Thanks to 60 journalists who covered LIFT08 we are getting amazing press coverage! We had more than 50 articles since the beginning of the year (and these are the ones we found) from our local medias (Le Temps, RSR, TSR, etc...) but also the likes of BBC News, Business Week or Wired. Here are a few excerpts from the international coverage:
LIFT is one of the highlights of the technophile calendar, an opportunity to meet up with some of the most interesting people around and engage in debate about the future with those who are actually building it instead of waiting for it happen.
BBC NewsYes, everyone may be talking up the news and happenings coming out of the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas [...] but some insanely interesting ideas also came out of the LIFT conference held early last week in Geneva, Switzerland.
BusinessWeekLIFT 08 -- where you learn something new every day. It would have been worth coming here just to hear about "Citizen Cyberscience" and "Powerpoint Karaoke."
Wired blogsEvents like the World Economic Forum at Davos, TED in Monterey and Pop!Tech in Maine are often placed in this conference superleague. The LIFT Conference in Geneva, has been steadily climbing the ranks of the elite [...]
The Journal
Thanks to all those who took time to share their thoughts in the press, on their blog, in video, or any other form of expression. And don't hesitate to forward your articles to info@liftconference.com if we missed it. We use Google News (what else?) to find articles which means we miss 90% of what is not in English or French.
Hi!
I have asked my team to build a dedicated news feed for the conference. All the news from media and blogs in one feed!
in english: http://www.wikio.com/technology/lift_conference
en français: http://www.wikio.fr/high-tech/lift08
Pierre
This year we decided to give press passes to bloggers and started accrediting writers from the electronic media. We will welcome, among others, the following bloggers and podcasters:
Doris Obermair of infonomia.com
Stephanie Booth of climbtothestars.org
Nico Luchsinger of 150worte.blogspot.com
Thierry Weber of CulturePod.ch
Erik Hauth of berlinonline.de
Harald Taglinger of telepolis.de
Nicola Mattina of blog.nicolamattina.it
Marcella of vnr.de
Sijia Ng of designtaxi.com
Sandrine Szabo of profession-web.ch
Anil De Mello of mobuzz.tv
Patrick de Laive of thenextweb.org
And I just bumped in Gabe of Xolo.tv and they should also be here. That is tons of coverage coming your way!