Shailesh Rao, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Latin America & Emerging Markets, Twitter (congrats on the IPO this week!) talks about how Twitter and social media are revolutionizing the way we experience “memorable moments.” When we experienced them through traditional mass media, we did so as an audience member, a recipient. We just had to receive …
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I attended Dan Pulcrano’s extraordinary C2SV conference recently and we are working to get videos of the events online after a period of post-production. There were many great speakers and highlights but the apocryphal moment was surely when Dan got Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell up on stage together for the …
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I spent time with Tamer Ahmed, Seeds Program Manager, Cairo iLab, for the French telecom giant Orange. We watched events together, hung out at the receptions and talked business and politics. I asked Tamer as someone on a global hunt for new ideas, services and opportunities, how Orange approaches innovation and what he looks for …
Love this Ryan Gosling riff in the new HBO film, Seduced and Abandoned, in describing how he got into acting. “But that’s the best part about Los Angeles. It’s filled with all these Don Quixote type characters. Everyone’s left their families, their homes, their friends, their jobs, to pursue a dream. Where they know that …
One of my favorite sessions from the 2013 Abu Dhabi Media Summit: Samantha Barry, (BBC World News), Nart Bouran (Sky News Arabia), Jacques Bughin (Director, Media & Entertainment, McKinsey & Co) discuss with Alex Farber of Broadcast discuss the introduction of the second and third screen continuing to disrupt the television industry. Is the TV …
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I had the opportunity to accept an invitation to attend the 2013 Abu Dhabi Media Summit. Speakers from Dean Kamen and Tim Berners-Lee to Dan Señor and Andy Bird highlighted the event. The Summit is “an unprecedented gathering of the people and companies driving the transition to a fully networked new world. The three-day event features …
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A great quote on the American capacity for visioning, in a?review?of the equally great?Matthew?McConaughey?film, “Mud.” The great American literary critic Leslie Fiedler said: “To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans …
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