An eG8 before the G8

24 May. Eric Besson, Frederic Mitterrand, Christine Lagarde, Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation. Around 1000 persons gathered at the eG8 forum that took place in Paris this week, on 24 and 25 May. Key players of the Internet, among them CEOs of Google, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, eBay, John Donahoe, Free, Xaviel Niel, participated to the event together with French Minister of Economy, Christine Lagarde, French Minister of Industry,... more

Media at the Feet of the Net

Media at the feet of the net is a documentary that was broadcast on French private TV channel Canal+, earlier this month. It deciphers some of the impacts of the digital revolution on media. Here is a summary of its main lines.   In a ad for the Washington Post app for iPad, the star reporter Bob Woodward (since he triggered the Watergate scandal in 1972 with his pal Carl Bernstein) is struggling to use his tablet computer, and... more

An Info-Rich Issue: Curation, the Future of the Web?

  Some estimates say that in the near future, all the information available on Internet will double every 72 hours. In this growing confusion, making sense of things is as a necessity. Furthermore, drowned by the flow of information, attention of web users has already become very limited and is starting therefore to be of utmost value. To select information out of the “thread” of information, Google has globally imposed the... more