We’re live from LeWeb in the heart of London. We’ll have updates on the event on the site and on Twitter @thesociable.
The theme for this year’s conference is “faster than real time” – which LeWeb’s co-founder, Loic Le Meur, describes as access to data everywhere;
Real Time is defined as “occurring immediately.” Is it possible then to be Faster than Real Time? It appears so.Whether it’s Highlight, constantly broadcasting your location, or Voxer, a walkie-talkie social experience born out of the fields of war torn Afghanistan, it is clear that our appetite for split-second interaction is insatiable.
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Before we go, we'd like to say a great thank you to @dotco for bringing us to #leweb. Thanks guys!
That's it from us - now, we're off to see more of London #leweb
Advice for start ups from #leweb - concentrate on the user experience, only when you get this right will the revenue come
Congratulations to Blippar, the winners of the #leweb start up competition
Hijoki comes second and @teleportd comes third
Kevin Rose asks, when will we see Googles come out of places other than the US #entrepreneurship #leweb
Alec Ross - We are at a time of irrevocable change and it is the most adaptable that survive #leweb
Alec Ross - governments should not try to control the web but should innovate with it #leweb
Alec Ross - "The 21 century is a lousy time to be a control freak" #leweb
The Arab Spring was a leaderless process, which helps the protests but makes the post-protest process hard, when rebuilding
Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation, Alec Ross, says there is a massive shift in geo-polical power. From hierarchies (e.g governments) to networks (e.g. web) #leweb
Interesting data from @teleportd - Many/most Arab spring photos came from blackberry #leweb
@teleportd - sounds like a photo agency for smartphone users' photos #leweb
Presentation from @teleportd which indexes public smartphone pictures #leweb
Blipper is opening a New York office soon - wants people to be "blipping" on a regular basis #leweb
Blipper's augmented reality app is quite impressive http://j.mp/N9hqkt but are screen too small for the data it can deliver?
.CO's Juan Diego Calle describing how Google and Amazon are now competing in the domain market with the new gTLDs
.CO's Juan Diego Calle - the domain market has been stale for a long time.
Up now, the brilliant (okay, we're biased) Juan Diego Calle, the founder and CEO of @dotco #leweb
At #leweb - The social web isn't social it's about the individual
Is social destroying serendipity? #leweb
The focus of the debate here - sharing isn't the problem it's a failure of filters #leweb
"Social companies are treading on thin ice with user data"
Not much love for Google+ at #leweb - few users
Overblog (http://j.mp/KkJuQT) sounds like life streaming for the social era #leweb
It's interesting to see Datasift look at Wikipedia's editing process as a source of data #leweb
Datasift's Nick Halstead believes the US VC market is saturated but there are opportunities in the UK #leweb
Want to see how Datasift analyses Wikipedia's data in real time? bit.ly/wikipediastream #leweb
Datasift's Nick Halstead is talking about social sentiment analyses and financial markets, read more here http://bit.ly/faceiposentiment
Datasift's Nick Halstead is taking to the Editor-in-Chief of The Kernel #leweb
Josh Elman describes Twitter's roll out of sign-up features as experiments.These were designed to encourage users to engage long term #leweb
In 2009 if you used Twitter at least 7 times a month their data suggested you would become a long-time user #leweb
Josh Elman's guide to data -
The data scientific method
1. Start with a question
2. Leverage your current data
3. Create feaures and run tests
4. Analyse the results and draw insights
5. Let the data frame a conversation
Dr. DJ Patil we all suck at analyzing data #leweb
Dr. DJ Patil is just demonstrating chaos theory at #leweb
Now at #leweb, we're looking at big data with Dr. DJ Patil and Josh Elman
SoundCloud's Alexander Ljung believes there won't nearly be as much sound online as he would like but there will be far more then now #leweb
SoundCloud's Alexander Ljung argues audio is the only medium you can consume in parallel to others & says freemium is still the focus #leweb
Picking up on the unofficial theme of #leweb SoundCloud's Alexander Ljung is talking about how discovery, over social, is the way forward
SoundCloud's Alexander Ljung believes sound evokes a more emotional response than text #leweb
TNW;s Jamillah Knowles is interviewing SoundCloud's Alexander Ljung about why the web is too quiet.
VisionMobile's Andreas Constantinou - there are 11 revenue models for app developers, incl. pay per download, in app purchasing & ads #leweb
VisionMobile's Andreas Constantinou says Windows Phone "is the new cool" and Symbian is a dead platform #leweb
We're back at #leweb after a quick tour of London during lunch - up now Andreas Constantinou the founder & MD of VisionMobile
The main theme from #leweb is "we're not social, we're about discovery"
Sam Shank, the co-founder & CEO of HotelTonight announces that the service is now available in London #leweb
Caroline Ghosn says that placing barriers before 50% of your population is not economically sound #leweb
Caroline Ghosn of The Levo League says we need to look at why there are fewer women moving into entrepreneurship/tech/VC #leweb
And...we're back - while WiFi is working - just leaving the stage now is Microsoft's Tim O’Brien. O’Brien made the interesting point that many people forget that Microsoft has been delivering cloud services for over a decade, with Hotmail.
Path's Shakil Khan describing how being a European start-up has its advantages - it encourages you to think globally from day one #leweb
Kevin Rose - Google Ventures mostly invests in US-based companies #leweb