Anthony Tjan:10 years is a long time, it's longer than my entire career. The question is how people will discover apps
what if Siri responded with a ranked list of apps for a query? [sounds like @DoAT to me]
I recently switched to Android, and I think Google Now is a pretty great product - google should offer that to developers
Loic Le Meur:Baseball has now formalised analytics - 26 out of 30 teams now have an analytic team
4 key trends: Algorithmic, Women, Interdependent, High-Low Tech
4 key traits of entrepreneurs: heart, smarts, guts and luck - which one drives you?
Tounderstand heart, watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi - get it on your netflix now [there's no Netflix in France, is there?]
70% of businesses with a formal exit or IPO did not start with a business plan - heart driven wins out #tummel
Pattern recognision is at the essence of smart entrepreneurship
Guts dominant entrepreneurs: 30% have failed before - 1 in 3 are serial entrepreneurs
Luck is not about chance but about having Humility, Intellectual Curiosity and Optimism - A Lucky Attitude
you can test your entrepreneurship propensities at hsgl.com
Jeremiah Owyang:here are future entrepreneurs: [leads a whole 6th grade french class onstage]
Om Malik:six months ago I was talking about the collaborative economy, and asking if big companies could be part of this
The last 10 years have been democratising media - 10 years ago Le Web was Les Blogs
the tools we used to use to publish media are now being used to build products in the physical world
we're going to see the democratisation of the physical world in the next 10 years
big trends: 3D printing; high funded sharing economy; Crowdfunding and Bitcoin
Corporations are making the crowd part of their company: eg GE working with Quirky
U-Haul sells U-Notes in increments of $100 to create a shared fate - the highest form of loyalty
A company called Custom Made make high end matching jewelry to match the Lincoln car
Ask Executives what the purpose of business is, Profit is the biggest. Millennials say Societal Development, Innovation
Toms shoes launched a marketplace selling artisans' social good products
Nokia released 3D printable files to enable custom cases to be made
I'm starting a new company called crowdcompanies.com as a Brand Counceil for large companies who want to Collaborate
The bog corporations pay, the startups don't
people can make physical goods and share them instead fo buying anew
Corporations that partner with these empowered people can become resilient
Tony Conrad:Tony and I are old friends and partners at the VC fund True Ventures
you founded about.me, sold it to AOL, and then you bought it back. Tempting fate?
Om Malik:I realised at AOL that there weren't as many integration opportunities as we had thought - they were more media
we decided to focus on engagement rather than growth
you shouldn't be defined by algorithms or your professional experience, but how you see yourself [a fake #indieweb?]
I start to see 19-year old college kids use about.me as a resume to get internships
these pages can create value for you even if you don't go back to the product -linkedin and about.me are like that
you are curious about who is curious about you, so we tell you who put you in categories or viewed your page
we are seeing a lot of party round financing, which can give the illusion of progress - do you have an anchor [VC FUD?]
Tony Conrad:there isn't enough time in the day to go through each pitch and each company. How do you rise above the crowd?
Om Malik:if you're becoming a founder you need to think of a 35 year career - cultivating relationships
Tony Conrad:startups aren't fighting the battle for money, you're fighting for talent and attention. Without those you won't succeed
Om Malik:startup founders now as opposed to ten years ago are so much more knowledgeable
Matt Mullenweg was betting on us to be good stewards. Today he'd be plugged in to so much more
Tony Conrad:Startup founders are so much more informed, but are they more knowledgeable? How do they break out?
Om Malik:in the next 10 years startup activity is going to go off the hook - we just invested in a submarine robotics company!
Michael Sippey:I wantto thank @loic and @geraldine for making Le Web the most important conference in Europe
Loic Le Meur:twitter has its roots in mobile - it started out in text messaging and became web later
at twitter we were very early in the app store for iOS and Android [er, not earlier than 3rd parties]
we made the first big change to the home timeline in a long time, by making it easier to follow conversations [blue lines]
you'll now see photos and video in the timeline now @loic: from instagram? @sippey: no, ask them why
We've taken mobile development and distributed throughout the company - a team developing photos has iOS+Android engs too
we've built an experimentation framework into iOS and Android apps so we can run % experiments on mobile too
we use the data to influence the decision, but not to define it
we met Vine: classic team of a designer, a product manager and an engineer - @loic: you really need a designer now
Vine was the first app that din't have a record button or a play button - you just tap and hold @loic: snapchat does too
Vine have a lot of autonomy and independence -they have a separate office in NYC
Michael Sippey:why not a separate photo app too?
Loic Le Meur:twitter incorporated photos into the core twitter app experience before i joined
Michael Sippey:how do you see snapchat and ephemeral content?
Loic Le Meur:I think snapchat found something interesting - using photos and videos to briefly communicate
we're looking at how we solve the users problems
Michael Sippey:so you're building a Snapchat competitor?
Loic Le Meur:No we're not.
Michael Sippey:how about you post a tweet and it disappears? [could write that with the API - auto-delete]
I have an 18 year old in college who sends me things on SnapChat that are disturbing
Loic Le Meur:we have a lot of users in school or college who use twitter for public communication among their peers
Michael Sippey:how do you see Facebook versus twitter - they seem to be one by one taking your features?
have you read @nickbilton's book Hatching Twitter? I highly recommend it
Loic Le Meur:what our users tell us that they love about twitter is that it is live, public conversational and distributed everywhere
Michael Sippey:I can't follow whats happeneing around Le Web on facebook, only twitter
Loic Le Meur:we've done a lot of work on search, and integration with television - putting on air and sending back
Michael Sippey:Facebook have a feed, but their search sucks
Loic Le Meur:Facebook has their product, I'm focused on twitter - not looking at them but at us
I joined sixapart in 2004 -we were all blogging then, The shift has been to mobile and cloud enabling small teams
in 10 years the devices we carry will have better sensors and tools to share content and context from wherever we are
you can tell we're old as we both have watches my watch is a heads up display for time and date-
last year @KatieS was here at Le Web - she's building up international here at a great rate
Michael Sippey:politicians in France talk amongst each other - thats amazing to me
Nick D'Aloisio:usernames will stay, but we hear from new users that @ handles and hashtags are confusing so we need to help
if you think twitter hasn't changed much then we're doing our job - it feels familiar but it develops well
the IPO hasn't really changed the company - we've been focused on a sustainable business and executing well
the market invests in the future of the company, and we're building that future
if you have product ideas, email me sippey@twitter.com, or tweet me
Loic Le Meur:the reason I built summly was because of all the time i spent going back and forth between results and apges
the summly algorithm is used in the Yahoo App in the US app store
I'm full time at Yahoo, but I'm finishing my A-Levels at school too
Nick D'Aloisio:So, you sold summly for $30 million?
Loic Le Meur:I can't say. No really, I can't tell you.
yahoo has huge corpora - so much information. Making that personal could be really interesting
a lot of the time wasted on mobile is people faffing about trying to find what they want
if you have a conversation you forget half of it in an hour. Permanancy isn't natural for humans. Snapchat does that
Nick D'Aloisio:so our conversation is transient, unless you're like @scobleizer. Fortunately we're not all like Scoble
Loic Le Meur:there is a value for permancy, as long as I want it to be. I don't necessarily want it read back to me in 5 years
people take screenshots of private chat conversations in Facebook etc and post them. They want to avoid that
I'm fascinated by self-learning - making accessibility if knowledge really easy and fun is what I care about
even though I had IT lessons at school, there was no idea of starting a company instead of joining one. teach that too
making entrepreneurship as an option available for schools around the world is key
I think Bitcoin is interesting, but I don't know much about it. I like the decentralisation
when I was doing summly it was great to have Angels to lean on when it went badly. Crowdsourced doesn't do that
It's important to raise external capital because it keeps you in check - you need external people to keep you in line
JamesCurrier:you can tell this bitcoin video is old as it says they're worth $70 each
Garrick Hileman:Nothing is more network affect-y than currencies. I was at Linden, and we never quite spun out Linden dollars
JamesCurrier:is an economic historian at LSE
Garrick Hileman:3000 years ago, people used gold and sliver both for storage of value and exchange of value
pre 1863 in the US there were 8000 entities printing their own money - it was unwieldy and prone to forgery
the gold standard was invented in 1821 by Britain, and the US went off it in 1971
in 2002 QQ's q-coins were used outside QQ.com - the chinese govt banned this in 2007
2009-2012 Facebook credits came out, but despite their ability to fore peoepl to use it, it still died out
No-one owns bitcoin -the founders found a way to disappear [except they have the bulk of holdings]
anonymity of BitCoin has had a lot of press, but the 3 big drugs and guns marketplaces have been shut down this year
in 2013 Bernanke said that the US wasn't interested in regiulating virtual currencies
People's Bank of China recently said that companies and banks should not accept them, though individuals could
You can only spend bitcoin in about 1000 places worldwide
up until a few weeks ago, 65% of bitcoin trading was in china. That may change now the Bank of China has spoken
there are about 60 other digital currencies that have copied this idea
Shakil Khan:Technology folks are excited about crypto and exotic hardware. Governments are excited too
Governments worry about the money laundering aspects of bitcoin, but care about the growth potential
VC's are excited about bitcoin because they see it as disrupting the multi-billion payments industry
Garrick Hileman:the Western Union remittance model has fees of about 20% on $100 right now to send money internationally now
international trade now hits merchants with huge transaction fees and exchange fees - that is billions too
Shakil Khan:think of Argentina or another country with a weak domestic currency. Cyprus crisis showed this as Bitcoin went up
At the moment Bitcoin is mostly a store of value, not a transaction currency.
JamesCurrier:we need more mainstream adoption - we need someone like Amazon, not just @eff and wordpress
will a CFO of a pubicly listed company want that risk?
Shakil Khan:talking to a Silicon Valley Bank about bitcoin, they are waiting for a stable set of rules first
Garrick Hileman:regarding tangibility, I remember this argument against spotify when Daniel Ek launched it. The mindset changes
Bitcoin is not much different than people using tap to pay to pay for their coffee
Merrill Lynch published a large report about Bitcoin last week, we're seeing lots of finance industry interest
lot of retailers like Walmart and UK high street chains are seriously looking into Bitcoin
Shakil Khan:European sovereign debt crisis is not resolved. The IMF recently talked about capital controls; Bitcoin avoids them
Garrick Hileman:"anyone with significant wealth should put 1% into bitcoin" - danger is not understanding it
what really worries me going forward is people putting money into bitcoin to speculate in it
Shakil Khan:China's stance on Bitcoin was not as strong as on QQ, because it is not centralised and harder to regulate
the most common cause of death of alternative currencies is technical advance or lack of demand
we can see that Bitcoin has problems in the 10 minutes it takes to update the blockchain
Satoshi retained enough bitcoins to be a billionaire, the litecoin founder deliberately has not.
Garrick Hileman:look at the gap between what understanding we have and the mainstream
Shakil Khan:Money is an abstract thing to begin with. Bitcoin has no actual coins and bills
ultimately all currencies are backed by supply and demand - look at Zimbabwe losing it's currency
Garrick Hileman:Governments can be allies and enemies, purely from lack of understanding. Financial systems are already broken
if people are accepting that music and videos come from this thing called a cloud, virtual currency is not so different
Shakil Khan:prior to the explosion in cryptocurrencies there were 4000 alternative currencies around the world. It's hard to do
we may need focus on one currency to get the growth
Garrick Hileman:I'm an investor in Bitpay. The most fascinating companies in digital payments are being built right now. we'll see some Q1
what is also required apart from the techincal solution is the consumer trust and branding that they need
the people we hear about losing bitcoins is usually not the protocol but someone running a 'bank' designed to steal them
JamesCurrier:we don't know what the price of bitcoin is now. Coindesk's price info is valuable here
Shakil Khan:should the audience be investing in bitcoin?
only if you have money you are prepared to lose you can lose all you put in.
Brian Solis:I say this not to sound boastful or American, if those are really two different things, but because I was full of fear.
I realise now that I was afraid to ask for help- that people would think I was not capable
I had no women role models to look up to, so I had to emulate men. I suppressed every single emotion that I felt
I felt like an actress playing the role of an entrepreneur. This was imposter syndrome.
I was afraid that I'd collapse when crossing the street in New York. I quit my job + booked a 1 way ticket to Indonesia
After trevelling the world, collecting countries for the facebook photos, I took a ten day meditation retreat.
I realised that I had only wanted to be liked.
Bradley Horowitz:The next 10 years are either going to happen to us, or because of us.
this woman took a selfie in front of someone committing suicide on the Brooklyn Bridge. This is your customer
Loic Le Meur:I have tremendous respect for Snapchat - they have obviously tapped into a key human behaviour there
very few companies have the resources to think in ten year timeframes like Google can, so we have a responsibility
Bradley Horowitz:why don't you wear google glass? @elatable: I need these glasses [not eligible for Lasic? as a googler asked me]
Andy Grignon:as well as self-driving cars and Glass, other moonshots are Chrome and Android - which now seem obvious
We're not afraid at google of doing things that are technologically significant and take a while
we don't just backup and upload your photos, we use the compute power of Google to smooth wrinkles on people's faces
Plus Post Ads promote brands google plus posts out to the rest of the web.
we've introduced a new google ad format which is a G+ post that users can comment on and engage with elsewhere on the web
YouTube now uses Google+ for commenting, so you can go to a billion view video like Gangnam style and see friends comments
we had a lot of problems with ranking of g+ comments on YouTube, but we have made changes to make them better
Google Plus has never been about Facebook - it solves a very different use case as it is private
Google Hangouts taps into the same use case as Snapchat - its ephemeral and easy and has recording protections
YouTube integration, Google Drive and all the other G+ integrations were part of the plan, and there will be more
we have a lot of apis and services available for developers to work with, it's not just about us buying companies
you don't want to optimise your company to be bought by google, build a great company and it's a side effect
Robert Scoble:Scoble's jacket is like a clown car of gadgets - things keep coming out of his pockets
Andy Grignon:the Oakley ski goggles are full of sensors that can measure your hang time on the mountain: everything has sensors
Location and Social data is growing all the time. 500M tweets/day now
Data is being used everywhere - with Hadoop and machine learning to make sense of it
Context means anticipatory software that knows what you're going to do - Google Now is an example
smart bluetooth beacons sit there and spit a number into the air every few seconds and we can find where they are
Hugo Barra:eightly is a product that builds on what we made with Dashboard - let anyone make apps foriOS
back in the day there was a crazy thing called Hypercard that let you put buttons on things, we want that everywhere
we have cards for each thing and you join them together to make up a story
we automate all the layout so you don't have to worry about that.
brady forrest:I've been in China 2 months but it feels like a lot longer than that - my mind is blown every single day
China is a parallel universe - when it comes to tech. China has 8 million college graduates a year vs 3 million in the US
600 million internet users in China - 500 million smartphone users that has doubled in 6 months
there is not one Western app in the top ten of apps in China, QQ has 5 of them QQ 600m users
Taobao - is more than twice ebay and amazon combined - you can buy anything on Taobao
China's Singles Day is like the opposite of Valentines Day - you celebrate by buying things for yourself online
Singles Day was $5.7B = over $1B from phones.
JD (formerly 360buy) will deliver same day from thousands of things - 3 hour delivery
Alipay is about 1/3 of all chinese payments $1000B vs $180B for paypal
Weibo looks a lot like twitter, but I got 200,000 followers in 2 months
my entire social life in China revolves about Wechat - no phone, text or email.
Wechat has an instagram-like feature for photos too
DIDI is like the chinese version of Uber - but chinese addresses don't make sense so you record them instructions
most of the chinese taxi drivers bought smartphones so they can run the DiDI app
there are over 100 android app stores in china because google's app store is banned by the govt
taiwanese android devices can have the actual google app store, but not mainland one.
my job is to take Xiaomi's phones outside of china - we're starting in south-east asia
Mary Huang:I spend about a week a month in China, getting to know what startups need- and it's mostly more tools
The Arduino happened almost by accident- it was designed by an italian professor for his students, open sourced and spread
I run Highway1 because I believe that hardware is the future - we take startups to china to learn to manufacture
our first incubated compay, birdi, launched on indiegogo today: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/birdi
hardware prototyping can be done easily now, raising dollars on kickstarter can be done, but shipping thousands is a dark art
Scale requires rigor - you need partners in Huaqiangbei - hardware flows like software
Bunny Hwang's http://circuitstickers.com/ was built on a field trip to china
Manufacturing informs your product- you can't just hit go on the 3D printer and have it work in the factory
Software matters - its what makes the product make sense and makes your users love you.
We're going to be inundated with connected gadgets that don't talk to each other. We need an OS for IoT
Big box retailers need to be made startup friendly - they currently demand too much inventory
applications are now open at angel.co/highway1
I'm wearing 3D printed shoes - this is a revolution as shoemaking hasn't changed in a century
there is a new 3D printer launched every week on kickstarter, and they're big enough to print shoes
any thermoplastic can be put into a 3D printer, which means many different possible materials for shoes
unlike a cellphone, you have to make sizes for shoes - 3D printing makes this easier
We don't sell printers, we sell shoes as they have more margin and more speed for fashion
it takes several hours to print a shoe, but we can just get more machines, and we can still turnround in a day
you can see the printer not making solid shoes but a subtle honeycombed interior space
we optimize the machine path file for a specific design, making it smoother and 25% faster
we can make different designs from a basic ballet flat by using images as bump maps to emboss them
we're going to make ready-to-wear 3D printed shoes, not just for the runway
we need slightly bigger printers for mens shoes, @brady