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YoungGoGetter(YGG) is not just another tech news, entrepreneur focused blog. Travis proved that exponentially in this interview which offers both audio/text versions and a lot of great, honest marketing and blogging advice. He also talks about 80085 and goes old skool on us.
When I first discovered the internet, the potential the medium held was so huge in my mind that I couldn’t sleep. My mind kept racing about how quickly the entire world would be transformed. While the internet continues to influence our daily life in huge ways, absolute assimilation has taken longer than I expected. I know folks who still don’t know the difference between an email address and a website. Susan Crawford is working to change that and bring everyone up to the 21st century.
Rob Conery, the creator of SubSonic and founder of The Commerce Starter Kit, believes in open source. Both of his projects are .NET (aka Microsoft) projects and although the big guys in Redmond may never ship open source code themselves, it doesn’t mean they don’t support it and it sure doesn’t mean the .net community doesn’t believe in it. I spoke to Rob about the latest 2.0 release of his SubSonic project, Micrsoft, OSS, and big wave surfing in Hawaii.
The people making the web a better place aren’t always the big names you find slobbered all over ValleyWag. The people making the web are people like you, me, or the girl sitting next to you. That’s why this week we’re featuring Woot! Agent. What Carlo Massaro did was take a great idea and created a simple solution to help everyday Wooters get their fix. When passion meets utility it can be a beautiful thing.
Unfuddle is a project management web application. And no, it’s not just another project management application. I like to think of it as Basecamp for developers. Actually, I like it much better than Basecamp. Joshua gave us his thoughts on that and all things Unfuddle.
Building a robust and active community is not an easy task. We at Juxtaviews have been asking ourselves recently how we can inspire more responses and feedback from our readers. I thought I would track down community leader, artist, musician, and Artists-Unite board President, Peter Ferko and get his thoughts on balancing multiple interests and building both online and offline communities.
What’s a Human Giant? If you guessed, a standup comedian, two improv actors, and a hotshot director then you’d be right. Rob Huebel (Inconsiderate Cell Phone Guy), Paul Scheer (VH1’s Best Week Ever), Aziz Ansari (UCB’s Crash Test) and Jason Woliner are the driving force behind many popular short films on YouTube (and other video sharing sites) and a very funny new show premiering April 5th on MTV. Rob, Paul and Aziz were kind enough to stop by Juxtaviews and answer my big list of questions.
Furni creates things, but not web things. They design things too, but not web things either. So just what is Furni? Mike Giles, Furni co-founder, entertained Juxtaviews for a moment, stopping to give us the skinny on the little-big world that is Furni.
Brad Feld of Ask the VC and Tech Stars (as well as a few other things that we’ll get into shortly) stopped for a moment to answer a few of our questions about all the things he’s up to, what it takes to be a great entrepeneur, greatest misconceptions people have about VCs, and the last time he was in awe of anything.
For the head of the biggest independent record label and management agency in Canada, Terry McBride is a surprisingly down to earth, no-nonsense guy. As the record company dinosaurs of yesteryear desperately gasp for air in the online arena, Terry and the folks at Nettwerk Music Group are leading the way to a new paradigm for the music industry. His approach is simple, yet revolutionary: listen to the fans, listen to the artists, listen to the music. In keeping with this philosophy, Terry was kind enough to give this fan a few minutes of his time.
How do you convince someone to give you money to build a pine tree made out of 5,500 Royal Pine car fresheners? I have no idea. That’s why I tracked down Rosemarie Fiore, a New York artist who is well-acquainted with pitching what, to some, may seem like “out there” ideas. If her extensive resume and critical acclaim is any indicator, her work is a breath of fresh air to many folks, both in and out of the art world.
Vitaly Friedman is the co-founder of Smashing Magazine, currently one of the most popular blogs in the world. Smashing Magazine is an ongoing collection of high-quality resources and tutorials for web developers, designers, and bloggers. We caught up with Vitaly who has been very busy migrating the site to a server that can handle all their traffic. Vitaly also wrote a nice thank you note to everyone who’s been a fan that I’d like to share:
Our guest today is Ronen Shilo, CEO of Conduit. Conduit offers publishers another way to engage with their audience: the community toolbar. The Conduit toolbar runs on your desktop (Windows only), and keeps you up to date with the hot-skinny from your favorite publisher.
Howard Lindzon is the creator of what seems to be the vidcast-of-the-moment WallStrip - where pop culture meets stock culture. We talked to Howard about the new show, video online, and asked him our own version of “Long or Short?”.
9Rules is a popular blog network that Juxtaviews is proudly a member of. We caught up with Mike Rundle, co-founder and Chief Design Officer to talk about 9Rules, design inspiration, and why design matters.
It’s hard to read the blogs of people like Paul Graham, or simply take a peek at the popular links on del.icio.us without getting the urge to scratch that entrepreneurial itch. I have an ongoing list of hundreds of ideas for startups from the past several years gradually growing in a file on my desktop. One day, I think. One day, I’ll take this baby to IPO… Poof!
There’s a photographer inside all of us. Some are just better than others. Sam Javanrouh is a photoblogger. And yes, he’s better than “others”.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is heralded by many as the next big thing for the Web. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, RSS essentially means two things for the average Joe/Jane reader or blogger. First, it means that you can subscribe to your favorite Web publishers and have their content delivered to you when updated (provided they have a feed). Second, it means that you can syndicate or share your material with other sites. As with any disruptive technology, RSS is changing the playing field and creating new challenges.
Certain things in life you either love or hate. Depending on who you ask, AJAX is one of them. Dion Almaer, the co-founder of the popular “all things ajax” website Ajaxian.com discusses this and more with us.
We all aim to be productive, keep our lives organized, and try to force ourselves from procrastinating the day away. David Seah makes beautiful, simple solutions to help you reach your goals.
I’m a beta, you’re a beta, don’t ya want to be a beta too? Saurier Duval, the machine behind the Museum of Modern Betas (MOMB) stopped cranking out beta site posts for a few moments to chat with us about his MOMB project, web 2.0, the releventness of the word “beta” and a whole lot more.
Flavorpill is not a vitamin although it may make you feel better, and it does kinda sound like a sexy club drug, but it’s not. So what is this pill that you speak of? Flavorpill is first a “things to do” email newsletter and second a website. And did I mention its been around since 2000?
As the web becomes a more intelligent medium, so should the browser. AdaptiveBlue’s Blue Organizer attempts to do just that.
To quote Will Ferrell, “I’ve seen Wufoo and it is glorious.” Er… well, something like that.
So you’ve tried your hand scrapping together an interface with AJAX. You downloaded the libraries, studied the documentation, and spent time tweaking code you don’t fully understand so you can add the latest buzzword to your resume. In the end, all you have to show for it is handfuls of hair and a dent in the wall the size of your forehead.
If a deal isn’t listed on Ben’s Bargains, is it actually a deal at all? Ben Chui, frugal shopper and president of BensBargains.net LLC, took some time off from scouring the internet for deals (those Dell coupons don’t stack themselves you know) and maintaining his popular bargain hunting site to chat with us about the art of the “deal”, his latest Web 2.0 venture, and why you might not want to name your next site after yourself.
Two guys from Spokane, Washington rode the Youtube wave to a contract with NBC. Now Barats and Bereta are online celebrities, and quickly making a name for themselves. Luke from Barats and Bereta chatted with us about comedy, NBC, standup, and their now famous Mother’s Day sketch.
Motionbox is vamping up to be the next big thing in video sharing technology. With their recent release of deep tagging, they are certainly on their way. Unlike competitors who seem to be all about sharing well-produced, edited video, Motionbox is focused on making it easy for people who don’t have the time, chops, or tools for professional post-production to share the best nuggets of their footage with the folks who don’t have the time or patience to sit through the boring stuff. This week at Juxtaviews we get a peek inside the brain of Motionbox’s Cheif Architect, Andrew Wason.
Wavexpress TVTonic service allows you to easily watch video podcasts as well as their own custom video channels.
Threadless.com is the coolest place to buy shirts online. Strong words I know, but we have our reasons.
Scott Hansen is a designer and a musician. He’s a creator. And he creates beautiful things.
Design is Kinky has been leading the design community since 1998 as one of the web’s first and favorite community driven sites for design news.
Video is the next online revolution, and like any good revolution - it’s led by the people. Thanks to the popularity of sites like YouTube online video popularity is increasing exponentially and all the major portals are jumping on the band wagon. Google kicked out froogle for their new Google Video. Yahoo released a new version of yahoo video and AOL went uncut. And then you have Microsoft.
Now, even the major TV networks like NBC and FOX are heavily strategizing their online positions.
In the second quarter of 2006, venture capitalists invested $2.42 billion in Silicon Valley companies, an amazing 27 percent increase than they invested in the first quarter. This is the most they have invested in any quarter since 2001. For the thirsty webpreneur out there, the well of opportunity hasn’t appeared this full since 2000 (and for those of you around back then, that may scare you).
I’ve tried various way over the years of making sure I completed my every day tasks. I’ve tried emailing myself todo items, I’ve kept task lists in a txt file, excel file, MS Outlook tasks, and I frequently stuck post-it notes in my eyeglass case so when I get home and went for my glasses I’d get my reminder. Overall, the combination of excel and email reminders worked the best for me, but I never really succeeded.
Reddit.com has quickly and quietly become one of the “big three” sites (Digg and Netscape being the other two) in what is now being labeled “social news bookmarking”. With a team of four, they lead the reddit nation (55K+ users and growing) in breeding the democracy of news relevancy - created for the people and voted (up or down) by the people.