’ve improved upon this concern in the latest release. And Chrome seems to have Firefox beat in this category but the difference isn’t anything drastic.

Privacy

Incognito — aka “porn mode” –  is the new way to surf, as every browser is picking up on this private surfing option that the new IE first initiated.

Chrome has faced some privacy concerns at launch with its Omnibox monitoring and recording too much information, but this can all be prevented by changing the default settings and going Incognito.

Expandability

Chrome doesn’t support any extensions or add-ons yet, so Firefox still dominates in this area.  But if you are looking for simple, you probably don’t want much more than Chrome already offers.

Final Thoughts

Firefox is here to stay, but there will always be a long tail of niche alternatives like Chrome and Flock.  When Chrome moves into Mac realm it could pick up some market share from Safari.  Flock will be there for social network junkies who want to try something new, but the first step to making Flock mainstream will be for more of the social networks themselves to go mainstream. Twitter is on track, but still has a long way to go before it’s a household name. If you’re only on Facebook or MySpace, you probably don’t need to worry about the extra sidebars and features.

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pemsmallPhotos by Karin Dreijer Andersson/small/embr /br /I'll bake the cake, you round up the candles: November 2009 marks the 150th birthday of Charles Darwin's epochal evolution text emOn the Origin of Species/em. And who better to commemorate the occasion than, okay, stronga href="http://www.theknife.net/" target="_blank"the Knife/a/strong! With an opera?? Next thing you'll tell me Adam and Eve aren't actually my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents.br /br /According to their website, the Knife's Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson have been enlisted to write both the music and libretto (i.e., words) for Danish theater group stronga href="http://www.hotelproforma.dk/" target="_blank"Hotel Pro Forma/a/strong's upcoming production stronga href="http://www.hotelproforma.dk/side.asp?side=2amp;id=437amp;ver=uk" target="_blank"emTomorrow, in a Year/em/a/strong. The piece is set to debut in Copenhagen in November 2009, and takes as its inspiration Darwin's thoughts on evolution, change, transformation, and mutation.br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/tomorrowinayear1.jpg" border="0" /br /br /Quoth the press materials, the production "uses Darwin's way of observing and describing the world. Change as a process and the interrelationship of all things is the basic material of the performance...emTomorrow, in a Year/em points to evolution as a field of possibilities, where nature unfolds its great liberality, finding niches and new paths. The musical and visual components of the performance are shown as fragments, as parts of the world that are uncovered and studied. A recognisable sequence emerges, only to mutate and change into a number of subsequent species. There is a development from preliminaries to totality to renewed change." Sounds...artsy.br /br /As for the band's contributions, "The Swedish music group the Knife creates completely new compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera. The form is experimental and exploratory. The music is written for three singers who come from different backgrounds: electronica pop, classical opera, and performance. They are the protagonists of the performance, displaying three ways of experiencing the world. They are the spokesman, the organiser, and the one who acts. They are structure, sensation, form, time, and thought." Hey, as long as I can dance to it, count me in.br /br /img src="/sites/default/files/tomorrowinayear2.jpg" border="0" /br /br /The Knife's site notes that brother Olof is presently in the Amazon doing field recordings of animals, fish, and plants, while sister Karin is credited with taking the intriguing-looking publicity stills for emTomorrow, in a Year/em you see here. Huh, looks stronga href="/article/news/39488-cmj-report-wednesday-amy-phillips" target="_blank"strangely familiar.../a/strongbr /br /In other news, Karin stronga href="/article/news/146818-the-knifes-karin-dreijer-fires-up-solo-project" target="_blank"has an album due early next year/a/strong under the stronga href="http://feverray.com/" target="_blank"Fever Ray/a/strong banner. Also, the Knife are kinda weird./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/PZJTXvfi20Qj23gttdxndGzkwvI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/PZJTXvfi20Qj23gttdxndGzkwvI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/9AJDCeaROOk" height="1" width="1"/

Societe : COMPUTER FUTURES - Lieu de travail : PARIS centre (proche metro) - Type de contrat : CDI - Salaire : Negotiable - Detail : ubATOUTS DE L’ENTREPRISE:/b/u - Depuis sa création, en 2005 mon client est une entreprise leader sur un marché où l’innovation est le maître mot - L’entreprise évolue sur un marché de niche en pleine évolution avec une stratégie de monopole en france et dans toute l’europe - Rejoindre cette entreprise c’est s’interroger sur l’évolution du genre humain et les innovations technologiques créées par l’homme au cours de ces 20 dernières années - Située dans des locaux du futur, elle invente tous les jours de nouvelles fonctionnalités pour rendre plus performant sa créature! - Mon client lance dans ces deux prochaines années des projets qui seront de réels challenges technologiques. ubLE POSTE : /b/u - Vous serez sous la responsabilité du directeur technique - Vous définirez la politique de test du logiciel de paramétrage du produit - Vous assemblerez les unités du logiciel que vous aurez testé de façon individuelle - Vous développerez les outils de test nécessaire au bon fonctionnement du logiciel - Vous testerez l’ensemble des composants logiciels - Vous intégrerez les nouveaux composants testés dans le logiciel ubLE PROFIL :/b/u - Vous possédez un BAC +5 - Vous avez 3 ans minimum d’expérience en C++ - Vous maîtrisez l’environnement Linux et windows - Vous êtes curieux - Vous souhaitez travailler sur des projets informatiques UNIQUES ubLES PLUS :/b/u - Des produits innovants - Un environnement de travail hors du commun - Vous travaillerez à la pointe de la technologie ubSALAIRE : Entre 35 000 € et 50 000 € selon profil/b/u

Chances are you use at least two major social networks - 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October 2008 (Comscore, worldwide). Nearly 7 million people in the UK use both Bebo and Facebook. A lot of people maintain very different friend lists on LinkedIn than MySpace or Facebook. Etc. And when you add in niche social sites like YouTube, Flickr, etc., there’s even more overlap among users.

There has never been an effective way of aggregating and merging all the data and activity on these sites into a single user interface. A new venture backed Brazilian-based started called Power.com launches today, though, that aims to do just that. They’re calling what they do “social inter-networking” because it allows users to view and interact with all of their social networks at once. Data is aggregated, and the sites themselves, if accessed via the Power.com site, are marked up with added features in a way that Greasemonkey users are familiar with.

The service is unknown in the U.S. today, although it’s been live since August and boasts 5 million users already. Until today it supported just a few social networks, notably Orkut. Now, though, the service supports users from Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Hi5 and a number of niche networks like YouTube.

Here’s how it works.

Log into one or more social networks on the Power.com site. Friends, messages, updates, photos and other information are either scraped from the site or obtained via the API (it varies by site), and aggregated on the Power dashboard. Users can respond/comment on this content directly from Power. And if they like, they can send messages and updates to all of their social networks at once. Or send a message to just one friend, but have it sent to all of their different social networks (and if they are a Power user, to their email, SMS, instant message, etc., per their settings).

If you visit one of the social networks through the Power site, the pages are marked up with additional functionality. Click a button to start chatting with the user over MSN chat, if they are a Power.com user.

Lastly, users can create a Power.com profile based on whatever social network they choose. Here’s mine, based on Facebook (which, by the way, effectively makes my private Facebook profile public).

It’s all a bit confusing, but it’s fairly simple to try out. Just log in and go.

There are real benefits to the service. Users can keep track of friends on social networks they belong to but don’t visit very often. Status messages can be added to all networks simultaneously. Photos and videos can be uploaded on multiple sites at once. And messaging people across multiple services is dead simple.

There are limitations to the service. You have to access the sites via Power.com. And the company is scraping content off the sites, something that may violate the terms and conditions of some or all of these services (Meebo did the same with instant messaging platforms, and was eventually embraced - but they could have just been shut down).

As I said above, the company has gathered 5 million users since August, mostly on Orkut. Power.com users who leave content on sites can choose to add a link to Power.com, making the service spread virally very quickly. Now that they’ve launched publicly and on the big sites, expect the service to grow even more quickly.

The company has raised $5 million in venture financing from Silicon Valley-based Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

It’s also worth noting that we’ve covered a bunch of services that attempt to do some of the things Power.com is doing. See our posts on MyLifeBrand, Spokeo, Loopster and ProfileLinker. None of those sites were able to tap into the viral growth features that Power.com has, though. Power’s decision to add a link when content is posted through their service was brilliant.

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As same-sex marriage stalls in California, Massachusetts and Connecticut are carving out an economic niche for gay and lesbian weddings -- and the spending that comes with them.

Last month I had the chance to chat with a top U.S. Nintendo exec and suggest how, with a few savvy improvements to the Wii system, the company could turn it into the living room Net appliance of choice. But despite the opportunity Nintendo has with the Wii, the company seems determined to let it remain a mere video game console.

Big-screen HDTVs have reached a price point of several hundred dollars. That means consumers are now bringing home television displays both large and crisp enough for browsing the Net from their couches. And all the latest video game consoles come with Net access. Yet the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3, despite attempts to broaden their user base and include new mainstream-friendly features, seem unable to expand beyond their niche audience of hardcore gamers. Meanwhile, the Wii’s global install base is already double that of its competitors combined — and its growth shows no sign of slowing down. Indeed, Merrill Lynch expects the console, which has attracted buyers from both genders and across the demographic spectrum, to reside in one of three households by 2011.

Add to this the Wii’s innovative Wiimote, which is essentially a 3D mouse, and thus ideally suited for the speedy, point/click/drag navigation that a true big-screen Internet experience requires.

With that in mind, I think Nintendo would only need to add three features in order to win it the world — or at least, the world’s living rooms.

1. Full-featured, optimized web browser

The Opera browser that comes pre-installed in the Wii is no-frills, and frustrating to use. A Yahoo-style web portal would greatly increase its popular appeal; a version of Opera robust enough for, say, watching Quicktime movies, editing Google Docs, and playing casual Flash games, would be even more compelling. Add a Nintendo-branded keyboard peripheral, and your game console suddenly becomes a low-budget, cloud-computing PC.

2. iTunes-like interface for purchasing content with Wii Points

Wii Points already links virtual currency to users’ credit cards, but other than casual and classic video games sold in the remarkably crippled Wii Channels, there’s little to actually buy with them. Wii Points cry out for purchasable movies, music, and other audio/video content, but none have been forthcoming. (The lack of a hard drive for downloading content is, of course, part of the problem.) Why stop there? Imagine if a site like Amazon were added to Wii Channels and accepted Nintendo’s currency. The Wii would become an online retail shopping appliance, too.

3. Multiplatform social network with seamless chat/IM

With little ability to really interact across the Net, the Wii’s cute-but-trivial Miis are avatars without an MMO or a social network to give them a community. Linked to Facebook, the iPhone, Nintendo’s handheld DS, and other platforms, Miis would become your “home” avatar, the communication stream you’d use from your couch.

While the Nintendo exec I spoke with listened attentively, he explained that such features don’t fit the company’s main goal: to provide a platform for fun and games. For the moment, then, the Wii seems destined to become this generation’s Playstation 2 — an epically popular game console, but little else. Which is a shame, because if Nintendo misses out on this opportunity, we do, too.

Image credit: wii.com

82e semaine de Sarkofrance pour Juan. Les chiffres du chômage explosent, le «travailler plus pour gagner plus» ressemble plutôt à «travailler plus pour gagner pareil et faire virer des intérimaires», le pouvoir d'achat est la dernière des préoccupations de ce gouvernement qui n'apporte plus de soutien qu'aux entreprises et au capital. Cette semaine, une chose incroyable s'est produite. Nicolas Sarkozy a abdiqué. Évidemment, il ne l'a pas avoué. Il a abandonné la promesse centrale de sa campagne électorale de 2007 : la priorité au travail. Cette semaine en effet, Nicolas Sarkozy a enfin annoncé la couleur. Jusqu'ici, la réponse «sociale» à la crise était minime. Le discours de Rethel incluait un modeste traitement social du chômage. Il y a deux jours, le monarque a confirmé la donne : face à la crise, le monarque n'aidera que les employeurs et le capital. Exit le travail et les travailleurs ! 

Électeurs sarkozystes, avez-vous voté pour cela ?

Gesticulateur
Le Monarque a un talent certain : celui de la répétition des discours. Devant les diplomates, les journalistes, les ouvriers, les maires, il répète à l'envie les mêmes phrases, les mêmes arguments, appuyés par les mêmes exemples. Les conseillers en charge de ses discours sont-ils déjà au chômage technique ?  Un confrère blogueur l'a surnommé «Gesticulator.» Nicolas Sarkozy excelle effectivement à cacher ses contradictions et reniements par une gesticulation médiatique . Depuis des semaines donc, le Monarque répète jusqu'à l'écÅ“urement la même rengaine: «on est passé à deux doigts de la catastrophe du siècle.» Mais de quelle catastrophe parle-t-il ? La vraie casse semble pour plus tard, l'an prochain. Les victimes sont connues : les pauvres, les salariés, les seniors , les classes moyennes, les fragiles.

Escamoteur
La déconvenue est totale : pour le 6ème mois consécutif, le chômage s'aggrave. Nicolas Sarkozy veut vous/nous faire croire que la «Grande Crise de Septembre» en est l'unique responsable . Le ralentissement économique français a commencé il y a 6 mois, révélant l'échec total et absolu d'une politique anachronique. Cette semaine, le sous-secrétaire d'État au Chômage Laurent Wauquiez a été envoyé au charbon, et son patron de président a crié ses slogans à coups d'haussements d'épaules convulsifs. En octobre, le chômage «officiel» a augmenté de 46 000 personnes pour s'élever à plus de 2 millions. Ce chiffre ne compte ni les précaires du temps partiel ni les chômeurs «techniques.» Dans leur communiqué de presse, la ministre «Marie-Antoinette» Lagarde et son secrétaire Wauquiez n'osent pas avouer le chiffre : 2 004 500 chômeurs «officiels» en France.

Mais ce n'est pas tout :cette semaine , les services de Jean-Louis Borloo ont annoncé que le nombre de mises en chantier de logements en France a reculé de 20,6% entre août et octobre, comparé à la même période un an plus tôt. Le financement par l'État de 30 000 logements, annoncé par Nicolas Sarkozy en septembre, n'a produit aucun effet. Le moral des industriels français a lui touché un nouveau plus bas en novembre, chutant à 80 points, son plus faible niveau depuis septembre 1993. La France compte 1,1 million de Rmistes, deux millions de travailleurs pauvres et sept millions de personnes vivant sous le seuil de pauvreté. Pour ceux-là, la réduction des indemnités chômage , les franchises médicales , et la réduction des pré-retraites ne sont pas remises en cause alors que la plus grave crise sociale du siècle menace. Un dernier chiffre ? Le chômage des plus de 60 ans a crû de 4,1% sur l’année. Vive le travail des seniors !

Imposteur
Tous les efforts gouvernementaux visent le soutien à l'investissement et aux entreprises. Le pouvoir d'achat et la protection des salariés sont oubliés. Travail versus capital ? Nicolas Sarkozy a choisi depuis longtemps. La crise fait tomber les masques. Politique de classe ? Le Monarque n'a pas renoncé à deux de ces mesures les plus inéquitables, anachroniques et inefficaces: l'incitation aux heures sup et les allègements fiscaux. Qui va payer ? Voici, à titre de simple illustration, un florilège des mesures votées cette semaine :

•  Le RSA est adopté , une bonne chose pour les plus pauvres, mais financé exclusivement par les classes moyennes.
• Les bénéficiaires du bouclier fiscal n'auront plus à attendre le remboursement de l'Etat des sommes trop perçues par le fisc. L'an prochain, ils pourront directement les déduire de leur ISF et de leurs taxes d'habitation et foncière.
• Frédéric Lefebvre a failli réussir à faire un adopter un amendement créant une nouvelle niche fiscale pour ceux des plus aisés qui souhaitent investir dans les pays en voie de développement. Le vrai retour de la Françafrique !
• Contre l'avis du gouvernement, les députés ont voté la prime transport
• Suivant l'avis du gouvernement, les députés ont renoncé aux taxes sur les stock-options, les actions gratuites et les retraites chapeaux. 
• Les parachutes dorés seront exonérés de taxes jusqu'à un million d'euros.
• La hausse du minimum vieillesse de 25% promise par Sarkozy d'ici 2012 sera limitée aux personnes seules. 
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Publication Date: 2008 Nov 14 PMID: 19038265br/Authors: Torrance, G. M. - Leader, D. P. - Gilbert, D. R. - Milner-White, E. J.br/Journal: J Mol Biolbr/br/We have surveyed the bridging of pairs of main chain carbonyl oxygens by cations or by delta(+) hydrogens within hydrogen bonding groups. A three to four residue motif, which we call the niche, with characteristic varphi,psi angles, is by far the commonest feature with this property. The niche accommodates atoms or groups that offer delta+ charges, including water molecules or metal ions, as well as amines, guanidines, and other NH(2) groups. Seven percent of all residues in an average soluble protein belong to a niche; another 7% have the niche conformation but no obvious bridging delta+ group. Fifty-five percent of niches occur either following a type 1 beta-turn or at the C-termini of alpha-helices, and niches turn out to be the most common C-terminal features of alpha-helices: 39% of alpha-helical C-termini are niches, whereas 34% are Schellman loops. 3(10) helices also frequently terminate in niches. Niches that bind K(+), Na(+) or Ca(2+) occur in some functional contexts: in the cyclic peptides valinomycin and antamanide; and in several enzymes that are allosterically activated by Na(+) or K(+) In the calcium pump, a niche is integrally involved in the ion transport.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%3D19038265title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a