Category: Travelling Geeks

A tour around some key French start-ups.

My second batch of Companies at Travelling Geeks

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Following on from part one, this is the nest look back at the Travelling Geeks tour of Paris pre-Le Web. Here are some more companies that caught my eye and a few thoughts on how things should be in the real world. Teacheo www.teacheo.com One of the interesting things about companies that are pure internet plays (as opposed to those with bits of hardware or bricks and mortar behind the html) is that just because an idea has already been done is no barrier to entry. Teacheo, which promises to pair up students and potential tutors online, and then facilitate

My first batch of Companies at Travelling Geeks

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Here are some of the companies from the first full day of my recent time with the Travelling Geeks project in Paris. I’m not going to write about all the companies that I met during the trip, just the ones that caught my eye and made me want to know a bit more for various reasons, both good and bad. Pearltrees – www.pearltrees.com To be honest they fed us croissants and poured us a lot of coffee, so Pearltrees will always have a certain place in my heart. Any company that deals with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (of bloggers) first

A Travelling Geeks personal retrospective

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During Blog World Expo this year, Renee Blodgett asked if I would be free for the few days before Le Web, as she would be planning “a little something” with her Travelling Geeks project. In essence it was asking if I would like to meet with some of the newer French start-ups in the city in a more intimate environment than Geraldine’s 2,300 attendee strong conference. It sounded like fun to me, so I agreed. In reality it was asking if I’d like to run round Paris as part of a modern day version Tom Baker and Lalla Ward in

Introducing the Travelling Geeks…

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Today is the first of two days when myself and the Travelling Geeks are bouncing round Paris talking to new start-ups. The collection of bloggers reads like a Dirty Dozen of the tech reporting world… and we have a movie trailer-esque introduction to us all. At some point I’ll complain I’m wearing the wrong tartan. You can follow the fun at www.travellinggeeks.com.

Le Travelling Geeks

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Yes Le Web is coming up (and the full program has now been published so you can sort who you want to see and when the best time is to nip out for a decent sized-lunch), but I’ll be doing a little something in Paris beforehand. The Travelling Geeks. Organised by Renee Blodgett for the two days before Le Web will see a number of us descending early on Paris to see some presentations form the latest European start-ups and what they are working on in a smaller, more intimate environment. I’m looking forward to it, partly because it’s going