Archive for the ‘RWWLive’ Category

RWW Live: The Local & Mobile Web

Monday, March 30th, 2009

rww_live200.jpgOne 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:

 
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RWW Live: Online Travel

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

rww_live200.jpgOn 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

 
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RWW Live: Recommendation Engines

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

rww_live200.jpgReadWriteWeb 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

 
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RWW Live: OpenID

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

rww_live200.jpgIn 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.

 
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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.

RWW Live: Running a Startup in a Down Economy

Monday, January 5th, 2009

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!

 

 
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RWW Live Special: 2008 Year in Review

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

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.

 
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RWW Live: Shopping 2.0

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

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.

 
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RWW Live: Health 2.0

Monday, November 24th, 2008

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:

 
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RWW Live: Online Tools for Career Discovery & Job Searching

Monday, November 10th, 2008

We recently launched a new product, Jobwire, to track who has been hired for new jobs in tech and new media. In this week’s episode of RWW Live, we  discuss the state of online tools for career discovery and job searching.  Joining the regulars from RWW Live were:

  • Charlie O’Donnell, co-founder and CEO of Path 101, a “Community Powered Career Discovery” service.
  • Paul Forster, co-founder and CEO of Indeed, a search engine for jobs.
  • Dion Lim, President & Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Simply Hired, also a job search engine.

 
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This edition of RWW Live is sponsored by our main Jobwire sponsor VisualCV:

RWW Live: Online Personal Finance

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

You can’t turn on the TV, visit Yahoo Finance or pick up the Wall Street Journal without hearing about the economic crisis we’re in. It’s caused most of us to step back and look at our own financial situation.

In this episode of RWW Live, we look at how you can use Web tools to improve your personal finances. We have executives from Mint, Wesabe and Tip’d joining us. Join the regulars from RWW Live, plus:

  • Aaron Patzer, Founder and CEO of Mint, a popular online money management service.
  • Gabe Griego, Vice President of Marketing at Wesabe, a “part money management tool, part community” service.
  • Mu Saleem, Community Director of Tip’d, a new online community “for financial news, ideas, and tips”.
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