Traveling Geeks

Traveling Geeks meet French Incubators at Paris Development Agency

DAY TWO

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. Among them was Stribe, a company TechZulu originally interviewed at the TechCrunch50 conference earlier this year. Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site. There will be more news on this front during LeWeb.

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Mike Arrington Interviews Google’s Marissa Mayer #tg09 #leweb

Traveling Geeks On the Paris Metro (200 Meeting a Day? Okay, Not Quite) #tg09 #leweb

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Loic LeMeur Interviews YouTube’s Chad Hurley #leweb #tg09

Loic LeMeur interviews YouTube’s Chad Hurley on LeWeb stage in Paris this morning.

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How Dell handles customer service and sales through social media

At the Le Web conference in Paris, I spoke with Richard Binhammer, better known as @RichardATDell on Twitter. Three years ago Richard, who was and still is working in public affairs, was told by his boss to start getting engaged in blogger relations. It appears that Binhammer’s move into social media was one of the many responses to the 2005 Dell Hell outburst initiated by social media consultant Jeff Jarvis, who wrote an open letter to Dell complaining about Dell’s customer service. At the time, Dell’s response was, “We don’t respond to bloggers.”

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Marissa Mayer Talks About Wave, Music Search and the Future of News

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.

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Finding Tweets that Matter to You: My6sense Launches New iPhone App

My6sense just announced a new version of its iPhone application that can automatically highlight the most relevant tweets from the users you follow. The mytweetsense feature learns from the user’s implicit and explicit actions and builds a model of what is interesting to the individual user. Mytweetsense works best for tweets that include links. The app’s features are clearly geared towards these kind of tweets and include previews for links, videos and images.

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Touchable movable video

While at LeWeb in Paris, I caught a quick video demo of a cool application by Eeple, a French web development company Eeple. Built in Silverlight, it’s touchable movable video.

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Answers.com Announces Availability in French, Italian, German and Spanish at LeWeb #leweb #tg09

LeWeb Speaker Dinner Kicks 6th LeWeb into Motion #leweb