A Debate: Andrew Keen, Internet Entrepreneur & Broadcaster vs. Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, Rackspace Managed by Milo LIVEBLOGGED AK has written a book, with the thesis about oversharing, where public and private are indistinguishable, which destroying us as human beings.. Living in public, whittles away us as human beings MY has […]
LeWeb London: Nik Halstead and Datasift
Nick Halstead, Founder & CTO, Datasift & Milo Yiannopoulos, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Kernel LIVEBLOGGED NH sells a lot of data to financial markets; eg looked at Facebook IPO and sentiment around it. You can look at patterns, at back testing and at predictions. THey look at inflections. In most days, there is a certain […]
LeWeb London: Baratunde Thurston
Baratunde Thurston, Comedian LIVEBLOGGED BT has been looking at the future before, looking @futureof Now looking at telling stories in a real time world. We are in an area of increasing speed, volume and sources of information. It creates and opportunity for stories to be told. YOu see satirical stories built with digital tools, very […]
LeWeb London: The Future
All-Star Entrepreneurs Discuss the Future Chad Hurley, Co-Founder & CEO, AVOS Systems Kevin Rose, Partner, Google Ventures Niklas Zennstrom, CEO & Founding Partner, Atomico Ventures Moderated by Michael Arrington, General Partner, CrunchFund LIVEBLOGGED MA says this is an open ended topic…they can talk about the future or whatever they want. MA asks why they do […]
LeWeb London: Nick’D’Aloisio and Summly
Nick D’Aloisio, Founder, Summly & Bobbie Johnson, European Correspondent, GigaOm UK LIVEBLOGGED ND is pretty young, had no idea of the dotcom boom the first time round (he’s 16). Now he has a company that has attention. ND looks to customise content for the mobile screen, long form content has limitations, with data and screen. […]
LeWeb London: Paul Davison and Highlight
Paul Davison, Founder & CEO, Highlight & Milo Yannopoulos, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Kernel LIVEBLOGGED MY wanted to hate Highlight, but looked into it and did not. PD says that services make it easy to share about what you like etc. This happens in real world too, with T-Shirts etc, But you don’t know more […]
LeWeb London: Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Klarna
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Co-Founder & CEO, Klarna & Tim Bradshaw, Digitial Media Correspondent, Financial Times LIVEBLOGGED Klarna is a payment system, that focuses on the merchants, to create frictionless services. Some is about paying on delivery. They create a buying experience, that is like a Like button. 30% of online sales in Sweden is this. The […]
LeWeb London: Three themes to thrive in real time
Jeremiah Owyang, Partner, Altimeter Group – “Three themes to thrive in real time” Being faster than real time…is about anticipation. It’s been difficult to do in tech space. Anticpation needs experience and an understanding of what is in play. When it comes to companies connecting to customers, there will be a lot of balls in […]
LeWeb London: Eric Migicovsky and Pebble
Eric Migicovsky, Founder & Lead Designer, Pebble Technology & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founder LIVEBLOGGED EM had the idea, started working on smart watches at Netherlands. Enjoyed commuting my bike, but wanted to see what has happening via wrist, not get phone out. Hacked together a watch, continued after graduating. Took a long time, had […]
LeWeb London: Martha Lane Fox and Michael Bracken
Martha Lane Fox, UK Digital Champion & Michael Bracken, Executive Director of Digital, Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office with Roxanne Varza, Startup/Tech Journalist LIVEBLOGGED After the accident, MLF used tech to keep in touch with people. She was asked by the last gov to help disadvantaged people get on line, There are 8m adults in […]
LeWeb London: Facebook
Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Director, Platform Partnerships, Facebook & Jamillah Knowles, UK Editor, The Next Web When Facebook built. it did not intend to be a games platform, but partners worked on this. Partners bring along the ideas, FB provide tools and ways to get the idea out there. in EU there are pockets of activity, […]
LeWeb London: Uber and Hailo
Team Uber vs. Team Hailo Moderated by Michael Arrington, General Partner, CrunchFund Travis Kalanick, Co-Founder & CEO, Uber; Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures; Adam Valkin, Partner, Accel Partners; Jay Bregman, Co-Founder & CEO, Hailo LIVEBLOGGED (just notes, as not easily to transcribe) Uber are in 13 cities, New York, San francisco and Washington are […]
LeWeb London: Box
Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO, Box & Mike Butcher, European Editor, TechCrunch LIVEBLOGGED Box does ‘boring enterprise software’ but look to make it interesting. What they are trying to do is build simpler software, that makes it easy to use. TO MB, you are using an individual as a trojan horse into the enterprise. Now […]
Leweb London: Badoo
Ben Ling, COO, Badoo & Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, Rackspace Badoo is a sharing and location network – to find people and things. YOu can see interests and similar people., 150m users, 10s of millions monthly users. BL thinks it stands out as it is open platform and they have reached […]
LeWeb London: Bradley Horowitz and Google+
Bradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product Management, Google & Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb When looking at search, Google had amnesia. it did not remember what you were looking at. So Google+ is looking to change this, to understand users better to provide better information for them. My phone does not understand relationships – it should […]
LeWeb London: Jamie Oliver and Instagram
Jamie Oliver, Television Personality & Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder & CEO, Instagram with Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founder LIVEBLOGGED! (Photo: @adders) JO and KS met about a year ago, when instagram was small. They got JO on Instagram, and he started using it the next day, showing pictures of his daily life. They can be shared […]
LeWeb: Fabrice Grinda
Fabrice Grinda, Internet Entrepreneur, angel investor,Co-CEO, OLX “The Trials and Tribulations of Angel Investing in Brazil, Russia and around the world!†Has made mistakes with everything…has made them all. So here’s some tips about not making them! Brazil has many successful internet companies; there is a huge business ecosystem. Brazil is growing fast, 7.5% in […]
LeWeb: Fernando Madeira
Fernando Madeira, Co-Founder & CEO, Terra Latin, America Latin America update (photo by Adam Tinworth) You should never tell a secret to Loic, as he asks you to come to LeWeb and share with anywhere. The secret is the digital revolution in Latin America. There is a lot of activity there, 1000s of entrepreneurs, plus […]
LeWeb: Ben Parr
Ben Parr: Some top trends (photo by Adam Tinworth) The Local Social Network: it’s not just location, it is about groups, about communities. It’s about meetups, or social enterprise groups The intersection of entertainment and digital, that is Hollywood and Silicon Valley, It will take off next year. Web integrates into shows, YT has TV. […]
LeWeb: Twitter
Ryan Sarver, Director of Platform, Twitter and MG Siegler, General Partner, Crunchfund The new version has rolled out to a few people, (the one on the web), it is a slow rollout. They want to focus on being simple, consistent and fast, so it works across multiple devices. This is a combination of the long-term […]