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While the world was discovering new musical medium such as MP3, the world of Music was burying its CD cursing music’s dematerialization. So, 10 years later : is CD really dead ? Even if digital technology is overwhelming our lives and downloading websites are blooming on the web, some of our “old” habits haven’t disappeared yet. A study from Avail Intelligence shows that 51% of the polled choose compact discs as their favourite medium for music while only 25% would prefer downloading.

Let’s remember that lovely moment when you finally bought it, and ripped the blister off to discover those songs you’ve waited for such a long time. The book is just waiting for you : photos, lyrics and other comments that make you feel you’re just sharing a perfect and unique moment with the artist. According to the study, people keep on spending 15 euros a month to enjoy this simple pleasure.

Another figure to keep in mind: 80% of the Internet users don’t care about professional critics! However, 40% of them are more to trust advice coming from social networks. The same part of polled say they’d prefer to be advised by relatives or other web users…
What else than social shopping could it be ?

Spiegel has published a few examples of funny jokes that are hiding in programs and sites that we are using everyday without knowing it. I have quickly summarised the findings in a few lines:

These hidden gags are quite funny. Do you know of any other ones?

This is a funny video that shows what Facebook would be like in real life:

We organised last Thursday our first ‘Workshop’ in our Parisian office.
A workshop? We invited 6 people, with very different Internet habits, to test our site in sneak preview! It was actually one of the first time we invited external people to use our new website, so a big moment of truth for us!
Goal of this event: see if the brand new navigation standard we have developed is understandable and ‘adoptable’ by everyone. Then, define all the critical points, study the use and reflex of the users – who had no clue about the website and its services before coming - in front of this new website: what are the points to improve in terms of ergonomics, features, explanations, etc.
It’s been a more than interesting exercise for all of us, and we already started a lot of changes on our site to offer the best user experience to our future members as soon as we launch our beta version (which is now coming very soon!).
With such a success, we decided to repeat this experience as often as possible, and create the ‘First Wednesday’s workshop, which will happen every first Wednesday’s of the month. If you are interested in participating, just let us know!

Again, a big Thank You to Magalie, Gwenaelle, Sophie, Emmanuelle, Donald, Thibaud and Emmanuel for coming!

This article, which was published in ‘Die Zeit’ (Nr.24, 6.06.07) last week, is an interesting reflection of the problem of the European obsession of inter-governmental symposiums to make economically agile decisions. Where Europe discusses eagerly and does not decide anything, Google just does ‘it’. By now Europa ‘capitulates’ in front of Google.

Europe desperately tries to protect its ancient stand of guarding the sciences, while Google unstoppably floods the internet with information. What is it that makes Google that untouchable in comparison to its competitors? Google doesn’t have a product but capitalises on its popularity!

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