Archive for March, 2008

Hébergement Ruby on Rails

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Quels sont les hébergeurs européens spécialisés sur Ruby on Rails - Brightbox UK Mais aussi - www.engineyard.com aux USA Connaissez vous d'autres hébergeurs spécialisés Ruby on Rails ?

Freakonomics lance un ersatz de prediction market

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Freakonomics le blog crée dans la suite du fameux livre de Steven D. Levitt et Stephen J. Dubner, a souvent écrit des articles sur les prediction markets. Ils viennent de lancer le Freakonomics prediction center, leur propre plateforme de prediction market développé par Predictify. malheureusement le Freakonomics prediction center n'a rien ...

Les Marchés de prévisions / Prediction markets, outils de stratégie d’entreprise

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Inkling Markets a une reflexion interessante sur l'utilisation des prediction markets / marchés de prévisions comme outils pour aider les entreprises a définir des stratégies a court et moyen terme. "L'utilisation des prediction markets comme élément de la planification stratégique apporterai une part de réalité fort souhaitable au processus. Les marché ...

Digi-Quizz 2008

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Here is a little quizz on the digital economy and the web. Youtube in 2007 genereted as much traffic as the whole internet : in 1995 in 2000 in 2005 What kind of content is downloaded the most on P2P networks ? TV shows Music Movies Each SMS / text message is approximately 140 bytes. ...

Safir Logiciel : ce n’est pas une facture

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Je rentre chez moi ce soir pour trouver une "facture" envoyée par la société Safir m'enjoignant de payer un "agending professionnel" téléchargeable sur le site safirlogiciels.net. Le prix TTC est quand meme de 399,91 Euros ! Evidemment c'est une arnaque. Le document ressemble comme 2 gouttes d'eau a une facture mais ...

Après Google docs, Zoho libère la suite office des mains de Microsoft

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Certains se souviendront de la pub du fournisseur d'accès Free où un supposé "imbécile" payait encore pour son accès internet. Et bien le même phénomène s'est produit pour les logiciels bureautique de type Word, Excell ou Powerpoint. Des alternatives gratuites, d'un niveau de qualité compatible avec les besoins des entreprises, ...

Slate’s guide to all the political markets.

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Slate has launched a global political market guide : Slate's guide to all the political markets. Putting together resultst from major political markets: Iowa Electronic Markets, Intrade.com, Newsfutures.com, and Casualobserver.net, Slate will publish regular updates of the key data of these different prediction markets platforms until Election Day 2008. The ground ...

Scientific american on Prediction markets

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Scientific American Magazine has a long article on prediction markets foussing on theirr bility to outperform polls. Far from the recent hype and burgeonning in prediction amrkets, Scientific American goes back to the beginning of the Iowa Political Stock Market and addresses the how and why and the critiques of ...

UK beats France in Internet Consumer spending by 4 to 1

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

When one compares the audacity, creativity and boldness of web agencies, UK mainstream business oriented, creative teams come out far ahead of French ones. Check out Dare Digital or Twenty Six in the UK and Digitas France to see the difference. When it comes to adoption of new methodologies, trends, ...

Scrum clashes with companies cultures

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

The biggest obstacle to scrum efficiency is to be found in Company’s culture A must read interview by Ken Schwaber, one of the signatoriess of the Agile Manisfesto who co-developed the Scrum process with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s. The interview is fully available on the AgileCollab blog. “However, as organizations and ...

Agile en France, L’agile tour

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

A noter 2 rendez vous d'Agile et de XP en France. XP Day France 2008, Les Journées d'XP et de l'agilité, les 12 et 13 mai 2008 à Paris. Attention changement de date l'XP Day France se tiendra les 5 et 6 mai 2008 et non pas les 12 et ...

Keep posted on Russia

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Just a few days after the so called elections in Russia, last sunday, information about what is going on in this country has faded from the medias. To keep posted on what is really happening on the democratic front, a good source of information is the The Other Russia the ...

Digital use : 2 studies

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

2 studies on current digital and mobile use are available. The first one, The Netsize Guide, is a comprehensive annual industry report, documenting the state of the global mobile content and services market. It is published by Netsize a global leader for mobile business and entertainment solutions. The second one, 2008 ...

PRINCE2 resources from AFA

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

AFA, a british consultancy dedicated to OGC Best Practice methodologies has put online a set of PRINCE2 resources in PDF files : Style Exam Questions, Process Models, Cross Reference. The process models diagrams are really nice while the Cross Reference is a bit scary.

PRINCE2 Practitioner Yes !

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I am now a happy certified PRINCE2 practitioner. Just got the results yesterday. I even had a good enough mark to be able to teach PRINCE2. Definitely something worth investigating. Now the next steps are to value this prfessional certification in France where PRINCE2 is not known and to find ...

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