Agence France-Presse (AFP) Takes Shareholding in Scooplive.Scooplive goes international and becomes CITIZENSIDE.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- Agence France-Presse (AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. ) and IAM IAM - Interactive Algebraic Manipulation. Interactive symbolic mathematics for PDP-10. ["IAM, A System for Interactive Algebraic Manipulation", C. Christensen et al, Proc Second Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM Mar 1971]. , a company founded by Xavier Gouyou Beauchamps and Pascal Jos[c]phe, reported this morning that it had taken minority shareholding in Scooplive, renamed CITIZENSIDE. Scooplive, a company founded in 2006 by Matthieu Stefani, Julien Robert and Philippe Checinski, gives individuals the opportunity to sell their pictures and videos on current news, in return for a small commission. The company now takes a step forward and becomes CITIZENSIDE (www.citizenside.com), a site which enables the media to use the platform that has been developed for two years as a white label. The media will thus be able to cultivate nearness and interaction with their readers or audience, and to obtain from them news documents to complement their own or agencies production. Committed to its clients, the media, AFP aims at helping them to develop a privileged relationship with their readers or audience, and to obtain from the public valuable news by holding the platform CITIZENSIDE at their disposal. "For us, this gives us the opportunity to conduct a commercial and technologic experience in the world of the web 2.0, for the benefit of our clients, mainly in the media sector. We intend to offer them the possibility to use the technological platform under their own brand. AFP will not be involved in the editorial process of selection and validation of the documents available on the platform" said Pierre Louette, AFP Chairman. With contributors from around 90 countries, citizenside.com is a site pursuing strategic aims: acceleration of its international development, widening of its community, increase of the documents received and of the number of partnerships with the press, TV, web and mobile media. CITIZENSIDE wants to emerge as a global leader of qualified participative information by developing a favoured relationship between amateur and professional media. "CITIZENSIDE will capitalize on the experience gained by its founders and its new partners" says Matthieu Stefani, a founder of Scooplive. AFP, the first news agency in the world, was created in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, its current President being Pierre Louette. Today, it operates in 165 countries and has over 4,000 employees and 7,000 clients. Citizenside (www.citizenside.com), launched as Scooplive is a pioneer in citizen reporting. Launched on June 20th, 2006, by Julien Robert, Philippe Checinski and Matthieu Stefani, Scooplive enables amateurs and professionals to sell their news documents (events, celebrities, sports, etc.) to the media worldwide. Xavier Gouyou Beauchamps is a former adviser of Valery Giscard d'Estaing and was chief of the press department at the Elysee Palace from 1974 to 1976. He is also a former president of Sofirad, Telediffusion de France (TDF (language) TDF - An intermediate language, a close relative of ANDF. A TDF program is an ASCII stream describing an abstract syntax tree. TDF became part of TenDRA in abut 2001. ) and Sofipost. He was the CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of France 3 from 1994 to 1996 and then chairman of France Television from 1996 to 1999. Pascal Josephe is the chairman of IMCA IMCA International Motor Contest Association (Vinton, Iowa) IMCA Investment Management Consultants Association IMCA International Marine Contractors Association IMCA Instituto de Matematica y Ciencias Afines (Spanish) , International Media Consultant Associes, a company specializing in consultancy in the world of communications and media that he founded in 1994; prior to this, he was in charge of different TV channels programs. Philippe Checinski is a former trader at Refco Trading Services. He was also in charge of marketing studies at Banque Bipop. Julien Robert graduated as an engineer (SUPINFO Paris) and obtained a Master in Web Technologies (Oxford Brookes University Oxford Brookes University is a public university in Oxford, England. Overview The University has roots in Oxford that go back to 1865 (when it was known as the Oxford School of Art). The present student body is 19,000. ) with distinction. He also received the B.O.C.C. award for developing the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). (World Wild Web Consortium), an application dedicated to the research regarding daltonism dal·ton·ism n. An inherited defect in the perception of red and green; red-green colorblindness. . Matthieu Stefani is one of the pioneers of free daily newspapers in France Below is a list of newspapers in France. National Paid-for newspapers
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