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Marketing & Innovation
Is Sir Tim Berners Lee ’s view one-sided?
today’s selection is … A report from Edouard Austin in my team at Orange who was attending the WW2012 keynote speech by one of the Web’s founders, Sir Tim Berners Lee who issued a clear warning as to the growing threat to freedom of speech on the Internet. In that…
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Marketing & Innovation
Hitachi Data Systems: making social media work for B2B
Sharon Crost is Global Online Marketing and B2B Social Media Manager at Hitachi Data Systems and she delivered what I believe is one of the most inspiring presentations on March 27 at Blogwell in San Francisco. B2B, it didn’t come as as surprise to me ( I made a presentation…
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social media & social networks
Yahoo! movies Summer program: from 200,000 to 1.2 million likes
This Yahoo! presentation kicked off my fifth Blogwell session (overall, this was the nineteenth session) since the end of 2008, time flies! This meeting took place in San Francisco in the beautiful Golden Gate Club venue in the Presidio park, a stone’s throw from the Golden Gate bridge. Not only…
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Digital technology
Engine Yard’s Dillon: A private cloud is an oxymoron
As cloud computing technology is booming there is talk of the so-called private cloud. As I was in San Francisco today, I managed to squeeze into a meeting with some of my former partners of the IT press tour. Today we visited Engine Yard, a new player at the forefront…
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CRM and CX
Sugar CRM: the rise of a new customer relations champion
This is the third Sugar CRM executive to be interviewed by visionary marketing.com. My first interview took place two years ago with Larry Augustin, CEO and founder of the CRM company, who is also one of the people who coined the phrase: “open source”. After a brief Skype encounter with…
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Digital technology
immersion makes retro gaming experience richer on tablets
The gaming experience on tablets isn’t really what it should be, but all this may change soon thanks to Immersion, a San Jose based company which was set up 18 years ago to develop force-feedback controllers for joysticks and other gaming equipment manufacturers such as Sony, Logitech etc. Immersion is…
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Digital technology
Kaspersky says cybercrime explosion in mobile world is near
I had the opportunity to attend a Press conference organised by Kaspersky security. Eugene Kaspersky himself was present for this big announcement in mobile security. The firm is already widely known for its PC protecting suite and today it made a few important announcements related to its release of parental…
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Digital technology
E-health is coming to our homes
Ehealth is no longer a dream and we had further evidence of this at Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona while visiting the “connected house” pavilion. Let’s zoom into these solutions of a very very near future in which our health and namely that of elderly citizens will be (ethically)…
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Digital technology
Innovation isn’t always where you think it is
It may seem strange but somehow, I’m not entirely certain that innovation is always where you think it is. Sometimes it lurks in corners, or even is conspicuous but you were looking in another direction. Perhaps that’s what happened at showstoppers on February 26th (a preview event before MWC in…
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Digital technology
First few slices of technological innovation at MWC
First few slices of technological innovation at the 2012 MWC event. You certainly know you are in Spain when you can spot the Patanegra at a buffet, but the motivation for the happy few who were present and invited act the showstoppers event in Barcelona today, didn’t quite come for…
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social media & social networks
Of influence and trust by 1000heads’ Joanne Jacobs
Joanne Jacobs was presenting today at Lincuplive, a great social media conference put together by our friends Celia, Glenn and Tim and today was a very special day. It was Joanne’s last UK appearance as she is returning to Australia and will be leading the 1000heads WOMM company down under.…
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Content Marketing
Our Top Blogging Team at Mobile World Congress
Here’s my top blogging team for the MWC 2012 event. In the telecommunications industry, everybody knows about the mobile world congress. The yearly event, which has been hosted in Barcelona for quite a few years now, is the obligatory focal point for all the players in that industry: carriers, service…
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