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 [...]

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

In 2009, we will be editors!

Yesterday, I read the wikipedia article about DNA. I have been fascinated by how four simple pieces of information associated with a format the DNA could code the whole biodiversity. For four pieces of information code the whole life! Amazing.
Strangely it reminds me and made me realized the huge potential of what I am working [...]

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 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 [...]

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

The day when the web missed the road!

As a former advertiser, I have expressed doubts about eye-tracking tests. Then my position used to be : an advertising is a message, the place where the eyes watch will never indicate you what message the brain will remember. So I have never changed a word or a photo just to please an eye tracking [...]

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

The robot is surrounding the web…

It looks nice, quick, easy to use…
Google was for many people on the web the magic door of the web.
Then the google barr turned google into a powerful navigation tool
Now google partly drives you navigation…
But google is a robot, the robot. Google is a belief in a perfect algorythm. The control of that robot on [...]

Monday, August 25th, 2008

The creative hearing process !

Yesterday, a friend of mine I used to work with in advertising, wondered how it was possible to write as many posts as bloggers do… So I tried to explain him the process I followed with my own blog to show him that it was not that difficult. I will try explain my blogging process, [...]

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Competition is not welcome on the web!

Today I read a quite interesting article of Chris Miller. He is not easy with the bookmarking activities because it does not do what it is promising : an easy found of the right piece of information on the web.
Somehow we all know bookmarking, is not the ideal solution, we know the drawbacks and use [...]

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 [...]