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As you could see from yesterday’s post, there has been a Startup Competition going on at LeWeb, in Paris. Mike Butcher, from TechCrunch Europe and the French Minister of Internet just announced the winners of the competition.

Here are the companies that got to pitch in front of more than 2000 attendees:

• 1st: Stribe


This is one of the services I was looking forward to. It’s one of the first very useful ones, enabling you to create a social network platform on top of your website very easily.
In their own words: “Stribe is a plug and play service to instantly create a social network on any website”

• 2nd: TigerLily


This one was an unexpected surprise, it’s a set of facebook applications to help you manage your pages and make them more interactive. Presentation was a bit boring, slides where cool and product sounds good. In their own words: “Tigerlily is a set of Facebook apps for marketers who want to get more from Facebook pages.”

• 3rd: CloudSplit


In their own words: “Real-time spending insight, real-time cost control.”
CloudSplit is a very cool product, targeting a real business problem. It’s a very comprehensive tool to monitor your cloud spending and see how much each application is costing you, and reduce your overall costs.

There were some very cool companies presenting this year at LeWeb and the choice was very hard for the judges. Please take a time to check the others companies that presented too!

The third batch of startups presenting at LeWeb:

• Kukunu
• Kukunu is a new travel startup, focused on helping you find the best places. They are targeting non tech-savvy users, and obviously has all the now mandatory social features. Monetization will be through commissions.
• Sports Predictions
• Sports Predictions’ product, Get In, provides the user with free scientific premier league recommendation. They claim to have a 50-70% success rate.
• FitnessKeeper, Inc.
• FitnessKeeper is the company behind RunKeeper, the awesome iPhone application that tracks all your running experiences. They are announcing a new and improved iPhone application and a web platform where you can compare to peers with the usual social features. They are announcing also a $400k outside financing round.
• Liqpay
• Liqpay is a new startup in the mobile payment space. They have the concept that a mobile phone number can be a unique payment ID. To use the service you don’t need to sign up, register or have an account. It’s very easy to use. They are also launching a KILLcoin.org initiative.

Silentale, the Paris-based startup that helps you keep track and backup all your conversations, just rolled out a major new feature: LinkedIn support.

If you don’t want to wait, and want to try it out you can get a special Silentale invite with the code: “theStartup.eu”. We have got 40 invites, hurry up.

I had the chance to try the product some time ago, and I find it really useful. In my opinion the LinkedIn connector will be a major game-changer for business users, allowing them to import contacts and conversations.

Laurent Pierssens commented on a quick note: “Our current users have massively requested the addition of LinkedIn Contacts for their Silentale account. It was the #1 requested connector, even in front of Facebook Messages.
We believe the reason is simple, the second use of the message is particularly important for professionals with a wide network of contacts.”
This feature was possible thanks to the recently launched LinkedIn API, and I’m sure it’s not gonna stop here.

Wozaik, a Paris-based startup which is developing a dynamic bookmarking system, is giving away 200 invites for an exclusive preview of their platform to theStartup.eu readers. You can grab one here.

You may have already heard of them as they were the winners of Mini Seedcamp Paris 2009, where they first demoed their product. They are still in private alpha, but will soon expand in a beta.

Wozaik provides you with a “mosaic view” of the web, meaning that you can place dynamic bookmarks on your wozaik page. That works with a bookmarklet, thanks to which you can clip portions on websites and insert them on your wozaik page. For example you could clip Techcrunch’s actively discussed posts, a market summary for a given stock, or some search results for a specific term.

If you are wondering how they are going to make money, they plan on generating revenue trough affiliations and a more classic freemium model. Premium features are however not disclosed at this time.

Let us know what you’re clipping in your wozaik. Here is a video that explains how it works.

CloudCamps are unconferences, in the classic barcamp style, where early adopters, developers, businesses and end users exchange ideas about Cloud Computing. Topics range from the classic Infrastructure as a service (Joyent, Amazon Ec2, Nirvanix, etc), Platform as a service (BungeeLabs, AppEngine, etc), Software as a service (salesforce.com) to every new technology related to “the cloud”.

Here are the 3 european dates for this summer:

• June 11: Paris
• June 15: Barcelona
• July 9: London

If you are interested in cloud computing you should definitely attend one in your area.