One of the big trends on the web is more and more location aware / sensitive web applications.  Increasingly powerful mobile devices are enabling this. In this episode of RWW Live, we talk about how the Web is evolving to include more location aware applications and what barriers are still in the way - both social & technical barriers.

Joining me from ReadWriteWeb are Marshall Kirkpatrik & Bernard Lunn.  Our guests are:

• Dennis Crowley from the previously mentioned Four Square (iTunes link). Check out ReadWriteWeb’s review of Four Square. Before that, Dennis was co-founder of Dodgeball, which was acquired by Google.
• Tom Coates, from Yahoo! (creator of Fire Eagle). See ReadWriteWeb’s coverage of Fire Eagle’s go-live.
• Mark Josephson CEO at Outside.in. See ReadWriteWeb’s coverage of Outside.in.

On this  episode of RWW Live, we focus on online travel applications. We have executives from 4 great travel startups on the call: TripIt, Yapta, Dopplr and PlanetEye.

In the show we discuss how the Web is changing the way people travel for work and fun.  As someone who spends a significant amount of time traveling, it’s clear these tools are solving real pain!

As usual, I’m joined by ReadWriteWeb’s Richard MacManus and Bernard Lunn on the podcast. Our guests are:

• Gregg Brockway, President & Co-Founder, TripIt
• Marko Ahtisaari, CEO & Co-Founder, Dopplr
• Hugh Birch, VP of Product Development, Yapta
• Jonah Sigel, VP Business Development, PlanetEye

ReadWriteWeb has been running a special series on recommendation engines and this episode of RWW Live is part of that.

The show features 3 exciting and very knowledgeable guests: Jesús Pindado, Strands Vice President, Business Solutions; Yosi Glick, Jinni CEO & Co-Founder; and David Selinger, richrelevance CEO & Co-Founder, who previously led the R&D arm of Amazon’s Data Mining and Personalization team.

As usual I host RWW Live (for full disclosure as my day job I’m also Co-Founder & CEO of mSpoke, a startup offering a recommendation engine for content publishers).  Also joining the call were ReadWriteWeb’s Richard MacManus and Bernard Lunn.

Some of the topics discussed in the show:

• Draw backs / problems (referring to our recent post 5 Problems of Recommender Systems)
• Measuring effectiveness of recommendation systems
• Opportunities our guests see for innovation in the space

In this episode of RWW Live, we go in-depth about a web standard that made big strides in 2008 and is being increasingly adopted by Internet companies big and small: OpenID.

At the end of December, the OpenID Foundation announced its new Board - and we have several of those board members on this episode of RWW Live.    Here are the details of our guests on this show (in alphabetical order):

• Brian Kissel is CEO at JanRain, Inc.
• Scott Kveton is VP of Open Platforms at Vidoop
• Chris Messina is employed by Vidoop, runs Citizen Agency and works on the DiSo Project, facilitating the development of the “Open Stack” for the social web.
• David Recordon is Open Platforms Tech Lead at Six Apart.

PS:  We’re interested in topics for future episodes of RWW Live - please email us at tips <at> readwriteweb <dot> com with the subject line ‘RWW Live Topic Suggestion’ and we’ll sort through them and try to pull some of them together.

In the first RWW Live of 2009, we tackle an issue that is of vital importance to all startups right now - how to navigate through the choppy waters of the current economy.

Joining the ReadWriteWeb authors, our special guests on our live podcast show are entrepreneurs from BrightKite and Zoho, two startups that were recognized by ReadWriteWeb in our annual end of the year awards: Zoho won ‘Best Little Co’ and BrightKite won ‘Most Promising Little Co’.

 

In the podcast, we discuss the lessons our guests have learned over the last year and how they plan to continue growing in 2009.

Here are the details of our guests in this show:

• Sridhar Vembu, CEO, Zoho
• Raju Vegesna, Evangelist, Zoho
• Martin May, co-founder, BrightKite
• Brady Becker, co-founder, BrightKite

Hope you enjoy this episode of ReadWriteWeb Live!

 

For the final RWW Live show of the year, the ReadWriteWeb writers get together to review the year in Web technology. We discussed

• the highlights of 2008: the top Web companies, the biggest technology trends — including an especially good conversation on open versus closed system,
• and finally what to expect on the Web in 2009.

Beyond the RWW experts: Marshall Kirkpatrick, Sarah Perez and Richard MacManus we were joined by Allen Stern of Center Networks and Kevin Marks of Google.  A special thanks to both of them for jumping in at the last minute.

In this episode of RWW Live, ReadWriteWeb talks to a group of leaders in the online shopping market.  We have executives from Retrevo, ModCloth, Baynote, ThisNext and Cartfly on the call to discuss what’s next in online shopping in this timely holiday podcast.

 Joining the regulars from RWW Live were:

• Jack Jia, founder and CEO, Baynote, a collective intelligence platform for online shopping, featuring recommendations and social search.
• Eric Koger, CEO, ModCloth, an online retailer of vintage, indie, retro and mod clothing.
• Andrew Eisner, Director of Community and Content, Retrevo, a “matchmaking service for people and electronics”.
• Kurt Collins, VP of Business Development, Cartfly, a social commerce store network that enables online merchants to turn their storefronts into portable widgets and distribute them across major social networks.

RWW Live is hosted as always by Sean Ammirati and ReadWriteWeb editor Richard MacManus.

Last week, we sat down with part of the team from Adaptive Blue and talked about (among other things) their new product Glue.

The team has definitely been on the ‘podcast circuit’ as today the next edition of The Semantic Web Gang was published (we syndicate SWG) and also discusses Glue.   [Note: Alex Iskold, Adaptive Blue’s CEO, is a regular participant on the Semantic Web Gang, so this isn’t really surprising.]

Beyond discussing Glue, Gang members discuss their perspectives on the events, trends and companies that excelled in 2008… and those with work still to do.

On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, we sit down with some of the team from Adaptive Blue and discuss their new product Glue.   Specifically, joining us on this episode are:

• Alex Iskold, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Adaptive Blue,
• Karen Teng, VP of Engineering at Adaptive Blue,
• Fraser Kelton, VP of Business Development at Adaptive Blue, and
• Jim Robinson IV from RRE Ventures

On the episode, we talk about:

• Adaptive Blue’s vision and what drew each guest to the company.
• Glue: the new product recently launched
• Adaptive Blue’s technology and architecture
• Lessons learned from their experience running a company built on the browser platform

Links from the Show:

• Learn more about Glue
• Install Glue
• Learn more about Add-on-Con (note: conference is Dec. 11 not Dec. 12)
  

ReadWriteWeb has been tracking the so-called ‘health 2.0′ trend for some time now. We’ve covered the top health web apps, the trends to watch in health 2.0, and the latest industry stats.  And this morning we published a Health 2.0 update.

In this week’s episode of RWW Live, the ReadWriteWeb authors get together with a number of industry experts to discuss how the Web is changing health care.  The industry experts include:

• Scott Shreeve, MD, from Crossover Healthcare. Dr. Shreeve is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician and was a co-founder of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the first open source electronic health record for the healthcare enterprise.
• Abe Lederman, President and CEO of Deep Web Technologies. He has helped design several major search engines in health notably science.gov and worldwidescience.org and the new search engine Mednar.
• Robert Shelton, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Private Access, a suite of web-based applications that “solve the significant privacy hurdle that the medical community faces when attempting to recruit subjects for clinical trials and share confidential records in pursuit of faster diagnoses and better treatments for diseases and chronic illnesses.”
• Sramana Mitra, author of the book Entrepreneur Journeys, who in her Forbes column has been calling for Internet entrepreneurs to tackle the health care industry.
• Malcolm Costello, SVP Marketing and Strategic Relations at Kryptiq, a provider of connectivity solutions for healthcare - for information sharing among healthcare professionals, their colleagues, and patients.
• Steven Krein, CEO and CO-founder of OrganizedWisdom, a human-powered, doctor-guided search service for health.