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Interviewing Marrisa Mayer – Take 2

11/11/2009

I first talked with Marissa last fall, at TechCrunch50, shortly after she announced GoogleNews and helped celebrate Google’s 10th anniversary with cupcakes and candles and a cheering TC50 crowd:


Alas, it wasn’t until the end of the day, when I found out that our over-20 minutes of videotaped conversation was gone – total audio loss due to a faulty microphone connection. I sat down again for another interview with Marissa, a few months later at the LeWeb conference in Paris. This time we discussed Google’s OpenSocial and content sharing and distribution on YouTube, which was just acquired by Google:

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post-LeWeb posts: when Seesmic met Seesmic

9/11/2009

The Seesmic video conversation, discussed by LeWeb ’08 participants and Seesmic users – Phil Jeudy of San Fancisco-based Altaide Valley, and artist Philippe Lejeune:

I also asked another French expat, Seesmic investor  Jeff Clavier of  SoftTech VC about his take on video conversations:

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@140conf: Following @jack

16/06/2009

I talked with Twitter Co-founder and Chairman Jack Dorsey at Jeff Pulver‘s 140 Characters Conference New York:
@tinromedia: “Why 140?”
@jack: “simple math” (not in so many words):

@tinromedia: “What do you see in Twitter?”
@jack: “globalness”

@tinromedia: “A Twitter’s Tweet? (140 characters or less)”
@jack: “We have a long way to go!”

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post-LeWeb posts: Google

10/03/2009

Nikesh Arora, SVP, Google and President, EMEA Operations, shares Google’s vision about crossing language barriers with innovative translation technologies (from a LeWeb interview with Loic Le Meur):

In an interview with me, following a panel discussion titled Platform Love: Getting Along, David Glazer, Google’s Director of Engineering, referred to the expansion of social networking platforms:

He also discussed privacy standards and how they changed over time:

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post-LeWeb posts: the Gillmor Gang

9/01/2009

Excerpts from: The Gillmor Gang at LeWeb 08, moderated by Steve Gillmor with guests: Michael Arrington, Loic Le Meur, Robert Scoble, Marc Canter, Doc Searls, Gabe Rivera, Hugh McLeod and Loren Feldman, discuss the cultural differences between Internet entrepreneurs in USA and Europe.

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a face-to-facebook w/Dave Morin

10/12/2008

During LeWeb08 I sat for a brief chat with Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager at Facebook. In the following two clips, he discusses Facebook’s vision of an open social web and ‘friending’ a la Facebook:
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LeWeb08 – Day 2

10/12/2008

Creative Commons Chairman Joi Ito on copyright issues and the emergence of Creative Commons standards regarding content sharing and remixing on the web:?
TechCrunch founder and co-editor Michael Arrington on TechCrunch and tech journalism:

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Why Love? Why LeWeb?

24/11/2008

Why love? On his recent Seesmic post Loic Le Meur explains why was love chosen as the theme for LeWeb08:Why LOVE is @leweb theme this yearnrelated blog post http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/11/why-love-is-thi.html
Why LeWeb? In an interview at TechCrunch50 last September, he explained why LeWeb is a blogosphere Mecca:

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Twitter (not in so many words)

30/10/2008

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia):

Twitter moments with @misc (above) and @Pistachio (below):

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BlogDay08 on Cyber Sapiens

31/08/2008

Blog Day 2008

As of the time of posting this blog there have been 7,529 blog reactions to BlogDay 2008, as cited on Technorati. My Blog Day selections are more about blogging demographics than about certain individual blogs. All are categories I look at in my documentary Cyber Sapiens, all are people whom I met or know from my own exploration of different themes of social media, and all are of bloggers whom I read and follow their blogs and the content they chose to share on different blogging platforms.

Digital Immigrants:

According to the Blogging Iceberg survey by Perseus “blogging is many things, yet the typical blog is written by a teenage girl who uses it twice a month to update her friends and classmates on happenings in her life. It will be written very informally (often in “unicase”: long stretches of lowercase with ALL CAPS used for emphasis) with slang spellings, yet will not be as informal as instant messaging conversations (which are riddled with typos and abbreviations)”.

Millie Garfield started blogging after asking her son Steve Garfield what a blog was and he, in return, created one for her. Warm, fun and often funny, her frequent entries cover daily anecdotes, hobbies and interests and rich life experiences. Micro-blogging on Twitter is not unfamiliar to her as are such web acronyms as LOL, BTW and OMG, and at 83 years young Millie certainly defies the typical blogger’s profile.

Visionaries & Evangelists:

Chris Brogan, whom I met at one of Jeff Pulver’s social networking events, created his first blog as a two-columns Excel spreadsheet long before ready-made blogging templates where available. The cofounder of PodCamp, his blog is a practical “how to” guide which offers thorough advice alongside motivational inspiration for early adopters and novices alike.

Taking the conventional blog concept one step further, Seesmic founder and French, now American, serial entrepreneur Loic Le Meur says that traditional media – send messages, and blogs – start conversations. He also says that vlogs are tomorrow’s blogs.

His About section of his website reads: “I am blogging every day a video on loic.tv about (almost) everything I do as I start Seesmic, I also constantly post short thoughts to twitter and often my pictures on Flickr.” Or in the French edition aussi: “Vous pouvez me suivre tous les jours en vidéo sur loic.tv, plusieurs fois par jour en style SMS sur Twitter, je poste aussi mes photos sur flickr.”

Traditional media have been all along about communicating messages to the masses, lacking any mechanisms for feedback, dialog or interaction. Blogs were the first to offer a feedback, talkback, but left the interaction in the print environment. And while vlogs created a face-to-face familiarity and an opportunity to develop a dialog, Loic is turning Seesmic into a cozy virtual salon, where any one can drop by and drop in on a conversation or start a conversation in any language and any time zone or geographic locale.

Social Media for Social Change:

In her blog Media Awaken, Maria Thurell suggests that through the use of social media tools, her clients can facilitate collaboration, communication and community relations. A digital Native by age definition and a self described “undeniable dreamer and an advocate of social change,” she promotes, on her blog and in life-beyond-keyboard, social causes and social change such as the ongoing SM4SC campaign. In a recent post, she links to Beth Kanter’s blog, a BlogHer contributing editor who, on her own blog, discusses how nonprofits can use social media, and offers a compilation of Gen-Y bloggers who write about social change in their blogs

Women WWWloggers:

Speaking of BlogHer, a website for “women who blog” and following their slogan “You say it. We share it,” women bloggers have been doing just that all along. From Halley Suitt, who trail blazed the blogosphere since before it was even dubbed as such, to Cathy Brooks who describes herself as a “genetically engineered communicator who is fascinated by how technology is changing behavior” and whose frequent, daily Seesmic vlogging conversations like her personal blog posts offers witty commentary on most everything… other than that – there’s a long, respected list of women who make for about 56% of the blogosphere demographics.

Tech Talk:

From across the pond, Brit Phil Campbell, whom I met in podcampnyc2 and pcb3, introduces himself as a “web geek, street geek that likes to dabble with all things techy,” as well as film his “new daughter a lot because she rocks.” His me.dm (pronounced medium) blog cultivates his work projects as well as his web presence on a host of social media sites such as FriendFeed, YouTube, Twitter, Seesmic, Del.icio.us, Ning, to mention a few. Oh, and he “haz Pulver.tv in development” too.

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