David Lenehan was at LeWeb3 in Paris, on behalf of Read/WriteWeb. Here is his overview. The LeWeb3 Conference kicked off yesterday morning in Paris and has just finished up this evening. Our host Loic Le Meur of Seesmic opened the event with much fanfare, flashing lights and European techno music. He acknowledged the criticisms of...
The Next Web Conference happened today in Amsterdam. It was a one day event hosted by Scott Rafer of MyBlogLog fame and was a mix of presentations from startups and keynotes from various people in the industry. Marc Canter from Broadband Mechanics and Jeff Clavier a VC from the valley assumed the role of "Grumpy...
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_deals/The_Open_Coffee_Club_Movement'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The OpenCoffee Club is "a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet" according to their recently launched social site on Ning.com. From Cork to Capetown, Seattle to Sydney, and Paris to Palo Alto, people are getting together on a weekly basis...
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/software/World_Wide_Web_of_Widgets'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The web has seen an explosion in the use of widgets over the past year or so. So let's explore what a widget is and its uses. Note that in this post, we're discussing Web-based widgets only, rather than desktop widgets such as those provided...
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_World_Of_Wikis'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; WetPaint, a popular hosted Wiki solution, announced this week that they are to provide person-to-person and private messaging between users of their Wiki network. This means that Wetpaint Wiki users can now send single or multi-person private messages, to connect and collaborate with others about...
