Young Go Getter - Interview

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.