Etudiants de INF 6107 Web social

Google is working on a social service to rival Facebook, if Web rumors are to be believed. And while Google's social-networking efforts have so far fallen flat, even satisfied Facebook users should hope that the search engine's efforts bear fruit.

After months of rumors and hinting, Twitter has unveiled its major new foray into the world of geolocation, Twitter Places.This feature will highlight tweets at a given location.

We’re losing interest in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill just a few weeks after it became a big media topic — and long before we’ve even made a dent in cleaning up after this mess — if Internet search and discussion trends are to be believed.

We like to hack things, to take them apart to understand how they work, recombine their elements, improve them and add new ones, some of which we've built from scratch. We hack all kinds of things--computers, cars, food, networks, governments, music and so on. We hack some things that we don't own (like open-source software) and many things we do. Once we buy something we consider it ours to hack, and we don't need or seek anyone's permission to do so. Nobody can dictate where, how or what we hack, particularly when we're not breaking any laws. Our work is profoundly beneficial; it's a big source of creative destruction in the economy and society. We turn out innovations much better and faster than big sleepy incumbents do, and we also keep them on their feet. They might not like us, but they can't stop us; we'll either hack their wares or turn out better ones. So we don't need to play nice with them, and don't have any interest in doing so. Entities that welcome us are, in the not-too-long-run, going to outperform those that don't, because we bring so much energy and generate so much innovation.