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This Week in Social Media #13 with Amanda Peyton of MessageParty

Mike — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:58:24 +0000

This week we talked to Amanda Peyton from the startup Message Party, which was just released at Y Combinator's Demo Day. Message Party is a new app that allows you create ad hoc location based chat rooms. We had a great conversation about the new app, Y Combinator as well as the location based social networking space.

This Week in Social Media #12 with Amanda MacNaughton, Cofounder of CultureJam

Mike — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:48:09 +0000

This week talked to Amanda MacNaughton, the co-founder of CultureJam. CultureJam is the company behind PromoJam, a popular solution for running social media based marketing campaigns for companies, brands and artists. For the full show notes head over to This Week In. Also check out our fancy new This Week in Social Media iPhone app.

This Week in Social Media #11 with Alex Iskold of GetGlue

Mike — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:25:00 +0000

This week we spoke to Alex Iskold, the Founder and CEO of GetGlue. GetGlue is a social network built around entertainment. We had a great discussion about the service and how it delivers recommendations and builds an individual's "taste graph". For the full show notes head on over to ThisWeekIn.

This Week in Social Media #10 with Kurt Daradics from City Sourced

Mike — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:53:00 +0000

This week we spoke with Kurt Daradics who is the cofounder of City Sourced. City Sourced provides crowd-sourced community driven reporting of community issues such as trash, vandalism, potholes as well as other items. We had a great discussion on crowd-sourcing as well as geo-location based mobile apps.

This Week in Social Media #9 with Erica O'Grady

Mike — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:27:00 +0000

This week Erica O'Grady, CXO of Peanut Butter Media, was our guest. We had a great discussion about her social media "breaking in story" as well as her approach to leveraging the power of social media to empower businesses and develop a closer connection with their customers. The various projects that Erica is involved with including Twilight and Tea are quite interesting. I definitely recommend checking out the interview below.

This Week in Venture Capital #16 Q&A with Mark Suster

Mike — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:18:00 +0000

Mark mixed up this week's episode of This Week in Venture Capital and went with a full Q&A Episode. I helped him out by fielding questions and chiming in on some of the big VC deals of the week. If you don't read Mark's blog, Both Sides of the Table, I definitely recommend you head over there and subscribe. It's one of the best blogs out there - especially if you are an aspiring entrepreneur.

This Week in Social Media #8 with Chris Saad

Mike — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:47:00 +0000

This week we interviewed Chris Saad, VP of Strategy at Echo. Echo is a commenting popular commenting engine.

This Week in Social Media #6

Mike — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:42:00 +0000

This week we didn't have a guest. Instead we talked about some of our favorite social media apps as well as the weekly news. Check out the full show notes on ThisWeekIn.

This Week in iPad #13

Mike — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:58:00 +0000

I had a great time jumping in episode 13 of the This Week in iPad with Lon Harris and Jacob Burch. We discussed the iPad news and then did a roundup of all the iPad Twitter apps. The episode with the full show notes can be found here.

This Week in Social Media #5 with Gregarious Narain

Mike — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:21:00 +0000

This week we interviewed Gregarious Narain, VP of Product at Klout. Check out the interview below and the episode show notes on ThisWeekIn.

This Week in Social Media #4 with Nicole Jordan and Melissa Rowley

Mike — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:11:00 +0000

This week we talked with Nicole Jordan and Melissa Rowley. Nicole has a extensive background in both PR and the social web and Melissa is a Cause Correspondent. For the full show notes head over to ThisWeekIn.

This Week in Social Media #3 with Ryan Born

Mike — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

This week we interviewed Ryan Born, CEO of Audioo. For show notes of the episode check out the original post on ThisWeekIn. The interview is below.

This Week in Social Media #2 with Muhammad Saleem

Mike — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:48:00 +0000

On Episode 2 of This Week in Social Media we interviewed Muhammad Saleem, Director of Social Media Strategy at Tribune. Muhammad is also a prolific 'digger'. Check out the interview below.

This Week in Social Media #1 with Brian Solis

Mike — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:34:00 +0000

Today was the first episode of This Week in Social Media (formally This Week in Twitter). I joined hosts Sean Percival and Alana Joy in interviewing well known social media expert Brian Solis.

This Week in Twitter Episode 12: @JessicaGottlieb

Mike — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:37:00 +0000

On Friday, May 14th @Lons, @alanajoy and I sat down with Jessica Gottlieb (@jessicagottlieb). - a high profile "mommy blogger", on episode 12 of This Week in Twitter (@thisweekintwitt). We had a great discussion on blogging vs tweeting as well as the "mommy blogger" scene. Check out the video below.