{"id":1655,"date":"2008-12-12T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2022-11-20T01:26:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:26:52","slug":"loving-le-web-conference-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/loving-le-web-conference-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Le Web &#8211; Conference Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of coverage on Le Web, and I&#8217;m one of those adding to the buzz with my conference report now available on the BBC News website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Starting up a business is similar to falling in love,&#8221; said Loic Le Meur, organiser of the Le Web conference that brought the cream of Europe&#8217;s web developers together in Paris this week&#8230; That love for entrepreneurship was the theme of the conference &#8211; now in its fifth year &#8211; which was upbeat about the prospects for new firms despite the economic downturn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As well as the conference itself, I highlight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erepublik.com\/en\">Erepublik<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/\">Techmeme&#8217;s<\/a> expansion plans, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gabemac.com\/\">Gabe MacIntyre&#8217;s<\/a> Anonymous Twitter project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7777311.stm\">Love, Loss and the World Wide Web at BBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of coverage on Le Web, and I&#8217;m one of those adding to the buzz with my conference report now available on the BBC News website: &#8220;Starting up a business is similar to falling in love,&#8221; said Loic Le Meur, organiser of the Le Web conference that brought the cream of Europe&#8217;s web developers together in Paris this week&#8230; That love for entrepreneurship was the theme of the conference &#8211; now in its fifth year &#8211; which was upbeat about the prospects for new firms despite the economic downturn. As well as the conference itself, I highlight Erepublik, Techmeme&#8217;s expansion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[66,22,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66","category-conferences","category-le-web-les-blogs","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-qH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56655,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/56655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}