If I could turn back time
With summer drawing to a close, it seems appropriate to revisit our little thought experiment about time travel. The responses from readers proved both entertaining and inspiring, even a bit emotionally touching in some cases. Before I report on the reader feedback, however, I’ll explain my rationale in suggesting this exercise. As I’ve proselytized before, […]
If I could travel back in time, I'd…
How would you complete this sentence? It’s deep summer here in Europe right now, so let’s hold a little creative thought experiment. Imagine you met someone with a time machine that could help you travel backward in time to a single point earlier in your life. What would you do? To which point in time […]
Until now there is only one Slack client for Windows Phone, and it’s French!
Sometimes things develop faster than anticipated. When I reached out to Florian Rousselet for an interview about his Slack client for Windows Phone, I had the information that Slack would need more time to come up with something of their own. Last Wednesday they tweeted me that they had “uncovered some performance issues in their […]
How a Scrabble champion reflects our new era of disruption
The Championnat Mondial de Scrabble Francophone (the French-language world Scrabble championship) crowned its winner last week: Nigel Richards. If that name doesn’t sound French to you, that’s because it isn’t. Nigel Richards hails from New Zealand. In fact, he doesn’t even know how to speak French! New Zealander wins French Scrabble Championship sounds like a […]
Orange Fab France launches call for applications to its 4th season
Orange has made supporting startups and tech ecosystems in France and beyond an integral part of its strategy. Orange Fab, their 12-wk accelerator program which launched in 2013, is a central part of their focus on startups, aiming to create commercial partnerships between the selected startups and Orange’s various businesses. Orange Fab France is now […]
Leef seeks to crack the iOS device storage problem with global roll-out of iBRIDGE
As we look to capture nearly every life event and regularly increase number of apps we use, we quickly bump up against a persistent problem – limited storage capacity. Even with increasingly powerful mobile devices coming on the market all the time, the space they afford us never seems to be enough. While android devices […]
When engineers mix with artists, amazing things can happen. So why segregate them?
Skimming through the alumni magazine of my undergraduate engineering school, I stumbled onto an article about a student project from a course called Data as Art. Data as Art is a course that groups students from my engineering school alma mater with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in a combined art-meets-engineering curriculum. […]
LINE Stickers still are a thing
Although there are not many of us in Western Europe who use LINE as their primary messaging app (outside of Spain, where LINE penetration is remarkable), the multi-purpose platform that is LINE continues to entertain and stimulate creative new use cases around the world, like being coupled with Instagram to drive e-commerce in Thailand. I […]
Did Apple just hobble Criteo's achilles heel ?
Apple caused some reverberations last week among ad-tech companies when it revealed that iOS 9 will permit “Content Blocking Safari Extensions”. In other words, the next release of iOS will allow users to install ad-blockers on its mobile browser, according to the documentation provided to developers at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Criteo’s stock plunged more […]
An idea ahead of its time
Yesterday Fred Wilson penned a nostalgic post about Kozmo. it was a poignant piece for me, because I remember the Kozmo era well. But before I get to that, I encourage you to read Fred’s post because it carries some important lessons, such as carrying scars from your failures and recognizing when an idea is […]