Barney Wilen, forgotten genius

January 25, 2009

 As a teenager he started a youth jazz club in Nice, where he played often. He moved to Paris in the mid-’50s and worked with such American musicians as Bud Powell, Benny Golson, Miles Davis, and J.J. Johnson at the Club St. Germain. His emerging reputation received a boost in 1957 when he played with [...]

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Sales receipts, an unrecognized media

January 20, 2009

The Internet brought a new dimension to the term « media » by making it accessible to everyone, by allowing users themselves to create new media platforms such as virtual territories, or by enriching them with collective intelligence like Twitter.
The number 1 media in the world is, however, not the one that we would think…..it’s [...]

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Direct Territories

December 26, 2008

Guest Post : New ways of communicating have created an additional layer on top of these territories and ecosystems, ultimately defining new territories in which we have to coexist.By Xavier Comtesse, ThinkStudio
SummaryTerritories as defined by government have become disconnected from the ecosystems in which people and business live and work. New ways of communicating have [...]

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Direct Economy: Customer knowledge is replacing producer knowledge

December 7, 2008

Publish on : 2006/10/24
I have the pleasure to present you the fundamental vision of Xavier Comtesse. His vision clearly reshapes our near future, and I think you will be impressed by these arguments with their pragmatic & vulgarisation approach. A kind of "Economic Big Bang"."If real power is given to consumers, meaning finishing the product, [...]

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What does the current market want?

November 12, 2008

This question is fundamental for all economic sectors. Today it has become a news item because of the economic crisis.
Just like the music industry which suffered from illegal downloading before trying to reinvent itself, the industries, services, products will have to be subjected to the same transformation to confront the recession.
Each conversation on this theme [...]

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The iPhone ? Is it a telephone ?

November 3, 2008

You’ve probably noticed that the iPhone does almost everything for your real life, but also for your digital life. It does everything, but is incomplete: SMS without a proper filing system, no MMS, dodgy backups, cut conversations, etc.
But with this splendid new dock (ispazio Dockflow), that can be found in Cydia, the application which [...]

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