• Should You Use Smartwatches to Track Your Employees’ Well-Being ? | Inc.com
    https://www.inc.com/rebecca-barker/should-you-use-smartwatches-to-track-your-employees-wellbeing.html

    A notable 34 percent of the 14,000 respondents to Deloitte’s 2024 Global Human Capital Trends Report said that their companies currently use wearables to track their activity and better gauge their physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing, predicting that usage would increase to 66 percent by 2027. Neurotechnology, which uses electronics to read brain activity and can contextualize employee behavior and interactions, is anticipated by respondents to increase in use from 3 percent to a whopping 31 percent. Respondents also predicted large jumps in XR (extended reality) headsets and location-tracking technology.

    Je vous laisse, j’ai une commande de smartwatchs à passer... C’est ça ou je loupe une nouvelle fois le coche... après la blockchain, la VR et l’IA, promis, j’arrête de déconner, je suis le mouvement cette fois.

    • reste plus qu’à envoyer ces flux de données intimes dans l’estomac d’une IA de LWBM et on pourra enfin se débarrasser de tous ces coûts salariaux excessifs et des résidus de psychologues du travail.

    • Apparemment pas le seul à trouver cela intense mais dérangeant.
      https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/i-cant-stop-thinking-about-how-awkward-apples-mother-nature-ad-was-i-finally-fi

      The critics that accuse Apple of greenwashing have an argument. There are certainly more things that Apple could do, like make iPhones more repairable, or even upgradable. If you could upgrade your iPhone, you wouldn’t throw it away. What’s more, Apple is relying heavily on what it calls “high-quality carbon credits” to offset what it can’t eliminate.

      “In 2020 you promised to bring Apple’s entire carbon footprint to zero by 2030,” Mother Nature says. “This is my third corporate responsibility gig today. So, who wants to disappoint me first?”

      Apple acknowledges that it’s impossible to get to its goal entirely by reducing the amount of carbon in its products directly. It’s never going to get there without “offsets.” The problem is that everyone knows that buying carbon credits to offset your footprint is mostly just marketing. It’s pretending like you’re doing something without having to actually make the hard product design decisions.

  • How Emotion Tracking Startups Lightwave and Affectiva Are Turning Mind-Reading Into a Reality
    https://www.inc.com/magazine/201607/tom-foster/lightwave-monitor-customer-emotions.html

    These entrepreneurs are racing to claim a new tech frontier : your emotions. Deep in the bowels of Houston’s 72,000-seat NRG Stadium, in a curtained-off makeshift room near the court where the Villanova Wildcats and the University of North Carolina Tarheels are playing for the NCAA basketball championship, a small team of engineers and data scientists from a company called Lightwave huddles over laptops watching a stream of real-time data. But the engineers aren’t looking at shooting (...)

    #émotions #Affectiva #algorithme #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance

  • Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations. That’s Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem
    https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/clubhouse-is-recording-your-conversations-thats-not-even-its-worst-privacy-prob

    The popular new social media platform is scooping up more data than you might think. Clubhouse was sort of perfectly made for the pandemic. People aren’t going out, and they’re desperately searching for social connections and entertainment. The app provides both in a way, while also capitalizing on the draw of celebrity influencers on the platform. It’s also built on one of the most effective strategies for generating buzz and excitement—scarcity. In order to join Clubhouse, you have to have (...)

    #consentement #données #écoutes #microtargeting #profiling #SocialNetwork #Clubhouse_

  • Why Banjo Is the Most Important Social Media Company You’ve Never Heard Of
    https://www.inc.com/magazine/201504/will-bourne/banjo-the-gods-eye-view.html

    After Inc. published this story in 2015, new outside reporting emerged in 2020 indicating that, as a juvenile, Damien Patton was affiliated with a hate group and pleaded guilty to a drive-by shooting at a synagogue. In response, Patton has said, "I did terrible things and said despicable and hateful things, including to my own Jewish mother, that today I find indefensibly wrong, and feel extreme remorse for. I have spent most of my adult lifetime working to make amends for this shameful (...)

    #Banjo #algorithme #CCTV #géolocalisation #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #extrême-droite #panopticon #SocialNetwork #surveillance #smartphone (...)

    ##KKK

  • How Couchsurfing became the Friendster of the sharing economy – Gigaom
    https://gigaom.com/2015/01/10/how-couchsurfing-became-the-friendster-of-the-sharing-economy

    Voilà un article intelligent avec plein de commentaires utiles.

    Before there was Uber, Lyft, or Airbnb, there was Couchsurfing. For a certain sect of millennials — say, those entering college between 2005 and 2011 — Couchsurfing was transformative. Members all over the globe offered up their couches for free to these cash-strapped travelers.

    It was the original sharing economy, except there was a lot more “sharing” in Couchsurfing’s version than there was “economy.” And that was the problem.

    Without a way to properly support itself, the application staggered under the burden of its popularity. It nearly went out of business because of technical problems, and its community struggled to maintain its values with the flood of new users. Raising venture funding just exacerbated the problem, triggering power struggles between long time volunteers and new leadership.

    Couchsurfing learned the hard way that “sharing” doesn’t scale easily. Can an organization founded on cooperation sustain itself in a capitalist world?

    Meet and Stay with Locals All Over the World | Couchsurfing
    https://www.couchsurfing.com

    Stay with Locals and Meet Travelers
    Share Authentic Travel Experiences

    Posts Tagged ‘couchsurfers’ |
    https://couchsurfing.tumblr.com/tagged/couchsurfers

    Couch Stories is a collection of amazing and inspiring stories we find right here in the Couchsurfing community.

    Privacy Policy | Couchsurfing
    https://www.couchsurfing.com/about/privacy-policy

    Couchsurfing.com Privacy Policy

    Effective Date: May 25, 2018

    Datenschützer kritisiert neue Nutzungsbedingungen von CouchSurfing.org | heise online
    https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Datenschuetzer-kritisiert-neue-Nutzungsbedingungen-von-CouchSurfing-org-170683

    Datenschützer kritisiert neue Nutzungsbedingungen von CouchSurfing.org

    Der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar hat nach zahlreichen Beschwerden deutscher Reisender die zuständige US-Aufsichtsbehörde auf Missstände bei den Geschäftsbedingungen der Bettenbörse hingewiesen.
    13.09.2012 12:10 Uhr

    Ask the CEO: Revenue at Couchsurfing – Couchsurfing Blog
    https://blog.couchsurfing.com/ask-the-ceo-revenue-at-couchsurfing

    January 19, 2015
    Couchsurfing

    When people ask me how Couchsurfing will make money, my answer is pretty simple: we’ll experiment with well-understood monetization models to see what works best for the community and the company. Experimenting means we’ll test, iterate and learn.

    Couchsurfing’s revenue, at present, comes from its Verification service. Members have been asking for a long time about our plans for monetization. The answer wasn’t very illuminating but it was the truth: until now, we hadn’t been particularly focused on monetization.

    Assistance for essential aservices during the COVID-19 crisis
    https://onfido.com/landing/covid-19

    If you are not-for-profit or charity in healthcare, home service, education or others working directly on an effort to provide relief from the COVID-19 outbreak, we want to discuss how we can help. Where applicable, we’re offering our fully automated document and selfie service for no cost for the next six months

    CouchSurfing - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchSurfing#Criticism_from_members_of_the_conversion_to_a_for-profit_

    The conversion to a for-profit corporation was objected to by many members.[26][37][38] Founder Casey Fenton said he received 1,500 emails in the days after announcing the conversion.[1] Even though the founders did not receive any cash from the financing,[39] members were opposed to the founders having a valuable ownership interest in an organization that was financed by donations and built using volunteer work.[26][34] The company spent more than $10,000 on a public relations firm to educate its directors on how to respond to the press about the conversion to a for-profit entity. A 3-page letter was sent to over 1,000 volunteers.[

    The Business Model of Couchsurfing.org by Gerhard Pilz - issuu
    https://issuu.com/gergi084/docs/business-model_couchsurfing

    Couchsurfing Dilemma: Going for Profit | Inc.com
    https://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/issie-lapowsky/couchsurfing-new-profit-model.html

    The website’s goal was to connect people, not make money. How would user react to a new, for-profit business model?

    Les autres ...

    (Fast) Gratis Reisen: Amazon.de: Anja Kühner, Jean-Louis Pagès: Bücher
    https://www.amazon.de/Fast-Gratis-Reisen-Anja-K%C3%BChner/dp/393883353X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420713940&sr=8-1&keywords=anja+k%C3%BChner

    About BeWelcome: Impressum
    https://www.bewelcome.org/impressum

    BeWelcome is a project and thus the property of BeVolunteer, a non-profit organisation ruled according to the French law of July 1, 1901 and the decree of August 16, 1901. BeVolunteer is registered at the Préfecture de Rennes under RNA number W353003546.

    Address:
    BeVolunteer
    c/o Jean-Yves Hegron
    19 rue de Paris
    35500 Vitre
    France

    E-mail: info@bevolunteer.org

    Phone: +49 211 26130480

    Home | Warmshowers.org
    https://www.warmshowers.org

    7 Aug 2019 Warmshowers 2018 Annual Report The Warmshowers 2018 Annual Report is available now. Click here for the PDF download.

    Free Accommodation world wide through Hospitality Exchange - Hospitality Club
    http://www.hospitalityclub.org

    What is the Hospitality Club?

    Our aim is to bring people together - hosts and guests, travelers and locals. Thousands of Hospitality Club members around the world help each other when they are traveling - be it with a roof for the night or a guided tour through town. Joining is free, takes just a minute and everyone is welcome. Members can look at each other’s profiles, send messages and post comments about their experience on the website.

    The club is supported by volunteers who believe in one idea: by bringing travelers in touch with people in the place they visit, and by giving “locals” a chance to meet people from other cultures we can increase intercultural understanding and strengthen the peace on our planet.

    GlobalFreeloaders.com / The Worldwide Free Accommodation Network
    http://globalfreeloaders.com

    GlobalFreeloaders.com is an online community, bringing people together to offer you free accommodation all over the world. Save money and make new friends whilst seeing the world from a local’s perspective!

    #voyage #sharing_economy

  • KLM Has a Surprising Request for Passengers: Don’t Fly

    It sounds noble, but what’s the real motive?

    If your company is in business to make money (as pretty much all companies are), how likely are you to launch a huge marketing campaign begging people not to use your product? Probably not very likely. Unless you’re #KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, in which case you’ve already done it.

    That’s right. KLM, the Netherlands’ national airline, just launched a campaign called “#Fly_Responsibly” in which it makes a surprising request of its customers: Fly less. “Do you always have to meet face-to-face?” the promotional video asks. “Could you take the train instead?”

    Wait, what? An airline is asking its passengers not to fly? Yes. Because, as KLM explains in an accompanying statement, air travel accounts for 2 to 3 percent of manmade CO2 emissions worldwide and that number is growing, as more people in more countries are climbing out of poverty and hankering to see the world. The 100-year-old airline says it’s been doing its part. In an accompanying statement, KLM says it has been replacing its fleet with more fuel-efficient planes, using sustainable fuel, and has even created a sustainable fuel plant in the Netherlands. “We work hard to get things right, but all parties involved need to join forces to create a sustainable future.”

    Some critics say this amounts to nothing more than “greenwashing.” After all, the airline still offers special deals and its website invites people to “Book a flight with KLM and visit the most incredible destinations around the world.” And indeed, in the accompanying statement, the airline explains that it won’t stop promoting air travel—after all it wants to stay in business “for our customers and for our 33,000 employees.”
    No carbon tax, please.

    Interestingly, the airline also notes in its statement that it’s opposed to a national carbon tax in the Netherlands since, it claims, passengers would simply drive to Germany or Belgium and fly from there instead. Therefore, KLM says, a carbon tax on aviation should only be imposed if it can be imposed globally—which is pretty disingenuous, because of course that’ll never happen. It also claims that a tax that isn’t invested back into the aviation industry to make it more sustainable “won’t do anything to combat climate change.” This, again, is untrue because the main point of a carbon tax is to make polluting more expensive, which causes people and companies to do less of it.

    All this talk about a carbon tax can give you a big clue as to KLM’s true motivation here. A carbon tax or cap-and-trade law seems like a non-starter in the U.S.—even in the very blue state of Washington, one was roundly defeated last election. But in Europe, the idea is very much alive. France’s huge “yellow vest” demonstrations began as opposition to a planned carbon tax that working people felt they couldn’t afford. (It was withdrawn.) But in the Netherlands, a carbon tax which would increase the price of airline tickets among many other things is in the works. My guess is that KLM hopes that by getting out ahead on this issue, it can push the government toward letting companies take voluntary action rather than writing new laws.

    KLM also says that as part of its sustainability effort it’s sharing information about sustainability with other airlines, beginning in September with a webinar with its sustainable fuel supplier, SkyNRG. Which sounds good, but since SkyNRG is in the business of selling its fuel, the webinar may amount to a big sales pitch. Perhaps more useful, though, KLM says it’s exploring connections with trains. That’s a great idea, because for a lot of passengers, transferring to a train rather than a connecting flight to go a relatively short distance will be appealing, and environmentalists believe short airplane trips in particular can and should be replaced with other forms of transportation. KLM has also been inviting passengers to pay a small extra fee that the airline will use to offset their flight and make their travel carbon neutral. It will share that system with other airlines as well.

    KLM’s motivations may not be as pure as it claims but the fact remains that the airline is taking some positive steps toward reducing its own environmental impact. For that, we should all applaud. And then do what the airline suggested and fly a little bit less.

    https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/klm-fly-responsibly-sustainability-environment-carbon-tax.html
    #fly_shaming #vol #avions #transport_aérien #honte #honte_de_voler #greenwashing #green_washing #taxe_carbone

    –---------

    KLM Fly Responsibly
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4htp2xxhto&feature=youtu.be

    ping @reka

  • Harvard Just Discovered that PowerPoint is Worse Than Useless | Inc.com
    https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/harvard-just-discovered-that-powerpoint-is-worse-than-useless.html

    Intuitively, we all know that PowerPoint is a horrible time-suck. (Admit it: don’t you groan inside when the first slide pops up?) And anecdotally, the world’s top entrepreneurs (like Jeff Bezos, Jack Dorsey and Mark Cuban) avoid it like the proverbial plague.

    At least two peer-reviewed studies buttress the anecdotes.

    A study conducted at the University of New South Wales in 2007 by John Sweller (the psychologist who invented Cognitive Load Theory) found that showing audiences the same words that are being spoken reduces, rather than increases, audience comprehension.

    In other words, when you throw up bullet points and then run through them, you’re guaranteeing that whatever you say will be quickly forgotten. Not because you’re bloody boring, but because people can’t read and listen at the same time.

    The entire concept of PowerPoint is apparently misbegotten, according to a recent Harvard study cited in Forbes, which found that

    “PowerPoint was rated (by online audiences) as no better than verbal presentations with no visual aids. (Ouch.)”

    Consider that for a second. You audience will be just as happy with your presentation if you do it without your slides. Which means the time you spent building the deck was basically wasted.

    #Powerpoint #Attention

    • Pour mémoire :

      Edward Tufte : Books - Essay : The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint

      https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

      Le fichier pdf téléchargeable ici :

      https://www.dropbox.com/s/y40a3794b1r7k1l/carto%20art%20tufte%20cognitive%20style%20powerpoint.pdf?dl=0

      The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within
      In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall. For many years, overhead projectors lit up transparencies, and slide projectors showed high-resolution 35mm slides. Now “slideware” computer programs for presentations are nearly everywhere. Early in the 21st century, several hundred million copies of Microsoft PowerPoint were turning out trillions of slides each year.

      Alas, slideware often reduces the analytical quality of presentations. In particular, the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint? And how can we improve our presentations?

      Ainsi que

      Powerpoint aux chiottes !

      https://seenthis.net/messages/637600

  • This Email From Elon Musk to Tesla Employees Describes What Great Communication Looks Like
    https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/this-email-from-elon-musk-to-tesla-employees-descr.html

    “Anyone at Tesla can and should email/talk to anyone else according to what they think is the fastest way to solve a problem for the benefit of the whole company. You can talk to your manager’s manager without his permission, you can talk directly to a VP in another dept, you can talk to me, you can talk to anyone without anyone else’s permission.”

    #Tesla_management_ElonMusk_communication_corporate

  • Inside ProtectWise, the Futuristic Startup That Ran Cybersecurity for the Super Bowl | Inc.com
    https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/protectwise-futuristic-cybersecurity-startup.html

    “Most cybersecurity systems have the same interface as the cable modem in your house,” he says. “That needed to change.”

    ProtectWise, which Chasin co-founded in 2014 in Denver with former McAfee exec Gene Stevens, completely reimagines the way cybersecurity software looks. Instead of staring at pie charts and seemingly infinite strings of characters, you’re presented with something much more visual: a three-dimensional cityscape. Your company’s entire network is laid out in front of you, and you can easily detect and observe abnormal behavior in real time—or rewind to see when and how an attack occurred.

    To create the company’s futuristic interface, Chasin recruited Jake Sargeant, a Hollywood designer who has worked on visual effects for CGI-intensive films like Tron: Legacy and Terminator Salvation.

    #interface #visualisation #cybersécurité aussi (mais ça je m’en fous un peu)

    Une passerelle #Hollywood > #Silicon_Valley dans le sens inverse