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Loic Le Meur Brings The Tweet Of The Day
by Allen Stern on March 25th, 2009
While browsing Friendfeed, I noticed an exchange between Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur and Techcrunch writer Robin Wauters. As you can see below, Loic (who moved from France to San Francisco) notes that "almost everyone" in the Internet industry is located in San Francisco. I wonder what percentage of people is "almost everyone". He then clarifies to say that it’s not just San Francisco but the region from San Jose to San Francisco.
For everyone who believes they are an "Internet player", I’ve got a bus heading to the valley tomorrow – leave a comment if you’d like a ticket. Also check out Robert Scoble’s column where he wonders if people are leaving/will leave the valley.
how well is seesmic doing these days?
The only time people from San Francisco claim to live in the same area as San Jose is when the additional numbers makes SF look good.
Otherwise, don’t be fooled. SF people NEVER claim San Jose as part of their region. There’s SF, there is Silicon Valley and there is San Jose. Three different locations/mindset even though it’s one large swath roughly 60 miles long and 20 miles wide.
When’s the bus swing thru Dallas and Austin?
i show it arriving at the convention center at 1:45am local time on saturday – note that you must show proof of a web app or blog to board.
Still, whatever. SF/SJ/SV are all so close, that if you live in one, you can get to the other two. Does it really matter? From the farthest point to the farthest point, it is a mild commute.
Dude, don’t forget us losers here in the #STL, thinking about 6pm’ish Friday STL time, to make the Big D stop off at 1:45am in Dallas — oh and that’s St. Louis for those not in the “know”. Where is the Kliq when you need them??? hahaha…
Ha ha ha!
More echoes from the chamber from Loic.
Allen, you’re so fun!
:)
Sure, there’s a lot of action in the SF Bay Area, but there’s lots of great Web startups and brilliant minds that are located outside the echo chamber.
@markwilliams You are so right about that. I’ve lived most of my life in SJ and when you ask someone from SF to drive to the south bay they whine as if SJ was in another galaxy.
miiko – the bus will be there soon with the rest of the internet people!
Creating Clipmarks.com and Amplify.com out of nyc/nj and damn proud of it. The close ties amongst the web elite on the valley actually stifles innovation in my opinion – because the tiny percentage of people in that area play way too large a role in determining what gets attention. take wefollow.com for example. that is a dumb idea that wouldn’t get any play if kevin rose didn’t create it.
wait eric – do you mean you haven’t sent in your hashtags to wefollow yet?
LOL – no i haven’t. In fact, if you want to know my thoughts on wefollow, i posted them here a couple of minutes ago http://amplify.amplify.com/2009/03/25/the-real-faces-of-social-media-per-wefollow/.
LMAO!! Luv it!
Is it a magic bus allen that can fly? if so swing past tiverton on your way. Its simple just go east out of NY :p
Darren we will make pickups across the world throughout the next few months – as soon as Loic is done with his speaking engagements – he has to drive – this way he can operate the megaphone and explain things on the bus – like which sites are important, where to eat, how to grow a userbase, etc.