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Seesmic du jour 162 : students in a Mobile Home...

After visiting Capgemini (Cupertino), Vinvin meets some crazy French students in a few mobile homes. It's the MoHo project...

Seesmic du Jour 159: Who Did the Best Jump? (vote)

While I was working very hard in Sapporo, Japan, some of my employees took it upon themselves to hold a little contest. Now, we are looking at you for the result.

Californian wine or French one?

The new episode of the Great Village answers this question... Kind of...

The Bush pilot

Excellent and funny video that lets us finally understand how Bush really operates. Thanks, Benoît.

Technorati Tags: bush, humor

Joi Ito: a podcast on online gaming, video and copyright

I was at Aula in Helsinki for two days (thanks Marko, it was great!) and took a series of video recordings, here is a video podcast with my friend Joi Ito, a 50 minutes conversation on online games (WOW and Second Life), video, online music and copyright. You can view it below or download the video file (itunes/ipod .m4v about 300 Mo) or the audio file.

Technorati Tags: aula, cc, joi ito, video, podcast, world of warcraft

World of Warcraft: Ilan explains why we should all play

Ilan Graicer is one of the best player of World of Warcraft in Israel, he played 1800 hours... Ilan explains why there is so much interest for WOW that is the #1 selling game in the world I think today and also the consequences on our lives. I think he convinced me... not to start because I'll be addicted too.

Yossi Vardi explains why Anina jumped in the party pool at midnight

Yossi Vardi, ICQ founder, explains why Anina has jumped in the hotel pool...

You can also get this video podcast by subscribing to my RSS feed on the right hand sidebar.

Technorati Tags: DLD06

Back to bubble times again ? Anina jumps in pool in the middle of the Burda party in Munich

Anina jumps in a pool at the last floor of a hotel at the Burda party at DLD06, after a bet launched by Yossi Vardi who said he would commit to a few thousand euros for the Burda charity. Anina follows another person jumping. Are we back to the crazy bubble times again ?

You can also get this video podcast in iTunes by subscribing to my RSS feed on the right hand sidebar.

Technorati Tags: DLD06

Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister of Interior, video podcasted

Nicolas Sarkozy, France Minister of Interior and future candidate for the 2007 French Presidential elections welcomed me yesterday in his office at the Ministery. It is the first time ever in France a politician of this rank or Minister is podcasted.

We talked about:
-the Web and blogs
-his way of doing politics
-his answers to recent criticism from French show-business stars regarding his words during the suburbs crisis
-I offer him to announce officially his candidature to the Presidency in 2007 on my blog and he... accepts ;-)
-presents a few wishes to the bloggers and to the French for 2006

Lots of fun meeting Nicolas Sarkozy and doing this podcast ! Sorry it is in French...

On the picture, I am showing a video podcast to Nicolas Sarkozy, on a video iPod of course !
update:
-thanks to Rodrigo and vpod.tv here is the streaming version
-thanks to Agoravox, there is also a transcript of the interview [fr]

The result is in my podcast feed (subscribe in iTunes, RSS2) a 20 minutes video (90 Mo mp4v) and audio podcast (9,2 Mo, mp3). Nicolas Sarkozy was the man who managed the so-called "Paris riots" crisis.

Business Week just wrote a nice article about it: "The Podcast shaking up French Politics"

Technorati Tags: france, paris, podcast, podcasting, sarkozy, video, videoblog, vlog

Video podcast: Adriana Cronin-Lukas

Adriana Cronin-Lukas is one of the best known blogher in the U.K., also blogging on Samizdata that is the highest ranked blog in Europe on Technorati (4133 today). Adriana is also a partner at the Big Blog Company.

Video podcast you can view with Quicktime, iTunes and your Video iPod, produced on a Nokia N90 provided by Nokia.

Technorati Tags: podcast, podcasting, video, videoblog, vlog

Nokia N90 has an official blog and I started vlogging with mine

Nokia Nseries just launched an official brand blog:

"Welcome to the Nokia Nseries N90 Blogger Relations Blog site. Here you will find blogger and media information that you can repurpose and utilize in your blog postings about the N90."

I started videoblogging with mine (in French for the time being). I converted the videos with QT Pro so that they can also be seen on a Video iPod.

A video pitch about corporate blogging

Joël Ronez, a French blog consultant, is preparing a big presentation to the marketing professionals at Steria about corporate blogging and he asked me a weird idea, a few minutes videoblog with a pitch on why they should do it. It was quite fun to do it, here it is in quicktime video (5,1Mo)... I prepared it with videocue and an isight.

And a transcript:
"Hello everybody, and welcome to my home office !
Joël Ronez makes me do weird experiments: make a videoblog to be presented to you, the international marketing professionals at Steria in a conference in Nice and give you a few minutes pitch on 4 reasons why a large corporation such as yours should blog...
I have no idea how far you are on that road so these key points are very general and applicable to any company, you probably know them already, but let me try.
1. if you don't do it, your clients will do it for you by publishing their comments about the quality of your work: check Steria in Google and in blog search engines such as Technorati, you'll see there is already a lot and it keeps growing
2. This is good news it means your customers care about what you do, there is a conversation around you and as the Clue Train Manifesto book says, markets are conversations.
One of the reasons why you should open your own blogs is now to participate in this conversation, to have your own voice and let the transparency enter your company. We want to hear your project managers, the people who do research and your employees, not only the corporate message that your websites send, not only the voice of your management and your press releases. We want you to be just a click away. We want to give you suggestions on what you should do better and give you feedback, no need for panels anymore to get our feedback.