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RWW Live: The Local & Mobile Web

Richard MacManus — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:00:00 -0800

One of the big trends on the web is more and more location aware / sensitive web applications. Increasingly powerful mobile devices are enabling this. In the latest episode of RWW Live, today at 3.30pm PST, we'll talk about how the Web is evolving to include more location aware applications and what barriers are still in the way. We'll also talk about privacy and other user concerns and what is being done to address them. We have special guests from Yahoo! Fire Eagle, Four Square and Outside.in on the show today.

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]]> At SXSW this year it became very real for many people. Indeed Four Square, one of our guests today, developed one of the most talked about applications at the event. We hope you tune in to the show LIVE at 3.30pm PST Monday (6.30pm EST) on Calliflower or Facebook. You can also ask questions during the podcast, using the chat function.

As usual, RWW Live will be hosted by Sean Ammirati. Our guests are:

Dennis Crowley from the previously mentioned Four Square (iTunes link). Check out ReadWriteWeb's review of Four Square. Before that, Dennis was co-founder of Dodgeball, which was acquired by Google.
Tom Coates, from Yahoo! (creator of Fire Eagle). See ReadWriteWeb's coverage of Fire Eagle's go-live.
Mark Josephson CEO at Outside.in. See ReadWriteWeb's coverage of Outside.in.

We welcome your suggestions for discussion points, either in the comments here or by tuning in LIVE to the show - via Calliflower or Facebook - and participating in the chat room.

UPDATE: The podcast is now available for listening to here.

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RWW Live: Online Travel

Richard MacManus — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:30:00 -0800

The latest episode of RWW Live, today at 3.30pm PST, will be focused on online travel applications. We have executives from 4 great travel startups on the call: TripIt, Yapta, Dopplr and PlanetEye. In the show we'll be discussing how the Web is changing the way people travel for work and fun. It promises to be a fascinating discussion, so we hope you tune in to the show LIVE at 3.30pm PST Monday (6.30pm EST) on Calliflower or Facebook. You can also ask questions during the podcast, using the chat function.

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]]> As usual, RWW Live will be hosted by Sean Ammirati, with ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus, Marshall Kirkpatrick 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

We welcome your suggestions for discussion points, either in the comments here or by tuning in LIVE to the show - via Calliflower or Facebook - and participating in the chat room.

UPDATE: The podcast is available for download here.

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RWW Live: Recommendation Engines

Richard MacManus — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:30:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb 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. This promises to be a fascinating discussion, so we hope you tune into the show LIVE at 3.30pm PST Monday (6.30pm EST) on Calliflower or Facebook. You can also ask questions during the podcast, using the chat function.

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]]> As usual RWW Live will be hosted by Sean Ammirati (who for full disclosure is also Co-Founder & CEO of mSpoke, a startup offering a recommendation engine for content publishers). Also joining the call will be ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus and Bernard Lunn.

Some of the topics we expect to discuss in the show:

Measuring effectiveness of recommendation systems
Draw backs / problems (referring to our recent post 5 Problems of Recommender Systems)
Opportunities our guests see for innovation in the space

We welcome your suggestions for discussion points, either in the comments here or by tuning in LIVE to the show - via Calliflower or Facebook - and participating in the chat room.

UPDATE: the audio is available now.

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RWW Live: OpenID

Richard MacManus — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:30:00 -0800

In the second RWW Live of 2009, 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 the RWW Live podcast show today. They are Scott Kveton and Chris Messina from Vidoop, Brian Kissel from JanRain, and David Recordon from SixApart. As usual, RWW Live will be hosted by Sean Ammirati, with Marshall Kirkpatrick and yours truly (Richard MacManus) on the show.

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]]> The show will be broadcast LIVE at 3.30pm PST Monday (6.30pm EST). We invite you to tune in and interact with us via the chat, by clicking here. You can also use the Calliflower Facebook app to listen and participate.

Here are the details of our guests in 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.

Some of the topics we'll explore on the show include:

How to increase adoption of OpenID
Plans for the OpenID Foundation
Opinions on Google Friend Connect & Facebook Connect

We welcome your suggestions, either in the comments here or by tuning in LIVE to the show - via Calliflower or Facebook - and participating in the chat room.

UPDATE: the audio is available now.

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RWW Live: Running a Startup in a Down Economy

Richard MacManus — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:30:00 -0800

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. Join the ReadWriteWeb authors and special guests on our live podcast show. Our guests 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'.

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]]> In the podcast, we'll discuss the lessons our guests have learned over the last year and how they plan to continue growing in 2009. The show will be broadcast LIVE at 3.30pm PST Monday (6.30pm EST). We invite you to tune into the show, and interact with us via the chat, by clicking here. You can also use the Calliflower Facebook app to tune in and participate.

We will post the audio from the show at the end, but we hope you join us LIVE on Calliflower or Facebook.

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

UPDATE: the audio is available now.

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