Live from LeWeb, London 2012

The opening addresses are over and we’re now into the show

Eric Hazan and Philipp Nattermann, Partners with McKinsey & Company are talking about  how consumer behaviour is shaping digital trends 

Eric Hazan and Philipp Nattermann report that there has been a 75% increase in mobile sales.

Eric Hazan  “the online consumer is more sophisticated than before” – reports show that the majority of online buyers are either “well off” or “very well off”

Philipp Nattermann – how companies can benefit from data
1. Use the free data that is available
2. Apply it to your ogranisation
3. Use it for decision making
4. Accept that this data will change how you do business
5. These will have an impact on your business

Philipp Nattermann shows that online searches for “flu” is a strong predictor for a flu epidemic.  This is data that could be used by governments. 

Instagram’s CEO – Kevin Systrom – instagram has more than 50 million users but won’t be called on exactly how many

Too many entrepreneurs get caught up in the life of an entrepreneur, rather than try to solve problems #leweb

Instagram’s Kevin Systrom – we have the content, now it’s about exploring it

Honest and genuine is better than pretty photos, says Kevin Systrom. Jamie says its about dogs and pretty girls.

Jamie Oliver – I don’t know if we’ll be watching telly in 5 years…and I’m excited by that 

Up now Bradley Horowitz, the Vice President of Product Management at Google #LeWeb

Loic Le Meur: “You launched a social network, Google+”. Google’s Bradley Horowitz – “Thanks for noticing”

Google on Google+ – We recognise being late to market but it allowed us to leapfrog others.  One thing we learned was that privacy matters.

Bradley Horowitz – 175 million users have updated their Google Profiles to G+ but Horowitz won’t say how many users it currently has #leweb

Bradley Horowitz announces that Flipboard is now a Google+ partner. Users will see G+ integrated into Flipboard soon

Bradley Horowitz – 175 million users have updated their Google Profiles to G+ but Horowitz won’t say how many users it currently has #leweb

Google’s Bradley Horowitz – Cadbury’s use of Google+ is an example for other brands #leweb

Cadbury’s owners Craft says that Google+ will be central to its social media use in the future

Google’s Bradley Horowitz is effectively demo-ing Google+ Hangouts with users from the US and UK connecting to the conference #leweb

Google’s Bradley Horowitz says he is always surprised and humbled when companies use Google+ Hangouts for internal meetings #leweb

Google’s Bradley Horowitz says Google+ “is a product for humanity” #leweb

Up now – Ben Ling, the COO of Badoo & Robert Scoble, American blogger, technical evangelist, and author, Rackspace

Badoo says it is already making money – but has plans for more revenue sources #leweb

TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher is now talking to Aaron Levie, the Co-Founder & CEO, Box 

12%/15% of Box’s business is coming from Europe – it hopes to grow this with its new Euro base in London #leweb

Aaron Levie, the Co-Founder & CEO of Box, the market is more fragmented than it was in 2004
 

Aaron Levie, the Co-Founder & CEO of Box, says the company got its seed funding from playing online poker

Aaron Levie, the co-founder & CEO of Box, now is the best time to be a startup

Aaron Levie believes Facebook’s shares will be back up to IPO values in a few weeks.

Now, a man getting a logo shaved into his head 

Over a million miles have been traveled by custoners using Halo, says Jay Bregman – the company launched in London in the end of 2011 and just launched in Dublin.

“Uber is trying to create a new network not tap into an existing system” http://j.mp/M3smV4

Round of applause for Travis Kalanick’s comment (Co-Founder & CEO of Uber) “the world isn’t about Silicon Valley” as he announces that Uber has hired a European COO

Evernote reports that Apple’s platforms is the most profitable platform for the company, with iPad/Mac being the most profitable #leweb

75% of new Evernote users come from mobile then 45% move to desktop #leweb

Will improve our photo management systems – but not become a generic photo-sharing site

Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote – “The goal is to be a 100 year start-up” #leweb 

Up now Christian Gallardo the Director of Platform Partnerships at Facebook & Jamillah Knowles, the UK Editor of The Next Web #leweb

Facebook’s Christian Gallardo – Facebook wants to be a platform company – and working with entrepreneurs is important to this.

Facebook’s Christian Gallardo – 50% of the top gaming companies on Facebook are European

Facebook’s Christian Gallardo – we have 500 million monthly users on mobile and  “led 18 million users to the app store”

Facebook’s Christian Gallardo – this will be the first social Olympics with 900 million users #leweb #london2012 

Facebook’s Christian Gallardo is describing the site as a discovery platform rather than as a social network

Facebook’s Christian Gallardo “we’re a very small company relative to the size of our users”

What’s Facebook’s next focus? Facebook’s Christian Gallardo says it’s “mobile, mobile, mobile”

We’re back after lunch and Lindsey Stirling is the entertainment today – have a look at her work http://bit.ly/LBLhC2

We’re back after lunch and Lindsey Stirling is the entertainment today – have a look at her work http://bit.ly/LBLhC2

Now Martha Lane Fox and Michael Bracken, the Executive Director of Digital for the UK Cabinet Office are on stage with Roxanne Varza, a startup/tech Journalist

Michael Bracken, of the Cabinet Office’s Government Digital Service – UK gov is testing its online services site, gov.uk, as a start up

Michael Bracken, of the Cabinet Office’s Government Digital Service – we’ve saved half a billion pounds already with digital #leweb

50% of homeless people in the UK have access to mobile devices but few charities have the skills to interact on this platform #leweb

People on benefits in the UK will be able to buy a £95 PC to help them access the web

Another power cut at #leweb

UK government is using open source to build its online citizen platform #leweb

Is Klout bs? That’s what we’re looking at now at #leweb

Klout: we don’t claim to be perfect…we’re at the start of an evolution #leweb

Klout’s Joe Fernandez says his life was threatened when Klout changed its algorithm on October 26 #leweb

Klout’s Joe Fernandez: “being effective on social media is a critical skill”

By show of hands at #leweb few people think that their @klout score is an accurate representation of their influence online

Klout’s Joe Fernandez says klout has a responsability in what it does #leweb

Joe Fernandez people are using +K as a form of gratitude

Joe Fernandez says a “big change” is coming to Klout – more signals and real-time data #leweb

Find out more about Pebble and how it interacts with your Android and iPhone http://j.mp/M00gHQ #leweb

@Pebble is on track to ship in the winter #leweb

Now up GigaOM’s Bobbie Johnson is interviewing Zach Sims, the co-founder of Codecademy #leweb

Zach Sims says over half of Codecademy’s users are from outside of the US #leweb

Zach Sims says not everyone needs to become a programmer but everyone should know how to code #leweb

Tom Katis the founder & CEO of Voxer is on stage – if you haven’t checked them out, have a look http://bit.ly/LBTLsG #leweb

Tom Katis says downloads is a bad way of measuring an app’s success – engagement is far more useful #leweb

Tom Katis describes the problem with success is that it takes time away from upgrading your product as you try to keep things running #leweb

Voxer working on paid version for businesses #leweb

Voxer is “being cautious” but wants to release an API #leweb

Tom Katis on Voxer – “I built it because I wanted it” #leweb

Jeremiah Owyang speaking on how difficult it is to predict future tech developments #leweb 

250 million photos are uploaded to Facebook each day #leweb

Few companies realize the difference between how consumers use smartphone and tablet device #leweb

Michael Arrington is interviewing Fab’s Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shane Shellhammer

“If you don’t get your product right in a year, start over”

If you want to be a good entrepreneur, focus on what you’re good at #leweb

Day two and we’re back – WiFi allowing! – on stage now Milo Yannopoulos, the founder & Editor-in-Chief of The Kernel interviews Paul Davison, Founder & CEO of Highlight

Talking about tech trends Paul Davison says we’re at an “important shift” in how we interact online and it’s going to take a while for us to figure out how to use new social and mobile technologies in society.

Paul Davison is passionate about how Highlight can “just make life better” but says 

King.com’s Riccardo Zacconi says the company raised funding in 2005 but hasn’t used it, due to its success #leweb

King.com’s Riccardo Zacconi – more than 50% of Android and iOS users use Facebook

GigaOm’s Bobbie Johnson is talking to Nick D’Aloisio, the founder of Summly http://j.mp/MEPNlT

It’s impressive to see the 16 year old Nick D’Aloisio talking about managing school commitments and managing a start-up #leweb 

Summly isn’t about reducing digital content but about increasing discovery #leweb 

Now for a brief musical interlude – “Let it be” being played on the organ behind the stage, have a look http://j.mp/Mg2l41

Techmeme’s founder, Gabe Rivera, says he’s happy not to look for funding for the site #leweb

Why don’t we see more European news on Techmeme? Rivera-it’s because the majority of major tech events are still happening Stateside #leweb

Major line up – Michael Arrington interviewing Chad Hurley, Kevin Rose, and Niklas Zennstrom on stage now-talking about the future #leweb 

Companies that have something that works need to expand internationally as fast as possible #leweb

Kevin Rose – “I made a ton of mistakes along the way” #leweb

Kevin Rose – “As entrepreneurs, you want to make something that changes the world…to make something massive” ‪#leweb‬

Kevin Rose tips Apple TV as the next big eCommerce platform #leweb 

Niklas Zennstrom describing how 10 years ago we were much more focused on creating the technologies, now it’s about how we use them. #leweb

The panel has no interest in investing in personal jet packs – Michael Arrington looks disappointed #leweb

Kevin Rose – Google Ventures mostly invests in US-based companies #leweb

Path’s Shakil Khan describing how being a European start-up has its advantages – it encourages you to think globally from day one #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.

Caroline Ghosn of The Levo League says we need to look at why there are fewer women moving into entrepreneurship/tech/VC #leweb 

Caroline Ghosn says that placing barriers before 50% of your population is not economically sound #leweb

Sam Shank, the co-founder & CEO of HotelTonight announces that the service is now available in London #leweb

The main theme from #leweb is “we’re not social, we’re about discovery” 

We’re back at #leweb after a quick tour of London during lunch – up now Andreas Constantinou the founder & MD of VisionMobile

VisionMobile’s Andreas Constantinou says Windows Phone “is the new cool” and Symbian is a dead platform #leweb

VisionMobile’s Andreas Constantinou – there are 11 revenue models for app developers, incl. pay per download, in app purchasing & ads #leweb

TNW;s Jamillah Knowles is interviewing SoundCloud’s Alexander Ljung about why the web is too quiet.

SoundCloud’s Alexander Ljung believes sound evokes a more emotional response than text #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 argues audio is the only medium you can consume in parallel to others & says freemium is still the focus #leweb

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

Now at #leweb, we’re looking at big data with Dr. DJ Patil and Josh Elman

Dr. DJ Patil is just demonstrating chaos theory at #leweb

Dr. DJ Patil we all suck at analyzing data #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

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 describes Twitter’s roll out of sign-up features as experiments.These were designed to encourage users to engage long term #leweb

Datasift’s Nick Halstead is taking to the Editor-in-Chief of The Kernel #leweb

Datasift’s Nick Halstead is talking about social sentiment analyses and financial markets, read more here http://bit.ly/faceiposentiment

Want to see how Datasift analyses Wikipedia’s data in real time?  bit.ly/wikipediastream #leweb

Datasift’s Nick Halstead believes the US VC market is saturated but there are opportunities in the UK #leweb

It’s interesting to see Datasift look at Wikipedia’s editing process as a source of data #leweb

Overblog (http://j.mp/KkJuQT) sounds like life streaming for the social era #leweb

Not much love for Google+ at #leweb – few users

“Social companies are treading on thin ice with user data”

The focus of the debate here – sharing isn’t the problem it’s a failure of filters #leweb

Is social destroying serendipity? #leweb

At #leweb – The social web isn’t social it’s about the individual

Up now, the brilliant (okay, we’re biased) Juan Diego Calle, the founder and CEO of @dotco #leweb 

.CO’s Juan Diego Calle – the domain market has been stale for a long time.

.CO’s Juan Diego Calle describing how Google and Amazon are now competing in the domain market with the new gTLDs

Blipper’s augmented reality app is quite impressive http://j.mp/N9hqkt but are screen too small for the data it can deliver?

Blipper is opening a New York office soon – wants people to be “blipping” on a regular basis #leweb

Presentation from @teleportd which indexes public smartphone pictures #leweb

@teleportd – sounds like a photo agency for smartphone users’ photos #leweb

Interesting data from @teleportd – Many/most Arab spring photos came from blackberry #leweb

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 

The Arab Spring was a leaderless process, which helps the protests but makes the post-protest process hard, when rebuilding

Alec Ross – “The 21 century is a lousy time to be a control freak” #leweb

Alec Ross – governments should not try to control the web but should innovate with it #leweb

Alec Ross – We are at a time of irrevocable change and it is the most adaptable that survive #leweb

Kevin Rose asks, when will we see Googles come out of places other than the US #entrepreneurship #leweb

Congratulations to Blippar, the winners of the #leweb start up competition 
Hijoki comes second and @teleportd comes third

Advice for start ups from #leweb – concentrate on the user experience, only when you get this right will the revenue come

That’s it from us – now, we’re off to see more of London #leweb

Before we go, we’d like to say a great thank you to @dotco for bringing us to #leweb. Thanks guys!