November 2011
2 posts
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Google Plus Circles Katango →
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Europe Tech Coverage and the English Language →
October 2011
1 post
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Lessons in Innovation, from Humans to Virtuality →
I arbitrarily chose five lessons that we could derive from Steve Jobs’ legacy. Connect the dots. Never fear failure. Marry art & science. Possess a sense of vision. Create the future.
September 2011
12 posts
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Facebook Page Timeline for Brands →
Facebook introduced Timeline for its users. Although I make the case that brands should focus on applications interacting with users’ activity streams, I undertake the exercise of imagining the Timeline experience for Facebook Pages.
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Professional Data-Miners →
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The Conscience of Television →
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The Consumer Inertia →
Human forces like aversion to change and status biases are surfacing as Netflix divides its physical and digital operations. An exercice in applying basic consumer behavior theories to understand the future of digital content.
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Steve Jobs Lessons →
The most enduring innovations marry art and science
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Mobile Broadband Traffic To Increase By 2600% In 5... →
mobile broadband traffic volumes will see a 2600% increase in the next five years
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We All Know How To Play The Social Game →
the social game is really a complex game that we all know how to play
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Facebook Friend Risk →
One cannot hide from another Friend list. It’s a decision that isn’t taken by third parties. For instance, having a public profile myself, everyone can see who is linked with me on Facebook. I’m okay with it, but I don’t know about every single one of my connections.
Arrington: One Man’s Terrorist, Another’s Freedom... →
In 2011, journalists just seem to try to save themselves. Those who want to change the world go to the Silicon Valley.
Welcome to the battle for a new journalism.
Its freedom fighter is called Mike Arrington.
SalesForce Goes Touch →
Flickr Updates Geo Privacy →
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SMWF Asia 2011: Changing Demands of Global... →
The ever-lasting debate about local/regional values v. globalization will certainly be central. Every culture adopts social media in different ways. Mixi is a prime example of a successful social network that only applies to one country/culture. On the other hand, Friendster arguably failed on becoming a South-East Asian-specific social network.
May 2011
1 post
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Forget & Co, The New Black For Brands Is .CO →
A one letter domain name? Holy cow. How did they do that? Well, they took it to Colombia, the owner of the extension. An extension finally available worldwide.
Amazingly enough, I didn’t think Colombia when I first started seeing the marketing push last year. I just thought company. That’s what 300 years of semantic history does to your mind.
I must admit it though, I had some reservations...
March 2011
3 posts
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SMWF London 2011: Social Shopping & Post-Digital... →
Velocity has been altered, friction is being lowered but human behavior is another matter. Consumer behavior and, in some respects, socializing behavior, have seen changes, changes that brands must obviously analyze, but human-rooted behaviors have not.
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SXJapan: Japan Web A New Beginning or the... →
As I’m sitting in my hotel room for my panel tomorrow, my mind can’t help but replay the images of the catastrophe that just hit Japan.
Heart-wrenching.
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SXJapan: All the Japan Events at SXSW Interactive... →
In 2010, I was lamenting that no interactive panel seemed to be talking Japan, a hotbed for innovation and a big question mark for pretty much all the attendees I was talking with. To cut the story short, what an amazing surprise to have witnessed no less than 3 other Japan events after my own panel was greenlighted.
December 2010
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Monitoring Social Media Paris 2010 →
The agenda of MSM10 -that’s the official tag of the event- is really interesting. It compares well with the previous events which happened in London, San Francisco, Boston and New York City.
Cool thing is that I’ve got two tickets to offer.
November 2010
1 post
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Constellation: A Formation of Stars →
Knowledge is the keyword here. And you guessed it, I’ll be focusing on my traditional areas of expertise, brands and consumer interaction. More details about the services are on the Constellation website. Management consulting, executive sessions, thought-leadership, private and public keynoting will still be a focus of mine, don’t worry. That’s my forte -along with being opinionated- and will...
September 2010
2 posts
Twitter.com Is The New Black For Brands →
Twitter has not just added a pretty layer over an existing platform. It’s truly a new Twitter. A Twitter that means business.
Turning Thirty-Five Or The Many Lives Of A Cat →
I’m still not perfect. Far from it. I’ve had successes and failures. Did mistakes and still do. I’ve learned and still am learning. I do learn.
I’ve become a better person. Or so I think. These descriptions were the feedback loop I needed to aim for more. Age is a matter of perspective and making the right choices. Aiming at becoming a better man, in life as in business, is what makes the...
August 2010
4 posts
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IMMAP: Paid Media Priming The Viral Pump →
In other words, customers might have ADD, the famous attention-deficit disorder, but if they don’t see your products through their streams, you’ve got a PDD, a profit-deficit disorder, most commonly known as the IDSD, I don’t sell sh*t disorder.
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IMMAP: Maria Ressa And Your Heroes →
Hero was not the one who swam through dark waters. Hero was the guiding light. She was the one who showed him the way.
We’re all Leandroses, we need heroes. We need φῶς, that which gives light.
Not for the grandioseness of worshipping the past. Not to be forced in any predefined channeled life. But to be to have our smiles lit up. To be inspired. Challenged.
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IMMAP: Going Social With Your Brand →
My starting point, which is kind of becoming a motto now, is that interactive is not social. These are two different approaches. In interactive, there’s a people to machine and machine to people interaction, while social is a people to people platform -I sometimes call that C2C in the pure business sense.
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IMMAP: The Corporate Culture of Social →
The new interaction between the brand, the employees -the internal assets-, the existing base of customers -the external assets- & the potential customers, seen a as rings in expansion -rings of trust expansion-, is shaking the organizational roots of companies.
July 2010
4 posts
Syncrisis →
In 17th-century Renaissance Italy, paragone -or comparison- was the hottest debate around. Being able to compare was the new paradigm. It equaled freedom of thought.
Boileau and Perrault were leading the same argument in France. In red shorts, The Ancients, led by the former, believed we were stuck at imitating the perfection in Arts that the Greeks and Romans had set. Rules had to be followed....
Re: @OldSpice | Paul Papadimitriou →
Thank you Old Spice. Not for reminding me that I should work on my abs. But for proving me right.
Right about what? That the wall between earned media and social media is nothing but thin air. It’s not editorial efforts on one side and grassroots actions on the other. There’s only one wall. Between success and failure. Between phenomenon and oblivion.
Take A Stand Or Shut Up →
CNN: a journalist specialized on the Middle-Est fired because of Twitter
Because of Twitter?!
I repeat. Because of Twitter. Seriously, people, because of Twitter?!
Yes, I got the news in French -flame me for having that one as a mother tongue- and I’ll admit a rapid skimming of Google News shows English headlines make more sense, but still… The art of not taking responsibility has reached a...
That Which Gives Light →
As a potential customer, I don’t give a damn about your policies. I won’t read them, thank you. I want the best company with the brightest people. The company that will offer me the best value. This is the company I want you to be. Or I’ll pass.
June 2010
2 posts
Do Google Me →
Gmail, Chat, Blogger, Picasa, Buzz, Apps, Docs, Friend Connect, Latitude, Calendar, Chat, Profiles (upon which Chris Saad seems to think that Me thing will be built). You name it -just don’t name Orkut. In a way, it’s already a social network of sorts.
I know, I know, you’re thinking Wave and Buzz right now. As a sign of an upcoming failure?
The Future Of Global Innovation Is In Europe’s Own... →
Europe’s got to start dreaming. And it will take time.
It’s all about time. The Silicon Valley wasn’t build in a day. It wasn’t even called “Silicon” for a while. There’s history. There are decisions. There’s will.
April 2010
2 posts
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Rethink:Shanghai 2010 →
A unique group of people from all around the world will be gathered in Shanghai for this second event.
It will not only be a unique moment to exchange with great minds, but also an insightful journey into the everchanging faces of China.
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The Future of Social Networking and Social Norms →
Here’s the presentation material for the keynote speaking engagement I did an hour ago at the Social Networking Conference in Manila, Philippines.
November 2009
2 posts
Twitter To Charge Audiences In Japan →
Lots of questions, but this is surely an exciting experiment to follow. News organizations, brands and the Twitter competition should keep an eye on the story.
French TV Report on Japan Startup Scene →
Early October, I was contacted by Cedric Ingrand, famous news tech anchor of the biggest TV network in France, TF1, about the possibility to do a special report on the Japanese startup/tech scene for Plein Ecran on LCI, a French 24/7 news channel.
August 2009
2 posts
A Dignifed Retweet →
It’s like it’s ever been: everything is in the message. Tweet something interesting, compelling, innovative, something that hasn’t been said before or that you say much better than the others and always tweet with you customers in mind. You’ll be in the game.
Twitter And The Race To Zero Or The Rebirth Of... →
Twitter is on the verge of becoming a huge link machine, a vast broadcast microphone. I’m not sure it’s lost some if its appeal that brought me there in the first place, but it’s certainly changing, making me alter the way I’m using it.
May 2009
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The TEDxTokyo Journey →
The team worked like clockwork. Fumi, Steve and Andrew were on the scene, reporting and engaging. I was in Manila, living the experience as anyone else would, giving feedback, ensuring quality control. Steve and I were updating the English channel. People joined the conversation. People tuned into the live stream. People shared. Our hearts were beating with excitation. Our minds were filled by the...
March 2009
2 posts
Extreme Hanami →
The idea is to do 5 Hanami spots (what’s a Hanami?) in 5 hours this afternoon and live casting the event
JapanTechTalk #3 →
Yesterday saw the third episode in the revamped JapanTechTalk podcast. Since it happened at the same time as my sayonara party, Robert Sanzalone got a big surprise as Andrew Shuttleworth,Steve Nagata, Joseph Tame, Rob Cawte and myself crashed the podcast after 15 minutes!
January 2009
5 posts
Interview on Podcast on Demand #3 →
I recently participated in a podcast with Robert Sanzalone in Nagoya. We’ve talked mostly aboutMobileinJapan.com, the community I’ve created with Andrew Shuttleworth about everything mobile in the keitai country.
Facebook and Privacy →
Now, if people finding Facebook “creepy” are not actually spending their time watching others’ online lives, their claims must be based on a feeling of others’ prying on their online activity.
Another reminder: it’s all about what you put online. Don’t start adding drunken-parties pictures and then lament that a employer was able to catch them. Don’t engage in touchy subjects like politics and...
A Call for a Unified Retweet Acronym →
Until Twitter decides to implement the feature directly, the developers are having a innovation field day on how to do it
The Social Journal v. What Are You Doing →
In the end, the fate expecting all the micro-blogging platforms will depend on their ability to monetize their services. Twitter is the only one I see that actually gets a shot, for its network effect (the sheer number of users is growing day by day) but also for the whole array of services it has allowed to be created around it.
Where is iRovr going? →
If the iPhone-only approach clearly did cut iRovr.com from a whole market of users craving to use fun social network services, the monetization is the other big issue. With all current services scratching their heads about monetization (or having gone the way of massively attracting user to leverage future income), iRovr.com was never in a good place: the founder explained on an iRovr entry that...
December 2008
8 posts
Rejaw, What Now? →
Why the loss of users? Curiosity-fatigue, first, and as in every other new social service: the network effect. You’ll only use a service if you find friends or acquaintances or a niche community you’re willing to be part of.
I’m on the fence about Rejaw having been able to create such a niche.
Chief Marketing Officers not yet interested in... →
Only 10% are already using these new media. Paradoxically however, 27% of the CMO surveyed actually believe that social networking sites is valuable in a time of cost cutting.
Twittetiquette →
As Twitter becomes widely adopted -almost 5 million and counting-, it is maybe time to ask the following question: Is there such a thing as a Twittetiquette?