Archive for the ‘BelgianWire’ category

Webmission pictures by Pascal Alberty

June 8th, 2010

Time flies, we are all back in our day-to-day life. Let’s take 5 minutes and jump back a few weeks ago. Here is the picture set Pascal Alberty has online. Enjoy!

Minister President Demotte talks about Webmission

May 30th, 2010

After our great Webmission, Minister President Demotte has written a blogpost about our stay in SF.

demotte blog Minister President Demotte talks about Webmission

He also has a video up, talking about SF Newtech and Xavier Damman.

La vidéo du vendredi 21 mai 2010 / Rudy Demotte from Video Posteur on Vimeo.


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Webmission – I can haz succezz

May 21st, 2010

Although our 2010 webmission is not over yet (and we’ll talk about this year-team next), 2 alumni’s have received great coverage these last couple of days.

Xavier DammanPublitweet – has been in touch lately with Robert Scoble, one of the key bloggers in the valley. Robert uses Publitweet on his blog. Xavier and his associate have been interviewed for Building 43; here’s the vid.

Laurent Eschenauer, who launched the webmission last year, is now actively promoting is new baby OneSocialweb. What’s this? The idea is to try to federate social networks. Right now, if i’m on Facebook, and you are on Netlog or Hyves, we can’t get in touch, unless i register on these networks. That’s redundant, time consuming, and so… closed. What if thoses networks were interconnected? If they could exchange data? If my identity was recognized on all networks? That’s what Laurent is trying to do, with a bunch of other people. After promoting it in Europe, Laurent participated in some events here in the Valley aswell, and has received great press coverage. NPR (National Public Radio), ABCNews, Wall Street Journal and… Scoble himself too. That vid is not up yet, but it will be online soon.

So, as you can see, Belgians are doing great stuff, building out of their experience. Let’s try to keep this alive, and develop it together! Join the webmission spirit by following us here, on twitter or on our facebook page!

Tweetag visionnary – Twitter announced embeddable tweets

May 3rd, 2010

Last year, i met Xavier Damman for the first time, when we were about to leave for the first webmission. Xavier is the man behind Tweetag. One of their features back then was called “twitter widget“, a great way to add a tweet on your website.

tweetag widget Tweetag visionnary   Twitter announced embeddable tweets

Today, Twitter announced that they would add a new feature, called embeddable tweets. This example is the Tweetag widget:


The lesson? We can see it from 2 angles: one belgian guy had this idea well before twitter itself; on the other hand, it stayed “under the radar” of the big guys in Silicon Valley.

Tweets about this, Tweets about that; there are Tweets flying all over Twitter about all kinds of things, but no easy way to display one or more of them gracefully on a website or blog. Until tomorrow, that is. – RWW 05/03/10

It also demonstrate how important webmission are, bringing our talent in the US eco-system, under the eyes of american bloggers and companies. Awareness.

Webstartupday 2010 – Charleroi

April 28th, 2010

Charleroi was the epicenter of the belgian web today. Startups presentations, startups Award, panels, networking events of Betagroup and Café Numérique. That was the program of the day. Members of the upcoming webmission were there to defend their startup; demo their tools.

TweetWallPro had various screens broadcasting its new product.

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Vincent Vandoorne in front of one TweetWallPro screen

Beebole and Woorank were competing against each other for the Web Startup of the year award. And the 2010 winner, now Web Startup of the year, is Woorank, a brand new website analysis tool.

HP woorank Webstartupday 2010   Charleroi

Woorank, website analysis tool

Beebole, TweetwallPro and Woorank… will all be with us in San Francisco, and will demo at SF NewTech. Watch out, bay area!

Belgian talents news – Google invests in Drupal

April 27th, 2010

As a confirmation of something we already knew (talent exists in Belgium, and is recognised abroad), Google has decided to invest again in Drupal. Here’s Dries Buytaert’s tweet:
dries twit goo 300x150 Belgian talents news   Google invests in Drupal

And you can read more in this blogpost.