The fourth edition of Le Web 3 is finished since last night. I took few hours to go back in my normal life before to give you my feedback about this terrific event. The objective was that Paris had to be the center of the Internet industry during 2 days, and it was exactly that.

During the 2 days we had the chance to assist to different conferences and keynote presentations, to have some networking sessions (in a dedicated room) as well as to discover and discuss with some amazing start-ups that presented their product in a dedicated room. The mix of keynote and panels was very well done even if sometimes I would have liked to have longer keynote. I guess that there was to many subjects to talk about during 2 days to it was not possible to do so. My preferred sessions where the sessions presented by Hans Rosling, Martin Varsavsky (Fon), Kevin Rose (Digg), Dave Winer (co-inventor of the RSS), JP Rangaswami (British Telecom), Jason Calacanis (Mahalo) as well as Janus Friis (Kazaa, Skype and Joost). These are all amazing geniuses!

Some subjects were the stars of this year’s Le Web 3: social networks (and their evolution) as well as the different ways to make and raise money for your projects. Even if a “bubble 2.0� is clearly not for today - as the specialists said - it is pretty impressive to see all those investors ready to invest in all kind of projects (ok, maybe not all of them and with reserve too!) as well as the valuations of many Internet companies. The session that inspired me the most was the one on the Internet pollution and how to stop it (by Jason Calacanis from Mahalo). I think it might be one of our biggest “problem� in few years if Google doesn’t do anything to really stop it (or at least, reduce it). I think that one subject haven’t been talked enough during this year’s conference: mobility and how the Internet has been (and have to be) changed in order for us to use it everywhere. We talked a lot about that in the past 6 months (mainly because of the iPhone and how it changed a lot of things) and I hope that we’ll have more keynote related to that next year.

At the beginning I thought that everything was too fast, and that for example talking about how social networks evolved in 15 minutes was impossible. But it’s not the objective of Le Web 3. Le Web 3 inspires you, give you ideas that you have to think of by yourself. Le Web 3 had the same effect on me than few days in Silicon Valley: everything moves very fast, everybody is doing something, creating something, has ideas, has projects running, etc. You can’t do anything but doing the same thing and having hundreds of ideas. It’s fantastic. Period.

Regarding to the logistic of the conference, everything was perfectly planned: from the delicious meals to the perfect timing between each session. Nothing to say except congratulation to Geraldine and Loic Le Meur, Cathy Brooks as well as to the 70 people that worked hard on this event.

One final thing… During the two days of Le Web 3, I thought a lot about the TED conference that happens each year in Monterey, California. Le Web 3 was not an Internet conference like there is many today. For me, it was simply the European version of TED. A conference that inspires you and where you can share you passion and your ideas with very interesting people. Will Le Web 3 2008 will be renamed to TED Europe 2008? We’ll see…

All my photos are available in this flickr set and all the official photos are available here. All the sessions on video will be available soon on vPod.tv.