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The Laptop/Bathroom situation

I wanted to write this post for a long time but i have just read this great article in Wired about what you should/could do when you work in a cafe with your laptop and that suddenly mother nature calls you to your duties. Working myself often in Cafes in Israel or Abroad i perfectly know the situation. In the article the writer mentions 5 solutions that do not work for me.

1. Solution 1: Leave it there on the table

2. Solution 2: Ask the person next to me to keep an eye it

3. Solution 3: Bring it in with me

4. Solution 4: Bring everything in with me

5. Solution 5: Lock the thing up

Here is my advice: for me the only thing that works, is to take care of what should be taken care of BEFORE you sit down. You might be afraid to lose this great table you spotted. I just ask someone to keep me the place and we re done.

Sorry for the unusual interruption of the blog, you can go back to work

Israel wins first Grand Slam title ever

Mazal tov to Jonathan Elrich and Andy Ram who won against France a Tennis Grand Slam title. (in both cases i would have been happy but i must say i am happier in this way).

After Music, Coffee, Food, Fashion, Tv Show, Movies, Sport is a new category of international non high tech israeli successes. This is good. Very Good.

Why? Because it gives a different and positive opportunity to talk about this great country.

Technorati tags: tennis, israel, grand slam

Video: One of the most inspiring speech i have ever heard

A must see for all entrepreneurs. Actually for anyone. By Steve Jobs of course.

Technorati tags: stevejobs, apple, stanford

Update on promoting music and Yaron Herman's new upcoming album

After the first steps, Here are the last action items i have done to explore further with the promotion of upcoming Yaron Herman's new album

• I have updated his last.fm page and created a radio of similar artists (see below)
• i have created a wikipedia page (awaiting moderation)
• I have contacted a few a-list jazz blog one on one to offer exclusive material and arrange a podcast with the artist. One has responded
• i have asked yaron to give me some off-side background on the tracks he recorded and will use it in a few ways soon.
• by writing and posting material here and there the rank of my blogs and other accounts has taken a good position in Google

I believe all those actions will eventually serve his new album and his career in general. I also believe the future of marketing music will be online, but this is a very time consuming process and it has to be done by internet savvy guys. The main difficulty i see for a young artists is that there is no ONE CLEAR channel for promotion and you have to shoot in many different platforms before learning what works best

 

More insights and actions coming soon.

Technorati Tags: yaron herman, atimeforeverything, online music, wikipedia

HEC 1st european Business school in 2006

Seen at Jeremy’s blog. weird that INSEAD is only #10. Source Financial Times. Downloadable here.

Don't Miss "LEWEB3" conference in Paris 11/12 dec

TechCrunch is co-hosting a web conference in Paris organized by SixApart.

The name of this conference is LE WEB3 and will be all dedicated to the new web and its eco system

1000 bloggers/startupers/vcs/…are expected from all over the world.

My friend Loic is working like crazy to put together what is promised to be the best web event in europe this year.

It will take place 11/12 december in Paris. Programm is not out there yet.

Buti have seen a preview of panels and speakers and it’s a killer. Already 63 confirmed participants

To register get here.

IN THE HONG KONG PRESS VS MSN

Always weird to see my name in the Chinese press. i have been recently interviewed by a few Hong Kong NewsPapers. Here in the Hong Kong Economic Digest. The guy in front of me in the article is the boss of MSN hong kong. MSN is doing a great job there. But ICQ is still leading the way.

For those like me who do not understand a word of traditional chinese, the article is about how great, innovative and strong ICQ is….It is not talking about me…Thank GOD!

DON'T MISS GO4EUROPE

My friend Laurent Salimpour is CEO of Cukierman real estate an Israel-based corporation dedicated to corporate investment, real estate investment banking and asset management mainly in Europe. He is organizing a great VIP event in Tel Aviv next 6th Feb 2006: GO4EUROPE

It is a forum dedicated to business and investment in Europe and all kinds of “Stars” should be present including Nicolas Sarkozy, the french interior minister and all kinds of leaders from VC world and Investment Banking.

Merger and aquisition, Real estate, Strategic alliances in Europe will be covered topics but mainly it will be a great opportunity for networking. An event you should not miss if you are around

• For more information on Go4Europe this is here
• For registrations it is here
• For more information on Cukierman Real Estate this is here or laurent.s [at] cukierman.co.il

ANTICIPATING A BRAND CLASH BETWEEN WANADOO AND MICROSOFT

We all heard about the new Microsoft Live strategy: including Live.com (portal) and Live Messenger (replacing Msn messenger brand). But did you know that for some months now, Wanadoo, one of the largest ISP in Europe, has released an Instant Messenger called Livecom?

I would be very very surprised if a legal battle will not happen in the courtyard. Unless one of them changes name… 

The most funny thing does not stop here. It would not be the first time France Telelcom (parent company of Wanadoo) would face a problem like this. A few years ago they were condemned to abandon their slogan “Bienvenue dans la vie.com” (Welcome to life.com) because lavie.com was the name of a small web agency in France. And again it was about life and .com …Would history repeat itself?

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KELKOO : THE START-UP BOOK

I just finished the book about Kelkoo success story, the price comparison engine made in Europe and bought by Yahoo for 475 million euros. I really recommand it. It is very inspiring and for those who lived the first bubble, it will remind you plenty of good things. Once this book finished (i read it in a few hours) you will be filled with positive energy…

Unfortunately this book in only available in French, so let s hope it gets translated soon.

I think this kind of initiative should happen more often: When a book on Skype ? or Shopping.com? or even better on Huge Failures : Boo.com, Europatweb, Bananalotto,…

Actually it could be a very interesting project to work on….

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