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Kevin Rose: How to Promote Your Web App

27. June 2009

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In this 11-minute interview we ask Kevin Rose, founder of digg and WeFollow five questions about web entrepreneurship. In case you don’t have time to watch the interview, we’ve summarized Kevin’s answers below. Feel free to share your answers to these questions in the comments below. We’d love to hear your perspective. What advice can you give [...]

Paul Boag: The Demise of the Website

12. May 2009

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At the Future of Web Design in London, Ryan Carson grabbed Paul Boag for a quick chat. We covered the “demise of the website”, important tips for web designers and how to sell your design skills. Here are the major takeaway points from the interview: We’re approaching the “demise of the website”. Your website is no longer [...]

Jim Coudal: Copywriting, Inspiration and Working Farmer Hours

5. May 2009

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Jim Coudal: Copywriting, Inspiration and Working Farmer Hours

During FOWD London, I grabbed Jim Coudal and asked him a few questions, including “Where are you finding inspiration right now?”, “How do you make time for creativity?” and “What’s the best career tip you can give web designers?”. We’ve also released the MP3 of his talk at the conference (video coming shortly). Couple quick points: If someone [...]

Moo.com: Being an International Business

13. August 2007

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Richard Moross and Stefan Magdalinski are the creators of moo.com, the web app that uses Flickr to help you print cool stuff. This interview was recorded at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, February 2007. Moo has of course recently launched its fantastic stickers - hinted at here. Richard and Stef also discuss [...]

Last.fm

12. April 2007

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This interview was recorded at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, February 2007. Watch the video! Last.fm developers Matt Ogle and Anil Bawa Cavia talk to journalist Bobbie Johnson for Vitamin Vitamin: Can you tell us a little bit about some of the problems that Last.fm has faced? What can people learn from them? MO: Early [...]

Simon Willison

22. March 2007

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This interview was recorded at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, February 2007. Watch the video! Simon Willison talks to journalist Bobbie Johnson for Vitamin Read the transcript! VITAMIN: Can you just run through exactly what OpenID is? Simon Willison: OpenID is a decentralised system for single sign-on. So it lets you have one user account that [...]

Ted Rheingold

11. March 2007

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Download the MP3 (10.8 MB) This interview was recorded after the Future of Web Apps in San Francisco, what follows is a full transcript. SD: This is Sarah Drew with Vitamin, and I’m sitting here with Ted Rheingold from Dogster and Catster who just gave a wonderful speech on the passion-centric communities and websites that he’s seeing [...]

Steve Olechowski

30. November 2006

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Download the MP3 (10.8 MB) Topics we cover in the interview How is FeedBurner impacting on the way we understand media? What kind of information about their readers do media and advertisers want? RSS and television, what’s the relationship? How can RSS be developed? Full transcription of the interview SD: I’m speaking with Steve Olechowski, one of FeedBurner’s co-founders. It seems to [...]

Kevin Rose

13. November 2006

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Download the MP3 (10.63 MB) Topics we cover in the interview What’s the creative process behind digg? How do you think up new features? Do you use a digg-like consensus approach to them? How have you seen digg affect traditional media? How will digg-spawned sites and web apps be in the future? Full transcription of the interview SD: Do you do programming [...]

Jeff Veen

7. November 2006

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Download the MP3 (9.02 MB) Topics we cover in the interview How designing for the web has changed How to measure the impact of usability checks Life at Google - and how Measure Map is playing out The state of the industry URLS Mentioned Measure Map The blog analytics tool Adaptive Path Full transcription of the interview SD: This is Sarah Drew for Vitamin and [...]

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