Google and your Business.

With all the hype surrounding Google Wave, Lifehack asks:

Is Google Ready to Handle Your Business? (Part 1 of 2)

Is Google Ready to Handle Your Business? (Part 2 of 2)

You can also read this post:

Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave)

What is Cloud Computing?

RealTime Web: 30 People to Follow.

I just encountered this article about:

30 People to Follow Regarding the Realtime Web, written by Marschal Fitzpatrick. His list is here.

This one follows three posts about the Reatime Web: post one, post two and post three.

If you think someone else should be part of that list. Well, contact him. He will be glad to add that person to it.

Just Tried Scribblelive for fun

My first event on Scribblelive. It seems a good alternative for live blogging.

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• 3:42 PM: gagneeric Test de Scribblelive en utilisant une visite au parc Jarry


• 3:53 PM: gagneeric Adresse de courriel trop longue pour mon carnet d'adresse. Devrai texter avec Twitter. Pas de photo ou video.


• 3:55 PM: gagneeric Allo de twitter


• 3:55 PM: gagneeric Ca marche.


• 3:59 PM: gagneeric Elle dort toujours. On doit attendre.


• 4:00 PM: gagneeric Fallait qe je le dise pour qu'elle se revelle. Sur le point de partir au parc Jarry.


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• 4:09 PM: gagneeric Je prepare la poussette


• 4:55 PM: gagneeric In parc jarry


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• 6:21 PM: gagneeric Pour les photos avec tweetpic ca marche...


• 6:30 PM: gagneeric Parc Jarry yfrog.com


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• 6:48 PM: gagneeric This test is over...

Effective Social Media Marketing.

How to establish an integrated message across all social media platforms according to Phyllis Zimbler Miller:

Step 1: Decide on your core brand or positioning – what is your Unique Selling Proposition that makes you stand out from your competition.

Step 2: Evaluate and revise where necessary your Web site/blog to reflect this brand. Think of your Web site/blog as your home base from which your rockets ships will launch into social media space.

Step 3: Begin with one or two social media platforms, such as Twitter and LinkedIn, and engage based on a social strategy developed to promote your brand. Be sure to have your blog posts support this social media strategy.

Step 4: Expand your social media strategy to more social media platforms, always ensuring that the strategy you use on these new platforms supports your previous social media platform strategy.

Real-Time Web 3

ReadWriteWeb continues to look inside the real-time Web in this last part of a three-part series on the fundamental characteristics of the real-time Web.

"As with other recent waves of innovation (Web 2.0 and cloud computing, for example) there is no single definition of what the term "real-time Web" means. As a result, it is used as a catch-all phrase for a number of developments underway. At this point, we can identify that the real-time Web...

1. is a new form of communication,

2. creates a new body of content,

3. is real time,

4. is public and has an explicit social graph associated with it,

5. carries an implicit model of federation."

The first part is here.

The second part here.

The last part is here.

Real-Time Web 2

ReadWriteWeb continues to look inside the real-time Web in these first and second parts of a three-part series on the fundamental characteristics of the real-time Web.

"As with other recent waves of innovation (Web 2.0 and cloud computing, for example) there is no single definition of what the term "real-time Web" means. As a result, it is used as a catch-all phrase for a number of developments underway. At this point, we can identify that the real-time Web...

1. is a new form of communication,

2. creates a new body of content,

3. is real time,

4. is public and has an explicit social graph associated with it,

5. carries an implicit model of federation."

The first part is here.

The second part here.

Create Groups like in Facebook With Twinester.

Twinester allows you to create or join groups and communities for Twitter. These groups are called Nests.

All you need is your Twitter login datas. Easy!

Real-Time Web

After Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, we are entering slowy into the Semantic Web and what is called the Real-Time Web.

Like it was reported last month on ReadWriteWeb:

"Real-time information delivery is fast emerging as one of the most important elements of our online experience. No more waiting for the Pony Express to deliver a parcel cross-country, no more waiting for web services to communicate from one polling instance to another. This is information being available to you at nearly the moment it's produced, whether you're watching for it or not."

Instant messaging services such as Twitter, Friendfeed or Facebook chat would be the foundation of this real-time Web. You can find a list of Real-Time Web startups in the post from Business Week:

"Real-Time Web startups are providing everything from basic utilities and business applications to search and e-commerce."

Examples are: Building43 which wants to make it easier for businesses to use the new Internet to improve their business results; JS-Kit which has a tool called Echo that should allow you to communicate with all your friends and followers in Facebook, Twitter, Google or Yahoo!; or OneRiot which is a real-time search engine.

Real-Time Web Collaboration Tool from Tiago Serra on Vimeo.

Sharing Large Files? Try one of these Apps.

Orli Yahkuel (hot geeky girl) published an interesting post on Techcrunch about 16 apps that will allow you to share large files on the Web.

As far as she is concerned, if she had to choose one, it would be Mediafire. But, as you might guessed, ther is no complete free service. So, depending on the file and the situation, you might want to stick with three or four just to cover all bases.

Don't forget to take a look at the comments. Good info there too.