Justin Bieber est la star de seize ans et tout ce qu’il fait est filmé. Tout! Même les choses embarrassantes, comme cette vidéo dont il heurt une porte vitrée.
Tout s’est passé quand Justin s’apprêtait à quitter l’Hôtel Radisson et poussa la porte automatique. Cela a arrêté la porte, mais rien n’a arrêté sa tête! Pauvre gosse!
Au moins il a le sens de l’humour. Regardez la vidéo:
vendredi 21 mai 2010
Finally, an official Twitter iPhone app
Yesterday, Tweetie 2 for iPhone disappeared from the App Store. Its replacement, simply titled Twitter, is now available.
This comes a little more than a month after Twitter acquired Tweetie from its creator, Loren Brichter. In addition to being free, the app now carries the distinction of being "version 3.0."
If you were expecting a big update and iPad support alongside the new name, brace yourselves; Tweetie -- er -- Twitter has remained relatively unchanged from its prior release.
That's not a bad thing; as we reported in our original reviews of Tweetie 2 and Tweetie 2.1, Tweetie is one of the best Twitter experiences for any platform and, in our opinion, was the winning app on the iPhone by a wide margin.
That said, check out some of the new features and tweaks that you can find in the newly rebranded app:
• You can use Twitter without an account. Spy on your friends without having to actually use Twitter.
• You can sign up for a Twitter account within the app itself, complete with Suggested User List.
• The "More" tab has been reorganized and popular actions have been moved to the main action bar.
• Search results include Top Tweets.
In acquiring Tweetie, Twitter raised the ire of its developer community, who worried about what this means for their own applications now and in the future. Twitter has argued that it needs to have an official client to improve basic user experience.
Earlier this month, Twitter for Android was released and RIM launched its own Twitter application for the BlackBerry. This means that the three hottest smartphone platforms all have official Twitter clients.
If you never used Tweetie, we highly recommend downloading Twitter for iPhone. It's just a great application and now that it's free, there's really no excuse not to give it a try.
What is your favorite Twitter client for the iPhone? Let us know in the comments below.
Hey Facebook! Here's your privacy redesign
We asked several leading user experience designers how they'd overhaul the social network's obtuse privacy settings interface if given the chance. Here, in their own words, are their innovative solutions.
With Facebook, it's largely a communication issue. Privacy settings are completely divorced from your actual information. You have to either bring up both pages simultaneously, which is cumbersome, or you have to remember what you put into each of those fields and what those fields were labeled, which isn't typical behavior. So when redesigning, I didn't think the issue that needed tackling was a better design of the privacy settings page necessarily, but actually the context in which those privacy settings are being set.
The two key pages I thought people are most concerned about are the info tab and the wall. I used the same drop downs that exist on Facebook today, which I felt aren't really poor in functionality or usability. Those drop-downs are actually pretty clear. Already, there's a distinct difference between "Only My Friends," "Friends of Friends," and "Everyone," and I think that those are fair groupings. But they need to be displayed in context to give them a lot more credibility. By doing so, I think it makes people more comfortable about what they are saying and takes these settings from being purely conceptual, to something concrete. Users will see what they have an impact on.
Facebookers respond to 'Draw Mohammed Day'
Thousands of users posted illustrations of Muslim prophet Mohammed to the web Thursday, responding to a controversial Facebook group that prompted Pakistan to block access to the social-networking site.
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day encourages people to flout the belief by devout Muslims that it is wrong to depict religious figures because it could lead to idol worship. The group has more than 81,000 fans on Facebook.
Creators of the group say they got the idea after recent controversies surrounding the belief. A series of cartoons of Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper in 2005 led to riots in countries around the world.
At least two European cartoonists live under police protection after drawing Mohammed and, most recently, Comedy Central edited part of the animated show "South Park" because it showed the prophet.
By mid-morning on Thursday, more than 7,300 images had been uploaded to the Facebook page, most of them drawings of Mohammed.
Some are silly. But a quick scan showed many that are crude, and some seemed to be intentionally offensive.
The creators of the page said that's not what they're after - that their message is about free speech, not attacking Islam.
"Enjoy the rest of the day and draw Mohammed however you may like," said a Thursday morning post. "We will of course encourage you to make a creative and humourous picture, instead of something hateful."
Predictably, the group has created backlash. Another Facebook group, called "AGAINST Everybody Draw Mohammed Day," actually had more members - about 96,000, as of Monday morning.
Recent posts on that page called on members to "keep protesting against those filthy pages" and report the Draw Mohammed page to Facebook as being objectionable.
But a Facebook spokesman said the page does not violate any of the site's terms. A glitch prevented some users from accessing the page briefly Monday morning, but he said that was technical and has been fixed.
"We want Facebook to be a place where people can openly discuss issues and express their views, while respecting the rights and feelings of others," he said Thursday.
"With now more than 400 million users from around the world, who have varying cultures and ideals, using Facebook as a place to discuss and share things that are important to them, we sometimes find people discussing and posting about topics that others may find controversial, inaccurate, or offensive."
He did, however, suggest Facebook is monitoring the situation closely.
"When these feelings, or any content reported to us becomes an attack on anyone, including Muslim people, it will be removed and further action may be taken against the person responsible," he said.
He said Facebook is disappointed with Pakistan's decision to block the site and is considering legal action.
Pakistan's government issued an order Wednesday blocking Facebook for an indefinite time because the site had not removed the page.
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day encourages people to flout the belief by devout Muslims that it is wrong to depict religious figures because it could lead to idol worship. The group has more than 81,000 fans on Facebook.
Creators of the group say they got the idea after recent controversies surrounding the belief. A series of cartoons of Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper in 2005 led to riots in countries around the world.
At least two European cartoonists live under police protection after drawing Mohammed and, most recently, Comedy Central edited part of the animated show "South Park" because it showed the prophet.
By mid-morning on Thursday, more than 7,300 images had been uploaded to the Facebook page, most of them drawings of Mohammed.
Some are silly. But a quick scan showed many that are crude, and some seemed to be intentionally offensive.
The creators of the page said that's not what they're after - that their message is about free speech, not attacking Islam.
"Enjoy the rest of the day and draw Mohammed however you may like," said a Thursday morning post. "We will of course encourage you to make a creative and humourous picture, instead of something hateful."
Predictably, the group has created backlash. Another Facebook group, called "AGAINST Everybody Draw Mohammed Day," actually had more members - about 96,000, as of Monday morning.
Recent posts on that page called on members to "keep protesting against those filthy pages" and report the Draw Mohammed page to Facebook as being objectionable.
But a Facebook spokesman said the page does not violate any of the site's terms. A glitch prevented some users from accessing the page briefly Monday morning, but he said that was technical and has been fixed.
"We want Facebook to be a place where people can openly discuss issues and express their views, while respecting the rights and feelings of others," he said Thursday.
"With now more than 400 million users from around the world, who have varying cultures and ideals, using Facebook as a place to discuss and share things that are important to them, we sometimes find people discussing and posting about topics that others may find controversial, inaccurate, or offensive."
He did, however, suggest Facebook is monitoring the situation closely.
"When these feelings, or any content reported to us becomes an attack on anyone, including Muslim people, it will be removed and further action may be taken against the person responsible," he said.
He said Facebook is disappointed with Pakistan's decision to block the site and is considering legal action.
Pakistan's government issued an order Wednesday blocking Facebook for an indefinite time because the site had not removed the page.
Long-lost brothers reunite via Twitter
We've heard of musicians finding collaborators via Twitter and reporters finding sources, but what about long-lost brothers finding each other? Well, that's what happened to Matthew Keys, online news producer for KTXL FOX40 News in Sacramento, California.
"I have a routine of checking my e-mail, Twitter and Facebook before bed each night, just in case something happened during the evening that I didn't catch, " Keys told us. Well, at nearly midnight, Keys saw a message that would lead to a pretty big piece of news that he didn't previously "catch" -- a message from a man named Adam Smith reading: "Hey is your mom's name Jackie?"
Obviously, Keys was a bit freaked out. Still, after seeing Smith's picture, which looked familiar, the young man recalled having spoken to his brother before. "Adam and I actually met in a web forum," he explains. "Neither of us can remember exactly how we came to meet, but we kept in touch off and on over the past year on MSN and Skype."
Determined to solve the mystery, Keys fired up Skype and messaged Smith.
"He started telling me things from my childhood that I had heard bits and pieces of growing up -- things nobody could have possibly known," Keys said. "I gave him my cell phone number and told him to call me. After a few minutes talking on the phone, it became pretty clear to both of us that he and I were related. We wound up speaking on the phone for four hours, so much so to the point that I had to take the next day off from work to sleep!"
How did Smith know that Keys was his bro? Well, a few years ago, his mother told him that his father had other children, and mentioned a few names, including Keys's. "At some point, Adam started asking his mom and our dad about me and something in him pushed him to ask me on Twitter details about my biological mom," Keys says.
After reconnecting, the two then went onFOX40 for an interview, and Keys was even able to give Smith a ride to the station, because -- get this -- they live 10 minutes away from each other. According to Smith, the boys have even more siblings out there, waiting to be found. Here's hoping they all have Twitter handles.
As an online news producer, Keys knows only too well the power of social media.
"After telling our story on Facebook, we were flooded with people e-mailing and posting to our wall about similar lost and found stories involving biological and adopted siblings and relatives," he says.
"It was extremely touching. I use Twitter for much of the same reason. Twitter and Facebook are both extremely powerful tools to reach out to our television audience and to interact and respond to the praise, concerns and personal stories of those who watch our on-air product."
It's apparently also giving the old-fashioned PI a run for his money.
Google offers free fonts for the Web
In an attempt to move beyond drab typography on the Web, Google on Wednesday released 18 freely usable fonts and an open-source tool designed to smooth over browser issues in displaying downloaded fonts.
A number of Web designers -- if not all readers -- are excited that newer browsers support downloadable fonts so sites can use more than the handful that it's safe to assume are installed already on people's computers.
For every eyeball-searing grunge font and blood-pressure-raising instance of Comic Sans, there's a tasteful use of an artful logo or distinctive text.
But font licensing rules mean a Web designer can't necessarily upload any old font for a site. This is where Google's move, announced at its Google I/O conference, comes in. The company released 18 fonts and also announced an interface that lets Web sites use them.
"Google has been working with a number of talented font designers to produce a varied collection of high quality open source fonts for the Google Font Directory," said Raph Levien and David Kuettel of the Google Font API team in a blog post. "With the Google Font API, using these fonts on your web page is almost as easy as using the standard set of so-called "web-safe" fonts that come installed on most computers."
The way to Web fonts was paved with the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) formatting standard and more recently the Web Open Font Format technology that helped encourage Web typography support from traditional font licensing companies.
But even with those foundations, there are copyright concerns that might put off Web developers.
Google's fonts are free of copyright restrictions, though.
"Since all the fonts are open source, you can use them any way you like. We also have a separate project hosted on Google Code for downloading the original font files. Since they're open source, they can be used for just about any purpose, including for print," the Google font team members said.
In addition, Google announced an open-source project called WebFont Loader to supply Web developers with code to deal with differences in how browsers handle downloaded Web fonts.
The software, a collaboration with Small Batch's TypeKit project, includes JavaScript code to control how Web pages display types for a uniform experience across different browsers, Google said.
A number of Web designers -- if not all readers -- are excited that newer browsers support downloadable fonts so sites can use more than the handful that it's safe to assume are installed already on people's computers.
For every eyeball-searing grunge font and blood-pressure-raising instance of Comic Sans, there's a tasteful use of an artful logo or distinctive text.
But font licensing rules mean a Web designer can't necessarily upload any old font for a site. This is where Google's move, announced at its Google I/O conference, comes in. The company released 18 fonts and also announced an interface that lets Web sites use them.
"Google has been working with a number of talented font designers to produce a varied collection of high quality open source fonts for the Google Font Directory," said Raph Levien and David Kuettel of the Google Font API team in a blog post. "With the Google Font API, using these fonts on your web page is almost as easy as using the standard set of so-called "web-safe" fonts that come installed on most computers."
The way to Web fonts was paved with the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) formatting standard and more recently the Web Open Font Format technology that helped encourage Web typography support from traditional font licensing companies.
But even with those foundations, there are copyright concerns that might put off Web developers.
Google's fonts are free of copyright restrictions, though.
"Since all the fonts are open source, you can use them any way you like. We also have a separate project hosted on Google Code for downloading the original font files. Since they're open source, they can be used for just about any purpose, including for print," the Google font team members said.
In addition, Google announced an open-source project called WebFont Loader to supply Web developers with code to deal with differences in how browsers handle downloaded Web fonts.
The software, a collaboration with Small Batch's TypeKit project, includes JavaScript code to control how Web pages display types for a uniform experience across different browsers, Google said.
TF1 diffusera 5 matches du mondial en 3D
La 3D est définitivement à la mode. La chaîne TF1 a annoncé ce jeudi sur son Twitter qu’elle allait diffuser cinq matches du Mondial 2010 en 3D. Il s’agit du match d’ouverture, d’un huitième de finale, un quart, d’une demi-finale et bien sûr de la finale.
Gilles Maugars, le directeur adjoint technologies de la chaîne s’est exprimé sur la question dans une interview accordée à Tele-2-semaines.fr : “Je ne vois pas comment on pourrait passer à côté de ça. Sony, en accord avec la FIFA, filmera 25 matchs en relief. Sur ces 25 rencontres, 14 concernent celles programmées cet été par TF1. Nous aimerions bien diffuser entre trois et cinq matchs en relief“.
Alors si le foot en 3D, vous tente, il vous faudra vous munir d’un téléviseur 3D et de lunettes adaptées, de son côté TF1 va devoir créer un canal dédié qui pourra traiter ce format spécial. Un canal qui devrait être accessible depuis le bouquet de CanalSat ou bien sur la fibre optique d’Orange.
Notez que la première chaîne effectue maintenant des tests 3D depuis un an : “Nous expérimentons le matériel, les caméras, le rendu des images, la façon de réaliser… Nous venons par exemple de filmer en 3D les plateaux du JT, de Sept à Huit, de Téléfoot, d’Automoto et de 50 Mn Inside. On n’a pas encore vu les images donc je ne peux rien en dire“.
Enfin pour ce qui est de la question financière, TF1 serait actuellement en discussion avec la FIFA et Sony pour une participation aux coûts de production.
Après le tennis, le rugby, la 3D s’invite désormais sur la planète du ballon rond, une bonne occasion de vivre toute l’émotion d’une Coupe du Monde autrement !
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