On this episode I sit down with Chris Saad the co-founder of Data Portability.org  Since being founded about 6 months ago, one of Data Portability’s primary goals was to ‘develop a narrative‘ for data portability.  The group that has proven to be extremely effective in generating a ton of publicity.  The topic was actively discussed at SxSW and Web 2.0 expo over the last few months.  It is also worth pointing out as Chris acknowledges, that Data Portability certainly stands on the shoulders of a lot of great technology developed over a much longer time such as OpenID and various Microformats.

Regardless, Data Portability is moving onto other goals and one of my favorite parts of the interview is after  Chris comments on what they have accomplished in the last 6 months, I get him to completing the following statement: “if we don’t do ____ in the next 6 months, I’ll be disappointed.”  Listen to see how he fills in the blank.  All in all, I think it’s a good discussion and hope you enjoy it as well.

Links

• DP Website
• 6 Month Report
• Chris’ Blog

Note: Transcription will be live later in the week

The regular members are joined by special guest Georgi Kobilarov from the Free University of Berlin.

For more information, please view the show notes.

This week at ad:tech, Adroll is opening up to the public.  Adroll is an advertising network that allows publishers to self-organize into groups that collectively can reach out advertisers. (If it sounds familiar, the service was reviewed on ReadWriteWeb during the private beta.) Today we sit down with Jared Kopf, the founder and CEO.  We discuss his vision for Adroll, how the service has developed and views on the online advertising industry in general.  Jared is a serial internet entrepreneur, before founding Adroll, he was a co-founder at Slide and previously worked at PayPal.

Links

• Adroll website
• RWW coverage of Adroll

Update: Transcript is now live below
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This is an interesting episode of ReadWriteTalk. On Friday April 4th, I interviewed Tom Stocky a Product Manager with Google Development Products. After the interview, we sent the audio over to be transcribed. At the time, I had no idea that on Monday April 7th, Google Development Products would announce arguably their most ambitious project yet - the Google App Engine. At that point, we considered releasing the interview immediately. But decided that while it would have been interesting context before the announcement at that point we should go through our normal process waiting for the transcribing to be complete. We did cover the announcement thoroughly on ReadWriteWeb, for listeners I link to all our coverage on the show notes.

Anyway,we still think this its very interesting context and hope you agree. The first half of the interview covers a number of different projects, other than the AppEngine (because that was still in stealth mode). The second part gets into how Google evaluates the success of the different Development Products. It is interesting to apply the same metrics and goals Tom discusses to the App Engine and consider what other projects may be coming soon from Google.

One thing we’re considering moving forward is releasing the audio immediately after the interviews are adding the transcript later. Please let me know what you think about that idea!

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On this epside I am joined by Eric Gilmore the Senior Product Manager for Office Live at Microsoft. Eric discusses a product he’s responsible and we recently covered on RWW Office Live Workspace. Eric also discusses how they are soliciting customer feedback on the product, plans for allowing other services to build on top of the platform and observations on the so called ‘enterprise 2.0′ market and how it fits in at Microsoft.

Links

• RWW Post on Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs
• OLW Community main
• Eric’s posts on the Office Live Workspace Blog

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On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, I talk to Lance Tokuda the CEO of RockYou. The interview is basically broken into three parts:

• An overview of how RockYou focuses on building applications, especially focusing in on building apps on the Facebook platform versus the Open Social platform
• An overview of the RockYou company
• Finally, things Lance has learned moving from an enterprise software guy to focusing on building consumer facing applications

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Today Google, Yahoo and MySpace announced the Open Social Foundation. We covered this news thoroughly on ReadWriteWeb including Marshall Kirkpatrick liveblogging the call with special guests tech analyst Steve Gillmor and OpenID Foundation chair Scott Kveton. And an analysis post earlier in the day by Josh Catone.

We thought a number of you might want to hear the audio as well, so we’re sharing this on ReadWriteTalk.

We didn’t get this transcribed, but once again you can see Marshall’s notes from Liveblogging the call here.

Note: this is the second special episode we’ve done today on ReadWriteTalk. We’ll be back to our regular interview format later in the week, but felt this was valuable enough to share. Please let us know your feedback.

The Semantic Web Gang is hosted by Paul Miller of Talis and features a number of thought leaders in the semantic web space, including:

• Alex Iskold of AdaptiveBlue & ReadWriteWeb fame
• Greg Boutin
• Mills Davis of Project 10X
• Tom Heath of Talis
• Daniel Lewis of OpenLink
• Thomas Tague of Reuters

The Semantic Web is a trend we’ve covered regularly on ReadWriteWeb and I’m very excited to be syndicating this as part of ReadWriteTalk’s regular content.

On this month’s episode, the group debates the readiness of the semantic web. For more details you can visit the show’s notes.

On this episode of Read/WriteTalk, I talk to Scott Switzer the CTO and founder of OpenX. OpenX is probably better know as OpenAds, but recently was renamed. They have been a leading open source ad server for years and currently are one of the largest ad servers on the web. In the interview, we talk about Scott’s vision for his company and the ad industry in general. As Microsoft and Google continue to acquire ad servers, I believe OpenX will increasingly become a critical counter balance in the industry. So I’m really glad to have had Scott on to share his vision.

Links

• OpenX Blog
• OpenAds FOSS Ad Network Goes Hosted, Raises More Cash
• Read/WriteWeb posts about Google’s Vulnerability - Open Ad Network

Editors note: this interview was recorded before Google announced their free “Ad Manager” for small and medium size publishers, but Scott has a post on the OpenX blog about this.

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On this weeks episode of Read/WriteTalk I have a wide ranging conversation about OpenSocial with David Galzer an Engineering Director at Google. This is a topic we’ve talked about before on ReadWriteTalk with our interview of Kevin Marks. It also is particularly timely after Marshall Kirkpatrick’s interesting piece this week on APIs and Developer platforms. Hope you enjoy the episode!

Also, a quick thank you to my friend Eric James for recording some intro music for me!

Links

• RWW post on APIs and Developer Platforms
• OpenSocial Resources
• The spec development of the RESTful API that David references in interview
• Kevin Marks Read/WriteTalk Interview

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