The French gathered the whole of Europe for a web 2.0 conference

Since the Le Web 3 conference was held in Europe, most of the participants were from here. The few American guests, plunged into the European atmosphere, were unhappy . They were particularly annoyed by the unexpected speeches of local politicians who suddenly appeared and uttered incomprehensible speeches in French (Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Bayrou were greeted with obscene gestures ); WiFi interruptions are a shame for the event, especially since Orange, the Internet provider, was one of the organizers. However, a thousand advanced bloggers with Skype, P2P clients and MMOG games can “put on” any network in a matter of minutes. There were other scandals .

Despite all these problems, the conference in Paris could not fail. After all, people like Niklas Zennstrom, the founder of Skype and Kazaa , Gil Penchina from Wikia , Dave Sifry, the founder of Technorati , and many other famous personalities from Google , Mozilla Europe , Nokia , LinkedIn , SocialText , Netvibes , Blinkx , etc. There was even Phil Holden from Microsoft, director of Windows Live . In general, the entire elite of that modern mainstream, which is called “Web 2.0,” was joined by several Russians: Oleg Cheltsov from Citizenbay , Rustam Gafurov and Alexander Ershov from Quintura . Here is a complete list of 1000 participants .

Niklas Zennstrem led a round table on the future of the Internet. A number of venture investors organized the Web 2.0 bubble talk , other sections focused on the impact of blogs and user content in Europe, e-commerce 2.0, education 2.0, enterprise 2.0 (distributed capitalism), opposition to Old Europe and Silicon Valley, death of old media, radio death, television's possible death, mobile communities 2.0 , the future of gaming.

The developers of the game "Second Life" offered to talk about when life in the virtual worlds will be better than in the offline world. Imity was named as one of the “related technologies” - this is a Bluetooth client for simulating social networks in the offline world. The program registers all the people who approach you offline, and on a special website you can look at the files on these people and chat with them. It also shows the statistics of their approximations and the duration of physical contacts with their bodies offline.
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One of the main topics of the conference was discussed from several sides: what is the difference between European business and American business, why do American companies usually fail to achieve success in Europe, so they have to buy local competitors? And vice versa - how should European Internet start-ups act in order to reach the international level.

Director Technorati announced at the conference the latest statistics on the blogosphere . The search index now includes 60 million blogs, of which 39% in English, 33% in Japanese and 10% in Chinese are the most popular languages. The new blog appears every second, and the blogosphere is replenished daily with 1.3 million posts.

In Europe, the most "blogger" country is France, which is ahead of all in the number of blogs per capita.