Loïc Le Meur
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| Loïc Le Meur | |
 Loïc Le Meur at the LeWeb3 conference in 2006
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| Born | July 14, 1972 France |
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| Occupation | Entrepreneur, Blogger |
Loïc Le Meur (born July 14, 1972) is a French entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Executive Vice President EMEA at software company Six Apart after merging French blogging company Ublog with Six Apart in July 2004.[1] In late 2006 Le Meur became a public backer of French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and joined Sarkozy's campaign team as an advisor on Internet-related topics.[2][3]
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[edit] Career
In 1996, Loïc Le Meur founded his first company, interactive agency B2L.[citation needed]
In parallel he also founded RapidSite France and made it the leading web hosting company for small businesses in France.[4] In 1999, he sold RapidSite to France Télécom where it became part of Wanadoo.[5]
In 2000, he founded application service provider Tekora.[citation needed]
In 2003, he got involved with French weblog hosting company Ublog which he purchased from its founder, fellow Breton Stéphane Le Solliec in October 2003.[6] He then grew Ublog and merged the company with Six Apart where he became Executive Vice President in 2004.[7] He held his role as EVP EMEA until March 2007 when he handed his job over to long-time business partner Olivier Creiche. Le Meur remains Honorary Chair of Six Apart Europe. [8]
[edit] Blogging
Le Meur's personal weblog has been one of the most widely read blogs in France. He is also well-known as the organizer of the LesBlogs weblog conferences in Paris, France (later renamed to LeWeb).[9] In 2004, he became part of the team behind the official World Economic Forum Weblog.[10]
In December 2005, he conducted the first podcast interview with a major French politician, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.[11] While AgoraVox, a French citizen journalism site, panned the interview as "infotainment", claiming Le Meur had asked "softball questions" and criticized the podcast interview as free publicity for Sarkozy,[12] Le Meur responded that he did not want to be confrontational, and the event was seen as an effort to stem Sarkozy's decline in popularity among younger voters.[13] Le Meur then went on interviewing several other politicians in subsequent podcasts, including Dominique Strauss-Kahn and François Bayrou. He announced his support for Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election in September 2006.[14] Both Bayrou and Sarkozy spoke at internet conference LeWeb3 in Paris organized by Le Meur in December 2006, as did Israeli politician Shimon Peres.[15] He was invited by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy to come with him to the White House during his first official visit in United States in November 2007.
[edit] Bibliography
- Blogs pour les pros by Loïc Le Meur and Laurence Beauvais, Dunod ISBN 2100493957, November 2005
- La révolution podcast by Loïc Le Meur and Laurence Beauvais, Dunod ISBN 2100500597, September 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ July 14, 2004 eWeek - Six Apart Hires New CEO, Nets European Bloggers
- ^ Nicolas Sarkozy's Campaign Team
- ^ January 15, 2007, Guardian Unlimited - For France's bloggers, c'est la guerre
- ^ April 15, 2005 01.net - Interview with Loïc Le Meur
- ^ December 22, 1999 internetnews.com - France Telecom Acquires RapidSite France
- ^ November 25, 2003 Le Journal du Net - Ublog, l'aventure blog de Loïc Le Meur
- ^ July 15, 2004 internetnews.com - Six Apart Blogs in Europe
- ^ March 27, 2007 Loic Le Meur Weblog - After Six Apart, what should I do?
- ^ LeWeb3 conference website
- ^ Forumblog.org
- ^ Le Meur, Loïc. "Nicolas Sarkozy podcasté pour la première fois". 22 December 2005.
- ^ AgoraVox. "Sarkozy sur mon iPod ? Non merci !" 24 December 2005
- ^ Matlack, Carol. "The Podcast Shaking Up French Politics". BusinessWeek, December 27, 2005.
- ^ Le Meur, Loïc. "Je voterai pour Niclas Sarkozy". 10 September 2006.
- ^ Schenker, Jennifer L. "Politicians Woo Internet Crowd In Paris". Red Herring, December 12, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Le Meur's personal blog in English and in French
- Six Apart
- Loic Le Meur has a professional profile on the web.
- Interview with Loic Le Meur video
- Interview with Loic Le Meur about his new company Seesmic video
