The most interesting things that I heard in Stream 2007
I attended Stream 2007 last week in Athens. This is an unconference organized by WPP since this year. I organized one of the discussions (on measuring the blogosphere) in which we had a very interesting conversation about Technorati and other tools. I also went to other discussions on social networking. These are the most interesting remarks I could hear and my thoughts about Web 2.0 after attending this event:
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt disturbed by social media
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt came to visit Bilbao three weeks ago. They just wanted to admire two Gehry’s buildings: the Guggenheim Museum and the Wine Museum in Rioja, which are 100 kms away one from the other. Unfortunately for them, the GPS in their rented Mercedes did not work properly and they got lost in a small and ugly suburb of Bilbao. A street sweeper came to help. Brad and Angelina tried to pay him, as he was very helpful, but he just wanted a picture with the couple. Thanks to social media, this picture is now flying all around the Internet.
The best in Reboot 9.0
After two days in Reboot 9.0, I am ready to share with you the things which were the most interesting for me. I couldn’ do it before: too many interesting speeches and conversations, too many new people and too much to see in Copenhagen.
Why didn’t Panoramio win Startup 2.0
Last week we held Startup 2.0‘s final in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Panoramio, which has just been bought by Google, was not among these projects. Nevertheless, it was among the 15 semifinalists. What happened?
Habitaquo is the most searched word in Technorati… for two days in a row
I am just impressed. Together with MediaContacts, We launched our viral marketing contest 3 days ago and had to find a word which did not exist before. We came out with ‘habitaquo’. Immediately after publishing the word, hundreds of people started to register several domain names with the word and create blogs in order to position themselves in Google when searching ‘habitaquo’.
Kinnernet’s conclusions
Yesterday Kinnernet was over and had a party in Tel Aviv. We are today in The Marker, which is the main Internet congress in Israel. The format is quite weird: round tables with experts that were with us in Kinernet and presentations of local startups. There are so many startups in Israel!! These are my conclusions of Kinnernet.
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LeWeb3: The power of Google
Google did not need to sponsor LeWeb3. It was mentioned by most of the speakers. Google is everywhere. It has become too powerful. One of the speakers even asked how many people did not use Google and only 4 (among 1,000) raised their hands. They were, by the way, employees of Yahoo! and Microsoft.
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Social networks are the future… but in a few years time
I admit I read with interest all the publications about mobile social networks (Mo So Sos, Mobile Social Software) because they are the field where this kind of systems will gain popularity in. Even here, in Alianzo, we have created a little prototype that, for now, we keep in the fridge. I believe in mobile social networks as much as I believe that they still need a couple of years to pop.
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Murdoch buys another social network
SimplyHired.com has followed MySpace. Rupert Murdoch, who nearly missed the Web 1.0 train, doesn?t want to let the 2.0 go without him and he?s bought another social network. The information is given by Enrique Dans, who regrets his lack of time to analyse the purchase. I?ll try to do it myself.
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Most MSN bloggers are women
Most MSN Space bloggers are young women of around 18. This is what Víctor Ruiz comments in the Blogs and Communications Media Conferences (Jornadas de Bitácoras y Medios de Comunicación) in Granada, where I?ll take part later on. Apparently, JJ Merelo, Fernando Tricas and him (the Blogometre creators) have made a research from 50000 blogs that they downloaded from the Internet. Continue reading »
