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Re: Don’t Make Your Product Free. Charge for it!

Thibaut Thomas — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:28:28 -0000

Its a refreshing view in this era of free economy, and definitely a great advice for entrepreneurs to be more careful about their "customers" !

Re: Facebook Creates A Revolution in Relationships

Thibaut Thomas — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:53:04 -0000

You are referring to Dunbar's number. Actually its a maximum of 147,8 personal connections.
I wrote a thesis (first of its kinf in french) "Facebook, Myspace, online social network services and new communication behaviors" and quoted this extract from Dunbar's "Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans" :

"the suggestion here is simply that there is an upper limit on the size of groups that can be maintained by direct personal contact.
The second point is that the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained. This in no sense commits us to any particular way of structuring those groups"

Dunbar explained the emergence of larger groups (Nation-States for ex) by the use of the language as a social bonding mechanism. Still, many "primitive" groups are no larger than 150.

My thesis conclusion was that the SocNets are freeing the humans from their physiological restraints to communication. And yeah, that stalking cute girls on facebook is fun too.

Re: Facebook Status: Twitter Rival. Could it? Should it?

Thibaut Thomas — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:07:41 -0000

There is already an RSS feed for status updates ! I use it constantly to keep in touch with my friends, and I encourage them to micro-blog "a la " Twitter. Even with its grammar inflexibility, its still an useful integrated tool.

Re: How to Stop That Facebook Addiction

Thibaut Thomas — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:44:22 -0000

I suffered from a service interruption for more than 5 hours this morning, I almost killed myself. I'm not even addicted, I can quit when I want. To check my myspace for example !

Re: Facebook Profile May Provide Clues to Rogue Trader

Thibaut Thomas — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:43:53 -0000

Actually, the Guardian has a story about the fact that the facebook profile lost many friends from the Societé Générale Network in a few hours.
But more interesting, and the Guardian didnt catch that, before leaving, some great friends he made had sent him gifts : handcuffs, and a 4 leaves Irish Luckcharms... Very nice indeed !

Re: Facebook Advertising Gone Bad

Thibaut Thomas — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:00:07 -0000

The campaign was on seesmic too, and the marketer in charge is talking about that in an on-going discussion on seesmic about desensibilization.
In my opinion, its a failure of Alternate Reality Game : if it does not look like a game, then its misleading viewers and they can eventually freak out.

Re: Battle: Tweetie vs TwitterFon

Thibaut Thomas — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:13:35 -0000

Great review here ! I really like how you put the stress on the interface design. Very well done, I have been reading over a dozen of comparative reviews about the two apps, and your post is by far the most interesting with the deepest thinking. Thanks !

Re: Médias le magazine : Je regarderai france 5 plus souvent !

Thibaut Thomas — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:19:08 -0000

Réussir à citer l'autre blog qui vient de se faire crucifier pour avoir été payé pour parler de cette émission, c'est pas mal quand même :)
On peut savoir de quel montant est la commission blogrider, en toute "disclaimer" attitude ?

Re: PepsiCo

Thibaut Thomas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:55:47 -0000

Si me je me souviens bien Pepsi Raw est un nouveau produit, premium, testé uniquement à Londres dans des lieux branchés/élitistes. Son positionnement est une boisson "bio", de grande qualité, bref, presque luxueuse.
Sur ce segment, le compte twitter relève pas mal du clin d'oeil légitimant... Parfait pour les pubards londoniens quoi !

Re: Mémoire: Rumeurs 2.0 ou une question de termes

Thibaut Thomas — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:33:03 -0000

Pour ma part je dirais "web social": ça rend bien compte de la nature, des services webs, orientés sur la gestion/l'utilisation de liens sociaux. Web 2.0 est maintenant trop connoté "marketing", et surtout, "2.0" sous-entend une révolution/évolution, ce qui n'est pas nécessairement vrai.

(arrivé via twitter)