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Re: Turn Your Customers into Raving Fans

Alex de Carvalho — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:09:23 -0000

I agree it's great to have raving fans.

In the case of www.flickrsucks.com, the domain name registrant, Cal, works at Ludicorp -- founder of Flickr.

Re: Feliz Páscoa – Joyeuses Pâques – Happy Easter!

Alex de Carvalho — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:46:58 -0000

Thanks Patricia and Happy Easter to you :)

Re: The Cluetrain, The Hughtrain, and Les Blogs at the French Senate

Alex de Carvalho — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:51:53 -0000

Thanks David, I look forward to meeting you at Les Blogs.
Alex

Re: Brazil Economic Forum

Alex de Carvalho — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:00:12 -0000

obrigado, vou ver no meu "domain name registrar" ...
perdi o filme, vou la neste fds.
até breve!

Re: Nokia’s Upcoming Launch of Mobile Social Networking

Alex de Carvalho — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:21:00 -0000

Your comment is right on the spot and I think mobile social computing will gain popularity in a business context, at conferences and such.

In the meantime, we'll have to manage to meet up "the old-fashioned way" ...

Re: Nokia’s Upcoming Launch of Mobile Social Networking

Alex de Carvalho — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:01:49 -0000

Thanks, Per. It's all about "object-centered sociality" as well as network effects, isn't it?

Re: Nokia’s Upcoming Launch of Mobile Social Networking

Alex de Carvalho — Sun, 08 May 2005 15:09:14 -0000

Que legal Charlie ... eu queria muito saber como funciona, etc. Espero poder ver isto no mass market em breve!

Re: Nokia’s Upcoming Launch of Mobile Social Networking

Alex de Carvalho — Mon, 09 May 2005 20:17:50 -0000

Thanks Younghee, that's great news ... I'll be following this closely!

And congrats for your product launch!

Re: The Perfect MoSoMo

Alex de Carvalho — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 05:17:11 -0000

Russell,

The dodgeball+google model has good potential for local advertising revenues. More here:
http://www.tapio.com/2005/05/google_classic_.html

-Alex

Re: Tricot Para Rapazes

Alex de Carvalho — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:52:32 -0000

LOL ... excellente!
Alex

Re: Reboot 7.0 Blogback

Alex de Carvalho — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:49:06 -0000

Thanks Pedro ... I've been busy wrapping up a client project and am just now starting to catch up with everything, including finding my next challenge!

Re: Social Networking Conference, Paris

Alex de Carvalho — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:07:05 -0000

-> Thibaud, thanks for your comments ... the point is, with CSS you don't need a full time graphic designer working for you ;)

-> Ste, thanks for the comment, I've been to your Ecade.... as well as to Ecad.....tch on Tribe. Glad you're keeping it real, I've learned quite a bit from the discussions. The real lesson is, as with real life, always exercise judgement and care.

Re: .mobi and .mp mobile friendly domains

Alex de Carvalho — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:04:43 -0000

Thank you Marcus, that's very helpful.

Re: Laurent Keisser, In Memoriam

Alex de Carvalho — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:35:40 -0000

Adam, thanks for your kind words.

Re: Solitary Mobility vs. Mobile Sociality

Alex de Carvalho — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:33:56 -0000

Dave, thanks for your comment and post.

There’s no fundamental disagreement and it’s certainly true that a cell phone can be an antisocial nuisance: while you're socializing with someone on the phone, you're effectively shutting out the people you are with. Indeed, it can be particularly disconcerting to see someone walking (or driving) while apparently talking to himself, when in fact they're using a small bluetooth headset. I believe there are even bluetooth earpieces and the ear implant may not be far away ;)

Likewise, the iPod may be a "social object", for instance when used with external speakers or plugged into an amplifier. Also, with iPod photo, you are being social when you show images to your friends.

Overall, though, the mobile phone's multiple ability to connect with others, through voice, text, bluetooth, infrared, internet (wap/3G), etc., makes it more of a "social machine", compared to an mp3 player, which arguably was designed for "solitary mobility".

With bigger hard drives and embedded audio functionalities, new phone models may become an alternative to a standalone mp3 player and rumors have long circulated on whether Apple will enter the mobile handset game ...

This comment is cross-posted from Dave's blog entry at
http://thezone.blogs.com/root/2005/08/alex_de_carvalh.html

Re: Solitary Mobility vs. Mobile Sociality

Alex de Carvalho — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:44:06 -0000

Both Mobile Jones and Dave Tilley have made lots of great comments, which I second. Indeed, that is the main point of my posting, where I argue that with the convergence of mp3 and mobile, you no longer have to make a cellphone / mp3 players tradeoff. Music is very important, no argument there.

Music brings people together and it's telling that Dave's son communicates with him by sharing his music. The iTrip but also external speakers and just plugging your iPod into an amp makes this possible (dual headset jacks are also available).

And yes, Mobile Jones, high-schoolers will probably have both an iPod and a cellphone in their pocket. Remember, I talk about usage context ... and that the device you choose to take with you (mp3 player, mobile phone, or both) depends on what you'll be doing after you walk out the door.

Both Mobile Jones and Dave Tilley point to a specific type of usage which is about face to face socialization using the object (iPod) as the common interest, rather than socialization with someone at a distance through some kind of a wireless (voice, internet, bluetooth, etc.) connection.

I would call this a difference between mobile sociality, explained in this post, and "social currency" (see Douglas Rushkoff at the now defunct The Feature). Social currency is about socializing by trading baseball cards ... or nowadays, swapping iPods.

I'll post on usage of devices (iPod, mobiles and other) as "social currency" this week when I get a chance.

Re: Solitary Mobility vs. Mobile Sociality

Alex de Carvalho — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:07:53 -0000

Great stuff, I'm with ya. Let's get operators to move beyond their "walled gardens" mentality, their high pricing for 3G packet communications charges and their lack of transparency in billing.

DRM is another big hairy issue not easily dealt with.

Re: Stone Soup Linkblog

Alex de Carvalho — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:53:48 -0000

thanks, robin and see you soon on irc.

Re: Wiki Wednesdays – Paris Venue

Alex de Carvalho — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:01:40 -0000

Merci, Christophe et à demain !

Re: Wiki Wednesdays – Paris Venue

Alex de Carvalho — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:31:21 -0000

Jeremi,

J'exprime une certaine frustration que nous ne trouvons pas a Paris de Mobile Monday, Tag Tuesday ou, jusqu'au mardi matin, de Wiki Wednesday. Par ailleurs, la grande réussite des blogs en France (par rapport aux autres pays européens) n'est pas encore accompagnée par une adoption des autres technologies de collaboration, tels les réseaux sociaux, le tagging et ... les wikis. Que peut-on faire pour accélérer l'adoption de ces outils en France ?

Bravo pour le travail sur le wiki d'Altaïde.

A ce soir !

Re: Wiki Wednesdays – Paris Venue

Alex de Carvalho — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:50:11 -0000

Il y a le wysiwyg et puis il y a le wikiwyg ;)

http://www.wikiwyg.net/

Re: Making Mozilla’s Firefox Faster

Alex de Carvalho — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:15:58 -0000

Tom, you're not contributing anything new yourself and i have no respect for trolls. I wrote this about 9 months ago and as you'll see from the post, I take no credit for this tip, I link back to where I found it from and I communicate this information to people who might not have found it from the original author. Likewise, I'm more than happy when someone does the same with something I might have written.

Cheer up, will ya?

Re: Blogs as a vehicle for democracy

Alex de Carvalho — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:39:14 -0000

thibaud, you cheeky so and so! ;) it was nice to see you yesterday and let's continue our talk soon.

Re: Great Fanny’s Party!

Alex de Carvalho — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:39:34 -0000

thanks, charles, there were two of you last night, with charles liebert of sensemilia.net

regarding howard, he will speak tomorrow:

http://www.fing.org/jsp/fiche_actualite.jsp?STNAV=&RUBNAV;=&CODE;=1129730892453&LANGUE;=0&RH;=

how was it?

-alex

Re: Les Blogs 2.0

Alex de Carvalho — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:00:04 -0000

Je me dis qu'il y aurait pas de backchannel en live derriere les intervenants cette fois, mais ca promet d'etre anime quand meme, et puis comme Emmanuel le dit, faut pas rester sur son ile ;)