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Jean-Francois Amadei  //  大家好！

My name is Jean-François Amadei, I'm a 24 years old guy living between Hong Kong and Taipei. I'm a former Technology Evangelist at Toro-Asia.com and Digital Media Strategist at Ogilvy Digital Influence HK. I'm currently working on a new Taipei based venture in the mobile application business.

May 22 / 6:25am

Job Interview at Ogilvy

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to find out that Thomas Crampton (a very interesting guys I'm following since years now, when he was writer for LLM's blog) is providing a really interesting new position to a person who would satisfies these criteria:

1- Passionate about social media

You love it, live it and would crawl across broken glass to spend all day working learning about Social Media across Asia.

Required: You must be an active blogger, Twitterer and have accounts on more than one social network.

Bonus points for:
- Blog Googlerank of 2 or higher
- Connections to more than 100 people on any single social network
- More than 150 Twitter followers
- A view on which short URL service is best and why
- A YouTube channel or similar vlogging account

2- Passionate about Asia
If you do not speak an Asian language in addition to English, you must have traveled through the region and read extensively about its cultures.

The people who know me rapidly understood that this position is totally in line with what I'm, my passions and what I want to do in a near future life. I therefore quickly applied and I was fortunately selected for the job interview that is held today. I had a rendez-vous with Thomas Crampton himself and his assistant Tim Ho at the impressive and really design Ogilvy's Hong Kong office at 16h, the job interview has been conducted without much problems, but I should have been more prepared on few things (especially stuff about myself and about my current studies).

The funny stuff with that story is that it created a little buzz on the tweetersphere with people curious about how the interview are conducted, how the best applicant should be chosen. We (all the applicants) also have had a lot of support from our twitter friends which I think it's really nice of them :) However, I think I'll have a problem about visa's matter (which is silly as I already have an HKID (thus the right to abode in Hong Kong) and plenty of time to work (even with classes besides...) but you know how administrations can sometime be so illogical) but I'll try to solve this problem by going to the immigration building on Monday morning.

Anyway, whether I'll be hired or not this has been a nice experience where I finally could meet people I really like and also made new friends among people at Ogilvy and other applicants. It's quite sure that our road will cross again in a near future.

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May 19 / 4:38am

"Touch Ground" advertising by LG

This is an another smart interactive advertising example that I found in the Causeway Bay MTR.

 In order to promote its new phone, the Arena ("sand" in Italian, strongly inspired by the iPhone), LG set up an interactive giant phone projected on the ground. The twist is you can try the phone's interface by simply step on the widgets or buttons.

 For those of you whom ever been to Taipei, this technology is the same as the one we can enjoy at the top of the Taipei 101 building (when you walk on space or clouds)

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May 18 / 2:31pm

Taiwan's FHM sold in Hong Kong's 7-11

I don't have many occasions ("liar, you have a Taiwanese girlfriend and a lot of Chinese friend!") to learn how to speak Mandarin, but I usually spend several hours per days to learn how to write, read, understand and combine (traditional only, simplified are just ugly) Chinese characters. Therefore, even if I merely talk, I can read/write/understand about 70% to 80% (depends on the material) of what I'm seeing.

To continuously improve that ability, I keep reading everything I can in the streets, in the buses and in the magazines. When I'm in Taiwan I usually read comics (like Dragon Ball or some other because the grammar/style is not too hard to understand) but in Hong Kong the Chinese characters used can be different:

  • 對不起 (Dui Bu Qi) in Taiwan/China become 對唔住 (Doi M Jhu) in Hong Kong
  • 謝謝 (Xie Xie) become 唔該 (m'Goi) etc...
Nevertheless, today I was trying to search some magazine that would use "standard" traditional Chinese with some interesting contents (Cars, Tech, Web...etc) when I simply found in a Abrdeen's (香港仔) 7-11 the Taiwanese version of FHM Magazine (男人幫)! It's funny to see that just like JP uses TW and HK to sell its stock (video games mainly), TW seems to sell its own to HK ! It's in my opinion a very smart move as Taiwan has a "young" and "cool" image among HK (and even mainlanders) youth.

But now I'm sorry I must quit my computer because I'm going to practice my "Chinese" with 愛紗 from 大嘴巴 !
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May 17 / 10:13am

Aux Armes

My dad is a great soccer fan, he's into that sport since more than 45 years by playing (almost every Friday until very lately, now he's a bit old for that), watching games (every day) and by managing a soccer club (he's a youth team coach). Therefore, until I was old enough to go out alone, I spent every Saturday afternoon nearby a soccer field, not to play but to watch other people (my dad's friends) doing it.

I'm not a big fan actually, but I'm still interested in the environments (who's winning, who's buying who, new players, results and ranking) and since I live in Asia I really start to miss going to Marseille's stadium (Velodrome Stadium), the atmosphere over there is unique!

This is definitely my favorite part, when I hear it I have chills!



What do you think ?
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May 16 / 12:52pm

The Tortue's Garage : Sebastien Tellier & MC Hotdog (MC熱狗)

Here we back for a new episode of Tortue's Garage, tonight I'm generous I will present two songs with two different style.


The first song is a remix (by Breakbot, a very good DJ to follow) of Roche by Sebastien Tellier. Altought he's an Eurovision looser, Sebastien Tellier is a (french) trendy music maker backed up by Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo, one of the two Daft Punk ! It's really hard for me to introduce the song itself as it's quite "special" (still 80's-ish electronic music), I let you listen to make your own idea.

Roche (Breakbot Remix) by Sébastien Tellier  
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With the second song I introduce here my favorite chinese language rapper MC HotDog. Like with the homonym food, with MC HotDog (MC熱狗) everything is good, from the music (wondering who's the producer) to the (often hilarious but SO real) lyrics, the next Tortue's Garage would also countains some of it's best songs. This song (謝謝啞唬/Xie Xie Ya Hu : Thanks Yahoo(.com)) directly comes from his last album: 差不多先生 (Mr. So So), it's not the most famous one but I really like it !

謝謝啞唬 by Mc Hotdog  
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If you want to know, my favorite MC HotDog's song remains : 我愛台妹 (I love Taiwanese Girls)


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May 16 / 12:17pm

Mac & Wine

Even if my parents are, I'm not a wine fan (not an alcohol fan actually, I barely drink a glass of any alcohol per month) but lately when I passed before a "Wine & Business Club" (in Tsim Sha Tsui) and I bought a bottle of Bordeaux 2006 (sorry I forgot the name), a corkscrew and a glass at a total cost of $ HK133 (+-13 €). Then, I sat myself at my desk, reading my (numerous) RSS feeds, listening a football game on RMC (French radio) under a moderate air-con (it's 30°c over here) and finally taste this wine, I'll surprise nobody by saying that it's very very relaxing.

Does the wine is good? Frankly I have no idea (I know nothing about wine degustation) but I can tell you that it was not bad (at all!) at least.

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May 15 / 9:47pm

Ha merde...

I sometime ask myself how weather predictions can be so wrong ! This morning I checked HK Weather which showed a big sun all over the island, but as soon as I reached the beach it started to rain...
 
Anyway, I'm under a tree listening my Popod and reading my book !

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May 15 / 4:35am

An interesting Octopus Card use

Last Wednesday I was hanging around Mongkok with a friend when we decided to enter in a cinema to watch "Wolverine" (great movie by the way). Nothing special to that except that the payment process was quite interesting.

 Indeed, instead of going to the cashier (before a long line) we went to use the electronic one. With the help of a touch screen, I quickly chosen the movie to see and instantly paid with my Octopus card ( a widely used contacless card in Hong Kong for translation or small payments). The whole process took 10 sec and 1 minute later I already was in the theater, amazing isn't it?

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May 14 / 1:25pm

Do you think they did it on purpose ?

An Hostel for muslims ? :p

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May 14 / 1:10pm

In Search of Lost Time (On Twitter)

According to tweetwaster, I have a total of 5,407 tweets and assuming I spent an average of 30 seconds per tweet I spent 162,210 Seconds or 2,704 Minutes or 45.06 Hours or 1.88 Days using Twitter!

I like the little sentence that follow the results : Um, 1.88 days? You are aware there is a real world out there right?
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