Source: Le Temps: Ecoutez-moi, en 20 images
From the FAQ of Pecha Kucha website
PechaKucha 20×20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images forward automatically and you talk along to the images.
20 seconds x 20 slides (20×20). While this format is targetting more visual works, I am convinced that with some tiny changes it could be applied in other contexts than a gathering of designers and other artistics works. I have been trying to use Pecha Kucha in out team at work without enough traction so far even though the first session had positive feedbacks. This kind of gathering generates discussions and exchanges that can only foster creativity and innovation! even more useful in the enterprise world.
When you think about it a Pecha Kucha is to formal presentation what Twitter is to blogging with a tiny bit of Meetup (gathering) and Linkedin (professional social network)… and all in real life. How can it get better ?
Les meilleures extensions pour Google Chrome
My own list, obviously closely related to the service I am using…
When my old legay Hi-Fi system died a few months back it was time for me to investigate what’s new on the consumer market and at the end take my checkbook. My requirements: I needed to be able to listen to radios, podcasts and occasionaly some of my own music currently on CD (but only very sporadically). While Logitech has some nice offering in home audio streaming I get completely hypnotised by Sonos. Did not do much more investigation and product comparison I was already almost convinced and when I saw it live at a friend’s place the decision was taken… that was all I needed, and while the checkbook was out of the pocket I also decided to buy a NAS which is a good complement for listening music but also much needed as an in-house backup solution.
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Mark Suster: Honest Advice on Starting a Company
Interesting talk, here are very few notes mainly for myself:
- Do basic research about the market (spreadsheet with basic economic, pay -> what am i replacing, 3rd party -> Ads ? what is the CPM ? Clickthrough, History of the Industry)
- Get a prototype (almost a requirement to show and explain vc and business angel what you are working after
- Diverse team
- Vest funding (need to find out more about that)
- Name = URL
- “VC is worse than marriage”
Ray Ozzie: Dawn of a new day
[...] We’re moving toward a world of 1) cloud-based continuous services that connect us all and do our bidding, and 2) appliance-like connected devices enabling us to interact with those cloud-based services.
Continuous services are websites and cloud-based agents that we can rely on for more and more of what we do. On the back end, they possess attributes enabled by our newfound world of cloud computing: They’re always-available and are capable of unbounded scale. They’re constantly assimilating & analyzing data from both our real and online worlds. They’re constantly being refined & improved based on what works, and what doesn’t. By bringing us all together in new ways, they constantly reshape the social fabric underlying our society, organizations and lives. From news & entertainment, to transportation, to commerce, to customer service, we and our businesses and governments are being transformed by this new world of services that we rely on to operate flawlessly, 7×24, behind the scenes. [...]
Follow-up: Don Dodge gives its own vision
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A beautiful piece of swiss semi-direct democracy…
1) A group of people wants to change the law and gather enough signature (>100′000) to go into votation process.
2) The government disagree with this new proposal and propose an alternative.
As a citizen, I need to answer to the two questions: “Do I accept Proposal 1 ?”, “Do I accept Proposal 2 ?” and since they are exclusive, can not be applied at the same time, I need to answer to the question which one I prefer if both proposal pass.
Note that to pass a proposal (ie. an “initiative”) needs to be accepted by a majority of people, and a mojority of “cantons”…
Easy uh ?
Parlant franglais plus souvent qu’à mon tour je ne suis probablement pas le mieux placé pour me plaindre, mais ne pourrait-on pas traduire ce genre de signalisation en français au moins ?
First time in more three years while I always have coffee on my desk… it had to happen. I was listening “les e-rdv du Bristol”… wondering what does that mean.
