Before, Fnac was only a big store, a physical place where people would walk around, read, listen to CDs, etc. Developing Fnac.com e-commerce website was necessary, but it meant putting in place complete logistics, different from what they mastered in their stores.

Imagination exercise :

Imagine that you are a little structure, four French pals deciding to sell bio-product (it's so trendy nowadays !). You don't have enough money to rent a store in the inner-town. You know a friend of your father who can provide you the products but his stocks are in another town. You have developed a great idea by setting up a partnership between you and a logistics company of a border country.

What would do ? ....

Use the Internet !! Create your own website according to your specific needs, like a virtual store. Set up your head quarters in a little town with low rent (and it's really suit to bio-product selling...]]> http://newmediaeconomy.metawiki.com/socialnets 2006-11-30T15:51:20+01:00 Marion linkedin social network Création de la page A social network is a group of people united around something: an experience, a job, a hobby, or just a desire to be connected to each other.
An example on the Internet, could be Linked In, a business oriented social networking site, mainly used for professional networking.

Registered users can have a list of “connections”, meaning people they know and trust in business. Each person's network contains first their direct connections, but also each of their connections connections (called second degree connections) and also the third degree connections.

People can use this network to find jobs or people, they can recommend (or be recommended by) someone...

Here is a video from a woman introducing herself to Linkedin:

And there are also some people who can help you create FAKE connection, to make you look popular! See h...]]> http://newmediaeconomy.metawiki.com/proxies 2006-11-30T12:11:46+01:00 Guillaume proxy, server, hacker Création de la page Time to talk serious stuff : proxy servers. I think almost everyone heard this expression, but merely nobody can tell exactly what it is.

A proxy server is a remote computer through wich you surf on the internet. In a word, this computer will surf for you and transmit the informations to your computer in real time.

That means that from the website's point of you, the computer which is surfing on it is the proxy, and not you, though your are indeed surfing the website. And from your computer's point of you, you are surfing this only computer and not the whole web.

What is it used for ? In some countries, the internet is restricted by the governement : you cannot access certain websites that are rated as "subversive". But if you set up your browser so it connects to a proxy server, and surf the Internet through this server, you'll be able to access all the websites you want without any restriction.

Some websites are geolocalised, which means they can be accessed only by the resident of one country. For exemple, the BBC allows only UK resident to watch football games live on their website. If you use a british proxy server, you can use this website even if you're not connected from england.

Hackers do use proxy servers to hack into comuters without being identified : the computer which is responsible for the breaking in is the proxy, and unless you can force the owner of this proxy to reveal the information, there's no way to know who used it. So if you want to perform illegal activities on the internet, you got to use at least one proxy located in a country where the legislation connot force its owner to reveal your indentity, in order to make sure you'll not be found.

But using proxy servers might be risky in case you connect to a server aimed at luring people. Some hackers indeed create free access proxy servers for people t...]]>