October 2009
78 posts
Congrats to GPS makers for having totally neutered the average taxi driver who can’t decide anything on their own anymore.
Inducing a healthy dose of paranoia… RT @bfeld: alone in my office rummaging through everyone’s desks. this is interesting!
Wow. RT @sether: FarmVille players outnumber actual farmers in the United States by more than 60 to 1 - http://bit.ly/4pbmbT
RT @danielbroche: RT @HubertMichaux On Spotify, the “Donate” button is called “Buy Music”.
No kidding RT @cnnbrk: FAA revokes licenses 2 Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot airport by 150 miles during 78-minute radio silence.
RT @konbini: Vous pouvez acheter vos préventes dès maintenant pour la Soulwaxmas ! http://bit.ly/c8vd8
Les conséquences de l’éducation universelle http://twitpic.com/n4z4e
RT @monkchips: just realised how deeply unsustainable SAP’s tagline for TechEd09 is - “Maximise Your Impact”.
GRUAU électrifie toute la flotte de Véhicules Utilitaires FIAT - http://bit.ly/HWzbk
Dear candidate - I’d rather have your cover letter in correct French than in gibberish English…
Geocities closing down today… Had my first website there, circa 1996. The page was a disaster.
RT @camj59: Cherche consultant spécialisé en site ecommerce pour animation d’un atelier de 2 heures. DM si intéressé.
RT @Capucine_Cousin: C’est confirmé, Mindscape rachète Violet et son lapin Nabaztag
Yeah : mon Kindle est arrivé ce matin. #yam
RT @SabineHerold Ma Gd-Mère: “à croire les ministres, JSarko est si parfait qu’on devrait le mettre au Pav de Breteuil avec le mètre étalon”
I had missed this paper : Managerial Incentives and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity http://bit.ly/3gGnKF #PE
Réunion sous-marine pour le gouvernement des maldives http://bit.ly/2De662
Interesting initiative from the Maldives gouvernement, holding a meeting underwater in order to sign a communication calling all nations to diminish their carbon emissions.
After all, a great part of political spin-doctoring resides in creating the right photo opportunities, and I believe this one is a success. Of course the Maldives cabinet is probably highly incentivized on this matter: the...
An interesting apparition of the 80/20 rule : a Comscore report (via
Broadstuff), clustering internet users in clusters according to their
frequency of clicking on display ads, shows that 85 % of display ad clicks are due
to 8 % of internet users.
The real question — nearly impossible to tackle, though — would be that of the demographic differences between this 8 %...
Bannières publicitaires et 80/20 →
Encore une application inattendue de la loi des 80/20 : une analyse Comscore (via Broadstuff) répartissant en cluster les internautes en
fonction de leur propension à cliquer sur les publicités…
Le poids des photos →
Belle initiative du gouvernement des Maldives, qui s’est réuni sous l’eau pour signer un communiqué appelant les nations à réduire leurs émissions de carbone.
Après tout, une grande…
One gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat and a poisoned curry plot http://bit.ly/PqRiJ
RT @jpalacin: “Mais papa, je voulais pas un Epad, je voulais un ipod” mdr, j’avais loupé ce #jeansarkozypartout
Home automation made easy http://twitpic.com/lrr09 #yam
50 Most retweeted users ever. CNN is only 49th. http://bit.ly/tBvoj
J’adore les chats : ça ne sert à rien. Mais c’est joli. http://bit.ly/nHOOc (via @Expertissim) #yam
YES ! RT @pjozefak: EVCA event: I just keep hearing let’s lobby, let’s lobby. Screw lobbying. Invest and get shit done.
The wisdom of crowds…
A recurring theme these years is the Wisdom of Crowds meme, from the eponymous book by James Surowiecki: the average opinion of a great number of uninformed people is often better than the informed opinion of a few experts. .
The book is not short on examples to support its point of view, from
the weight of a cow at a farm show to the sales forecast at an...
A fundamental thruth of Venture Capital: very, very often, we get it totally wrong. All the incentives are there to make it more painful to believe in a company that doesn’t make it (Type I error) than to pass on a company that makes it big (Type II error). As a consequence, from the moment we receive a business plan, assuming we get excited by the company, most of the review process is...
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Great quote from the highly recommended Marginal Revolution about the fine line between brilliance and lunacy. The original quote is from an article in the NYT.
Speaking of dinner, when the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt
told a friend, a Parisian doctor, that he wanted to meet a certifiable
lunatic, he was invited to the doctor’s home for supper. A few days
later,...
Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr.com : Working hard is overrated
(via Bijan Sabet)
“When we were building Flickr, we worked very hard. We worked all
waking hours, we didn’t stop. My Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon and I were
talking about how hard we worked on our first startups, his being Site
Advisor, acquired by McAfee — 14-18 hours a day. We agreed that a lot
of what we then considered...
La sagesse d'un parfait inconnu →
La sagesse des foules
Un des thèmes récurrents de ces dernières années a été la Sagesse des Foules, une idée extraite du livre éponyme de James Surowiecki
: en moyennant l’opinion…
Le génie et la folie →
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Très belle citation sur le très bon Marginal Revolution au sujet de la limite très floue entre le génie et la folie. La citation est reprise à partir du New York…
Le problème avec les certitudes →
Une vérité fondamentale du capital-risque est que très, très souvent, on se trompe totalement. Les incentives font en sorte qu’il est plus douloureux de croire en une société qui échoue (…
Travailler dur, c'est surfait →
Caterina Fake, fondatrice de Flickr.com : Travailler dur, c’est surfait
(traduction KN, lien via Bijan Sabet)
“Quand nous construisions Flickr, nous travaillions très dur. Toute…
Argh. Should have read that before ordering my kindle… American plug ??? http://bit.ly/1bhmmF
Affaire #Trafigura - The Guardian conclut (fièrement) http://bit.ly/1bhCr2
For Mad Men Fans - RT @konbini Photo: BIG UP A BROOKS BROTHERS ! http://ow.ly/unUF
Allez comprendre… http://twitpic.com/li27d
Colliding signs from the future ? http://bit.ly/9VUdg
Encore une participation sur Twitter. Bienvenue à @expertissim_com !
RT @MarcGoldberg: Very good case study paper on Warburg Pincus and how to build a PE firm that will last :: http://bit.ly/MtUcU
RT @danielbroche: Le chien de Nicolas Sarkozy nommé à la tête de la SPA http://bit.ly/cOnG4 RT @nitot: RT @yprie #Jeansarkozypartout
Soirée traitement des CV. Mal au coeur de devoir refuser tellement de candidats plus compétents que Jean Sarkozy…
Viadeo : c’est plus joli qu’avant, mais toujours aussi peu ergonomique. Je n’y comprends rien…
“La technologie est aux médias ce que les réfrigérateurs ont été à Coca-Cola” Bob Iger
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Great quote from the highly recommended Marginal Revolution about the fine line between brilliance and lunacy. The original quote is from an article in the NYT.
Speaking of dinner, when the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt
told a friend, a Parisian doctor, that he wanted to meet a certifiable
lunatic, he was invited to the doctor’s home for supper. A few days
later,...
Le génie et la folie →
Image Wikipedia
Très belle citation sur le très bon Marginal Revolution au sujet de la limite très floue entre le génie et la folie. La citation est reprise à partir du New York…
Nouveau post : le génie et la folie http://bit.ly/cSW81
The wisdom of crowds…
A recurring theme these years is the Wisdom of Crowds meme, from the eponymous book by James Surowiecki: the average opinion of a great number of uninformed people is often better than the informed opinion of a few experts. .
The book is not short on examples to support its point of view, from
the weight of a cow at a farm show to the sales forecast at an...
