Le mois d’octobre est meurtrier : John McCarthy, créateur de #Lisp (et inventeur du terme « Intelligence Artificielle ») vient de mourir.
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/creator-of-lisp-john-mccarthy-dead-at-84
►http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/john-mccarthy-father-of-ai-and-lisp-dies-at-84
►http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/10/jmc-rip
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/25/john-mccarthy
As far back as the mid-60s, chess was called the “Drosophila of artificial intelligence” — a reference to the fruit flies biologists used to uncover the secrets of genetics — and McCarthy believed his successors in AI research had taken the analogy too far.
“Computer chess has developed much as genetics might have if the geneticists had concentrated their efforts starting in 1910 on breeding racing Drosophila,” McCarthy wrote following Deep Blue’s win. “We would have some science, but mainly we would have very fast fruit flies.”
Sur son site personnel, il publie ses mémoires d’une affaire de tentative de censure des newsgroups à Stanford. Ces barbus de l’informatique sont vraiment sympathiques.
THE REC.HUMOR.FUNNY CENSORSHIP AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY (23-Oct-2002)
►http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/rhf.html
10. President Donald Kennedy of Stanford refers issue to Academic Senate. When I visit him to complain, he suggests that the Steering Committee of the Senate will refer the matter to a committee for a recommendation, e.g. the Committee on Research. I don’t think newsgroups were a matter of research and don’t like the fact that Street is an ex-officio member of that committee. It occurred to me that the Committee on Libraries would be more appropriate, since the traditions of freedom of speech and press apply as much to electronic media as to print media.
Google Tests One-Click “Add To Circles” Button In Search Results | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/21/google-tests-one-click-add-to-circles-button-in-search-results
Google has been fiddling with the integration of Google+ into search results for weeks. It began with the integration of public Google+ postings into search results, and later grew to include blogger/author headshots (complete with links to their Plus profiles) next to relevant items.
The Future Of Books : A Dystopian Timeline | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/27/the-future-of-books-a-dystopian-timeline
As we well know, ebook sales are now outpacing hardback sales and publishers are now crowing ebook numbers alongside their traditional in-store sales numbers. Soon those in-store sales numbers will dwindle and disappear simply because there will be no stores – heavy readers, the folks who buy genre fiction by the basket-full will be happy to head over to Nooks and Kindles, especially when they drop below $99 (as they will this year).
Donc pour lui la messe est dite.
#ebook
Le fondateur de TechCrunch n’a pas peur des conflits d’intérêt :
Michael Arrington’s Audacious Venture
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/business/media/michael-arringtons-audacious-venture.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
When Michael Arrington, the editor of the popular Web site TechCrunch, told his bosses at AOL that he was forming a venture capital company to finance some of the technology start-ups that his site wrote about, they did not fire him or ask for his resignation. Instead, last week, they invested about $10 million in his fund.
#presse #journalisme #blog #blogging #michael_arrington #capital_risque #aol #technologie #conflit_intérêt
Tu te rends compte, un conflit d’intérêt, chez nous les super-gentils de TechCrunch, mais c’est laughable ! (L’argument « laughable » semble se suffit à lui-même.)
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/06/the-end
Earlier this evening, I wrote a post on my personal blog attempting to explain to those outside our company how TechCrunch actually works from an editorial perspective. The notion that Mike, or anyone else, investing in a company would dictate some sort of giant conflicted agenda is laughable. Literally. If Mike tried to get me to write some unreasonable post about a company he had invested in, I would laugh at him. But he would never do that. Ask Loic Le Meur. Ask Kevin Rose. Ask Shervin Pishevar. Ask Airbnb. Ask countless others. He didn’t get to where he is by being an idiot. He has gotten to where he is by being honest with his readers. Even if everyone doesn’t always agree with him, he has been honest. And he’s brought forth information that no one else has, even when it’s probably not in his best interest to do so.
C’est à se demander s’ils ont le moindre recul chez TechCrunch...
Facebook Quietly Updates Platform Policies – Developers, No Linking To Its Competitors! | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/facebook-quietly-updates-platform-policies-developers-take-note
But more interesting is this one:
“I.11. Apps on Facebook may not integrate, link to, promote, distribute, or redirect to any app on any other competing social platform.”
Read that again. Facebook is saying that any app that runs on its platform is prohibited from integrating, mentioning or in any way linking to any app on any competing social platform.
Google Unleashes Native Client Into Chrome, Next-Gen Web Apps To Follow ? | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/chrome-native-client
For well over a year now, Google has been hyping up something called Native Client. It’s an open source technology that allows a web browser to run compiled native code. In other words, it’s a potential missing link between native apps and web apps. And now it’s finally getting baked into Chrome.
Autrement dit, comme souvent ces dernières années, les gens crient au génie quand Google refait ce qui existe déjà. Adobe AIR, Mozilla XUL Runner, Eclipse RCP, en vrac.
Ce qui me gêne c’est que, par exemple, quand ils font un navigateur c’est un moyen pour eux de drainer encore plus d’informations de l’utilisateur, sans compter que l’utilisateur va encore plus lier son activité aux services en ligne de Google.
via ►https://twitter.com/#!/johnfoliot/statuses/101917417936134144
Google Group Members to Use Facial Recognition to Identify London Rioters | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/google-group-members-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-london-rioter
A new Google Group called “London Riots Facial Recognition” has appeared online, in the wake of the riots that rocked the U.K. capital over the weekend. The group’s goal is to use facial recognition technologies to identify the looters who appear in online photos.
The group appears to be thoughtfully considering its actions, in threads titled “Ethical Issues,” and “Keeping Things Legal,” for example. They’ve also stated that “it’s important we only use legal sources for images.”
Down Goes The Internet… Again. Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Foursquare, Instagram, Quora, Reddit, Etc | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/amazon-ec2-outage
As indicated by about 20 tips in the last few minutes and pretty much all of Twitter, Amazon’s EC2 service appears to be down. That means services like Reddit, Heroku, Foursquare, Instagram, Fab, Quora, Turntable.fm, Netflix and many, many others are down.
J’aime bien la tournure de cette « update » :
And after roughly 40 minutes of downtime, the Internet appears to be coming back online.
Someone Finally Made A Browser Extension That Helps You Find The Tab Making Noise | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/its-about-time
You know what really grinds my gears? Having 15 browser tabs open and one playing music and not knowing which one is playing music and having to scroll through all the tabs in order to find the one that’s playing music in order to kill it because it’s making you crazy and by the time you’ve killed it you’ve lost track of what you were working on in the first place so you have to thumb through all the tabs again just to get back to your work and by that time you can’t work BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALREADY THROWN YOUR LAPTOP OUT OF A SIX STORY WINDOW.
La guerre des chiffres :
Twitter: 1 Billion Items Delivered A Day Is Nice, Google+. We Do 350 Billion.
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/15/twitter-350-billion
Today, exactly 5 years to the day since they launched, Twitter adds the context. Google+ may be serving up 1 billion items a day, but Twitter is doing 350 billion items a day.
#réseaux_sociaux #chiffres #annonce #marketing #google #twitter #populaire
Facebook Is Losing Users In The Countries Where It Took Off First
►http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-losing-users-in-the-countries-where-it-took-off-first-2
According to Inside Facebook’s data service, #Facebook lost 6 million users in the U.S. last month, dropping from 155.2 million to 149.4 million. That’s the first time U.S. numbers have dropped in more than a year.
It also lost 1.52 million users in Canada, dropping to 16.6 million — that’s an 8% drop — and 100,000 each in the U.K., Norway, and Russia.
(via @gus)
on est lundi, tout va bien !
hihi... Anéfé, anéfé. Enfin c’est déjà mardi là, ça change tout le temps. Dingue :-p
L’effet Clinton sur la communication de #Facebook se ferait déjà sentir ?
►http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/14/facebook-joe-lockhart_n_877090.html
facebook, #apple, #html5, #PR, #communication, autour du “project Spartan”
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/17/we-will-fight-in-the-shade
“This type of manipulation is nothing new in the industry; companies do this all the time. But that doesn’t make it any less shady. And guess what, it works!”
FT Bypasses Apple’s #iTunes, Launches #HTML5 Web #App (Free Access First Week)
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/ft-bypasses-apples-itunes-launches-html5-web-app-free-access-first-week
The Financial Times would rather not have Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions for its iOS publications, and has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers to access content across tablets and smartphones.
Mike McCue : FlipBoard Is Seeing More Than 10 Million Flips Per Day (Video)
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/12/mccue-flipboard-10-million-flips-video
le business model de #flipboard pour l’information sur #ipad : la #publicité ; (sympa l’interview en vidéo tournée sans pied dans un bar bruyant)
The Creepiest Royal Wedding Photo Ever, Courtesy Of Color
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/29/creepiest-royal-wedding-photo-color
You remember Color, the $41 million photo app that created a huge backlash in the press and some confusion among consumers about exactly how to use the app.
Yeah, well, even with the Telegraph pushing the app as some sort of crowd-sourced photo collage, only about 560 photos were uploaded to the album, and none of them are terribly interesting. But I guess you had to be there.
Why Women Rule The Internet
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/why-women-rule-the-internet
Humans Are The Routers
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/humans-are-the-routers
The only line of defense against government filtering and blocking their citizens from freely communicating and coordinating via communication networks was to create a new line of communications technologies that governments would find hard to block: Ad hoc wireless mesh networks. I called the idea OpenMesh and tweeted it.
Within hours through crowdsourced volunteer efforts the OpenMesh Project was alive complete with domain name, website and forum.
#mesh #cccp cf. ►http://seenthis.net/messages/9286
►http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/mesh-network.jpg
#Twitter Finds Itself Between A Facebook And A Google
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/twitter-finds-itself-between-a-facebook-and-a-google
Despite not being profitable, Twitter still values itself in the neighborhood of $8 billion to $10 billion, which at the high end is a little over 222 times its 2010 revenue and 100x its projected revenue ($100 million to $150 million) for next year.
First Impressions Using #Android #Honeycomb, #Google’s #iPad Rival
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/android-honeycomb-ipad
This morning Google held an event to showcase Android Honeycomb, the new version of the mobile OS that is focused on tablets. There wasn’t much news around the OS — we’ve seen it previewed in a few demos — but the team did show off some of Honeycomb’s slickest features, like widgets and an improved 3D rendering engine.
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4mbz_bzPls&feature=player_embedded
Les entreprenautes de TechCrunch ont le plaisir de vous faire savoir, avec subtilité, tout le mal qu’ils pensent de Julian Assange :
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/08/julian-assange-nominated-for-a-crunchie-oh-bad-luck-kim-jong-il
For example, it would be hugely inappropriate for me to suggest that nominating a creepy, egotistical, criminally negligent alleged rapist as “best founder” sends out an astonishingly messed-up message to other entrepreneurs.
Pas mieux sur TechCrunch France :
►http://fr.techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/julian-assange-nomine-pour-un-crunchie-paul-carr-nous-suggere-des-rem
La nomination de Julian Assange en tant que fondateur de l’année risque de faire passer un mauvais message aux autres entrepreneurs.
Pourquoi ces messages, au juste ? Parce que ce sont les lecteurs de TechCrunch qui ont voté pour Assange. TechCrunch insulte donc ses propres lecteurs.
Les entreprenautes, ça a toujours été une certaine idée de l’internet...