Google’s display advertising business is growing very fast. On YouTube they are implementing TruView technology that allows only good ads to be displayed to the right target audience, and more.
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Techmeme.com CEO Gabe Rivera at LeWeb 2011
Techmeme.com is the most influential tech news aggregation website. Gabe Rivera is the founder and CEO, his team has made algorithms and tools for listing the latest most relevant and interested technology stories from all the blogs, news sources, social media and more. I ask him about how it decides what is most relevant, if customizations options should be provided to provide personalized techmeme output.
My interview with MG Siegler at LeWeb 2011
He’s Apple fanboy number 1, check here for some of his impressions on Google vs Apple.
StartupBus.com at LeWeb 2011
25 programmers in the bus, 72 hours, 2700km, 6 startup ideas actually realized and working. They traveled from Holland to Copenhagen, to Zurich and to Paris to be at LeWeb 2011, check this video to hear about some of the startups they have been able to brainstorm and actually develop to show as working prototype.
Live head-mounted video from Le Web 2011
I’m streaming now with a camera on the Motorola Kopin Golden-i from Leweb 2011, I’ll ask questions from the IRC chat:
Spotify launches Spotify Radio
Here at LeWeb 2011, Daniel Ek, CEO and founder of Spotify, announces the launch of the Spotify Radio music recommendations engine. How does it compare with the music recommendations algorithms of Last.fm, Pandora and other?
Yves Behar at LeWeb 2011
Interview with Yves Behar, the designer of the OLPC XO-1, about design, about technology, business, non-profit, consumer electronics design philosophy.
Salesforce.com at LeWeb 2011
JP Rangaswami talks about some of Salesforce.com’s work with social media for the enterprise.
Bill Gross at LeWeb 2011
Here’s my interview with him talking about the tech industry. You can watch his whole keynote video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gSqQPgwhYuM
Marissa Mayer at LeWeb 2011
She didn’t want to let me interview her, but I recorded a bit from her discussion on stage with the Apple fanboy MG Siegler. You can watch the whole video on the official LeWeb Youtube channel here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tIYfnMx8CMM
Renault’s role in web technology, encouraging Android app ecosystem for the car and more
Matthieu Tenenbaum talks about some of the things they Renault is doing to encourage more technological integration in the car.
Google Analytics Interview: Bringing accountability to Social Media
Google is launching this new tool to measure the value of social media. Read more about it here: https://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/socialData/home.html
Windows Phone 7.5 at LeWeb 2011
Microsoft is presenting the Windows Phone series, now made by Nokia, HTC and Samsung. They are doing a big marketing push in Europe, I don’t know how many they are selling.
Archos 101 G9 Turbo 1.5Ghz OMAP4460
This is the first demonstration of the 1.5Ghz OMAP4460 running in a fully optimized Honeycomb Tablet. Archos is releasing the Turbo 1.5Ghz in January 2012 worldwide starting at $399 MSRP (actual retail price may be as low as $369 I guess, based on the 1Ghz Archos 101 G9 being now sold for $339 and the 1Ghz Archos 80 G9 being sold at $269.) The price difference between the 1Ghz and 1.5Ghz Archos G9 tablets is supposed to be about $30.
Test driving the Renault Twizy Electric Car
This is an awesome compact electric car, safer than a motorbike, smaller than a car, it’s being sold at around 7000 euros (first deliveries to happen before March 2012), it’s smooth and fast to drive around with, range is enough for most city driving use.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus presented by Ulrich Rozier of Frandroid.com
Here at the Renault Atelier on the Champs Elysee in Paris, Ulrich Rozier of Frandroid.com presents his awesome phone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the Ice Cream Sandwich reference device, for sure the best phone in the world.
Live from Google Workshop: Google Analytics: Bringing accountability to Social Media
Google is launching this new tool to measure the value of social media. This is a very interesting workshop. I am broadcasting it live now from a webcam on my head:
Find more clips at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/leweb-2011
There is more information at: http://www.google.com/analytics/developers/socialhub.html
Ice Cream Sandwich preview on Archos G9
Archos is showing a preview of Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich running on the OMAP4 based Archos G9 tablets to be finalized during Q1 of 2012. They still have to finish the hardware acceleration for video support, Samba/Upnp, 3G stick support and all of the other specific features that Archos provides on top of Android.
Archos Home Connect
$129 Android webradio alarm clock, this can be a nice to have next to your bed. It can wake you up with your Google Music playlists, with your Spotify favorites, with your Pandora, Last.fm, you can use Tune In webradio tuner. It can display trafic informations on a map for your region, show you news healines, pull RSS feed items etc.