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I have been to the Film Festival in Cannes last week: sun, great movies and stars!

I’ve been really amazed by the increasing links there are between those kind of happenings and the web usages.

Appart from of course the real-time information and images broadcasting of the event itself - you can also see extracts from selected movies - two main trends are to be highlited:

• MySpace sponsored one of the beach in partnsership with Smiley: a very nice space with a stage, where artists, actors, producers could meet and some events like movie projection or music concerts were displayed. The atmosphere and events were also relayed on the web.
• I have met a lot of producers and directors who had planned physical meetings in Cannes through networks like aSmallWorld and.. really met and had instersting and very professional meetings!

The 60th Cannes Film Festival has really been a proof that social networking is really becoming an efficient business media, at least in certain industries..

StartUp2.0 is a competition of European web 2.0 sites whose objectives are to promote and reward the European startups (either created or willing to do so in the future) that work in the field of 2.0 technologies.

Who can take part in the contest? Any company from a European country having developed a web 2.0 site, either as a startup company or just as a personal project. Individuals and companies can submit as many projects as they wish.

They are now open to web 2.0 submissions. Call for entries will last until May, 5th. The 15 final nominees will then be announced so that they can take part in an event in Madrid on May, 10th.

Stay tuned!

Web 2.0 Expo is starting this sunday in San Francisco!

This is THE annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities.

Will you be there?

We’ll be We were at the Open Coffee Paris session tomorrow yesterday morning! See you there

Summary :

• +20 people (most of them were Web entrepreneurs)
• A very good spirit and informal atmosphere
• A great entrepreneurial spirit and a real sensation of a great energy and creation envy
• Lastly, a very pleasant place to wake up smoothly and to talk about our passions with a great cappucino and a piece of panettone cake

I just hope attendees will change all the time in order to diversify contacts and experience sharings.

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