Here’s the full interview, if the audio doesn’t work use the link provided to download the .mp3 file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4770413/sprouterinterview.mp3
I spoke yesterday via Skype with Erin Bury, community manager for the online entrepreneurial social network Sprouter. Sprouter is a messaging service which is very similar to Twitter, but asks entrepreneurs “What are you working on?”. It allows you to share conversations with other entrepreneurs and investors about anything you need help on from funding opportunities down to how to get the right business structure.
According to Bury, the founder Sarah Prevette created this idea out of a failed startup she’d created which was a “Digg.com for teens”. Erin told me that Sarah Prevette had the idea to create a network for entrepreneurs like her to really find a place to work productively on finding solutions to their problems.
I find the idea very fascinating, although I was very adamant towards the end of the interview to put forward a couple of pointers on a recent “Profit Magazine” article which interviewed Sarah Prevette (listen from 13 minutes onwards to hear that!).
For more information on Sprouter visit:
http://www.sprouter.com
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It’s a known fact that men happen to dominate the design industry. When I think of the people I look up to, immediately I think of men. Nick La, Collis Ta’eed, Von Glitschka. Don’t get me wrong, after a while I add Veerle Pieters and Adelle Charles to my list.
Those are two amazing gals with a dream to go far. This domination is not just in Web or Graphic Design, what about Fashion? Think about Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs, and the late Alexander McQueen. The person behind Gucci? Man. So, where have the women gone?
At our age, we think we know everything. It’s true, I am personally a classic example of someone who rarely listens to the opinion of adults in my life. Our young minds begin to develop an acute understanding of technology because we are constantly exposed to it, and in turn helps to make us smarter.
Yet, just how much of the “I know, better” attitude in technology is perhaps largely affecting our understanding and perception of the real-world knowledge and life experience of adults?
I’m a PC I always have been. I have owned Macs but always came running back to familiarity and flexibility. The last five years have been a bit of a disaster for Microsoft with Windows Vista, weak efforts in the mobile sector and poor implementation of Microsoft’s Zune music platform. However, in the past seven months Microsoft have been fighting back.
Although Google Buzz might have been dominating the headlines for the past few days, one little tidbit of news doesn’t seem to have had the attention it deserves. On Thursday, it was announced that for $50 million, Google had bought Aardvark, a service that attempts to find the most relevant answers to questions you ask in minutes.
Some questions have arisen over the intentions behind the acquisition, as Aardvark was started by two former Google employees, though in my mind, Google just couldn’t let this one slip through. It’s just too valuable to them, as Aardvark does many things really well that Google haven’t quite managed yet.
Google seem to be in the middle of a release spree, this week we saw the opening of their ‘Buzz‘ service. As all of you Gmail users will know that Buzz is a service similar to Twitter and Facebook’s feed system in which you can share your life stories/photos/videos. The mobile app also has live geo-tagging backpacking on Google’s Latitude system, which since its launch has not seen much exposure or use.
Whether Buzz will work as a social tool is still yet to be seen, the technology literate people on the internet seem to be equally split in their views, one half claiming it to be a useless product whereas the other half embracing the new tool.
