Flight delayed. Nothing good when you miss your cats and really feel like being back home.

There is so much information entering my head since 3 days, it is impossible to blog everything that crosses my mind and that i am sure would be interesting for some Vu d’ici readers. I just left another panel about the new entrepreneur culture and one thing is clear for most web entrepreneurs today: everyone… Continue reading yet another panel about biz startups

“Tagging 2.0” – is tagging (user-driven description of data on the Web) *THE* key element of “Web 2.0”? What new tools can help us organize an internet’s worth of information for our own use and to share with others? Tagging systems are taking off now, what are the issues for communities of users and for… Continue reading panel 6: Tagging 2.0

You’ve got a The Next Great Idea and three brilliant engineers who want nothing more to work insane schedules for a year. This panel will discuss the key decisions you’re going to face during your first year of existence that define the culture of your company. We’re not going to tell you how to get… Continue reading panel 5: Sink or Swim: The Five Most Important Startup Decisions

Frustrated by the conventional “work-for-hire” model of the creative business, Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and Jason Fried of 37signals have pushed their companies in a decidedly more entrepreneurial direction over the past two years. With the idea of taking a greater amount of control over the creative they produce, both firms have built products… Continue reading sxsw opening remarks podcast

Hear the award-winning New Yorker columnist talk about the power of large groups (including on the Internet) to make remarkably intelligent decisions. The session will also cover the problems and challenges that large groups present. link to the website. Highly inspiring conference about how groups of people can be smarter than an individual, about the… Continue reading panel 4: The Wisdom of Crowds

I am so happy some other bloggers took notes from a conference i wasnt able to attend. Justin Hall presentation notes. flickr started out as an attempt to create a browser-based video game and has actually succeeded by creating a game out of reality in that people are organizing themselves aroud things that they otherwise… Continue reading Justin Hall’s presentation

Some bloggers argue that you only become effective by putting more skin in the game, but is there such a thing as being too naked? Can you open your kimono in one blog post, and wear a button-down shirt in another? This panel showcases bloggers who opted to bring their personal lives onto their professional… Continue reading 2nd panel: We got naked now what?

I just read that biz is leaving for austin tomorrow. I already wrote about biz on this blog, i’m a fan. He’s one of my idols since he’s been writing the first book i’ve read about blogs. I’ve read it twice. Clever and funny. I bet i’ll be nervous when he’ll be around. I guess… Continue reading Meet the idols

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