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Whrrl.com Interview with Josh Chandler

by Josh Chandler, April 8, 2009 | Comments

John Kim, Head of Product and Marketing at Whrrl.com talks with Josh Chandler

So, just tieing up some interviews that I had trouble scheduling beforehand, I have just one more after this scheduled to be recorded, and this will complete my audio recordings for the near future, see my post I made yesterday about the changes that are happening for me John Kim, Head of Product and Marketing at Whrll spoke with me ...

Microsoft/Facebook: Who's helping who?

by Josh Chandler, April 2, 2009 | Comments

With recent news that Microsoft is helping Facebook with security, who is the true benefitor?

Microsoft’s Jeff Williams, principal group program manager for the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) made a guest post today on the Official Facebook Blog about the latest security issue Koobface plaguing Facebook and other social networks, certainly proving Microsoft’s vested interest in the $240 million investment into Facebook is quickly becoming a worthwhile deal for both parties. It seems that ...

WaTunes.com Interview

by Josh Chandler, April 2, 2009 | Comments (2)

Kevin Rivers and Tony Pytleski of Watunes.com talk with Josh Chandler of joshchandlerblog.com

Click the Play Button Below to listen to the Interview About Watunes.comWaTunes (Vator.tv Profile) is a social media distribution service that enables music artists and record labels to sell their music to over 100 music store services including iTunes, Napster, and eMusic. Artist and labels can sell unlimited songs & albums and earn 100% of their royalties ALL FOR FREE!!! ...

Tips for working as a College Entreprener

by Josh Chandler, March 31, 2009 | Comments

Rich Littlehale, Co-Founder of YouRenew.com shares his experiences of Yale and his advice

I recently conducted an interview with Rich Littlehale, Co-Founder of paid incentive recycling web service YouRenew.com, and Rich was kind enough to stay for a little while longer to talk briefly about his experience working as an entrepreneuer in a college enviorment, he attends Yale, but his advice really applies to any business college, university or centre ANYWHERE!! For ...

Interview with YouRenew.com

by Josh Chandler, March 30, 2009 | Comments

Rich Littlehale, Co-Founder of YouRenew.com talks with Josh Chandler

On Friday March 27th, I sat down in a "virtual audio interview" i.e Skype call with Rich Littlehale (Twitter/LinkedIn) who is the co-founder of paid incentive recycling web service YouRenew.com, Rich is someone I really feel inspired by, he is really taking the entrepreneurial challenge to heart, currently taking a year out of Yale where he is doing a History ...

Is Facebook a “distruptive” company?

by Josh Chandler, March 22, 2009 | Comments (1)

Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Facebook.com punching above his weight?

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Facebook.com has declared that “the most disruptive companies don’t listen to their customers”, this according to reports from Valleywag.com who were sent an tip from an anonymous source (so take this post with a pinch of salt) that Zuckerberg had sent this note in an email to Facebook employees relating to recent design changes ...

Google and Amazon VS The E-Book Publishers

by Josh Chandler, February 23, 2009 | Comments (2)

Do either company truly hold the monopoly on books online that many publishers claim they do?

Back in 2003 at the launch of the experimental book search called "Google Print", later to be named Google Book Search, Google claimed it would be "interested in working with rights holders who own or control a "substantial" amount of content for inclusion in the Google Print program." However we move forward to February 2009 and Google is having to pay ...

Twitter.com in 2009: Success or Failure?

by Josh Chandler, February 14, 2009 | Comments (2)

2 months into the new year, with fresh investment and what does Twitter.com have to show for it?

Twitter.com, the popular microblogging service had a brief outage yesterday that lasted for a total of 30 mins, and was clarified in a Twitter Status Update at Tumblr.com as a "unplanned maintenance on a database machine", now if I were to tell you new Twitterers that this is just a typical Twitter problem would you believe me? I mean the ...

A Discussion with CEO of Rocketon.com

by Josh Chandler, February 3, 2009 | Comments

Steve Hoffman, CEO of Rocketon.com gives his top 5 tips for being a great entreprenuer, with a bonus

Steve Hoffman,CEO of Rocketon.com recently joined me for an interview to talk about how things have progressed in the last year for Rocketon.com since I spoke to him, and what has been implemented on the site, it was a great discussion and a fantastic oppurtunity to catch up with Steve who is such a great person, and has a really ...

Marissa Mayer, please don’t leave Google!

by Josh Chandler, January 26, 2009 | Comments

Marissa Mayer is here to stay after internet rumours spread about her departure

To say I was relieved at the recent reports from Valleywag.com that "Marissa Mayer is Sticking to Google Like Icing on a Cupcake" is a slight understatement. I have in previous blog posts praised Marissa Mayer's great work and her commitment to the Google brand, she was Google's first female engineer back in 1999 and assumed the responsibilities of directing ...

iGoogle to be first big Google flop of 2009?

by Josh Chandler, January 19, 2009 | Comments

iGoogle is potentially going to become unprioritized and valueless web service

For those of you involved in keeping up with the latest iGoogle developments may be interested to know exactly what I think the “iGoogle Gadgets getting social smarts” and how in turn they are losing overall value to the end user. You see this concept currently in trial within the confines of Google according to Techcrunch.com not only mimicks and determentally alleviates the ...

Jaiku and Dodgeball are "shut down"

by Josh Chandler, January 17, 2009 | Comments

Google “didn’t care about Dodgeball” and "Jaiku.com was shut down"

If a journalist could have written a more clearer article title then Rafe Needleman of CNET.com, then they would have only echoed the sentiment that “Jaiku is Closing Down!”, however what Techcrunch.com and CNET.com failed to do was address the key difference between axed and simply carrying on without Google’s support. Jaiku.com and Dodgeball.com both purchased and owned by Google ...

Where does the Enterprise RSS Market go now?

by Josh Chandler, January 12, 2009 | Comments

With the Enterprise RSS Market all but out, what is the next logical move?

“R.I.P Enterprise RSS” was the headline on the ReadWriteWeb.com homepage by writer Marshall Kirkpatrick, he seems to claim that the “market for enterprise-specific RSS readers appears to be dead” and that everyone is making use of Google Reader as their main RSS Reader, but this solution isn’t without its flaws as detailed in Kirkpatrick’s writeup who claims Google Reader is lacking the following ...

Microsoft + Enterprise= Hopeless Effort!

by Josh Chandler, January 12, 2009 | Comments

Microsoft looking for the “sympathy vote” with businesses despite all prior failed efforts

Just days after the botched Windows 7 beta download programme caused huge waves of commentary, Microsoft have bought out a new ad campaign to attain more “sympathy voters”, the advertising campaign being launched at the “People Ready” subsection of Microsoft according to Gayle Troberman of Microsoft “demonstrates how companies can drive business success by empowering their people with the right ...

When Will Video Game Companies like Twitter?

by Josh Chandler, January 11, 2009 | Comments

Twitter.com seems to be more "a foot in the door" then a conversation tool for video game companies!

Now, according to Joystiq.com the guy who compiled the Twitter directory of video game companies using Twitter.com is someone who “knows more about social networking in gaming communities than the rest of us combined”, this said it seems a little post about video game companies not using social media written by Sam Houston was heard loud and clear by the ...

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