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[TheWorld] Tools for Collective Intelligence
Nice review (in french) of the tools that support collective intelligence. La notion dintelligence collective implique celle de communication, de collaboration et de partage de la connaissance. Lintelligence va émerger des interactions et des réflexions menées par des groupes dindividus. 1. Ou...
[TheWorld] Technorati Zeitgeist
After google, technorati offers his own "zeitgeist". You can check the top products discussed in the last 24 hours ('« Best links products on the blogosphere today »') on blogs, websites. Technorati looks for links on this product and sort them on this list. ...
[Space and Place] Software for Skyscrapers
Excerpts from notes from the William Davies & James Crabtree presentation at ETCON: Software for Skyscrapers ! "A new building with lots of people provides an interesting test for social software" - people who aren't like each other - who don't know they have shared interests - don't care about so...
[Weird] Nice concepts to brainstorm about
Nice concept to brainstorm about (randome and automatic thoughts):- fast wrestling moves - geology from non solid area of space - fake social software - comics with puppet made of brown paper bag - field study on places that does not exist - improbable news from people who don't read news - earth m...
[Space and Place] Great Skyscraper in London: LBT
I am crazy about this great high rise: planned to be built for 2007-2008 (Renzo Piano is the architect): the London British Tower: ...
[TheWorld] Useless or not: create your own mug shot
With this nice tool, you can create your own mug shot ! ...
[TheWorld] Evaluating Branding Reputatio with technorati
I like Loic Le Meur's idea of checking brand's reputation with technorati. He tried with "http://www.orange.fr": 5 inbound and 5 outbound links. Of course, links came from blogs but still... I do think tools like technorati are tomorow's google. That's a meme (or a cliché). ...
[Space and Place] Familial Strangers Everywhere
The Familiar Stranger: Anxiety, Comfort, and Play in Public Places from Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman (Intel Research): The Familiar Stranger is a social phenomenon first addressed by the psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1972 essay on the subject [1]. Familiar Strangers are individuals that ...
(The World) Geeks Put the Unsavvy on Alert: Learn or Log Off
From the New York Times, a paper that says that the mydoom propagation "reflects a willful ignorance of basic computer skills that goes well beyond virus etiquette.": unsavvy person clicked on the attachment :( As MyDoom, the fastest-spreading virus ever, continues to clog e-mail in-boxes and disru...