Boinblog | Ramblings from a french entrepreneur

After barcamps, here comes Ignites… Philippe Jeudy is surely building a bridge between Paris and San Francisco, and he’s doing this both way : this Californian spirit in Paris sure is refreshing. Ignite is a pretty simple idea: you can talk about whatever you want, as long as it takes 5 minutes sharp, using 20 […]

 
Hope not.
Don’t know about what they’ve done in your country, but here in France, the 3 only mobile carriers have been playing monopolistic games for decades and stealing people’s money for a long, long time.
Recently, I’ve been working for one of them (sorry, I’ve signed an NDA, can’t tell you which one), and they sure […]

 
After Fuzz, LesPipoles and Crossfeeds, it seems now that a large number of french website are going into legal trouble. Even small local websites are being sued because of a content they displayed with an RSS javascript or a widget.
The French situation (last week local elections were a disaster for the French President), is kinda […]

 
Sounds weird, but I’ve never been to Germany before, and for the very first time in my life, I’ll be heading toward Berlin within a few days.
Should be quite cool, Mekameta and myself will be meeting with some friends, Pierre and Janetti, and we (at least I) will be at the Web2expo (and probably in […]

 
I’ve been ask recently if I was a ‘native digital’, e.g. born in a digital world and using digital tool since I was a kid…
Most people my age (I’m 38 yo) are not, but thanks to my dad, I am. My first computer (Ti58, then a Ti99/4a) was a gift from dad in 1981, I […]

Matt has been traveling the world, dancing, uniting, and basically sending (and receiving) love from all over the planet…
More efficient than any million dollar ad, because truly unique and deeply true.
Thanks for this (and thanks to his sponsor, he deserve some respect for making this possible, so thanks StrideGum)
Be sure to watch the original video […]

Something’s coming in France, it’s big, it’s cool, and it’s been keeping me busy lately
Ok, it’s official now, I’m the lead author for the French edition of ReadWriteWeb, one of the most popular blogs ont the planet, who is also published in the ‘Technology’ section of the prestigious New York times. I’ll also […]

Is this the end of screencast… One thing’s for sure, making a Flowgram takes a few minutes and (so far) is totally free. My mother could use it, and thay got a widget…
Sounds really promising…

 
I’ve been waiting for such thing since Fortis launched their own social network (at the time, Facebook wasn’t that big, and MySpace wasn’t an option), but now, Facebook is definitely the place to experiment with social media for big financial companies…
VISA is launching their own network, within the Facebook network, of course, looks like it’s […]

 
Ongoing searches, ongoing problems…
Today, monitoring a topic on the internet requires either a great amount of time or a great amount of technical skills. In both case, you will also need a strong editorial discipline.
Unless your company has acquired expensive Business Intelligence tools, you have to regularly perform searches over the internet, collect information streams from […]

There’s been some buzz recently to create the hard way a more personalized profile page on Twitter, basicaly, you better master Photoshop… So far, so good, I can do that, but I’m lazy, and I started by looking for a premade template to start with… Since I haven’t found anything, I started coding one (can […]

Un parfait exemple de ce que les sociétés devrait faire tous les jours… Une remarque d’un utilisateur, le patron de la boite arrive, demande des éclaircissements, et hop : une feature. CRM + Crowdsourcing… Bravo Pierre Chappaz.
Ca se passe ici

Anybody looking for some insights about the current ‘war on terror’ should definitely have a look at this movie. Beside being a pretty good Hollywook blockbuster, this ‘based on a true story’ screenplay gives a detailled explanation on how and when Al Qaida was funded and created and how funds dramaticaly dropped once the CIA […]

Quite depressing could be the baseline of this absolutemy brilliant movie. Perfect sceenplay, perfect camera work, perfect editing, very convincing actors…
I never noticed Todd Field before, he’s been in the movies for like… ever… mainly as an actor, but he sure knows what to do behin a camera.
Unless you’re currently using Xanax, and if you […]

Hot Fuzz is the funniest english movie I’ve seen since the Monty Python (even Snatch does’nt come close). Not only is it funny, but it goes cresendo during nearly two hours, starting from a ‘classical’ comic situation and endind in something totaly crazy…
LMAO is definitely the correct sentence for this motion picture, event if I […]

 
A few days ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a massive strategy to massively introduce electric cars in California, smart move, but obviously, he’s just doing something totally inevitable. By doing this now instead of waiting a few more years, he is probably going to seed some very innovative startups - quite easy to do for a […]

 
Tout se passait bien jusqu’ici, Lesieur, un géant de l’agro alimentaire, arnaqué par un fournisseur qui lui a vendu de l’huile de moteur frelatée en guise d’huile de tournesol, avait réussit  à faire en sorte que cela passe sans que quiconque ne s’en émeuve. Gros annonceur, la presse s’est empressée de ne rien voir, toute […]

 
Ce n’est pas nouveau, par contre, la grande révélation du jour, c’est que la France a inventé le copyright… oui, oui, vous ne révez pas, vous qui pensiez avoir saisi la subtilité, que dis-je, l’exception Française du droit d’auteur, vous vous trompez, c’est notre Danube de la pensée nationale qui nous le dit, “La France […]