Rose Cantine

Danah Boyd wrote a blog post recently about how MySpace has turned into a giant ad-filled mess. She hopes that soon-to-be launched Blyk, pan-European free mobile phone operator (funded by advertising) for 16-24 year olds, will figure out how to do marketing without alienating people:
I believe that teenagers are the reason that mobile will [...]

The beginning of every year is a time for lists. Instead of posting boring New Year’s resolutions, I decided to post a list of applications I use everyday that make a big difference in my life and my business.

I live in Amsterdam but my friends, relatives, business partners and contacts are all over the place: [...]

I’ve been using the Nokia N80 (Internet edition) multimedia phone for the past two weeks and I love it.

It is very small (95.4 mm x 50 mm x 26 mm) and it has Wi-Fi, which I need desperately after receiving an unpleasant surprise in the form of a 250 EUR bill from my mobile provider, [...]

I just posted the Apple-Orange announcement on Muniwireless. Orange, the French mobile operator, will sell DSL broadband service bundled with a Mac Book for 2 EUR per day. That is cheaper than an espresso in Paris and definitely less than the average French student’s daily cigarette budget. Orange is targeting young people with this offering, [...]

I attended Le Web 3.0 in Paris the past two days. That’s a photo of me posing a question to Shimon Peres this morning. Altogether I thought it was a terrific conference. The organizer, Loic Le Meur, brought together people from 36 countries, many of whom are entrepreneurs. I also gave a presentation today about [...]

NewTeeVee is the latest addition to the GigaOM universe. Om Malik, who left Business 2.0 and started his own online media company, says:
Today, we took the next step forward and launched NewTeeVee.com, a site devoted to online video, and other technologies that are reinventing the video experience.
Congratulations to Om and his team!

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I just finished geotagging my Lisbon photos and am doing the same for my Amsterdam photos. Geotagging on Flickr is easy and very handy. Log in to your Flickr page and go to Organize. You will see four tabs — one of them is called Map. Go from there.
What I like about geotagging is before [...]