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Hey Robert, good luck and good to hear that you think there is something happening in Europe too. The real question is if Robert will manage to get as sexy as Rocketboom and Mobuzz girls...
Technorati Tags: scoble, techcrunch, video
Pierre points to an interesting article, see page 108: Web2 Start-ups according to Business 2.0.
Business 2.0, available for free online and the thingie to turn the pages is really cool: tryit!. The european startups are on page 108.
It's not every day that I'm on a cover page like IHT's so apologies for blogging it, I could not resist. The pdf of the cover page, following page and the online article. Thanks, Thomas !
update: the New York Times took the story as well as The Independent.
Ongoing Explosion. (sorry if this post was chocking in anyway, I promise I will not start again don't click on the link).
Thomas Crampton tries to understand in International Herald Tribune why blogs are so mainstream in France:
"Already famed for angry labor strikes and philosophical debates in smoke-filled cafés, the French have now brought these passions online to become some of the world's most intensive bloggers. The French distinguish themselves, both statistically and anecdotally, ahead of Germans, Britons and even Americans in their obsession with blogs, the personal and public journals of the Internet age. Just why the French have embraced blogs more than most is anyone's guess, but explanations range from technical to historical and cultural."Thanks Thomas for quoting me.
A good essay by Paul Graham that even exists in French.
A new survey on bloggers by Pew Internet is just out (and interesting). It also contains a big lie: 83% of bloggers surveyed say they do it from home I don't buy it a second even though I understand why everybody lies ! The highest audience on my blog is also every monday morning...
New look, new features for Technorati, well done Dave and the entire team congrats ! I really like the "favorite" thingie that builds a simple agregated view of the posts of your favorite blogs. If you want to favorite this blog, just follow the link. Disclosure: I am a Technorati investor.
Ross open sources Socialtext, thanks Cédric for reminding me to talk about it, Ross at told me at Aula in June (Ross by the way if you read this unfortunately had troubles with the video file I took sorry). Disclosure: I invested in Socialtext.
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Catherine alias Petite anglaise, 33 ans, secretary and blogger, just got fired for blogging in Paris, the first ever employee in France who gets this treatment. Catherine sues her old fashioned boss to the French prudhomme and I bet she will win. Goog luck Catherine !
source: Business Blog Consulting UnConferences: A Waste of Time and Money?.
"The "UnConference" is all the rage right now... an agenda-free gathering of like minded souls who seek to learn from each other's wisdom... an "expert free zone"... no sponsors... no official speakers or panels."
and as expected, it does not work !
I have now been running regularly for about a year and I also just registered to the 20km de Paris race in october, which will be my first "competition". I run for fun and fitness but I thought it was interesting to feel the ambiance of a race with thousand of runners.
dead2.0 has interesting suggestions for 2.0 startups, I like most of them.
by the centerformediaresearch:
According to a recent exclusive crmmetrix study, 26.7% of the French online population visit a blog at least once a month.
In addition:
* 18.8% have posted a comment on a blog
* 8.1% have created there own blog
* 92.2% of onliners agree that blogs enable the greatest freedom of expression
* 81.3% are both reactive and interactive
* 75.7% say blogsd create a closest possible relationship between people
* 62.9% of blogs are considered more critical than any other source of information
The hotcaptcha, based on the hotornot API. You know these tests to decrease spam. Now you can choose the top 3 babes (or men) you like most to pass the test rather than a stupid graphic. Easy to install on your own blog, I'll think about it for mine ;-)
via JY via Gizmodo
I'm a member of the advisory board of Picnic'06, have a look at the agenda and join us if you like, looks pretty cool I think.
My very good friend Ouriel, in Tel Aviv, explains:
"All the world seems to behave as if Israel started those operations. Most images shown in the news (at least 90%) show lebanese side and very little is said about the true reasons of this conflict but mainly of the situation as it is happening in Israel. Can i just remind the blind public opinion that Hezbollah, a state within the state, has started off everything by unilaterally breaking the borders and peace situation by kidpnapping israeli soldiers and shoot missiles over Israel. This is following tones of provocations for years."
I have also found the above picture on Flickr, uploaded by reebA who seems to have an entirely different point of view on how the war started and an animated conversation started on Flicr, about who started the war and wether Israël has over reacted or not.
Technorati Tags: guerre, israel, lebanon, liban, middle east, war
The Vichy case study is the first (and probably european) example of a brand that uses a blog as a pure marketing tool and gets "attacked" by the blogosphere. Shel had written all the details. As I am being asked very often the orginal screenshot of the blog as it was and I'm getting tired of sending it by email, here it is once and for all. The blog Le Journal de ma peau is still online but asleep. L'Oreal had reacted very fast to the criticism, and turned it into a positive experience. Disclosure: I advised L'Oréal when the mini-crisis happened.
Karina and Anil podcasted me over at mobuzz TV for my birthday, how cool is that ! There is also a Quicktime and a Windows Media file. Thanks and congrats for your terrific show.
Technorati Tags: podcasting, mobuzz
One more. What's reassuring is that you're always the young or the old of somebody. [July 14th is the French national day but it's also my birthday :-)]
-Geek entertainement acquired by Scoble's podtech via OhmyPod. "and if by moscow you mean kazakhstan and pavlovsk, then yes, i grew up there" sez Irina Slutsky to her new boss, teaching Robert some geography :-)
-Joanne (former MTV...) ' has replaced Amanda at Rocketboom.
-if you can get naked, get naked in a video podcast and you'll make a living. Crazy world.
At Bizpodcasting: "Neilsen recently released a survey that says, in part: Nielsen//NetRatings announced today that 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast. 4.0 percent, or 5.6 million Web users, have recently downloaded a video podcast. These figures put the podcasting population on a par with those who publish blogs, 4.8 percent, and online daters, 3.9 percent.
Umm…what? We're comparing podcast listeners with blog writers? That's like comparing newspaper readers to karoake singers. No correlation between the two. I'm embarassed for them." I'm embarassed for Nielsen too... but yeah, it's growing.
Technorati Tags: podcasting, stats
Shifting places, Sightspeed and Novac, via Om Malik, pretty cool, I want that !
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I just like how you beg on your knees for Amanda, congrats and see you soon in Paris. I'm not the only one.
I have just registered to my first running competition, the 20 km de Paris, on october 15th... I will be n°9164. I am not really looking to do an amazing performance, but rather experience the athmosphere to run with 20 000 people and more than everything it will push me to run regularly until october. Looking forward to other bloggers participating too, maybe we can form a group or train together in Paris.
The fun part is that there is another Loïc Le Meur who is registered too, I hope I'll meet him there it will be the first "avatar" I meet :-) Oh, and I apologize to all Loïc Le Meurs of this world for the pollution.
Technorati Tags: running
Bonjour-America is over, after 28 episodes, french blogger vinvin and his viewers had quite some fun with this podcast after 28 episodes...
We have just launched the blogs of L'espresso in Italy.
