Ardoise is the name of the new database used by the french police to record crimes and day to day activity. If your car is stolen, you’ll get your record, if your stereo was too loud during your last birthday party, you also have a record, and of course, if you murdered somebody, you’re also […]
Charlie Wilson’s War
Anybody looking for some insights about the current ‘war on terror’ should definitely have a look at this movie. Beside being a pretty good Hollywook blockbuster, this ‘based on a true story’ screenplay gives a detailled explanation on how and when Al Qaida was funded and created and how funds dramaticaly dropped once the CIA […]
Jeux Olympiques de la propagande: les espoirs de médailles Françaises
“une jeune porteuse paralympique de la Torche a attiré l’attention des médias en raison de sa bravitude“
Fantastique, la propagande Chinoise reprend le vocabulaire de Ségolène Royal, laissant apparaitre une lueur d’espoir sur nos chances de médailles dans la catégorie Langue de bois.
L’athlète, qui a pensé un temps attaquer Pékin pour violation des droits d’auteurs […]
Where’s Europe Silicon Valley?
That’s the question Erick Schonfeld is asking us today on Techcrunch, and since I’m operating a stealth mode startup and living in Paris - the worst place to settle an internet venture these days - I’ve been asking myself the same question for quite some time.
European Startups today are all over the place, even if […]
Web 3.0 is coming
I must say his vision of the next web is pretty seducing for me, mainly because my upcoming project, Bixmix, is pretty much about this: taking a bottom-up approach to building a semantic web using Web 2.0 tools, and using a dual human-experts/technology approach to do this.
J’aime pas Olivier Martinez
Olivier Martinez is THE buzz of the moment in France, he is quikly becoming France’s most unpopular celebrity. Just like Chris, everybody hates him, and he really deserves it.
Putting on trial a small Digg-like was a very very bad idea, simply because it was founded by a widly popular blogger, and because many powerfull media […]
A Black Day for France’s Web
Fuzz.fr got sentenced to a $1500 fine today because one of its UGC contained some gossip about Olivier Martinez…
Pretty amazing.
Basically, this means two things:
First of all, launching a startup in France is now impossible, if you rely either on UGC or RSS republishing/aggregating, you will end up on trial. So basically, unless your startup is […]
From $3 to $10 in 5 years
Considering Euro’s valuation these day, and the incredible price increase in France these last month, this is what we’re to actualy: 6.20€ for a coffee and some bread and butter, what you see is what you get. No more, no less.
Five years ago, this would have cost half the price (approximately 3.5 euros), but prices […]
Web War 2.0
Things are going crazy in France right now, these last days, several startups have been put on trial, either because they do RSS aggregation (Fuzz.fr and many many more) or because they do UGC and ratings (Justeacote.com, Note2be…).
Most RSS aggregation website sued are in trouble because they have displayed a feed coming from a popular […]
Update: French war against RSS really strarted
After Fuzz, LesPipoles and Crossfeeds, it seems now that a large number of french website are going into legal trouble. Even small local websites are being sued because of a content they displayed with an RSS javascript or a widget.
The French situation (last week local elections were a disaster for the French President), is kinda […]
