The first afternoon of the conference was characterised by lots of small talks – product announcements and quick snippets instead of any indepth look at a subject. In general, my takeout from the first day of the internet of things is around household objects and toys – those are the main areas of focus. The […]
Le Web 12: Google, Twitter and Facebook
Liveblogged – so mistakes On Tuesday afternoon, representatives from Google, Twitter and Facebook were on stage. The Google talk was an interesting insight into how search works and the ways Google are thinking about ‘things’ – objects they can build search results around, where there is context. (couldn’t capture all of this due to some […]
Le Web 12: Muse, Soundcloud and SmartThings
Some notes from the shorter sessions on Morning 1 of Le Web Ariel Garten, CEO, Interaxon This is Ariel’s 3rd appearance. Now they finally have a product to announce. They do thought controlled devices. Shared with us about thought controlled technology 2 years ago. Last year, showed you how the tech connected you with your […]
Le Web 12: Scott Harrison and Charity:Water
Liveblogged – possible mistakes Scott Harrison, Founder & CEO, charity:water Will be talking about how he got into Charity:Water. The Water Crisis etc. A little about him. Started as a nightclub promoter. Got paid to ‘promote’ things like vodka and beer – get photographed. Looked good – no heart to life. Decided to make a […]
LeWeb 12: NASA and Mars
LIVEBLOGGED = there will be mistakes Benjamin Cichy, Chief Software Engineer, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Talking about Mars. For years we knew little. It could be like earth. It had seasons, polar ice caps, had winters and summers. It could have had a rainy season. It has always fascinated us. It could […]
Le Web. Again
It’s December, that means’s it’s time for Le Web? Not strictly true this year, as they also had a London edition in June, for the first time. But the Paris version is the main one and I’m looking forward to being one of the official bloggers again this year – and meeting up with the […]
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 […]
LeWeb: Commerce
Matthew Mengerink, Vice President and General Manager of Platform , X.Commerce-eBay Inc. & Robert Scoble, American Blogger, Technical Evangelist and Author,Rackspace People don’t want to appear to be idiotic when they buy things. Mathew builds storefronts for retailers, what trends is he seeing. For merchants, the storefront is a stressful place, but it does not […]
LeWeb: Governments and Startups
How european Governments support startup ecosystems Moderated by: Sherry Coutu, Former CEO & Angel Investor. Nicolas Princen, Advisor for New Media and Information Technology, Office of President Nicolas Sarkozy. Eric Van der Kleij, CEO, Tech City Investment Organisation One of the challenges is what can the gov actually do, can’t they just get out of […]
LeWeb: Ignite
Playing (with) the Market-Fun Facts about the Android Market Yuval Ariav, @yuvalariav We asked people what made a good app. But they have already answered that question, with reviews etc. The data is there. But how to turn it into information. What are they saying? Look at words on 1 and 5 star reviews. good […]
LeWeb: SoLoMo and Media
Moderated by: Thomas Crampton, Asia-Pacific Director of Social Media, Ogilvy Mather Paul-François Fournier, Executive Vice President, Orange Technocentre Gabe Rivera, Founder & CEO, Techmeme Bruno Patino, Senior Executive Vice President, Strategy Digital Director, France Télévisions Group & France 5 Brad Garlinghouse, President, Consumer Applications & Commerce Group, AOL (photo by Adam Tinworth) They were asked […]
LeWeb: Niklas Zennstrom
Niklas Zennstrom, Founding Partner & CEO, Atomico and Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb It’s good to sell a company twice. The first time I was part of the product..so emotional. The second time I was an investor, so more a financial decision. (Skype). It has ended up in a good place. How are the trends? […]
LeWeb: TV and the social web
Deb Roy, Co-Founder & CEO, Bluefin Labs “Connecting TV to the social web” (photo by Adam Tinworth) Record everything, dev data machines/algorithms to find patters, dev visualisation so humans can see the connections and then dev them to make the world better Was looking at how his son learnt, wired up his house for camera […]
LeWeb: Social Thunderstorms
George Colony, Chairman & CEO, Forrester Research “Three Social Thunderstorms†1: The Death of the Web Processing power doubles, Moore’s Law, every 18 months. Will be there for next 10 years or so. Next, Hitachi Law, doubling of storage every 12 months about. Then the network. It is improving, not at the same speed as […]
LeWeb: Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer, VP, Product Management, Google and MG Siegler, General Partner, CrunchFund Now focuses on local and maps. Bringing things together. Checkins are useful for users, bring them together with friends. Interesting ways for us to monetise and for users to save money, so checkin offers, and daily deals etc. Looking to launch this next […]
LeWeb: Principals of Innovation
Carmine Gallo, Author, 7 Principles of Innovation based on the “Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.†(photo by Adam Tinworth) Writes books, seems to write things about Steve Jobs. He’s also a communications coach. So Presentation secrets of Steve Jobs was previous book, now the Secrets. Principal 1: Do what you love. Passion is everything. You […]
LeWeb: Evernote
Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote and Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb So it starts with another product launch (to be fair, the first today). Brings on person from Orange….Evernote and Orange met last year at LeWeb, Orange wanted to offer these platforms to their customers. So all Orange customers in France next year will get access […]