There will be a ridiculous number of smart and world class speakers at LeWeb this year, and many of them will be interviewed on stage by great journalists, bloggers and moderators such as Michael Arrington, Steve Gillmor, Kara Swisher, Thomas Crampton, Robert Scoble, Jennifer Schenker, Cathy Brooks and Marc Canter. I am sure they will do great preparing their own sessions.

I will emcee the main stage during the two days and will also host a few Q&As myself. As a side note these are not at all my preferred speakers or companies, it is just how the program ended up being, I "love" all our speakers regardless of who interviews them.

I would like this year to involve you in the Q&A if you like and would be grateful if you accepted to help me interview the personalities that I will have the pleasure to have with me.

Cedric Ingrand and his team at LCI has just released the below Silicon Valley special edition of his show "Plein Ecran" aired on French TV. Seesmic has a few minutes dedicated to how we adapt to recession as well and more interesting as comments from Seesmic members in video (answering this video) that were aired on TV. I really like this interaction on TV that the BBC has already tried many times and hope we will see more of that many to many conversation on TV.

It is around 22:28 timestamp.

Plein Ecran S05E13 Video Envoyé par LCIWAT sur wat.tv

Seth Godin has a very good point and recession is already making lots of cool products or services disappear. And we will miss them. There is one good news though, is that generally we will be less demanding for free products and services that tend to be the only possible option with the web 2.0 disappearing times. Everybody will get used to see cool things disappear and therefore will be thankful to the ones that survive, accepting to pay a small fee to make sure they stay around for a long time.

Entrepreneurs should remain focused on "what is the problem you are trying to solve" (hi, Ben :) and build products that creates enough value for consumers that they will be ready to pay for. In return customers will be a little less demanding as they realize it is not that easy to build and maintain those services.