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One of the benefits of the web is that if you don't want to pay a £1000or €1000 for a pass to an internet conference, you can at least get thesense of things via blogs and podcasts, and that's true with LeWeb3'07.
Blogger-podcaster Ewan Spence had an early podcast with is review of the LeWeb3 schwag bag with Japanese internet luminary Joi Ito, ZDNet's Dennis Howlett, Nir Ofir of Blog.tv and Matthias Luefkens of the World Economic Forum.It has the usual marketing leaflets and also "weird objects that couldnever get through customs or security at the airport. Did someoneforget this was inernational?"
The big news on day one is that trip-based social network Dopplr is coming out of closed beta.
Marshall Sponder is blogging some of the individual talks, and he's already blogged the presentations of Kevin Rose of Digg and designer Philippe Starke. Profy is doing some profiles of the start-ups at LeWeb3 including social search company Semingo and web-based contact storage service ZYB.
Quotes from the first day, from Kevin Rose via Susan Kish at Lunch over IP:
It doesn't have to be a big website to be a greatproject. ... You don't have to be a coder or a hardcore geek to start agreat project online these days.
Read on for updates.
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If you're like me and you can't make it to LeWeb3 '07, but you'd like to keep up in real time, you can watch the live stream on the site. There have been more than a few grumbles that the video is only in Windows Media format. But you can watch it using VLCon a Mac or a Linux box if you use this URL"mms://wm.narrowstream.net/ampilive3". I'm watching it via QuickTime onmy Mac with Flip4Mac.
The Future of Social Networks Marc Canter of Broadband mechanics chaired a panel about the future of social networks with Tariq Krim of Netvibes, Hans Peter Brondmo of Plum, Patrick Chanezon of Google and Susan Kish of European Energy Forum. Some highlights from Marshall Sponder's post on the session.
Tariq Krim said that widgetisation of the web is the future but that no one has figured out monetisation.
Susan Kish says that social networks solve real problems that butmost in senior management of business don't embrace it. She said thatMcKinsey found that 75% of managers see value in social software foremployee collaboration and 70% see value in communication withconsumers, but most businesses lack 'senior evangelists' to encourageadoption.
There was a question from the audience expressing social networkfatigue with a bewildering number of new networks causing problems notsolving them.
Why do people bang on about gaming (or internet) addiction? Japanese entrepreneur Joi Ito gave a great talk finding some way to bridge the World of Warcraft and Creative Commons.
Swiss blogger and social software consultant Stephanie Booth said of Joi's talk via Twitter:
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thanks, Joi, for talking about the misuse of "addicted" in relation to tech/gaming stuff.
Isn't it funny how we never say that someone is 'addicted to church' or'addicted to books' but we seem quite happy to say that it's 'awfulthat young people are addicted to gaming'?
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