This speech is well known and still very inspiring. If you know it already, or if you don’t know it, both of you would find it fresh and inspiring!
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”
This speech is well known and still very inspiring. If you know it already, or if you don’t know it, both of you would find it fresh and inspiring!
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”
I’ve relaunched myself in Twitter.
In fact I registered in Twitter more than two years ago. Since then I didn’t spend much time to explore what Twitter could offer. For me Twitter has been a source of spam mails. I received in my e-mail in-box many followers, but most of them are from people I don’t know with strange ID photographs.
I met some people in Lift ’09 who said they had found business via Twitter. I logged in again to know what I could do with it, but couldn’t figure out how to use it in such a positive way.
My perception of Twitter has been changed.
In January, I met a Japanese TV crew in Davos conference who was tweeting from her iPhone every time when she had a moment. Me — “She uses Tweet to send her fresh feeling from Davos real-time. It’s a good idea!”
Then at Lift ’10 this month, the organising group actively used Twitter to collect questions from the audience during the conference. The group also posted real-time tweets in the Lift web site. Me — “A communication life style is changing fast. I want to join them!”
Now my view on Twitter is completely changed.
I found a friend in Tokyo was involved in an interesting project on the future of the Internet. I read many exciting notes directly from TEDx Tokyo, and was naturally guided to videos posted at YouTube and many blogs of the participants.
I started following people and companies I’m interested in. Professor Joe Stiglitz is already there. I found Mr. Son, CEO of SoftBank, a challenger of Japan’s ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) business using Twitter and a video media which SoftBank owns, Ustream, smartly connected to dispatch power communications. easyJet, a major European low-cost airline whose evolution process I have been monitoring since its launch, alerted by tweet a closure of Gatwick and Stanstead airports, the airline’s major access to London.
I have changed my Twitter name and ID photo, too, as I wanted to present myself better to a cloud of people who might come across my tweets.
Despite all the above, I still anticipate strange followers to catch my Tweet name from time to time. I don’t run away from them. I’ll just block them. Any media is not free from annoying users. Black mails by posts and silent callers when you’ve picked up a phone. Twitter is not an exception.
I’m more interested in learning by doing a rich potential of this new media than shutting a door away from it.
See you in Twitter, too!
I’m listing randomly words which I’ve caught during three says of Lift ’10 and which were inspiring for me. I’d be happy if some of these words also stimulate your thoughts.
Words of the day: Katrin Verclas on Mobile phone use in developing countries
1. Travel in the Web 2.0 age
Info: Lonely planet is integrated in iPhone applications at $15.99 –> Media fusion
YK thoughts: It’s a good question. But there are also people behind the net. Credibility of information counts, regardless of media.
Impressed ! —
2. Lucas Grolleau, Soundsgood inc., Paris: A sound designer describes his day –> Creative!
3. Exhibition & demonstration
By Students, Art school of Univ. of Geneva
4. Technology is culture, by Basile Zimmermann, University of Geneva.
I can’t agree with him stronger.
5. It’s not smart but instinctive. That’s also good. Fabian Hemmert: Making Computers Stiff, Scratchy and Stubborn
We feel the interaction.Value of instinct, analogue value is being recognized & considered to be fun and comfortable.
6. Printing the internet out. Russell Davies, RIG:
9. Main stream communications companies are watching Social Networking sites
10. People with ICTs
11. Power of social networking sites –> People are talking about companies outside their control.
12. Digital magazines. Björn Jeffery, Bonnier R&D: The ten design principles behind Mag+
13. Cultural diversity is resource, as we must go for international business. A young man, CEO of a start-up company
14. Power of social networking on political scene
Search engines are much more powerful than I knew! Estelle Metayer impressed me in the Workshop she organised at Lift ’10, “How Intelligent is your Company?”
I have also learned such a new word as “deep web” in the Workshop, and learned by doing that a number of smart search engines allow us to find information from webs which are not linked to other web sites.
For example, pipl, a search engine that collects a number of pieces of information on person and display them in a well sorted out way. When I input my name, I was almost frightened and thrilled at the same time!
Frightened because my photo posted at my Facebook was there. How come, as I allow only my friends to see my page of Facebook!?
Thrilled because I found my video posted by someone! It was my presentation at IGF last year. I even didn’t know that someone was taking a video when I was talking.
“pipl” also displayed a series of my papers and books I published when I was at the OECD, and some dates back to even 1992! I felt I have my personal archive on the web.
To be fair, pipl is not perfect, yet, at least. It has picked up an ID photo of someone else from Facebook, and placed my volunteer activities at World Civil Society Forum as profession.
Above said, I’m convinced what technologies are enabling us to gather intelligence, any kind of intelligence, which you may not be aware.
So we should utilise them smartly, rather than stay away from them.
I am participating in Lift ’10 again this year to be held on 5-7 May. Lift is so unique and inspiring that I cannot miss.
In the first year, in 2007 , I was a new comer, impressed and inspired by Lift. In the second year, I enjoyed meeting with people I met at LIft in the previous year, and enjoyed networking of like-minded people. Last year, in 2009, I organised a workshop of “Cyber Volunteers”, with friends at ICVolunteers and those connected with Asia@home.
This year, I’m registered in three workshops and look forward to taking a fresh shower of ideas!