Le Web3 Live

Israeli citizen Zvi Schreiber is CEO of G.ho.st (Global Hosted Operating System), a brand new startup which allows you to carry for free your desktop, data, settings, etc. to any browser in the world on the Internet. G.ho.st won the bronze medal in LeWeb3’s startup competition Wednesday… Read more

Hans Rosling thinks e-book developers missed the opportunity to create “3D” stories. According to him, the most efficient way to read a literary work like a novel is… in a traditional paper book. On the web, you tend to find more superficial stories than serious works, Rosling feels.

French “business angel” Jeff Clavier is the founder and managing partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed-stage investors in Web 2.O startups. Since 2004, he has invested in more than 20 consumer Internet companies developing new concepts or revisiting old ideas with new technologies. In 2007, he was recognized as one of the 13 “Web 2.0 King Makers,” by Business 2.0. A few minutes ago, he took a few moments to give us more details about his job.

According to Janus Friis, great successes like Kazaa and Skype were only “by-chance ideas”! When he started to work with Niklas Zennström, they wanted to “basically start something,” but they did not know exactly what. This was the very first step to the birth of Kazaa…

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Music 2.0: where do we go from here?

When the moderator Ralph Simon asks “who bought a CD recently?”, very few people raise their hands. Heartbreaking. Discs are about to die. Very soon. Read more

Their favourite place to be during LeWeb3? The networking lounge. Here they can make deals -most of the time big deals. They are the business angels - the ones who make it possible for many startups to blossom.

Their philosophy can be summed up by these words from Morten Lund: “Revenues and profits. I’m crazy about that”.

This is mostly a matter of good choice and selectivity. “You have to pick the right companies you want to invest in,” Jean David Chamboredon explains.

The key principle is to sense trends as they are happening in order to invest in the right company at the right time: be selective, because if you fail, you could lose a lot of money. Oliver Jung, for instance, makes 38 to 39 deals a year, because as he says: “I really love startups and deals”.

Easily locate something in your archives, share your page with friends, or edit your selection of media and blogs for all users: the new Netvibes seems to do everything better than the old one, according to Tariq Krim.

The creator of Netvibes explained the changes in the new version of the website, which was announced many months ago and will be available for Netvibes’ 30 million users in January 2008.

See Tariq Krim’s profile, in French.

Bordeaux-based start-up Agematis offers a good example of the coming evolutions of the Internet. A few months ago, it launched a personal online storage and sharing system called Steekr - a kind of revolution in the field of file-sharing. International business development manager Xavier Mazingue-Desailly told us more about it :

With Steekr, not only can you share your personal files - videos, broadcasts, texts - with people you do know but you can also see those files on your television or cellphone. This kind of convergence has already attracted about 500,000 Internet users.

Agematis was created in 2002 by three former engineers and developers from French international hypermarket chain Carrefour. Now that the start-up is thriving, the 38 engineers and developers working for it are getting more ambitious. After France, the next target for them - the “entire world”!