Expectations from LeWeb 2009. Jeffrey Mann Research VP 14 years at Gartner 26 years IT industry Jeffrey Mann is a research vice president for collaboration and social software at Gartner Research.
Mr. Mann focuses on social software, team workspaces, the collaboration market and knowledge management. Read Full Bio Coverage Areas: by Jeffrey Mann | December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment I am sitting in the audience, waiting for the LeWeb conference in Paris to start. Backstage, waiting to speak at conferences. I decided earlier this year that this would be an interesting venue to explore.
I am especially interested in what is coming out of Europe, where I live. Le Web Kicks Things Off With Jack Dorsey. It’s about 9:45 am Paris time here at the sixth annual Le Web conference.
Kicking things off is Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, who just launched his new startup, a mobile payment platform and service called Square, talking with Le Web’s Loic Le Meur. There are 2,300 registered attendees at the event, the most ever, and it looks like most of them have jammed themselves into the main floor to see Dorsey talk. The audience is eating this up. A large screen next to the stage is showing real time tweets related to the talk, and a new one is popping up every second or faster. Dorsey is kicking things off talking about his initial vision for Twitter (our first post).
Dorsey says he’s been surprised by the velocity of growth, and the ways that users have changed it – retweets, @mentions, hashtags, etc., were all invented by users. Jack’s now giving the audience one of the first live demo’s of his new startup, Square (see here for a video of our demo).
Twitter @leweb. Ethan Beard Facebook @Leweb. Nokia setting up at Le Web 2009 - AOL Video. Startup competition @Leweb. Platform roundtable @lEWEB par Arrington. LeWeb. Le web 09 in the newspapers. LeWeb'09. LeWEB. Shoes game @leweb : ZAPPOS. Une sociologue à la croisée du WEB. Marissa Mayer Talks About Wave, Music Search and the Future of N. In an interview with TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington at LeWeb today, Google's Marissa Mayer discussed some of the new product that Google announced over the last year, including the recent integration of real-time news streams into the default search pages, Google Music Search and Google Wave.
Talking about the future of search, Mayer expects that people will soon do searches by talking to their phones, or through services like the newly announced Google Goggles. Going Beyond Text While Mayer expects the search market to continue to grow, she also thinks that a lot of additional growth can come from introducing new ways of searching the web. Translation and personalization are also a major issue for Google. Asked about SearchWiki - which Arrington considers a failure - Mayer said that Google wants to morph the user experience a bit, but didn't go into any details.
Mobile Search Talking about mobile searches, Mayer said that the number of mobile searches doubled last year. Music Search.