OurielOhayon

Now i really want to shop at Diesel

Hilarious, Smart way of creating virality using counter rules of advertising (meaning by not mentionning anything related to the product)

Picasso in 3D

Quite amazing i must say. via emob

Video: China trains have created a new job: passenger pusher

What i really wonder is what is going to happen once the door will open at the next station

Not totally fool

This picture on the left (click to enlarge) is a fake cover i have created for april's fool for TechCrunch France. I pretended a few days ago i would launch FranceCrunch a paper magazine out of TechCrunch France and added in the note plenty of details that would make it obvious it was an april's fool (like a paper version of tetris, a hack on how to install android with the iPhone....). I expected 100% of readers to get it right away

But i was wrong. at least 50% of reactions including of people that are very advanced internet pros were buying the story and really believed it. I received a lot of emails, skype messages, twits, facebook notes, ...to encourage, support and even try to find a way to collaborate (including from some famous journalists). And if you check the number of comments and trackbacks you will realize the subject fired a great conversation. I even had to write a complementary note to explain this would not happen and probably disappointed a few.

I then realized the idea was not totally stupid, although i think it does not make sense from an economical point of view. I think what made people really excited about the idea is the possibility to find blog content in newspapers. I don't know what is the right formula but here is maybe a free good idea: creating a magazine out of blog contents.

It sounds to me that people who love blogs (and there are many) wish to find the kind of voices they are now used to read everyday, but in news papers. Maybe this will inspire someone to do something out of it

ps: FYI an american startup called blogburst is already distributing blog posts in national papers but i think the idea can become more powerful

I CAN HAZ YAHOO

you need to know this to understand.

The true reason why the MacBook Air is so expensive

I have been inquiring for days. Here is the reason: The envelope.

Yes the envelope

It is a special one a very expensive one. One that can contain your laptop, very rare. Requires a special treatment and made of rare material. They should ship the laptop without it to make the Macbook air cheaper

update: i wrote this thinking it was a joke. actually others went further and created the official non-official MacbookAir Envelope (cheaper than what i assumed above)

 

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How to piss off your fans in 10 seconds

I already said it i love the genius jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, but his ego is as huge as his talent.

Check out below how he welcomes his audience on stage as they start taking photos (i saw him reacting the same in France 10 years ago).

You can hear people laughing behind

I think this is not funny. At all.

I heard the Mayor of Umbria (the city where this concert took place) had to call keith jarrett to apologize. ?????

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The Top 10 kinds of VCs to avoid

I merely copied the post of my TechCrunch colleague Mike Butcher. This is a short and a funny and a good one:

1 ) Mr. Armchair (Lots of opinions about Google)
2 ) Mr. One-Hit-Wonder. (Sold a dotcom in the late 90s. That’s it.)
3 ) Mr. Revisionist Historian (Invested in eBay after it went public)
4 ) Mr Arsehole (Nice one minute, nasty the next. Divorce is a hobby. Fun to get pissed with though).
5 ) Mr. Blue Blood (5th-generation money, smart, but always knows better than you).
6 ) Mr. Aggressive (Wants you to float next week).
7 ) Mr. Product Manager (Micro managing your business - and you - so you don’t have to)
8 ) Mr. Regurgitator (Brings up every case study, just not the one right for your business)
9 ) Mr. Imitator (Read an urban myth about a VC who got 20% of a company)
10 ) Mr. Retired-on-the-Job (Well off, but no longer mentally firing on all cylinders)

Oh, and here’s a bonus:

11) Mr Tranche (Happy to back you this year, but next year… well, let’s see how the first year goes)

This is going to be a major hit

1miniyou.com offers you to create a real doll of yourself with just two pictures. Every personn that saw it want one. i posted about it on TechCrunch and the buzz is starting all around. A dead simple idea that works.

Hilarious Video: Baby Gates (in hebrew)

Just saw that on the TV show of my friend Guy Zohar on Channel 10.

Found it on the internet (pass the first seconds of advertising). Meet a future Bill Gates/Mark Zukerberg age 3. I would not be surprised that this kid will create the next internet Giant at age 10 :)