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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Looks like propaganda 2.0 is going to be difficult.
After seing those shocking photos of a supposed pro Tibet assaulting a athlete, Chinese blogger looked at thousands of picture trying to ID the guy and realised… he was part of the pro-Chinese crowd.

(via Kelblog)

“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 […]

 
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 […]

 
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 […]

Je déjeunais hier avec le patron d’une agence parisienne spécialisée (entre autre) buzz marketing et web 2.0 (ce dont vous vous foutez à priori), et il m’a conté une histoire tout bonnement incroyable… (et d’actualité vu les récentes annonces de Mittal en France)
Il a, parmi ses clients, le célèbre Mittal, celui qui a racheté, dans […]

Alors que de trop nombreuse pouffes de luxe s’évertuent à s’exhiber avec moultes diamants, Carla a la classe.
Photo impreccable, regard enjoleur, faire la Une de Elle, pour Carla, ce n’est pas un évènement, c’est presque la routine qui revient. Elle est pro, très pro, elle fait partie de celles qui ont créé le genre, elle […]

(the 3  leaders of the french Wordpress community, enjoying a paecefull moment near the cactus @ lacantine
That was the title of my presentation during yesterday’s Wordpress Barcamp in Paris. Slides are available here, and I’ll be writting about the subject soon (either here or elsewhere, maybe on Mashable France)…
The French WP community is […]

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.

 
Little known french startup Crossfeeds just closed to prevent any legal problem affecting many rss based startups in France these last days…
Is Web 2.0 in France is coming to an end?

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 […]

Quite depressing could be the baseline of this absolutemy brilliant movie. Perfect sceenplay, perfect camera work, perfect editing, very convincing actors…
I never noticed Todd Field before, he’s been in the movies for like… ever… mainly as an actor, but he sure knows what to do behin a camera.
Unless you’re currently using Xanax, and if you […]

Hot Fuzz is the funniest english movie I’ve seen since the Monty Python (even Snatch does’nt come close). Not only is it funny, but it goes cresendo during nearly two hours, starting from a ‘classical’ comic situation and endind in something totaly crazy…
LMAO is definitely the correct sentence for this motion picture, event if I […]

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 […]

La Chine donne le La / China gives the tune
Merci aux Sponsors / Thanks to the Sponsors
 

Merci à tous les sponsors, merci a ceux qui achètent leurs produits et rendent tout cela possible / Thanks to all the sponsors, thanks to those who bought their product and made it possible.(photo AFP)

Merci à tous les sponsors, merci a ceux qui achètent leurs produits et rendent tout cela possible.Thanks to all the sponsors, thanks to those who bought their product and made it possible.