France’s double standards on privacy
On March 1, the French government regulated that Internet companies must keep their users’ data for a year, and make them available to the authorities when subpoenaed. These data include anything…
Olivier Coudert
Olivier Coudert has 20 years experience in software architecture and product development, including 10 years in research. He lived in Europe, US, and India, and enjoys traveling. He is interested in technology as a whole, in particular software innovations, web-based applications, social networks, and cloud computing. Follow Olivier on Twitter or Facebook, and meet him on LinkedIn.
Stories by Olivier Coudert
Twitter Maps America's Mood in Real Time
What’s the mood in the US? To answer the question, researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard College fed about 300 million tweets to a system based on ANEW (Affective Norms…
Why Facebook wants you to believe that “email is dead”
Apparently email is dead. That is what Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg claimed at the Nielsen Consumer 360 conference last week and what we wrote a brief report about earlier this…
So will Buzz and Facebook finally bury Twitter?
Buzz was introduced by Google with much clamor on Feb 9, 2010. Since then, we have seen a lot of debate around it: Google stepping into the social media arena…
Is Twitter Flattening? A Short Answer
Compete and Quantcast have now released their latest data about the traffic on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for December. According to Compete’s report, twitter.com’s US traffic reached 22.81 million unique…
Twitter sure is a rollercoaster, but going up or down?
The last 10 days have been pretty interesting to follow in the fast moving world of Twitter. They showed a contrasting (or seemingly so) picture of where the super-hyped company…
What is Twitter’s next step?
Lots has been written and hyped about Twitter since its creation three years ago. Twitter has been touted as the fastest growing social network (19% of U.S. Internet users tweet),…
What was hot at the TechCrunch Munich event?
Today we spent the day at the Techcrunch Europe event, co-hosted by Sun Microsystems at their offices in Munich. Mike Butcher, TechCrunch Europe’s Editor, was on hand to take about…
