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Post-Acquisition Interview With NutshellMail

nickoneill — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:47:01 +0000

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with the NutshellMail co-founders, Mark Schmulen and David Lyman, about building their company and the quick exit to ConstantContact. While we had a long conversation, I’ve cut down the interview to 7 key points that we covered during our conversation. There are some great takeaways for entrepreneurs looking to build their own businesses.
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Interview With ClipWire Games CEO Ritesh Khanna

Neil Vidyarthi — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:30:01 +0000

ClipWire Games is announcing their newest social gaming title, Haven, and I had the chance to sit down with their CEO, Ritesh Khanna, to discuss the title and the social games market in general. We discuss the status of Mafia Wars-style games, the importance of using metrics to guide your games and virality. Read below for the interview and brief discussion of Haven.
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Interview With Reggie Bradford, CEO Of Vitrue

nickoneill — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:25:27 +0000

Want to learn more about some of the Facebook Page promotion opportunities that are out there? In this interview between MediaBistro’s Matt Van Hoven and Vitrue’s CEO Reggie Bradford, we learn more about Vitrue’s offering including Wall Apps, a feature we wrote about earlier this week. Unfortunately this is not part of our normal podcast series so for those of you viewing this in the feeds, you may need to visit the page to view it.
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Interview With Sean Rad, CEO of ad.ly

Neil Vidyarthi — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:11:52 +0000

I recently had the chance to have a few words with Sean Rad from ad.ly, an advertising service for Twitter. Ad.ly describes itself as “an in-stream advertising platform that matches top-tier Twitter publishers with top-tier brands”. In short, ad.ly connects big brands with the biggest Twitter accounts on the web, and allows brands to propose advertising to the top publishers. Some of their publishers are TechCrunch, Kim Kardashian, Newsweek and Gossip girl, and some of the brands are NBC, Sony, Microsoft and Universal. Reports have indicated that Kim Kardashian earns up to $10,000 USD per tweet.
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Interview with Ayogo Games' CEO Michael Fergusson

Neil Vidyarthi — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:14:19 +0000

Ayogo Games are an independent social games shop from Vancouver, Canada. They’ve worked on some high profile titles like Mob Wars, and have some interesting insights into the social games community. I sat down with CEO Michael Fergusson to discuss the social games environment, monetization and the Vancouver social gaming scene.
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Social Platforms For Unity3D Games: An Interview With J. Joly, CEO of dimeRocker

Neil Vidyarthi — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:35:11 +0000

The browser gaming world has slowly been adopting Unity3D as its tool standard for 3D gaming, and dimeRocker is taking that one step further by connecting these 3D games with Social Networks like Facebook and OpenSocial. Used in games by companies like EA and The Cartoon Network, the technology has begun to gain prominence as a true alternative to standard full-install disc based 3D gaming.
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Lynne D Johnson: Advertising's New Social Media Conscience

ilanaarazie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:55:22 +0000

As a journalist, former programmer and senior editor at Fast Company, Lynne D. Johnson is a social media maven. She was also a general manager for Vibe and Spin magazines with an award-winning blog. She’s been fusing technology, community and journalism since back in the days of online bulletin boards. It’s no surprise that the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) recently snagged her as their first senior vice president of social media to help guide the industry into the new age of community tools. I recently sat down with Johnson to get her take on how brands should be listening while navigating the social web.
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Interview With Murti Hussain, President of Peanut Labs

nickoneill — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:32:45 +0000

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Murti Hussain, the President and Co-Founder of Peanut Labs about the company’s advertising strategy and the social advertising landscape in general. Peanut Labs helps publishers monetize their sites (largely game publishers) through survey offers from large brands. The company actually got started through their own gaming site which used peanuts as a form of virtual currency.
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BzzAgent Launches Alternative To Facebook Pages

kristennicole — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:48:54 +0000

Word-of-mouth marketing company BzzAgent is launching a new product today, seeking to create a better way for brands to engage consumers. Called BzzScapes, the new tool acts as a social media tool as well as an extension o the company’s client services.

So what is a BzzScape? It’s a web-based, social destination where people can create a page for any given brand, and add information about that brand as they see fit. A mix between a product review site and Facebook public profiles, BzzScapes aim to provide an open forum for consumers and brands. While anyone can create a brand page on BzzScapes, brands also have the ability to have one created, or to claim one that has been created for their brand. BzzAgent will offer a series of BzzScapes-specific tools for brands to use for things like market ressearch and managing their brand online.

Below is an interview with BzzAgent Founder and CEO Dave Balter, who speaks on the objectives for BzzScapes, as well as how it fits into the social media conversation.
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Interview: Mr. Youth and the Future of Social Media Marketing

kristennicole — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:31:28 +0000

Social media marketing. It’s a growing industry and one that we’re we’re still struggling to figure out, in terms of implementation, usability and overall effectiveness. Selling brands online can be a tricky task, but done right it can be quite successful.

So in terms of being smart about social media marketing, a brand needs to be smart and ready to be held accountable for not only its product but its interaction within the social media realm. Mr. Youth is a marketing agency that takes these things into consideration, and creates a marketing process around brands with some of these goals in mind. Below is an interview with Brandon Evans, a managing partner over at Mr. Youth.
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Interview With Alex Iskold Of Glue

nickoneill — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:36:38 +0000

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Alex Iskold of Glue, the company behind a robust semantic social recommendation tool. As you will see in the video below, Glue is extremely effective at integrating social recommendations as you browse around the web. If you want to connect with your Facebook friends through the network, Glue is integrated with Facebook Connect.

The most impressive component of Glue is that it automatically integrates with sites from all over the web and no matter which site you are on, the system will parse out movies, music, restaurants, tv shows, and more without you having to do anything. Currently Glue runs on Firefox but the company plans on releasing an Internet Explorer version in the near future.
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GrouperEye Launches Marketplace for Internships

kristennicole — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:22:13 +0000

GrouperEye is a new site that has launched as a marketplace for companies to find students to help them out with particular projects. The idea is to find students that are passionate about what they do, and will be able to benefit from this type of “internship.” The projects they work on are listed on GrouperEye as real time cases, which are formatted as competitions, giving the companies fresh perspectives and budget-conscious results. Below is an excerpt of an interview I had with Ted Williams, the President and Founder of GrouperEye.
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Interview with Peter Yared: iWidget Funding and the Changing Face of Syndication

kristennicole — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:00:18 +0000

Can widgets change the face of online advertising? It’s a question that we’ve been asking ourselves since widgets became mainstream, but we still don’t have a clear answer. We have, however, seen the evolution of widgets as they’ve become major interactive conduits for disseminating information. Thanks to platforms like Facebook’s opening up for development purposes, widgets have taken on a new occupation and place in the Internet’s timeline.

Below is an interview with iWidget‘s CEO Peter Yared, who speaks on iWidget and the company’s hopes for changing the face of the widget and advertising space. As iWidget, which recently raised $4 million and has upgraded its Social Syndication Platform, the company is now better able to provide deep integration with existing social media, taking content to the place where it’s most likely to be seen.
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Interview with Snaptu: Can New Mobile App Platforms Still Succeed?

kristennicole — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:16:20 +0000

Israel-based Snaptu is a new mobile phone platform that bundles various mobile applications into an easily managed series of catalogs for your phone. There are two main problems that Snaptu is trying to solve with its mobile platform, and that’s the automation of web content to remain user friendly in the mobile environment, and create a seamless experience for end users seeking to access applications through their mobile device.
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Interview with Elements: A New Kind of Twitter?

kristennicole — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:49:31 +0000

A new product called elements launched this week from the team behind Lunarr, and elements bears the same simplicity and effortlessness that its parent company is known for. At first glance elements may appear to be a media-updating tool akin to Twitter or Tumblr, but at its core lacks a specific design that evokes a method of fluid and continual sharing that can also be used for very specific ways of giving and gaining information from a select group of people.

To get a better understanding of what elements is, how it works and how it’s different, I interviewed co-founder Hideshi Hamaguchi.
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