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Mes Podcasts Nova et Jean Louis Missika

Voici une petite sélection de mes podcasts préférés de la radio nova. J'ai choisit de faire une assonance sur Nicolas Sarkozy faut dire que nova il en abuse de notre président ;-D
 

Tout d'abord cette épisode de Sonar (édition du 25-01-08) que j'ai beaucoup aimé :

Ensuite cette épisode de Monde de Com' (édition du 25-01-08) :

Bonne écoute et comme j'aime bien rebondir ... j'en profite pour vous inviter à lire cette interview de Jean-Louis Missika paru sur un blog. Elle permet de mettre en perspective son parcours atypique qui le mène aujourd'hui sur la liste pour la mairie du 12ème.

A la recheche des pionniers cachés

J'avais annoncé le calme sur le blog, je vais faire juste une petite entorse pour quelques lignes sur les Business Angels et les pionniers de l'Internet. Grâce à olivier2.0, cette semaine,  j'ai regardé "Quand l'internet fait des bulles". J'ai été frappé par cette capacité collective à expliquer qu'une bannière est un rectangle graphique sur lequel on peut cliquer ;-D

Cela fait deux ans que nous travaillons sur une double lame de fond qui commence à émerger: social cataloging & collaborative filtering (il faudrait peut être rajouter micro). Ma bannière est donc un poil plus compliquée mais c'est le même sentier... celui de la durée et de la singularité. Nous avons tenu car nous avons trouvé quelques indispensables. J'ai pensé à eux en lisant cette petite lettre :

Votre approbation, votre affection font que la grimace et le hoquet des hommes sont moins hostiles, font surtout qu'on distingue dans le visage du soleil une clarté qui, tout en étant celle de tous, a une vertu balsamique qui ne se gaspille pas en vain car elle n'est accueillie que par quelques uns, ceux-là même qui la versent au compte scrupuleux de l'espérance de demain. Merci d'être un de ces essentiels. -Lettre de René Char à Albert Camus de mai 1951-

Je serais heureux de pouvoir rencontrer les pionniers pour pouvoir parler bannière avec eux et ecouter leurs experiences pour nos mois à venir. Si vous en connaissez un et que vous croyez à U.[lik], merci de m'offrir quelques minutes de votre temps pour les convaincre de m'accorder un peu du leurs. Je vous promets que ni le vôtre ni le leur ne seront gaspillés en vain.

Voici la liste dressée par Benjamin Rassat :

Christophe Angus /  Jacques Attali / Gilles Babinet (re) / Catherine Barba / Charles Beigbeder / Jérémie Berrebi / Charles Bianchi / Bertrand Bigay / Jean-Michel Billaut / Mickael Boukobza / Jérôme Bouteiller (rocks ;-D) / Nathalie Brion / Jean brousse / Jean-David Chamboredon / Pierre Chappaz / Julien Codorniou / Elie Cohen / Yseulys Costes / Thierry Crouzet / Michel Dahan / Nicolas Dufoucq / Gaël duval / Laurent Edel / Thierry Ehrman (Yeah!) / Orianne Garcia / Nicolas Gagnez / Rafi Haladjian / TarikKrim / Chine Lanzman / Patrick le Lay (yeah!) / Loic Le Meur / Marie Christine Levet / Patrice Macar / Gil Machac / Patrice Magnard / Henri de Maublanc / Michel Meyer / Olivier de Montety / PKM (Merci pour la leçon de vie & de netocracy) / Joel Palix / Serge Papo / Anne Sophie Pastel / Yannick Perrigot / Armand de rendinger / Patrick  Robin / Christophe Salomon / Rodrigo Sepulveda (Merci pour Olivez l'essentiel) / Thomas Serval / Marc Simoncini / Patrice Slupowski / Bernard Spitz / Edouard Tétreau (merci, sympa NY ?) / Jean-Noël Tronc.

A vos carnets d'adresses ;-D

Leafar aka Raphael Labbé
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Update: bonne idée en provenance du pont ... rajouter un pitch ;-D

U.[lik], la bibliothèque virtuelle :

U.[lik] propose aux internautes de créer leur bibliothèque virtuelle de goûts en exprimant leurs opinions sur ce qu’ils aiment, et leur fournit des recommandations personnalisées d’œuvres, de services et de relations sociales en fonction de leurs goûts.

La base de données du site, construite par les utilisateurs, va du rock à la poésie, de la science fiction à la peinture, des jeux en ligne aux marques de maquillage ou de mode, du sport à la politique. Elle est navigable par genres ou bien par catégories (people, film, album, jeux, villes, œuvres d’art …) et facilite les associations et les rebonds : les objets étant reliées entre eux par leurs liens naturels ou leurs similarités. 

U.[lik] est aussi un moteur de découverte qui combine une approche automatisée grâce à son algorithme de recommandation à une approche sociale en offrant à chacun l’accès aux bibliothèques de tous les autres utilisateurs. 

U.[lik] propose donc à ses utilisateurs de se rencontrer autour de leurs passions et de découvrir de nouvelles œuvres.

Petit test avec ma page perso : Mon Lounge

 

U.[lik] Sex Appeal

Yestersday night we've discovered a bug in the registered form during a few hours it wasn't working properly. I will not go into the details of it but we found an amazing thing when looking at the attempt in order to apologize to the people who have suffered from it. I am really sorry for that.

But what is surprising is that in half of the cases peopled tried to registered at least twice with a peak at 4 times.
I found that damn good in a world where you can leave in one click.... It's U.[lik] Sex Appeal.
I wanna go In ;-))

U-lik recrute

Merci rmen pour la prise vidéo.

U-lik.com recrute!
envoyé par rmen

N'hésitez pas à envoyer votre CV à iwantajob"@"u-lik.com

U.[lik] url par Jacques Villeglé

Il y a quelques semaine j'ai eu la chance de pouvoir rencontrer Jacques Villeglé. Ce fut un plaisir et l'occassion de lui faire réaliser l'url de U.[lik] avec son alphabet.

Facebook and the independent George... Sarah strikes again.

Sarahcpr as a great post about facebook and the myth of one Social network to rule all our connexions.
She uses an analogy that I love : the Independant George. For those you love Seinfeld, it's one of the best moment. For those who don't know the video is below (and a transcript at the end). This is how she puts it :

"It’s the same with my co-workers here at Yahoo who have been using Facebook for several years, but now suddenly have to deal with friend requests from their bosses. With co-workers lurking around, the atmosphere has shifted. What was once a fun hangout is now a place where they just can’t be themselves anymore."

--> "A george divided against itself cannot stand."

I had an exchange with Nic yesterday on facebook, he was asking me what i tought about it. I answered him by talking about the "Facebook cleaning" that students do before they leave university or before they apply for a job. When worlds collide it's becoming quite complexe.  It reminds me of friendster beginning when the 3 worlds "bloggers, attendees of the Burning Man festival, and gay men mostly living in New York" first collided (Source danah).

Hopefully Sarah has worked on a solution so we could get naked (at least with whom we want) and rule the world. I don't know if this radical transparency is already a myth (See wired's cover just below) but I've shared some intimates thoughs on twitter and the result was quite funny (You are a hall of Fame dear).

As you can see, I am not sure what is the right solution. I've always see that probleme with a puzzled eye ;-) So maybe splitting it could be great ... anyway it's gonna be a huge identity management problem. But I am sure than facebook will not become an API for friends management. The reason they added Apps was to create these social objects so we deal with everything inside their closed walls. Going down sarah's road seems a very good solution even if i am not sure how we (the users) are going to handle it. There are still a lot of opaque value in the social web.

Transcript :
G.Costanza: You have no idea the magnitude of this thing if she is allowed to infiltrate this world then george costanza as you know him ceases to exist. You see, right now I have relationship george but there is also independent george, that's the george you know, the george you grew up with, coffee shop george, liar george, buddy george ...
J.Seinfeld: I love that george
G.Costanza: Mee too.And he is dying Jerry. If relationship george walk trough this door it will kill independent george. A george divided against itself cannot stand.

Attribute of successful Internet Startups

Nic Brisbourne just wrote an incredible post on what can make an internet startup successful.
It was inspired by a presentation from Jyri Engestorm founder of Jaiku (I should try it now that i get the twitter thing). I've enclosed the presentation because it says a lot by itself :

Nic make a very good point about "essence"

how the service will operate as an emergent system - liquidity, status, buzz or UGC are common forms of “essence”

It reminds me of a phrase I found : "Forget selling features. Sell status, sell luxury, sell solutions, sell hope, sell inspiration" Know i am even eager to say ... sell identity ! Bourdieu would say Symbolic Kapital ;-)

The second point he made was about "social objects":

Think photos on Flickr, bookmarks on Delicious, or music on Last.fm and you start to get the picture.

Nic is right it's not an obligation (Myspace is an exception because they were the 1st and at that time "social objects" where picture and comments), but it made me think about facebook and i think the all idea of Apps is to give more social objects to create stickiness. It's only the beginning of my thoughts but I will digg because I have and will continue to dig Nic's trails.

More EPIC Vision of the WEB: the media revolution, the prosumer and I

This video about Prosumer is excellent. Olivier Ezratty (a BA in U.[lik] ) has been using the word since last year ... and I agree with M.Arrington it's great term.

This video is using the EPIC format of travel trough time to show the changes of the media world. (see all my post about an epic vision -Mainly in French-)

There are some very great ideas in it, like :

• Amazon! buying yahoo (even better than Google buying Amazon) Content will rule, software is something else (Google buy Microsoft)
• "Advertisement is choosen by the content creators, by the authors themselves and becomes infromation, comparison and experience" I agree so deeply !
• Prometeus and plaze are even closer than we think probably in 5 years.
• And the last thing that I love .. Voice = P.K.dick Avartar ;-)

BRILLIANT ! An EPIC Vision as i like them. Enjoy the video just below :

The Next Web Award made an amelie Poulain tour of Amsterdam

Thenextweb had an award ceremony. We'v all voted for companies ... but none of them was there to receive the price... so users took them !

I was the only one really beta testing joost so ... I am an happy user ;-)  (it will be a pleasure to give them back -but first I need to fix it-)

The price made our evening (we all took pictures with it, even the waiter).

---> Then it followed us on the saturday (& only me on the sunday) for an amelie poulain road trip.
From what I can tell he had a lot of fun. All pictures are geotagged in Flickr so you can make the trip too.

It was a pleasure to spend the conference, the evening and for some the week end with Richard / Charles / Colette / Mihai / Oliver / Stephane and the cameraman Alexander.

And guys ... i'll book the table for "la semaine du gout" (book the week 15-21/10) only if you post ... alexander is already qualified !

More about the event tomorrow.

Collaborative Micro-Filtering

Joshua Porter wrote a great post on circles of relationship a few days ago. It has generated many great responses and a new post that summarize all these contributions. Since it's a subject we have been working on with my partner, i would like to share a very concrete approach of it : U.[lik]

First let's have a look at the circles evolution from Ben Schneiderman (via Joshua) to People like us from Alex Mather:

The Schneiderman representation is clearly a pure social approach.

Alex Mather one is a pure Social Network approach mainly focus on the 18-30 years old group. According to him there are two main points that organize the circles:

1. Self, Friends, and “Those Like Us” are in a protected area.
2. Friends and even “Those Like Us” are more important than Family!!!

--> I agree at 100% !

The next step is from Sarah Cooper (Visual designer at yahoo) who introduces the idea of Collaborative Micro-Filtering. She has designed a quick demo of what it should look like. She also tries to build the specs for such a service.

The whole idea is to be able to get the right recommendation by using the right people for each different subject.
Her mom & danna for clothing & Joel, jim and rashid for movies. --> Again I agree @ 100%.

That's exactly these kinds of ideas that we have been working on over the last 2 years.