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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 ...

Bambi Interviews Digital Chocolate Founder Trip Hawkins - Part IV

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 4, 2007 | Comments

	In this part of the interview with Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins, Trip talks about the future of Digital Chocolate, about assessing the right time for a company to go public, the currently active M&A climate, acquistions that Digital Chocolate made in Europe and India, and Digital Chocolate's competitors among large media companies, such as Disney and Vivendi.
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Bambi Interviews Digital Chocolate Founder Trip Hawkins - Part III

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 1, 2007 | Comments

In this segment of this four-part interview with Electronic Arts and Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins, Trip elaborates on Digital Chocolate's business model and discusses how web communities and products that choose simplicity and convenience over other factors have inspired Digital Chocolate's strategy. Trip also talks about what Jamdat and Glu Mobile did right. Jamdat was acquired by Electronic Arts for nearly $700 million. Glu Mobile (ticker: GLUU) went public in March 2007, raising $84 million.

Bambi Interviews Digital Chocolate Founder Trip Hawkins - Part II

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 31, 2007 | Comments

In this second part of Bambi's interview with Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins, Trip talks about some of Digital Chocolate's games, such as the Cafe games series and why one million downloads of a video game is a good benchmark for what constitutes a hit video game. Trip also talks about how he's integrated Starbucks into some of Digital Chocolate's games in the hopes of forming a partnership with Starbucks. In this interview, Trip offers insight into a commerce model around ...

Bambi Interviews Digital Chocolate Founder Trip Hawkins - Part I

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 30, 2007 | Comments

Electronic Arts was founded in 1982 by Silicon Valley legend Trip Hawkins. EA, which was a pioneer in video game publishing and has become a leading game developer for computers, eventually went public and now has a market cap of $15 billion. In the first quarter of 2007, EA generated $613 million in revenue. In 2003, Trip founded Digital Chocolate - another video game publisher, but this time for mobile devices. The company offers many of the world's most popular games ...

SecondSpace launches 'uber' lifestyles marketplace

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 23, 2007 | Comments

Most great businesses are created to fix a problem. For Alok Sinha, who spent 17 years at Microsoft, a challenge for him was finding a vacation home. He said it took three years to find the perfect "second" home, which doesn't surprise me. It takes that much time to find a first home in some cases. To address this challenge of finding that perfect second space, Sinha, along with Anil Pereira, former Verisign and Classmates.com executive, started SecondSpace. "SecondSpace is ...

Bambi Interviews Spotplex founder & CEO Doyon Kim

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 18, 2007 | Comments

	Spotplex is an online content aggregation service that dynamically provides an instant, impartial ranking of popular Web content. With Spotplex, Internet users are not required to change their behavior to generate content rankings. By eliminating tagging (del.icio.us) and voting (digg), Spotplex more accurately reflects what people read most today.... http://youtu.be/j8N75ByAmIQ
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