LeWeb09
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For instance, I am never entirely sure that what I just pearled went into the "right" chosen pearl. by Dec 10
The interface, since I upgraded the add-on to my browser (Firefox) is too confusing to my taste. by Dec 10
Are any of these the Web's next big thing?
Internet start-up ventures ply their wares at LeWeb conference in Paris Entrepreneurs hope their innovations can match success of Twitter or Facebook Inventions range from Wi-Fi bathroom scales to 3D instant messengers Paris, France (CNN) -- With more than 2,000 Internet movers and shakers, the LeWeb conference in Paris is an ideal spot for start-up ventures to hoping to attract the investment and attention that will propel them to Twitter or Facebook-style success. A series of stalls across the venue -- a giant arts complex converted from a disused morgue -- saw fresh-faced entrepreneurs demonstrating gadgets and applications they insisted will change the way we interface with the Internet.
Take-aways from LeWeb09
Spent two days at LeWeb09 in Paris and I thought a list of my thoughts would be a sufficient summary: 1. The mood was tired and downtrodden. People weren't necessarily in a bad mood but I've never heard more "I'm tired's" than I did this year.
Twitter creator reveals Square mobile-pay device
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, right, with LeWeb host Loic Le Meur, at the unveiling of "Square." Small cellphone plug-in allows users to swipe and pay by credit card Dorsey: Financial crisis now gives us a clean slate to work with Twitter boss: Ninety percent of U.S. has credit cards, still difficult to accept them Dorsey says developers still working to ensure the device is fraud proof Paris, France (CNN) -- Twitter creator Jack Dorsey Wednesday gave the first public demonstration of his hotly-anticipated latest venture -- a device to allow credit card payments by cell phone -- and revealed it would be given away for free. Details of "Square" -- a card reader which plugs into the headphone socket of most mobile devices -- have been circulating on the Internet since it was announced earlier this month, but little has been known about how it works or who it was aimed at.
The cool and not-so-cool of LeWeb
This week I traveled to Paris with a consortium of fellow bloggers, the Traveling Geeks .