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R.I.P. Steve Jobs

by Benoit on 06/10/2011

LeWeb 10

by Benoit on 08/12/2010

This is the time of the year when the web goes to Paris for two days of IRL networking. This year we are back at Les Docks on the outskirts of Paris and I think I like this place better (hoping they’ll have the fantastic food like three years ago and not the Danone stuff).

Google

December 9, 2009

Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience, from Google is on stage talking about Google Goggles (on Android for now) that lets you start a search with a picture you take by using image recognition (shape, color, OCR). Music and video will be next. Next she talks about her vision of news : hyper-personalized [...]

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Twitter

December 9, 2009

Ryan Sarver, director of platform from Twitter, announces the Twitter firehose for everyone at LeWeb. No details yet but they are working on it for the start of 2010. Twitter is also launching a website for developers in a few week. He also talked about OAuth API that will have 10x rate limit increase and [...]

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Facebook

December 9, 2009

Ethan Beard, director of Facebook Developer Network, tells us at LeWeb how Facebook is about identity through your social graph. Facebook connect is the easiest way to logon to a website and he just announced that developers will have access to Facebook’s users’ email now. I believe this is one less reason not to use it and [...]

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Square

December 9, 2009

Jack Dorsey from Twitter fame demonstrates the Square mobile payment system. After going through the demo effect (problem reading the card, wifi too slow) he showed us a very interesting system. The main selling point is anybody can take payment without setting up a merchant account. Think PayPal for real life. Not sure it will [...]

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LeWeb’09

December 9, 2009

Just arrived at LeWeb’09 ! Nice badges with our Twitter handle on them. Speaking of Twitter it when down a few minutes ago, maybe because we have a twitter stream up on the screen on stage ? Heating is on and wifi seems good so far, and the venue is packed, very impressive. 2300 participants [...]

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WordPress upgrade and new Thesis theme

September 13, 2009

Just upgraded my WordPress install and decided to use the Thesis theme. It is a really a very powerful and highly customizable theme with great CSS support. My blog should be evolving design-wise in the next few days. Stay tuned !

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Programming the iPhone

July 21, 2009

http://icodeblog.com is a nice site with a bunch of tutorials on programming the iPhone.

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Moving mail from Gmail to Google Apps

February 14, 2009

I have a bunch of mail in an old Gmail account and today I decided to merge it into my Google Apps account that I now use. Previous methods I was using for moving mail was through IMAP but after looking around I found out Google’s Email Uploader. Google Email Uploader uploads mail to Google Apps from [...]

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Second day at Le Web

December 10, 2008

Waking up wasn’t easy this morning ; the MySpace party was a blast ! Today was alot better than yesterday, food and some heating, but most important alot of incredible speakers. We had Eric Besson and Christine Lagarde, both french ministers, to tell us that the french governement has never been so involved in the [...]

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First day at Le Web

December 9, 2008

For the first day two speakers stood out : Helen Fisher and Paulo Coehlo. Helen presented her research on what happens in our brain when we fall in love and what parts are active in certain situations. She also showed how she manages to put people in 4 different types and told us she has [...]

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Freezing and hungry at Le Web

December 9, 2008

Can’t believe how cold it is here, everybody is freezing and sneezing. After last year’s most excellent food this year’s is a real shame. I can’t judge the quality since I didn’t get any, there just wasn’t enough ! Maybe the love theme is to blame, as they say in french : “vivre d’amour et [...]

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Back to Le Web

December 9, 2008

Is this going to be a once a year blog entry ? I’ll try to make 2009 into a fuller blog Just arrived here and the space is amazing, very nice building. Hope it gets as good as last year…

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Starck at Le Web 3

December 11, 2007

Worst english accent ever heard (worst than Loïc’s) but very, very entertaining and interesting ! The big image – mutation : every project must be part of the big image. Mutation is better than revolution. We are a movement. We need to be a good mutant. We need to understand, be intelligent. We must look [...]

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Direct from Le Web 3

December 11, 2007

I’m at the Le Web 3 conference here in Parissince this morning and so far I’m liking it ! First the bad part : flaky wifi in the main conference room. It started with an interesting discussion on identity and privacy and here is what I caught (while fighting wifi connection problems !). Identification helps [...]

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Microsoft wins the Facebook bid

October 24, 2007

This is the latest buyout rumor. If it is true, Facebook is dead. We are now waiting for the equivalent of email in social networking : truely open and widespread standard… just let it happen.

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Gmail finally gets IMAP access !

October 24, 2007

No IMAP access at Gmail was the only reason I had not switched all my mail to Google. As much as I like GMail I want to be able to choose my mail client depending on device, location, etc. IMAP native clients on phones are still the best way to read mail IMHO on a [...]

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Seesmic

October 16, 2007

I got my invite this morning to Seesmic ! Thank you Loic ! This is Twitter on steroids. I can see where this is going… video is only a step, what is next is full media twittering. Easy publishing of any media to my friends/followers is the next step. This is a really fun ride [...]

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Blog Action Day

October 15, 2007

Blog Action Day this year is co-ordinating bloggers to tackle the issue of the environment. You can check it out by clicking on the banner below. If you are still using a CRT monitor you can switch to www.blackle.com instead of Google and help save some Watts !

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