At a Paris incubator this past week, I had a lengthy chat with the Anne-Celine Jeanneau from Zoomorama. We received a number of demos from early stage startups, who were all located in one of five incubators run by Paris Developpement. (Martin Guerin hosted)

Below is a chat with Gary Vaynerchuk on LeWeb stage in Paris this past week. As passionate as ever, he takes over the interview, wanting to make sure he doesn’t leave the stage without the audience knowing that they ‘must do what they love.’

He touts that most people don’t although LeWeb audience seemed to respond differently than the typical yank crowd he’s more accustomed to addressing. While clearly this isn’t scalable, he says – answer every email, answer every direct message tweet. Not only scalable but highly inprobable once success really hits unless you give up ever seeing your child or a tree again. At some point, something has to give.

That said, what he’s talking about is the personal touch, the value of connecting with your audience and a large reason for his success. It’s not because he’s a master of wine above and beyond everyone else.

His success is because of his resilience, his determination, his ability to connect to the every day man – in their language and in a genuine way. he wears his immigrant status on his sleeve and as second and third generation Americans, we can still relate to that. Rags to riches and of course social media makes that reality more possible than ever. The second gold rush is in play.

A very short clip of Jennifer Corriero from Talking IT Global on LeWeb’s stage last week.

Loic LeMeur interviews YouTube’s Chad Hurley on LeWeb stage in Paris this morning.

Mashcast, a very cool company that does video mashups and much much more created a very creative and humorous video of Traveling Geeks heading to Paris. (Oh yeah and potentially inheriting the earth).

Below is a teaser and here is the video. Be prepared to laugh. A lot.

Fans of Yossi are everywhere, the latest in LA at the 140 Character Conference, held in Hollywood’s Kodak Theater late last month.

I really like what this guy is doing. Enter Alek (@freakcast) and his ‘live show’ gig: Freakcast. He walks me through an online video experience of something he performs live – imagine the video slicing and dicing being done in real-time. He says, think “Quantum Montage.” I love LA for this: it thrives on creativity and diving in without fear. (Check out Freakcast on YouTube)

At the 140 Characters Conference last week in LA, a few of the Google Wave guys flew over from Sydney to participate on a panel, talk about the latest features and benefits of Google Wave and in general, spread the word among early adopters, movers and shakers in the world of Web 2.0. (developer Alex North joins us for part of the conversation). Video is in parts I and II.