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Your take from LeWeb08

Put together on December 21, 2008 8:20 pm by Dimitris
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We thought a bit about what we could do at LeWeb to bring something home from it apart from talking to people, asking for their business cards – and giving out our own. One of the things we’ve come up with is a concept we thought of calling ‘Five Words Or Less’ where participants were asked 3 questions and required to answer on video with less than five words for each question. The name was abandoned for reasons I’ll explain later. The aim of this little game was to make participants in LeWeb from the startup world distill their experience in a short sentence that could be viewed in a few seconds in YouTube.

The 3 questions were roughly:

1. How well do you think have B2B companies been using Web 2.0 tools and the social media?
2. How early should startups start thinking about generating revenue?
3. Is the current economic crisis beneficial or detrimental to startups?

Five words for these questions. Easy? Hard? We had no idea if it would work.

Sadly, it didn’t. Out of all the people I mini-interviewed only one managed to do it in actually five words or less – and perhaps he was the one I least expected to: Gary Vaynerchuk. Yes, most people just seemed to forget about the limit and went on and on. Still, most videos are a minute or so long and include some really insightful comments on starting up.

As a sidenote, as the sound quality was rather poor due to ambient noise, we decided it was necessary to add subtitles. We did that using overstream.net and YouTube’s recently launched feature of Captions and Subtitles. Although it was a bit tiresome in the beginning, once I got used to the interface it was just a matter of putting the time – and the result was worth it.

Without further delay, a selection of the videos follows (as taken from the terrainnova YouTube channel):

Santiago Siri of popego.com

Yves Baudechon from radionomy.com

Siddharth Goel of mooga

Gary Vaynerchuk of winelibrary.tv

Gilles Barbier of tellmewhere.com

Conor O’Neill of loudervoice.com

Stefan Lechere of netvibes.com

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George Tziralis:
I bet that you already know it, Google Chart API has an option for (embeddable) Venn Chart "Generator", http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#venn(and it's quite useful to say the least).
I bet that you already know it, Google Chart API has an option for (embeddable) Venn Chart "Generator", http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#venn
(and it's quite useful to say the least). - 4 years ago
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Thanks for reminding me that API - and that post. Incidentally, after our recent Wordpress upgrade we've been getting a bit of spam (I guess it's untill Akismet learns) - and it was a spam comment that brought that old post at the top of our ForumView plugin displaying recent discussions in that blog. That made you comment and start this conversation. Oh, the post-modern irony... - 4 years ago
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Johnny:
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awesome article!
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Thanks for the tip Omar. I saw comapping while writing the post and to be honest I was initially a bit put off by the 'in a Windows window' instead of the 'in a browser window' approach. I guess this is more of a design rather than use issue however. The 'unembedability' also seemed a limitation. I did like how the 'tree branches' expand/hide though - keep up the good work:)
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mave:
You could try freemind (freemind.sourceforge.net) which works really good on linux and you can embed the mindmaps when you are running drupal or Joomla (no wordpress, sorry, but someone could pick that one up and write the appropriate code!).Also , on posix systems for more technical and structured "maps" you can try graphiz http://www.graphviz.org/ (yes I know it is actually for Graphs but in some sense an a mind map is a Graph structurally speaking!) It also produces files that can be embeded but I think that it is totally unuserfriendly since you have to be a little bit more familiar with computers than the average Joe to run it.
You could try freemind (freemind.sourceforge.net) which works really good on linux and you can embed the mindmaps when you are running drupal or Joomla (no wordpress, sorry, but someone could pick that one up and write the appropriate code!).

Also , on posix systems for more technical and structured "maps" you can try graphiz http://www.graphviz.org/ (yes I know it is actually for Graphs but in some sense an a mind map is a Graph structurally speaking!) It also produces files that can be embeded but I think that it is totally unuserfriendly since you have to be a little bit more familiar with computers than the average Joe to run it. - 6 years ago
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Dimitris:
Thanks, mave about the heads ups. Haven't heard of any of these. Freemind works in Windows as well! And graphviz looks quite feature-rich too.
Thanks, mave about the heads ups. Haven't heard of any of these. Freemind works in Windows as well! And graphviz looks quite feature-rich too. - 6 years ago
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A)Put someone to do sth about sth because we have to.
B)The someone, if he shows the proper zeal, will learn from trial and fail.
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