Introduction

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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On this episode of Read/Write Talk I sit down with Gil Penchina, the CEO of Wikia and a very active angel investor. We talk a little about his role at Wikia and how he got there. But I think some of the most interesting conversation comes from his advice for entrepreneurs and some of the things he’s learned looking at all the different deals he sees.

 

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Links

• About Wikia
• Gil’s Wikipedia Page

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Kaliya is probably best know as Identity Woman on the web. She’s recognized as one of the though leaders in user centric identity. Having helped organize Identity Commons and lead the Internet Identity Workshop. She also surprised me and had Dale Olds join at the end of the podcast. Dale is a distinguished engineer at Novell and leads work on the Bandit project.

 

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Links

• Kaliya’ Blog - Identity Woman
• Open ID
• Internet Identity Workshop
• R/WW Post on Map of Identity Landscape

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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.

Introduction

This week I talk to Ben Elowitz, the CEO of Wetpaint. Wetpaint is a wiki platform. Interestingly, they started focused on a direct to consumer offering, but have had success getting brand advertisers to create wikis to engage their customers. Interestingly, they “practice what they preach” and have developed much of their own product roadmap from engaging with their consumers.

 

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HP Wiki

On the podcast, Ben talks about the announcement of Wetpaint’s newest customer - HP. This was recorded under embargo on Friday, but was announced this morning. See the screen shots below or just visit the wikis: Home & Home Office Printing Wiki & the Small & Medium Business Printing Wiki.

Other Links

• Wetpaint Overview
• Ben’s Bio
• Wetpaint Central

Transcript

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Introduction

On this special episode of Read/WriteTalk, we have both a great guest and guest interviewer. Richard MacManus the founder and editor of Read/WriteWeb as well as the co-producer of Read/WriteTalk interviews Satish Dharmaraj the CEO of Zimbra. Zimbra was recently acquired by Yahoo! and Satish has some insights to share both about the company and his philosophy as an entrepreneur.

 

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Today at the Graphing Social Patterns conference, I sat down with Seth Goldstein the CEO of Social Media. We talk about his background, especially work on the Attention Trust non-profit, and finally vision for SocialMedia. SocialMedia is an advertising network for Facebook Applications.

 

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Links

• Social Media Site
• Seth’s Blog

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On this week’s episode of Read/WriteTalk I sit down with Alex Russell the Project Lead of the Dojo Toolkit and Director of R&D at SitePen Inc. Dojo is one of the leading open source JavaScript libraries. This provides Alex a great perspective to comment on both the state of JavaScript as well as evolution of web browsing environments and competing approaches to Javascript for RIA development.

Diclosure: mSpoke has leveraged the Dojo libraries for a lot of our AJAX functionality in FeedHub and hired SitePen for training.

 

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This week I sit down with Salim Ismail, the head of Yahoo’s Brickhouse. In this role, he is exposed to hundreds of proposals for Yahoo employees each month for products to be developed. Therefore, it was very interesting to spend some time getting his views on the future of the web.

 

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