Loïc Le Meur blog

Al Gore and Hans Rosling speech online on TEDTalks, a must-see

The two best talks I have ever seen at TED and probably in all the conferences I went were Al Gore's on the future of our planet and Hans Rosling's on globalization and how we should welcome it. Both speeches changed my "worldview" and are now available on TEDTalks. Hans Rosling pushes us to think as world citizens who should be happy about the fact that so many countries and world citizens get a descent level of living even though it means often some job losses in our "rich" countries. Must see. If you haven't I really advise you to see both. Congrats to TED for sharing that with all of us.

Comcast Technician gets asleep visiting a customer

It's highly likely you have already seen this video, if you haven't watch this great customer service, it's been viewed until now 272 201times and has about 300 comments... Thanks, Carol!

Original video description: "A Comcast technician came to replace a faulty modem. After spending an hour on hold with Comcast's central office, he fell asleep on my couch. I've been in my apartment for three weeks and my internet connection is still non-functional. This is my tribute to Comcast, their low quality technology and their poor customer service."

Danah Boyd on myspace

Danah Boyd shared with us some of what she learnt in her research on myspace. Always great to hear Danah speak ! Was cool to seeya again in Helsinki, Danah. You can also download the .m4v video ou the audio file. Sorry about the fact that I moved quite a bit at the beginning (no tripod...) but the sound quality is OK.

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Blackmailing made finally simple

Upload scandalous photo or video. Set a price, then email an anonymous threat. If they don't pay, your upload goes public. extortr (beta). This sounds like web 2.0 finally made useful for all of us. Excellent. Via MobuzzTV.

TypePad launches in Russia

With the help of Pierre Mechentel, TypePad launches in Russia under 4 different portals: Blogmania, WomanJournal, drjblogs and ITNovosti. More to come soon, Six Apart already has more than 300 000 Live Journal blogs in Russia.

So long, Madrid

Waya invited me yesterday to speak at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, one of the leading MBAs in Europe. As always, I enjoyed talking about entrepreneurship with the students and meeting you all. Followed by a great evening with Waya et Martin (gracias!), this short trip reminded me how much I love spain. I have always felt like home in Spain, the fact that my mother is spanish explains most of it I guess, I love spain, I would easily move there and learn spanish again. Enrique Dans has blogged in spanish most of what I said. Was good to see you all, see you soon again and good luck to the students for their future entrepreneurial experiences. Enrique, you blog faster than me on your Blackberry !

Cory Doctorow, on the future

"The big picture is about the World of self determination" says Cory. Recorded at Aula in Helsinki.

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Joi Ito: a podcast on online gaming, video and copyright

I was at Aula in Helsinki for two days (thanks Marko, it was great!) and took a series of video recordings, here is a video podcast with my friend Joi Ito, a 50 minutes conversation on online games (WOW and Second Life), video, online music and copyright. You can view it below or download the video file (itunes/ipod .m4v about 300 Mo) or the audio file.

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Google Zeitgest Europe: my rant on citizen journalism

Google had invited me to speak at Google Zeitgest Europe and just sent me the video of my rant, thanks again, Sandrine and all the Google team. Note: I started by a mistake saying most of our 15 million blogs are paying, I meant "many of them", apologies I was under light stress in front of such an audience of a few hundred european personalities and speaking just before Peter Gabriel ;-)

Leader of the French socialist party says "I don't like the rich" on national TV

François Hollande, leader of the socialist party, the #2 political party in France said that he doesn't like the rich on French TV. Lot's of conversations on french blogs about this. Don't succeed in France, or these people will hate you. There is even a dedicated blog: J'aime pas les riches.

Sunset in Ibiza

I spent an incredible week-end in Ibiza, I could not resist to share this Saturday night sunset... Now back in Paris, no sunset.

Nicolas Sarkozy's blog

Nicolas Sarkozy, number 2 in French Government and future presidential candidate has just launched his official blog today, coordinated by Claude Malhuret and Thierry Solère. As I advised them to launch a blog since my podcast with Nicolas Sarkozy, I am happy to see they finally did it.

Disclosure: I help Nicolas Sarkozy's team on a friendly basis without being a member of the political party myself.

Angela Merkel has a weekly podcast !

A weekly video podcast for Angela Merkel, thanks for pinging me, Thilo.

See time in a different way

Why would we continue to represent time the same old fashioned way on our watches ? relatime has found interesting and great looking ways to see time. These watches do not exist for real yet, but you can download one for your blog. Links: relatime et leur blog.

Paris Riots. The Game.

Paris Riots. We even have a game now ! I have not tried it (you need to download 5 files) but I thought just the idea of making a game was... unbelievable !