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The LeWeb 3 conference startup competition we highlighted earlier this week commenced yesterday. And oh how unlucky we’ve been. All of the budding companies we’ve mentioned so far have failed to make it to the awards ceremony.
Nevertheless, winners have emerged from the feisty Parisian melee that has ensued for the past 24 hours or so. Without further adieu, we bring you some brief profiles of the last startups standing.
We’ll begin from the bottom, m’kay? Third place: G.ho.st. Which, I’m sure [...]

The sessions are still under way here in Paris at Le Web 3 but one important part of the event has been completed already. And this part is the startups competition. The winners have been announced here. So out of the 33 startups presenting their 7-minutes pitches to the judges including VCs and media the best have been chosen and they are GooJet, the tool to combine and synchronize your mobile and web lives (winner), PLYMedia (the solutions to make [...]

Personally I find it rather peculiar that Le Web 3 sessions started with the discussion of the "Dark Side of the Web". It looks like recently we have heard of so many issues related to all the bad things that internet communications can result in - thus the choice of the very first topic, I think. Anyway it was an interesting discussion and I thought that it would be a good idea to share some of the aspects discussed with [...]

Today we profile another startup contestant slated to present its business plan at the LeWeb 3 competition tomorrow. It?s called ZYB, and if I may say so myself, it appears at first glance to be almost completely useless. Or not. Honestly, I can?t decide.
ZYB, in a nutshell, is a Web-based contact storage service. According to the company?s homepage copy, ZYB ?stores your phone?s contacts, calendar and messages online and connects you with people you know.? Which, in my view, [...]

Before Profy hits Paris tomorrow for LeWeb 3, I thought it?d be fitting to run some startups by you. Why? Well, why not? It?ll give you a feel for what to expect. You?ll familiarize yourself a bit. Or something like that.
Anyway, let?s press on. First up, Semingo. It?s a social search startup. What?s social search? Beats me.
No, seriously, social search is kind of cool. (I suppose. In a sort of Google-wants-to-be-your-buddy-and-go-karting-together kind of way.) The objective is to take [...]

I wanted to let all our readers know that I am attending Loic Le Meur's Le Web 3 event this year. For those of you who have been totally offline for the last couple of weeks, this is the event that will take place in Paris next Tuesday and Wednesday for the internet stars to share with the world again their vision (do you ever expect any less grandiose word when we talk of the future of the internet?) for [...]

In the news this weekend is a landmark move by the French government that allows alliances with the RIAA illegal law suit behemoth.  Users thought to be illegally sharing files will soon be booted form the Internet, with or without proof.  It seems France is condoning a new deal between the RIAA and its Internet access providers without thought to the consequences this could have around the globe.
Here in the US, persecuted 'Davids' around the country have been taking [...]

Dailymotion, once a newsmaker solely for its hand in the illicit proliferation of copyrighted content, has in recent months (or is it years?) made great headway to cast the image of its former self aside and put its best, non-illegal foot forward, using its records of viewer numbers, among other figures, to attract legitimate licensing deals and to secure very significant sums of funding.
The company revealed this last Friday, August 31, that in its second round of VC solicitations [...]

Hey, what d’ya know, more YouTube news. The Google subset is now taking up more headline space than that which documents the travails of Paris Hil— Okay, I won’t go there. On to the topic at hand.
In its latest briefing to the world (literally) YouTube has done those based outside the US the courtesy of creating “country-specific” – nine to start – sites in order to better serve its international visitors/viewers. Nations listed in the global launch are: Brazil, England, [...]