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Here’s the people on my video interview wish list for Web 2.0. I’ve actually found time this year to review the entire program and speaker line-up.

This is one seriously big gathering. Last year, around 10,000 people attended - with probably 4,000 to 5,000 at each of the keynotes.

In no particular order…

1. John Doerr - Kleiner
2. Jeff Clavier - SoftTech VC
3. Marc Andreessen - Ning
4. John Battelle - Federated Media
5. Mitchell Baker - Mozilla Foundation
6. Josh Bernoff - Forrester
7. Blaine Cook - Twitter (because I still don’t get it)
8. Rael Dornfest - Values of n, Inc
9. David Hornik - August Capital
10. George T. LeBrun - O’Reilly Insight Group
11. Max Levchin - Slide
12. Thor Muller - Get Satisfaction
13. Jeremiah Owyang - Forrester Research
14. Gina Poole - IBM Software Group
15. Naval Ravikant - Venturehacks (more soul searching around Twitter
16. Steve Souders - because last year I heard him talk when he was at Yahoo! and now he’s gone to the Dark Side (Google)
17. Jonathan Zittrain - Oxford University

Of course, if I happen to run into any of the the keynote speakers - I will attempt to ask something intelligent.

For me, at least, Web 2.0 is all about trying to ascertain what the pulse is. I’m keen to talk to the people on the ground about the whole Yahoo/Microsoft pissing match (and by the time Web 2.0 starts, the mud slinging should be well and truly underway).

Regardless, Yahoo! have nowhere to go and nowhere to hide. Microsoft’s modus operandi is all about appearing to play fair at the start and then when and if that fails, they simply come in with all guns blazing. I reckon the Yanks should have had Ballmer tackle Iraq. Mark my words, the USS Microsoft will get their way with Yahoo!

I’m also going to really try and see if I can get the whole Twitter thing. Probably not though - I’m too old.

Actually, the next post (which is an email excerpt) by Dave Taylor finally started to shed some light on the whole thing.

Stay tuned, I’ll be posting my questions to each of the people on the above list soon (in case I don’t get the chance to shove my video camera in their face).

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