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It can be seen as a relief too many people (and I include myself in this categorie) that human beings do not working on the same scheme as brand. For exemple, a human being lives his life continously and is aging continously and thus goes through different steps all along their lives. A brand is [...]

I love this video because it exactly shows how collective histeria comes. First, the guy is alone, it is a bit ridiculous to see him dancing like this all alone. When the second guy arrives there is a kind of risk : will they fight? Will they stop togther laughing of themselves… When the third [...]

This morning I received an email from a web service that was saying :
“Today is a sad day for us. We have decided to terminate the X service as of the end of the month (June 30th, 2009).  The service received excellent reviews and had an enthusiastic core user base. However, we were not able [...]

I am often amazed about how our minds, our way to think, can be frameworked by our habits. Since my early years I have always felt suspicious about steady confortable positions. I think I have been a good ad man because my role then was to unstead convictions.
No, I am working on the web and [...]

I have to confess that I have been born and grown-up in France. So, if you are a regular visitor you may have noticed some of the classic french carateristics through my former posts. I am quite arrogant, over-convinced of european cultural legacy to the world, contemptuous and narrow-minded.
However, I have also grown up with [...]

I have been quite busy those last three month. So I have not posted a lot and my stetoscope seemed to be deaf.
But, good news, pearltrees is now open. Step by step a community seems to enjoy making and sharing web maps.
I have learnt a lot those last month and I think it is time [...]

Sometimes, I wonder how I will know, for sure, that “pearltrees” has become a great brand.
There are many signs of it for example when your brand is used as the media of an event like the youtube with the Tsunami, wikipedia with the death of John-Paul II or twitter with the terrorist attack in Bombay. [...]

Soon I will introduce you to pearltrees. But for now, I would like to introduce you to our start-up story. It is all written in pearltrees’ blog.
I would distinguish 3 different periods :

At the beginning, this blog was our working table. We had all a full-time job then and our challenge was to draw, [...]

Among the discussions I have in my life that really enriches me, the one with my friend and partner Patrice Lamothe are among the best. That is why I am very happy to introduce you to the english version of Cratyle, his personal blog (which is already a reference in the french blogosphere)