Le Web3 Live

A few days after the end of LeWeb3, here’s a review of different articles about the conference.

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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

We girls expected to meet nerds, and only nerds, at LeWeb3. By nerds, we mean very skinny boys with bags under eyes and no life. No glamour, no sex appeal. Surprise, there are some counter-examples.

Here a (definitely subjective) selection of boys we would be glad to share a restaurant with. Or more if possible.

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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.

… Well, sort of!

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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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