Fernando Madeira, Co-Founder & CEO, Terra Latin America The Latin American population online is redefining the use of the Internet and next Twitter or Google will likely be born in Latin America. The stats speak for themselves: 30 million people have escaped from poverty in the last seven years, and 15 million more by 2014. [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Fernando Madeira, Co-Founder, Terra’.
Daniel Ek, Co-Founder & CEO, Spotify and Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb Daniel started his first company when he was 14. Sweden was known for piracy, because of Kazaa and Pirate Bay. Because everyone had broadband and it was super fast, consumption existed before services did, so pirate sites had lots of users. Spotify was [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Daniel Ek of Spotify’.
Ben Parr Three trends to watch: Local social networking. This is about groups and about communities. It’s the local meetup club. It’s the local library users. The social enterprise is also about local networking. Convergence of entertainment and digital. The convergence of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Things like TV integrating the web more into their shows. The [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Ben Parr’.
Kiran Bellubbi, Founder & CEO, 955 Dreams The price of an iPhone app is about the same as a really good quality French pastry or even baguette. However, mediocre apps spoil the environment for all developers. Mediocrity is the enemy. It kills great ideas. One mediocre ideas leads to another, which leads to another, and [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Kiran Bellubbi, Founder 955 Dreams’.
Niklas Zennstrom, Founding Partner & CEO, Atomico and Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb Niklas runs a $200 million fund which has invested in 50 companies. They don’t look for any particular subsectors. They look at opportunities in all kinds of sectors. When Google entered search, all the existing search engines pivoted into portals because that’s [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Niklas Zennstrom of Skype and Atomico’.
Hosain Rahman, Founder & CEO, Jawbone and Yves Behar, Founder, Fuseproject Moderated by Om Malik, Founder, GigaOM Yves Behar is perhaps best know for his work with OLPC and with the Jawbone. Good design accelerates the adoption of ideas. Essentially, a startup is an idea. Startup ideas need design thinking. You need to develop moments [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Om Malik interviews Yves Behar of Fuseproject’.
Live blog post from LeWeb 2011: Deb Roy, Co-Founder & CEO, Bluefin Labs There are four principles to Deb Roy’s concept of predicting learning: Record everything and store this data Develop machine learning algorithms to understand the data Visualize those patterns to create understanding Leverage those understandings to better certain areas of society Language is the defining [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Deb Roy, Co-Founder &CEO, Bluefin Labs’.
Live post from LeWeb: Marissa Mayer, VP, Product Management, Google and MG Siegler, General Partner, CrunchFund, inteviewed by MG Siegler of TechCrunch This is Marissa Mayer’s fourth consecutive year speaking at LeWeb. MG Siegler interviews her in a less confrontational manner than Mike Arrington last year, but alas neither he nor Mike got any stunning new [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Marissa Mayer, VP at Google’.
Carmine Gallo, Author, 7 Principles of Innovation based on the “Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.” Jobs and Wozniak started Apple in the spare bedroom of Steve’s parent’s house, before getting too big and moving the business down to the garage. What the world needs is more jobs … Steve Jobs. It’s fair to ask ourselves, [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Carmine Gallo, Author, Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs’.
Live post from LeWeb 2011: Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote and Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb Orange announces that all their customers will receive a premium subscription to Evernote as part of their service, starting in Spring 2012. Phil talks about building Evernote as a “100 year” company. They were just named as Inc. [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Phil Libin, CEO Evernote’.
Live blogging from LeWeb 2011 Bill Gross, Founder & CEO, Idealab “Learning From Failure: 20 Years of Entrepreneurial Lessons in 20 Minutes” Bill Gross has raised over $1B over the years. In a very fast-paced presentation, he shared 12 lessons of being an entrepreneur, of which I captured 9 … 1. Market Power Rules — Try to [...] Read more – ‘LeWeb11: Bill Gross, CEO Idealab’.
In many ways, Paris is home to me even though I am not French. I happened to be born in Paris and although I didn’t live here in my youth, I studied in French Lycées in various countries as my father fulfilled his career. Much later on, I lived just south of Paris in Fontainebleau, [...] Read more – ‘In Paris for LeWeb11’.
We’ve got a busy four months tech-wise in South Florida, with plenty of startup, entrepreneurial, and tech events in additional to regular club meetups. Here’s a roundup of the ones that caught my eye. October 25 Social Media Club South Florida: “Social Media and the Law” As millions publish their personal and professional experiences online, social media [...] Read more – ‘Roundup of great startup and tech events in South Florida, Fall 2011 and Spring 2012’.
A milestone is a stepping stone Unbeknownst to me at the time, a new chapter opened up in my life years ago. More than a chapter, really — a whole new volume was started back then. For the more I learned, the more I cast off what I had previously learned. And looking back, some stepping-stones [...] Read more – ‘Securing the Clicks: Network Security in the Age of Social Media’.
Over the past three months, I've shed 4 stones by following a water fast. This is a personal account of my journey to a fitter body and better health, achieved in a surprisingly short time. Read more – ‘System reboot, a personal account’.
tl;dr Compared to other industries, healthcare and pharmaceutical companies have historically been slow to market online, partly because of strict advertising regulations (FDA) and patient-privacy (HIPAA) laws. However, as new market realities push pharma companies online, these firms will find that social media supports the more agile business model some will pursue. By 2016, the [...] Read more – ‘Social Media Through The Product Lifecycle’.
I’m honored to be hosting today’s hashtag #socialmedia #sm104 chat on Twitter, from 12pm — 1pm ET. The topic will be “Re-Shaping the Purchasing Process: The Rise of Social Retailing” Of course, social retailing has always existed at the local level, through people-based businesses like the market and mom-and-pop convenience stores. Even larger retailers like Nordstrom’s [...] Read more – ‘Hosting Hashtag Social Media on Social Commerce’.
Over the past few years, David Blumenstein, Founder and Managing Director of The Hatchery in New York, and I maintained an ongoing dialogue about our respective communities. Then, in mid-2010, Seth Elliott and I formed a new organization, The Startup Forum, to foster the development of vibrant regional startup communities. We were privileged to have [...] Read more – ‘The Startup Forum partners with the Hatchery to create the Hatchery Miami’.
“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things — with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.” –Corazon Aquino Ang araw bago sumikat nakikita muna’y banaag. (Early dawn precedes sunrise.) For the past year, I have been collaborating with [...] Read more – ‘Early dawn precedes sunrise: traveling to the Philippines’.
Crisis Camp Haiti in Miami, originally uploaded by alexdecarvalho. Whenever I take a step back to reflect on the past two years, I realize with a great sense of accomplishment how far I’ve come, and with a great sense of humility how little any of it had to do with me. These 24 months have [...] Read more – ‘Moments give reason to the season’.
A nicely recursive pattern in the walled garden at the Brownsover hotel near Rugby, England. In our age of the ever-expanding Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIns of this world, companies, associations, nonprofits, and other types of organizations are also thinking about developing their own communities, to create more relevant and focused places to network: The biggest [...] Read more – ‘Want to create a vertical social network? Answer these 10 questions first’.
Last Wednesday marked the end of the Fall semester for my course at the University of Miami. Together with 19 students and invited lecturers, we explored the workings of social media from multiple perspectives, including identity, community, branding, PR, and journalism. The class developed on three levels, covering the practice of publishing and sharing; online [...] Read more – ‘Social Media Course Syllabus, Fall 2010’.
Shai Agassi of Better Place delivers a TED moment at LeWeb 2010 I’m just back from an inspiring LeWeb conference last week. Loic and Geraldine Le Meur outdid themselves. They and their team of organizers clearly benefit from five years of experience running this event and from their collective experience in attending TED, Davos, LIFT, SXSW, [...] Read more – ‘Inspired by LeWeb 2010’.
LWeb Startup Competition Hosted by Loic Le Meur and David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital The panel of judges includes: Jean-David Blanc, Entrepreneur/Business Angel (Founder of AlloCine) Brent Hoberman, Founder & Executive Chairman, mydeco Xavier Niel, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors & Chief Strategy Officer, Iliad Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Founder & CEO, Ventes-Privee Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, [...] Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Startup Competition Finals’.
A forward looking view by industry analyst Jeremiah Owyang, partner at Altimeter Group based off recent research on how large global brands are organizing, and spending on social media: Keynote: Social Business Forecast: 2011 The Year of Integration View more presentations from Jeremiah Owyang. jowyang, jeremiah owyang, leweb, leweb10, social media Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Jeremiah Owyang of Altimeter Group’.
The same week as they announce a $25 million round of financing, Waze presents their project at LeWeb 2010 Startup Competition. The questions at the end are well answered: waze, startup, entrepreneur, leweb, leweb10 Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Waze presents at Startup Competition’.
Loic Le Meur interviews Shai Agassi, Founder & CEO, Better Place Better Place has about 700 engineers working on their solution. They raised $700 million, with no government money — just private investors. You cannot replace oil without a full solution for the way we drive cars. For cars to be successful today, you need providers [...] Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Shai Agassi of Better Place interviewed by Loic Le Meur’.
MG Siegler of TechCrunch interviews David Ko, SVP of Mobile, Zynga. Some highlights of the talk: Zynga acquired NewToy, a company that have developed “one of the best social game experiences on the web, creators of “Words With Friends” and “Chess With Friends.” Users use these games for about an hour each day. Zynga will keep [...] Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: David Ko of Zynga interviewed by MG Siegler’.
Mel Young, Co-Founder of the Homeless World Cup, presents this great project that has impacted the lives of so many homeless. This 14 minute video is well worth watching: mel young, homeless world cup, leweb, leweb10 Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Mel Young of Homeless World Cup’.
Robert Scoble interviews Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of Mozilla Foundation Mozilla is a non-profit organization to their core. This makes it harder, so you have to do your best to remain competitive. We have embraced HTML5 because it can compete with proprietary technologies and it integrates well with the web. There is a learning curve, but [...] Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Mitchell Baker of Mozilla Foundation interviewed by Robert Scoble’.
Loic Le Meur interviews Joe Green, Co-Founder & President of Causes: Charity is inherently social, it’s part of who we are as people, in some cases it’s even a part of our identity, and Causes wants to help make charity a part of our everyday lives. Facebook and having people’s real identity will help us [...] Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Joe Green of Causes interviewed by Loic Le Meur’.
Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch interviews Matt Mullenweg, Founder of WordPress and Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic What are the challenges of building a viable business off something that is open source? Actually, the challenge was creating a business that would not kill the open source project. Just how big is WordPress? There are about 30 [...] Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Matt Mullenweg of Automattic interviewed by Alexia Tsotsis’.
Loic Le Meur interviews a refreshingly modest Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder of foursquare. Here are some highlights: A year ago, foursquare counted 4 people. Today, they’re still only 40, despite their strong growth (over 4 million users). We brought DodgeBall to Google and ended up working on some other stuff. So after Dennis left Google, he resurrected [...] Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Dennis Crowley of foursquare interviewed by Loic Le Meur’.
Quite an excellent presentation by Fabrice Marchisio, Cotty Vivant Marchisio & Lauzeral, on “The Boiling Frog Phenomenon and The Importance of “weak signals.” Here’s a summary highlighting the rationale: If you put a frog in boiling water, the frog will jump out and save its life. But if you put a frog in cold water [...] Read more – ‘Live Blogging LeWeb: Ignite Sessions, Fabrice Marchisio on “The Importance of Weak Signals”’.
“From social network to social entertainment product“Robert Scoble interviews Mike Jones, CEO, MySpace. Highlights include: MySpace is focusing primarily on the under-35 crowd. The new MySpace product is about social entertainment, around TV and movies. You create a personalized stream of entertainment around you by connecting to your favorite movies, TV shows, and celebrities. MySpace [...] Read more – ‘Live blogging LeWeb: Mike Jones of MySpace interviewed by Robert Scoble’.
TechCrunch writer MG Siegler interviews Jason Goldman, VP Product Design, Twitter. The biggest highlight is that Jason Goldman announced he’s moving on from Twitter, pursuant to a conversation about how the product needs to change — seemed like a good time for a transition. Jason was employee number 9 and has seen the company grow to [...] Read more – ‘Live blogging LeWeb: Jason Goldman of Twitter interviewed by MG Siegler’.
I first attended Le Web, a conference produced by Loic and Geraldine LeMeur, in 2005 when it was known as Les Blogs. The conference grew out of a series of smallish meetups in 2004, for example, “Blogs & Journalism,” “Blogs & Politics,” and so on, with selected panelists and a few dozen attendees. These evolved [...] Read more – ‘In Paris for LeWeb 2010’.
How time flies … my last post was months ago, way back in June … What happened in between? Well, among other things, - A book deal with McGraw-Hill, co-authored by Gary Bahadur and Jason Inasi – Lots of travel abroad and a great cross-country trip (thanks to Scott Monty and Gwen Peake at Ford) – [...] Read more – ‘Clearing the cobwebs’.
It turns out someone has been sending out employment offers around the world promising a job at the Holiday Inn Kensington Forum in the UK. The letters are signed “Alex de Carvalho”. For the record, I am not the Alex de Carvalho in question. I do not work for the Holiday Inn, I do not [...] Read more – ‘419 fraud from Alex de Carvalho, UK Holiday Inn Hotels, Kensington Forum’.
tl;dr: So you’ve been tasked with “tackling” social media for your organization: now what? At the EyeForPharma eMarketing Summit 2010 in Berlin, I presented “5 Keys to Implementing Social Media,” a framework to help you define your organization’s social media activity. This post summarizes the first key, monitoring your brand online. As a disclaimer, I [...] Read more – ‘Implementing social media: brand monitoring’.
tl;dr: First post in a series summarizing the “5 Keys to Implementing Social Media” presentation, starting with “The Social Media Adoption Matrix“ Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, and the pharma industry The recent EyeForPharma eMarketing Summit 2010 was held in Berlin, a fitting place to talk about social media for the pharmaceutical industry. The Mauer Museum at [...] Read more – ‘Implementing social media: the adoption matrix’.
This is a live post from a SXSW panel on Venture Capital, March 15th, 2010 Only a fraction of business financing comes from Sand Hill Road. Yet entrepreneurs still obsess over traditional big meeting/big money Silicon Valley venture capital. This heated panel debates what types of companies actually benefit from VC and reviews concrete examples of [...] Read more – ‘SXSW Live blogging: Who Needs Venture Capital?’.
This is a live post from a SXSW roundtable on ER 2.0, March 14th, 2010 Hospitals and health care providers are slowly but surely using new media and social networking software for some of their primary objectives–treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. This presentation will feature best practices from case studies and prescribe [...] Read more – ‘SXSW Live blogging: ER 2.0’.
This is a live post from a SXSW panel about StoryCorps, March 14th , 2010 StoryCorps was built on the principle that ordinary people have extraordinary stories to share — you just need to ask. Social networking and hand-held technology now enables communities to capture and distribute these stories with unprecedented scale and quality. Panelists will [...] Read more – ‘SXSW Live blogging: Story.Next — Narrating the Crowd’.
The following is paraphrased from a presentation made by Allison Cerra, Chief Marketing Officer, Americas Region — Alcatel-Lucent, at the Social Networking Conference 2010 in Miami, FL. Consider the following identified marketing challenges in the current online social media ecosystem: Service providers are constrained: Today, just 20 households consume more broadband than the entire bandwidth [...] Read more – ‘Creating a marketing ecosystem for social media’.
corcovado Originally uploaded by alexdecarvalho One of the advantages of traveling on a major holiday is that no one else does, and so my flight to Rio was empty as my calendar turned its page to 2010 at 30,000 feet. Corcovado (the Christ the Redeemer statue) is an inspiration to many for religious reasons. Standing [...] Read more – ‘Soaring’.
University of Miami — School of Communication CNJ595: Web 2.0: Social Media: Communication, Community, and Literacy Spring Semester 2010 SYLLABUS COURSE DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE: In a few short years, social media has profoundly changed the online communication landscape. With the advent of new tools and platforms, more and more people are publishing and participating in conversations [...] Read more – ‘CNJ595: Social Media — Communication, Community, and Literacy’.
You brought joy to those you touched. You had an irresistible charm borne of innocent mischief. You saw yourself as more human than cat, and made your presence felt despite not speaking much. You participated in everything and your curiosity knew no bounds. You were a peacemaker and a soother. You ruled the house and [...] Read more – ‘In memoriam, Kashmir, 1998–2009’.
Panel on Rebuilding the World with Free Everything, with: Doc Searls — Linux Journal Katherine Druckman — Linux Journal William Hurley — evil genius project Chris Anderson — Wired Magazine Dave Taylor — filmBUZZ “Free” is the future of business. Steve Larsen says the world has more than 500,000 open source code bases now — [...] Read more – ‘Rebuilding the World with Free Everything’.
Keynote session at SXSW, with: Chris Anderson — Wired Magazine Guy Kawasaki — Alltop In 2006, Chris Anderson introduced the concept of the Long Tail. His soon-to-be released book will talk about the power of free. Will his theories stand up to the tough questions of venture Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki? If you [...] Read more – ‘SXSW Keynote with Chris Anderson and Guy Kawasaki’.
Panel on “Appfrica: How Web Applications Are Helping Emerging Markets Grow” with: Jonathan Gosier — Appfrica Erik Hersman — Ushahidi / Afrigadget / WhiteAfrican.com David Kobia — Ushahidi Rose Shuman — Open Mind — Question Box TMS Ruge — Project Diaspora Everything we thought we knew about Africa is wrong. Technology is leading growth, developmental aid [...] Read more – ‘Appfrica: How Web Applications Are Helping Emerging Markets Grow’.
Panel on “Breaking Boundaries: Mobile Web Access in Emerging Economies,” with: G Kofi Annan — Annansi LLC Charles McCathieNevile — Opera Software Matt Womer — World Wide Web Consortium David Rogers — OMTP Ltd In many regions, the mobile phone is the primary tool for Web access. As mobile Web connections increase in developing nations the [...] Read more – ‘Breaking Boundaries: Mobile Web Access in Emerging Economies’.
Panel on Building Your Brand with Web 2.0 Tools, with: CC Chapman — The Advance Guard Dave Delaney — Griffin Technology Saul Colt — FreshBooks Loic Le Meur — Seesmic Chris Brogan — New Marketing Labs Getting attention for your brand (personal or company) is easier than ever thanks to the olé’ interweb but doing it [...] Read more – ‘Building Your Brand with Web 2.0 Tools’.
Brian Oberkirch moderated a panel on “Try making yourself more interesting,” by panelists (this is a paraphrased live blog post): DL Byron — Bike Hugger Amit Gupta — Photojojo David Rees — mnftiu.cc Kristina Halvorson — Brain Traffic There are no cheat codes for community. No Charles Atlas shortcuts to make your pet project the one [...] Read more – ‘Try making yourself more interesting’.
Steven Johnson of outside.in talks about “The Ecosystem of News” and “old growth media”. This live blog post is mostly paraphrased: It is now conventional wisdom that the newspaper as we have come to know it for last century is over, or will be in a matter of years. The question is whether we’re going [...] Read more – ‘The ecosystem of news’.
I'm honored to share the stage at SXSW 2009 with co-panelists Peter Imbres, Scott Monty, and Andy Carvin for a talk about "Digital Tsunami: Breaking News at Breakneck Speeds": Read more – ‘Spending the week at SXSW 2009’.
Dan Willis from Sapient talks about how “Everything you know about web design is wrong” (this post is live-blogged and mostly paraphrased): “Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, linear text and [...] Read more – ‘Everything you know about web design is wrong!’.
Last year flew by and I didn’t get the chance to spend time with family and friends in Brazil during the holidays. Instead, I spent a week in Israel, right as the war started. I’m in Brazil now, though, and I look forward to meeting a number of people I’ve corresponded with on Twitter. Social [...] Read more – ‘How’s the social media scene in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo?’.
My mind is filled with questions as I ponder the history, culture, and current events of the region. I’ve heard so many positives and negatives, and it is with a great sense of curiosity and excitement that I travel to Israel and Jordan next week. In particular, I am anxious to meet some people from [...] Read more – ‘A week in Israel and Jordan’.
Last night we celebrated another great year of RefreshMiami meetups (slideshow here). During the year, our membership doubled as we accomodated about 35 presentations by South Florida new media startups, entrepreneurs, and freelance professionals. Our meetups were attended on average by 50 people, with some events drawing about 100. We’re particularly grateful to Yahoo! Hispanic [...] Read more – ‘Celebrating another refreshing year!’.
By focusing on the end goal of innovation and transformation, we are not limited to social media solutions - we can think differently about business processes, branding, marketing campaigns, customer support, hiring, training, partnerships, sales and other aspects of operations even. Read more – ‘Catalyzing sea change’.
This has been a turbulent year by most accounts, so I spent Thanksgiving remembering those who stuck by me through thick and thin: Brian Breslin has been a constant friend as well as a partner in organizing RefreshMiami, BarCampMiami and building StartPR. When I struck out on my own earlier this year, Brian lent me office [...] Read more – ‘Gratitude is the memory of the heart’.
I’ve published a curriculum for social media literacy at the college and graduate level. This is based on my experience teaching the subject at the University of Miami School of Communication and on the presentations and workshops I’ve given. The coursework and some of the topics are also inspired by Howard Rheingold’s class on Virtual Worlds [...] Read more – ‘Course Syllabus on Social Media Communication, Community, and Literacy’.
We had another great meetup at RefreshMiami last night at Yahoo! Hispanic Americas. Adam Singer presented a “Coffee 2.0″ social media case study, Michael Montgomery spoke about microformats, I presented “You, the online brand”, attached below, and Davide Di Cillo presented his new Twitter social football service, Twootball: Just why did Davide create Twootball? He says: [...] Read more – ‘You, the online brand’.
BlogOrlando gets better each year, I’m very glad I went. I of course enjoyed reconnecting with friends who flew in from across the country, seeing the Orlando tech community again, and meeting new people. One of the highlights was getting firsthand case studies from the teams that manage(d) social media at major corporations: Jeff Rubenstein [...] Read more – ‘BlogOrlando 2008 … third time’s the charm’.
I’m honored to be counted among the people invited to give new impetus to the Social Media Club. Through conversations with companies, organizations, local universities, and interactive agencies, I’ve experienced the growing interest in social media and the increased demand for industry practitioners. By bringing together those who have an interest in seeing the industry [...] Read more – ‘Social Media Club forms interim board’.
I’ve had countless conversations with companies and interactive agencies on the significance of social media and the impact it will have on businesses’ marketing, PR and product development activities and processes. From these conversations and from my own experience using, teaching, consulting and working with companies and non-profits on social media initiatives and programs, I’ve [...] Read more – ‘Social media framework for discussion’.
surrender originally uploaded by alexdecarvalho. I’m giving back my Mac today. The contract unequivocally requires property to be returned and so it is that I’m giving the Mac back at some point today. Mind you, about six months ago I’d never used a Mac before and the almost prohibitive price had always kept me at bay. [...] Read more – ‘On the surrender of a beloved Mac’.
Sergeant Jalonen must have spent his childhood in a concrete sandbox After I graduated from college, I completed mandatory military service in the Finnish Army. The year-long experience yielded intense experiences, lifelong friendships and lots of stories. One of them comes to mind: Jalonen and I were the first two soldiers from our company to [...] Read more – ‘Social object and the object-centered environment’.
There’s a packed house to watch Mark Cuban interview Michael Eisner: two billionaires in the room: “This is a joint panel session for both SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive registrants, and will be a one-on-one interview with the founder of The Tornante Company and new media studio Vuguru, will feature the former head of Disney turned [...] Read more – ‘A Conversation with Michael Eisner and Mark Cuban at SXSW’.
My previous post about “social objects”, described how your profile, what you publish and what share online determines the impression you make and provides topics or hooks for others to get in touch with you. The term social object is a convenient shorthand for describing such hooks, which represent many of the reasons people socialize [...] Read more – ‘Social objects and the observer’s paradox’.
First, a bit of history Before talking about social objects as accessories for online impression management, I wanted to surface a bit of history about the term, “Social Object”. There’s been a lot of talk lately about object-centered sociality, which can be thought of as “the reason people connect and socialize with each other”, to [...] Read more – ‘The use of social objects as artefacts for identity management’.
Tue 18/10/2005 15:12 Forum on the sustainability of Brazil’s economic growth Quick summary of a day-long forum on the political, fiscal and monetary policies, choices and issues in sustaining economic growth in Brazil: - Growth has been strong but has not matched ‘Asian Tigers’ levels; - Despite social advances, much remains to be done to [...] Read more – ‘Brazil: challenges ahead’.
