Credibility and trust are the key issues in today’s information(overload) age where news emanates from multiple sources, including sources other than journalists. The news is also real-time and unrelenting: there’s lots of it.
Here, below,…
Information hierarchy: The news pyramid in the social media age
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments
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Le Web 2009, Day 2: The good, the bad and the vacuous
December 10th, 2009 · No Comments
For day two of Le Web, this Travelling Geek went to one of the side rooms for the “deep discussion” session. There was the word “future” in quite a few of the session titles, which caught my attention.
Analyst J…
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Startups of Le Web 2009, Paris
December 10th, 2009 · No Comments
The winner of the Le Web Startup competition was announced as Stribe — it’s a plug & play application that turns your site into a social network (not too dissimilar from the Hub actually). The runners up were CloudSplit and Mendeley.
T…
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Le Web: Chris Pirillo’s pillars of community
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Chris Pirillo, founder of Lockergnome, is a philosophical and passionate person. He’s a humble guy and a funny, engaging speaker. He’s someone who loves technology, community and gadgets — and is a great speaker. At Le Web he gave us …
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Day one @ LeWeb Paris09
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Le Web. Day one. It started off slowly, but then got better. There was nothing terribly controversial or any ground-breaking announcements. The Twitter and Facebook talks were fairly staid, marked with meaningless platitudes like “our success dep…
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Travelling Geeks in Paris: The pictures
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments
The Travelling Geeks are: Eliane Fiolet, Tom Foremski, Robin Wauters, Kim-Mai Cutler, Frederic Lardinois, Matt Buckland, Sky Schuyler, Jerome Tranie, Ewan Spence, Olivier Ezratty, Cyrille de Lasteyrie, Renee Blodgett, Amanda Coolong, Beth Blecherman, …
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Traveling Geeks meet 11 Paris startups
December 8th, 2009 · No Comments
On day 2, we arrived at the Paris Developpement Incubateurs an incubator of French tech start-ups. The Travelling Geeks, now with one added Robert Scoble, saw a rapid-fire set of 11 presentations from some very interesting companies and people:
Int13: …
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Traveling geeks intro video (LOL)
December 7th, 2009 · No Comments
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Visual social bookmarking: Innovative, but will it fly?
December 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Fresh off the plane, I’m on the road with the Travelling Geeks, and the first startup on our schedule is an innovative Paris-based social bookmarking operation, Pearl Trees. Their founder and CEO, Patrice Lamothe, says the site offers users a new…
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The future of social networking, with augmented reality: Slideshare version
December 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Due to the great response to the original blog post, here’s a powerpoint version of our concept investigation into social networking with augmented reality on your mobile phone. It sums up the key points in a more succinct and visual manner than …
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