La Gazette ::: Raphael Gilmas

Retour de vacances : back in blogging

Je reviens de vacances : pas d'internet, emails, twitters et blogs pendant 10 jours font grand bien ! Alors qu'ai-je rate d'important ? Tenez moi informe. Trop de flux RSS a lire, des emails a repondre en masse, relancez moi si besoin est;)).

Merci a Sandrine qui a tres bien ecrit sur le blog pendant ce temps, j'espere que le changement linguistique vous a plu. Si vous souhaitez venir ecrire par ici, n'hesitez pas la porte est ouverte. Merci a vos commentaires.

Aujourd'hui, c'est le BlogDay, je vais eviter de faire dans le mechant facon Julio (promis, je ne ferai plus de notes tirees du JDN). Mais pour etre original, je vais citer des blogs d'expatries francais a London :

1. Vincent Thome s'exprime en anglais sur les thematiques marketing entre autre. Interessant pour faire sa veille et rester informe sur les tendances du web.
2. Sanciaa ecrit en francais, raconte ses moments de vie et ses conseils pour s'integrer a Londres.
3. Frenchinlondon - En francais egalement, je viens de le decouvrir, un savant de melange de notes interactivite (video, photos) sur la societe anglaise et londonnienne.
4. Cedric, en anglais dans le texte, avec son parcours d'agence, ses note sont pour theme la pub et bien sur la reprensentation des francais au pays de sa Majeste.
5. Sandrine - On ne la presente plus, elle blogue desormais en anglais mais elle a besoin d'augmenter son PR, alors... ;)).

Reprise des notes a partir de ce week-end, notamment une ou je vous expliquerai comment j'ai converti mon entourage familiale aux outils du web (blog et twitter).

Detente musicale so british #15 : Cornershop

Yes, I'm still here and Raphael is still on holidays for another few days...

1997 was my first year in the UK. I arrived in August 1997 in Leicester (Midlands) for my final year at University as an exchange student. That same year Cornershop, a British indie band, also from Leicester was being noticed with their number one hit "Brimful of Asha". The song got even more noticed after it got remixed by famous dj Fatboy Slim. I just love this song as it brings me back 10 years before and reminds me of my year as a student in England...

Just for the story, the band called themselves Cornershop in reference to the british stereotype that all British Asians own a street corner shop, ie cornershops (in the very same way that French people refer to their cornershop by saying "je vais chez l'Arabe du coin").

Anyway, I love this song ! What about you ?!

Written by Sandrine

Top 10 UK dotcoms to watch

Since I am still babysitting Raphael's blog, today I have decided to post half of an article on my blog and the other half on his !

As I was mentioning on my blog, I have been meaning to write an article about those 10 UK dotcoms for a while now, and one of the reason being that I found it hard to understand how come the UK was still behind France when it comes to web 2.0 businesses... You'll find out some answers as well as the first 5 dotcoms to watch my blog (the first five in my order of preference !) and the following 5 are listed below :

TOUCHLOCAL
In a way Touch Local is the equivalent of Les Pages Jaunes but in a web 2.0 version. It's also a bit similar in a way to the site TrustedPlace which I mention on my blog, with the exception that the site gets its remuneratio from the companies present on the directory. Its a business directory with word of mouth from consumers. Interesting !

OnOneMap
This website is also a web-base property search site (yes, property is a BIG business in the UK !). But this one is, as you can guess from its name, based a map-based search engine. I like this one a bit less but that's me...

MINDCANDY
That's the oldest of the 10 dotcoms to watch according to The Guardian. Its founder and chief executive Michael Smith is 35 (I still have 4 years to do something with my life... Well 3 and a bit !). What is it ? "Mind Candy is an interactive entertainment company that specialises in cross media, multi-player games".

ZUBKA
I have seen quite a few of those web 2.0 recruitment companies in France but it's still always very interesting and "new": it's all about referring your friends, colleagues for a job and getting a slice of the cake for it. "Join Zubka as a referrer and get paid a substantial financial reward to introduce your friends and colleagues to a new job".

GARLIK
And finally, with its weird name, it's the one website that could turn out to be very useful with helping you to keep track of your online information.

You want to know about the other 5 dotcoms to watch out for ? They're here !

Detente musicale so british #14 : Paolo Nutini and SO much more !

Last weekend, Raph, some friends and I were lucky enough to be invited at the RipCurl Boardmasters and Unleashed Music Festival in Newquay so I'm back with a surprise for the girls... but also for the boys !

Girls first... Paolo Nutini ? No, he's not Italian as his name could make you believe - he's a pure Scottish lad (only 20 years old) with a voice of a soul crooner and the look of a proper British pop-rock singer... Jenny don't be hasty, New Shoes, Last Request, yes it's him. Girls... Enjoy !

Paolo Nutini Trouble So Hard Unleashed Festival 2007
envoyé par parcequemoiaussi

Boys now... Surf festival... Surely... lots of girls on a beach and even... a Bikini contest !

Rip Curl Boardmasters 2007 Bikini Contest
envoyé par parcequemoiaussi

And for the little story, we were staying in the same hotel as Paolo Nutini and the bikini girls ;o)

Written by Sandrine

Blog Day 2007

While Raph is off on holidays in France, I am apparently "in charge" of his blog, so here I am, trying to find inspiration for both my blog and his... A lack of inspiration over those last couple of days means I will be writing the same article on both of our blogs today - promise I'll get better ! As for the switch from French to English on lagazette, sorry... My keyboard is QWERTY so far more easy !

Get ready to celebrate the 3rd BlogDay ON AUGUST 31st

"BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.
With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. This way, all blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs."

All the instructions are available on blogday.org

Written by Sandrine

Summer blog holidays

Le temps des vacances est enfin la. 15 jours pendant lesquels, je vais couper avec tout ce qui ressemble de pres ou de loin a un PC et une connexion internet... Vous me verrez dans le sud est de la France la ou on trouve du soleil, il parait ! ;)

Prenez soin de ce blog, relisez les anciennes notes, les commentaires sont toujours possibles!

Je n'aime pas laisser le blog sans activite, ainsi "une blogueuse qui vient de commencer" aura carte blanche pour venir poster ici... Suivez-la, elle va vous surprendre !

A dans 15 jours, je reviendrais avec une connexion internet digne de ce nom et encore plus d'envie pour bloguer.

Campagne Eurostar Paris Londres

Je prends souvent l'Eurostar et j'ai toujours aime leur campagne en offline et online.

Voici un exemple d'un visuel de leur campagne actuelle :

Pour les medisants, il fait un temps magnfique a Londres !
Via

Envoyez des cartes postales originales

L'ete est synonyme de vacances, de cartes postales et de soleil. Je viens de decouvrir un module viral dans une newsletter d'Exilim pour en genener des cartes postales marrantes. Ca va vous plaire a n'en pas douter !

Exilim est une marque d'appareil numerique et ils ont reussi a meler les conseils et presentation de leur produit lorsque vous concevez votre carte postale parmi 12 destinations exotiques ou extravangantes. Ca fait penser a l'operation de Passage Pieton pour Strip Tease mais avec plus de choix sur la viralite et axe bien entendu sur les capacites du produit.

C'est simple, bien explique, le viral est au RDV, c'est le site Exilim Tours si vous avez envie de vous amuser ou vos amis... Il y aussi un concours pour gagner des produits.

Une photo de mon futur bronzage des vacances a venir...

Note : cette note ne m'a pas ete suggeree par une agence, comme quoi, on peut apprecier certaines operations en toute objectivite !

Detente musicale so british #13 : Rihanna - Umbrella

Qui est en tete des charts depuis des semaines et des semaines. il s'agit de Rihanna avec Umbrella. Bon il faut aimer le genre musical mais si ce n'est pas encore arrive en France, alors ecoutez et regarder ce clip !

Note, Rihanna est nee aux Barbades mais etant donne qu'elle cartonne en UK, je me suis permis de l'integrer dans cette rubrique.

Bon visionnage !

Rihanna - umbrella

 

Bill Gates est polemique au sujet de Google

Lu cette déclaration de Bill Gates au sujet de Google et ses toutes les applications qui sont développées :

“Of all the Google products that have been introduced, how many of them are profit-making?”
“It has introduced about 30 different products; it has one profit-making product.”

D’accord ou pas d’accord ? Jalousie ou provocation ? Fond de vérité ou exagération ? Je résume mon opinion dans ces trois questions… Et vous ?