Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

The (not so?) long tail

Rethinking the Long Tail Theory: How to Define ‘Hits’ and ‘Niches’

In a working paper titled, “Is Tom Cruise Threatened? Using Netflix Prize Data to Examine the Long Tail of Electronic Commerce,”Wharton Operations and Information Management professor Serguei Netessine and doctoral student Tom F. Tan pull information from the movie rental company Netflix to explore consumer [...]

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Education shifts, time-location becoming a process

When we thought about education, we used to think about a building, some brick and mortar place where we went to sit on a bench and acquire stuff from 9AM to 4PM. Some DIYers used to go to the library to do it on the side, and that was pretty much the end of the [...]

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AÉTÉLUQ – Rencontre du 15 février

Suite à une demande du conseil d’administration de l’AÉTÉLUQ je me vois dans l’obligation de retirer mes billets à propos de l’association. Jusqu’à nouvel ordre, je ne pourrai plus blogguer à propos de mon expérience d’administrateur au sein de cette organisation.

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The ABC of business viability

You have a great idea for a business? You think it’s an unexploited goldmine? Try this test with your idea; if it succeeds you may well be into something. If you fail this test, stop right now, or find another way to solve the situation.
Are you able to solve someone else problem right now? Don’t [...]

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HT.com, now on WordBook

Great plugin from Tsaiberspace, wich allow to automaticaly write on your facebook wall the content of your blog.
Only problem i found with it was related to image caption. Wordpress use brackets to manage it, so the content of the brackets would appear in the excerpt, something we don’t want. I modified the code to add [...]

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