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

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.

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

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.

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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Marc Canter was the moderator of Tuesday’s session “Bringing social to software: radical change is coming.” Who could better moderate a Web conference than “Big Mouth” Canter?

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Fresh news after the night at la Scala. Great venue, great music, happy people : a success.

Watch the video (in French, but never mind) :

“Personalization 2.0.” That’s how Jonathan Medved, CEO of Vringo, an Israeli compagny, describes the personalization of a mobile phone. According to him, a mobile phone is “an extension of your personality.” It is all about “expressing who you are.” Ringtones are one way of expressing your difference. But Vringo goes further with applications like videos, animations, photos and also avatars that can be added on a mobile phone. “The content will be projected in networks that will be shared with friends,” he explained.

Below is an interview with Jonathan Medved.

(Photo Milica Sekulic/creative commons)