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LEWEB3 2007

It was a very thrilling and elegant event and i am very grateful to attend. where was mary hodder??? where was mobilejones??? where were all the women in technology and blogging that we know from the lesblogs days?

i was really particularly curious that at the workshop for venture capitalists with saul, that there was not one WOMAN VENTURE CAPITALIST on stage. when i asked if there were any female venture capitalists, and why there were no women companies on the stage, fred answered that HIS PARTNER WAS A WOMAN and he invested in women companies (go fred! thank you for saying that to everyone!).

i ask myself why though, have i never once met fred's partner? never seen her at one conference? never seen her up on stage. why is that? saul pointed out a woman sitting in the front row who was apparently responsable for the seedcamp. but she was sitting in the front row and saul was on the stage with the microphone. she wouldnt even have gotten any recognition if i hadnt said anything. she was sitting quietly in the front row and i would never have seen her (she was sitting few rows up). why wasn't she on stage with the microphone if she was the one responsable for the seedcamp?

sometimes i wanna scream outloud because i ask myself, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? WHY ARE THERE NO WOMEN ON THE STAGE?" it doesnt mean they don't exist. after the workshop two smart looking fashionable EMAP VC business women came up to me and asked me what 360Fashion was about.

WHY WERE THEY NOT ON STAGE? even if the tech world does not think them qualified, why cant they just be up there as PLACEHOLDERS for the future women who are coming after them who will maybe in they eyes of men be better? why not at least use the coffee table in front to put picture frames of possible entrepenurial women up there with saul and the rest of them? why? because saul never thought to give the women a place on the couch or on stage who organized the seedcamp? maybe because fred's partner doesnt feel to come? who knows. i would have loved to meet her.

but there's something SERIOUSLY WRONG with the picture, and as a young woman in technology--who do i have to look up to? who are my role models? i feel so lonely in the tech world sometimes and outnumbered, it makes me hesitant to enter--and if i feel that way--what can other less brave women feel?

i was just at a conference: www.womens-forum.com where there were the worlds top CEO'S and VP WOMEN in the WORLD. why were none of them invited? the ticket to get into the women's forum is 5000 euro...so you can imagine that weeds out a lot of people. still 2500 women showed up! where are they? why are they not at the tech conference? why are they not interested in new media? the Cartier awards were at the womens-forum and all these young women entrepreneurs won. why were the Cartier women not on stage? they funded all these young women entrepreneurs.

i would have liked to see lee epting there from nokia at least. she's at forum nokia. if she's not techy enough to be at leweb3...who is? i feel like at the leblog days there were more women...or maybe it's just grown so big i could not find them all.

not that i dont like all those great and techy guys like david sifry, philippe stark, you loic, xavier des horts, gabe mac, fred, paolo v (love his wife), and the many other super talentend and entertaining wonderful people there. geraldine is the main girl holding the place for us--beautiful, fashionable, and techy woman. great role model. could we have some more please?

WIFI LEWEB3

as for the wifi, is not so easy to set up for thousands of people. i remember at nokia world, with over 2000 people connecting at the same time--my tech friend who was working to set it up said it's not so easy to set up.

you have to have the same ip addressing for people when they move from one side of the room to the other, so the connection seems seamless--you need to make it so people can roam through the access points. it's like with the mobile phone when you are on the train, and you have your phonecall on and you are moving and you go to the area of the other base station with the antenna, you have to continue seamlessly. it's the same with wifi, if i have my browsing connection on and i move from one side of the room to the other side of the conference room i dont want the address to drop. because if the wifi address drops then you have to reconnect, it disrupts the connections. you have to connect again.

you have to have connections seamlessly on all the time and to do that you have to have certain backbone where you have the router giving out the ip addresses from the address pool, and in the pool you have allocated enough ip addresses, and when they move around and go to the other routers, the dhcp gives one address for each client. the allocating of the wifi channels you have to have optimise the channels to get it working as well as possible, because if you have all the access points on the same channel then of course they are using the same frequency so they are eating eachother in the scope. they dont carry as long as they could. there's a LOT more to take into account when producting the wifi connectivity for a conference.

in the wifi config of your computer, you can select infrastructure or ad-hoc, even in a good wifi network you can ruin things by putting your computer in ad-hoc mode, then all people close to you will be connecting to your laptop instead of the official wifi network. that doesnt really work well. you can really sabotage the wifi network with the same ssid because people close to you will connect to your laptop and not the accesspoint. that's why i kept seeing double of the accesspoints in the venue. oops! it wasn't really orange's fault because there are some people that named their computers the same name as the ssid! they can't control that! so pay attention bloggers when connecting to wifi at events not to select ad-hoc.

ALWAYS select INFRASTRUCTURE when trying to connect.

ULLA MARIA LEWEB3

 

Leweb3…dolce vita at NoosFactory.

Ulla Maria from 360Fashionlooking very beautiful at leweb3. i voted for ulla maria as  number one!

SPEAKING AT LES WEB 3

Hugh and i are speaking on love & fashion. i dont know much about love but i can cover the fashion section. i cant wait to see what cartoons hugh does. have you seen the video we did? click here