Loïc Le Meur blog

Ross Mayfield Socialtext

Socialtext offices visit in Palo Alto with Ross Mayfield.

LinkedIn offices visit with Reid Hoffman

Guided tour of LinkedIn offices in Palo Alto by Reid Hoffman, founder. Also in Google Video.

It really smells like happiness

#22.2 - HIDDEN CAMERAS -BOYS OF MELODY
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"Smells like happiness" by the Hidden Cameras Boys of Melody it is another Concert à emporter, the #22 by Blogotheque.net. Thanks Chryde this real moment of happiness I love it. I am looking now for the album to buy it.

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I really enjoyed Herman Düne singing walking in the Paris streets. Amazing.

The best brunch place in San Francisco ?

Mike took me on Sunday with Esme at Dotties in San Francisco, a great breakfast place, about an hour line to get in last Sunday but definitely worth it, wanted to share the address with you. Don't think I ever had that much food on a table for two (Esme could not stay unfortunately).



Fortunately I ran the stanford campus before joining Mike in San Fran... A 12km run, about an hour, below the Google earth log. Don't tell anybody I jogged in the Stanford Golf Course before it opens, it is absolutely forbidden ;-)

Reid Hoffman's office

Reid, you're fantastic, I'm a fan ! (same creativity in Reid's car :-P) Thanks for dinner see you in Paris.

Vox launched

Vox is launched.

LeWeb3 google planet map of participants

Very cool planet of the participants of LeWeb3, quickly made by Singapour and Six Apart developers (kudos to JY and Antoine !).

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LeWeb3 alpha program is online

Very early in the process but here it is. I have also created a wiki where you can help me on the program if you'd like. Thanks! Web 2.0 startups will also be able to present during the two days in the second room.

Orange, Google and Netvibes partner with LeWeb3 conference

First partners announced: Orange, Google and Netvibes partner with us organizing LeWeb3, along with TechCrunch since day 1. Thank you so much all for so much support. OK, I go back to the program !

Amazing runs at Half Moon Bay

Running here at Half Moon Bay (we're having a Six Apart offsite meeting) every morning is just fantastic. I have done some interval running, beach running and this morning I did my best ever on a 10 km distance at an average of 13.2 km/h. It's cool to see the performance getting better (I've been running only for a year).

Alianzo ranks spanish and french blogs

Top blogs spain and top blogs France, a spanish initiative by Alianzo Networks.

Business Week: Europe's politicians embrace Web 2.0

Thanks Kerry Capell for your quote in your article Europe's politicians embrace Web 2.0

Les Blogs 3 registration open

We have just opened the registration for Les Blogs 3. The new name is Le Web 3, I wanted it to be more general than just blogs. We had 450 people from 25 countries last year, we expect 1000 bloggers and key Web2.0 players this year. As always, no email or paper invites will be sent and the price is I think as accessible as possible for such an event at 300€+VAT until Nov 11th and 500€ after (including coffee, lunch with I hope as good food as possible this time, a party, and two days conference). I am wondering how we can beta test the food with Marc to make sure it will meet his standards, I'm also thinking about beds in the room so hat Marc can take a nap in better conditions.

I am working on the program right now and will announce it soon. It's coming ! I will post the plans soon to get your feedback and advise. Thanks for your interest and see you at Le Web 3.

Podcast: S.A.S. le Prince Albert II de Monaco

S.A.S. le Prince Albert II de Monaco accepted to give me two minutes for his first podcast ever at the Monaco Media Forum. Thank you again Monseigneur and your team for this podcast and the incredible way you hosted us in Monaco.

You can also download the m4v file or the audio.

20km de Paris run: 1h35

After a more or less serious training and one year of running I have finally run my first race, the 20km de Paris. 25 000 people ran it with me. The official results are not online yet but my GPS watch gives 1h35 for 20km at an average of 12,9 km/h or 4min40 sec per kilometer, unfortunately I had to do an urine break that has cost me some precious time. I have spent an extraordinary day and will love to do other runs like this one.

The below graph from my GPS Garmin Forerunner 305 shows the speed, elevation and heart rate. The heart rate is completely wrong I wonder why. It's a brand new Forerunner as the first one kind of died. Weird it looks like Garmin heart rate sensors don't work very well.

Here is the Google Earth screenshot, you can directly view it in Google earth by downloading it first it's free and then open with it the file of my run if you like... I like the presentation mode as you kind of fly over the circuit, it's really cool.

David Cameron podcasts in his kitchen

David Cameron, UK leader of the Conservative Party, has started a very cool podcast series where he is totally natural in his kitchen with his daughter in the background... A new way to discover our politicians. Carry on, David ! via Laurent

Technorati and Edelman release the top blogs France, UK, Germany and Italy

It's Steve Rubel and the Financial Times l'a repris de travers who just published these already (of course) debated rankings. Surprising for the FT in their story, they unfortunately got it wrong as they have put my blog in the UK list and there are a few typos I can see also in the French list. Anyway, thanks Technorati and Edelman, it does not help my ego which is already terrible ;-) update: Guillaume has the video.

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1.65 billion $

Google buys YouTube.

How much is worth a national TV channel such as the largest we have in France or Germany ? We should update the museum of media to predict when the first large old school TV channel will cease transmitting. 2020 ?

Les blogs 2.0 video seen 260 000 times on YouTube

This video created by Diego Bianchi of Excite.it has been seen around 270 000 times ! Watch it, for me it's only great memories and a cool video work, congrats and thanks Diego, see you on December 11th at Les blogs 3 !

Tom says Les Blogs 3 was the highlight of the year !

Thanks, Tom, for your good words. As I said on the comment I left on your blog: "of course it will not be expensive, but I had some complaints on the food last time (Marc Canter !) so I think it will be 300€ instead of 200 this time just to cover two lunches, coffee, croissants etc with better quality and a room for up to… 900 people! See you there"

LesBlogs3: save the date, december 11 and 12th 2006 in Paris

It's going to be huge. We had 450 people from 25 countries at the last les blogs. This year it is going to be much broader, more Web 2.0 and I have a room for... 900 people in the heart of Paris. Cool conference over two days with food this time and a party. Stay tuned.

TechCrunch, Netvibes and Jeff already accepted to partner with the event. Save the date, registration soon... !

Citizenbay opens focusing on local information

My friend Oleg Tscheltzoff has just opened Citizenbay, available at launch in english and french. It is focusing on local information (by city) and has an original model has Oleg pays the authors between $1 and $5 per post that makes it to the home page (top 10 articles voted by the readers). Oleg explains what makes Citizenbay different in the below video podcast. The video file is here. disclosure: I just invested in Citizenbay.

Andries Molenaar, Enterprise Ireland

I like the Irish government approach with startups. Instead of investing hundreds of millions of euros in search engines nobody uses, they invest the same amount in startups, along with VC funds. One could argue that public money is not here for that but Europe does not have enough entrepreneurs and when they start their business it is too difficult for them to find seed money. Andries Molenaar explains us how Ireland helps. Congrats.