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• 04.01.10
  Introducing memeburn.com (Really this time) startups | (7)

  It's been an interesting couple of months. I started memeburn in December last year. Funnily enough I did the first install and the first lines of custom code while I was in the inspirational setting of Paris, at Le Web. In fact quite a bit of the critical work was also done at Charles De Gaulle airport (of all places). I found the domain name around about January, I had spent three months looking at options and using various domain tools to come up with creative solutions. I eventually found "memeburn" lying inconspicuously in the text of a small New ...
• 12.10.09
  Startups of Le Web 2009, Paris Travel, Traveling Geeks, startups | Comments Off

  The winner of the Le Web Startup competition was announced as Stribe -- it's a plug & play application that turns your site into a social network (not too dissimilar from the Hub actually). The runners up were CloudSplit and Mendeley. The other startups that entered the competition included: • CloudSplit • FitnessKeeper • FriendBinder • Kukunu • Mendeley • Shutl • Siteheart Inc • Sokoz • Sports Predictions • Storific • Stribe • Superfeedr • task.ly • the hyper words company • Wordy • Yeasty Mobs
• 12.08.09
  Traveling Geeks meet 11 Paris startups Social networking, Traveling Geeks, online media business, startups | (2)

  On day 2, we arrived at the Paris Developpement Incubateurs an incubator of French tech start-ups. The Travelling Geeks, now with one added Robert Scoble, saw a rapid-fire set of 11 presentations from some very interesting companies and people: Int13: is a French developer of next-generation games for Smartphones (iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian S60, Linux…). They are experimenting with mobile augmented reality games. CityZeum: provide travel guides for the web and mobile phones, mixing UGC, with expert content and content from journalists. Scan & Target is a 1-million-euro-funded startup, providing solutions around real-time text mining for web and mobile content (email, SMS, IM, ...