Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Twitts from Iran!

I have often written about the hints, the signs that reaveals that something has change somewhere. Especially about when a social media can be considered as a success. Today, once again, I am amazed by the ability of twitter’s team to understand how they are a media and how they demonstrate their will to be [...]

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Old TV still fascinates the web

Since several days I enjoy looking at the “trending topics” column in twitter. And very often those trending topics are about old TV stars : David Carradine, Zak Morris, …
I guess we cannot really abandon our tender childhood, and TV was at the heart of our childhood. Who will be the has been people in [...]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Want to be giant? Let your community rule your website!

It might seem strange or funny but when you start-up a web2.0 internet project (here meaning a social-service) even if you know precisely where you want to go, the functionnalities and the problem you want to solve you do not know what usage will be done of your plateform. Moreover, it might take some month [...]

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Twitter’s moment of glory

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. [...]

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Little words make big brands !

Poke, google, twit, post… Ten years ago, all those words (except google for mathematician or semantic experts) would have mean nothing more than a noise just like : blurp, beblooc, hipick.
Today, thousand millions of people poke, google, twit or post every days… How is that happens?
When technologies make a move it enables a grape of [...]

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Why do I love social web ?

Today, I had a lunch with some of my start-up partners. We are working hard together since several month and we had a refreshing talk wondering what we do fancy most on the web. After, few seconds, it was very clear as to me : I really love the Internet for its social side. That [...]