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Happy new year

2007 année de transition .... 2008 année de réalisation !

Thanks to all my reader and friends.... enjoy your life/work.

Je vais surement bouger mon blog pour feter cela ;-D

Europe... time, culture and quality !

First let's start with Saul Klein presentation @ The Next web conference.

Europe can lead in various internet domains (as said by Saul & Jeff Clavier) like mobile and broadband and probably open source and P2P. That seems to be a fact now.

Europe is lagging behind the US, but it's actually great news.
We have time for us. Time in our transparent world is knowledge and as we all know time is also money !

• Time to see what happens over there in terms of new products and results. You can launch a copy of twitter, but you can also spend sometimes fixing the idea or the model, twitter guys are running after scaling (and hey are not currently translating it, it will cost in scaling ;-)).
• Time to evaluate. Facebook make a huge announcement and like always it's the rush in europe. You need to develope something quick ... get on board as fast as possible ! Even if i agree that it is a great distribution opportunity, I want to know why last.fm hasn't taking part. I want to evaluate if i can scale, I want to consider the product carrefully to get it right the first time. Why I can wait ? Because i was the only one in my facebook networks until a few weeks ago. When I look for HEC (my shcool) all the registered users will graduate in 2008 or 2009 (they are only 200 of them and they poped up recently). So facebook it's just starting to break in France -31k users in the france region- (I know it's more in the UK).
• We learn from the US because they are transparent ! As Google Scholar says it "On the shoulders of the giants". We have been studing last.fm development plan and for scaling U-lik (that contains mainly photos) we use the scaling strategy of Flickr. It's Priceless !!!

But most of all, Europe is a unique place because it's plural.

• Unifing Europe is more painfull, but it can be the best entry barrier you could ever come up with. And we are the all ones really capable of doing it quickly. Skyblog has beaten Myspace in many European languages, we have our leaders from Netlog to bebo or event Piczo. Try adding your school in Facebook, it does not exist... they have only 6 high Schools for Paris!
• Think about Kelkoo and last.fm.
• Cultural lifestyle can make it difficult for americans.  Europeans don't  love stats has much as americans. We are more interested in quality relation than by having the largest number of friends. It's no big deal but it means that we can create more value elsewhere in the chain.
• Building a european large website make you closer to a universal model. Look at Amsterdam, people from all continents live there because they were once colonized. That's an excellent spreading base for non european growth.

When Saul ask : "So what about Europe ?" he gave many examples:

• we've always had creative prodigies (s20)
• We still create global entertainment ... (s21)
• brands that define global luxury... brands that disrupt markets globally (s22 &23)

--> It's all about entertainment, culture and high quality. This were we could make the difference.

European companies think big and entrepreneurs  take huge risk and I agree with Gary... don't need to blame entrepreneurs too much ... we also need a better ecosystem. Saul gave a great help with the open coffee, but we need more. More quality !! I'll get back on that one in my next post about conference in Europe.

We have time, we have exist startegy (it's easier for an american to buy it's way in Europe - again look @ kelkoo and Last.fm or we can go the other way and get quoted there -vistaprint-), we have entry barriers, we have quality stuff and we are closer to a universal apporach.

Ecosystem is getting better everyday and we will see more & more European successes ... that's for sure !

I love EUROPE and you get amazing insights from this various cultures (I have plenty of example from the conference). I'll be happy to have your views on this.

Vive l'anonymat ... juste une impression.

Je rentre du Barcamp et je tombe sur mon ordi sur deux messages laissés sur le chat de mon blog.
Deux points de vue .... que seul l'anonymat permet.

Le pire c'est que j'apprécie beaucoup cette liberté de  ton. Anonymat ou pas !

Juste une impression.... que j'ai clairement ressentie mais qui se matérialise bien.

Ne pas faire l'unanimité reste pour moi qq chose de bon.
--> Hall of Fame ou Hall of Shame ... c'est de l'expression.

Tribute against Violence. Insights from Kathy Sierra

My first post on twitter was back in december 2006. It was called Working on my attention.
I've tried Twitter back then thanks to a very smart post from Kathy Sierra.

Unfortunately, Kathy is under web violence at the moment (which also represent a huge insight on weblife). She explains everything in her blog (Wikipedia summary of the story just below).

Thanks for that great insight before the hype. I hope you will blog back. Lessons needed.

In March 2007, Kathy Sierra abruptly cancelled her appearance at the O'Reilly ETech conference in San Diego, after receiving graphic and sexual messages that made her afraid to leave her house. In a blog post at Creating Passionate Users, she stated that the harassment started with some blog comments posted four weeks earlier. Then she came across some other comments and photographs which indicated to her a pattern of intimidation
Source Wikipedia. (Imagine what you would have written and then watch the history of the page)

Wanderingstan has also an (again) excellent post on the contribution ratio for twitter.

Twitter is describe as Ambient Intimacy ! Smart.

F-Liste je me prends au jeu

La f-liste circule depuis plusieurs jours, objectif augmenter ses backlinks !!!
Youpi je ne suis dedans, et je la repique à Gaduman qui est passé chez moi (et qui a un blog passionant ... et qui est dedans luii !!) je fais tourner selon le principe de base :

1 / Reprendre l’intégralité de la liste de liens de la “F-List” telle qu’elle figure là où vous la découvrez.
2 / Ajouter en début de liste le blog qui vous a permis de récupérer la F-List.
3 / Ajouter les blogs que vous lisez régulièrement.
4 / Poster sur votre blog.

La fin des blogs ... ils sont fort MicroFilm

Je suis tombé sur cette petite vidéo du collectif MicroFilm sur la fin des blogs ... très fun même siles arguments ne tiennent pas la route une seconde.

La fin des blogs...
envoyé par MicrofilmDansTaChambre

What is a blog ? The Blogumentary.

After what is web 2 ?. Here is a documentary on the history of blogging... the blogumentary.
The video is a bit long (1h) but quite interesting and describes Samuel Pepys as the first blogger.
Thanks Thimothy for the video.

Une couche de CES en plus !

Olivier Ezratty vient de rendre son rapport sur le CES disponible en Html.
très partique si vous voulez faire du copier coller pour une de vos notes, ou si vous voulez acceder à un des chapitres en particulier (celui là par exemple)
Bonne lecture.

PS: Son ID U.[lik] c'est olivez // jettez un oeil à sa télé personnalisée.

Les bons mots de Nitot

Voici un extrait trouvé dans une note de Tritsan Nitot sur Vista : une tres belle définition de l'ordinateur personnel. Comme me le disait El rude dommage qu'il soit occupé avec Firefox car qq'un qui ecrit cela nous on l'embauche direct chez U.[lik]

J'espère que le lecteur du Standblog, probablement plus préoccupé par les enjeux de l'informatique que l'utilisateur lambda, saura voir plus loin. En l'occurrence, voir plus loin c'est savoir prendre du recul. Comprendre que le PC, c'est bien plus qu'un mange-disque numérique, ou une machine à écrire perfectionnée. L'ordinateur personnel, c'est vraiment, plus que jamais, une extension numérique de soi. Le plus important dans "ordinateur personnel", c'est cet aspect personnel. C'est ce qui me permet de communiquer avec mes proches, accéder à la culture numérique, que ce soit en ligne (Wikipedia) ou pas (CD pour la musique, TV-HD pour des films). C'est ce qui me permet d'exister dans le monde numérique en tant qu'humain, en interagissant avec mes semblables, en ressentant l'émotion provoquée par une oeuvre d'art numérique, en accédant au savoir en ligne, en produisant moi-même du contenu numérique en tant que blogueur, photographe amateur, et créateur de liens avec mes amis.

Why I keep Seth Godin in my feeds

Because it's fun .... and sometimes it's just great :

"99% of the time, in my experience, the hard part about creativity isn't coming up with something no one has ever thought of before. The hard part is actually executing the thing you've thought of.

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics."

You could also gove a read to that one about WEB4 or this one about Permission Marketing