2007: Welcome to the music

To my mind, music is the trend which is going to develop the most on the web this year. Everybody knows the disc industry is slowly seeking. All the majors and music producers started to sell music online with different platforms (i tunes, fnac, virgin...). In 2006, the amount of legally downloaded music has doubled. By the way, new laws, such as DADVSI in Europe, aim at diminishing illegal music transfers. But on the other hand, more and more music producers get opposed to excessive protection over music. That is why Virgin and Fnac decided to sell unprotected mp3 on their websites. Because to the protection becomes so high, that several files can't be read anymore.

Concerning the way of improving musicians' incomes ,Jamendo, for example, proposes to give 50 % of the advertising incomes to the artists.

In 2006, 5 hundred millions of illegal downloads were recorded. This is half as many as in 2005. It proves that the users also become aware of the importance of respecting an equilibrium between legal and illegal downloads. Moreover, Myspace music is also a good way to discover new artists without downloading their music illegaly.


The MIDEM, meeting about all kinds of music businesses will occur in Cannes in a week. This will be a good occasion of seeing the latest news about this important part of the web.

of videos and Cv's

A good video CV must, in a few minutes, describe as precisely as possible the author. That means it must let an impression about his personality, his skills, his projects, his productions afterward. In order to create that effect, it is important to choose the right place and a representative way to film. Because things can be meant without words. I want to show my dynamism and my high ability to communicate ? The video occurs while I am walking. Then I have to talk in a clear voice, without stress. Then it is important to give a structure to the CV. First I give my name, age, situation. Then I talk about my school experience, my professional experiences, the things I love, the things I want. It is also very interesting to make a link with the media the author chose. If I chose internet to communicate, that means I must show to what extent I know this media and I act on it everyday. The main purpose is to offer more than a simple cv. A CV that reflects my personality, my motivation, my behaviour, my style. A CV that anybody can access at any moment from any connected place. The video must be a way to open to the world. The might be posted on a page on which the user can find links related to the things the author talked about. Links to a blog, links to websites. Moreover, it can be set into a designed page which is related to what we want to convey. This is the great property of internet. Let's interact !

Broadcast yourself !

The main functions concerning Youtube personal space are “upload a video from a webcam” and “upload a video from a cell phone”. This is in appliance with the development of 3G.
We can therefore imagine that other functions will be available from a cell phone such as “edit your videos from your cell phone”. It is also possible to create our own lists. This means that it is possible to create a friends network like on friendset, who will be able to find those videos easily. You can also get the comments posted by users about your videos. This implies the fact that you can interact with all the world of youtube. This goes totally in the sense of web 2.0 .

Finally, you can also create your own channel, your own TV. The public can now take the control of the medias. And it is far possible in the nexts years that people will have more and more influence on the different medias including TV. With the services Video on demand, with the variety of channels, with the possibilities to interact with internet, the public becomes an actor of the medias. And those actors get organized in communities of interest which will be more and more important in the future. Youtube only offers the technical device that allows us to make our own show. Broadcast yourself !

Saving Our e-Souls !

I have bought an 160GB external hard drive disk on which I save all the data that matter from my computer. If somebody stoles my computer I can get the latest data back. I know that my external hard drive disk can fail as well as my computer, but I hope both of them won’t break up at the same time. What is possible on the web is to upload all the data on a permanent server that you pay every month. But it is quite expensive and long to upload. There are also new technologies helping to secure data memory such as flash disks. They work as USB keys , without any disk. It is more efficient because it is always the disk which breaks.

A flash disk

Stalking on the web

Facebook Stalking is a web expression which describe the fact of getting information on a facebook profile without the agreement of the user. This is mix between spying somebody and harassing him. Some students do It in order to know private things about their mates. It happened that teachers did it to punish students who displayed forbidden practices on their profile such as drinking alcohol on a campus.

This term could also be used concerning all the people that get information on profiles such as on myspace, meetic etc.

Stalking is a big issue because it concerns people’s privacy on the web. In the USA there are laws about cyberstalking. Portecting privacy is quite difficult because pirates always find ways to circumvent security systems.




I think that the more secured personal profiles will be, the more accurate cyberstalkers will get. Furthermore, people put their profile on the web for only a few people. But how can they control the visit of people they don’t know ? This seem impossible unless having a secured access, only for friends. But restricting an access is also closing it to anybody else, including innocent and interesting people. The debate is hard.

Privacy pollution

Privacy pollution refers to all the contents that arrive on a private computer and which disturb the user. The first concrete example is spamming. Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited, undesired bulk messages. This is often used by companies who buy databases with a lot e mails in order to send a lot of advertising spams on your computer. Needless to talk about the pop ups appearing when a user is on the web. Everybody has suffered those instrusions.




Web pirats also use techniques to pollute private computer. They use spams with viruses, trojans , spywares that invade your computer and open it to pirats who can have access to your personal datas.

In order to protect themselves, people have access to a range of anti pop ups, anti spywares, anti virus, anti trojans such as Norton or freewares.

Norton Antivirus Box

A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents.

Diagram explaining how a CMS works


CMS can be used for blogs and websites. The web manager of the website logs in and have a special access which allows him to organize the different contents. He can adds some text, graphics, multimedia etc. The CMS let the blog phenomenon explode because everybody could now make his own space on the web without any money or technical skills. CMS translate our language to computer language, from wyswyg (What you see is what you get) to html or php etc.

The blog on which this article is posted works with a CMS. I have posted this text by using the CMS on which I have added links and graphics very easily. My photo website also works with a CMS. By modifying the design options, I completely changed the way it looked at the beginning.

CV

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