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Marissa Mayer Talks Google Search, Chrome, Online News And More
TechCrunch's Mike Arrington this afternoon interviewed Marrissa Mayer , Google's VP of Search Product and User Experience, at the Le Web conference here in Paris, France. Last year, Arrington interviewed Mayer on stage at Le Web too, and Google took Chrome out of beta that day and talked about Searchwiki .
A class-action lawsuit was filed against 18 high-profile mobile application companies this week, resulting out of recent reports that these companies “steal” user address books.
Le Web: Q&A with Google VP Marissa Mayer on the future of search
Twitter announced Wednesday that 50,000 applications have been built around its microblogging platform in the past two years, according to news reports. Ryan Sarver, Twitter's director of platform, made the disclosure while presenting at LeWeb conference in Paris. There was only one third party Twitter application taking advantage of the service's open feeds, Sarver said. Sarver said that Twitter is planning to allow developers access to the so-called "firehose" of Twitter data, the company will teach developers how to build Twitter applications and Twitter will hold a developers conference called "Chirp" in 2010. See all your followed company news on your personalized dashboard . To access the full benefits of bizWatch and receive a weekly email with aggregated news on all the companies you are following, please provide your email address below.
50,000 applications built around Twitter - San Francisco Busines
Le Web: YouTube to create sport hub - Telegraph
The YouTube ‘Sports Hub’ is being launched in partnership with SportAccord, the representative of institutional sport worldwide that groups together 104 World Sports Federations, including, basketball, swimming and the Paralympics. From next Spring more than 2,000 videos from the large variety of sports represented by the SportAccord will go live in a specially created area of the Google -owned video sharing site.
The new tool, which was announced earlier this week, and is so far available only Google Android mobile phones, enables users to search using pictures instead of words.
Le Web: Google Goggles to blur faces - Telegraph
Le Web: Orange launches mobile app store - Telegraph
The store, called the Orange App Shop, will offer access to 5,000 applications, games, ringtones and wallpapers and was announced today in Paris at Le Web 2009.Loïc Le Meur Asks Chad Hurley About YouTube, Formula One At Le W
Le Web organizer Loïc Le Meur interviewed one of the guests he invited to come speak at the conference, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley . The pair talked YouTube's product strategy but also Hurley's recent personal investment in the new U.S.
The future of YouTube: better video search, becoming more social
Whilst talking to LeWeb founder and blogger Loic Le Meur at the LeWeb, Hurley revealed that the next big change for YouTube would be improved discovery tools for videos and content creators on YouTube. "We need a better search for YouTube," said Hurley. He explained that while YouTube gives everyone the chance to put their videos on the video-sharing site it can be difficult to locate relevant content.
Today at the LeWeb conference here in Paris, Ryan Sarver, Twitter's Director of Platform made a series of four announcements, including the unveiling of Chirp — a developer focused conference that will take place in San Francisco in Spring 2010. Not a lot of details were provided, but there is a festive event page up, which is similarly scant on the finer points.
#LeWeb Twitter Showers Developers with Real Time Love, Announces
AFP: Pay babysitter on iPhone, says Twitter
PARIS — Microblogging service Twitter has branched into the market for electronic payments, unveiling a mini credit card swiper that plugs into the iPhone, at a European internet fair on Wednesday.Paris, France (CNN) -- The future of social networking, the real-time Web and a host of apps and gadgets were the talk of the annual Le Web conference as it opened here Wednesday. The phenomenal success of microblogging site Twitter and its plans for the future dominated the two-day event's opening sessions for bloggers and industry leaders, held in a converted morgue in the city's northeastern suburbs. Top executives from Twitter faced off with rivals from Facebook and MySpace as all three social media sites unveiled technical innovations designed to capture more users. On the heels of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's unveiling of Square, a device that accepts credit card payments on cell phones, Twitter platform director Ryan Sarver said the site now has 50,000 dedicated applications making use of its constant stream of blog updates. Sarver also announced the company's "firehose" feature, which throws open its data stream to any developers who want to use it.