e-remediable

As you might have noticed, I have changed the banner of this blog.

I decided today to ask 2 classmates to contribute to e-remediable as co-administrators. Céline and Nicolas are studying Digital Business Strategy in the same master’s degree as me at HEC Paris and ENST. Both of them are experienced in web design, and will bring more in-depth analysis to this blog. On top of that, they are interested in art production, especially music and video. Before joining HEC, Céline was intern at Eyeka, a start-up created by the French serial-entrepreneur Gilles Babinet. As for Nicolas, he is running Streetkiss, a successful blog (in French) about electronic music.

I’m sure this collaboration will allow us to focus on our common interests through original and diverse posts about Digital Economy, Web 2.0, Media and Art Production.

Please join me to welcome Céline and Nicolas on-board!

Don’t worry, I don’t change my blog another time! A friend of mine, Jeremy Fain, invited me to post some articles on his blog Tech IT Easy. If you still don’t know this website, you should visit it urgently. Jeremy is passionated (be sure I don’t exagerate writing this) in everything related to the IT economy. From software architecture to venture capital, he can’t refrain from writing about IT. He just graduated from HEC Paris (the same business school than me) and Ecole Centrale de Paris (a top-ranking French engineer school), and is now working at Microsoft (see his LinkedIn profile). His blog, one of my references on the web, inspires me a lot when I want to post on mine. It is an honour for me to be granted to reach his audience. Of course, I will keep blogging on e-remediable, which remains my main expression forum. I will put a link from this blog to all my future articles on Tech IT Easy.

If I had not decided to start blogging this month I might never have started.

3 events led me to do so :

• The Web 3 convention, organized by Loïc Le Meur (HEC Alumni, french guru of blogging whose company is hosting this blog). More than the two previous ones which were focused on the bloggers community, this convention was opened to the outside (real ?) world. Two candidates to the french presidential election, one peace Nobel Price owner, many web-entreprenors, but also “brick & mortar” firms representatives …

• The Person of The Year 2006 in Time Magazine : “You”, as the hero of the new information era. Did they lack relevant candidates to receive this prize or is it only a very good buzz marketing campaign ? Anyway, this choice highlights the main difference between the first internet revolution (Web 1.0), whose firms fosters the so-called “bubble”, and the current one (Web 2.0), whose obvious unifying feature lies in content personalization (e.g. Google with news, Last.fm with music, Youtube with video, or Vox with blogs). As if new economy firms got more mature and focused now on the Internet main competitive advantage : interactivity, making information feeds more and more bilateral.

• Last but not least, a friend’s blog about IT (Tech IT Easy) which reached new trafic peaks. I must admit that I was quite admirative of his discipline in posting everyday, and starting blogging became a new challenge for me.

Information business model is experimenting a true revolution since everyone is a potential information-provider and above all acts as an information provider. This increase in range of information sources, added to the popularization of main information chanels (pictures, video, audio, text) challenges traditionnal media companies. French newspapers are one the verge of bankruptcy and the music and cinema industries are deeply suffering from P2P. Most innovative companies can take up the challenge : The Financial Times makes money thanks to its online edition, Apple and its ITunes Music Store sold more than 1 billion tracks while settling its IPod as a standard of the market.

I and Romain will do our best to update this blog as frequently as possible. In order to reach the largest public possible, I will post in English and Romain in French. Don’t hesitate to leave comments on our posts: exchanging ideas is the best way to increase one’s level.

And guys, one last reminder, you’re the person of the year, yes, you. You control the information age. Welcome to your world.