Le stars des vidéos Internet dans SouthPark

Voici une vidéo excellente extraite de la série South Park (en anglais) :

Le site le plus moche du Web

Et voici le site internet le plus moche au monde.

Attention, ça fait mal aux yeux ;-S

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Atlas Internet Search infrastructure

This is a brief overview of a large vision: enabling search to become
a part of the Internet's infrastructure. Building on Atlas as an
open protocol, search can become a fully distributed and
interoperable world-wide community. All of the participants can
interact openly and in any role where they believe they can add value
to the network.

A search engine can be constructed from many independent entities
serving different roles instead of one monolithic system. These
entities are exchanging aggregate information, or knowledge, and can
decide with whom they want to work with. To design this working
economy based on knowledge, there must be balance between these
various entities. Each actor must have incentive to act both for
their own benefit and for the benefit of the whole, and enough
information to make and validate those decisions. Reputations and
relationships are the essential fabric of Atlas, just as they are in
a real-world free market.

There are three primary roles within Atlas:

Factory - Responsible to the content.
Collector - Responsible to the keyword.
Broker - Responsible to the searcher.

Each of these actors must interact with the others to complete any
search request. Any two roles could be performed by a single entity
(whereas if all three are performed by one entity, the result would
be a traditional, monolithic search engine).

A Factory is akin to a crawler in today's search engines. An Atlas
Factory must fetch and process the content as intelligently as
possible, performing analysis (such as Natural Language Processing)
and normalizing it into distinct units. A Factory shares its highly
refined and processed output with one or more Collectors based on who
they believe is best utilizing it.

A Collector absorbs and indexes output from one or more Factories,
with one primary goal: ranking. An Atlas Collector must provide the
most intelligent ranking and relationship analysis possible. A
Collector has to compete for the output of a Factory, as well as
compete to provide the best ranking quality for Brokers.

A Broker must provide a searcher with the best possible results. It
does so by combining diverse ranking results from Collectors and also
by retrieving content from the original Factories. This last step, a
Broker interacting with a Factory, is critical to maintaining a
balanced ecosystem. All Factories must be aware of and approve how
their results are being used and by whom.

Reputation and reward is bi-directional between all parties (Factory-
Collector, Collector-Broker, and Broker-Factory). Each entity may
choose to interact on principle (free, Commons), attribution (results
provided by), or commercially (as a paid service), the Atlas protocol
is purely a facilitator and does not restrict how the relationships
between any entities are formed. In considering these motives for
the various entities, it's likely that the free-based networks will
tend to become more specialized, commercial ones will compete on
quality, and attribution based networks will mature in both directions.

This simple yet powerful division of roles, responsibilities, and
relationships will result in a distributed economic foundation for an
Internet Search Infrastructure. The wire protocol and further
definition of the interactions between these entities is openly
evolving, anyone interested is welcomed to join the discussions and
see the initial proposals at http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/
atlas-l over the coming weeks.

Thanks, looking forward to a radically different search ecosystem in
the coming years :)

Jer

PhpInfo() function : the first function of PHP

Hi,

In fact fact, we must use it before doing anything with PHP.

So the magic function can be found here or here

Even at this age of Web 2.0 ;-)

So I can say that PHP rules !

Cheers

What is Web 2.0 ?

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other.

The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.

In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.

This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0.

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:

Web 1.0		Web 2.0
DoubleClick	-->	Google AdSense
Ofoto	-->	Flickr
Akamai	-->	BitTorrent
mp3.com	-->	Napster
Britannica Online	-->	Wikipedia
personal websites	-->	blogging
evite	-->	upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation	-->	search engine optimization
page views	-->	cost per click
screen scraping	-->	web services
publishing	-->	participation
content management systems	-->	wikis
directories (taxonomy)	-->	tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness	-->	syndication

The list went on and on. But what was it that made us identify one application or approach as "Web 1.0" and another as "Web 2.0"? (The question is particularly urgent because the Web 2.0 meme has become so widespread that companies are now pasting it on as a marketing buzzword, with no real understanding of just what it means. The question is particularly difficult because many of those buzzword-addicted startups are definitely not Web 2.0, while some of the applications we identified as Web 2.0, like Napster and BitTorrent, are not even properly web applications!) We began trying to tease out the principles that are demonstrated in one way or another by the success stories of web 1.0 and by the most interesting of the new applications.

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Qu'est-ce donc ? S'agit-il du mot 'LIBERTE' ecrit en binaire ???

Nous y sommes presque : en fait, cette suite de nombres et de lettres est la clé de traitement de l'algorithme du HD-DVD qui vient d'être publiée sur Internet. Ce code permet de faire sauter les verrous numériques qui entravent le format HD-DVD et donc de copier à volonté les disques encodés dans ce format. Ce code est certainement celui qui a déchainé le plus de réaction (ainsi que de polémique) sur le net jusqu'à aujourd'hui : rendez-vous sur le site d'actualités américain Digg pour vous en rendre compte !

What's that ??? is it the word 'LIBERTY' written in byte code ?

Nearly : this code is the processing key for HD DVD format. It permit to crack HD DVD and its DRM deadlocks with a fascinating and ironic smile on your face...
This code is also the source of one of the biggest buzz on the Internet village (and also a small trouble and polemic on WWW), watch this on Digg to get more information on this.