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.
不要忘記他們, 他們真的是中華的英雄
PS : Title by @sagebrennan
Just a quick post to remind those of you who live in Taipei or nearby that the 20th MobileMonday Taipei will be held tomorow evening, 7pm at Mary’s Bistro (2 Floor, No.89, Sec 2 Ren-Ai Rd., Taipei City). Unless I'm stuck elsewhere, I'll be there to attend the presentation that will focus on Windows shopping and the future of Windows Marketplace for Mobile
If you are interested, you can sign up here it's free of charge !Microsoft plans to launch an App Store that lets Windows Mobile users find, purchase, and download programs directly from the phones. It’ll work much like the iPhone App Store and the upcoming BlackBerry App World. Microsoft will take a 30% cut on the sales of any paid applications. That’s the same fee that Apple charges, although Research in Motion keeps just 20%. Although Windows Marketplace will only works for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7, and it will be launched later this year.
It seems that because of the success of iPhone and its app store, everyone is trying to doing the same thing, could this marketplace be the answer for Windows to gain more market share in the smartphone operating systems? As for developers, what are their thoughts about this new change? This month’s MobileMonday Taipei, we invite some MVP (most valued professional) of windows mobile application development to share with us their experiences in developing windows mobile application and what they think about this change.
I've been quite surprised to learn that Seesmic Desktop will eventually replace Twhirl. I have tried Seemic Desktop several days, I won't say that it's a "bad" software (because it is not and it's still a "pre-version") but it definitely does not meet my needs, as well as average Twhirl's users (well...I guess so !). In my opinion, I don't see any problems with an "enhanced" version of Twhirl, but why discontinue the original version ?
What we (I) love on Twhirl is the overall simplicity (although I'm a Twitteradict, I don't need all the à la Tweetdeck options), its small window/column size (very important for Laptop users, Seesmic Desktop takes half of my 15' screen...) and its flashy (or not) color. But nevermind, I'll still keep an eye on Seesmic Desktop, first because it can only get better and better, second because I know that Loic is very careful to feedback given on its products/services.
I will thoroughly enjoy the Posterous' media easy integration to also share so great music I can find over the space, I do not guaranty you that you'll love them (especially that I have "special" taste) but I'll try to post here one I really enjoyed. Did I ever tell you that I'm a music Junkie ? Wherever I'm, I need to have my iPod beside, ready to spit some Daft Punk, Justice, George Michael or Michael Jackson (and many more).
Today I'm going to share "The Private - My Secret Lover (Lifelike Remix)", this track smells good the coming summer with a great taste of Michael Jackson, don't you think so ? This track is for now only available over the internet in a (crappy) rip version, looking forward to find it on the iTune Music Store or Beatport.
Between the 2nd and the 3rd semester at HKU, I'm lucky enough to have almost a month of vacation (my last "real" one I guess...) that I chosen to pass in Taiwan. Yes I know, I could have been to Thailand or Malaysia (or even France, fares were SO low) but I preferred to have a good time surrounded by place and people I know (i.e : Lazying all day long).
I plan to get back to HKU around the 4th of May, I'm not sure I can update either Twitter or Posterous very often because the apartment I've rented do not have Internet (contrary to what the classified was saying) so far..
On the picture : If you get a full score on whatever exam, Sushi Express offers you free stuff !
I might want to stop using old style blog, even though it tooks me a
lot of time to build and feed it...
Let me try Posterous for few days, i'll see what can I do with :)
