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The LeWeb bandwidth test

Oh, the delights of sitting at the media desks, with the hard-wired Ethernet connections: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

LeWeb: The delightful, dangerous, diversifying drone debate

A LeWeb session on drones, curated by Mr Robert Scoble. Robert Scoble Robert loosely puts drones in three categories: Toys – and other things you’ll chase your cat with Professional drones – made to carry cameras and other payloads. B2B drones – soil analysers for farmers,

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LeWeb: From incremental to disruptive innovation

What does truly disruptive innovation look like? The opening session of LeWeb 2014’s third and final day set out to explore that in series of talks. Here’s some liveblogged notes: Brian Solis – Innovation as an ecosystem What is possible with disruption when

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Heeled by LeWeb's concierge

I’ve had the odd problem at LeWeb before – like getting stranded at the venue, with little choice but to walk back to my hotel. Yesterday, this happened: I was

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LeWeb: Tim Berners-Lee and the societal impact of the web

The inventor of the web has some serious concerns about its future — and some amazing tales about its past.

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LeWeb: Surviving media evolution

Panel Ben Huh, Cheezburger Michael J. Wolf, Activate Frédéric Filloux, Groupe Les Echos Host: Cedric Ingrand, Podcaster & resident geek at LCI/TF1 The revenue challenge Frédéric Filloux: This will be the first year in six years we make a profit. The overall circulation

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LeWeb: Ben Huh on why old media can't do new formats

When Ben Huh founded his company – he bought a bunch of cat photos. Yes, he acquired I Can Has Cheezburger? He created the company, bought the website and closed funding

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LeWeb: Evernote is killing the office suite

Work has become pretty unpleasant for a lot of people, says Evernote founder Phil Libin. Many companies are stepping forwards to try and solve that. When iOS7 came out there was a movement away from skeuomorphic design – where we replicated physical ideas digitally. We’

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LeWeb: Adam Gazzaley will fix your brain with neurogames

What’s the state of the art of improving cognition? Take a 60 year old with attention impairment. Well, he’s unlikely to get functional brain imaging. So, he’ll be diagnosed and given a drug. Right now we do not have a precisely

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LeWeb: Forget watches, the future is a mesh of smart wearables

What happens when the smartphone explodes into a cloud of sensors and devices, that surround us in our home, our cars and our lives? These are two visions for that future, from the Wearables session at LeWeb 2014: JP Gownder: the reality of wearables

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LeWeb: Fred Wilson on the wearable problem and the healthcare opportunity

After meditation and a photography discussion, LeWeb proper kicks off with breakfast with a VC: Fred Wilson It’s not obvious at the time what the right investments. They’ve made investments in identity, mesh networks, healthcare and bitcoin this year – which is what

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En route to Paris, leaving paper behind

There aren’t many places I can say that I visit exactly twice a year – but Ebbsfleet Internetional is one of those. I’m sat in the departure lounge, waiting for my train to Paris for LeWeb. Every year I wonder if this will