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Every day the France 2 (one of the largest public TV) news is broadcasted in the US in French with subtitles. The original sentence of Sarkozy was "I invite all the French to join forces with me" the translator wrote "to rally my inflated ego". via Jean-Marc Morandini [fr]
A font created in the 70s by Rowland Scherman.
Find more on his blog.
(Via Bruno Giussani via Thomas Crampton on my French blog)
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A website compares advertised food with what's in the bag. (originally posted by Thomas Crampton on my French blog).
dotSub lets you subtitle any video in any language in a collaborative way to let them be understood globally. A good idea why wouldn't we have also have collaborative voice over in all languages ? The issue is you have to upload the video to their service, I would rather see it as an add on to popular video services such as Youtube etc.
Doing a brainstorming with my friends at Meeting of minds around the future of TV content. Here are some bullet points.
Why TV sucks today
-impossible to chose what you are watching except switching channels
-when you want to watch a show, impossible to chose when you watch it in general
-impossible to chose by the popularity of a show, only by what the TV editor decided is important
-have to watch advertising, totally untargeted
-copyright disables sharing
-too far from reality (often fake public, fake content, etc) current TV is wonderland reality
-not targeted
-no archives
-not searchable
-not community driven
What will change with TV and user generated content ?
-there are thousands of very talented people on niches that are unknown by traditional TV: bloggers, artists, etc. The best amateurs will be the authors of News 2.0
-the editor becomes the user by suggesting, filtering and deciding about the news in the show
-the selected show items can also be user generated content
-interactive feedback permanent (voting, chat, etc)
-very low production, sales and distribution costs, entirely web based
-ubiquity with amateur, low cost professional reporters and studios around the World
-content based on self production but also production on editing bits of the existing videos on the most popular networks (Youtube, dailymotion etc)
-mobile
-more reactive (amateurs everywhere, faster than sending reporters)
-can be done from anywhere using skypecasts, video conference etc
How the news will be created ?
-crowd sourcing and filtering
-digg like
-techmemes, search engines etc...
-permanent feedback on everything
-crowd editing
What will be the format ?
-live (Joost, ustream.tv), downloaded (Apple TV)
-no schedule anymore, no 8PM news
-100 000s of "channels"
-long and short versions
-all archived
-fake or reality ?
-community driven & niche: wow, kids, treonauts
-hyperlinking within the videos, getting access to more details etc
Unexpected formats
-live realityTV (Justin.tv)
-the twitter of video blogging
-Google glasses :)
Who will produce ?
-millions of videos available
-thousands of people able to edit & select the best content
-Creative commons sharing & mixing
Revenues ?
-Advertising 2.0: video adsense, word of mouth based
-messages people what & when they want it
-product placement
Current landscape:
Jeff Pulver’guide to TV shows only available on the Internet
Completely forgot to blog (I just twitted it) that Sam and myself kissed each other (so to say) in London last week and a few readers (Ivan, Conor, Amanda) of Sam's blog say they "won't be able to stop themselves from going". I love this thought and promise I will organize another large controversy prepare it much better and don't go crazy as last time. Next on your screens: kissing Nicole Simon (I hope) who will finally realize (I hope even more) I was not trying to "betray 1000 bloggers for my own political ambitions". Hint: I am already working on my next venture, even though Nicolas Sarkozy made the first round of the elections... By the way did you notice François Bayrou's score ?
Sam wonders if I am the new Robert Scoble of Europe because I just started videoblogging in english too (after having done 400 podcasts mostly in French). The two last ones are Anil and Martin, check them out if you like, I really liked making them. Thanks for the compliment, Sam, I take this one very seriously, if I believe I can compete with the number of podcasts Robert did, I clearly cannot compete with the number and quality of posts or twitters ;) Nah, Robert is a master, I am just a european slave...
So happy to announce I became today a board member at Meetic, that my very good friend Marc Simoncini launched. Meetic is a leader in its space in Europe, one of the very few european startups that size which stayed european (meetic acquires companies and does not want to get acquired...), present in 14 markets including China and Brasil, market cap around 500 M€ and fastly growing... I am very excited to join forces with the team and help as a board member, I have no operational role though, working on my next startup
It is my second public company board, with Boursorama, the #1 online trader in France, that has a market cap of about 1 billion €.
funny to see I had just twitted it and it got a little buzz already :)
Will on the CNN special French elections tonight from 18h to 23h Paris time to comment the elections and live blogging from their Champs Elysées studio, I have not blogged politics for almost two months but will make an exception tonight.
-arrived at CNN, Bloggers page up
-Heiko just edited a picture I just moblogged
-Just heard the last conversation on CNN between Hala Gorani and IHT editor in Paris they discuss the "French uneasiness" the anti-americanism that Segolène Royal stressed during the campaign (I am not making this one up, promise), France being stuck because of too much protection and people not scared about losing their jobs because they can't
France is one of the country that is the most afraid of globalization.
Americans don't care much about the French election
My comment before the results:
France had a choice between four main choices:
1. staying in the current over employee protection situation, less work fear of globalization, focus on the past represented by Segolene Royal
2. accepting to move on, focus on work (end of the 35 hours a week law), flexibility less Government in everything, more entrepreneurship, the Sarkozy vote
3. the neutral vote, in-between, of Bayrou
4. the protest vote, Le Pen
I am confident the Country has chosen to move-on as a first choice, Bayrou was a media bubble. The second round will be very close for the two winners which I expect to be Sarkozy and Royal.
update with a first estimate:
Sarkozy: 30
Royal: 26
Bayrou: 13
Le Pen: 11
Exactly what I need these days. Via boing boing on Ebay.
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During my stay in Madrid Anil offered me to join a show on Mobuzz.tv how could I refuse the honor of sitting near Karina, star of Mobuzz. I have not been very quiet, as you will see... Aplogies, Karina and thanks Anil, Karina and the entire team. Coming up: the podcast of my visit there...
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During my stay in Madrid, Enrique Dans organized for me at Anil's house a drink with bloggers and friends, thanks so much again, here is a video podcast if you like to meet some spanish movers and shakers... The wine was also very good you can tell on the video :). Ze picture.
Eduardo Collado who also videoblogs
Alberto Sagredo
Antonio Delgado
Simón Conesa (Mobuzz)
Edgar de León (Mobuzz)
Julio Alonso
Ivan Communod
Jose A. del Moral
Fernando Polo
Ismael El-Qudsi
chez Patrice...
Remember Patrice Cassard who founded the crowdsourced t-shirt shop LaFraise and sold it to spreadshirt for a few million $, well he tells us about his new life [fr], he is quite cool [fr] in Guadeloupe (French caribbean) and says that life is real life. I don't think it is "real life", at least not for me, I love meeting interesting people all the time. I am not saying you can't find interesting people on a sunny island, but not really the technology people I am interested in... Would you live on an island ?
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. Thanks, Quentin.
This Web 2.0 innovation map which has been around for some time misses many Web 2.0 startups in Europe, maybe you could add yours to make it less US centric... thanks, Julien
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I will participate and speak at Meeting of minds in Antwerpen on April 26th, see you there, two days devoted to UGC.
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thanks, Patrick !
Les 20km de Paris, it was my first ever "official" run, I managed to do it in 1h34 (I did a weird video podcast in French with my run on Google earth...). I have great souvenirs from last year so I just registered today for the 2007 edition. I would like to be below 1h30 this year (and may be even be faster than the other Loïc Le Meur who runs it and I never met), also be in better shape on the arrival line... If you feel like running it too, register fast as the 20 000 max. number is usually reached fast...
This advertising from the Rent a wife company (in French and Dutch) offers you to better enjoy your life by renting a wife.
Enjoy a 3 weeks guaranteed satisfied of get your money back period.
Choose from a variety of 9000 different wives for rent for all tastes
You can even rent up to 8 wives with a great discount and can use them all at the same time.
It's a very creative advertising from a belgian DVD rental company that feminist associations like more and more.
I was playing with my video podcasts statistics tonight and I noticed there were 300 000 video views in about three months since I started posting on vpod.tv. It is about 3000 views a day, nothing compared to a mass media of course, but encouraging. It reminds me of the beginning of my blog, growing stats are encouraging. I am posting one per day in French and considering doing more in english.
Interesting podcast by Jason of Twitter's co-founder Evan Williams.
The future, in a very literal sense, belongs to the post-national, the Global Souls, the economic migrants. They’re the best placed to create solutions to global problems, to invent new products for global markets, to build bridges and understanding between different nations. It’s not possible for everyone to uproot themselves and try becoming literally post-national, but the only obstacle to xenophilia in the age of the internet is lack of interest, desire to know what people in other parts of the world think, feel and believe.
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Podcamp Europe in Stockholm, June 12th and 13th, will try to join.
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We tried to define the values of that "moving circus" culture:
-no office
-no boss (self employed)
-no Country (world citizen)
-no race (does not matter)
-no diploma (who cares)
-no smoking (has been)
-no hierarchy (OK, not much hierarchy)
-no political party (!!!, we care more about people than parties)
-no tie, no suit: casual all the time
-no monopoly, no center, everything decentralized
-no religion (not has important as it was before)
-no mariage (not needed to live together)
-in sync: no email, no phone, just IM, twitter, social software...
-no off-line: everything online, Gmail Google apps rather than MS Office
-no distance: it does not matter where you are
-no mass media: they are here but do not matter as much as before
-no fear of embarrassment or of failure: the "always beta" culture
-icons: Hans Rosling, Sergey Brin, Lary Page
-book: The World if Flat from Thomas Friedman
-entrepreneurial or self employed
-ideas over systems
-sharing ideas instead of keeping them secret (authority and power change from people protecting information to people sharing it)
-ethics: environment, ...
-global citizen
Does it make sense ? Would love your feedback. Thanks !
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