Salah-Eddine Benzakour Blog

Je viens de lancer un nouveau blog en anglais où je souhaite partager ma vision, des idées de business et des initiatives interessantes :

http://vision.salahbenzakour.com

Dites moi votre avis!

The videos of the 1st day of LeWeb3 are online here: http://my.vpod.tv/leweb3
(You can find also the videos of LeWeb3 2006 version)

Below you can find the program of the 1st day.

I will highly recommend viewing these videos first:

Welcome to the Evolution/Revolution - Loic Le Meur
Main insight: Web2 is an evolution of technology and revolution of usages (users behaviors)

Persistent communication and its impact on being social - Evan Williams (Twitter/Obvious )
Main insights:
- Contraints add value
- Forget: What can we add to make my product better? But think about: What can we take away to make my product better (Twitter limit post to 140 characters - No title, no formatting, no pics)
- Google = Yahoo (minus) Several services

Why books and school lectures still exist - Hans Rosling
Main insights:
- The most important is to talk (Tell stories)
- Core of globalization: A country needs world more than the world needs this country
- Too many people know about wine, less know about world
- Money is here, need of courage, vision…
- Connect to the world

What is social about design - Philippe Starck
Main insights:
- Venal companies: Product to make money and sale (10%use+90% shit)
- Good goods respect: Honesty; Respect; Ecology; Positive; Organic; Bionics; Harmony; Right economical position; Social product; Political actions
- New consumer: Modern rebel => Smart people
- No design without concept: Concept comes from stronger vision; Concept before Design after
- You cannot see the biggest revolutions because they are invisible
- Protect your body=> Protect your brain
- Next computer is you
- Trends: Minimal; Invisibility; Dematerialization; The big image = MUTATION (We are mutant)
- Design is what in and not what’s around (For amazon ebook reader: The designer doesn’t want to disappear)
- Ingenuity is related to “level of vision”

Technology’s impact on corporate culture - Nelson Mattos (Google)
Main insights:
- - Internet levels: Information (Search)/Communication (IM; Chat…)/ eCommerce/ Community
- Consumers needs first
- Some secrets are more valuable when shared (Ed Mc Crachen)
- Big will not beat small anymore, it will be fast beating slow (Rupert Murdoch)

-Program 1st day (Click on read more…)

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