French entrepreneur & digital innovation expert in Singapore/APAC
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…
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…
You’ve probably seen some samples of what I’d call “social data-mining” on tech sites and blogs. Usually, you feel like you’re in front of a spaghetti bowl that would have met Captain Fluo in the kitchen. Social network analysis is indeed a relatively new field where one can explore vast or little amounts of data…
Everyone has data, and we’re many to talk about them. But how can we monetize, or at least value social media data ? Here’s a few ideas given by companies as well as researchers during a brilliant conference hosted in Paris by the Social Media Club. On the panel : Franck Rebillard (a Professor at…
We’ve all heard about « Hello, world ! » ! What’s new is when it’s Goldman Sachs saying this, wih a job offer for a « social media manager » posted this month. Well, if you skip the obvious « wow, nasty ! » reaction, this is really something that deserves thinking : how could social media help the « Dark Star »…
Social media, Facebook especially, changes the way we celebrate birthdays. Before Facebook (remember ?), people did celebrate birthdays the traditional way : either you would remember the day and be a good brother/friend/colleague, either you’d just miss it and would convince yourself not to forget the next one ! Virginia Heffernan of the New York…