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some companies have done this really well by having a person who's sort of their advocate on Facebook or LinkedIn. It's someone who really gets how the medium works, knows how to engage with people, and most importantly, comes across as a real person.

A Finnish Internet community is seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start a mass movement toward electric cars. The plan is to encourage the conversion of used gasoline-powered cars to run on electricity, with the first rollout due this year. The Finnish-language forum, eCars - Now!, claims to be first of its kind in the world, and is working in the tradition of the open source projects used in information technology -- like the Linux computer operating system, which was also started by a Finn.

Meglena Kineva, commissaire européenne à la protection des consommateurs, veut se pencher sur les règles du e-commerce en Europe, afin de rendre plus sûr et accessible un marché où surfent 150 millions de consommateurs, dans 27 pays. Mais sur lequels seuls 30 millions achètent des biens et services en dehors du Web de leur pays.   Un de ses objectifs est donc d'abolir les barrières entre pays, en matière de commerce en ligne. Explication : certains marchands pratiquent des prix différents d'un côté et de l'autre d'une frontière, mais ne permettent pas aux internautes de la franchir. Acheter une console Nintendo chez Amazon en Allemagne ou en France, parce qu'elle y est moins chère, peut s'avérer alors impossible pour un Anglais. Le site marchand le renvoyant systématique sur sa version britannique.

With a population of 64.473 million people (source : Wikipedia), the Twitter user density for France is one Twitter account for every 10350 inhabitants. Other European countries have an higher Twitter density, e.g. in Norway there is a Twitter account for every 1350 inhabitants, in The Netherlands there is a Twitter account for every 2800 inhabitants.

Selon le ministère de l'agriculture américain il faut de l'ordre de 15 000m2 de terres agricoles pour subvenir aux besoins alimentaires annuels d'un adulte occidental , 2500m2 pour un végétarien (ni viande ni poisson) et 700m2 pour un végétalien (aucun dérivé d'origine animale style lait).

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AIDS/LifeCycle Raises a Record $11.6 Million to Fight AIDS

Aids Ride, SF-LA bike ride.

It's the information and email overload studies that trip my BS detector the most. While I agree that an overstuffed inbox and constant email monitoring can kill your day, this $700 billion a year cost to the American economy makes me raise one eyebrow high in doubt. Did researchers factor in how much time email actually saves people who use it?

The 2008 edition of the WKCI compares 145 regions across 19 knowledge economy benchmarks (full data for all indicators across each of the 19 benchmarks is contained in the accompanying Excel spreadsheets). This represents an increase of twenty regions compared to the last edition in 2005: nine from Europe, eight from North America, and three from Asia Pacific. These new regions were selected on the basis of a survey of a wide range of regions appearing to be become more internationally competitive. This year’s report also contains a special chapter on economic development in the three leading Chinese regions.

The Android software looks, feels and works a lot like the iPhone’s. Not as consistent or as attractive, but smartly designed and, for version 1.0, surprisingly complete. In any case, it’s polished enough to give Windows Mobile an inferiority complex the size of Australia; let’s hope Microsoft has a good therapist.

Les plaignants étaient quatre entreprises anti-contrefaçon basées dans la capitale chinoise conduites par la Zhaoxin Information Technology Co., Ltd.. Ils ont insisté sur le fait que l'Administration générale de supervision de la qualité, de l'inspection et de la quarantaine (AGSQIQ), régulateur de l'industrie, avait violé deux lois chinoises, dont la loi antitrust, par ses efforts à généraliser un réseau en ligne connu sous le nom de Système de traçage, d'authentification et d'identification des produits (PIATS).