To celebrate 4 months since launching our private beta and the beginning of an exciting new year, we’re giving every Silentale user 5 invites to share with their friends. Consider it a big “thank you” for trying out Silentale, and giving us an incredible amount of useful feedback and ideas on how we can improve.

To invite a friend, simply go to http://my.silentale.com/invites or click on the “Invite a friend” link in the upper right corner of your Silentale account.

Your account will keep track of who you’ve sent invitations to, and how many invites you have left that you can send. So go ahead and invite your friends, and remember that the quickest way to get more invites is to use the ones you’ve got. If you’re the lucky recipient of an invitation, you’ll receive an email with a link to claim it.

So thanks again for everything, and we hope Silentale will continue to help you, and your friends, to easily and quickly find what you need from all your messages and contacts! We wish you nothing but success for 2010.

We are pleased to announce that Silentale has been selected to present in front of a great panel of judges at LeWeb08. The conference will be taking place in Paris on December 9 and 10. 30 contestants will be presenting and the top 3 startups will then have the chance to present on the main stage. This will be a great opportunity for the winners to get some real time feedback from 1,500 people, including potential users, partners and investors.

If you’re planning on attending the event, then mark your calendar to come and listen in, as it will be Silentale’s first public presentation.

If you’re unable to attend, please feel free to contact me during or after the conference. And as usual, use twitter, SMS (+33672014787), Skype or email as me as a last resort.

Lastly, if you want to be one of the first to use Silentale, visit www.silentale.com to get an invitation, or reach out to us during the conference; Nicolas Fouché and myself will be there.

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The 30 companies that have been selected for the 2008 Start-up Competition are:

1. 2Win-Solutions – FRANCE
2. 3scale networks S. L. – SPAIN
3. Apture – USA
4. Box.net, Inc. – USA
5. Brozengo SA – FRANCE
6. Charge Ventures – Malta
7. Cmune – CHINA
8. ConTrust – ISRAEL
9. DoctorSIM – SPAIN
10. Edicy – ESTONIA
11. Haploid – FRANCE
12. IZI-collecte – FRANCE
13. Kaltura – USA
14. MyID.is Certified – FRANCE
15. Nimbuzz – NETHERLANDS
16. Popego Inc. – USA
17. Producteev Inc. – USA
18. Publing – FRANCE
19. Radionomy – BELGIUM
20. Samedi GmbH – GERMANY
21. ShoutEm Ltd. – CROATIA
22. Silentale – FRANCE
23. SquareClock – FRANCE
24. Tellmewhere – FRANCE
25. Trendiction – LUXEMBURG
26. Viewdle, Inc – UKRAIN
27. Webnode.com – CZECH REPUBLIC
28. Zavedenia.com – BULGARIA
29. Zipipop Ltd (Zipiko) – FINLAND
30. Zoover Holiday Reviews – NETHERLANDS

The judges will be:

• Ola Ahlvahrsson – Result
• Roberto Bonanzinga – Balderton Capital
• Mike Butcher – TechCrunchUK
• Laurent Chiozotto – Sun Microsystems
• Julien Codorniou – Microsoft
• Don Dodge – Microsoft
• David Hornik –August Capital
• Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet – Price Minister
• Simon Levene – Accel Partners
• Om Malik – GigaOM
• Dave McClure – 500Hats
• Freddy Mini – Netvibes
• Marc Samwer – European Founders Fund
• Axel Schmiegelow – Sevenload
• Gary Shainberg – British Telecom
• Megan Smith – Google
• Pascal Thomas – Orange
• Martin Varsavsky – FON