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mardi 6 mai 2014
dimanche 27 avril 2014
Waiting for web 3.0
Waiting for web 3.0
We all know that the first release of a software is to avoid. Few or bugged functionalities. Only usable by early adopters.
The second one is better, but still need some maturation.
The third one, is obviously the mature one and a good basis for future releases.
So wait for Web 3.0...
mercredi 9 avril 2014
Infographie : les tendances mobiles
http://www.agencedesmediassociaux.com/blog/infographies/infographie-les-tendances-mobiles-8338.htm
Un bon résumé des usages mobiles en quelques chiffres.
Un bon résumé des usages mobiles en quelques chiffres.
Particulièrement intéressant: celui concernant les temps d'attente des utilisateurs face au sites web mobiles.
lundi 23 décembre 2013
mardi 3 septembre 2013
A new strategy for Microsoft?
We just heard about Steve Ballmer leaving that Microsoft announces the acquisition of Nokia. What may be considered as a good opportunity for these two companies reveals a strong change in Microsoft strategy for mobile web market.
Taking aside the painful experience of Surface tablet, Microsoft have never been considered (yes "considered" - just have a look at the secret history of Microsoft hardware - to see their hardware realizations beyond mices and keyboards) as a pure player in hardware. But it was at least not a fully vertically integrated one.
On its side, Apple, with a converging OS for Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad proposed a fully integrated (locked) vision to its end-users from years now. One like it or not, but such is the proposal.
Google, which once was its is a full software provider is now selling tablets, smartphones... on an integrated (but open) schema.
So times are changing and Apple vision of a vertically integrated model providing services to end-users through a cloud model seems to be promising.
Google understood some months ago and is clearly in first position. Apple stays on its positions but loses drastically market shares as the time goes by. Microsoft, on its turn, is changing its mind and strategy, acquiring one of the most experienced company in mobile phone devices. Won't it be to late?
Taking aside the painful experience of Surface tablet, Microsoft have never been considered (yes "considered" - just have a look at the secret history of Microsoft hardware - to see their hardware realizations beyond mices and keyboards) as a pure player in hardware. But it was at least not a fully vertically integrated one.
On its side, Apple, with a converging OS for Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad proposed a fully integrated (locked) vision to its end-users from years now. One like it or not, but such is the proposal.
Google, which once was its is a full software provider is now selling tablets, smartphones... on an integrated (but open) schema.
So times are changing and Apple vision of a vertically integrated model providing services to end-users through a cloud model seems to be promising.
Google understood some months ago and is clearly in first position. Apple stays on its positions but loses drastically market shares as the time goes by. Microsoft, on its turn, is changing its mind and strategy, acquiring one of the most experienced company in mobile phone devices. Won't it be to late?
Related articles
- Roundup: What's next for Microsoft? Tech executives speak out (techrepublic.com)
- For Steve Ballmer, a lasting touch on Microsoft (tech.fortune.cnn.com)
- Microsoft may be desperate enough to offer Windows Phone and Windows RT for free (pcworld.com)
dimanche 1 septembre 2013
A watch, a TV set, or new glasses. What would you prefer for Christmas?
This is clearly the point, who will present the most innovative device for next year?
- Samsung with its "Galaxy gear", to be unveiled on the 4th of September,
- Apple with its "iWatch" for fall of 2013, or - why not - the so often promised Apple TV (see What if Apple's iWatch is a TV?)
- Google with its "Glass" - currently under experiment by chosen users - that may be released for end of 2013.
Anyway, whoever will be the great winner of next months, the technological race has never been so interesting, and innovation is at its climax.
On my point of view, connected watch (whatever you call them, SmartWatch, iWatch or Galaxy gear) do not make the "Whaoooo" effect that I had some years before with the iPod touch, but I may be wrong. Especially if manufacturers manage to make them an essential device for end-users as they did it with smartphones (by the way, will we need smartphones in 2 or 3 years if we all have connected watches ?).
Connected TV sets may certainly be improved, but the concept is already there and could then not be such a disruptive innovation (here again, I may be wrong...).
But what about this smart glasses? Here is the best product I can see in the next months. It is mainly presented today as an embedded video device. But what a great potential if you mix Internet information with it !
So, what would be in your own letter to Santa?
- Samsung with its "Galaxy gear", to be unveiled on the 4th of September,
- Apple with its "iWatch" for fall of 2013, or - why not - the so often promised Apple TV (see What if Apple's iWatch is a TV?)
- Google with its "Glass" - currently under experiment by chosen users - that may be released for end of 2013.
Anyway, whoever will be the great winner of next months, the technological race has never been so interesting, and innovation is at its climax.
On my point of view, connected watch (whatever you call them, SmartWatch, iWatch or Galaxy gear) do not make the "Whaoooo" effect that I had some years before with the iPod touch, but I may be wrong. Especially if manufacturers manage to make them an essential device for end-users as they did it with smartphones (by the way, will we need smartphones in 2 or 3 years if we all have connected watches ?).
Connected TV sets may certainly be improved, but the concept is already there and could then not be such a disruptive innovation (here again, I may be wrong...).
But what about this smart glasses? Here is the best product I can see in the next months. It is mainly presented today as an embedded video device. But what a great potential if you mix Internet information with it !
So, what would be in your own letter to Santa?
Related articles
- Apple iWatch specs, price and release date (thenewstribe.com)
- Samsung Sells Just 50,000 Galaxy Gear Smart Watches, Exec Says Product is Unripe (macrumors.com)
- Smart Watches Will Improve With Time, And Will Help Computers Conquer The Wrist (embargozone.com)
samedi 31 août 2013
Sur le web 3.0, tout le monde sait que vous êtes un chat...
Pour la mise en place d'une gouvernance éthique mondiale du web
Il semblerait que Georges Orwell ne fasse plus recette presque 30 ans après 1984. Les adolescents s'exposent sur les réseaux sociaux comme ils le feraient dans l'intimité. Leur "smart" phone offrent à leur tribu les moyens de les géo-localiser en permanence. Leur web est omniscient, omniprésent. Il leur ouvre une fenêtre quasi-unique sur le monde, sur la culture. Ils sont prêts.
Prêts à l'avènement du web 3.0. Prêts à l'arrivée du web sémantique qui reliera non plus seulement les hommes mais étendra la notion de ressource aux objets de notre quotidien. Prêts à se voir représentés sous la forme de réseaux d'informations atomiques en nombre quasi-infini dont la puissance réside, moins par les informations elles-mêmes que par les liens entre celles-ci. Prêts à accepter de voir la frontière tenue qui subsiste encore entre le monde réel et le monde virtuel se désagréger définitivement.
La question que je me pose est la suivante: suis-je prêt à vouloir ceci pour mes enfants? suis-je prêts à les exposer à toutes les dérives marketing, commerciales et dans un scénario plus catastrophique, totalitaires. Suis-je prêts à voir mes enfants fichés, numérisés, sans savoir quelle sera l'utilisation ultime qui sera faites de ces informations?
Tout récemment encore, en interrogeant un spécialiste du web 2.0 sur l'évolution de celui- ci vers un web 3.0 et la nécessité d'une gouvernance éthique de ce dernier, je me suis entendu répondre quelque chose comme "le web 3.0 n'existe pas, ou alors je ne l'ai pas rencontré". Or cette simple négation me semble porter en elle-même tout le caractère insidieux de cette évolution.
Révolutionnaire dans ses conséquences, cette évolution est le fruit que d'évolutions techniques et comportementales. Évolutions techniques tout d'abord, permettant la modélisation, le traitement et l'analyse d'un nombre de plus en plus important de données élémentaires. Évolutions comportementales ensuite, conduisant tout un chacun à donner à des fournisseurs de services dont on ne sait finalement que peu de choses sur les objectifs in fine des données de plus en plus personnelles (nom, prénom, date de naissance, adresse, mais également orientation politique, religieuse...).
Des démarches telles que l'"open data" me laissait entrevoir une évolution positive et citoyenne des ressources numériques. Hélas, celle-ci n'est rien ou peu de chose, si elle n'est combinée à une analyse croisée entre des données "ouvertes" et des données d'ordre privées (agenda, préférences personnelles, geo-localisation...). En d'autres termes, je ne crois en l'"open data" qu'une fois le web sémantique établi.
On l'aura compris, la tournure prise par le web actuellement me pose question et me semble inéluctable. Je ne crois pas plus qu'un rejet définitif de cette évolution serait une solution. En revanche, il me paraît d'ores et déjà nécessaire sinon indispensable de mettre en oeuvre la gouvernance éthique globale qui permettra de s'assurer a l'avenir du bon usage fait par les uns et les autres des données personnelles manipulées.
Il est encore temps car sous le web 2.0, personne ne sait que vous êtes un chat...
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