French entrepreneur & digital innovation expert in Singapore/APAC
Bienvenue à bord de RockmySXSW. Après vous avoir dévoilé hier une partie des speakersqui vont, du 8 au 12 mars, tisser par leurs discours le rêve américain version Austin, voici une Timeline pour comprendre comment le festival a évolué depuis sa création en 1987 D’abord imaginé comme un tremplin pour groupes de musique, SXSW a intégré une dimension…
Life is full of these moments when different things and paths seem to converge. When the convergence is reached, it then seems obvious it could not have been different, and still, there’s some magic in this. I’m launching a crowdfunding campaign in France, on KissKissBankBank, to attend the innovation festival SXSW in Austin, Texas, thus…
Sometimes, I really think Facebook is not made by humans living in real life, but by the team behind Lemmings. If you’re unaware of this great and old game of the 1990s, Lemmings was a puzzle & platform game where you tried to reach the end of a level by managing a team of Lemmings…
Going to NTU (Nanyang Technological University) in Singapore is quite an adventure, but reaching it after an hour and a half of transportation was worth it. Google showcased a few but efficient tricks and ideas to use their tools as journalists, as part of the Digital Journalism Festival 2013. Let’s dive into it, as this…
The forthcoming community-based world Coming back from a two-weeks trip in Japan, I want to share a few thoughts about the state of the digital & social media over there, while pursuing my articles on “Going social in Asia” and “Rise of the communities”. As you know if you read me before, my take is…
A few thoughts about the way Singapore, and conversation by tech, digital and social players, are turning bitter these last months. Disclosure first if needed : I’m now living and working here, and hopefully have secured my visa even as a foreigner (-1) qualified individual (+1) working (-1) in a start-up (+1, but for how…
As I just finished my first Coursera MOOC on “Social Network Analysis” (a BIG thanks and congrats to Lada Adamic, our professor on 8 intense weeks of data-tweaking), I wanted to try a few things to complete my “Playing with data” series and explore, this time, Facebook groups. The interest lies in the possibility, for a…
I’ve long refused reading the books of the top minds of the Valley, probably from fear I could be convinced and would have to change my “fixed mindset” as I recently discover my brain was working. Hopefully, I’m not yet 30 and YES, I did read one of these books and YES, it’s a game-changer…
 If Singapore is not (yet ?) famous for its tech scene, it’s gradually growing as such with a cosmopolite bunch of people, events and media outlets building the beginning of a comprehensive and efficient tech/digital/social community. Check out Tech in Asia, e27 or SGEntrepreneurs on the media side, Blk71, The Hub or the Kennel for…
Third week of discovery of the tech, digital and social scene of Singapore, with, again, more insights gained as interviews piled in my schedule. After having talked – a bit – of the social media agency industry, of the cultural aspects to remember when doing business in South-East Asia, here are a few thoughts about…