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05 December '08 - 02:40

Joi Ito - LeWeb 2008 interview

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Joi Ito is an Early stage investor in consumer internet companies, CEO of Creative Commons and on several boards of NGOs. We talk about

• The usage of desktop PCs, laptops and mobiles in Japan as means to connect to the internet and why the size of Japanese homes has an impact on these patterns
• Why the way the Americans access the Internet is actually quite weird and how the structure of society shapes online habits
• Why from a user perspective mobiles have a lot of advantages over laptops
• Why the Japanese focus on consoles for playing video games reduces their flexibility in accessing the internet
• Why the technology gap between older and young generations can probably not be gapped and why companies nevertheless must bridge these gaps at least inside their organizations
• The fundamental difference of how the younger generation deals with modern technologies
• Why the approach of the young generation to media changes their personality
• The productiveness and creativeness of users nowadays and why things became slightly better compared to former times
• The evolution and evolvement of the Creative Commons project (wiki link)
• How people like you and me can contribute to the cause of creative commons

 

Infos about him taken from his signature:

CC Newsletter - A Shared Culture Video 
CC Network main page  - Help Build the Commons

My Blog - My Photos -
Facebook Profile - LinkedIn Profile - Twitter

Download MP3 (23 min, 21.5 MB)

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Used tags: interviews, joi_ito, leweb08, preconference_podcast

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