Forterra Systems today announced the availability of RemoteOperations 3D Internet collaboration solution, helping organizations to continue normal operations in the event they are directly affected by the H1N1 flu outbreak.
Le nucléaire, une énergie propre ? "Renouvelable", même selon AREVA... Le top du top. Sauf qu'aujourd'hui, on découvre au détour d'un reportage d'Arte que 100 000 tonnes de déchets radioactifs ont été rejetés dans le milieu naturel. Et ça continue. On découvre aussi qu'à Cadarache, le CEA et Areva ne savent pas vraiment où passent leurs déchets et... qu'ils mentent aux autorités de sûreté nucléaire !
Why the value of still images is collapsing It’s that old supply-and-demand thing. The supply of digital images is way, way up. At the same time, advertising in magazines and newspapers is sinking. If you want to continue earning a living at something you already do, it’s helpful if your trade is difficult to do and expensive to get started. Photography during the film-era was this way. Every time I pushed the shutter-button a couple of bucks flew out the window. Now the cost of getting into the pro photography game is virtually nothing (aside from the cost of the camera, the computer, the software, the training… still a relatively low investment for what you’re able to accomplish). I’m grateful that HDSLR cinematography is expensive and problematic right now. The Trib Is Dead. Long Live The Trib. For several generations, ads in magazines and newspapers were the leading consumer of commercial stills. Sorry Charlie, those days are gone. Today advertisers are increasingly moving their efforts over to web-based campaigns. It’s not personal. It’s demographics. OK. So that means that it is personal. The web, with it’s ability to provide instantaneous feedback to advertisers enables those spending the ad bucks to target their message exactly where it needs to be within minutes. For an ad placed in the wrong magazine, the response time is measured in weeks or months. Print advertising is plummeting (stats here). It’s not the economy, stupid. It’s the medium. Check out MagazineDeathPool if you’re not already a regular reader. Now is not be the time to launch a career as a magazine shooter.
L’édition n’a pas attendu Internet pour passer au numérique. Cependant, la fameuse “convergence numérique”, qui a fait les beaux jours de la bulle Internet dont Vivendi Universal fut l’incarnation française, continue à être dans les esprits.Quels types de bonnes pratiques faut-il mettre en œuvre? Existe-t-il un équivalent d’Opquast pour l’édition électronique? Quels environnements technologiques pour quels standards ouverts et libres ?
Ecoshack began in 2003 as a Joshua Tree-based experimental design lab, a place where architects, designers, artists and anyone else with a passion for change could design, build and hang out. Experiments in off-the-grid design, culture and lifestyle continue on the site today. Ecoshack is also an LA-based design studio inspired by the ad hoc, indigenous and archetypal typologies typically found at the fringes of society.
Ecoshack was founded by designer/entrepreneur Stephanie Smith
Je me suis posé souvent la question d'aller là bas. Je m'interroge souvent sur la fascination qu'ont les photographes américains pour ces contrées aux senteurs d'orient. Ce besoin qu'ils éprouvent d'aller chercher, loin de chez eux, la poussière, les larmes et l'horreur d'un quotidien qu'on ne présente plus. Eh bien je continue de me dire qu'en ce domaine, c'est le temps qui donne une profondeur au sujet. Et le temps se donne à ceux qui vivent épaules contre épaules avec ceux qui souffrent. C'est donc aux équipes de production Israéliennes et Palestinienne en premier que je pense, car elles ont su démontrer que le récit racontais les même souffrances, les mêmes joies, la même humanité.
Web 2.0 technologies offer librarians a great opportunity to enhance the authority of resources that students use on a daily basis, and to push their knowledge and expertise beyond the traditional boundaries of the library. We now consider Wikipedia an essential tool for getting our digital collections out to our users at the point of their information need. We view this as a very low cost way to enhance access to our collections, as well as an effective way to participate in the creation of resources that are used by millions around the world. We will continue to explore how we can take advantage of the opportunities that Web 2.0 technologies offer us when marketing our digital and physical collections.
via bibliobs.nouvelobs.com ...
CloudMade helps you make the most of map data. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. Our aim is to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs.
La petite voiture au look sympathique et au charisme légendaire est désormais un monument de l’automobile via fr.euronews.net ...
Si vous utilisez Google Maps pour Mobile avec le GPS activé sur votre téléphone, vous pouvez faire ceci. Lorsque vous activez le GPS dans Google Maps, votre téléphone envoie des données anonymes aux serveurs de Google décrivant votre vitesse de déplacement. En combinant votre vitesse avec la vitesse des autres téléphones sur la route, parmi les milliers de téléphones en déplacement dans une ville à un instant donné, nous pouvons établir une image plutôt précise des conditions du trafic routier. Nous combinons ces données en continue et vous les renvoyons gratuitement via le calque Trafic de Google Maps. Aucun effort requis de votre part — activez simplement Google Maps pour mobile avant de démarrer votre voiture — et plus la participation est forte, plus les résultats sont fiables.
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What makes Bintro special is its use of advanced semantic technology for the purpose of matchmaking. There are no multiple choice questions. There are no numbered scales. All you need to do is describe yourself and your needs and Bintro will take care of the rest. All the words and phrases you use are analyzed to an extremely high level on the basis of similarity and usage. This process is completed within seconds and matches are presented to you as they become available. After this, Bintro will continue to find more matches for you every minute of every day.
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On taking over the world, and other things…
It’s been a month of milestones for Tumblr, and we thought it would be a good time to stop and say: Thank you to everyone for making this possible.
We can still remember watching your new posts come in one-by-one the day we launched. Now we’re waiting for five new servers to arrive to help us handle the 330 million (that’s 0.3 billion!!) hits and 20 million new posts we’re projecting for August.
More than anything, you continue to blow us away with the amazing things you do with Tumblr.
As our team gets bigger (we’re up to 9 people!), we promise we’re as committed as ever to making Tumblr the greatest place for everyone in the world to share the stuff they love and create.
We love you
A GPS tracker, complete with visual display of your recent waypoints, that would continue to work if your phone reset, powered off, or lost network connectivity half way through your hike. Build it fast, simple – and entirely web-based without any native code.
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A major global documentary project for Burma's political prisoners in association with Assistance Association for Political Prisoner's Burma (www.aappb.org)
Though imprisoned they are everywhere among us. Two thousand, one hundred and fifty nine political prisoners are currently incarcerated in the most horrendous of prison conditions in Burma’s notorious jails. Since the 1988 popular democracy movement inside Burma was crushed in a ruthless crackdown by the military regime, thousands of people have been arrested, tortured and given long prison sentences for their beliefs and political activities. Moreover, even after political prisoners are released, they continue to face persecution. The military uses all available means to intimidate, harass and isolate former political prisoners in order to prevent them from conducting political activities.
CloudMade helps you make the most of map data. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. Our aim is to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs. Our tools and APIs allow developers to create rich interactive experiences on the web and mobile.
So I’ve tended to be plain accepting that HTML 5 will be whatever it is, and if its bad its bad because of Hickson and a certain crowd. I have no power to affect the obsessive thoughts of certain individuals one way or the other. I’m also probably representative of quite a large group of the silent disenchanted who will continue to code in HTML 4 or XHTML 1 well into the future and fight on building websites in whatever tag soup monstrosity we are burdened with on the day.
HTML 5 est "community driven", ce qui concrètement signifie que seuls ceux qui ont la capacité de travailler à plein temps dessus ont une petite chance de faire entendre une voix différente de la WTF. Mais de toute façon, vu comme c'est parti, HTML 5 finira en browser-sniffing (ou "feature detection" comme on dit aujourd'hui), ce qui en fait déjà un échec immense.
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En affichant le slogan "La chaîne du documentaire", Arte revendique son combat pour le genre. En 2009, 27 millions d’euros seront investis dans le documentaire (dont 24 millions pour la production). Le genre représente 42 % de la grille, 16 cases et 66 heures de programmes par semaine. Et la chaîne est quasi la seule (avec France5, depuis peu) à disposer d’un "guichet" spécifique pour le global media (1 million d’euros par an). Après "Twenty Show" et "Gaza-Sderot", "Cuba Miami : le bon moment ?" réunira les jeunes générations à Miami et Cuba, d’abord sur le Web, puis à l’antenne.
This morning we became aware of a Twitter campaign run from the website http://fixoutlook.org. This campaign is intended to provide Microsoft with feedback about our decision to continue to use Microsoft Word for composing and displaying e-mail in the upcoming release of Microsoft Outlook 2010. The Email Standards Project, which developed the website that promotes the current Twitter campaign, is backed by the maker of “email marketing campaign” software.