I first came across Sproutit via Web 2.0 Central and was immediately intrigued by the blurb I read: Everyday, small businesses, bloggers and freelancers waste hours answering their e-mail. This fall Sproutit.com will introduce the first software built exclusively for small businesses and individuals to solve this problem. To this point, few details have been [...]
Interview with Rollyo Founder Dave Pell
My first ‘encounter’ with Dave Pell came when I submitted some feedback to Rollyo during their public beta launch – he subsequently addressed my points via email. For those not familiar with Rollyo, it allows a user to create a “personal search engine using only the sources you trust.” I’ve used it extensively for searching [...]
Interview with Strategist and Blogging Guru Dave Taylor
I first met Dave Taylor at the Blog Business Summit this past August. He was the first presenter and by my estimates, one of the best (feel free to check out my notes from that particular session). I’ve kept in touch with Dave since then and his Intuitive Life Business Blog is one of my [...]
Interview with Blogniscient Founder Ben Ruedlinger
I was first introduced to Blogniscient via an email from its creator, Ben Ruedlinger. Blogniscient intrigued me because it attempts to distill the blogosphere’s biggest buzz for categories like politics, technology, and entertainment via its proprietary Article Ranking System. In layman’s terms, Blogniscient provides a snapshot of what bloggers are talking about, somewhat similar to [...]
Interview with Sphere CEO Tony Conrad
Last week, I contacted Tony Conrad for an interview about Sphere, a new blog search engine presently in private beta testing. Tony, who is the CEO of Sphere was gracious enough to agree, amidst a very busy schedule. I’ve been lucky to beta test Sphere and think Tony and his team are off to a great [...]
Interview with Findory Founder Greg Linden
Greg Linden, the CEO and founder of Findory, was nice enough to find some time in his busy schedule to do an email interview with me. As described on the Findory website, “Findory is about personalizing information”. Findory helps you make sense of news and information by recommending content based on past reading habits. You [...]
Interview with Peter Cooper
If you do not know who Peter Cooper is yet, chances are you will soon. Peter is the creator of FeedDigest, a tool that very neatly creates a way to include customized “digests” of live feeds in the content of your site (see the “New Internet Press” section on the TECHNOSIGHT homepage for an example). [...]
TECHNOSIGHT Interviews
As we push towards the “New Internet” or “Web 2.0″, some really exciting stuff is happening along the way. The “stuff” does not just happen. Rather, new technology or new uses of technology are pioneered by innovative people, those who “think outside the box” and are typically dissatisfied with the status quo – they know [...]
