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"Google a annoncé hier qu'il allait fusionner Insights for Search dans Google Trends, dans le but de créer le « new Google Trends ». Avant de vous présenter le résultat de cette fusion, sachez qu'Insights for Search est un outil qui vous permet de récupérer de nombreuses statistiques sur les recherches faites par les internautes sur l'ensemble des sites de Google. Ainsi, vous allez avoir la possibilité d'obtenir les tendances de recherche par mot-clé (courbe chronologique) avec une comparaison entre différents mots-clés, de lister les plus populaires, de filtrer des courbes de tendances par catégories, ainsi qu'une carte des pays, régions et villes où les requêtes sont les plus populaires… Quant-à Google Trends, est un outil issu de Google Labs permettant de connaître la fréquence à laquelle un terme a été tapé dans le moteur de recherche Google, avec la possibilité de visualiser ces données par région et par langue. Grâce à ce dernier, vous avez la possibilité de notamment comparer la fréquence de plusieurs termes. Une des fonctionnalités de Google Trends est la présentation d'articles d'actualités associés directement aux pics de popularité du mot clé. Dorénavant, le « nouveau » Google Trends comprend désormais des fonctionnalités des deux produits, et dispose d'outils basés sur HTML5, notamment grâce à Google Chart, permettant d'afficher les graphiques en ligne et la carte des pays. Pour ceux qui ne voient pas l'utilité de ces derniers, sachez que cela signifie que la page peut être chargée à partir de n'importe quels dispositifs mobiles, et les résultats peuvent être visualisés sans défilement. Malheureusement, Google va également afficher les "hot searches" mais seulement pour les États-Unis, l'Inde, le Japon et Singapour."

"Most small companies can't take advantage of the big trends occurring in the world today, but they can keep an eye out for small ones that they can then translate into new businesses or companies. Thinking small and being imaginative can let entrepreneurs succeed."

The authors cover in depth how cities are using a host of social media tools to enhance governments' delivery of many different kinds of services, ranging from distributing health and safety information, to responding to requests for graffiti removal and infrastructure repair, to encouraging and soliciting citizen participation in policy-making. They also outline how different cities run their social media operations, laying out the benefits and drawbacks of centralized versus decentralized social media strategy, and detailing how some cities structure the approval process prior to posting content to social media sites. Beyond presenting best practices, "The Rise of Social Government" highlights emerging trends in social media and how governments can get take advantage of them. Essential trends include monitoring, measuring crowdsourcing and integration of the mobile web. The authors take care to differentiate between monitoring and measuring social media. While monitoring involves listening to conversations on various platforms, measuring involves tracking the numbers that encompass engagement and the report details tools for each activity. The authors also talk about the rise of mobile social media and mobile apps, and the use of crowdsourcing, especially for emergency management

No individual can really track and understand the impact of change in all the emerging technologies like Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Social Media, Agile Methodology and Big Data … You can realistically aim to have an in depth understanding of only a small subset. By in depth understanding I mean you know significantly more about the subset than a person who has spent about an hour Googling the topic. Let me talk about the subset that I have been exploring in depth and why. Cloud Computing: How is the cloud value proposition changing over time? Mobile Computing: What are the options to handle multi-platform application development challenge? Social Media: How is Hyper-connectivity changing out life? Agile Methodology: How Agile can co-exist with Outsourcing?

Politics Transformed: The High Tech Battle for Your Vote is an in-depth look at how social media and digital tech is changing the way we choose our leaders. In it, Mashable reporters uncover how the campaigns are utilizing massive stores of data gathered through social networks to better target political advertising, how crowdfunding could shake up campaign finance, and we meet the masterminds shaping the digital best practices for electoral politics. We report on how watchdog groups are using social media to protect the vote, why social media has put even more heat on candidates to stay on-message, and ask whether voting over the Internet will ever be safe. In spite of its massive and unprecedented growth, we're only just beginning to figure out what it means to be social online, and political strategists are still in the early stages of figuring out what social media can and can't do. The trend is clear, however: digital will be an ever more important factor as each new election cycle rolls around. We can't know yet what the future might hold for social media and politics, but here's how social is changing things right now.

"Kids don't want computers. That's one of several striking data points from worse-than-expected figures showing the global PC market is in decline. Since young people tend to drive technology trends, poor back-to-school sales of PCs say more than a drop in overall sales alone. We already know PCs aren't cool (are college freshmen more likely to show off their new iPads or their new Dells?), but it's starting to look like they're also not needed."

With the increasing digitization of healthcare, the trend of "Big Data" has been gathering steam. According to a new report from digital health consultancy DrBonnie360, there is an estimated 50 petabytes of data in the healthcare realm. That's predicted to grow, by a factor of 50, to 25,000 petabytes by 2020. The report, which I've summarized in this post, does an outstanding job of profiling the leading products utilizing Big Data in healthcare.

Design trends are influenced by both form and function, but also bow to limitations of existing technology. When we look back at flat-screen TVs compared to LCDs, then further to the bulky cathode ray tube (remember these?), it's obvious we've come a long way. Within a few years, according to industry reps, we'll say the same about store displays, vehicle lighting and kitchen countertops.

here is a revolution upon us in the Maker community. Use of computer-controlled construction methods, such as CNC machines, laser cutters, and 3D printers is on the rise and the cost to build these machines from scratch or from a kit continues to come down towards the point where your average household will soon be able to readily download and print objects the same way we download and print off a document. A major jump in this trend comes from the creator of the Solidoodle. The Solidoodle is a 3D printer, capable of printing a 6″ x 6″ x 6″ object with a basic price point of $499, and a spool of filament will run you $43. For comparison, there are many high-quality inkjet and laser printers that run for this cost or more on Amazon while the cost of toner cartridges and ink refills run a pretty wide range and can easily cost more than $43. The Solidoodle premiered recently at NY Tech Day and was named the best of NY Tech Day by CNET. I had the chance to sit down and Skype with Solidoodle founder and CEO Sam Cervantes and got some more insight into the printer. He is a very nice guy and talked with me for about 40 minutes so I've pulled the highlights below.

"La réalité augmentée, (RA) déjà présente sur smartphones et tablettes va s'étendre sur d'autres supports. L'idéal serait sur des interfaces plus adaptées à l'homme, comme par exemple, une paire de lunettes. En effet, grâce à la commercialisation des applications de gadgets marketing construites pour smartphones, la RA a su conquérir les consommateurs. ABI Research prévoit une prochaine vague d'applications de RA encore plus significatives qui comprendra quant à elle l'impression interactive, le shopping mobile, et l'éducation des enfants. Concernant les différentes interfaces, Google projetait de créer un nouveau verre. Mais selon l'analyste Aapo Markkanen il faut tempérer ces attentes. Selon lui, "le problème est que, pour permettre des utilisations attrayantes sur n'importe quelles paires de lunettes il est nécessaire que les lentilles soient à la fois grandes, lumineuses, et esthétiques"."

"Georges Nahon delivered a very inspiring keynote today before our panel of bloggers in which he shared his vision with regard to what is happening in IT in general, and in the Valley in particular. I will begin my account of Georges's visionary presentation by detailing his conclusions. As I always do, I have taken detailed notes of the pitch and they are made available at the end of this piece. If there is one thing that should be remembered from that pitch is that the Web is everywhere and in everything that will be happening in the future. Something which established players don't like according to the Head of Orange Silicon Valley. However, Nahon insisted on the fact that it won't be the same Internet we used to know."

Until recently there were two major workspaces for knowledge work: offices and field work. Communication technologies, economic shifts, and changing corporate attitudes have enabled the rapid rise of home workers. In addition, co-working facilities or what I call the cloud workplace are becoming prominent in providing many of advantages to workers of office work without requiring commuting into a central office. When we think about the future of workspace, given the massive shift to distributed work, the question arises of whether centralized office will still have a reason to exist in the future.