Here is my new article in Seeking Alpha on the Top 10 canadian technology stories for 2011.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/316475-top-10-canadian-technology-stories-for-2011
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
A blog on the convergence of info-communications industries: communications, computing, electronics, entertainment, publications and education. Strategic, technological and financial analysis. English and French blog. Cette chronique traite de l’évolution des industries de l’information et des communications et couvre des aspects stratégiques, technologiques et financiers, comme l’économie du savoir et de l’innovation. L’auteur est Associé principal de Infocom Intelligence.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
2011: the most digital Xmas of all time
Digital goods are the fastest-growing category online this holiday, led by e-books, suggesting Amazon.com Inc.’s strategy to conquer the world with cheap e-readers and tablet computers may be producing some early gains.
Sales of digital goods, which also include music and videos, are up about 30 per cent this holiday season, compared to the same period last year, according to comScore data.
Furthermore, mobile commerce surged quickly this year, helped with the proliferation of applications and a better offer of mobile sites, enabling mobile transactions.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Sales of digital goods, which also include music and videos, are up about 30 per cent this holiday season, compared to the same period last year, according to comScore data.
Furthermore, mobile commerce surged quickly this year, helped with the proliferation of applications and a better offer of mobile sites, enabling mobile transactions.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
For Google's Chairman: "Within 10 years, computers will be 30 times faster…which will allow us to do amazing things."
According to Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt: "Within 10 years, computers will be 30 times faster…which will allow us to do amazing things."
Mobile is a world driver of growth and prosperity. Schmidt highlighted the captive market for these changes by pointing out that, in some countries, people are placing greater priority on having a mobile phone than getting running water at home.
Speaking about the future, Schmidt is optimistic that computers and artificial intelligence will not take over the world. Instead he believes that a complimentary scenario will emerge:
Over five to ten years, human and computers will be distinguishable. Humans will still be very good at what we do — intuition, fun, entertainment, innovation — and computers will get extraordinarily good about what they are very good at, such as needle in a haystack problems and infinite memories.
Schmidt believes that the value of mobile devices is the networks of information that they are connected to, rather than the device itself:
"I don’t think of this as my phone, it is my personal super computer that can answer any question that I care about in life."
Source:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Google-CEO-Discusses-Internet-and-Censorship/10737426642-1/
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Mobile is a world driver of growth and prosperity. Schmidt highlighted the captive market for these changes by pointing out that, in some countries, people are placing greater priority on having a mobile phone than getting running water at home.
Speaking about the future, Schmidt is optimistic that computers and artificial intelligence will not take over the world. Instead he believes that a complimentary scenario will emerge:
Over five to ten years, human and computers will be distinguishable. Humans will still be very good at what we do — intuition, fun, entertainment, innovation — and computers will get extraordinarily good about what they are very good at, such as needle in a haystack problems and infinite memories.
Schmidt believes that the value of mobile devices is the networks of information that they are connected to, rather than the device itself:
"I don’t think of this as my phone, it is my personal super computer that can answer any question that I care about in life."
Source:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Google-CEO-Discusses-Internet-and-Censorship/10737426642-1/
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Google + en vie et en croissance!
Plusieurs blogues technologiques ont prédit la mort du réseau social Google +. Or, celui-ci a maintenant plus de 150 millions d'abonnés et connait une forte croissance. C'est le troisième réseau social le plus important après Facebook et le chinois Waebo.
Google+ serait avant tout un succès international, puisque seulement 10% de ses utilisateurs seraient américains. Les efforts de Google pour gagner de nouveaux abonnés semblent donc payer. Le réseau social est désormais compatible sur l'ensemble des plateformes mobiles et dispose même d'une application dédiée sur l'App Store et l'Android Market. Il est aussi totalement intégré dans la majorité des services Google les plus populaires (Gmail, YouTube, Picasa, etc.).
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Google+ serait avant tout un succès international, puisque seulement 10% de ses utilisateurs seraient américains. Les efforts de Google pour gagner de nouveaux abonnés semblent donc payer. Le réseau social est désormais compatible sur l'ensemble des plateformes mobiles et dispose même d'une application dédiée sur l'App Store et l'Android Market. Il est aussi totalement intégré dans la majorité des services Google les plus populaires (Gmail, YouTube, Picasa, etc.).
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Top 10 most popular messages of Infocom Analysis for 2011
Here is the top 10 most popular messages of Infocom Analysis blog for 2011. Voici nos 10 messages les plus populaire du blogue Infocom Analysis pour 2011.
1-Dealing with the Make or Buy innovation dilemma using Strategic Project Portfolio
Management (SPPM)
30 oct. 2010
2-La rentabilité de la dépendance technologique
14 mars 2010
3-US group-buying industry (ie. Groupon) should reach around $3 billion in 2011
27 mars 2011
4-Forrester forecast an Apps market of $38 billion by 2015
2 mars 2011
5-BCE strategy revisited
8 nov. 2010
6-Skype’s founder now investing in venture capital
5 mai 2011
7-When mobile data revenue will take over fixed voice revenue
11 avr. 2010
8-Les TIC (Technologies de l'Information et des Communications) dominent le capital de risque au Québec et au Canada en 2010
25 févr. 2011
9- 7 trends affecting business mobility in 2011
21 déc. 2010
10- What is hot in mobile games?
15 nov. 2010
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
1-Dealing with the Make or Buy innovation dilemma using Strategic Project Portfolio
Management (SPPM)
30 oct. 2010
2-La rentabilité de la dépendance technologique
14 mars 2010
3-US group-buying industry (ie. Groupon) should reach around $3 billion in 2011
27 mars 2011
4-Forrester forecast an Apps market of $38 billion by 2015
2 mars 2011
5-BCE strategy revisited
8 nov. 2010
6-Skype’s founder now investing in venture capital
5 mai 2011
7-When mobile data revenue will take over fixed voice revenue
11 avr. 2010
8-Les TIC (Technologies de l'Information et des Communications) dominent le capital de risque au Québec et au Canada en 2010
25 févr. 2011
9- 7 trends affecting business mobility in 2011
21 déc. 2010
10- What is hot in mobile games?
15 nov. 2010
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
ReadWriteWeb 2012 tech predictions
here are some of the most interesting predictions of the blog ReadWriteWeb:
Abraham Hyatt, Managing Editor
-The relative success of the New York Times' paywall (and others) will drive more experiments in getting people to pay for online content. Thanks to the Times' example, a lot newspapers and magazines will realize their print product doesn't have to be an albatross around their neck. As a result of package print/digital deals, newspaper circulation rates will slow their fall? No, that can't be right.
John Paul Titlow, Writer
-Joining Zite, one of the other popular news reading apps for the iPad will be bought by a big tech or media company. These apps still won't be profitable.
-We'll see a substantial increase in HTML5-fueled mobile Web apps as companies and publishers learn that it frees them from app store restrictions and is cheaper since it offers cross-platform support without having to code for every mobile OS individually. Still, the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace will also continue to grow.
Dan Rowinski, Writer
-Facebook's IPO will cause an exodus of top talent from the company that creates a new class of venture capitalist and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley in much the same way as the "Google Millionaires" did a little less than a decade ago.
Joe Brockmeier, Writer
-NFC payments, at least in North America, continue to be a niche offering. People are slow to adopt new payment options, and it will take years before NFC is widely accepted or used.
Mozilla launches its own, federated social network as an open and privacy friendly alternative to Facebook, Google+ and others.
For more information see
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwritewebs_2012_staff_predictions_and_what_we_got_wrong_in_2011.php
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Abraham Hyatt, Managing Editor
-The relative success of the New York Times' paywall (and others) will drive more experiments in getting people to pay for online content. Thanks to the Times' example, a lot newspapers and magazines will realize their print product doesn't have to be an albatross around their neck. As a result of package print/digital deals, newspaper circulation rates will slow their fall? No, that can't be right.
John Paul Titlow, Writer
-Joining Zite, one of the other popular news reading apps for the iPad will be bought by a big tech or media company. These apps still won't be profitable.
-We'll see a substantial increase in HTML5-fueled mobile Web apps as companies and publishers learn that it frees them from app store restrictions and is cheaper since it offers cross-platform support without having to code for every mobile OS individually. Still, the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace will also continue to grow.
Dan Rowinski, Writer
-Facebook's IPO will cause an exodus of top talent from the company that creates a new class of venture capitalist and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley in much the same way as the "Google Millionaires" did a little less than a decade ago.
Joe Brockmeier, Writer
-NFC payments, at least in North America, continue to be a niche offering. People are slow to adopt new payment options, and it will take years before NFC is widely accepted or used.
Mozilla launches its own, federated social network as an open and privacy friendly alternative to Facebook, Google+ and others.
For more information see
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwritewebs_2012_staff_predictions_and_what_we_got_wrong_in_2011.php
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
An infographic of Google ads
Here is an infographic of Google ads.
For a better look, see original graph at
http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/online-advertising-2011-google/
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
For a better look, see original graph at
http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/online-advertising-2011-google/
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
5 trends in mobile advertising according to Google, VP Mobile Ads
Here are 5 trends in mobile advertising according to Karim Temsamani, VP Mobile Ads of Google.
1 - Everyone goes mobile
Smartphones and tablets proved that they weren’t just for the geekiest - er, ‘tech savviest’ - among us. These devices are increasingly becoming the norm and they continue to change how people connect with each other, and with businesses, everywhere. According to Google's research with IPSOS earlier this year:
-79% of smartphone consumers use their phones to help with shopping, from comparing prices, to finding more product info, to locating a retailer.
-70% use their smartphones while in a store.
-77% have contacted a business via mobile, with 61% calling and 59% visiting the local business.
It’s not just that more people are using smartphones and tablets (though the numbers are skyrocketing at an accelerating pace)—it’s that a huge, and fast-growing base of smartphone users, now expect to engage with businesses on mobile. The mainstream consumer got mobilized in 2011.
2 - Mobile search transforms shopping, forever
Analyzing mobile search trends helped the industry better understand how people were using their mobile devices in 2011. For starters, we learned a lot about the ‘timing’ of mobile and tablets. These devices enable us to be constantly connected to the internet, as mobile usage has proven to be complementary to the desktop. We got a clearer picture of how search is changing the ways we shop and connect with businesses. More people are looking for deals both en route to stores and within them on mobile - in the retail category, “Black Friday” related mobile queries were over 200% higher this year than in 2010. Users have also developed some mobile-specific shopping habits - for example, 44% of all searches for last minute gifts and store locator terms are projected to come from mobile devices this holiday season. For procrastinators, mobile has come to the rescue!
In October, we looked at some of the newest ways marketers can build their businesses via mobile search. But, this is only the beginning - whether people are trying to find or call a business, compare prices in a store, or visit a site or app directly from their phones, search and search ads will be the tools that shape a new shopping experience, enabling us connect with businesses, research and buy products on or offline, all via mobile.
3 - Progress with the mobile advertising pipes
As an industry, we came a long way in terms of improving the ‘pipes’ - the systems, products and technologies that advertisers use to build, serve, and measure mobile ads. It’s still early days, but the progress with standards like MRAID and the momentum behind HTML5, are helping to rally the mobile community and make it easier for marketers and customers to connect on the platform. Getting existing tools to ‘speak mobile’ has been another key to helping mobile advertising grow-up as quickly users and businesses want it to. Across search and display, the tools the industry is already familiar with are getting mobilized. There’s plenty of work still to do, but significant progress is being made - watch this space in 2012.
4 - Tablets join the mobile party
Tablets made quite a splash this year. Usage trends sharpened - we’re seeing that people people use these devices to shop, consume media, have fun, and they do so most frequently in the evenings. Tablets are a third screen to be reckoned with for marketers - we saw a 440% growth in traffic from tablets in November 2011 compared to December 2010 on the AdMob network. The business potential is tremendous: not only are users more inclined to shop and make purchases on tablets, but because campaigns can be more effective running across several screens instead of one, tablets offer an incremental opportunity for marketers. Our research with Nielsen showed that campaigns on several screens can be ‘Better Together’ - indeed, in cases like Adidas’, that proved to be true.
5 - Businesses start (actually) thinking mobile first
Smartphones and tablets aren’t small desktop computers - they’re new devices being used in entirely new ways. This year, businesses began to embrace this at scale and many saw good things happen when they built ad campaigns and websites specifically for mobile. Ticketsnow’s success with a mobile optimized site - increased site traffic, and more ticket sales - is just one example of the benefits of building for mobile. Initiatives like GoMo and platform-specific ad features will help businesses better connect with mobile customers in the coming months, and beyond.
It’s hard to believe, but as far as the industry has come in 2011, we’re still in the earliest chapters of mobile’s story. The ways people connect to businesses on their mobile devices and the tools they’re using to connect from them progressed by leaps and bounds this year and soon, we’ll see the mainstream shift that changes the way mobile connects people with brick-and-mortar storefronts as well. Mobile will be moving full speed ahead in 2012 so keep those sleeves rolled-up and those seatbelts fastened - we’ll see you then.
Source:
http://googlemobileads.blogspot.com/2011/12/look-back-at-2011.html
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
1 - Everyone goes mobile
Smartphones and tablets proved that they weren’t just for the geekiest - er, ‘tech savviest’ - among us. These devices are increasingly becoming the norm and they continue to change how people connect with each other, and with businesses, everywhere. According to Google's research with IPSOS earlier this year:
-79% of smartphone consumers use their phones to help with shopping, from comparing prices, to finding more product info, to locating a retailer.
-70% use their smartphones while in a store.
-77% have contacted a business via mobile, with 61% calling and 59% visiting the local business.
It’s not just that more people are using smartphones and tablets (though the numbers are skyrocketing at an accelerating pace)—it’s that a huge, and fast-growing base of smartphone users, now expect to engage with businesses on mobile. The mainstream consumer got mobilized in 2011.
2 - Mobile search transforms shopping, forever
Analyzing mobile search trends helped the industry better understand how people were using their mobile devices in 2011. For starters, we learned a lot about the ‘timing’ of mobile and tablets. These devices enable us to be constantly connected to the internet, as mobile usage has proven to be complementary to the desktop. We got a clearer picture of how search is changing the ways we shop and connect with businesses. More people are looking for deals both en route to stores and within them on mobile - in the retail category, “Black Friday” related mobile queries were over 200% higher this year than in 2010. Users have also developed some mobile-specific shopping habits - for example, 44% of all searches for last minute gifts and store locator terms are projected to come from mobile devices this holiday season. For procrastinators, mobile has come to the rescue!
In October, we looked at some of the newest ways marketers can build their businesses via mobile search. But, this is only the beginning - whether people are trying to find or call a business, compare prices in a store, or visit a site or app directly from their phones, search and search ads will be the tools that shape a new shopping experience, enabling us connect with businesses, research and buy products on or offline, all via mobile.
3 - Progress with the mobile advertising pipes
As an industry, we came a long way in terms of improving the ‘pipes’ - the systems, products and technologies that advertisers use to build, serve, and measure mobile ads. It’s still early days, but the progress with standards like MRAID and the momentum behind HTML5, are helping to rally the mobile community and make it easier for marketers and customers to connect on the platform. Getting existing tools to ‘speak mobile’ has been another key to helping mobile advertising grow-up as quickly users and businesses want it to. Across search and display, the tools the industry is already familiar with are getting mobilized. There’s plenty of work still to do, but significant progress is being made - watch this space in 2012.
4 - Tablets join the mobile party
Tablets made quite a splash this year. Usage trends sharpened - we’re seeing that people people use these devices to shop, consume media, have fun, and they do so most frequently in the evenings. Tablets are a third screen to be reckoned with for marketers - we saw a 440% growth in traffic from tablets in November 2011 compared to December 2010 on the AdMob network. The business potential is tremendous: not only are users more inclined to shop and make purchases on tablets, but because campaigns can be more effective running across several screens instead of one, tablets offer an incremental opportunity for marketers. Our research with Nielsen showed that campaigns on several screens can be ‘Better Together’ - indeed, in cases like Adidas’, that proved to be true.
5 - Businesses start (actually) thinking mobile first
Smartphones and tablets aren’t small desktop computers - they’re new devices being used in entirely new ways. This year, businesses began to embrace this at scale and many saw good things happen when they built ad campaigns and websites specifically for mobile. Ticketsnow’s success with a mobile optimized site - increased site traffic, and more ticket sales - is just one example of the benefits of building for mobile. Initiatives like GoMo and platform-specific ad features will help businesses better connect with mobile customers in the coming months, and beyond.
It’s hard to believe, but as far as the industry has come in 2011, we’re still in the earliest chapters of mobile’s story. The ways people connect to businesses on their mobile devices and the tools they’re using to connect from them progressed by leaps and bounds this year and soon, we’ll see the mainstream shift that changes the way mobile connects people with brick-and-mortar storefronts as well. Mobile will be moving full speed ahead in 2012 so keep those sleeves rolled-up and those seatbelts fastened - we’ll see you then.
Source:
http://googlemobileads.blogspot.com/2011/12/look-back-at-2011.html
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
5 potential innovations according to IBM in the next 5 years
According to IBM we could see in the copming five years these 5 potential innovations. Here are the innovations followed by my comments.
1-People power will come to life.
Advances in technology will allow us to trap the kinetic energy generated (and wasted) from walking, jogging, bicycling and even from water flowing through pipes. A bicycle charging your iPhone?
=it is more a niche market than a mainstream sector.
2-You will never need a password again.
Biometrics will finally replace the password, and with that, redefine the phrase “hack.” Jokes aside, IBM believes multi-factor biometrics will become pervasive. ”Biometric data – facial definitions, retinal scans and voice files – will be composited through software to build your DNA-unique online password.”
=With the proliferation of web sites we want to access, passwords and user ID are also proliferating. Biometrics appears a decent solution in the coming years.
3-Mind reading is no longer science fiction.
Scientists are working on headsets with sensors that can read brain activity and recognize facial expressions, excitement and more without needing any physical inputs from the wearer. “Within [five] years, we will begin to see early applications of this technology in the gaming and entertainment industry,” IBM notes. It will also be good for folks who have suffered from strokes and have brain disorders.
=I saw some very interesting progress of technology with disable people, and it should continue in the near future.
4-The digital divide will cease to exist.
Mobile phones will make it easy for even the poorest of poor to get connected. In the U.S. and other parts of the world, this is already happening.
=While it is happening in some regions in the world, on a global scale it is more a long term issue. However, Africa is leading the world in such applications as mobile micro-banking.
5-Junk mail will become priority mail.
”In five years, unsolicited advertisements may feel so personalized and relevant it may seem that spam is dead. At the same time, spam filters will be so precise you’ll never be bothered by unwanted sales pitches again,” notes IBM.
=The amount of personalized information provided on social networks will make it worst.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
1-People power will come to life.
Advances in technology will allow us to trap the kinetic energy generated (and wasted) from walking, jogging, bicycling and even from water flowing through pipes. A bicycle charging your iPhone?
=it is more a niche market than a mainstream sector.
2-You will never need a password again.
Biometrics will finally replace the password, and with that, redefine the phrase “hack.” Jokes aside, IBM believes multi-factor biometrics will become pervasive. ”Biometric data – facial definitions, retinal scans and voice files – will be composited through software to build your DNA-unique online password.”
=With the proliferation of web sites we want to access, passwords and user ID are also proliferating. Biometrics appears a decent solution in the coming years.
3-Mind reading is no longer science fiction.
Scientists are working on headsets with sensors that can read brain activity and recognize facial expressions, excitement and more without needing any physical inputs from the wearer. “Within [five] years, we will begin to see early applications of this technology in the gaming and entertainment industry,” IBM notes. It will also be good for folks who have suffered from strokes and have brain disorders.
=I saw some very interesting progress of technology with disable people, and it should continue in the near future.
4-The digital divide will cease to exist.
Mobile phones will make it easy for even the poorest of poor to get connected. In the U.S. and other parts of the world, this is already happening.
=While it is happening in some regions in the world, on a global scale it is more a long term issue. However, Africa is leading the world in such applications as mobile micro-banking.
5-Junk mail will become priority mail.
”In five years, unsolicited advertisements may feel so personalized and relevant it may seem that spam is dead. At the same time, spam filters will be so precise you’ll never be bothered by unwanted sales pitches again,” notes IBM.
=The amount of personalized information provided on social networks will make it worst.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) wants to reach the world with online courses
The MIT is already offering some free online courses to students worldwide: OpenCourseware.
http://ocw.mit.edu/help/get-started-with-ocw/
MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:
-organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace
-feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication
-allow for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx
-operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.
Source: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html
According to Anant Agarwal, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the new tools will be available to whoever needs it.
"Creating an open learning infrastructure will enable other communities of developers to contribute to it, thereby making it self-sustaining … An open infrastructure will facilitate research on learning technologies and also enable learning content to be easily portable to other educational platforms that will develop. In this way the infrastructure will improve continuously as it is used and adapted."
Online learning obtained respectability with such for-profit institutions like the University of Phoenix. It has now a growing importance to traditional colleges and universities seeking ways to reach beyond their traditional constituencies.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
http://ocw.mit.edu/help/get-started-with-ocw/
MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:
-organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace
-feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication
-allow for the individual assessment of any student’s work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx
-operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.
Source: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html
According to Anant Agarwal, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the new tools will be available to whoever needs it.
"Creating an open learning infrastructure will enable other communities of developers to contribute to it, thereby making it self-sustaining … An open infrastructure will facilitate research on learning technologies and also enable learning content to be easily portable to other educational platforms that will develop. In this way the infrastructure will improve continuously as it is used and adapted."
Online learning obtained respectability with such for-profit institutions like the University of Phoenix. It has now a growing importance to traditional colleges and universities seeking ways to reach beyond their traditional constituencies.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Sunday, December 11, 2011
The future of the Internet in 3 trends according to the CEO of Forrester Research
3 trends will influence considerably the Internet, according to the CEO of Forrester Research George Colony.
1-The Internet will offers more applications.
2-The social network sector is due for an important transformation.
3-The entreprise sector will adopt massively the social networks
So, social will still prosper but it will evolve a lot.
George Colony suggests that in each decade we saw the turnaround of a major infocom player. In the 1980's it was Intel, in the 1990's it was IBM, in the 2000's it was Apple and he suggests in 2010's it could be Microsoft, but it would necessitates a leadership transformation.
Social networks have reach maturation in term of users' time and penetration rate among population (over 80% in US and Canada for example).
Social start-ups who don't understand this new rule and consider there is a social bubble will disappear. Strong business models are pre-requisite for post-social survival.
In order to use the Internet more effectively and efficiently, Internet applications (web applications and mobile applications) will prosper.
Forrester provided a graph Total offerings versus Strategy of the major infocom players. While Apple is at the top with a strong offering and a strong strategy, luck helped also Steve Jobs. Apple did not really anticipate the proliferation of mobile apps. However, the business model of Apple could leverage that unanticipated new trend.
To watch the whole video from Le Web conference see:
http://youtu.be/2XZNsBz0aGw
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
1-The Internet will offers more applications.
2-The social network sector is due for an important transformation.
3-The entreprise sector will adopt massively the social networks
So, social will still prosper but it will evolve a lot.
George Colony suggests that in each decade we saw the turnaround of a major infocom player. In the 1980's it was Intel, in the 1990's it was IBM, in the 2000's it was Apple and he suggests in 2010's it could be Microsoft, but it would necessitates a leadership transformation.
Social networks have reach maturation in term of users' time and penetration rate among population (over 80% in US and Canada for example).
Social start-ups who don't understand this new rule and consider there is a social bubble will disappear. Strong business models are pre-requisite for post-social survival.
In order to use the Internet more effectively and efficiently, Internet applications (web applications and mobile applications) will prosper.
Forrester provided a graph Total offerings versus Strategy of the major infocom players. While Apple is at the top with a strong offering and a strong strategy, luck helped also Steve Jobs. Apple did not really anticipate the proliferation of mobile apps. However, the business model of Apple could leverage that unanticipated new trend.
To watch the whole video from Le Web conference see:
http://youtu.be/2XZNsBz0aGw
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Apple most popular apps, music and movies of 2011
Apple just posted the 2011 edition of iTunes Rewind, its annual promotion of what it considers top picks at the iTunes Store, the App Store and the iBookstore. The content is divided into music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, and podcasts, and from there further broken up into subcategories.
In music Apple has chosen Adele as the artist of the year, for instance, and the Foo Fighters' Wasting Light as the album of the year.
The top iPhone pick is the photo sharing tool Instagram, while the top iPad app is the photo editor Snapseed. Some examples of movie and TV show winners are The Tree of Life for best indie film, and Breaking Bad for best TV drama.
TEDTalks has taken best video podcast, and the best audio podcast is NPR's Fresh Air. At the iBookstore, Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife has been selected as the top novel, with Michael Lewis' Boomerang coming in for best nonfiction. A special "best enhanced book" spot has been given to Caroline Kennedy's Jacqueline Kennedy, which integrates historic audio, photos, and video of the former First Lady.
Apple's lists are not necessarily the bestsellers. The top-selling iPhone app was Angry Birds for example, and the leading book was Kathryn Stockett's The Help.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintellignece.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
In music Apple has chosen Adele as the artist of the year, for instance, and the Foo Fighters' Wasting Light as the album of the year.
The top iPhone pick is the photo sharing tool Instagram, while the top iPad app is the photo editor Snapseed. Some examples of movie and TV show winners are The Tree of Life for best indie film, and Breaking Bad for best TV drama.
TEDTalks has taken best video podcast, and the best audio podcast is NPR's Fresh Air. At the iBookstore, Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife has been selected as the top novel, with Michael Lewis' Boomerang coming in for best nonfiction. A special "best enhanced book" spot has been given to Caroline Kennedy's Jacqueline Kennedy, which integrates historic audio, photos, and video of the former First Lady.
Apple's lists are not necessarily the bestsellers. The top-selling iPhone app was Angry Birds for example, and the leading book was Kathryn Stockett's The Help.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintellignece.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
A map of cloud computing players
This is a map of cloud computing players according to Bessemer Venture Partners.
The firm defines Cloud Computing as the umbrella encompassing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
http://www.bvp.com/cloud/bvp_cloudscape_full.jpg
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
The firm defines Cloud Computing as the umbrella encompassing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
http://www.bvp.com/cloud/bvp_cloudscape_full.jpg
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
New article on Seeking Alpha: Quebecor: an information and communications convergence play
My new article is available on Seeking Alpha: "Quebecor: an information and communications convergence play".
http://seekingalpha.com/article/312432-quebecor-an-information-and-communications-convergence-play
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Ywitter: @InfocomAnalysis
http://seekingalpha.com/article/312432-quebecor-an-information-and-communications-convergence-play
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Ywitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Sunday, December 04, 2011
A blog aggregator to follow your favorites blogs/ Un aggrégateur de blogues pour suivre vos blogues favoris
Here is a blog aggregator to follow your favorite blogs. Voici un aggrégateur de blogues pour suivre vos blogues favoris:
www.google.com/reader
You just have to subscribe for free and add www.infocomanalysis.com to follow this blog and be informed of the latest posts.
Vous avez juste à vous abonner gratuitement et ajouter le blogue www.infocomanalysis.com pour connaître les derniers commentaires du blogue.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
www.google.com/reader
You just have to subscribe for free and add www.infocomanalysis.com to follow this blog and be informed of the latest posts.
Vous avez juste à vous abonner gratuitement et ajouter le blogue www.infocomanalysis.com pour connaître les derniers commentaires du blogue.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
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