CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

I had the unique opportunity this year to visit CERN’s Large Hadron Collider a day after LIFT Conference 2008, an experience which helped me to understand better CERN and its innovation. I was in a group together with Bruce Sterling, Ben Segal, Robert Scoble (who did the video below), Aral Balkan and others. Below is [...]

LIFT08 pulse

Social, Presence, Conversation and Network

I’m going to LIFT Conference 2008 with set of tools to create, share and present. I will create network possibly by increasing my Linkedin connections, I will share conversation and a presence during LIFT08 with Twitter, and will get much social with Facebook (physical contacts only).
Here is the trend graph of recent months popularity [...]

LIFT Conference 2008

LIFT Conference is about to start soon, this time richer with program attached with preliminary network using social media softwares. As last year main discussion during the breaks was Twitter, this year it Facebook will dominate the field. The recent report provided by Glen O’Neil on Network Mapping shows the increase of network among participants, [...]

New Year’s Resolutions

1. Write a new business plan idea each quarter
2. Wake up one hour earlier and go to sleep a hour earlier than in 2007
3. Subscribe to The Economist, Time Magazine, Wired this year.
4. Read books about Airlines Industry
5. Use often my new Sony DSCT70B Digital Camera and buy a Flickr Pro account
6. Spend less time [...]

LIFT07: Florence Devouard - Wikipedia: a social innovation?”

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s our commitment. Wikipedia.org
Florence Devouard the chairwoman of Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia spoke about “Wikipedia: a social innovation ?” at LIFT07 on February 8, 2007 she covered the basic facts of wikipedia worldwide and the comparisons [...]

LIFT07 Video Presentations

I’m republishing LIFT07 Conference videos every weekend with notes I took on each presentations I attended to let my readers enjoy these fabulous videos offered by LIFT07 organizers.
LIFT is a conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society hold on 7-8-9 February 2007 Geneva, Switzerland