Conferences & iPhone

Most conferences are launching iPhone apps, Lift, TED, and now LeWeb who took the concept even further, offering a live stream of the talks right in the palm of Apple phone owners. The list of features is impressive

• get a live feed of the LeWeb stage as it happens on your iphone (a premiere!) with ustream
• latest news and tweets from/about LeWeb
• all the agenda with details from all the sessions and you can checkin to say you are going
• integrated chat and you can tweet/facebook your comments directly from the app
• find details about ANY participant and their twitter names to contact them (that is going to come handy for networking)
• maps of the venue and where everything is (it is a huge venue and lots of spaces to discover this year, like amazing coffee from Nespresso for example)
• photos and links, archived video sessions

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In the context of a conference focused on the web, it makes a lot of sense to offer a service to create interaction among participants. At Lift I prefer to avoid directing people to a specific tool for feedback – mainly because we have a diverse crowd with large differences in age and culture – so an iPhone app to manage interactions is not really relevant. But I look forward to follow the usage of this app, there will probably be a few interesting lessons to learn.

Time to wish the 2000+ participants of LeWeb a great conference!