http://hervecuviliez.com/blog Entrepreneur - business angel in the Middle East Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:53:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I use to catch up with movies in airplanes. So as usual, I watched one Iron Man 2 on my flight back to Beirut. Typical blockbuster, nice guys, bad guys, at the end the nice ones win, then you spice this up with visual effects and gun fights. With this, ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/223/in-my-opinion/is-that-what-you-call-branded-content/ You have most probably see for the past days in your twitter feed, hysteria around an Ipad app called Flipboard. It's more than deserved. The experience is absolutely fantastic. The way they have redesign social media experience (just talking about browsing, playing and interacting is not covered yet) is brilliant. But ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/222/in-my-opinion/ipad-and-flipboard-thats-what-i-call-user-experience/ I've been working in the online advertising business for the past 15 years. I have always considered that we all have a part of responsibility to help our market grow. Today in the Middle East, online media investments represent less than 2% of the total media expenditure. That is abnormally low! ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/205/in-my-opinion/lets-put-the-middle-east-digital-creation-on-the-map/ The biggest problem with being away too long from blogging is where to restart. It has been my problem for the past 2 months, but it doesn't mean I have done nothing. not at all. First thing first: Beirut Media City. it's moving quite well. we have visited dozens of location, I can ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/192/in-my-opinion/beirut-media-city-kuv-capital-etc/ 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 ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/147/digital-business/quick-update-on-beirut-media-city/ In an international crisis like the one we actually living in, cards can be reshuffled in a snap. Six months ago, Dubai had no competitor, everybody wanted to move there When we took the decision to establish Kuv Capital head quarters in Beirut instead of Dubai, everybody explained us what enormous mistake ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/138/in-my-opinion/can-we-create-a-media-city-in-lebanon/ I've been tweeting for a couple of weeks about the facebook new design and their twitter approach.   here is some: More and more people are bored by facebook. I'm not sure that a new design will change that, no? Facebook has released its new home. Should we rename facebook to twitbook. at least, ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/106/digital-business/facebook-new-design-a-new-sign-of-twitter-success/ I cannot end up that week without talking about what's going on in france regarding P2P networks usage. if you are not familiar with the subject you can read this excellent article from ars technica: French anti-P2P law toughest in the world Don't get me wrong my point here is not to ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/95/in-my-opinion/hadopi-is-a-mistake-driven-by-the-music-industry-lobby/ I finally finished my blog rewamp. What new? a mailing list (inside twitter) that deliver the best of twitter content in your inbox. Categories have been restructured New design, as you can notice I hope I would like to thank wordpress Kenny Pitt and Jeffrey Hardy for the theme (it has been heavily modified) Alex King for Twitter ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/94/in-my-opinion/finally-its-done/ Ok, Ok. I've said enough blogging. the truth is after 2 months (euh may be 3) trying to think about what's next now, I still feel there is opinions I like to share and discuss with you. Plus, you are still there (my stats are decent) and people are continuing to encourage ... http://hervecuviliez.com/blog/60/in-my-opinion/im-back/