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Olivier Jerphagnon
San Francisco
Read the latest leaps in green business
Interests: leadership, smart infrastructure, green policies, renewable energy, sustainable seafood, and social entrepreneurship
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Barnes & Noble is entering eBook battle with new $249 tablet. The New York based firm is competing Apple and Amazon and tries to avoid the fate of Borders
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/barnes-noble-fights-kindle-fire-with-249-nook-tablet.ars
Book readers are “sticking it to the man”
The week after Borders closed its last stores, Amazon is growing its tentacles by launching a new Kindle and adding video to book titles. The fall of the book store chains – Barnes & Nobbles is also for sale – happened so quickly this year that it shook the publishing industry. We heard about...
Remy, thank you for sharing this example where social media can help accelerate up-take of clean-tech solution. We covered part of that on a study with eCairn on most effective social networking community for B2C and B2B solutions: http://greenfrog.typepad.com/weblog/2011/01/smart-infrastructure-marketing-who-to-target-to-influence-hig-tech-infrastructure-sectors.html
I remain skeptical that social media can make a bigger difference in clean tech than in other consumer verticals because of the existing green washing. Many clean-tech decisions are done at infrastructure level, involving utilities and others. OPower has used very successfully existing billing report to convince to switch to their more energy efficient solutions. They did not use social media.
The convergence of technology solutions and green activism makes social networking an interesting tool indeed. Unfortunately, social media and cleantech have been put at odds by some tech writers (Earth2Tech, etc.) and VC community in terms of business model (fast pay-out and advertizement model to get cheaper service). Cleantech is much bigger than the US, led by China, and I think this is issue is mute (cleantech is growing). What is your tale on effectiveness of social media on cleantech solutions in countries like China where decisions are centralized?
Social media vs. cleantech investments: how long will the party last?
The valuations of social media companies like LinkedIn and Groupon have recently raised eye-brows. LinkedIn raised $1.67Bn (see picture of initial offering on NYSE) and is now trading now at more than 1,100 times its earnings. Facebook led by Goldman Sachs is gearing up for an IPO with an unprec...
Pradobh, you make a very good point about cost factor. Wind has established as cheapest renewable energy. It remains to be seen if off-shore projects can be as sound to justify economically not supporting domestic solar market
France takes new direction in renewable energy infrastructure to play on global scale
The French Government launched yesterday the bidding program to build five offshore wind farms along the coasts of Britanny and Normandy. This represents 3,000 MW of capacity, or the equivalent of two new nuclear reactor sites, and is expected to cost $14Bn. Today, wind produces less than 2% of ...
Benoit,
Great report on the status of FTTH, and you lost your bet by a motch (500Mbps vs. 1Gbps) I find the situation in Italy very interesting. Here ismy take on where things are going: www.greenfrogfromsiliconvalley.com
See you in San Francisco!
Olivier
Milan FTTH 2011 is behind us...
I just got back from Milan last Friday, after four super-hectic days. There's little doubt that this was the most successful of the European FTTH Council Conferences, not just in number of attendees (more than 3000 apparently) but in terms of relevant and resonance. I was glad to see that the g...
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