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Friday, December 5th, 2008
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:
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
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
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 On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, we sit down with Chris Tolles the CEO of Topix. Topix is an interesting hyper-local media company. The company uses a blend of algorithms and human editors to aggregate and classify news stories into different topics, with the majority of stories being classified into topics about different geographies. Interestingly, newspaper corporations have responded by supporting Topix both as investors and now some even as customers. On this episode, we discuss both how Topix works and Chris’ view of the hyper-local industry in general. We also spend a significant amount of time talking about Topix’s current and future business model, because I believe they may be a little further along then some of the hyper-local web startups.
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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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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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
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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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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
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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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Friday, March 14th, 2008
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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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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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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Introduction
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!
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
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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.
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
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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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Monday, January 14th, 2008
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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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