Posts Tagged ‘Interviews’

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 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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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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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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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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KickApps is stepping up its game by launching a new KickApps App Studio today, effectively placing KickApps into the realm of application distributor. The update makes KickApps a platform for marketing and distribution, with options that reach far beyond the realm of KickApps-specific applications as well as sites powered by KickApps.

Yahoo Maps and Meebo are both launch partners for the new KickApps App Studio, extending existing relationships with KickApps services and integrated options. To get a better idea of what the new App Studio has in store for web publishers, developers and advertisers, I spoke with KickApps’ Senior Vice President, Marketing, Michael Chin. Below is an excerpt of our conversation:
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