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  • Le Web3 2007 – a big hit!

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    After last year’s Le Web3 experience, my expectations for this year’s Le Web3 were very low! However, Loic, the conference’s organiser obviously took all of the criticisms of last year’s conference on board and delivered a fantastic conference this time out. The talks were great, the venue was perfect, the food was delicious, and the…

  • Phew!

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    These next few weeks and months are manic busy. I am giving a Keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on November 7th. I am on a Web 2.0 panel at TechEd in Barcelona on November 8th I am chair of the organising committee of this year’s amazing it@cork conference on November 28th I…

  • Are Six Apart losing it?

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    Six Apart are the US based company who make blog software TypePad, Movable Type, and Vox. Loic Le Meur, is the Eurppean head of Six Apart. Loic was also the organiser of the recent Le Web 3 mess and has written a blog post (and emailed attendees) his side of what happened in Paris last…

  • Gapminder.org's incredible data visualisation

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    One of the revelations for me of the Le Web 3 conference was hearing Prof. Hans Rosling‘s presentation. Everyone I spoke to mentioned his talk as being the highpoint of the event. I checked out Gapminder.org, the site he mentioned where you can access all the data he presented and it is incredible. The interactive…

  • Sam Sethi's personal blog disabled by Loic?

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    Ben Metcalf is reporting that Sam Sethi’s Typepad personal blog has been disabled. Typepad is the company Loic Le Meur works for and Sam recently wrote a post on Techcrunch UK critical of the Le Web conference organised by Loic. This definitely sounds too incredible to be true – it will be interesting to see…

  • Sam Sethi fired for not deleting a comment?

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    There is a post on the web2ireland blog claiming that Techcrunch UK’s Sam Sethi has been fired by Mike Arrington! The post author, Paul Walsh is very close to Sam so I would put a lot of faith in this post. My sources are telling me that Sam was fired for refusing to remove a…

  • Le Web 3 – I want a refund

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    Here is the text of an email I just sent to Le Web 3 organiser Loic Le Meur: Loic, I am furious at the way you arbitrarily decided to change the Le Web conference schedule without any notification to the people who paid good money and took valuable time out of their schedules to attend.…

  • Le Web 3 renamed Loic (pronounced Le Week)

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    There are a lot of people at the Le Web 3 conference who are going away from the event extremely angry. Someone at lunch today said tht the conference should have been named Loic instead of Le Web. Why? Nobody was too annoyed when the schedule was changed to allow Shimon Peres address this morning.…