founder of 4chan. founded in 2003 as an image sharing community, for Japanese comics.cartoons/anime. A chatroom with 20. Now 12m visitors monthly. no registration. no archive. ideas – it’s about survival of the fittest. what resonates, stays on the board. Community flows over a day; the culture changes. to start a topic you need to […]
Opening up TED, June Cohen, SXSW
Started releasing talks in 2006. as talks grown online, the audience has gone fromn 1000 people in a room to 100m around the world it changed the organisation, from conference for an elite audience to thinking about how to serve the global community. So everything rallied around the notion of ideas worth spreading. A complete […]
Past and Future
It’s the end of one year, the start of a new one. Traditionally time to set New Year resolutions, those vague statements of things that you’re going to change. I decided a few years ago that resolutions are too woolly, too easy to get out of, so I try and set goals, or objectives if […]
What I did this year
I’ve been looking back at this year’s Flickr photos to see what I did this year – and I did a lot. So as a summary and a reminder for myself, here’s my activity for the year. When I put it all together, I think I had a good year for just getting out and […]
LeWeb10 and Singularity University
Salim Ismail, Executive Director, Singularity University LIVEBLOGGED – some paraphrasing, may be things missed Photo by Adam Tinworth Talking about neuroscience. over last 20-30 years, computers have gotten smaller, faster, better. we can do a brain of a mouse in a laptop. In 12 years, brain in a computer…that is the computing power, not the […]
Leweb10 and Thought Controlled Computing
Thought Controlled Computing Ariel Garten, CEO, Interaxon LIVEBLOGGED – some paraphrasing, …some bits missed…video to follow Photo by Adam Tinworth Our team has been developing thought controlled computing…so what is thought controlled computing. Reads brain waves, translates, then sends to device. I can use mind to control lighting, or lighting can respond to state of […]
LeWeb10 and SmartTransportation
Jack D. Hidary, Chairman, SmartTransportation.org LIVEBLOGGED – some paraphrasing, may have missed things. Video to follow Wants to talk about 3 challenges, related to mobility and energy. we are nearing 1billion cars in the world. In the US 250m, China is fastest growing market…15-20m new ones per year. Progress we have and have not made […]
LeWeb10 and Zynga
David Ko, SVP of Mobile, Zynga Q&A with MG Siegler, Writer, TechCrunch LIVEBLOGGED – paraphrased, there may be things missed. Video to follow Photo by Adam Tinworth MG: you’ve been there a month now [David is new at zynga] , have announced a new deal recently, do you want to discuss? DK: last week was […]
LeWeb10 and Social Gaming
How Social is Changing the Gaming Industry Moderated by: Cedric Ingrand, Broadcaster, Podcaster and Resident Geek at LCI/TF1 in Paris Panelists: Jens Begemann, Founder, wooga; Nicolas Gaume, Co-founder and CEO, Mimesis Republic; Jimmy Kim, CEO, Nexonova; Mike Kerns, Vice President, Social Games & Personalization, Yahoo! WARNING: LIVEBLOGGED. some paraphrasing…I may have missed things. Video to […]
LeWeb10 Dennis Crowley and FourSquare
Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder, foursquare. Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb LIVEBLOGGED: some paraphrasing and may be missed areas…video below Image from Adam Tinworth LL: this is the second time you’ve spoke in EU DC: yes, only spoke in Amsterdam LL: how many people do you have DC: just about to break 40 people, a […]
Christmas Windows at LeWeb
One thing that LeWeb does is bring you to Paris in December, when there’s lots of Christmas decorations. Along Boulevard Haussman, the department stores compete for your eyeballs with their window decorations. Her’e’s the one that caught my eye – it’s dancing Teddy bears to the sound of Abba.
LeWeb10 Osama Bedier, PayPal
Osama Bedier, Vice President of Platform, Mobile and New Ventures, PayPal Q&A with Milo Yiannopoulos, Technology columnist, Telegraph.co.uk LIVEBLOGGED: Some paraphrasing and missed areas Image from Adam Tinworth MY: PayPal and Wikileaks…did you do the right thing OB: we have an acceptable use policy and a team. their job is to make sure we comply […]
LeWeb10 Mikael Hed Rovio and Angry Birds
Mikael Hed, CEO, Rovio behind the best selling mobile app Angry Birds Q&A with MG Siegler, Founder, LeWeb WARNING: Liveblogged, some paraphrasing..maybe missing bits. Video at end of post. Photo from Adam Tinworth MG: so what was the story MH: started off with a single drawing of birds and a concept of blocks etc. We […]
LeWeb10 Playfish and gaming
Sebastien de Halleux, Co-Founder, Playfish & VP, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships,EA Interactive. Q&A with Veronica Belmont, Host, Tekzilla WARNING: Liveblogged, some paraphasing, some things probably missed. Video below Photo by Adam Tinworth VB: a lot of games out there are derivitive..how will that change SH: there’s very few of the web people out there […]
LeWeb10 Mike Jones MySpace
Mike Jones, CEO, MySpace Q&A with Robert Scoble, American Blogger, Tech Evangelist & Author WARNING – liveblogged, some paraphrasing, some things may be missing Photo from Adam Tinworth RS: so what is it like trying to save this company? MJ: big changes. Launched new product about 15 days ago… RS: only 1-2% of this audience […]
LeWeb10 Jason Goldman Twitter
Jason Goldman, VP of Product, Twitter Q&A with MG Siegler, Writer, TechCrunch LIVEBLOGGED -some paraphrasing..some bits missed. Video at bottom of post Photo from Adam Tinworth MG: you’ve just launched some new integrations? JG: yes, Instagram, full music, lots of other things MG: do you see the right pane as a new platform for people […]
LeWeb10 Ethan Beard Facebook
Ethan Beard, Director, Facebook Developer Network, Facebook Q&A with Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch LIVEBLOGGED: so some paraphrasing possible. Video at bottom of post Picture from Adam Tinworth. MA: are you continuing to deny the Facebook phone is real? EB: yes. I am ready to deny. The windows phone used Facebook to connect and that’s one […]
LeWeb10 Charlie Kindel Microsoft
Charlie Kindel, GM, WP7 Developer Ecosystem, Microsoft Corporation Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb WARNING – LIVE BLOGGED, so somethings may be missing. Video below I’m trying to blog this, but as an interview it’s a little all over the the place and there’s not a lot of new information – so here’s some […]
LeWeb10 Carlos Ghosn Renault
Carlos Ghosn, Chairman & CEO, Renault S.A. & Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Q&A with Loïc Le Meur WARNING: Liveblogged..some paraphrases, somethings may be missing. Video below The car industry was started by entrepreneurs. There was lots of innovation. Renault, from marketing, knew about brand image and marketing, how car races could drive the brand. opening […]
Le Web 2010
It’s December, that means it’s time for Le Web, the Parisian based tech conference. This is the 7th (I think) running of the conference by Geraldine (and Loic) La Meur, which started off focusing on blogging and has expanded to cover the whole of the tech scene, not just web but mobile connectivity as well. […]