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This is a combined edition of some of the bloggers attending through the Blogger Programm. It is the last entry for my preconf podcast interviews and I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. :)

Enjoy the talks with:

• Erno Hannink – @ernohannink
• Andrea Vascellari – @vascellari
• Peter Bihr – @thewavingcat
• Tom Morris – @tommorris  – Thanks for the Plato ;)

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Linda Avey is the Co-Founder of 23andMe, a company which enables people to access and understand their own personal genetic information. Basically they are using the curiosity of a human being to find out more about themselves, but want to help them at the same time. As they describe it:

23andMe, Inc. is the leading personal genetics company dedicated to helping individuals understand their own genetic information through DNA analysis technologies and web-based interactive tools.

We talk about

• what kind of information you get back and how to use it
• how many samples …

 

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Ewan Spence (Blog / @ewanspence) describes himself as ’someone who walks the internet like Caine from Kung-Fu with broadband.’ In real life his versatility in a number of spaces, including mobile technology, social media, podcasting and entrepreneurship allows him to comment from experience on many of the issues that pervade Le Web and the growing digital world. You may also remember him as one half of a memorable light-sabre fight at a previous Le Web. This year, he is speaking on a panel on Mobile Social Networks thanks to both his involvement in stealth …

 

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Klaas Kersting is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gameforge:

Gameforge is the largest independent supplier of browser- and client-based MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) worldwide. The company offers more than 12 games in over 50 languages. More than 65 million players have already registered for Gameforge games, and more than 13 million people actively play the company?s online titles.

We talk about

• role playing and strategy seem to be targeted to a male audience
• why the Asian market is so far ahead
• differences of the markets – Europe / Asia / North America …

 

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Robin Good (blog / @robingood) is the Chief Editor for Master New Media.

We talk about the Love to explore, to learn and love to expand you knowledge.
(sorry no more shownotes currently but it is a nice interview trust me ;) )

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David Recordon (Website / Blog / @daveman692) is the Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart. We talk about

• about how the web has come a long way from being pockets of information to where applications become social and work from there
• OpenID adoption + and why Facebook connect may not be your best bet
• the adaption of open technologies like OpenID / OAuth and alike in general and in companies like Six Apart
• how large companies are shiping these with their products, f.e. AOL mapquest launched using openid
• importance of local language and adoption …

 

[Back to the overview of all LeWeb08 interviews] Doctor Helen Fisher is a biological anthropology professor at Rutgers University, major researcher in the field of romantic interpersonal attraction, considered as the world’s leading expert in the topic of love, is involved of creation in the dating websites chemistry.com and match.com and the author of four books. Most famously for Leweb though she is the inspiration for this years theme: Love. As she says in the interview

Love is a very powerful drive. People live for it, they kill for it and they die for it.

We talk about

• The different kinds of …

 

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As a conductor Itay Talgam gets many people (who are creative in their own individual aspects) to work coherent together and make music – the similarities to business and technology are striking. Understanding such an ‘outside’ topic like music and conducting orchestras might give you some new insight and ideas.

We talk about:

• what is a conductor doing in internet conference (because the love for music is everywhere)
• how a conductor connects with his players and audiences
• why music brings people together and is so very emotional – music is a shared experience yet is …

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Fred Wilson is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of Union Square Ventures, twitters under @fredwilson and blogs on avc.com about web technologies, finance and venture capital.

We talk about

• why he is interested in the ways the web changes the business world and how internet companies can – while America is facing the downturn – grow and actually take market shares from existing businesses
• why he has, despite of the down turn, an optimistic outlook for web-based companies and will invest aggressively
• his fields of investment and the restructuring of the media …

[Back to the overview of all LeWeb08 interviews]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 …