I was on TV yesterday (my first TV show – great experience) on LCI at “Plein Ecran” the top French show on technology animated by Cédric Ingrand. I was there talking about connected devices (and followed by my personal Spykee) and WaveStorm news, along with Rafi and his Nabaztag rabit. Spykee did a short video : and if you want to see more go ahead and watch the full podcast available here on LCI website (or iTunes).
Got a Tomtom Go to play with it and it’s a first as I’m stuck to my beautifully integrated yet totally closed and not expandable stupid BMW GPS. First impressions: the device itself rox, really easy to install (all the files are on the mass storage accessible when you plug the device, slick design… Funny enough, I had the confirmation of what I recently heard, TomTom uses user generated content to update its maps .. and I heards that 9 hours of this content is enough to update their whole database … now that you know that, think about Navteq valuation 
I’ve been invited to the Navx private beta presentation on Thursday (thanks Florent and Jean). I was pretty curious about what Navx was up to since I didn’t get any real update for the last year (since they raised their Series A, actually). I must confess I really like what they presented, Navx beta is going to be a 100% free and open platform aggregating your position information gathered through any gps-enabled device and bridging this data over to your other preferred services (flickr, for automatic picture tagging, your blog for tour maps sharing…). Getting my invite code on monday, can’t wait to try it out !
They even developped a plugin for TomTom devices that sniffs you track and then lets you upload it directly to Navx website in one click. I used another service called motionbased which is kind of similar, but very web1, pretty slow to use an I felt kind of stuck to it once you start uploading your data into it. Hope Navx does a better job, I’d be more then happy to switch !
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I’m really curious, why did you not upgrade to IE7 or use some other decent navigators (i.e. Firefox, Safari..). Let me know, I’m really willing to understand if I should still bother supporting IE6 or not…
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Kri just filmed me when I was struggling with parking my starship at the dock of my floating island 
Btw you can see him bookmarking the place in SL-Messenger
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Always fun to join as newbie a g33k community – as there are “other” g33ks. You are all familiar with the g33ks that talk about strange computer stuff, IP, NATs, 802.11 and whatever – that’s our computer geeks (good you’re one of them if you are reading this blog :p ). Well I just started playing on WoW as some of you may now, and thus I started to listen to some dedicated podcasts such as Azeroth.fr, and honestly the first two minutes of that podcast (especially as it’s in french) where really confusing – half of the words those guys were using were totally not understandable – like “alterac” “debuf” “BG” …Not sure I really want to know all those words but it’s really fun how communities come up with some special vocabulary of theirs, and it’s OK as long as it’s limited to a couple of specific terms … otherwise it gets really hard to get into it.
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Just made a full new bunch of cute Moo cards, as sometimes I do meetings on behalf of some of the companies Mobitrends invested in, the WaveStorm business card was confusing, thus I came out with those funny moo cards . I really like a lot what Moo has been up to since their creating, innovation on the print market is not an easy task and yet they have managed pretty weel.
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Enjoyed a full week-end in San Francisco, and I must admit that I now understand why so many people feel enthusiastic about it. Firstly people here are really cool, everywhere they would openly come to you and start chatting, I really appreciate that! and the city is so nice, there’s a real architecture here with a soul, like the one we can feel in New-York, Paris or Kyoto, it’s somehow intimate as apart from the finance district it’s mostly about 2 to 3 floor wooden homes. I worked a lot – next time I’ll rent a car – but my piece of bravery was reaching the top of twin peaks departing from my hotel in North Van Ness – took me about 1.5hr. I especially enjoyed Japantown the streets there are so flourished and green, had diner there and I really somehow felt like back in time 6 years ago when I was living near Kyoto, have good memories from that time! Also fell in love with the sea lions .
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I'm Alexander Casassovici, a serial entrepreneur with a strong focus on the mobile and connected devices industry and a passion for gadgets and virtual worlds.
