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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 […]

It’s official: internet ventures are not welcome in France

Setting up a startup in France, until recently, was a bit like gardening in the desert, but recently, things got worse, it’s a bit like… How can I tell you… Selling porn in Afghanistan… Dangerous.
In France, like in Germany, many startups are me-too projects, simple cut-n-paste from successful US ventures. Recently, two got into serious […]

Why don’t I have this sexy accent?

Freddy’s a good friend of mine, and like many french entrepreneur, he moved away from France.
This guy not only has one of the most american names you can imagine (at least among the ones in my personal social graph), but he also got this french accent chicks digg so much (he’s married though)… I’m quite […]

France is about to filter internet

France is about to filter internet content according to music and cinema majors’ request.
We strongly oppose to the filtering of Internet content, either when the majors ask it, or when the european commissioner Frattini does.
French government asked the CEO of FNAC, France biggest CD and DVD retail chain owned by the PPR* Group, to propose […]

The crayon is on the table

Looks like I’m about to teach web 2.0… in english.
Sounds amazing, does’nt it, a french guy teaching to english student about the web… actualy, they’re not english, they are ‘international students’, witch makes english a de facto vernacular language.
I’ll be giving some sort of workshop at the IFM (the prestigious Institut Francais de la Mode) […]

A fresh look at students today

Cause they’re not all dancing ‘Tecktonique’ (if your not french, you might not understand that, and franckly, it’s not a big deal, you’re not missing anything)

My Tailor is rich

Actualy, I don’t have a tailor… Since more and more people are switching to english for their blogs (Loic, Freddy…), I decided to add and english section to mine. After all, since I don’t speak chinese, this is the only language that allows me to reach a significant audience…
So here it is, from now on, […]

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