I grew up in sunny and beautiful Nice, France, studied computer science at Telecom Paris, and moved to the Silicon Valley in 1996. I have been busy developing software since, and in 2005 started stickis in San Francisco's SOMA district. Stickis is a social web overlay, aimed at evolving the web medium into a truly two-way community communication platform. That's a tall order (but we're dreamers, aren't we?), and life became much less glamorous since then: no more kiteboarding, traveling, or partying. For now. More background.