Quick update on Beirut Media City.

Posted by herve on April 23, 2009

First of all, thank you for your support in this project. All your feedbacks and help offers showed that we are doing the right move.

Your positive reactions will give us the energy to fight for the creation of the Beirut Media City.

 

Where are we today?
We are still looking for the place. So when you are on the road, look around you, you may find old buildings that can be refurbished.
We are discussing with architects (young talents and big names) who can work on the project.
We have discussions with international companies which could be interested to be hosted in the Media City.
And last but not least, we organize a public consultation where everybody will be able to give his/her input. 

 

Save the date of April 29th @6:30 pm, place: TBD (somewhere in Beirut), to participate, please register here, so we can anticipate the size of the audience.

 

Beirut Media City First Open Discussion

This meeting is crucial because we want the project to be as collaborative as possible.

more materials to spread the word on beirutmediacity.info
We will be waiting for you, expecting you give your opinion. 
Together, we can make this happen!

This man need help! 1

Posted by herve on August 21, 2008

Samer MarzouqI was in Amman, monday/tuesday to meet people working in the industry and to better understand the digital middle east market.

I met Samer, he is trying to organize the first bloggers conference in the Middle East.

The idea is to get together all the middle east and foreign bloggers in a place for a couple of days and share through round table, conferences and open discussion.

so if you are a blogger, please register on iblogimedia.com, if you have any input regarding the conference, please contact Samer: samer(at)jazarah.net, if you want to be a sponsor and help your industry to grow, you are more than welcome.

Ad:tech paris a successful 2008 edition

Posted by herve on April 18, 2008

Ad:tech was taking place in paris the 7&8 april 2008 and I was a great event, lot of people, great speakers.
I was really blunt about the first edition in 2007 but this year was a real success.
I’ve animated a round table about Online identity and online reputation with Charles Nouyrit ( CEO and founder of MyID.is), Alain Bensoussan (Lawyer), Xavier Moisant (Blogger) and Stephane Billiet (CEO Hill and Knowlton).
I was a bit worried about the schedule: 10:30 am Monday morning but not on purpose because the Grand Auditorium was full.

I’ve also attended a really great conference around the internet of things (I’ve spoken previously about that here) with 2 great panelists : Bernard Benhamou (French Prime Ministers Office, Misson Forcast & Internet Governance) & Rafi Haladjan (CEO of Violet).

So once again, Congratulation Genevieve.

O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2008

Posted by herve on March 03, 2008

I will spend 4 days (3-6 march 2008) in San Diego for the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2008.

An amazing program is waiting for me: Mobile, Data vizualitation, Gaming, robotics, etc… with worldclass speakers.

4 days of mind opening, cool I just want through the attendees list I’m the only french. is that normal ? ok it’s far but 14 hours in plane is not so much regarding the program.

Hope next year, there will be more.

next post about the Tim O’Reilly keynote.

CashStore.fr

Posted by herve on March 03, 2008

Cashstore is a shopping engine with a cashback reward system.

The mother company has been founded in 2003 with a simple goal use online technologies to increase people purchase power.

I won’t disclose anything about the technology but Cashstore combined an search engine, a buyer community and a tracking system that analyze every purchase order of members to calculate the cash reward. Really impressive