Better than mental pills !

What's the best solution to become a shark communicator ? What's the only method which improve your faculty to communicate ? What's the best way to learn english ? The CELSA would have bought us a Nintendo DS ...

Thanks to new educational programs introduced for the Nintendo DS, everyone not just playing videogames but engaged in self-improvement. These programs reach new targets among gamers and nongamers, from teenagers to salarymen and housewives or students. The top-selling programs concentrate on cultural literacy, vocabulary building and math drills or ........... english learning !

In Japan, the phenomenon has transformed the Nintendo DS from a videogame player to a daily companion. One in seven Japanese owns a Nintendo DS ! The DS has dual screen, recognizes hand-writing ands respond to voice commands, making it easy for nongamers to control. In english training, a program has sold 2.4 million copies (half a million in Europe). The student performs language drills orally turning an otherwise monotonous chore into an entertaining effort to be understood by the machine.

So, Bob , if you want to take holidays, you know what you had to do ! :)

E-Culture is in constant evolution

My personnal answer to the question "E-culture is in constant evolution. But what are the most important recent developments for you personally and professionally? What will these recent innovations imply for future activities?"

Virtual thieves

Recent violences acts (in Finland last week, in Virginia Tech last year) relaunch the debate of the Internet control...

Talent 2.0

Becoming famous on the Internet is an emerging trend. What is the new model for emerging talent shaped by the Internet? What is the new definition of Fame?

Need some money ?

Prosper.com is a social network where money is your main argument. The website acts as a buffer between people who search a loan of less 25.000$ and the websurfers who want to lend.

The money-lender can offers a small amount as 50$. The loaner fixes an amount and a rate. He accepts the offers of the money-lender when the bids seems to be corrects. The service only exists in US for the moment.

Facebook as a gift

In october, Microsoft have bought a minimal part of Facebook. The invest  represents 240 millions of dollars for only 1,6% of the social network estimated to 15 billions of dollars.

Microsoft reinforces its partnership with Facebook, because the company sold the online advertisements which appeared on the Facebook pages in US. This partnership allows Microsoft a worldly visibility ; 60% of the Facebook users don't lived in US.

Google was an outsider during the negotiations. This partnership between Microsoft and Facebook relaunches the online advertising battle.

Mail me good

Internet and new technologies of communication change our way to write and communicate. To have a correct and simple use of this technologies, we invent new languages as SMS, or smileys. E-mail is a useful device to do business. You can join your partner every time from every where and he can do the same. One of the advantages of e-mail is that you can write exhaustive purposes. However, we had to respect few conventions.

• Present yourself with your real name in the title of the e-mail
• Write an explicit object, in your natal language
  
• You had to be rapid, synthetic & clear in you text.
  
• Please avoid long sentences, summarize and write pertinent things.
• Avoid acronyms or use just the most known. Use a correct punctuation.
  
• Compact your paragraphs. They had to be not too long and not too short. An average of 5 rows is good.
• Use a correct signature.

Google is a joke

A joke said " Soon, we had to search Google by using Google". The Californian company  improves everyday its services even if a large majority of websurfers only know the search engine. Google provides free webmaster tools or high tech advances. Currently, the firm enhances their mobile phones services.

Google grows every day or maybe we had to say "every week" because Google is specialized in detection of new companies and it buys out them. We could quote Youtube, Feedburner ou DoubleClick but the best example is the buyback of Pyra Labs, the company which conceived Blogger. The platform used for my own blog. Google have reach its monopolistic statue thanks to hundreds of these promising companies.

Even if Google have a monopolistic statue, I think that it's a rightful one. Their catch phrase sums up their vision "Don't be evil". However, I'm a quiet afraid by their respect of the privacy and personal data.