When Amelio was still running...

During the All Things Digital conference, Jobs attributed a saying to Amelio (ex-CEO of Apple) :
“Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom leaking water and my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction.”

That's one way to see the solution ;-)

Is this our future ?

A very interesting video on the possible future of our civilization :

You are too young...

How many times do we hear this ?

A lot of recent companies have been founded by young entrepreneurs (Google, Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, etc...). Ben Casnocha is one of them. He started his company in middle school. He just released a book called "My Start-up Life" explaining what a young CEO learned on his journey through the Silicon Valley.

Check this video from ABC News to know more about Ben :
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3223744

It is time to think different.

Google, the master plan...

This could be an interesting movie on Google's web domination :
http://masterplanthemovie.com/

Move Your Feet !!!

This is quite a fun way to promote alternative medicine :
http://www.kenrico.com/kenrico_reflexology.html

Reverse Thinking...

Start to “Think Different” about your business :
- Instead of asking how much customers would pay for a product, ask them how much the current problems cost them.
- Instead of sitting down during meetings, stand up.
- Instead of calling anything pricing, to a customer position it as an “investment.”

Feel Good Inc.

Searchology : The Universal Google Search

When Google bought Youtube for $1.65 billion, many wondered if the price was really worth it. The main question was how can Google monetize the site ? Well, it seems the "release" of Google Universal Search gives a straight answer. Google is now adding Youtube videos to video search. By expanding its search field, Google is able to give better results than its closest competitors : Microsoft and Yahoo. This is just One More Thing giving Google a competitive advantage in its main activity : SEARCH.

What would you do in 15 seconds ?

Would you be capable to market yourself in 15 seconds ?
This is a difficult, but useful exercise. Nowadays, people have short attention span, it is the reason why we have to explain what we do for a living in 15 seconds or a few words maximum.

Check this website to find some answers to this question :
http://www.15secondpitch.com/

Who said banks are boring ?

After the online banking boom, is the traditional banking back ?

Check out the 3 minutes video to understand how banks could look like in the near future :
http://www.jyskebank.dk/jyskebankinfo/home/home/220771.asp

When Capitalists meet Marxists...

"The Workers should appropriate the means of production", Karl Marx.

Marx was seeing ahead of his time. He was already thinking about the Web 2.0.

What do we call Web 2.0 ?
Web 2.0 refers to user-generated websites such as Ebay, Wikipedia, Youtube, Blogger, Myspace, Second Life, Flickr, etc... The users create the contents, and the websites just bring the technology to make it possible.

Power is shifting :
"To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control", Rupert Murdoch