How to spot a liar?
Very Interesting. How To Spot A Liar by Forensic Psychology
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Amazon.com : l'Empire cache
Amazon.com : l'Empire caché Fabernovel décrypte le succès d'une des plus belles marques du eCommerce : Amazon.com . Enjoy :) View more presentations from faberNovel
Buying In : the rise of a middle class in Africa
source : Wall Street Journal According to the African Development Bank Group , the middle class now accounts for nearly 34% of the total population, which represents 313 millions people. It's a great uptick (more than 60%) since the beginning of the last decade, but major improvements remain to be done to enlarge further this group and include more the too many people that remain standing at the bottom of the pyramid . Expanding from the data of the African Development Group, the Wall Street Journal contends that A New Class of Consumers Grows in Africa . " Sustained economic growth in Africa has produced for the first time a broad middle class, one that cuts across the continent and is on par with the size of the middle classes in the billion-person emerging markets of China and India. The rise of a middle class in the world's poorest continent is a dramatic marker for the global economy. At a time when the U.S., Europe and Japan are struggling to grow...
Are you a Mac person or a PC person?
Great dilemma when it comes to take sides and adopt one of the two. 23% of the population in the world are said to have mac computers according to ChaCha . (name your own figure, the figure presented below is even higher) I happen to be one of them and do consider myself a Mac person. According to the guys of Cre8ive Commando " There’s always been a battle between Mac and PC. PC users have always dominated the market but things are starting to change.[…] We’ve all seen the stereotypical Mac and PC guys from the Apple Mac commercials a while back, but this infographic gives us some actual statistics about Mac and PC people’s personalities, fashion sense and differences ." Check this great infographic by Hunch . Sociological analysis or mere compilation of stereotypes? I'd let you decide. I must admit that I did recognize myself in some of the data below. Characteristics and differences between Mac and PC users So my question to you, fellow r...
Week-end's readings: TechCrunch, Flirting, internet in China, French politics, the “Facebook Class.”
From the Founder and Editor of TechCrunch, Michael Arrington to " the Tech Press : screw them all " ( Techcrunch ) The new start-up that the Valley is all excited about LAL.com , a flirting-facilitator platform (or FFP, for advanced users). Yup, that's right, check it out yourselves...( Paul Kedrosky ) Sleeping in Internet Cafes: The Next 300 Million Chinese Users (SXSW talk on slideshare ) France's National Front Le Pen , mightier than the sword? ( the Economist ) The " Facebook Class " That Built Apps, and Fortunes ( NYTimes )
Internet : how fast is too fast?
How fast is the Internet at Google? by thenextweb . Via Loic Le Meur tweet. Mind blowing especially when you know that the fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) internet is making its way in subsaharan Africa only now. Some fortunate clients of Kenya Jamii Telecom will access a network that will be able to deliver "2.4 Gbps downstream and 1.25 Gbps upstream" ( Mybroadband.co.za news ). The good side of it, you get your request at light-speed, the flip side, you become even more impatient. And it has been proven that perceived long downloading times of a given webpage are a show-stopper for may surfers, the issue becomes even more pressing when it comes to e-commerce since this accounts for a great percentage of abandonment of the shopping process. Right now @ home, I have a triple-play offer and I get 11Mbps downstream and approximatively 1Mbps upstream. It's ok for my use, despite that lags can occur, but it's rare and this is when I have all my toys running at the same...