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As more and more of our friends and favorite organizations start publishing updates online, being able to organize them well is becoming even more important. Niche-popular desktop social media stream-reader Tweetdeck issued a software update this morning and the most striking change is in its handling of user groups. It's beautiful. The new Tweetdeck is faster, more flexible and easier to navigate.

Groups, we have argued, are the secret weapon of the social web. Here are five ways that the new Tweetdeck gets groups right and that Facebook, the world's dominant social media stream reader by a long-shot, could learn from what Tweetdeck is doing. That would drastically improve Facebook's own user experience.

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Internet startup investor John Borthwick of Betaworks has told us that he invested in Tweetdeck specifically because its column metaphor represented a drastic break from the page-based metaphor of the rest of the web and the Instant Messaging metaphor of most other Twitter clients. That's how Tweetdeck works: it lets you put your friends and contacts on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn into grouped columns across your screen. It's a powerful system and the clear leader in the ecosystem of interfaces built around Twitter. Competitor Seesmic has a similar offering and is also based on columns for groups.

These applications may be more overwhelming than many mainstream users are looking for, but the principles could be adapted to Facebook's own interface in some very interesting ways.

Groups of users, which Facebook calls Lists, are extremely helpful in prioritizing messages by their source. They enable users to subscribe to more sources of information in total without fear they will miss high-priority content. Groups help contextualize messages in a stream and with good search support they can help you target queries and unearth the information you're looking for within a limited space of trusted, topical sources of information. Last month, Facebook suggested its users subscribe to news organizations on the social network and put those updates in a special list called News, for example.

Unfortunately, Facebook has never treated Groups with the respect that they deserve. The newest redesign pushes friends Lists a click removed from the front page of the site, even. (It took me three clicks from the home page to see the view pictured on the right, for example.) The company is instead focused on serving up content from favored sources using the new News Feed (vs Live Feed) algorithm. This algorithm says that the more you've interacted with a source of information in the past, the more likely you are to want to read that person's updates in the future. News Feed is a self-reenforcing paradigm that simplifies and narrows a user's universe by taking editorial control out of their hands and putting it in the hands of a black-box formula.

How could Facebook better handle groups? Let's take a look at how Tweetdeck does it.

• Buttons to navigate directly

  The new Tweetdeck update today added a series of buttons at the bottom of the application for your group columns. Hover over them and you'll see the column name. Click on that button and you'll be brought immediately to that column, a much nicer experience than the awkward old scrolling. The hover display does show some information that's probably not useful to anyone (API calls remaining) but putting rapid group navigation in a good place in the app makes a big difference. It would also be nice if those buttons were configurable in some way - like the red one or #3 is for my @ replies column. But Tweetdeck now makes it much, much easier to navigate between groups than Facebook does. Facebook almost seems to be discouraging use of groups by burying them several clicks below top level options.

  
  
  
• Different Notification Priorities

  Tweetdeck makes it easy to set up different levels of notification for different groups. For example, my "high-priority" Twitter group sends full messages as a pop-up in the corner of my screen when it updates, but my column for people I actually know in real life on Facebook (like my family members) throws a pop-up and an audio notification in Tweetdeck when there's something new. That's awesome.

  Facebook is all about the notifications, why not let me get a special notification when someone in a particular group has posted an update?

  
  

• Shareable Groups, Suggestions etc.

  For years Twitter has been fundamentally public and Facebook private, but for better or for worse that's changing on Facebook. Isn't it time for Facebook to offer bundles of pages or people that you can follow all at once? Twitter and Tweetdeck make this easy with lists, sharable lists and the Tweetdeck directory of recommended lists to follow. Facebook users would love something like that! My college newspaper staff as one big list of Facebook users to follow? My football team? Suzy Bright's curated list of top sex writers to follow on Facebook? People would eat that kind of stuff up.
  

• Keyword Filters

  Last week I was working when the season premier of Lost came on TV. I'm likely to watch it later on DVD. Tweetdeck let me add a filter to all of my groups to hide any posts that included the word Lost! Sick of hearing about the iPad? No problem! Tweetdeck does a great job of building value on top of these groups of contacts: filter for, filter out keywords, analyze a group for its most-used words. There are lots of possibilities. Facebook users would probably like these same options.
  

• A Group for New Friends

  Tweetdeck has a great feature that lets you create a column to display the bios of people who have just started following you. From there you can click once to follow them back. Facebook could easily do something like that, bring new friends and/or recommended friends up higher into a very visible place in the interface. Facebook wants users to go beyond connecting with people they already know in real life (sorry, users, that's what Facebook has decided) so why not create a "group" that's made up of people who are fans of the same pages you are or are otherwise recommended for connecting with?

There are all kinds of ways that Facebook could offer meaningful support for user groups and turn the News Feed into a more powerful tool, with more control for users and more value in the long run. Tweetdeck is doing a pretty darned good job of exactly that.

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In the era of social media, our networks are much larger than they have ever been, and we have more ways to communicate with those in them. Even if you are not very active on Facebook or Twitter, my guess is that your sphere of communication has expanded significantly in recent years. Who you communicate with and how you communicate has changed radically. This new connected era brings both opportunities and challenges.

In the past we had a set of contacts, all of whom generally knew how to reach us — via phone, e-mail, or regular mail. Today, thanks in large part to social media, we have many different levels of communication, each with a specific purpose and etiquette. When we do not understand the role of these levels, they can become huge time wasters. When we do understand them however, they can help us more effectively engage and navigate these new waters.

Just about everyone, including Bill Gates (who if you have not heard, recently joined Twitter), has learned the importance of having both a means to communicate with people, and a channel where people can respond. Though you can do this on Facebook through comments on Fan pages and in groups, this seems most applicable to Twitter, where people use @replies to send and receive short, publicly viewable messages.

The public reply provides an open and transparent channel for people to interact with public figures, brands, and each other, without the pressure of response that comes with e-mail. Public interactions are a great starting point for engagement that never existed before social media, and if done correctly, can often lead to more fruitful direct communication.

Once a relationship is established through public communication, the next step is often a direct message within a social network. A direct message creates a private connection without opening the floodgates of e-mail. In fact, in may even be preferable to e-mail in the long term.

Why? Especially with Twitter, a DM has a character limit, and can only come from people you follow. If you have ten e-mails (of unlimited length and possibly unknown sources) and ten Twitter DMs, which are you likely to open first? For an increasing number of people, the answer is DM.

Once you make a connection through DM and get permission to follow-up via e-mail, the e-mail is often better received. Facebook, where most people allow private messages, can also be a means to take communication to the next level.

E-mail still has its place in this new era. It allows for more in-depth communication, can be easily forwarded, and sent to numerous people at once. When e-mail is used skillfully, it enables deeper communication. When not used effectively, it can become a huge time drain, as people write lengthy messages without much thought of the time and attention they are asking of recipients.

This fine line makes e-mail tough to master in the social media age. If you’re looking to advance to the next communication level with someone, respect this direct and private channel, and be sure to keep your e-mails succinct and meaningful.

Hearing someone’s voice allows people to get a better sense of one another. While communicating via text, a person can take time to carefully craft his or her words, potentially presenting an image that may not be true or is harder to trust. A phone call allows for more immediate back-and-forth, and can be particularly helpful if a subject matter is delicate or people are considering a more in-depth relationship.

Some time back I was communicating with an editor about an issue that we had bounced back and forth several times. Finally she said, “Let’s chat about it on the phone.” This furthered the dialogue significantly and bypassed what may have taken weeks to sort out via e-mail.

I have met numerous people in person that I first communicated with via social networks. All of these meetings were enhanced by the natural progression of our first digital communication. While at one time face-to-face interactions were the entry point, today, in-person meetings often come at later stages.

Particularly if people are considering working on a project together, an in-person meeting allows for the most in-depth connection. For some people Skype or other video chat may be enough to experience this.

Too often people think communication is only through words, but our bodies communicate as well. They communicate how comfortable or uncomfortable we are discussing a matter, our level of passion for a subject, and our hopes and fears. Meeting with someone in person allows for communication to occur on multiple levels, and people often come away with a much better sense of each other.

In this era of social media when we are reaching out and engaging more and more people, the question is not just “Should I communicate with someone?” but “How should I communicate with someone? How can I build engagement one step at a time?” The more we allow for and understand the importance of all the various levels of communication, the more we can skillfully and effectively use each one.

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All right Tweetdeck fans, rev up your engines and prepare to update to Tweetdeck 0.33, which adds a slew of new features, better API management and more in-Tweetdeck media previews.

We could list all the new features in Tweetdeck 0.33, but the company was nice enough to make this little video that shows everything off:

Some of the highlights:

Tweetdeck Can Manage Your Twitter API Usage — This means that the program can delegate how to use your available API calls so that the most important info gets to you as easily as possible. Plus, Tweetdeck now uses OAuth and can request up to 350 API calls an hour, and that is expected to increase soon.

Better Column Management — You can now view Flickr, YouTube and Posterous media within Tweetdeck.

Tweetdeck is free. Don’t forget to check out the Mashable branded version.

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Le basculement du signal TV au tout numérique a commencé et se poursuivra progressivement jusqu’à fin 2011, qui signera définitivement la fin de la télévision analogique.

Avant de verser votre larmichette sur la fin d’une époque et afin de connaître précisément la couverture présente et à venir du territoire avec la TNT, vous pouvez consulter la page mise en place par le groupement d’intérêt public France Télé Numérique sur son site.

Une page qui fournit des informations présentant « des données issues d’une simulation informatique réalisée avec une précision optimale », avec une géolocalisation et surtout une recherche fournie par Google Maps.

Ainsi en saisissant votre adresse vous obtiendrez la date du passage au tout numérique chez vous, la date d’arrêt de la diffusion de Canal+ en analogique, votre couverture TNT actuelle et celle prévue après le passage au tout numérique, avec la liste des chaînes. Des données qui seront mises à jour régulièrement afin d’assurer une information la plus précise possible, notamment dans les cas où les opérateurs ne sont pas encore choisis.

Entre le passage à marche forcée vers la TNT (même si un boîtier TNT est suffisant), la Coupe du Monde de foot à venir et l’arrivée de la 3D, je crois qu’il y a une nouvelle vague de renouvellement massif de téléviseurs qui se profile à l’horizon des mois à venir, non ?

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• Alors, la TNT sur PC portable, ça donne quoi ?

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As soon as this week, Google might be rolling out a "Twitter-killer" feature for Gmail users, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Gmail users can currently broadcast status messages via the Google Talk feature. The main difference between the current offering and the new feature is that status messages aren't available in a timeline format. With the new "Twitter clone," they will be.

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UPDATE: While we're still waiting for an official response from Google's PR team, we've been invited to an event at the Googleplex tomorrow "to see some innovations in two of our most popular products." The event will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific time - stay tuned tomorrow for RWW's live coverage of the event!

This is the current option for updating statuses in Gmail:

Google's new tools, however, will better integrate with Google's multimedia sites, YouTube and Picasa. (Currently, Google Talk users can share YouTube videos via chat, which prompts a miniaturized version of the video to pop up above the chat in progress.) Users will also be able to see "a stream of status updates from people they choose to connect with."

We're contacting Google for more information and will update this post as we learn more.

In the meantime, however, we're wondering how this feature will integrate with other status-sharing sites. Will Gmail/Google Talk's new feature act as Google's first steps into developing a social media client (like Tweetdeck) in its own right?

The new feature could start appearing on users' screen as soon as this week. If you had this tool, would you use it?

Lorsqu’on suit plusieurs centaines de personnes sur Twitter, la Timeline en devient vite remplie et trouver une est information est comme chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin ! Si votre spécialité c’est la vidéo, alors le nouveau service Tweetz TV est fait pour vous. Après avoir accepté une simple autorisation au service, vous pourrez extraire et filtrer les vidéos postées sur Twitter…

Lors de la première connexion, Tweetz TV lance une analyse et vous propose 3 fonctions :

1. MyTV : affiche toutes les vidéos des gens que vous suivez
2. Public TV : affiche toutes les vidéos de n’importe quel utilisateur
3. Search TV : moteur de recherche qui permet de trouver des vidéos en entrant un mot-clé

Sur le côté droit, vous avez la liste des vidéos ainsi que des liens pour lire et ReTweeter.

Dommage que ce service s’arrête simplement aux vidéos YouTube (Vimeo et Dailymtion ne sont pas pris en compte).

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Pensez aussi à me rejoindre sur Twitter ! Twitter devient une TV !

Since my attempts at capturing web developers’ hearts and minds by publishing fundamental research have failed miserably but my thirst for attention continues unabated, today I will once more shout at iPhone developers. That’s proven to work.

More specifically, today I will shout at web developers who think that delicately inserting an iPhone up their ass is the same as mobile web development.

Before we start, a little thought experiment. Suppose I proposed the following:

1. IE6 is today’s most advanced browser. (Note: this was actually true back in 2000. Please bear with me.)
2. IE6’s market share is about 80%.
3. The other browsers are way worse than IE6, and developing for them is a pain; something we’re not interested in and are a bit afraid of.
4. Therefore we will develop websites exclusively for IE6.

Would you agree with those sentiments, even if we’re back in 2000 and IE6 is really the best browser we have?

Or would you reply that our sites should work as well as they can in all browsers through the use of web standards, progressive enhancement, and all the rest of the best practices we’ve been preaching for the past ten years?

I distinctly remember a time when we web developers cared about such concepts. But those times are long gone.

La nouvelle interface de Facebook est sur les rails, pour tout le monde normalement depuis aujourd’hui 9 février minuit. Cette nouvelle interface apporte bien sûr son lot de modifications, et il y a comme d’habitudes les heureux, et les mécontents. Des groupes se sont déjà créés, la routine des changements d’interface!
Le récapitulatif des modifications apportées ayant déjà été donné sur cet article il y a quelques semaines, je bascule cette news sur une autre : un nouveau plug-in est désormais proposé sur Facebook pour uploader des photographies. Venant d’être déployé avec l’arrivée de la nouvelle interface, il est vanté comme beaucoup plus rapide, mais nécessite l’installation d’un plug-in. (J’ai tenté de tester celui-ci pour confirmer les attentes, mais un message s’affiche : « Vous utilisez une version simplifiée du module de téléchargement de photos Facebook. Une meilleure version est disponible mais pas pour votre navigateur. Pour profiter de cette meilleure version, vous devrez utiliser Firefox, Safari ou Internet Explorer. », le problème, c’est que j’utilise la dernière version de Firefox…)

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RIM's BlackBerry platform is still the most popular mobile smartphone platform in the U.S., but Google's Android was the big winner in the last quarter of 2009. According to comScore, Android's share of the U.S. mobile market more than doubled from 2.5% in September 2009 to 5.2% in December. While the Nexus One might not be a bestseller just yet, it's clear that the Android platform is poised for rapid growth in the next few months, as more and more manufactures continue to release Android-based phones.

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Among the top 5 mobile platforms (RIM, Apple, Microsoft, Palm and Google), Palm lost the largest amount of market share in the last few months. Palm, the current number four, now owns 6.1% of the U.S. mobile market (down from 8.3% in September). With Google's Android rapidly growing in popularity, it's only a matter of time before Google will overtake Palm in the United States.

As we reported in January, according to ChangeWave Research, a growing number of U.S. consumers plans to buy an Android device in the next few months. In September, Android was still tied with Palm as the least-preferred mobile platform. Today, Palm remains in last place, with Android now being the second-most preferred platform (right behind Apple).

Universal Pictures vient de mettre en ligne un nouvel extrait du film Shutter Island de Martin Scorcese avec Leonardo DiCaprio, bon autant être honnête, cet extrait ou rien c’est pareil…

Shutter Island – Extrait de l’arrivée [VOST FR]
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Les clichés sur Internet ont l'épiderme épais. Pour quelques politiques rancis, nostalgiques de l'ORTF, Internet est "pourri" et devrait être nationalisé; pour un ou deux marchands de réclame du siècle dernier, c'est "la plus grande saloperie inventée par les hommes" (rien que ça!); pour ce nouveau philosophe plus très frais, c'est une "poubelle"; pour certains journalistes en mal d'exotisme numérique, on y aligne les forçats; pour d'autres, les médias traditionnels "abdiquent" (!) devant le Web... Rien de nouveau sous le soleil: la capacité de résistance au changement, chez l'homo-pedibus, c'est une constante.

Benoît Raphaël, le patron du Post, s'en émeut aujourd'hui dans un billet de blog très fâché - chez lui, c'est rare. Objet de son courroux, un documentaire paranoïque d'Arte - chaîne pourtant ataviquement intelligente et qui compte dans ses murs des personnalités de valeur, comme le pertinent Joël Ronez. D'après Benoît Raphaël, qui l'a vu et qui relève en passant qu'elle est diffusée la veille de l'entrée dans l'arène parlementaire de la Loppsi (ce texte qui fait se rétracter d'effroi tout ce que la blogobulga compte de libertaires démocrates et réciproquement), la chose aligne les truismes et les approximations comme sa maison mère les audiences étriquées (je sais, c'est facile, j'aime bien Arte en plus, enfin quelques trucs sur Arte, mais c'est bien fait pour elle).



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Sur le fond, la dénonciation d'un conspirationnisme dont je suis moi-même un adversaire déclaré, rien à dire: pour ce qui me concerne, les obsédés du 11 septembre et les névrosés de la vérité est ailleurs sont, au mieux de sévères allumés, au pire des sous-marins en eaux troubles dont il faut systématiquement se demander, avant toute chose, pour quel nauséabond commanditaire ils naviguent. J'ai même dû écrire quelque part (et là aussi) que cette faune bigarrée se faufilait habilement dans le marigot numérique.

Nonobstant, j'ai aussi écrit que le Web génère ses propres anticorps et que le buzz n'est pas né avec Vinton Cerf. Si je me souviens bien, l'affaire Marcovic s'est propagée avant l'apparition du micro-ordinateur et Elvis est mort et ressuscité quelques centaines de fois sans que Twitter ou Facebook s'en soit jamais mêlé. Je dirais même plus: si Mitterrand avait fait sa Mazarine à l'ère d'Internet, les journalistes auraient-ils pu retenir l'information? Par charité laïque, je ne reviendrai pas sur les interviews créoles et strictement télévisées de PPDA ou les annonces prématurées de morts encore vivants - que les réseaux sociaux font très bien aussi mais qu'ils n'ont pas inventées.

La charge de Benoît Raphaël est brutale et sans nuance. Elle absout un peu vite Internet de ses dérives et fait du Web 2.0 une panacée qu'il n'est pas (encore). Elle a le mérite d'enfoncer quelques points sur les i - de la télévision, du journalisme old style et surtout de la Loppsi, qui cache notamment derrière un combat légitime (mais pas très futé en l'occurrence) contre la pédophilie des intentions bien moins louables. Quand même, je ne peux pas m'empêcher de retourner l'un de ses credos, à Benoît: oui, il y a de très belles choses sur le Net; il y a n'importe quoi aussi.