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Having spoken about advertising last week, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at a product that does something a little different. Publicity Wheel combines a banner exchange with a [...]

Svetlana Gladkova is a part of the team behind the blogging platform Profy. What’s especially interesting about this company is that it’s based out of Siberia. Svetlana was kind enough to share some insights about development, networking and reaching international markets.
Here is what she had to say.
First of all, I need to point out [...]

I had the pleasure of having a conversation with Michael Brito, a Social Media evangelist at Intel. What we talked about was whether Social Media is just a marketers play thing or whether it has wider implications for mainstream consumers. The core of the question was, “What is the true power of Social Media?”
He was [...]

A few weeks ago I began harassing Nancy Friedman to write a post for me about naming.
Why did I ask her?
Well, Nancy has been working with brands and naming since before the Web was won.
She was kind enough to take some time out of her busy schedule to put something together for [...]

Following up on my articles about “getting out there and doing it,” is this interview I had with Dan Caplan, one of the founders of MyCityFaces. MyCityFaces is a site that bills itself as an online Billboard, allowing service industry professionals to post their products and their services.
In this interview, Dan talks about the [...]

I see dozens of widgets in any given week. Of those dozens, I look at maybe 3 or 4 of them. When it comes down to actually adding one to the blog, the number shrinks by an order of magnitude. Siphs, an “email this” widget that I recently had the pleasure of running across is [...]

Kantalk is more or less a social network for language learners. It’s a place where non-English speakers can find topics of interest practice their English on a native speaker and share the lesson through video. I had the opportunity to talk to David Liu, one of the creators of Kantalk. Here is what he [...]

ScheduleOnce is a tool to help you set up meeting times in situations where it has been traditionally difficult. Even if everyone in the office is around at the same time, sometimes arranging a time for a meeting can be time consuming. ScheduleOnce attempts to solve not only this problem, but also tackles the much [...]

Set Your Rate is a service that allows individuals to market their skills to the public. You offer up your services, “set your rate,” and businesses and others can hire you out.
Luke Aviet, one of the creative minds behind this product, was kind enough to take some time to talk to us about Set [...]

Lyro is a service that seeks to help professionals control their online identity. Unlike Social Networks like LinkedIn they have chosen to become a broker for “digital business cards,” relying on the strength of personal connections rather than scale to drive value. I had a chance to talk to Lief Larson of their parent company, [...]