A part ça, quoi de neuf? 29-11-2007

  • Pour le Financial Times, "It is no longer a matter of Out of Africa . Instead, it is into Africa." ""Africa is the largest and most exciting group of the frontier markets and everyone wants to be part of it," says Richard Segal, fixed income strategist at Renaissance Capital, the Russian investment bank." De 2000 à 2006, le montant des capitaux privés affluant sur le continent est passé de $ 9 milliards à $ 45 milliards, et représente désormais 6% du produit intérieur brut.
  • Inbox 2.0, dans la guerre des réseaux sociaux, notre boîte email est la dernière venue. Elle représenterait pour certains l'environnement social par excellence et serait plus adaptable à une utilisation au sein de l'entreprise. Sur la ligne de front, on retrouve Google et Yahoo qui affutent leurs armes et leur services de messagerie. A lire : un article aussi riche que passionnant de Don Dodge affirmant que les contacts emails représentent un réseau social naturel. Selon le New York Times, "Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks."
  • Le portable à $ 100, quand la politique s'en mêle... Selon la BBC, l'initiative One Laptop Per Child serait étouffée par les hommes politiques mais aussi par d'autres initiatives similaires lancées par Intel notamment. "Walter Bender of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) said politicians were unwilling to commit because "change equals risk". (...) Dr Igwe Aja-Nwachuku said: "What is the sense of introducing One Laptop per Child when they don't have seats to sit down and learn; when they don't have uniforms to go to school in, where they don't have facilities?""
That's all for today! Un ch'ti cadeau pour la route. Steve Ballmer interviewé par John Doerr au Web 2.0 summit, qui s'excite et revient toute rouge en racontant comment Live Search va aller "dunk the competition" :) On a envie de répondre "chiche".!

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