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Month: December 2008

  • The old Geneva

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesHere are some old images of Geneva in Switzerland taken over a century ago. You can see how the land used to look and how it looks now. You can see some of the old streets and the contours. Now it’s a mass of buildings and the relief is hidden. Then Such…

  • The Social media and a documentary maker

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I had the pleasure of meeting Ornit Barkai, a documentary producer working on a documentary about the social media. Her project is one which I am particularly interested in because she is taking an exploratory approach through interviews to see what the social media are, She told me that she has…

  • Leweb was a great event

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesLeweb for me was about two things, meeting my seesmic friends and meeting new people. It’s through meeting friends that are familiar to me on the web that I had the best times. In particular I enjoyed meeting with Alex, nutrisionist 2.0 as is mentioned in his tagline. What was great about…

  • LeWeb 08, deux photos

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLoic Lemeur giving an interview to a journalist with a nice big seesmic logo behind him. There’s also the social side. Hermione of Techfluff.tv and Alicia L’americaine . There’s a video I should upload of Hermione dancing with three mariachi but I’ll do that once I get access to more bandwidth.

  • Networking has started already

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe stage isn’t even ready at Leweb but already the networking started this evening as a few companies presented their companies and what they can do. At the same time i got to meet two London friends as well as some others. It’s seesmic that invited me so there’s a good…

  • A busy few days

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTomorrow I will be in Lausanne once more, this time to meet the people from Bloggy Friday. It’s Switzerland’s bloggers and social media types coming together for a chat and the traditional fondue (or so it’s been for the past few weeks) and an opportunity to hear about new projects. Last…

  • SMS no longer exist for me

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI saw a tweet saying that Americans now send twice as many text messages as Europeans and this makes me think of just one thing. It’s obsolete. What I mean by that is that now that I have a data plan and skype and gtalk on my phone I refuse to…

  • The 50 Years of the City Club cinema in Pully

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI was in Pully this weekend for the fifty year celebrations of the City Club Cinema celebrating half a century of existence. There were a number of special events, from a silent film being screened with a live orchestra to a number of documentaries being screened as well. I particularly enjoyed the…