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Friday
11Dec2009

Top ten of #leweb09 in Paris 

# TOP APP Jack Dorsey of Twitter started us off on a high note with SQUARE definitely the favourite app. A cool payment system you can use on your smart phone, it was a hit with everyone as Loic tested it on stage with his iphone and effected a payment. He also announced twitter plans for a developers camp in San Francisco in 2010. twitter scoop #leweb09 chirp on Twitpic The business plan is expressed in the image above, my photo taken from the screen at the conference. The wifi worked well much to everyone's relief this year. # TOP SPEAKER AND FORCE FOR CHANGE must go to Her Majesty Queen Rania who blew everyone away with her flawless delivery, warmth and Tech saviness. I was lucky enough to have a brief moment to greet her and congratulate her on her speech as she left the speakers room where she had discussions with Twitter and Facebook to bring about change in education, health and opportunity for the women and children without access to education and the services we don't give a second thought to. # TOP MOMENT meeting my NY Times Bestseller list, "Crush it" friend, Gary Vee outside the Mayors cocktail party in the magnificent City Hall of Paris . Our group snapped us together and sang out "Ah the two wine people finally together in Paris! We had a quick catch up before we went out to eat. highlight #leweb09 @garyvee @QueenRania @chrisbrogan so inspi... on Twitpic The following day his session had the audience stirred up and shouting for more as he delivered his legendry thunder. Then, in an equally serendipitous moment, I was wandering down an empty street in the Marias to attend a dinner, when Who should I bump into again along rue Sévignéy, but Gary and two friends. We swapped winestories, spoke about our projects and he very proudly showed me his baby girl on his phone. He is truly an inspiration and his message of be grateful and execute on your plans, really resounds with me. Great to see you Gary! Italy awaits your Crushing! # TOP TRUST AGENT Chris Brogan, another of my mentors. Who is such an all round nice guy. He strips out the bs from social media and tools and gets back to basis on how to connect and build trust. His book Trust agents, also on the NY times bestseller list and in its third printing, is a must read. we got to chat hang out. My forthcoming chat with him here will give the best indicator of his approach to marketing your company online. # TOP PARTIES definitely the boat on the Siene with a view of Notre Dame and then the Mayors cocktail party at City hall hotel l'Ville, so beautiful with the enormous Christmas trees. TOP MEMORIES Walking to every party and event there was, from the romantic boat on the Siene to the VIP cocktail parties and coffee/beer night, we rode the metro and I even took a late night bus back to Gare du Nord with @Vascellari and then a taxi to my hotel. My off the wall, ludicrous interview with Paul Carr writer and card, on leaving London for LA and his list. . "The united nations of bloggers our cool team spend the evenings and late nights together @vascellari @clopin @ernohannink @icedsoul @tigertwo @hikari @MihaelaDraghici @liviacolare not one of us lived in the same country. we attended all the parties using the metro to crisscross Paris, walked all over the Marais and to our hotels, past the Louvre at night, very pretty, with all the twinkly lights. We made the VIP room ( A nightclub) too, but nobody could afford the 20 Euro drinks, so we left and had coffee on the way home laughing till our stomachs ached and getting very little sleep. the cool people at #leweb out in paris @wisequeen on Twitpic # TOP RESTAURANTS WE ate out with fun bunch each night.On the first night, between parties that we walked across town to get to, we found a lovely restaurant in San Michel with a friendly owner called Red and ate duck and mashed potatoes followed by a crem caramel that was delicious with fabulous Bordeux. last night we also ate a lovely meal in a Fish Resturant the lanes of Marais where a two course meal called a "formula" main course of filet, or Fiorentina steak, fish or whatever you wanted, was prefaced by a lovely starter, I had paté and red onion marmalade, cost just 13 Euro. # TOP HOTELS Admired the very elegant fashiondraped Hotel Pulitzer in rue du Fauborg, but couldnt stretch to that, so stayed in the arty bright place at Filles du Cavilere, nice area. The hotel d Ville just down the road from Rue Curial 3 at the le web venue was affordable, clean, comfortable and friendly with free wifi. Good tip for next year if you can get in. # TOP NO REPEAT the restaurant near the Marais called L'Etincelle 42 bis Rue de Rivoli, who robbed us, as small beer was 11 Euro and the food was overpriced and average. The sting came when Nancy discoved her phone had been nicked, and had to report it to the police. The crushing of my iphone in the street, it lasted till I got home and then crashed. Luckily I managed to download all the pics onto my apple just before it crashed. # TOP REASON TO ATTEND AGAIN NEXT YEAR I wouldnt miss it! A wonderful time of seeing old friends and meeting new ones whose blogs you've been reading for years, like Tara Hunt whose twitter handle is @Missrogue, Laura Fitton who blogs as @pistachio and Cate who blogs as @Cupcate. We expanded our minds and our inner circle of collaborators. #leweb09 @wisequeen @cupkate in press bloggers jungle on Twitpic Flicker stream of le Web 09 photos **Donna Jackson @Wisequeen Social Communications Strategist.
Tuesday
28Oct2008

Microsoft in the clouds

Microsoft shares rose 4% today on the back of an announcement that Microsoft will no longer provide software for PC users to purchase and download as an operating system on their  computers such as office and excell. Instead what Microsoft has decided to do is have this software on the internet in the  cloud so to speak. Meaning that just like Facebook, Flicker , Yahoo, Google and others who have their software  on the internet available to be utilised by anyone who joins up. This is not ground breaking tech of course, but marks a shift in Microsoft thinking to Azure, the blue sky above. It remains to be seen how this will work in practice. Have something to say? send a  comment. Donna Jackson Social Communications Specialist.
Sunday
03Aug2008

moving in small spaces with vision and vivacity

big companies rethinking moving in small spaces with vision and vivacity. This is what start ups must do, last month I had the pleasure of interviewing Tech startups at a meet up in Zurich at Techcrunch. There were 40 startups there and some really stood out like amazee where you can manage collaborations and projects online. Watch video interviews Wua.la social network storage solutions, Yattoo free TV on your laptop, W2ML a simple writing platform, Poken a new social, virtual gadget, Yes.com music sharing and voting for your site, and an opportunity to win 100,000 dollars by downloading itunes. So many brilliant tech ideas from the sharpest minds in the business. I'll be featuring some of their interviews here over the following weeks. So subscribe to Wise queen on the RSS feed Here's the Yes.com interview with Daniel Goldscheider Hi Daniel Where is your home town? I was born in Vienna, Austria Where are you living now? I live in Lachen, Switzerland What did you study after school? I left University of Economics in Vienna What did you want to be when you grew up? Crane Operator Austrian Prime Minister First directly elected President of Europe Tell me how yes came about YES was conceived as a simple way to get the song you hear on radio and grew into a social medium after that. Explain yes.com and radio reborn to me? Radio has recently celebrated its 100th birthday. It's old and it hasn't changed much. YES adds a number of dimensions: - see music videos that are synchronized with what you hear -meet other people listening to the same broadcast -vote for songs and influence the listener charts -buy 4 songs from iTunes and win $100,000 if you match the station's 4Tunes of that day. What is your vision for this company? I believe that YES will be a leading platform to enjoy broadcasts What would you like to do next? Something completely different. What do your family think of your job? My father is an advisor to the company, my mother would prefer a less demanding job offering more security What are you most proud of professionally? I am not proud yet. Which book are you reading at the moment? "God is not great" by Christopher Hitchens What other profession would you like to try? Too many including architect, lawyer, politician Thanks,good to meet you at techcrunch. Absolutely! I hope to see you soon again, Daniel Why do some startups soar and others nose dive? Do you know? Have you initiated a startup and seen it succeed or fail. We'd like to hear from you good or bad. We learn more from failure than success sometimes. Write to us with your story well publish your site and story if it's useful. Wisequeen