It's leap year, and it's a weekend. I say that's cause for celebration ... with a Mashable Conversations Week in Review! Who's with me?
This week was particularly good, with a great set of conversations that just seemed to naturally roll out of production and into your earholes with little effort at all.
We kicked off the week with a conversation between Troy Young and I. Troy Young is from VideoEgg, and he's been on the show before. Last time he was on Mashable Conversations, he was announcing the partnership of VideoEgg with a literal slew of multimedia websites, including MetaCafe, Imeem and Buzznet. This time around we talked about engagement based advertising and exactly what types of sites these sort of ads will best be placed on. We discussed our predictions on this episode, though, and it will be interesting to come back in a few months and see how accurate we were.
The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
You can check out VideoEgg's AdFrames here.
Tuesday, we played one of the last few podcasts remaining from the cache Brad Hunstable recorded at the Open Web Awards. Greg Shverdin of Copenda sat down to speak a little bit about where the company has gone since in advancing the dating search service. The embed is available below, or you can download the MP4 file directly here. You can check out Copenda here.
Thursday, we had a conversation with the lovely and talented founder of WhyGoSolo, Ann Bernard. We covered a lot of ground, including a bit of our own social networking horror stories when it came to meeting new folks, and our wistful desires for the existence of a system like WhyGoSocial in our past.Folks who will be attending out MashMeet DC event will get a chance to meet Ann Bernard, as she'll be in attendance. As a special bonus, in this episode for those of you who have been so far unable to secure a ticket to the event will want to listen all the way to the end to find out a way to secure a free pass to the event! The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here. You can check out WhyGoSolo here.
In case you missed one of the bigger Google stories from last week, they finally released JotSpot from obscurity into the general public's hands in the form of Google Sites. JotSpot is an old wiki Web-app Google acquired about 18 months ago. Chris Yeh, an executive over at PBWiki, joined in on Mashable Conversations Thursday to give us the update on how this release will affect the PBWiki business and the wiki space as a whole. We also chatted about the proper usage of a wiki, the rel=nofollow policy Google is adhering to, an the affect of Google Sites on Microsoft's Sharepoint marketshare. The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
Finally, rounding out the week, Director of Engineering at Google David Glazer sat down with us at Mashable Conversations today to speak about that and other things coming up in the OpenSocial arena. I also took the time to pick his brain on the future of DataPortability (and data portability), and what role he saw it playing in the future of OpenSocial.