Category: Europe

  • comScore: The growing appeal of social networks in Europe

    Interesting stats from comScore, the internet information provider, on the growth and penetration of social networks in 16 European countries in 2008. I made the chart above (for use in a PPT deck) that interprets the tabular data in comScore’s…

  • Twitter tracking Davos

    This is how I’m keeping track of what the buzz is about at the World Economic Forum meeting this week in Davos, Switzerland – tracking Twitter comments on the hashtags #davos and #davos09. I’ll jump in to the Twitter Search…

  • Love and hate at Le Web 08

    The Le Web tech conference in Paris may now be over and done with for another year but criticism about some organizational elements – notably the wifi, temperature and food – continues. I wasn’t at the event so obviously I…

  • Keeping tabs on LeWeb08

    What is arguably the most influential technology conference in Europe kicks off in Paris today when LeWeb08 welcomes over 1,600 participants to the City of Lights. From relatively simple beginnings in early 2005 – when the event was known as…

  • Social media takeaways from Barcelona

    Barcelona in late November: a colder place than I expected it to be when I arrived last Wednesday, my first visit since 2006 to this Spanish city on the Mediterranean coast. The climate might have been cold but the buzz…