Le Web3 Live

No sooner LeWeb3 is over that critics point out that each edition of Loïc Le Meur’s conference persists to avoid the “other Web” such as open sources softwares, webartists, hackers and gamers. Well that’s true in a way, if one consider the appearance of Mozilla Europe social entrepreneur* Tristan Nitot or VoW “shogun” Joi Ito as exceptions. That lays also in the fact that LeWeb3 has no pretention of covering the entire Web landscape, but only its business side. Read more

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

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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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”!

So … the winner of the Web3 Startup Competition has been announced! The prize goes to French startup GooJet (i.e. Good Gadjet). GooJet beat out around 120 other companies for the honour. GooJet has created different widgets for mobile phones, in order to give access to community services and tools.

GooJet is also a partner of the conference…

The startup announced three days ago that they raised 2.3 million euros from Partech International, Elaia Partners and IRDI.

The second and third prizes went to Plymedia and G.ho.st.

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Twitter, since it was created a year and a half ago, it has experienced a huge success. When creator Evan Williams asked the audience who’s familiar with Twitter, nearly everyone raised his hand. Definitely a success, its founder describes Twitter as a web-based service on the web, but also on mobile. “It’s blogging without comments,” is his nutshell summary. The principle is simple: tell your friends what you are doing in 140 characters or less, so you need to keep it short and easy to read!

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Age: 35.
American citizen.

He launched Pyra Labs in 1999 with Meg Hourihan. This company created the platform blogger.com which allows people to create their own blog. Read more