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New muses coming from the "Fontainebleau Forest"... the greatest phenomenon at the moment... let me introduce you to... the BOB SQUAD

Blog is all, by the Bob Squad (Marion, Marie-Cécile, Magali, Morgane)

Everybody’s got to live together
All the people got to understand
So you love your neighboor
Like you love your brother
Come on and join the band


Everybody needs to use e-culture
Oh it’s greatest adventure
We’re so happy and we celebrating
Generosity is the queen


Blog is all
Blog is all
Come on and go with Bob
Blog is all
Yeah ! Let’s blog !

Strikes stroke again!

In Paris, the subway is terrifying. A crowd of people is trying to get in a wagon, people screaming, insulting others...you're far from the most beautiful city in the world.

But, fortunately, we are abble to work without subway, bus or train thanks to new technologies. Of course, it depends on the job you do but collars can easily work from home and send their work via the Internet. You can also share files with msn or even attend a meeting thanks to video-conference. This is the great advantage in those painful moments of stikes, squizeed in the subway.
This is a revolution in our way of working and even if it's still important to go to work, we can manage and feel more free.

New technologies, a gift in our lives

All you've always wanted to know about your addictive applications but were afraid to ask... Facebook, MSN and My space won't have any secret for you and will be yours for ever!

Abracadabra... the magic of the web

The internet is a wonderful place to discover new talents, it's a real stock of brains and efficiency. Some people launched new application such as Facebook created by Mark Zuckerberg, My Space and You Tube. These creatives are mostly young people who share their ideas and concepts through the Internet. Now, these people are famous and quite wealthy because their projects have mostly been bought by big grups such as Google. We must say that the Internet is a nest of talents, some people of course didn't succeed but they could create trends. Facebook had a fantastic buzz, that's why it's so popular today.
I think the Internet is an amazing way of producing programs and applications, people should carry on creating trends. It's our modern creativity... and we like it.
Creators did found great jobs and they are now very famous because they begin from nothing. They are an example for a lot of people, a kind of self-made men of our time who can mold fashin for the entire world.

Social Message Sent

SMS are a now a very simple way of communication. It's very easy to send a message from your phone to another but it enables people to write things instead of talking to someone. It's very interesting to see that a phone can be an oral media as a writting media. SMS is quick and it is easily availiable for consultation. A SMS is also practicle and we can use it everywhere and at any time. For the moment, SMS are still used for private conversation, indeed advertising hasn't yet interfered SMS conversation.
Nowadays, SMS becomes a new kind of social link. We see it in a lot of TV shows, programs such as "T'empêche tout le monde de dormir" or "Le Grand Journal" in France use SMS to interact whith the audience. They prefer SMS because it's easier for people and quicker. It's the only one use of SMS until now, we know that advertising will, a day or another, be on the mobile.
Moreover, SMS have a mercantil role, a lot of compagnies reach buyers through SMS especially young people.
To conclude, we can say that SMS is about to be a way of making money giving the impression of reactivity for the users.

Fame...I wanna live forever

"Fame is a fickle friend"...

Many people are looking for fame because it helps them to feel better and more interesting, thus the Internet is just the most fantastic tool for them. In former times, it was a bit difficult to be famous, indeed you had to be very special to be know, very gifted. Today anyone can be on the Internet : on dailymotion or youtube.

But on the other hand, it's so easy that you have to be very special too. A lot of people will see your talent, but it's hard to catch the attention when we can have a look at everything on the Internet.

In France, for example, we have few people who became famous thanks to the Internet such as "Kamini" and "Passymal"... You can have a look at it right now...

Kamini is one of the first singer who succedes on the Internet in France with his clip Marly-Gaumont. It was what we call a phenomenon...the problem is that fame on the Internet is volatile. We don't actually remember people on the Internet, it's very ephemeral.
However it's a very good start...
Here another example of fame on the Internet...


The thing is that the Internet is a way of being seen, not always to become famous. We make fun of those who try to become famous and don't succed. This is how it works generally, with a lot of humour. But we can find this kind of phenomenon on television with entertainement programmes like American Idol...

Elephant or the horror of guns

This is terrible to see what happens to young students in some schools, they shot at their classmates, professors and also themselves. The common point of those dreadful stories is that media was always involved : diary, mobile phone and recently the Internet. When think of Colombine, we know that their were two and they used mobiles for examle. The thing is that students are often keen on new technologies, they use them very easily and their private life transit exclusively through them.

If we focus now on the Finnish student, we learnt that he posted a video on You Tube that proved he was up to something. Obviously nobody paid attention to it but You Tube moderators removed the video right after the drama.

It raises the problem of liberty on the Internet, indeed, are we supposed to track everyone on the web?

Police is already doing this, they track pedophiles on the Inetrnet and they seem to be quite successful. The thing is that we are totally going against the ideals of the Internet. Nowadays, for questionsof security, secret services such as the CIA or the DST are always surfing on the web in order to catch anyone who can "threat general good".

It's sad but the police managed to catch a lot of people thanks to this, the Internet is no more a free place. It's a question of security, there must be some limits.

I think it's better to act before the "crime" has been comitted even if there are some troubles with it. For example, some people in Finland made jokes about scripting other massacres in schools but they were caught whereas they were not up to do it.

The problem is also that policemen are not bound to patrol on the internet. If I found a serous information about a crime, I woul tell he police because it may save people but it's very compllicated on the web to see who is joking, who is srious and who is preparing an attempt.

Your face on the web or more...

Facebook is a social network that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information. It was launched on 2004 by Harvard College students who wanted to share informations. Then, over the next year other universities were allowed to join, it worked with different universities email adresses.

Today, Facebook is very popular in a lot of countries especially among students. It enables you to share your photos with people you've chosen, it might be your friends or people of grups that interest you. Indeed, only some people have access to your profile and your photos, it creates a community for each school, society... For the moment, it remains private because you have to allow people to go on your page.

I said for the moment because Microsoft has just bought a part of Facebook. According to Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft, Facebook is a network very profitable. Indeed, advertisers have an incredible opportuity to know exactly the target aimed : their tastes, their passions... The idea of Microsoft is to sell facebookers' profiles to advertisers, in order to help them to take aim at the perfect target.

Some people are consorting in ordrer to face wath they call a "threat" to private life.

Sharing with strangers...

Internet is the only one media through which you can send money or pay your purchasing. Therefore, I believe trust is important and even compulsory.

Letting money to stangers through the internet is a bit amazing. It's, at first sight, a very generous idea because most of people on the site who are asking for money are people who have real problems. Most of them chose this way of borrowing money because it's their last chance.

People who lend money have no qualms. Indeed, they are just totally opposite to internet culture ; they take advantage of the situation and extort money to these people.

This is not a model of generosity at all, they just benefit of the other's misfortune. If banks refuse to lend them money it's because it's a risquy business for them...

However, many borrowers do not hesitate into investing for lucrative reasons, the interest rate is humongous... sometimes up to 60%

I think it's a viable model because there will always be hopeless people.

Outsourcing to the customers

Outsourcing is a way of transfering the execution of some operations to an external service provider. When the delegation of operations concerns customers, we talk about “Outsourcing to the customers”.
Indeed, the purpose of the outsourcing became a kind of business for firms : they have the opportunity to spend less money in the production and they reach the customer. He has the impression that he creates, he realizes something, that he is the one who decide.
It’s true that the customer decides but it’s also his responsability.
Great society such as the SNCF uses its kind of outsourcing, but we also find it in very little firms. For example, some restaurants propose the clients to compose themselves their salads; the customer is more involved in his food and he has the power of chosing.
It’s really valorising to know that you can control something, it belongs to the consumption society and therefore individualism.
Nevertheless, the customer asume the whole responsability for everything he buys. It will be impossible for him to complain about their tickets or the taste of the salad they’ve made!

Tweety Twitter

A twitter is a social network that enables you to say what you're doing whenever and wherever you want. It's a kind of microblogging. You invite your friends to share your activities and theirs. The purpose of a twitter is to know where you are and what you are doing day by day.
It works thanks to very short messages that you can send from your phone or by mail on your twitter that people can visit at any time. It's a funny way of keeping touch with your friends.
Twitter began in 2006 in San Francisco in the start up "Obvious Corp".

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Correct the text below and place the corrected text on your blog. Pay special attention to words or phrases that are mistakes commonly made in translating from French to English:

CURRENTLY, I work IN a FIRM WITH 65 salaried. IT is located IN Paris IN the 15th arrondisement ON Maubert' STREET. ITS GOAL is to commercialize children’s SOFTWARES.
IT BENEFITS SUBSIDIES from the state to HIRE young INTERNS. That is how I BECAME BUSINESS MANAGER. In the first PLACE, I WAS IN CHARGE of marketing, but NOW I HAVE NEW RESPONSABILITIES.
We are selling a RANGE of products UNDER the BRAND "Youngsoft". We GIVE MARKETING AN IMPORTANT PART. Our BILLBOARD in the TUBES is one of the most expensive ONE. Our PR department also has A HUMONGOUS budget. We realize our own ADS with our EDITING staff, and we MAKE OUR OWN HANDBOOKS.
Our QUARTERLY results for this year have been all very positive. Our market is very ATTRACTIVE right now, and that is why we THRIVE.
We want to commercialize our products TO Tahiti because we think OVERSEAS' customers would be interested in buying them.
In BRIEF, THANKS TO our PROFESSIONAL ETHICS and OUR interesting market niche, WE HOPE WE'LL HAVE A BLOOMING FUTURE.

I blog, you blog, he blogs....

When you visit someone's blog, you are expecting to find original things that represent the creator of the blog. To me, a good blog contains articles about subjects you like but also photographs and, why not, videos.

A blog is a kind of mirror of your personality, it's very personal. It could be for friends or only for you as well. In fact, a blog is a place where you have the possibility to express yourself.

Indeed, you can update whetever you want, write on what interests you the most : your passion for cats or your taste for music...

Nevertheless, an interesting blog is a blog that changes quite often. When you have a blog, you have to post new articles about your feelings and your thoughts on a subject YOU like, because it's your webpage and that's what people are looking for. If you don't want yours friends to be bored, just update photographs, video, personal comments...

A good blog's a blog ALIVE!!

Surfing on the WEB!!!

You need a social network ?? Just ask web 2.0...

There are a lot of social network on Internet, the idea of community is everywhere. You could build one with some friend and make funny things...
A lot of people belong to a social virtual group, we have the example of video game players who spend all night on game website or people who look for information or anything!
But we also create a network for work, it's a way of getting together for leisure or work, to have fun or just to talk with friends.
Some networks just don't carry on because it's a bit faddish sometimes, on the other hand, if you make efforts to connect with people frequently, if you're interested enough in what you're doing, it's just great...

Spaulding Class :

1) What is a good example of generosity as a business model on the Internet ?


At the beggining, Internet was an unbelievable source of generosity. It was made for scientists, they had the possibility to share their researches and informations. Therefore, it was supposed to be a sharing programm.

But internet, like other media, has become an oppotunity to broadcast advertisements and make money on the surfer. Of course, sites are generally free of charge but we all know that behind them, there is a humongous amount of money. If Google or You Tube are free, they are also in war against their competitors. Google is so powerful that they just overwhelm the other brands.

Generosity exists on the web, fortunately, but it's between the internautes through blogs and helpful sites. When we have a look at Google which is among the most lucrative firm in the world, we can't really think about generosity but money. Internet has become a buiness even if the idea of a worldwide village still exists.

The thing is we must define generosity on the web; I don't believe it doesn't exist nevertheless it's hard nowadays to find a trully generous business model.

Luckily, sharing appears elsewhere : in associations, institutionnal sites etc etc.