In 2009 I attended The Europas Awards in London (above), celebrating the best European tech startups. It was a very boozy, rowdy, and fun event presented by Mike Butcher, Editor of Techcrunch Europe.I couldn't make it this year but I'm sure that …

Fellow Traveling Geek Evan Spence has posted a pretty good piece about LeWeb, which we attended earlier this month in Paris. LeWeb is one of Europe's top tech conferences and is organized by San Francisco-based Loic and Geraldine Le Meur.Ewan …

Silicon Valley Geeks and Parisian Geeks have a lot in common: lots of passion, great ideas and they speak the lingua franca of "geek."But there is an important difference, as Beth Blecherman at Techmamas recently found on a visit to LeWeb:While …

Startup culture seems universal these days. This year I've visited startups in the UK and more recently, in France. And I constantly meet startups in Silicon Valley, where some have relocated from many other countries.They all share many things in …

Our fellow Traveling Geek Olivier Ezratty has been a wonderful guide to Paris and also to the Parisian startup scene. Olivier makes some angel investments and he consults with French startups.I had mentioned that I was quite impressed with the …

(LeWeb conference floor - photo by Robert Scoble.)The beauty of the blogging approach to news is that you don't have to reinvent the wheel. If someone has written up a great story, you can simply point to it instead of trying to recreate it.At LeWeb …

LeWeb '09, France's top web conference kicked off yesterday in a cavernous hall in a grey slab-like building out in the suburbs of Paris.Initially, there were complaints about there being 'too many Americans' and that the quality of the panels was …

The quality of the French startups we have been meeting with all week, has been very good. It seems as if the French can once again claim back 'entrepreneur' instead of it being sometimes derisively labelled as an oxymoron in the French context.But …

I'm bowled over by the French startups and entrepreneurs I've been meeting the past two days. Lots of passion, energy, smarts, and great ideas.I'm totally surprised because I had a totally different expectation. France has a reputation for …

[I'm in Paris all this week as part of the Traveling Geeks, a collection of journalists, bloggers, and PR people meeting with French startups and also attending LeWeb, France's premier Web 2.0 developer and business conference.]I took the EuroStar …

I'm heading to Paris for the Le Web conference next week then spending the rest of December in London.I'll be attending Le Web as part of the "Traveling Geeks" [misspelling deliberate], organized by Renee Blodgett. Also on the trip: Eliane Fiolet, , …

Some of the Traveling Geeks - photo JD Lasica I spent much of July in the UK with the "Traveling Geeks" a group of journalists and bloggers meeting with leading European startups.JD Lasica, the tireless organizer of the trip, recently put together a …

My recent trip with the Traveling Geeks to the UK was an intense week consisting of many events and meetings with European startups, government agencies, conferences, panels, and some remarkable experiences.My son Matt joined me part of the …

I just got back from the UK spending much of my time with the Traveling Geeks, a group of leading Silicon Valley bloggers and journalists meeting with UK government agencies, UK tech companies, and startups.It was a very good trip. Here are some …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT3hro-BsQcFriday afternoon the Traveling Geeks visit Cambridge Consultants and visit the William Gates III building for meetings with researchers from Nokia Labs and Microsoft Research Labs (MRL).Cambridge Consultants …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo_aUaJlAFAFriday and the Traveling Geeks are in Cambridge, the innovation capital of Europe. After presentations by Cambridge university representatives and also from government agencies helping startups, the …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8z7odjIZdwAfter a hard-packed day of visiting with Cambridge startups, government agency representatives, Cambridge tech incubator, meeting with Nokia research labs, meeting with Microsoft Research Labs - and punting …

It's Friday Morning and it's an early 7.30 am start for the Traveling Geeks...JD Lasica is the unsung hero of the Traveling Geeks. He has invested hundreds of hours in organizing this trip.By Friday morning, his normal patience-of-a-saint is …

Next on UK Diary: The Traveling Geeks become the Punting Geeks as Cambridge, the innovation capital of Europe, hosts with great style and class.UK Diary so far: - SVW Goes To The Europas . . . - Ecoconsultancy At Shakespeare's Globe - Why …

 It's Thursday evening and the Traveling Geeks are at the Europa Awards to celebrate European startups.The place is already filling up when I get to the venue for the Europa awards in south London. Things don't look good because I have just one …

Thursday afternoon the Traveling Geeks are at The Swan, which is attached to the recreation of Shakespeare's Globe theatre on the Southbank.The event is organized by Econsultancy , a digital marketing firm, and led by Ashley Friedlein, CEO and …

Thursday morning the Traveling Geeks head to Accel Partners, one of the top European VC firms, to hear presentations from: Errol Damelin, founder and CEO of Wonga Kristian Segerstrale, founder and CEO of Playfish John Newton, founder, Chairman …

Following lunch with Skype, the Traveling Geeks have the rest of the day off.I spend a good chunk of my free time posting and catching up with my online persona. Then I'm off to the Southbank Centre for a cup of tea and a couple of glasses of wine …

It's Wednesday and all we have on the Traveling Geeks schedule today is lunch with Skype then we get the rest of the day off. Phew!That's a welcome break after our hit-the-ground-running start to our trip since Sunday.Even better, lunch with Skype …

[Being a Traveling Geek takes stamina. I challenge any traditional journalist to keep up with our daily agendas. Not only are we interviewing people and staying up late writing, editing video and posting but we are also being interviewed by others, …

We left BT and managed to hail a few black cabs amid the rain and made our way over to the Guardian newspaper for a panel on the future of media.I was thinking that maybe the death of newspapers is just nature's way of helping us all to reduce our …

Tuesday afternoon with the Traveling Geeks and we are over at BT HQ seeing half-a-dozen presentations from its business units.We were a little wet from dodging torrential rain bursts. But the afternoon sessions are interesting.Meghan Asha was …

(Photo Susan Bratton.) Tuesday morning the Traveling Geeks were at Seed Camp. I couldn't make it but here are some of our reports:Susan Bratton: My Impression of UK and Euro Entrepreneurs from Today's Seedcamp NESTA "Speed Dating" Adventure We …

I missed the first event of the day for the Traveling Geeks because I was hunting local shops for an Ethernet to USB converter as I, (and we collectively) struggled with Internet connectivity issues.Sky Schuyler was our resident IT support guy and …

Monday evening the Traveling Geeks were invited to dinner in the 384 ft BT Tower, which used to be known as the Post Office Tower when I lived in London. It has a revolving restaurant near the top and has been closed to the public since 1980.It was …