"This is completely brilliant. I wanna buy the commercial more than the phone."
- Jérôme Flipo
"This commercial touches me in a way I cannot recall experiencing before from advertising."
- Jérôme Flipo
Yes touching commercial but out of reality, now in the metro and RER in Paris, you see people connected to their phones, and no smile, just a communicational desert, and no solidarity except our own interests. And that is really bad, the comercial is touching, but lying, in fact the reality is despairing.
- Thierry Lhôte
If I had to defend a mobile brand in a commercial, I will show that my clients are special in the way that they can quit looking at their phone to propose their seat to an old lady, that they can quit their phone to help someone in the streets, that they can quit their phone gaming or music to engage a discussion with a perfect stranger. Just to escape this individualistic "gunning down the others" society scheme.
- Thierry Lhôte
For now, HTC sells devices that offer immersive, digital experiences. How could a smartphone help engage with real life environment? That requires some augmented reality and it isn't part of HTC promise. Yet.
- Jérôme Flipo
Existing brands that would pretend to help engage us with our close environment would be dishonest IMO.
- Jérôme Flipo
mmmh, this has no relation to what I was saying... unless proven otherwise... the point is not the product but the public, the story is to tell that the guy or woman with an HTC, does not display technologically and socially entrenched behaviour towards reality, he or she enjoys also to cut the phone off and live a real life.
- Thierry Lhôte
What you call "immersive" is viewed by a major part of people as "submissive" regarding common sense and "addictive". If you like the "tamagoshi" view of the product it is ok, but I prefer a more sensical attitude towards life (which preserves the ecology of relationship in a society) let's have the most efficient tools of communication and entertainment as a mobile, but it is not...
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- Thierry Lhôte
If only Friendfeed had public lists... It's an amazing discovery tool, and I'm very disappointed that Twitter got them first.
I feel as though I could use the FF group as a public or a shared list, in some ways I have.
- Holly Rae, FFer
That's a nice workaround! But it's not easy to find someone else's shared list. I don't think we can automatically cross-post to a list: to do so, we need to add a FF feed in another FF feed. Paul said loooong time ago that they'll add this feature soon (and search subscription), but Zuck ruined the party :(
- Jérôme Flipo
It says "some topic descriptions are sourced from WhatTheTrend.com". Naturally, if I search Twitter for "WhatTheTrend", all I get is "Older tweets are temporarily unavailable."
- Jérôme Flipo
"Next step AR app, directions overlaid on live image using your video camera. Then the app, streams images back to the server. Bam, a crowd sourced street view" - Alex Kessinger, on the new Google Android Navigation app.
The more I see Chinese and Indian (low-cost, low-quality) companies emerging, the more I like western (high-quality) companies killing other western firms with "free" business models.
- Jérôme Flipo
"If you would have completely comprehended this clip on its own, with no introduction to Brolsma or "Numa Numa," I humbly suggest that you should seriously reexamine your life. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to calculating Kirk Cousins' completion percentage on third-and-long." -- http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa...
- Ken Sheppardson