Aussie musician Chet Faker dominates Triple J’s Hottest 100
▻http://mashable.com/2015/01/26/chet-faker-triple-j
Australian indie artist Chet Faker has taken out Triple J’s annual Hottest 100 countdown.
The number one song is played every year on the evening of Australia Day, after a day-long countdown generally accompanied by beers, mates and a blow-up pool. Over 3,829 Hottest 100 parties are held in 80 countries around the world on Jan. 26, Australian time, according to Triple J.
China tightens grip on the Internet, but it didn’t block all the tools to get around censorship
▻http://mashable.com/2015/01/31/china-internet-censorship-vpn
In the last 10 days, China has been tightening its grip on the Internet, blocking several tools that allow users inside the country to escape and circumvent what’s popularly known as the “Great Firewall of China.”
Some popular Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, were the latest victims of the sophisticated Chinese Internet censorship system, with several individuals and small businesses reportedly unable to use them in the last few days to connect to censored websites, or to use other blocked services like Gmail, Flickr or Twitter.
The smallest victims: Syria’s children
Five-year-old Qamar likes jumping rope and watching Tom and Jerry cartoons. Her favorite color is red, and she loves horses. When it comes dinnertime, she will never turn down roasted chicken. And even though she isn’t even old enough to attend school, Qamar knows she wants to be a doctor when she grows up.
Après avoir tout verrouillé, il faut retrouver de l’interopérabilité entre le #mobile et le #web — ou : ça fait un moment que l’interconnexion n’est plus assurée.
#Apps Everywhere, but Not a Link
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/technology/tech-companies-look-to-break-down-walls-between-apps.html
Now, across Silicon Valley, companies from tiny start-ups to titans like Google and Facebook are trying to bring the same simplicity to smartphones by teaching apps to talk to one another.
(…) Facebook is trying to create an open standard of deep links [tu m’étonnes] to help apps connect to one another, so, for instance, someone could go from listening to a band in the Spotify app to finding information about the band’s live appearances in the Songkick app.
Il s’agit donc de réinventer l’#hyperlien, qui devient profond (#deeplink ?).
Apple’s App Store sales jumped 50% in 2014, likely hitting $15 billion
▻http://mashable.com/2015/01/08/apple-app-store-stats-2015
