Notes on the run…
Steph shares her experience on going freelance and invites all the freelancers to Going Solo, her conference for freelances in March, in which she managed to invite Stowe Boyd as a speaker.
Good luck!
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
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Jonathan Cabiria, whom I had the chance to meet at Lift last year, is a brilliant American psychologist and researcher. I quite enjoyed his talk since he brought social communities back to their evolutionary basics: “We come together to be safe”.
Jonathan and his team have been researching marginalised people and how virtual social networks could bring them back to socialisation in the real world (which was unexpected at the beginning of the study). Virtual worlds can actually help people to feel more real, more authentic and more commited to society.
What it means is, basically, is that “real” and virtual worlds should probably not be viewed as separate worlds. In both cases, we are just social animals.
Brilliant!
Notes on the run…
Pierre Bellanger, the founder of SkyRock (hence SkyBlogs), gave the second talk at Lift and share his vision of mobile social networking.
I’m definitely no good at blogging notes on the run, by the time I’ve created my post, fought with the wifi, my laptop, firefox and wordpress, read a couple of urgent e-mails, I’ve missed the whole introduction of the talk… Very interesting, nevertheless… The main point: “The future of social networking is mobile”, in short, your whole numerical identity and online existence online will depend on your cellphone (and on your telco operators?)
A few quotes for future reflexion:
Social Networks are to the Mail What the Search Engines are to the Web
The network changes us: Netamorphosis
The social network is the future of telecommunications
S.O.S for “Social OS”. Unfortunately, the acronym is already in use for another purpose.
Notes on the run…
Sci-fi author Bruce Sterling was in charge of the opening talk at Lift08. He wanted his keynote to be “punchy” and “focused”.
He did mentioned Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, the US economic depression and Al-Quaeda, the global warming (quote: “Global Warming is a Way of Life”) since he probably felt compelled to, given the talk was supposed to be a review of 2007 and a prospective review for 2008, but of course that’s not what he focused on.
Instead he developed what he considers to be the essential: Carla Sarkozy, the “Madame du Barry of the French political renaissance”. His prospective scenarios were quite funny, including “the First Beaver of France”.
His point was about publicity, power, politics and money and their relationships and about the impredictibility of things. Could have been brilliant, but honestly I was a little disapointed, the argument deserved a better backup.
Favourite quotes:
Carla Sarkorzy is a Black Swan
2008 will be a Crappy Year
Global Warming is a Way of Life
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Found via Myrmex’s free tools. Looks really cool, could be a real alternative to os-commerce
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seo detailed report in only a few clicks. Excellent. Found via secrets2moteurs
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Tips by 11 linkbuilding experts on how to improve your search engine optimization through cross linking. Found via Roger (@ Cross Systems)
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hand-made, minute-made fresh sandwiches and salads,. Only a few hundreds metres from the office. Quality of the sandwiches inversely proportional to that of the website
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world statistics updated in real time: births and deaths in real time. Fascinating! Found via Marilin
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“LearnOutLoud.com has scoured the Internet to bring you over 500 free audio and video titles. (…)” Found via pickthebrain.com
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Brain Fitness, Training and Exercise guidance for individuals, companies and institutions.
Found via pickthebrain.com
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O’Reilly Maker – Create a funny book cover!
Create your own O’Reilly book cover. Great! Found via “Capitaine Commerce”
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Download French Wine with the revolutionary USB wine technology
Brilliant video buzz marketing campaign. Found via Headshift
Je fais suivre un message de ma copine Marilin:
Merci de faire passer…
Nouveau – D’Fleur, un nouvel espace floral à Montoie
Il aime rencontrer les gens, leur parler, leur faire plaisir, il est
parfois rêveur, silencieux et concentré!
il est déjà le fleuriste de ces dames!La suite sur le site…
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hehe, yet another set of predictions to laugh that will turn out laughable in a few years (that’s my prediction
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“(…) This course of 60 lectures gives the student a sure guide and interpreter as the major themes within the Long Debate are presented and considered. (…)”
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a new online payment solution (prepaid cards sold in newspaper shops)
