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Is German culture against blogging ?

Udo Schroeter comments my interview:

"blogging means being critical, it means you have to talk about what you think is good and what is bad, so you'll expose yourself in a bad way as far as German culture is concerned. For example, I'm glad that my clients don't read blogs (or even know what blogging is), otherwise I would get some pretty serious fallout - even for simple comments about software platforms and stuff like that! Also important to note: Germany is generally slow when it comes to change (with a few notable exceptions)."

If there are cultural differences, i don't buy that Germany will remain a low blogging Country. I trust this will change soon. Thanks Udo for your comments, I would love to get other perspectives from my German friends on why Germany catches up so slowly !

[apologies again for having said there were no books about blogging in Germany, stupid, I am]

Technorati Tags: europe, germany

Good viral marketing.

You can leave a message in real time on this old monitor glued to a wall, a viral marketing (and cheap) idea by Henkel to advertise its glue. Thanks Samuel via Bef1rst via Patrick.

Technorati Tags: marketing

Do you have numbers on podcasting growth ?

I am playing around with iTunes 4.9 and listened to about 10 podcasts. I really like how iTunes makes it easy to find them and listen to them. I wonder about the growth stats of podcasting especially in the US, can you point me to statistics if you know some ? Thanks in advance...

30 000 children die in Africa every day and nobody talks about it

Kudos to Live 8. I have just added the badges to my both blogs. Go run and learn more at David's weblog and do the same if you like.

Technorati Tags: live8, live8 paris

Ebay, the 9th nation in the World ?

135 million people in the World use Ebay, in number of people it would be the 9th nation in the World (if this makes sense), 430 000 people earn revenues on it and 150 000 people live entirely on these revenues. It is Patrick (in French) who talks about it, via François Goube.

Technorati Tags: ebay, revenues

Thanks Shel for the interview on corporate blogging

You all know "Naked Conversations" the book being currently written by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble, Shel has just interviewed me about what's happening in France and Europe. Thanks !

Off to Zermatt at the Young Global Leaders summit

I am in Zermatt, Switzerland for 4 days at the World Economic Forum's Summit of Young Global Leaders. It is amazing the concentration of forward-looking minds I met tonight. I had a great conversation with Nicklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype and I learnt a lot, Skype has around 40 million users now, 140 people worldwide (even one person in France I'd love to meet too) and growing. I congratulated Nicklas for his Skype official blog, Niklas says the company is really interested by blogs and understands how it helps getting closer to customers. Skype has raised around $20M and has now more money that wants to be invested in it than needed, how surprising. We talked also about how Skype IM and voice was encrypted at 256 bits making it difficult to for anybody to listen to these conversations, probably more from the volume of data transferred than the complexity to break the encryption. Interesting to insist on the fact that Skype is a european startup spreading around the World like wildfire.

Anyway, a few days out of the daily business to think about where we are going and to broaden our views can only help get the big picture. I'll post more about the sessions and the participants I discuss with. Off-to bed now.

a French Government think tank predicts the end of newspapers in France

It is via Jeff and the editorsweblog that I learn about this report. John Burke at the Editors Weblog says:

"A report just released by a French government think tank that analyzes present situations and predicts the future of various public and private organizations paints a bleak picture for the future of the French printed press. The threat from the Internet and foreign news sources will, according to the think tank, transform all French news organizations into multimedia companies, of which only 2 or 3 will be left standing by 2011. Result: " a majority of newspapers will disappear by 2011... if nothing is done".

The report cites the need of French government aid to journals that undergo innovative reforms and that improve their public service. To further involve young readers, French government subsidies should be used to provide free temporary subscriptions for 18 year-olds. For the French media in general, the report calls for improved training for journalists, a radical reform of Agence France Presse, and a reform of news distribution."

I wonder what is this "French government think tank". Cyril has more in French.

Shel interviews the French blog-shop La Fraise, a must-read. 36k€ per month in revenues thanks to the blog.

Great interview, Shel, I really advise you to read it. I believe La Fraise is designing the shape e-commerce will look like soon: mostly based on word of mouth. Some numbers from the interview:

-the blog was started at the same time as the shop
-an average post on the blog gets 30 comments from t-shirt aficionados (some posts get hundreds)
-the blog and the shop is 100% of his professional activity
-2 million page views per month and 300 000 unique visitors
-sells around 1650 t-shirts per month at 22€ that is more than 36 000 € per month in revenues with 0 in advertising

Now you really have to translate everything in english, Patrice

The office got flooded in Paris

In 15 minutes a big thunderstorm hit Paris and our office got flooded very fast with the waste waters going out from the air conditioning... See pictures on my moblog, some areas in Paris are quite messy... but not a big deal. Fortunately we had the time to move the computers on the table... My motorbike that you can see on the picture got water up to the fuel tank and the engine started ok unlike the Mercedes you see in the back that had to be pushed... The only drawback is that it stinks now as this is mostly wasted waters that came up in the street !

Thank you all for your congratulations

Thanks, Rodrigo for your post (and video !) about the Innovate! Europe entrepreneur of 2005 prize I received from the hands of the mayor of Zaragoza, Tempus Creativ for your congratulations and your emails...

Das Web sind wir

Thanks Mario for this impressive cover story of the german edition of Technology Review. Glad to see you had fun at lesblogs in Paris !

How you should drink Ricard in Moscow

I guess you are familiar with our famous French drink pastis, invented by Ricard, well here is how it was served in Moscow at the famous Vogue Café (that I highly recommend).

Philippe, a friend of mine, when he got it asked the waiter: "Is this a pastis ?"
The waiter: "ahh sorry, you wanted it on the rocks ?" and he adds two ice cubes, still no water.
Me: "In France, we serve it with 5 times less Ricard than here and fill-in the glass with fresh water"
The waiter: "Well, in Moscow everybody likes it this way, just dry".
A Ricard without water is an insult to the French and tastes terrible, but I still like the Russians very much and don't blame them for that....

Ego surfing of the evening

Hey, Tony, thanks for having added my name to this AO/Technorati Open Media 100.

End of the ego surfing, sorry about that.

Playing around with Google maps

Thanks to Google Maps you can see how close are the offices of Six Apart and Technorati in San Francisco... And it works around the world with a lower definition though and no link to the white and yellow pages. Very cool. Thanks Victor...

Anybody reading this blog from China ?

It looks like some TypePad blogs are blocked again in China. Anybody there who can access this blog or other TypePad blogs ? (thanks, Rebecca)

Christophe Grébert's trial postponed in February 2006

Christophe was surrounded by press and bloggers at the "Tribunal de Paris" today. The audience was postponed to February 2006 as the City of Puteaux's lawyer had apparently a more important case to defend to Court.

Update: Jerome posted more details on daily KOS

"To blog, citizens !"

The French daily Libération has its cover page today and a long review about citizen blogs and the fact that Christophe Grébert who writes Monputeaux.com, is judged today in Paris (he was sued by the city mayor and arrested for a short while).

I will keep you posted. Good luck, Christophe.

In Moscow

In Moscow for a few days, looks like there is close to a million bloggers in Russia. Sorry for the low blogging, meeting lots of friends...

Thanks Nicole

... for your interview (audio)

EFF's legal guide for bloggers

"Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post [...]
The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected." EFF's legal guide for bloggers. Thanks, Alessio.

Technorati Tags: blog, blogosphere, innovateeurope05

Quote of the day

Nicolas Gaume quotes Winston Churchill:

"Success is about going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm"

Update: parts of Nicolas' speech is available as video blog.

Podcast of my presentation on the European and French blogosphere

Thanks, Florian for having uploaded a podcast of my Reboot presentation about the European and French blogosphere and Jason for the picture ;-)

Technorati Tags: blogosphere, europe, podcast, reboot

Dailymotion: the flickr of video ?

Rodrigo has added videoblogging to his blog and video blogged me at Innovate! Europe (I had 5 minutes to explain how blogs change the World !), he did that with Dailymotion, a Flickr like web app that makes it easy for you to put videos on your blog, just upload almost any video format to the site, add tags, create a sidebar with videos like on Rodrigo's blog...

Update: Josh talks about our panel that came next.

Technorati Tags: innovateeurope05, vlog

Lycos will launch a revolutionary blog tool

In the French daily (well known) Libération today:

Matthieu Guinard, General Manager of Lycos France said "Lycos will launch in September a revolutionary blog software compared to anything that exists on the market today".

My first video post with my Nokia 6680

I have just asked Jeff Clavier to make a short pitch for one of the startups he helps. These short videos posted with Lifeblog are pretty cool, what do you think ?

Technorati Tags: innovateeurope05, vlog

Diffusion software and improved reality rock

Just had an amazing presentation from Total Immersion that is a French startup with global customers that integrates virtual objects such as cars or the above Star Wars sword in real time video, just with the help of a standard PC. We played with virtual cars driving them live on a real table, built a castle that helped get a sense on what the reality would look like.

Update: the buzz word for this promising business is "improved reality" I love it..

Technorati Tags: innovateeurope05

Off to Spain

Holidays ? No, I am going to Innovate! Europe for two days to (try) to contribute in a (very) modest way to wake up the European steamer boat that is going deeper and deeper into comfort and unemployment, France especially.

Innovate! Europe is a new conference aiming at showcasing the best innovations accross Europe and bridging the entrepreneurs in need for funds with investors. The result can only be jobs created and... fun. I will be speaking there about entrepreneurship and exit strategies and will as always blog my ideas. Go, Europe, go!

Technorati Tags: europe, innovate, entrepreneurship

Brad Choate adds Tags to Movable Type

The Tags plugin lets you easily add tags to your Movable Type entries, by modifying the Keyword entry field to allow you to enter tags, and automatically creating categories for each of the tags you submit. more.

Technorati Tags: movable type, MT

Four options to blog multilingual... or remain local

I am confused by a discussion that happened on my French blog today, when you live in a Country like mine where english is not the natural language, you have four ways of approaching the problem:

1. blog only in english, then you're not close to your local audience, or blog only in local (French for me) and you can't create a global conversation

2. mix english posts and french posts, like Martinepage this of course is a problem for those who only read English (or French) because they are disturbed by other posts they cannot read

3. translate every single post in both languages, like Emmanuelle is doing, probably the best solution but that is very difficult for the author because he has to translate every single post and that takes a long time. Also, it prevents the author in a way to talk only about local topics as even though they would be translated, they would probably not be interesting to a global audience. I should say I am tempted by this option

4. two blogs, one in English, one in French, the option I chose. This option has some drawbacks too, the blogs are less powerful in search engines because split in two. For example the Technorati links are spread in two and do not add-up here is what happens for me:
-my French blog has 1219 links from 750 sources
-my English blog has 468 links from 320 sources

the result should be 2906 links from ? sources where the entire domain shows 2195 links from 1213 sources. This shows that the numbers do not add up easily and that there are many people not linking to the blogs but directly to the domain...

When you look at the ranking of the European blogosphere we did with 50 bloggers, it clearly shows the demand for local Country rankings and a global European one. But Europe is a mix of languages and cultures, and also of ways of blogging (people like Heiko are Germans but only blog in English, while others only blog in their language...)

So what should be the right way of blogging multilingual according to you ?
What should be the right way to show rankings of these blogs using Technorati ? Thanks for your help...

Design teach-in at Reboot by Doug Bowman

Doug Bowman made a great presentation at Reboot 7.0 last Saturday in Denmark about web design, and with redesigns like Blogger, Wired News or Adaptive Path, Doug is a reference in his field. Doug actually just redesigned the French company website of Cap Gemini. Doug explained that in his design experiences, one comment from a blind person changed the way he was seeing design. The websites that do not separate the content from the design do not allow blind people to read them easily and are not portable on all kinds of devices such as mobile phones or PDAs and obviously insisted on the use of XHTML/CSS and its advantages.

I have browsed his company stop design's portfolio tonight and all his work is just impressive, I had heard of it but I was stupid enough not to take the time to check it out. All of us can learn a lot from the very simple and clean design of mightygoods, a shopping weblog, or from the book design of The Art & Science of Web Design.

Doug also gave us some good links to look at:
Zen Garden, which is "a demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. You can select from hundreds of different style sheets and reload the same content in a fraction of a second with a totally different design and access each design's CSS.
cssvault aims at inspiring your creativity with CSS, linking to all the great CSS resources around
stylegala "is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS"

After having seen all these great designs using CSS, I should probably look at my own weblog and have it improved one day...

Technorati Tags: design, reboot

Three Iranian bloggers jailed, one faces court date with no legal representation, Hossein goes to Tehran

According to the Committee to Protect Bloggers

Omid Shekhan was arrested last year and faces a court date of October 8 without the benefit of representation Arash Sigarchi was sentenced to fourteen years in prison and Mojtaba Saminejad to two years

Unlike Sigarchi and Saminejad, Shekhan does not have a lawyer.

Our friend Hossein Derakhshan who blogs as Hoder is off to visit Tehran and posted a request that we keep an eye on him.

"While I'm doing all this, I may get into trouble. It could vary from polite questioning for a few hours to days of detention in secret places, less than politely."

Related links
Committee to Protect Bloggers
sign the Petition to free Motjaba Saminejad, I just did.
English blog for Mojtaba
The association of Iranian Blogwriters (Penlog)
Blogger Mojtaba gets two-year prison sentence
BBC: the price paid for blogging Iran

Alexa analysis of Skyblog

The French blog platform Skyblog, that claims 2.2 million young French people weblogs, was analyzed by François. It is in French, but the Alexa graphs are self explanatory. I heard several bad comments on the Alexa results, what's your opinion ?

More on the European Blogosphere wiki pages

I'd like to say first I started this page not because I was lazy (but Euan was joking I know that), but because there is nobody in Europe that can pretend to be able to present honestly the European blogosphere: do you read Italian, Portuguese, Danish, and the other 19 languages (I believe we have 22 on the 25 EU countries, plus the other ones like eastern...) ?

The best we can all do is help each other understand it better.

Please add your name to the main page if you contributed to this work otherwise it is difficult to know. Thank you Jacques, Nicole, Matthias, Neil, Euan, Thomas, Francesco, Julio, Fernando, Christophe, Justin, Frank, Stefan, Max, Marco, Hugo, Michael, Ton, Alex, Pedro, Björn, Janne and Jose, Paolo ! I have listed people who have identified themselves but I know many others like Tom actually helped.

I knew I did not know that much about the European blogosphere, and I learned a lot today about it, such as Nancy White, who has very good comments.

Doc said that I should play more with the new search options of Technorati because it works very well, so here I am playing with the European blogosphere watchlist and I must say it works terrific (it looks like it has missed your post however).

I was curious to follow how the page with the top european bloggers changed and of course I was very surprised to see Michael Hellemann showing up #1 with 8033 links from 7152 sources. I regret that I missed the opportunity of discussing this with him in Copenhagen so I tried to understand and it looks like the WP plugin he designed, Kubrick, got him out of the Technorati 100 where he peaked #8 in spring of 2005. This leads me to two questions: why has he been deleted from the list and should he be removed from this one too. I guess it probably creates artificial links, sorry for my ignorance. What do you think ? Michael ?

Last idea, I wonder if we should have all put this work on Wikipedia ? Clearly, the manual ranking by Technorati links of top european bloggers has nothing to do there for example, especially as it is out of date the minute you write a name. I would be interested in your thoughts as well. Thanks again.

Update: Florian has a podcast of my speech about the wiki and the European blogosphere.

Technorati Tags: reboot

The European blogosphere

OK, thank you all for your help, the presentation starts in 5 minutes, no fucking powerpoint, just the wiki

Technorati Tags: reboot

The first blogger published on April 12, 1709

David Weinberger caught it from Ben Hammersley's great presentation this afternoon:

The effervescent Ben Hammersley argues that Richard Steele was the first blogger, publishing his first post was on April 12, 1709. He postsed three times a week, ran comments, had 800 readers, and drank lots of coffee. "This guy is a blogger."

Update, here are Ben's slides (1.2Mb pdf), thanks to Ecetera and Boing Boing

Technorati Tags: reboot

The long tail of fashion

Ulla-Maaria Mutanen had a great talk today about how The Long tail of Fashion and how thousands of fashion bloggers exchange their creative work, learn about each other's ideas and problems.

Ulla-Maaria showed pictures of self made shirts and hats, ipod covers and said:

"Craftblogging is based on the idea that people like to create outfits. They can be t-shirts, tops, bags, skirts, hats or the very famous ipod covers. People blog a lot about them.
The biggest group of craftblogs belong to young woman, but not only woman, from older ladies to snowboarders, and skateborders. Outwear.com was established by a group in Finland and the business is developing fast.

Craftblogging is based on the idea that people like to create outfits. They can be t-shirts, tops, bags, skirts, hats or the very famous ipod covers. People blog a lot about them.

New forms of social and economic behaviour emerge around crafting, like sharing techniques (Stencil revolution, for instance) or swapping: you post something you like and expect to swap with someone that likes the things you do. You just post the picture of the fashion work is sent to you. Sampling & Personalizing is also beginning to be popular through blogging.

Ulla-Maaria also talked about ShowStudio:

“SHOWstudio is based on the belief that showing the entire creative process—from conception to completion—is beneficial for the artist, the audience and the art itself.”

Ulla-Maaria is always asked when she talks about it if there is a market and she took the example of Japanesestreets.com that grows on the fact that people think it is much cooler to buy clothes that your friends or yourself have made than the ones made by big fashion brands. The long tail of fashion will create a totally new market.

David Weinberger (who already posted about it) says that "marketers who look at the long tail usually say "great we'll be able to target markets of one" and you have made a great example of how wrong they are". Picture: Heiko.

Fashion blogging

Anina is blogging the Venice fashion festival. If you don't know her, she is your geek dream: the geek top model...

Technorati Tags: fashion

Technorati goes beta with a new version

Here is Technorati Beta, congrats Dave, who says:

" * We've improved the user experience, making Technorati accessible to more people
* We've learned from the incredible success of tags
* We now have more powerful advanced search features
* We've added more personalization.
* New Watchlist capabilities have been added. "

The European Blogosphere: help me get the key facts if you like

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, organizer of Reboot, asked me if I could make a presentation on the european blogosphere tomorrow.

This is quite ambitious, of course I know very well France that has millions of blogs already, I also know some good cases in a few countries, but I would really appreciate if you could help me, so I have put a wiki page up, the european blogosphere.

It is really the beginning of this assessment, I am planning to add as much as I can until tomorrow, as well as during and after the presentation.

Technorati Tags: reboot

Seth Godin in London

I'll try to be there.

Robert Scoble: no contact list anymore, just google me and be googable

Robert at Reboot 7.0:

"I don't keep an email contact list anymore: all my friends are bloggers and if they are not they will be soon so I just google my friends, I just have to remember their name. This is why I put my email address and my mobile number on my home page. If I can't find you how to talk to you, it adds to much friction, I go find somebody else. "

Technorati Tags: reboot

Just arrived at Reboot 7.0 in Copenhagen

Just arrived sitting in the main room listening to Doc Searls saying "fuck and fucking" every 5 minutes and explaining why it is so cool to be able to say "fuck" at a conference...

Reboot starts pretty cool !

Anything to know about Copenhagen and Denmark for two days ? I am too ignorant...

Photo, Heiko

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How many degrees of sexual separation do you have ?

No, I will not subscribe to Shagster

reboot 7.0 this week looks really cool

I will be speaking at reboot 7.0 this week, the speakers and participants list is impressive. I will prepare a presentation on european blogging and pick cases around Europe as much as possible. However I have been focusing much of my efforts in France recently so I am afraid of showing too much of French, too less of Europe.

My plan is to talk about Treonauts (UK), The Guardian and what they do with blogs (UK), Weblogs SL (Spain) and the rest will probably be French examples, do you know of any good initiative around blogs (media, nanopublishing, corporate, politics) outside of France I should have a look at ?

NB. Thanks Hugh for having invited me as well to join your panel with Robert and Doc, very cool...

Thanks in advance...

Engadget in China before in Europe

Now I understand why Jason said at les blogs he liked Europe for the dinners and the good time but was not planning to launch WeblogsInc in Europe soon. Jason was preparing the launch of engadget in chinese !

(sorry for the light blogging these days)

Blogging as a job

Blogging becomes a corporate job; digital handshake ? From the Wall Street Journal. Article available for free.

"A small but growing number of businesses are hiring people to write blogs, otherwise known as Web logs, or frequently updated online journals. Companies are looking for candidates who can write in a conversational style about timely topics that would appeal to customers, clients and potential recruits."

It is really cool, I think we'll see more and more bloggers be able to live from their passion. Via Pointblog (fr)

Olympic Games on the Champs-Elysées in Paris today

500 to 800 000 people are expected (fr) on the Champs Elysées today, that became for one day a showcase of Olympic games. I am going there now with the kids and moblog around.

TypePad amongst the 100 Best Products of 2005 according to PC World.

Link.

Thanks, Martin (fr).

London Geek Dinner on June 7th

Hugh MacLeod and Robert Scoble organise a blogger dinner in London on June 7th. Would have loved to join you all but I could not move a few appointments I have here, too bad, have fun !

Movable Type 3.17 released

Link.

Today we are releasing Movable Type 3.17. This release addresses four issues that do not affect the majority of installations, but are critical for users with certain configurations.

Version 3.17 is not a required upgrade if your Movable Type installation is not affected by these issues.

France Telecom still distributes paper phone books

The proof arrived this week in the building where I live in Paris. Nobody in this building took one, I gues they prefer their DSL line. What a waste of everything...

Om Malik likes Lifeblog

Om Malik writes a review on his blog and in Business 2.0 about Lifeblog.

Skype adds video

Rodrigo tested it.

Fanny the French geek girl interviewed

Fanny is a famous geek girl here for her Fanny's parties. Roland has an interview (french).

Ajax for dummies

Remember Google suggest ? It is Ajax powered. Here are some good technical explanations

Bloggers again ? What do they want this time.

la brujula verde pings me on the fact that Merodeando had blogged a very similar cartoon to this one, done by Cox & Forkum.

The Zombie effect

Very often, 90% of the customers of this coffee shop in Seattle are on-line and they don't seem to be neither talking to each other, nor ordering much. One expresso and 3 hours online is tough for the coffee shop manager.

Boing Boing breaks the server of a furniture design firm

Looks like they need a bigger server.

U.K. most linked-to British blogs

It looks like a manual ranking based on Technorati results of the British most linked-to blogs. Technorati has open APIs, can this be done automatically ? Via Hugh.

Yahoo! Employee Blog Guidelines

Yahoo! has posted their Employee Blog Guidelines (pdf). via Robert.

France is on strike today

Reuters:

"The rail strike was called by four trade unions at SNCF, representing 70 percent of the railway operator's workers. It started at 8 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Wednesday and was due to continue until 8 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Friday.

The rail workers' worries about job cuts reflect broader concerns in France about unemployment, the number one concern of voters. The jobless rate held at 10.2 percent in April, its highest level in more than five years."

You can feel it in Paris, less traffic, less emails, many employees stayed home, less phone calls, cancelled meetings...

What's interesting is that the Eurostar and Thalys traffic to the UK, Belgium and Netherlands has been maintained. The French are stuck home but the French public service of SNCF is very careful about foreigners.

France is really going through a crisis these days, saying no to the European Constitution and multiplying strikes.

How do you see these events ?

"CEOs refuse to get tangled up in messy blogs"

A USA Today article that tries to understand the risks behind blogging for top CEOs:

"The blogosphere, on the other hand, wars against harmony. Its mission is to air dirty laundry. There is even an undercurrent of radical bloggers who say all companies are evil and should be brought down."

"Winans International CEO Ken Winans says corporate bloggers are taking a big risk, because everyone from the Securities and Exchange Commission to "ambulance-chasing" lawyers are reading. It's a matter of time before one lands a company in court, Winans says."

And offers a list of a few executives blogging, including Christian.

Bloggers at the Gates, Sire

I really like this cartoon that I added to my presentation about blogs and I wonder as well as mdamt what is the original source. Anybody has an idea ?

Boeing launches a blog for the 777 testing program

Link. Via Didier.

Mac OSX and Plaxo

I know many of you hate Plaxo, others love it. I admit my contacts database is quite a mess and I would sync it with pleasure with Plaxo to see how it improves it. Unfortunately Plaxo does not support Mac OSX, it looks like there is a soft that lets you import/export your Mac contacts with Plaxo.

Do you use Plaxo or do you hate it ?

Julion Alonso close to a million page vues a month

It looks like nanopublishing works in Spain, congrats Julio !