Loïc Le Meur interviewed in LeWeb3-Live.net…

Posted on 12 décembre 2007 at 17:22 in Backstage | No comment

… Well, sort of!

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Friis 2 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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A few words by Loïc Le Meur before the conference

Posted on 10 décembre 2007 at 23:20 in Backstage | No comment

On the day before LeWeb3, Loïc Le Meur seems both enthusiastic and eager to hold the event.


Loïc Le Meur paid a surprise visit to his hard-working LeWeb3 staff on Monday afternoon. Along with his wife Géraldine, he visited the “docks” where the two-day conference will take place to check if everything was on track for the “big show”. His technicians and collaborators had been working hard since the morning.


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Singaporean agency seeks hype on YouTube

Posted on 8 décembre 2007 at 14:20 in Backstage, Focus, Media | No comment

Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) cares about its image. A video clip featuring MDA senior managers dancing and singing - in an odd hip hop style, sort of - is currently a hit on the Internet.

The video was also a hit with “LeWeb3″ organizer Loïc Le Meur. In a message on his blog from Dec. 1, Le Meur finds “very interesting the fact that the Singaporean government is able to create this kind of video, and above all, that the Web is aimed at playing such a great part in its development strategy.” Le Meur, a businessman, is thinking of a partnership between MDA and Seesmic, his own video website. Read more