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So what would it mean for us? For a person – start feeling as part of the whole body or real-time sensor/motor cell of entire humanity organism, with every your search query, email, chat message or mouse click making it a bit more clever and strong, and every your action to some extent inspired by it. For software developers – get ready for emerging market of intellectual agent software (with first lonely players like Siri, Google Now and Sherpa), either keeping in mind business model of a «pilot fish», operating in biocenosis with one of the «Big Sharks» or having a good exit strategy for the case when your functionality may get on the way of some of major players (like it has happened to Yandex Wonder). For business – for competitive business promotion, understand how to craft «double-sided» web pages looking attractive for fellow people on one side and rich of true semantic markup on the other side. That kind of markup, invisible to human eye (see http://schema.org/ for more details) is to be indexed by «semantic crawler» at Google, collecting the thought-food for its Knowledge Graph — so that your site could get returned to user as single right answer on user's query, instead of being on 10th row of second page of search results. For government – be clear that ability to enable national projects of intellectual globalization might turn into a key for national security in the very close future. That does not necessarily mean any governmental funding of certain developments, as we have seen couple business enterprises managed to capture the third of the world in few years, so the most efficient option would be creation of appropriate business environments for high technology and information technology businesses within national borders. For humanity – get ready to pass through the next (since invention of computers and internet) pivotal point of development, with all coming surprises, frustrations and openings of new opportunities. For evolution – prepare to record forthcoming meta-system transition (since assembly of atoms in the molecule, molecules in the cell, cells into organism and neurons in the brain) in the Universe's diary book. Via Complexity Digest, Spaceweaver Delete the scoop?
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Il y a 2,3 milliards d’internautes dans le monde, dont plus de 40 millions en France. 78% de ces internautes fréquentent les réseaux sociaux: Facebook, twitter,… Via Radwane Souir Delete the scoop?
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Copy is a cloud for people, friends, and companies. Use it to keep your computers in sync and your files available from anywhere and from any device. Sign up and get 15 GB FREE. Via Ana Cristina Pratas Delete the scoop?
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Dragdis is a Chrome extension with which you can save web content into categorized folders by dragging them to a popup sidebar. Install it free. Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL Delete the scoop?
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Les utilisateurs de Google Tag Manager et de la version Premium de Google Analytics vont avoir droit à de nouvelles fonctionnalités pour mieux maîtriser leurs applications mobiles et le traitement rapide de quantité massive de données. Via Ma veille Delete the scoop?
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May 20, 5:50 AM
Life is like an ECHO ... Delete the scoop?
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Ken Morrison's curator insight,
May 21, 10:17 PM
My favorite quote in this video: 
Andrea Walker's comment,
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Great conversation going on here. I curate to build knowledge and develop deeper understanding of things i am interested in, sometimes I can use that information straight away and sometimes I go back to it later when i need it. It all goes into the melting pot that becomes our knowledge bank. Getting everyone else's perspectives helps to crystalize your own thoughts and perspectives.
I also like the quote from the video - "Our role as curators is to find the most interesting things in this massive onslaught of messy information." 
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Fascinating people and discussion about the role of curators in tribes. This actually intrigued me to sign up for scoop.it and explore how I can use it to connect with others. Delete the scoop?
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Diaporama d'une intervention sur les 4 temps d'une stratégie de veille. Journée académique des professeurs documentalistes de l'académie de Lille, 16 mai 20 Via Michel Guillou, isabelle kesler Delete the scoop?
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Si vous souhaitez améliorer votre utilisation de Twitter, voici 7 trucs & astuces qui vous seront utiles. Augmentez votre nombre de followers et de retweets Via FredColantonio Delete the scoop?
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Your brain's dominant side correlates with which ear you use while speaking on the phone. Researchers believe this finding will help doctors isolate the language centers in the brain before surgery. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
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May 20, 6:40 PM
This is just a supposition. They are basing it on the fact of handedness, and ASSUMING it indicates brain side dominance. They are doing this because they are HOPING for a new way to test for brain dominance.
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Computers aren’t just getting better, they’re getting smarter. Sixteen years ago, a software program beat the reigning chess champion. IBM had spent seven years creating it, and it was time well spent. The victory got the world’s attention and proved that superior computation skills could at least sometimes add up to superior performance. Two years ago, IBM’s Watson software beat the world’s two best players in the television game show “Jeopardy!” Although “Jeopardy!” is a test of trivia, the victory was anything but trivial. It showed how well artificial intelligence researchers could process ordinary language and extract knowledge from unstructured databases.
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A titre énigmatique, contenu à portée quasi-philosophique. Ceci, à cause / grâce à Nicholas Carr et son livre The Shallows. Nous vivons dans une société d’hyper-consommation, de lecture en diagonale de l’information et de la distraction à tout prix. Via David T Delete the scoop?
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Que doit-on savoir avant de mettre un contenu en ligne ? Via Alain MICHEL 
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Une vidéo (23 minutes) qui fait un point détaillé de tout ce qu'il y a a savoir d'un point de vue juridique avant de publier des contenus sur internet. À conserver au chaud... Delete the scoop?
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If you're a Yahoo Mail user, things just got better because the company teamed with Dropbox. This makes it easy to send and save large attachments. Via DV Delete the scoop?
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You can use Excel 2010's database functions to calculate statistics, such as the total, average, maximum, minimum, and count in a particular database field when the Via Patty Ball Delete the scoop?
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Between the endless Euro drama and the Bitcoin brouhaha, currency has been much in the news of late. Most people would probably name the US Dollar as the dominant currency in this day and age. Via janlgordon, Steven Hughes 
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Mike Searles Thank you for your comment, happy you liked it, I love hearing that!
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Il y a 2,3 milliards d’internautes dans le monde, dont plus de 40 millions en France.
Cette infographie vidéo présente les chiffres clés 2013... Via Tolokonnikoff - Seratoo Delete the scoop?
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Je vous ai déjà dit tout le bien que je pensais de Evernote. J’ai pendant un temps cherché à utiliser cet outil comme base de favoris, partageables par email. Chez postach.io, ils ont eu une idée similaire: celle de créer un blog à partir d’un carnet de notes Evernote. Easy. Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL Delete the scoop?
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Carte mentale partagée sur Mindmister par E. SAUBION. 1 L'identité numérique 2 La bibliométrie 3 Savoir présenter les résultats de sa recherche 4 Faire de la veille automatisée 5 Les archives ouvertes 6 Moteurs de recherches spécialisés http://www.scoop.it/t/classemapping
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Les 10 raisons de l’adopter ou de préférer ses concurrents : Microsoft (Skype, Outlook.com… ) Facebook (Instagram, Fourskare,…) Yahoo (Flick), Tumblr, Twitter…
Retour sur la guerre que livre Google sur le partage, le stockage, la diffusion, la publication… Pour Google la recette est simple prendre le meilleur de chacune de ses plateformes pour les réunir dans une seule sa couche sociale "Google+" Via Tolokonnikoff - Seratoo , Didier Jacquot, lnajap 
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May 20, 3:44 AM
Ca devient difficile d'être partout où sont les gens ! :-) Le défi est évidemment passionnant. Delete the scoop?
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Pourquoi ne pas installer une extension Wordpress ? Car c'est plus rapide, plus stable et vous maître de votre blog Wordpress. Via Astuces Wordpress Delete the scoop?
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This infographic provides a visual guide and a brief synopsis of different uses for Twitter. It includes information about how Twitter can be used as a tool for information, customer service, networking, business management and website management. Via Lauren Moss 
Alexander Abramov's curator insight,
Today, 1:00 AM
It is difficult to use all of these components. Perhaps this visual guide will help not to lose the right way :) 
Maria Wilbar's comment,
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See very graphically how far that little bird goes out and tweets!
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Using Duck Duck Go with all my info lit classes now - the kids love the clean format!