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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 they have in their database and how they use it
• privacy and security of the data
• what they hope to track / research and share with others
• from anchestry up to "how much does coffee work on me?"

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The website has some great slideshows of the results, for example:

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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 start-up Wubud, and leading smartphone news site All About Symbian.

In this podcast, we chat about the changes happening in the mobile world and how social networking is coming to mobiles, the efforts of mobile manufacturers and networking companies to attract customers, with an emphasis on application development. Can the fractured nature of smartphones really replicate the PC development ecosystem?

• the mobile computing a d PDA world of the 1990s growing into the modern smartphone world.
• modern social networks and how they have interfaced with personal handsets and the advantages that offers (such as location based profiling).
• the strengths of mobile, commerce, music, pictures, video, and the availability of a web browser wherever you are.
• the commoditisation of the handset, and the financial effects this can have on manufacturers and networks.
• the territorial factors that determine the best handsets for a country.
• the three areas that affect purchasing decisions; coverage, technology and service cost.
• why the Apple iPhone is not the game-changing platform that it first appears to be ? Steve Jobs backed away from something truly revolutionary.
• why the mobile phone is the most personal device in history, and why personalisation is important.
• the problems of developing for these platforms, and why Apple are winning in this area.
• and what he expects and looks forward to from Le Web.

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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
• the relevance of language barriers and why you have to know the market
• should game development go browser / mobile / desktop?
• Mobile gaming is the next big thing since 10 years … Our mobile strategy is: waiting.
• chances of what can be done mobile for gaming
• why gaming is a huge and perfect market to be in right now
• how did they start, failed in the English market and then expanded to 50 languages
• why the US companies have a profit-limiting view on the world
• the mess of international payments on the net

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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 and how that is built into the DNA of SixApart
• what kind of conversations he would love to have in Paris

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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 love that exist and about the brain systems that are involved with them
• Her brain scanning experiments and the notion, that love is a primitive drive, not an emotion
• The sophisticated structures of attachment
• Studies she has conducted and some results of them
• The concept of marriage and why it is not a natural law
• The non existing cultural differences when it comes to feelings involved with love
• How the fact, that she is an identical twin, created her interest for the love subject
• How genes determinate behavior
• The rules of nature that make people fall in love with a specific person
• About the four different basic types of character and the genes and chemicals that define them
• The types of Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Gordon Brown, John McCain, Bill Clinton and Nicolas Sarkozy
• How Helen stumbled into Mother Nature’s kitchen and found the recipe for love
• How these different kinds of personality influence history and the course of the world, shown on the examples of Yeltsin and Gandhi
• How the four types were expressed in archaic times and how they types evolved to organize group life
• The types most bloggers belong to

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Her books:

• Her new Book: Why Him? Why Her?: Finding Real Love By Understanding Your Personality Type
• The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
• Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
• Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

Also thanks to Markus Roder for pointing out that Helen also did Ted:

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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 a private thing
• anything organized in time could be music / music a visual process
• technology is a way to broaden the way how we experience the world, for example how you can make music from the electronic information coming from a GPS satellite, feel a movement in space to transform into music
• creativity through collaboration: a conductor is working with 100 people, the music played by somebody else – how without to limit induividual creatvity still harness all energy to get a coherent interpretation
• why he would like to see some ‘spiritual’ discussion take place

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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 industries
• characteristics of the kind of businesses he is interested in
• why the area of finance is in great need of being reinvented
• I think the time has come to change the way that consumer finance business works and make it work better for the consumer and be more transparent for the consumer
• why consumers should start to manage their finances on their own and how the web could help here
• why he started to invest in European companies and why it is difficult to finance projects based in Asia
• in which areas of (web) technology Europe is ahead of the States and more innovative
• why European entrepreneurs should rather take a global approach when doing business and some advantages of European entrepreneurs over their American counterparts

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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

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