iPad vs Kindle to be tight battle /via @kindle8 Kontest : Création de jeux-concours pour web et mobile - Appel à Test Shows: iPhone Touchscreen Still the Best If the future is all about touchscreen interfaces, then performance of the screen in registering where it's been touched is pretty important. International design firm Moto ran a robotic finger test on 6 leading touchscreen smart phones to see how well they registered a robot's loving touch. Some of the phones did remarkably poorly, like the BlackBerry Storm and the Motorola Droid. The iPhone, Google Nexus One and HTC Droid Eris all did quite well. Check out the video below to see the tests and marvel at the apparent differences between touchscreens and their performances. Robot Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo. As Sadat Karim writes on Neowin, "Hope is not lost though, as Moto Labs concludes that they do expect these problems to be remedied in the future as touchscreens mature and gain further traction in the industry. To see touchscreen hardware nerds duke it out over the test, check out the Moto Labs blog.
10 problèmes SEO et 18 outils pour les résoudre Tous les jours, les spécialistes du seo sont amenés à résoudre des problèmes de référencement des sites web qu’ils gèrent. Pour les aider dans leurs taches, certains outils existent et permettent de faire des analyses fondées et de prendre des décisions pertinentes quant aux actions seo qu’il faut mettre en place pour améliorer le positionnement des sites et espérer une augmentation du trafic issu des moteurs de recherche. Je vous propose donc de lister certaines missions que les référenceurs sont amenés à effectuer et certains outils sur le web qui permettent de nous aider dans ces taches. Voici le sommaire des points abordés: #1. 1. Le problème de génération de sitemap XML: Quand votre site contient plusieurs milliers de pages, générer un fichier sitemap XML à soumettre au moteurs de recherche devient problématique et le faire à la main très chronophage. Outils disponibles pour résoudre le problème de la génération de sitemap XML : GsiteCrawler, Xenu, Google Sitemap Generator 2. 3. 4. 5.
iPad vs Kindle to be tight battle News In a new survey on e-reader awareness and purchase intent Apple's iPad media tablet has inched ahead of Amazon's Kindle. iPad users, however, see the device as more than just an e-book reader - with strong demand for its web-browsing, email and iPod music and video capabilities. In the comScore survey consumers were asked several questions regarding their awareness of various e-book readers and tablet devices and their past purchase behaviour or intent to purchase these devices. The iPad rated highest in terms of consumers seriously considering purchase over the next three months at 15 percent of internet users, with the Kindle at 14 percent. The results showed very high awareness of the iPad out of the gate, with an aided awareness of 65 percent, exactly the same as that of the Amazon Kindle e-reader. The Amazon Kindle rated highest in terms of current device ownership at 6 percent of all Internet users, followed by Sony Reader at 4 percent. NEXT: Apple iPad usage intentions
WikiMatrix - Compare them all Twitter is Winning Its Fight Against Spammers Not too long ago, spam on Twitter was quickly becoming a serious issue that made searching for any popular topic on the service's own search engine almost pointless. Spammers would regularly hijack popular terms by polluting the search results with nonsensical tweets that included the popular keyword and a link to a spam site. Since Twitter started implementing better spam controls last year, however, the number of spam messages on the service has gone down dramatically. According to the latest data, the percentage of spam tweets per day is now down to under 1%. According Twitter's chief scientist Abdur Chowdhury, the company's Trust and Safety team is "constantly battling against spam to improve the Twitter experience and we're happy to report that it's working." Report a Spammer digg
5 générateurs de mots clés Google On parle pas mal de spams, de liens, de dofollow, de blogs. Mais finalement, je n’ai pas souvent abordé la recherche de mots clés Google. Du coup, j’ai décidé de vous filer l’ensemble des outils Google, outil en ligne, script que j’utilise comme générateur pour la recherche de mes mots clés lorsque je fais du référencement. Adword Keyword Tool External C’est l’outil que j’ai le plus utilisé jusqu’à présent. La roue magique Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, il s’agit ni plus ni moins d’un outil Google que vous êtes en mesure de trouver en cliquant sur « Plus » à gauche lorsque vous êtes sur Google. Recherches associées Comme la roue magique, les recherches associées sont une possibilité donnée par Google. Le générateur Keyword Eye Keyword Eye est un outil en ligne qui n’appartient pas à Google (miracle). Cet outil est vraiment très bon, je vous le conseille vivement. Script de longue traine Ca, c’est le gros générateur que je teste en ce moment pour un de mes sites. Crédit photo
F1 - Lewis Hamilton apologises after car impounded by police Lewis Hamilton has apologised after his Mercedes road car was impounded by Melbourne police on Thursday evening. The 25-year-old, who set the fastest time in Friday's Australian Grand Prix practice, is expected to be charged with improper use of a vehicle. McLaren's 2008 Formula 1 world champion admitted: "I was driving in an over-exuberant manner and, as a result, was stopped by the police. "What I did was silly, and I want to apologise for it." The news broke hours after Hamilton recorded the quickest time in Friday's second practice session. His time of one minute, 26.801 seconds, was 0.25 seconds quicker than McLaren team-mate and current world champion Jenson Button. Police constable Scott Woodford said Hamilton's rear wheels were skidding as he accelerated out of Albert Park, where Sunday's race is being staged. "Given that Melbourne's on the world stage with a lot of interstate and international visitors, we would expect drivers to observe road rules," he said.
Next steps for our experimental fiber network Since we announced our plans to build experimental, ultra high-speed broadband networks, the response from communities and individuals has been tremendous and creative. With just a few hours left before our submission deadline, we've received more than 600 community responses to our request for information (RFI), and more than 190,000 responses from individuals (we'll post an update with the final numbers later tonight). We've seen citiesrenamethemselves, greatYouTubevideos, publicrallies and hundreds of grassroots Facebook groups come to life, all with the goal of bringing ultra high-speed broadband to their communities. We're thrilled to see this kind of excitement, and we want to humbly thank each and every community and individual for taking the time to participate. So what's next? Of course, we're not going to be able to build in every interested community — our plan is to reach a total of at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people with this experiment.
A new way to think about RACI | A Girl's Guide to Project Management Do you use the RACI model to help with stakeholder management? RACI is a way of categorising stakeholders to help define their roles and responsibilities, and it is also useful for communications plans. The most common way to see RACI used is in tabular form – with the letters across the top and the list of stakeholders down the side. The letters across the top stand for: Responsible: these people have responsibility for certain tasksAccountable: this is the person accountable for the job in handConsulted: these people would like to know about the task and we would seek their opinionsInformed: this group get one-way communication to keep them up-to-date with progress and other messages A tabular format is fine for documenting the RACI profile of your stakeholders. There is only one person accountable for the task or project, and they are at the top.
Security in the computing cloud a top concern Cloud computing, the role of government in securing cyberspace and a growing concern over the potential for cyber-warfare dominated conversations at this year's RSA conference - one of the largest and most important gatherings of the Internet security industry, held this week in San Francisco. Advocates of cloud computing - a term that refers to storing and sharing an organization's information online - say it holds the promise of significantly lowering the costs of equipment maintenance and operation while improving mass deployment of software and updates. "Cloud is changing security as we know it. We have the opportunity to put security into the fabric of computing," said Philippe Courtot, chief executive officer of on-demand security provider Qualys. But the idea of widely adopting and implementing these information management techniques has been met with different levels of caution. In one panel, Scott Borg, director and chief economist of the nonprofit U.S.
China Behind Yesterday's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Outage | Technomix While the World is pondering the complex final moves in the cultural conflict between Google and China's censors, the story has has taken a completely bizarre twist: For some reason, China's censorship firewall went briefly world-wide. This seems to be an event that you'd dismiss as part of the twisty background plot in a James Bond movie, but it did happen: During the week, sysadmins around the World noticed that traffic that should have been happily flowing to sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook was instead being diverted to servers inside China, where it fell subject to the country's tough Great Firewall censorship regime. The result was that certain users around the globe got the same "service not available messages" that the Chinese would get, or were diverted to Chinese alternatives. Think that's impossible, that China's green dam couldn't possibly grow outside China's borders and fence off other parts of the free-thinking, free-wheeling Internet World? [Via CNET]