One of my preferred presentation at LeWeb08, gives a lot of perspective to what is tangible and what isn’t… and how to monetize emotions.

Photo by Leafar( ulike.net)

LeWeb this year was quite an experience – while last year everything and everyone was shining, this time it was totally the opposite, entrepreneurs struggling to get funding, VCs pessimistic, fund raisers grinning and bloggers blogging but without their usual enthusiasm.
Of course there were innovations, inspiring talks like Gary Vaynerchuks’s (WineLibraryTV) and the usual good stuff (like Marc Canter – this guy is really a shiny refreshing OVNI). Some good contacts, time will tell how effective they really will be, a nice CSG diner where I had the chance to exchange a few words with Megan Smith about Lively and the google X-Prizes… all in all and apart from the little mess on day 1 with the food, the heat and the “corporate talks” I think this edition was up to the expectations.
Geraldine, Loïc, next year try to do more panels and less corporate talks discussions create a nice intimacy and are worth thousand slideshows!



Photo By Rodrigo (vpod.tv)

Nice warm-up party tonight at Opus Café organized by Opencoffee France, lots of entrepreneur friends from all over Europe and a good time to start the “catching-up” thing.

Just received that baby Blizzard bear for WoW 4th anniversary – looks so cute ! That’s a perfect (?) transition to next week’s LeWebParis conference whose theme is LOVE and where I hope to see you all ! I’ve been following the LeWeb (previously LesBlogs) conference since 2005 where WaveStorm provided the (working) WiFi at the conference… pretty good memories and my first conference of this kind as I was still a junior entrepreneur – those kind of events helped me a lot over the years.

For those of you coming to LeWeb 08 in Paris, there is a “Before” party on monday evening organized by the Paris OpenCoffe Club and Frenchweb.org you *must* attend. As I write this post there are already 135 participants confirmed amongst the most handsome entrepreneurs, VCs and bloggers.
About 1000 people are expected in a fantastic place, save the date and get registered asap !
Amiando Registration Link