A few month’s ago, we syndicated the Open Social Conference Call  and it received a very positive reaction from you our audience.   Therefore, we decided to bring you another special episode today as Google makes another announcement.

Tonight, at the next in Google’s series of Campfire One events, they are announcing “Friend Connect.”  The recording is syndicated from their preview conference call today.  Friend Connect allows sites to add social functionality to any website.   As we anticipated over the weekend on ReadWriteWeb, Google joins Facebook and MySpace in annoucning this functionality over the last 3 business days.

For more information on Friend Connect, please check out the press release.  Also, the Friend Connect project website will be live later tongiht - here.

 

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Today Google, Yahoo and MySpace announced the Open Social Foundation. We covered this news thoroughly on ReadWriteWeb including Marshall Kirkpatrick liveblogging the call with special guests tech analyst Steve Gillmor and OpenID Foundation chair Scott Kveton. And an analysis post earlier in the day by Josh Catone.

We thought a number of you might want to hear the audio as well, so we’re sharing this on ReadWriteTalk.

 

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We didn’t get this transcribed, but once again you can see Marshall’s notes from Liveblogging the call here.

Note: this is the second special episode we’ve done today on ReadWriteTalk. We’ll be back to our regular interview format later in the week, but felt this was valuable enough to share. Please let us know your feedback.

Introduction

In today’s episode of Read/WriteTalk I sit down with David Karp the CEO and founder of Tumblr. Tumblr is a platform that makes it easy to express yourself on the web. In some ways, it is very similar to Twitter and other services like it. However, Tumblr is off to a great start and is growing very rapidly. Today they are announcing a number of new features. We touch briefly on these features, but also discuss David’s vision for Tumblr and how he feels he is different than two competitors (Twitter and FriendFeed).

 

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Links

• Tumblr Site
• David’s Tumblelog

Transcript

The transcript will be live in the next few days. I wanted to get the podcast up immediately due to the new features being announced.

 

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Introduction

Tonight I have a special episode of Read/WriteTalk. I sat down with Bradley Horowitz, VP of the Advanced Development Division Yahoo! We discussed to hacks that were launching after being conceived at their internal hack day on March 23rd. We also discussed the ‘hack ethic’ inside of Yahoo.

You can also see my accompanying post on Read/WriteWeb.

Links

• MapMixer
• Yahoo! Shopping

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