Month: October 2010
A study on the status of social media in emerging markets
social media & social networks
29/10/2010
A study on the status of social media in emerging markets
Carlos Jordan de Urries and Chrystele Bazin, senior consultants at Sofrecom (a France Telecom Company) have updated us on the status of Social Media in emerging markets last Monday in Cairo. In this presentation, we’ll focus less on international Social media platforms and more on what the motivations are for…
Long Now Foundation: slower pace, better future … well maybe
Web, Internet and the Economy
27/10/2010
Long Now Foundation: slower pace, better future … well maybe
Good morning, we are on Monday, the twenty-first of January zero two thousand and eight. No this isn’t a typo, but rather a sign that we are taking into account the fact that humanity still has a few millenniums to go through. Well… hopefully! [One may have doubts when one…
Middle East Social Media straight from the Arabian horse’s mouth
social media & social networks
27/10/2010
Middle East Social Media straight from the Arabian horse’s mouth
What is the status of Social media in the Middle East? I have just come back from Cairo, where I was invited by the heads of the Cairo Orange Labs (see the video here) and their French counterparts in order to attend a presentation of what the telco is doing in…
Synthesio describes the 4 types of brands on social media
social media & social networks
19/10/2010
Synthesio describes the 4 types of brands on social media
According to Synthesio’s Moisand, the social media monitoring market has greatly evolved since 2006 and showed signs of maturity in the consolidation actions among various actors. Scoutlabs was bought out by Lithium Technologies, Sysomos by Marketwire. The bought-out companies were easy prey “at the moment of the explosion of social…
Telecom: Informa analyst describes pacified M2M market
Digital technology
06/10/2010
Telecom: Informa analyst describes pacified M2M market
Jamie Moss, a principal analyst at Informa telecoms and media, and columnist at telecoms.com has this interesting story about the m2m market and the positioning of carriers within this market. Informa analyst describes pacified M2M market Moss’s account follows Informa’s “embedded connectivity event” which took place in London in September…