Herve Cuviliez: Entrepreneur - business angel in the Middle East

Seen yesterday @ emerging art festival, a twitter device for your plants.

So you can be anywhere on the planet and receive status updates of your plants: Need water, urgently need water, etc..

So cool,

You will find everything on botanicalls.com to build your own device, don’t forget to them feedback.

As soon as I get back to Paris, I’ll try to make mine

While the vaste majority of us just getting tired of facebook, the Web 2.0 is entering into phase 2. I will say a more mature phase.
With phase 1, we learnt how to connect to each other, sharing basic information, etc… I’m talking about facebook, dopplr, linkedin, Xing and hundred of others.

With phase 2, we will learn to share informations with others forms of intelligence. I’m talking about artificial intelligence, I’m talking about robots, sensors, any kind of devices. Scared ?
To make it simple, everyday there is millions of information gathered by sensors that could be valuable for us: temperature sensors, mobile for localization, wifi hotspots, RFID chips, etc…
In fact, we are already surrendered by sensors collecting information and “socializing” between them.
This phase 2 will be the connection of this 2 kinds of social networks: us and them.
Don’t Believe me ? Need some signs ? Here is some

Tim O’Reilly at the ETech08:

the future of Web 2.0 will be applications driven by sensors

But in fact, the first person, i ever heard talking about this, is Bernard Benhamou that’s was a year ago and he made a interview (in french) about this in may 06.

and then start to google this there tons of pages on this: A good article on the economist

So what’s new ?
It’s getting real. In 2008, we will move from prospective to concreate applications.

Need another sign ?

Yahoo just released Fire Eagle (a way to share your location with sites and services online) that collect localization informations and centralize them in an unique application then you can feed this into your applications. Sources could be wifi hotspots, mobile, gps, etc…

I will continued to investigate that and invest myself and my money into this type of application.

To be continued…

I just attended a keynote from Tim O’Reilly. It was amazing

He talked about hackers philosophy and why Emerging Tech conference is the place to be for them. Does that make me an hacker ? I hope so.

Hackers are people who try things that have never been done before
Hackers don’t know where is the business opportunity but do things because they love it, because it matters

they don’t know if it will be the next big thing, they just loved it.

to make his point he showed this picture : “Microsoft, 1978: Would you have invested?”

Don’t follow the ease path then you will be an hacker…

I will spend 4 days (3-6 march 2008) in San Diego for the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2008.

An amazing program is waiting for me: Mobile, Data vizualitation, Gaming, robotics, etc… with worldclass speakers.

4 days of mind opening, cool I just want through the attendees list I’m the only french. is that normal ? ok it’s far but 14 hours in plane is not so much regarding the program.

Hope next year, there will be more.

next post about the Tim O’Reilly keynote.