The Indian way!

Talking about Hollywood not allowing people to consume films on digital platforms, Rajjat A. Barjatya, Managing Director of Rajari Media said: “This model hasn’t worked for Hollywood because they are extremely protective of their content and their domestic market is huge. But for India, this is the future.”
Indeed, Bollywood, the most prolific film industry on [...]

Digital Planning

I’ve always loved visual representations. They help me to focus on the important things when I am starting to be confused by something! As I did some for Richard Huntington’s advices for young planners a while ago, I have decided to do another one for Iain Tait’s brilliant post: How to do digital planning.

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Rumplo

Here is another T-shirt post. On their own words Rumplo’s mission is to “make it easy for everyone to find their new Favorite T-shirts, and to give designers and tee shops great tools to promote and share their killer work.”
It is a great site enabling T-shirt lovers like myself to find even more nicely designed [...]

Interview: Danah Boyd

Always very interesting to read/listen to Danah Boyd. This interview will give you a very good overview of her research : How people - especially kids - use communication technology - particularly social network websites.

A very good way to finish the week!

The paradox of free

Both Chris Anderson (Wired) and the guys at Trendwatching have written inspiring articles about the notion of free:
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
Free Love
They are both very interesting and praising how brands and businesses could actually be more relevant and even more profitable thanks to free.
You can watch the video of Chris Anderson [...]

Digital critics

There aren’t many web2.0 critics out there. Most of the technology analysts seem to be agreeing that digital innovations are a move in the right direction with more interactivity, usefulness, relevance… and so forth.
The hype and the social components of blogs make it very difficult for Internet cynics to criticise it.
One of the most well [...]

Intro to the Semantic Web

Are geeks the new pedagogues? (I am not being ironic and don’t mean pedagogue as in being pedantic!)I just love all these videos about technology!

[Via Transnets]

Facebook randomities

Some people have started leaving the site, other are highlighting the limits…
I’ve just experienced to be moved from a market segment to another! When I’ve changed my relationship status from ‘In a relationship’ to ‘engaged’, I have suddenly became old for Facebook and have been targeted by the ad below! Sad isn’t it?

The Pirate’s Dilemma

I wrote a blog post about the music industry over my friend’s blog: Ohmwork the other day. I basically developed the thesis of learning from ‘pirates’ and what ‘free’ mean for the Internet and our economy. There are many ways to monetize the content but not necessarily to monetize music or films themselves… I am [...]

Age of conversation II

One year after the first Age of conversation, Drew is calling for a second round. I am going to be an author this year and will try to write something interesting! If you want to be an author as well or just want to vote for this year subject: click on this link!