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Interview with Google’s Franz Och

Franz Och heads up Google’s machine language translation efforts. He talks about efforts to make the content on the web more accessible to people, regardless of what langauge they speak.

 
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Posted on Monday, March 19th, 2007
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Interview with Videoegg co-founder and CEO Matt Sanchez

Matt Sanchez brings us up-to-date on what’s happening with the web video service Videoegg, and talks about the web video space in general, including where advertising is headed.

 
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Posted on Thursday, February 15th, 2007
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Interview with Michael Bebel, CEO of college music service Ruckus

Larry Magid steps in as guest host today with an interview with Ruckus CEO Michael Bebel. Ruckus is a free subscription service that lets college students legally download music, access Hollywood movies, create personal profiles and exchange and share downloaded tracks. Bebel explains the business strategy, which includes advertising as a revenue source.

 
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Posted on Monday, January 29th, 2007
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Interview with Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales made online encyclopedia Wikipedia into perhaps the most famous wiki in the world. Now he’s turning his attention to Internet search. Wales is building a search engine using open source code from the Nutch and Lucene projects. The search results will be editable by humans, not determined by an algorithm. Can it work? Wales discusses the project with web editor Mike Bazeley and Internet reporter Elise Ackerman.

 
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Posted on Monday, January 22nd, 2007
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Interview with Peerflix founder Billy McNair

Peerflix is a peer-to-peer DVD trading company based in Palo Alto. We chatted with founder Billy McNair about changes at the company and where it’s headed.

 
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Posted on Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
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