Paiement mobile : Square est à la vie réelle ce que PayPal était à Ebay
Fini les tickets de caisse et les frais cachés. Mais encore mieux : l’outil est gratuit, et le prix de l’application ne devrait pas dépasser 1$. On est bien loin des transactions bancaires via SMS et autres technologies de transfert d’argent...

The End Of TV (As You Know It)
Even scarier for the networks is the growing competition from free content on the Internet. File-sharing Web sites like eDonkey, which don't charge anything, already account for half the volume of data -- TV shows, movies, and music -- sent via the...

Washington Post: Print-Heads vs. Web-Heads
This kind of us-vs-them animosity has likely been exacerbated at the Washington Post by the fact that until recently, the online operation was a completely separate entity from the paper, with its own management and executive and building — across the...

Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less
“There are generally two camps on this issue: One says how terrible all this is, and the other talks about all the things you can learn using social-networking tools,” said Pamela B. Rutledge, the director of the Media Psychology Research Center at...

Bloggers and (Personal) Brand-Building - eMarketer
Nearly six in 10 of all the bloggers surveyed said they were better known in their industry because of their blog, and one-quarter had used their blog as a resume or sent it to potential employers.Further, bloggers who post for a business reported even...

Twitter Lists: We are informed by those we follow. We are defined by those who follow us.
Readers are defined and informed by the diversity of the information sources that they consume. In a user-created Web, we are defined by those who choose to follow us, including any lists or tags that they associate with our names

A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter
Here are a handful of the many reasons a blog gives you more control and more power: * With a blog, you control the agenda, whether you’re communicating on behalf of a company, or for personal reasons. * Your blog can cater to a sub-group of...

Twitter’s Future According to Loic Le Meur
“Google will have its own Twitter and won’t acquire Twitter”. This means traditional media publishers will have to contend with two (three if you count Facebook) major worldwide competitors (or coopetitors depending how you see the world).

Les listes Twitter vont-elles tasser l'influence ?
Cependant, à partir d’aujourd’hui, tout va changer. Pourquoi ? Justement grâce à ces fameuses listes Twitter, disponibles sur le réseau social depuis quelques dizaines d’heures. Car il va sans dire que ces listes sont actuellement sur toutes...

J’ai rencontré la social media editor du New York Times
Les journalistes peuvent venir me voir quand ils ont des problèmes ou des questions concernant les médias sociaux, mais mon job ce n’est pas de faire la police. On s’attend à ce que les journalistes suivent la charte du New York Times, peu importe...

Les nouvelles listes sur Twitter : ce que ça change - technotes
Les listes créées par les membres de Twitter seront publiques par défaut, même s'il sera possible de les rendre privées au cas par cas. Si un utilisateur crée une liste "Les politiques sur Twitter" et la partage, cela signifie que...