Introduction

On this episode I sit down with Chris Saad the co-founder of Data Portability.org  Since being founded about 6 months ago, one of Data Portability’s primary goals was to ‘develop a narrative‘ for data portability.  The group that has proven to be extremely effective in generating a ton of publicity.  The topic was actively discussed at SxSW and Web 2.0 expo over the last few months.  It is also worth pointing out as Chris acknowledges, that Data Portability certainly stands on the shoulders of a lot of great technology developed over a much longer time such as OpenID and various Microformats.

Regardless, Data Portability is moving onto other goals and one of my favorite parts of the interview is after  Chris comments on what they have accomplished in the last 6 months, I get him to completing the following statement: “if we don’t do ____ in the next 6 months, I’ll be disappointed.”  Listen to see how he fills in the blank.  All in all, I think it’s a good discussion and hope you enjoy it as well.

 

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Links

• DP Website
• 6 Month Report
• Chris’ Blog

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This week at ad:tech, Adroll is opening up to the public.  Adroll is an advertising network that allows publishers to self-organize into groups that collectively can reach out advertisers. (If it sounds familiar, the service was reviewed on ReadWriteWeb during the private beta.) Today we sit down with Jared Kopf, the founder and CEO.  We discuss his vision for Adroll, how the service has developed and views on the online advertising industry in general.  Jared is a serial internet entrepreneur, before founding Adroll, he was a co-founder at Slide and previously worked at PayPal.

 

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Links

• Adroll website
• RWW coverage of Adroll

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On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, I talk to Lance Tokuda the CEO of RockYou. The interview is basically broken into three parts:

• An overview of how RockYou focuses on building applications, especially focusing in on building apps on the Facebook platform versus the Open Social platform
• An overview of the RockYou company
• Finally, things Lance has learned moving from an enterprise software guy to focusing on building consumer facing applications

 

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On this episode of Read/WriteTalk, I talk to Scott Switzer the CTO and founder of OpenX. OpenX is probably better know as OpenAds, but recently was renamed. They have been a leading open source ad server for years and currently are one of the largest ad servers on the web. In the interview, we talk about Scott’s vision for his company and the ad industry in general. As Microsoft and Google continue to acquire ad servers, I believe OpenX will increasingly become a critical counter balance in the industry. So I’m really glad to have had Scott on to share his vision.

 

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Links

• OpenX Blog
• OpenAds FOSS Ad Network Goes Hosted, Raises More Cash
• Read/WriteWeb posts about Google’s Vulnerability - Open Ad Network

Editors note: this interview was recorded before Google announced their free “Ad Manager” for small and medium size publishers, but Scott has a post on the OpenX blog about this.

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On this weeks episode of Read/WriteTalk I have a wide ranging conversation about OpenSocial with David Galzer an Engineering Director at Google. This is a topic we’ve talked about before on ReadWriteTalk with our interview of Kevin Marks. It also is particularly timely after Marshall Kirkpatrick’s interesting piece this week on APIs and Developer platforms. Hope you enjoy the episode!

 

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Also, a quick thank you to my friend Eric James for recording some intro music for me!

Links

• RWW post on APIs and Developer Platforms
• OpenSocial Resources
• The spec development of the RESTful API that David references in interview
• Kevin Marks Read/WriteTalk Interview

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Introduction

On this episode of Read/WriteTalk, I sit down with Jack Jia the CEO of Baynote. They have developed a techniques to derive intent & make recommendations from what they call the ‘wisdom of invisible crowds.’ Recommendation Engines are an important trend on the web we cover regularly. In fact, Alex Iskold has a post today on ‘Rethinking Recommendation Engines’ and Richard followed with a post on our top 10 recommendation engines.

Disclosure: I co-founded another recommendation engine company, mSpoke and make a few editorial comments in the podcast. I highlight them in the interview for full disclosure.

Links

• Baynote Corporate Site
• Read/WriteWeb: 10 Recommendation Engines
• Read/WriteWeb: Rethinking Recommendation Engines

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I’ve increasingly become interested in the role feeds are playing in social networks. FriendFeed is a new Silicon Valley start up that is being run by a team of very successful former Google ‘intraprenuers.’  Bret Taylor and Paul Buchheit, two of the four co-founders, sit down to talk about FriendFeed on this week’s episode of Read/WriteTalk.

Interestingly, after our interview Paul agreed to join me on a panel at the upcoming Graphing Social Patterns conference on “Social Networks and The Need for Feeds.” I’d love to tap into the collective wisdom of this crowd, let me know questions you’d be interested in seeing us discuss.

 

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On this episode of Read/WriteTalk I sit down with John Lilly, the new CEO of Mozilla Corp. John has been at Mozilla since 2005, but recently was promoted from COO to take over as CEO. John published a very thoughtful post announcing his new role. In the interview we review both the lessons he’s learned at Mozilla and his plans for the organization in the future. I also think many of the leaders at DataPortability.org will find his comments quite interesting

 

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Links

• John’s Blog
• The Mozilla Corporation
• Read/WriteWeb: Mozilla Weaves Web Platform for User Data
• DataPortability.org
• Participatory Culture Foundation

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This week I was traveling in San Francisco again and stopped by Yahoo’s Brickhouse. After some meetings, I found out a number of entrepreneurs who are touring Silicon Valley were stopping by. I stayed for their presentation and then grabbed a few of them for a quick interview. It was interesting to get their take on both what they’d add to Ireland’s startup ecosystem. It also wasn’t surprising but a good reminder how far the US has to go hearing their reflections on how bad broadband and mobile communications are here.

 

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Links

• Brendan Lally’s Blog - Lally Logic
• Dawn Reilly & Niall Larkin’s Company - Relevant M
• Jan Blanchard’s Company - TouristR

Transcript

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Introduction

Chris Shipley is probably best known as the executive producer of the DEMO conference. She is also the founder of Guidewire Group. Between these two roles she talks to hundreds of entrepreneurs every year. In this episode, we discuss both her predictions for where the web is heading and also specifically what she would do if she were a venture capitalist or entrepreneur. She finishes the interview sharing some of the common attributes she’s observed across entrepreneurs who have gone on to be successful.

 

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Links

• Chris Shipley’s Homepage
• Demo Conference Site
• Guidewire Group

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