Digital Podcast 47: Making the News Social
Do you like to talk about the news? Want to find other people in your neck of the woods that also like to talk about the news? If so, you should check out Topix.
At the spring Digital Hollywood, I interviewed Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, to discuss the social news site.
Chris describes how Topix takes news feeds from a vast array of news sites and uses sophisticated algorithms to process the news into locations and categories. The result is the Topix news feed. Want to find local news just put in your zip code and you get a filter which presents news relating to your area.
The really interesting part about Topix is the conversation about the news.
Microsoft has officially 
John Batelle of Federated Media interviewed Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, Loudcloud and Ning. Marc talks about his experience at Netscape, his new start up Ning, Bill Gates and his comments about the upcoming nuclear winter.
In this interview at the Web 2.0 Expo, Slide CEO Max Levchin talks about Slide, what makes it work and his secret sauce for success.
In what was certainly the funniest and most enjoyable presentation at Web 2.0 Expo, Dan Lyons AKA Fake Steve Jobs, discusses how he came to start the Fake Steve blog and explains why he thinks it works. Thanks to the Web 2.0 team for putting together this video and the other videos from the Web 2.0 Expo.
Tim O'Reilly interviews Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun. Sun pioneered the phrase the network is the computer. 
Yahoo's CTO Ari Balogh opened his speech at Web 2.0 Expo speaking about about 3 big bets: being the most important starting point for the web, being a must buy advertising property and being open.
In his speech Ari, describes Yahoo's New Open Strategy called Y! OS.