Laurent Feral-Pierssens
About: Technology entrepreneur based in Paris, I moved from Montreal late last year to found Silentale, a web 2.0 startup company that will launch at the end of 2008.
Twitter: twitter.com/lfp
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/pierssens
Blog: laurent.pierssens.com
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I’m Nowhere near OK, USA
--A few weeks ago I decided to go somewhere. While I’m usually quite open (read “public”) to where I’m traveling, this time I...
The iPhone is for play… the blackberry for work
--The Setup Let’s first and foremost spend a few seconds explaining the setup. I’m not a blackberry server or exchange user but still con...
Around the web last week (and the two previous)
--It has been a crazy few weeks. During that time I failed to read the mountain of posts in my reader and declared RSS bankruptcy. Even so, I’v...
SmugMug launches SmugVault: protecting your digital negatives has never been easier
--SmugMug has always been in a category of its own. I have been using it for longer than Flickr because it addressed my need for a sound place that w...
FACE Paris: first edition, stimulating entrepreneurship through success
--Even if a small ecosystem of entrepreneurs already exist in France, what you hear on the street, in the media and in the mouth of officials is that...
Around the web this week
--Another week passed, and its now officially the summer. With it comes Firefox 3 and a few stories: Firefox was launched and has set a world record...
Apple shifts [recurring] revenue source from AT&T to ME
--Digital ink has flooded since last Monday’s announcement by Steve Jobs of the release of the next generation iPhone, named appropriately the ...
Around the web this week
--This week as led by to major news. The release of the iPhone 3G second generation. People (including me) have been waiting for it, predicting its ...
Around the web this week
--Back from an exciting week at La Baule for the World Investiment Conference & CaliforniaTechShowcase, I had to play catchup with the news this ...
Online translation engine doesn’t digest french food
--Aside from being very funny, here is one more proof that computer-based translation tools can have some real life collateral damages. This Paris bi...
Why we need an “Early-Adopter Name Reservation System”? [opportunity]
--This morning, both Loic Le meur and Mark Evans mentioned they would love to see a name reservation system. Bouncing the idea further around coffee ...
Around the web this week
--I’m having a hard time getting through all the news every week now. I really hope aideRSS will soon work under FF3 to help prioritize. Anyho...
Google changes favicon, Netscape’s old spotted
--Is this really news worthy? I’m not sure. But here it is, google has updated its favicon to leave the upper case G behind while replacing it ...
LinkedIn tries to make us trip, spam our contacts
--Today I was trying to send a few connection requests to contacts made during Web 2.0 last month when I realized that LinkedIn changed its process f...
Around the web this week
--Not much time in the last two weeks. The good news is that Silentale will be moving in a new office next week! In the mean time, here is what seem...
Around the web this week
--The Wall Street Journal says that T-mobile USA may be preparing a bid on Sprint Nextel to move from 3rd to 1st position in the US. New $150m Fund f...
Is there a shortage of cool buzzwords?
--Coming back from San Francisco where we had enough time to immerse completely in real life social networking, person-to-person discussions, I came ...
Acquiring previously failed startup IP is hot hot cold
--Today, Techcrunch announces that Xobni acquired failed Web 1.0 startup FireDrop which raised $90m in 2000. Yesterday, Mike Arrington started an int...
French market can’t take the taunine [out of scope]
--We all know that the French are different from the rest of the world. We got to love France for all its exquisite food, its wine, its architecture ...
Around the web this week
--It has been a busy last two weeks with the web 2.0 expo in San Francisco and a 7 day trip to Montreal. I was not able to keep up with my commitment...
Microsoft walks, how low will Yahoo close tomorrow?
--That’s it, Microsoft announced that they have walked away from the negotiation table. Is it now a good time for Google to move in; will Micro...
Interactive blog, start leaving video comments
--A quick note to let everyone know that we just added the new seesmic wordpress plugin for leaving video comments. Record away! The introduction vid...
Have government programs work for you early on [startuping]
--Lets start by a few facts. At the very beginning of a startup, when it’s still called a project, there is only a few ways to finance it: your...
Microsoft signs LoI to acquire Xobni [follow-up]
--As a follow-up to my post on friday, there is now independent confirmation that Microsoft has signed at least its side of a Letter of Intent to acq...
Around the web this week
--Although it has been a long week, very few subjects were discussed intensely. As a result, you may have missed one of these interesting stories: Ne...
Microsoft acquires Xobni, good or bad?
--Speculations (here , here) [may have been] were true. Yesterday, Xobni finally came [is rumored to have come] to an agreement with Microsoft to be...
Sleep well, someone is monitoring your servers
--To most of us this will sound obvious, but I’ve been running into quite a few startups that were neglecting this essential aspect of their in...
Power on the plane
--Great surprise when embarking on today’s flight from Paris to Toronto. The plane was upgraded to the new cabin on one of Air Canada’s B...
Now I really want an iPhone
--So you have been hearing the rumors yesterday and reading the news today. Fring has launched the first iphone application that allows to make Skype...
Amazon EC2 with persistent storage in Private Beta
--Last week Google, in an attempt to enter the Clound computing market, launched Google App Engine and, just this morning, a major integration with S...
Around the web this week
--The past week has been intense. Quite a few subjects kept being discussed all week long. So, again, in no particular order… After Amazon EC2 ...
How twitter makes me look at emails differently
--For short, twitter is addictive. It’s like using SMS but having all your friends know what others are talking about. You can interject, compl...
Unfuddle single sign-on using OpenID
--A few days ago, Unfuddle released an update that introduced OpenID. The interesting part is that if you are using multiple accounts on unfuddle (fo...
LinkedIn’s rss now with description
--If you were happy when LinkedIn added an rss feed to monitor your network updates, you may have realized that the link provided in each post was go...
Around the web this week
--Spending the last few days in Amsterdam for The Next Web was great. European entrepreneurs have embarked on the bandwagon and are far from trailing...
Please, ô please, no passwords in my emails
--Why are web2.0 services still sending passwords by email? I stay amazed day in and day out at the number of services that, just after signing up, w...
April Fool’s wrap-up
--Ok, so you were disconnected from the *real* world yesterday and you have not seen the hundreds of April fools’ jokes around the internet. He...
Itunes U allows to learn during transit times
--The missing link towards an OpenDiploma Did you know iTunes U was launched almost a year ago? While asking around, I realized none of my ipod/podca...
Around the web this week
--Reading hundreds of post everyday, following twitter, going to OpenCoffee Club meet-up, traveling for events, talking to friends and teams makes us...
Dopplr is of real help, getting more users
--I’ve been using Dopplr since it launched and it was a personal savior from day one. It really meant, one place to manage travel itineraries a...
A quick way to get a (good) recruitment site up and running
--At Silentale, we launched a splash page quickly after our name became public in order to maintain visibility and to fulfill two major tasks every s...
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