Entries from November 2008

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

The web will not stay strangled !

2.0 wave has brought a lot of fresh air on the web. Suddenly everybody was able, without being an engineer, to create or to bring something of his own on the web. Blogs, youtube, flick’r, myspace… Creativity blossomed out everywhere and still does. A lot of talents have been discovered thanks to these revolution.
If everybody [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

And the champion is…

Do you wonder who is the best VC of this year?
Thanks to my friend and associate Julien, a ranking called after his blog’s name “wallen’s”, about VCs through entrepreneur’s eyes does exist. He used crunchbase’s info to do so.
I can’t wait for next year ! Who will be 2009’s champion?

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Profile and homepage?

Have you ever thought about the difference between the home-page and the profile ? Like everything on the web it is not that simple. From my observation, that is only about social media websites, I could say that :

the “profile page” is the page where the users brings their own content to participate to the [...]

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

No more search engine, please !

Ford used to say that if you had asked people in the middle of the nineteenth century what would want to increase their Journey, they would have replied “faster stagecoach”. I think, that some entreprenors (and the stokeholders that follow them) are mistaking the same way.
Yesterday I read a Read Write Web post about the [...]

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Home ?

Home! We all remember the dying E.T voice saying home, I want to phone home… Have you never had this same feeling when you had got lost on the web? That is my point today : what is a home on the Internet? Do we still need a home pages today ?
Let’s spend some times [...]

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Obama, Democracy and the web.

I am not a specialist of politics. However, I think the victory of Barak Obama is amazing. Like, a majority of europeans, I think this man has the opportunity to balance his own country and the world… But that is not my point. Obama’s victory is also a victory for democracy (not only democrats) and [...]

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Consumers are dead !

When I was working in advertising I spend my days working on messages to convince brand consumers to buy some more products or services. Then my framework was : a brand is talking to consumers that are isolated from each others. By the way that was true since people did not communicate that much together [...]