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J’aime bien la synthèse de Tvnomics sur les start-ups vidéo française. Mais un peu dispersé comme échantillon… http://bit.ly/drkUm

Congrats @LvP for launching Zoond ! TV finally reinvented — and I’m really glad to see Fair Play Interactive succeed.

Iranian president just told the UN to prepare for the coming of the last Imam AND Jesus Christ. I just can’t process this…

This is just fabulous ! E-mail error ends up on road sign http://bit.ly/u9S3L (via @monkchips)

Brad Feld posting on what science fiction does for him in his day-to-day work as a VC. Sums up in the accumulation of ideas, and the extraction of meaning. Thinking about visions of the future that might come through, and those that should have but didn’t.

The post deserves reading, if only for this great The West Wing quote :

“Leo McGarry: My generation never got the future it
was promised… Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the
same. We don’t even have the…

A fascinating visualization of the evolution in kinds of jobs held in the US between 1850 et 2000 – showing the move for an agricultural country to a blue collar, then white collar, nation.

The tool also shows the speed at which women entered the workforce in the 50’s, and then moved on to ever more qualified jobs.

The interactive tool is available here.

(Via : Paul Kedrosky)

In a momentous confirmation of its previous position, the FCC strongly confirmed today, through its new chairman Julius Genachowski, its belief in the net neutrality principles.

Net neutrality is an often overlooked but fundamental issue affecting the prospects of development of the Internet. Simply stated, this principle requires that providers of net access only manage the pipe, and let through user data at the advertised bandwidth, regardless of the nature of the traffic. In short, All…

Far too many of the business plan we receive include the Gartner mapping positionning the company in the magic upper right quadrant – with a judicious choice of the two dimensions to achieve this result.

The discussion never is on the actual mapping, but on the strength of these dimensions : do they matter ? are they differenciating ?

I stumbled across an interesting visualization by Seth Godin : media mapped accross bandwidth and synchronicity. These two dimensions have nothing…

RT @alexkjerulf: “When I was a Catholic priest, 20% of my superiors thought they were Divinely inspired. Now, in business, it’s 80%.”

Great post by Seth Godin on Business Development http://bit.ly/QAl66

New blog post – Net Neutrality and the FCC: http://bit.ly/15ltvi (En Français – Neutralité du net et la FCC : http://bit.ly/NlMeh)

Went by a shop called “2008.” Didn’t they imagine that, just maybe, their name would become obsolete one day ?

New blog post : Bandwidth and Synchronicity. In French : http://bit.ly/GbY9u …. In English : http://bit.ly/3zNhR0

World’s strangest website ? Going heavy on the cute factor, though… http://bit.ly/3Yw3iI (h/t : 37signals)

Great AT&T ads from 1993 predicting the future. Spot on ! http://bit.ly/sEPn7 (via @jeffjarvis)