October 29, 2011
The map shows Iceland. I’m over the Atlantic on my flight to JFK, just a stop before Arizona and Connected Enterprise 2011.
When Ray called me a year ago to ask me if I’d be willing to join a new company he was setting up, I didn’t hesitate much. I actually didn’t hesitate at all. I felt like a total junior compared to him & some of the guys he was bringing along.
On November 10, we officially launched. And look where we are now. We’ve been gathering even more stars in our Constellation — losing some in the process, even though they’ll remain with us forever, as stars’ signature never really dissapear. We’ve gained lots of traction, clients, media coverage, mentors. And we’re organizing our first event, a TED meets LeWeb meets Web2.0 conference —pesposterous? You know what they say, shoot for the moon, you’ll end up in the stars. In Constellations.
And we’ve been named best New Analyst Firm of the year by IIAR. What more can you ask?
Well, I’ll ask more. I’ll ask that you keep bearing with us. You might think many call themselves disruptive just for branding reasons. Constellations’ shapes are disruptive by nature. They embrace new stars, leave others become brighter. Constellations like brightness, wherever it comes from. We all shine together.
Look at the sky tonight, you will see some new bright lights reflecting from Scottsdale.
Welcome to Connected Enterprise 2011.
October 24, 2011
Connect the dots. Never fear failure. Marry art & science. Possess a sense of vision. Create the future. A talk about innovation.
September 29, 2011
Brands have personas. Brands have a past, a present and a future. At its essence, branding is about storytelling. The Timeline experience was made for them.
September 21, 2011
Human forces like aversion to change and status quo bias are surfacing as Netflix divides its physical and digital operations.
September 3, 2011
Those who went into journalism in the ‘50s or ‘60s wanted to save the world. They now only want to save themselves. And kill the startup star.
August 31, 2011
Are online consumers really that different from those who watch television? Instinctively, we tend to say yes. But it’s not because someone if offered new tools that he becomes an entire different persona.
May 27, 2011
In a world where inputting URLs does not matter as much as it used to, .co becomes a naturally shortened .com.
March 28, 2011
Consumer behavior and, in some respects, socializing behavior, have seen changes, changes that brands must obviously analyze, but human-rooted behaviors have not. At least, not as much as people want to believe. We’ll see what the audience thinks tomorrow.
March 15, 2011
My panel is still taking place tomorrow. There have been changes in its composition.
March 9, 2011
SXSW Interactive is in only two days. I can’t wait to be there. And no, it’s not the tons of paper used to print all the invites that gives me excitement. It’s the fact that Japan will be a highlight of the Festival. In 2010, I was lamenting that no interactive panel seemed to be [...]
December 4, 2010
As I’m starting my December tour of Europe -I’m currently on lay-over at the Athens airport-, I wished to point out an event that was not on my map when I started planning it. I was recently invited to attend the Monitoring Social Media Paris 2010 day, on December 10 in the French capital. It will be [...]
November 10, 2010
I’m joining Constellation, a network of member analysts who seek to approach research from a cross-disciplinary approach.
September 15, 2010
Twitter calls it a “better Twitter“. The Twitteratis call it #newtwitter. Whatever you want to call it, the redesign that was unveiled yesterday is a big departure from the simple stream we’ve been used to since the microblog’s inception. Now, I’ve always argued that adding features was not the prime concern when looking at a [...]
September 10, 2010
I’m not perfect, but I’m almost there. I was thirteen. This is what was written on a keychain my German class teacher offered me after I rushed a print job of the class log on my dot matrix printer in the wee hours of the morning, while I could have done it way before. Paul [...]
August 31, 2010
The average Asian spends more time on…? Brushing Their Teeth Having Sex On Yahoo! On MSN I’m not an average Asian. Nor is Ken Mandel, but he sure does know a lot about the Asian market. You know, being the VP Advertising, Sales & Marketplace of Yahoo! APAC and all. And all? Well, more than [...]
August 30, 2010
Today is Araw ng mga Bayani in the Philippines. The National Heroes’ Day. Unbeknownst to many, Ἡρώ -Hero- was actually a woman. Her lover, Λέανδρος -Leandros- would swim every night across the strait to be with her, guided by a lamp she would light on at dusk. Hero was not the one who swam through [...]
