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Online Dating On Steroids? 1:1 Interview with Woome founder/CEO Stephen Stokols

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, October 2, 2007 | Comments (2)

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Online dating sites have been proliferating in the past couple of years. Stephen Stokols, founder and CEO of Woome.com, provides a sneak preview of his new online speed dating and social networking platform which will launch on November 10th (to apply for early access, you should register at woome.com). Stephen explains what genres of the live voice-only or voice-video speed dating sessions have already been created and what it means to be wooed in a session. Stephen also elaborates on ...

The Roizen Report: Making Sense of Millions of Voices

by Ezra Roizen, September 25, 2007 | Comments

Words cannot describe the degree to which I hate shopping. Over-stimulation is probably at the root of my shopping aversion. There are too many choices and too many questions that go unanswered, which invariably raises the possibility for future regret. Abundant choice seems to be a precondition for buyer’s remorse. So, why bother setting myself up for disappointment? Like for most people, the idea of getting a cool new toy has its appeal. But my allergy to the process ...

1:1 Interview with WhitePages.com CEO Alex Algard

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 23, 2007 | Comments

In this interview, Alex Algard, the CEO of WhitePages.com, explains how the site has evolved from a directory assistance site to a broader people search engine, with an expected 160 million people on the site by the end of this year. Alex gives his take on how the WhitePages.com network is different from other competing online directories and how the site’s features provide users with the possibility to discover relevant information beyond mere contact info. Alex elaborates on the company’s ...

1:1 Interview with TalkPlus Chairman and Founder Jeff Black

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 18, 2007 | Comments

The $1.2 trillion global telecom market is projected to grow to $1.6 trillion by 2010. In this interview, Jeff Black, the Chairman and founder of TalkPlus, talks about how his company provides telephony services that enable customers to make and receive low cost long distance phone calls. Specifically, Jeff discusses the number of users and how the Menlo Ventures backed company is building business and consumer side partnerships to grow the business. Jeff also explains how TalkPlus’ narrow band VoIP ...

Former Fox executive Ross Levinsohn on Web trends, Velocity Investment Group

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 11, 2007 | Comments (1)

Two big Web luminaries - Ross Levinsohn, who was Fox Interactive Media President at the time News Corp bought MySpace, and Jonathan Miller, who was AOL CEO when the Internet company bought Advertising.com -- have finally revealed their new venture - Velocity Investmet Group. As Ross tells me in this interview, he and John knew each other for the last 15 years. They realized that they "agree on most things" about the Internet and, in fact, competed for acquisitions while ...

1:1 Interview with Conduit CMO Reena Jadhav

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 9, 2007 | Comments (1)

Conduit offers a communication channel in the form of a customizable dynamic toolbar. Using Conduit, publishers can create a customizable branded toolbar that takes the best of their site, their offers and community and puts it on the customers' browser. In this interview, Conduit’s CMO Reena Jadhav shares recent stats about the toolbar’s online permeation and the company’s user base. Reena also talks about Conduit's unique business model, different ways of using the toolbar, and how publishers like Vator.tv can use ...

Facebook first-mover off to build Qubescape

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 6, 2007 | Comments (2)

Aaron Greenspan made the front page of the NY Times business section recently. The story written by John Markoff said Aaron claimed to be "the one who created the original college social networking system," which eventually became Facebook. As Aaron tells me in this interview, he simply wants people to know that he and others had "influence" in the early days of building Facebook. Aaron also shares a little about his new venture called Qubescape, which he calls a "Facebook ...

1:1 Interview with Media River CEO Al Wasserberger

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 6, 2007 | Comments

Media River CEO Al Wasserberger talks about how the company’s ClickSurge content widget helps websites drive traffic by tapping into the blogosphere and other content providers. Al explains how the widget works using their client ‘The Motley Fool’ as an example. He also discusses the widget’s click through rate of 4-6%, and elaborates on how MediaRiver’s widget differs from Sphere’s which generates click through rates of about 1% (to see Bambi's interview with Sphere's CEO Tony Conrad click here). Al then ...

1:1 interview with Visible Technologies' CEO Adam Selig

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 28, 2007 | Comments (1)

Visible Technologies provides online brand management solutions for companies and individuals in the new media environment. Adam Selig, the company's CEO, talks about how Visible Technologies helps companies understand the perception of their brands and reinforce their brand messages in the user generated media sphere. Adam uses the blogosphere's response to the release of the iPhone as an example which illustrates how the company's technology can analyze the tone of the online conversation about a specific brand/product, and then provide the information back ...

Bambi Interviews MEDgle Founder/CEO Ash Damle

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 21, 2007 | Comments

MEDgle is a medical information search engine striving to make medical information easily accessible. In this interview the company founder Ash Damle talks about the growth of the site and how to use the site. He also address how MEDgle is complimentary to Google's Health Co-op. Ash also discusses whether and how user search records are kept, the amount and kind of symptoms and diagnoses indexed, current number of pageviews and MEDgle's ad based business model. To see Ash's pitch for MEDgle click here.

Bambi Interviews Buzzlogic Co-founder/Chief Product Officer Todd Parson

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 15, 2007 | Comments

BuzzLogic defines and measures influence in social media by surfacing the key influencers who are shaping and defining markets, issues and reputations. BuzzLogic's technology enables marketing and communications practitioners to engage with social media in order to manage their brands, reputations, products and customer relationships. In this interview, BuzzLogic's co-founder and Chief Product Officer Todd Parson talks about the influence of the blogosphere in the context of consumer purchasing decisions and how sites like Vator.tv could work with Buzzlogic and get ...

Bambi Interviews Sphere Founder/CEO Tony Conrad

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 12, 2007 | Comments

Tony Conrad and his co-founders launched Sphere in 2005. Sphere provides an application that reads online articles and directs readers to contextually relevant stories in the blogosphere. Tony talks about clickthrough rates on various partner sites, working with traditional media companies such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and CNN, and their response to pointing readers to blogs. Tony also discusses pageviews, unique visitors and links in Sphere's network, Sphere's advertising driven business model as well as its subscription model. Finally, Tony talks ...

Bambi Interviews Truveo Founder Tim Tuttle

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 8, 2007 | Comments (1)

Tim Tuttle started the video search engine Truveo in 2004. He sold the company to AOL in 2006 and still serves as its CEO and as an SVP at AOL Video. In this interview, Tim shares his thoughts on Truveo's growth over the past year, the explosion of online video, different ways of monetizing online video, Truveo's business model, and how Truveo differentiates itself from other video search engines such as Pixsy, Dabble, Clipblast, Pluggd and EveryZing. Tim also talks about how the acquisition through AOL has affected Truveo and the ...

General search and vertical discovery

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 7, 2007 | Comments

During one scene in the movie "Bourne Ultimatum," Jason Bourne goes to Google to conduct a search. It's scenes like this that underscore how conditioned people have become to rely on search engines for answers. Going directly to a general search box has become the de facto way to begin the discovery process for just about anything. But with billions of pages indexed (Google stopped counting at 8 billion pages about four years ago), the question has increasingly become: How ...

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