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Re: Seesmic future team interview by Robert Scoble

loiclemeur — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:25:22 -0000

thanks Freida!

Re: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

loiclemeur — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:14:34 -0000

Yeah sure Facebook is not making a lot of money! Get fresh news my friend...

Re: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

loiclemeur — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:25:20 -0000

I agree Rob, I have never pretended being revolutionary in any way in those
predictions

Re: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

loiclemeur — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:07:56 -0000

thank you JP, good points! see you at leweb

Re: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

loiclemeur — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:04 -0000

thanks Neville, glad to see we're on the same page

Re: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

loiclemeur — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:37:05 -0000

I really think Google Wave has absolutely nothing to do with Google Wave.q

Re: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

loiclemeur — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:20:18 -0000

yeah, and they say Twitter is for old people like you!

Re: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

loiclemeur — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:16:17 -0000

j'aime beaucoup Digg, mais les personnes qui "diggent" sont des geeks, alors
que Twitter est deja en train d'atteindre le grand public

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Re: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

loiclemeur — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:02:35 -0000

interesting, Christoph.

Banjo, it is not supposed to be read only, it was a presentation on stage
and I just added the text here to go with the video

Re: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

loiclemeur — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:44:05 -0000

my pleasure KY

Re: Paying To Pitch

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:14:02 -0000

we received hundreds of applications, sorry for the startups who could
not make the deadline, we have given plenty of advance notice.... we
also need to organize everything

Re: Paying To Pitch

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:56:35 -0000

thank you Nigel, appreciate some support here!

Re: Paying To Pitch

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:48:08 -0000

it is not a fund raising contest. It is a startup competition which we had
for years and which provides exposure to the startups to a very broad
public, not pitching angels or VCs. There is a very large press coverage for
example, many startups last year and the winners for sure got even featured
on our "french CNN" LCI TV channel. LeWeb is much broader than pitching vcs
and angels.

Re: Paying To Pitch

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:44:17 -0000

Jeff, I would love your help to find a sponsor that cover all the startup participation costs and would be happy to talk to anyone you have in mind, indeed it is a great solution, we have not found anyone for that.

Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:41:03 -0000

About 2 hours

Re: Paying To Pitch

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:36:08 -0000

Too bad you don't understand, I tried my best to explain.

Re: Paying To Pitch

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:03:42 -0000

I don't think you're comparing events that can be compared in terms of costs...

Re: Paying To Pitch

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:02:07 -0000

we are not charging any speaker and on the contrary some of them who don't have the means we fly them from around the world and take care of hotels etc. Unfortunately we can't do it for all. But as I said, your comment gave me an idea, we will make it free if startups just want to pitch and are not interested in the two day conference.

I am sorry but you are talking here about an event that takes a full year for @geraldine to put together and we finance it in person. For example we have put out of pocket 200 000 euros in advance to pay for the huge room in Paris, we are also entrepreneurs and we take a big risk with this. So while I agree in principle, I am tired of people that want everything for free. An event like LeWeb can simply not happen for free, I wish it could. We're doing a lot already, like very low tickets for students, which is a first this year. We're losing money on every single of them.

Re: Paying To Pitch

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:57:57 -0000

having said that you just gave me one idea. We will offer the startups to pitch for free if the like, access LeWeb just for their presentation, or also buy a half price tickets for two full days.

Re: Paying To Pitch

loiclemeur — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:24:40 -0000

this is inaccurate. LeWeb does not charge to "enter" the startup competition, we received hundreds of applications and they are all entered for free. The LeWeb ticket at normal price is 1,500 euros and we ask the companies selected to buy two passes at HALF price.

They get the entire event at half price as a participant and can demo their startups at no cost.

LeWeb costs more than a million euros to produce, barely breaks even and setting up a stage, a/v, wifi(! when it works ok) and a room for 2,000 people in Paris is a big deal, we believe we give a very fair deal. The startups benefit from the entire event and setup as a normal participant at half price, they get on stage for free.

I really don't see what's wrong with that, there is value in just participating at the event which we let them go to at a discount.

Some people won't understand that and will always want everything for free, that's fine, we could simply not put an event like this together with them.

Thousands of entrepreneurs come back every year and consider they get enough value for their money... Most US events cost twice as much to participate, do your research.

Re: I Just Made Love: Web Users Plot their Love-Making on a Map

tapps — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:16:36 -0000

@ crosberg thanks. you're right, and great response above as well. :)

Re: I Just Made Love: Web Users Plot their Love-Making on a Map

tapps — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:48:29 -0000

better buy that now... unless someone else already did :P

Re: I Just Made Love: Web Users Plot their Love-Making on a Map

tapps — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:46:33 -0000

naw. it's not too serious. it helps foster this "accepted norm".. that if it's not challenged, it can give people who don't fit in that "projected norm" a feeling they don't belong, or worse. (just think if you're a depressed, suicidal gay teenager... anything, even a "for fun" website like this can be that last straw.) we really do need to take these things seriously. there's no reason why just a small change in the interface can't be made to include EVERYONE. (and in all honesty, it's a cool idea for a site. it just needs some tweaks.) :)

Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without

loiclemeur — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:41:39 -0000

Oh that"s a cool idea going to try it! Thanks

Re: My Mac OSX essential apps I could not live without

loiclemeur — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:00:33 -0000

yes it works perfect with google apps mail