It's becoming an yearly tradition to review LeWeb. Mainly because it is the most significant Tech event in Europe. Great personalities in the Tech/Social Media scene flock to Paris for inspirational talks, in a rather dull event format.

I'll be quick, bear with me.

Ustream FTW!

- I followed LeWeb via the fantastic Ustream channel. I guess this is also my first remark. Ustream kicked butts. It was hours of flawless livestream with no interruption. See it yourself from the tweets. There were an average of 3000 viewers on the channel and 200K uniques watched videos live. Videos are available on the channel for you to enjoy.

- I was significantly upset about the lack of integration with slides. Since the event was nothing revolutionary as far as the concept was concerned, I was tied to watching the slides to make sense of what was discussed. That brought to my attention the first takeaway: Integrate speaker and slides on your stream. That is if you really need slides. I don't like slides. No secret there.

Twitter

- I loved the fact users organized themselves to tweet. Major example being friend @farhan who created @ConfFar account for the event to avoid flooding the stream with tweets. Great idea as tweets from events are becoming an issue. It's simply not interesting if you are not following the event.

- I also loved http://livetweeting.com/ - Live, crowdsourced translation of tweets by volunteers

- I hated the lack of communication with the organizers. It was not told anywhere on the main website what was the main tag, #leweb or #leweb09. Or at least I wasn't able to find it, which is sort of a failure. When I asked for the tag, the @leweb account was silent and did not reply to me. Actually I haven't noticed them being active at all during the event. I remember asking the same question at The Next Web and got 3 replies from the organizers in real time.

Citizen Journalism

- If you think about attendees as such, you are not getting it. People attending your event are reporters of the event. True evangelists with your augmented audience. You need to empower them and channel communication. You'll achieve that by clearly communicating your online tools, ie hashtags, tags, backchannel.

- Liveblogging is dead. I really don't see the purpose of liveblogging anymore. Twitter is the substitute.

IPhone App

Stellar! I loved it. You could watch the live stream and tweets. What more can I say? Oh wait, it was free.

Top 5 Speeches

On a content perspective here are the best videos on Social Media, loved them!

5. Chris Brogan

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4. Tim Ferriss

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3. Chris Pirillo

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2. Gay Vaynerchuck

Can't see? Click here - Plese note comments on conferences toward the end and great post interview by @ConfBasics

1. Her Majesty Queen Rania

Can't see? Click here - She blowed me away with her 140 character slides on top of a very powerful message.