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Twitter: Firehose for All and “Chirp” Official Developer Conference
[LeWeb] Ryan Sarver, Director of Platform, Twitter made a few interesting announcements this morning: – 50,000 applications have been developed using the Twitter APIs – Firehose will be available to all in Q1 2010, allowing any developer to get access to the Twitter data stream. – A new website for developers, coming in a few weeks – For those using oAuth (an open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web application), the rate limit is now increased by 10x, there will be an API for browser-less applications and oAuth depreciation is coming in June 2010. – Chirp will be the official Twitter developer conference hosted by Twitter in San Francisco in 2010, more info at chirp.twitter.com
Le Web: Chris Pirillo’s pillars of community
Chris Pirillo, founder of Lockergnome, is a philosophical and passionate person. He’s a humble guy and a funny, engaging speaker. He’s someone who loves technology, community and gadgets — and is a great speaker. At Le Web he gave us some original thoughts about “community”. It’s a bit fluffy (and if you’re a cynic, you may say “vacuous”), but if you think about every one of these points below carefully, there’s quite a bit of insight and deeper truth to them. It makes a difference from the many business-oriented slides we see that tend to be literal and practical.
So, what is the essence of community? Community…
…lives inside us. Where I go, community goes. We create it based on our preferences, like dislikes and the people we link up with.
…is becoming increasingly distributed, as we distribute our ideas and thoughts across social networks.
…requires tools that can’t be built (so don’t try), ie if its us, we can’t scale ourselves.
…is a commodity, but people aren’t. It’s easy to set up a website or blog, but the people and voices behind it are what makes it unique, special.
…cannot be controlled, but can be “guided”.
…is no longer defined by physical boundaries. You probably have more in common with a geek living on another continent than your next door neighbour.
…grows its own leaders. the best leaders come organically out of a community, and is not an appointed one. It’s crucial that communities grow it’s own leaders for credibility and respect reasons.
…is the antithesis of ego. Community is myself and everyone else, not just me or my Twitter stream.
… is everywhere, inside you. It’s what you share, your passions — and it’s this that will spell success. tags: Chris Pirillo, community, lockergnome, pillars of community
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Day 1: A mixed bag @leweb
Le Web. Day one. It started off slowly, but then got better. There was nothing terribly controversial or any ground-breaking announcements. The Twitter and Facebook talks were mainly marked with meaningless platitudes like “our success depends on your success” or there’s a “shift is happening from the static web to the social web”: too much PR and not enough heart.
Later in the afternoon, it got a bit better: Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome delivered a stirring, original and passionate presentation on “community” — and YouTube CEO and founder, Chad Hurley, gave the conference some down-to-earth and interesting insights. (more…)
MySpace Suite of API’s Leveraging Real-time Updates
[LeWeb] Today, Mike Jones, Chief Operating Officer at MySpace, spoke at LeWeb to announce the new suite of open API’s that include: (more…)
Accordionist and Bassist on the Paris Metro
I have seen so many accordions in Paris, especially on street cars on the Paris Metro. I’m still waiting for one of them to play “Lady of Spain.” This was the first time thought I saw a stand up bass on a train. And I complain about having to drag luggage. I must say the music makes Metro travel a lot more pleasant. Thanks Paris.
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Travelling Geeks in Paris: The pictures
The Travelling Geeks are: Eliane Fiolet, Tom Foremski, Robin Wauters, Kim-Mai Cutler, Frederic Lardinois, Matt Buckland, Sky Schuyler, Jerome Tranie, Ewan Spence, Olivier Ezratty, Cyrille de Lasteyrie, Renee Blodgett, Amanda Coolong, Beth Blecherman, Robert Scoble, and Phil Jeudy.
tags: Traveling Geeks
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TechZulu heads to Paris with the Traveling Geeks!
It’s official! TechZulu has joined the Traveling Geeks tour to Paris, France. We’re meeting with everyone from startups to serial entrepreneurs and established tech companies to compare notes on the innovation happening stateside and abroad. As part of the tour, we will also be attending LeWeb, so stay tuned for all the news coming out of the conference.
Where can you find us?
Well, in PARIS, of course (haven’t you been paying attention?) 😉
If you’d like to follow the Traveling Geeks on our many adventures, here are some ways to stay in touch:
- Here on TechZulu
- The official Traveling Geeks site
- Search the Twitter hashtags: #TG09 #TravelingGeeks
- Join our Facebook Fan Page
- Check out our tour photos
Microsoft Traveling Geeks Geek Pad
Microsoft BizSpark is hosting the Traveling Geek Pad at LeWeb’09 this week in Paris.
Those looking to connect with the Traveling Geeks should stop
by the Traveling Geek Pad in the
Microsoft Lounge and also meet some of the BizSpark One startups- Huddle, Lokad, WAYN, Xobni,
Club Cooee, Calinda Software, Artesian Solutions, Dezineforce and more.
Orange Highlights at LeWeb #leweb
Orange is showing a mobile application shop at LeWeb in Paris today. Additionally, Orange VP of mobile multimedia products and services Christophe François will be on a roundtable at 10:40 am.
Also available to view is the Orange Box Application
“ON”, a mobile
application for social network convergence, Tabbee, a home multimedia device, 2424 actu, a news portal, audio & video and People Project, a Facebook application to create and share projects.
Jean Louis Constanza, CEO of Orange Vallée will also be part of the Startup competition Jury.
Other Orange speakers include:
–Eric Barilland – Director of digital
media for Orange group
–Stéphanie Hospital – Audience
Marketing & Development Vice President
–Pascal Thomas – Director of
Orange Community Services
–Laurent Billard - Products
tests & events
Topics: In the living room
1 – the home ecosystem, the TV and
entertainment experience – livebox: flybox, fibre 2.0, ecosystem Tabee, catch-up TV, Orange Cinema et Series, and Homelibrary
2 – the enriched experience of
community and web with my mobile
Paris Diary: The Joie de Vivre of French Entrepreneurs…
I’m bowled over by the French startups and entrepreneurs I’ve been meeting the past two days. Lots of passion, energy, smarts, and great ideas.
I’m totally surprised because I had a totally different expectation. France has a reputation for bureaucracy ( a French word), for strikes, (the taxi drivers were on strike on Tuesday), and for archaic attitudes such as a strong belief in a maintaining a work/life balance, six-week vacations, a 35-hour week, and making it near impossible to fire a worker (you will receive as much as three years full salary if you are fired).
It seems amazing that France’s economy hasn’t shattered into pieces by now, and the country hasn’t fallen below the waves of the ocean as a modern day Atlantis.
Instead, France has the highest labor productivity levels of all the G8 nations. And the quality of its entrepreneurs (another French word) is excellent.
I will be writing in more detail about some of the companies and people I’ve been meeting, later this week. And I’ll be diving into why there is such a great current of innovation happening in France.
The French model might even become a template for other countries. That’s because people from other countries are coming to France to set up their startups. Other countries risk a brain drain if they don’t act to create a similar environment.
I’ll let you know tomorrow about some of the reasons why France is enjoying an upswing its startup communities. I think you will be as surprised as I was.
[I’m in Paris all this week as part of the Traveling Geeks, a collection of journalists, bloggers, and PR people meeting with French startups and also attending LeWeb, France’s premier Web 2.0 developer and business conference.]
