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Internet ne permet pas seulement aux politiques de s'offrir une visibilité à peu de frais, il est également un moyen de se faire une petite place dans la grande histoire. Nicolas Sarkozy, qui doit participer lundi 9 novembre à Berlin aux célébrations des vingt ans de la chute du mur de Berlin, raconte ainsi sur sa page Facebook comment, en ce jour historique, il s'était trouvé dans cette ville, y allant lui aussi de ses "coups de pioche", photo à l'appu - mediaeater

Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. consumers age 65 and older are most likely to shop online (77%). Consumers ages 45-64 and ages 30-44 follow at 71% with those ages 18-29 at 70%, a new report finds. And when it comes to gathering information online, which can include researching products, 67% of baby boomers (45-64) and gen Xers (30-44) are on the hunt while 65% of matures (65+) and 55% of millennials (18-29) are collecting information. The report, “Life Stages & Life Styles: Turning Generational Differences Into Media Opportunities,” from the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing, surveyed 1,513 American consumers across generations - mediaeater

On November 10, 2009, the Center will host a panel of legal and scientific experts exploring the legal implications of biometrics. Biometric ID systems have the capacity to automatically identify and track individuals based on stored data on their biological and behavioral characteristics, including facial features, vascular and retinal patterns, voice, gait, skull resonance, DNA, and yes – even hormones. What are the policy applications and the legal and privacy implications of recent advances in biometric technologies? - mediaeater

But recording everything you do takes people out of the "here and now," psychologists say. Constant documenting may make people less thoughtful about and engaged in what they're doing because they are focused on the recording process, Schwartz said. Moreover, if these documented memories are available to others, people may actually do things differently. - mediaeater

This Saturday, the network will launch ABC Social: Episode Commentary on ABC.com. The new tool allows Web viewers to comment on shows in a window to the left of the site’s video player. Users can log in to this feature using their Facebook I.D.s, and they can instantly share personal commentary with their Facebook friends. ABC is using this week’s premiere of the sci-fi remake V to kick off ABC Social -- as the show’s debut episode will be the first to incorporate the functionality starting this weekend. To make ABC Social more compelling -- and to stoke the passion of sci-fi fans -- the site will include commentary from V executive producers Scott Peters and Steve Pearlman. ABC plans to include such "insider" commentary alongside other shows down the road, potentially including commentary from actors, network executives and show staffers, journalists and even bloggers. - mediaeater

today announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. iPhone® and iPod touch® customers in 77 countries can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. App Store users have downloaded well over two billion apps, continuing to make it the world’s most popular applications store. “The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The iPhone SDK created the first great platform for mobile applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps our developers are creating.” - mediaeater

In a summary of the U.S.'s position shared orally with trade officials at the European Commission in September, signatories of the accord must "provide for third-party liability." The Commission informed all 27 countries in the E.U. of the U.S. position in a memo seen by IDG News service. Under existing laws in the U.S., the E.U. and elsewhere, ISPs are granted immunity from prosecution for illegal activities carried out by subscribers across their networks. This new global trade agreement appears to contradict the legal status quo, said Michael Geist, a law professor at Ottawa University, Canada. This provision would mean that every country that signs up to ACTA must allow content owners such as record companies and Hollywood studios to sue ISPs for failing to stop their subscribers from illegally sharing copyright-protected material such as music and movies. - mediaeater

I then asked my friend, “so why would they ever use the Google (non open source) license version.” (EDIT: One of the commenters below pointed out that all Android is open source, and the Google apps pack, including the GPS, is licensed on top. Doesn’t change the argument, but wanted the correct data included here.) Here was the big punch line – because Google will give you ad splits on search if you use that version! That’s right; Google will pay you to use their mobile OS. I like to call this the “less than free” business model. This is a remarkable card to play. Because of its dominance in search, Google has ad rates that blow away the competition. To compete at an equally “less than free” price point, Symbian or windows mobile would need to subsidize. Double ouch!! lessthanfree“Less than free” may not stop with the mobile phone. - mediaeater

Along these lines, my colleague J.W. Crump from our ImpactWatch team posted an interesting look at the Top 100 Twitter User list. He basically reordered the top users list to sort by the number of lists folks are on, as opposed to follower count. I’ve copied the results below. I take some comfort in the fact Barack Obama is the most listed user, as opposed to Ashton Kusher who is the most followed Twitter user, and that Kim Kardashian rank plummets in this view. - mediaeater

that service providers should have an obligation to let users export that data and also let other services providers “plug into” that data stream - mediaeater

The nine examples below are merely an indication of some of the concepts so far revealed in experiments. Significantly, many of these non-rational behaviours affect us unconsciously, and hence will not be revealed by conventional market research. - mediaeater

Almost across the board, the gains for playback are growing. The best preseason estimate for the current season, said David F. Poltrack, the chief research officer for CBS, was about a 1 percent increase from playback over the live program for the networks combined. Instead, many are in the range of 7 to 12 percent, with some shows having increases of more than 20 percent when DVR ratings are added. The four networks together are averaging a 10 percent increase. “It’s the magnitude that’s really surprising us,” Mr. Poltrack said. In the 18-to-49 group of viewers — the one prized by networks because most ad sales are directed there — Fox has the biggest percentage increase, from an average rating of 2.39 (which translates into about 2.5 million viewers) for its live programs to a 2.71 rating (about 3.1 million viewers) when the three-day DVR playback results are added in. The numbers for ABC were a 2.5 rating live (2.87 million viewers) to a 2.81 (3.27 million) after three days - mediaeater

Thus the proliferation of social software on the web. The reification of the social graph in Friendster; the Facebook Newsfeed and the Twitter; and the Foursquare all serve this one purpose: to rehumanize an inhumane world. Let’s consider each of these technologies one at a time. 1. Friendster’s reification of the social graph makes it possible to understand the ties that bind us all together when we only have room in our brains for the intrigues of a few dozen relationships. 2. The Facebook Newsfeed and the Twitter make it possible to share in the thoughts and intimate moments of those who inhabit different neighborhoods, and different schools, and different jobs, and make different choices than us from amongst the vast cornucopia of mass-produced art sold to us by the culture industry. Finally, 3. the Foursquare coordinates the alienated existence of cosmopolitan voluptuaries into a shared bacchanal. - mediaeater

By their very names — MySpace, YouTube — companies promote a sense of ownership about content that users create. But control of digital assets is often disputed, and the mediators — whether they provide e-mail services, social networking or virtual real estate — have a big say. “Access and control are the two big levers,” said Devan R. Desai, a visiting fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University in New Jersey and professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in California. “Assuming it’s yours, can you access it, and how easy is it to move it around?” - mediaeater