What's It All About HD

Blellow and Mandi Leman

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:37:44 +0000

At SXSW we got a chance to take a look at the new service Blellow. Blellow is a productivity microblog with a mission to encourage open collaboration and the sharing of knowledge. It’s a great tool for freelancers, and other people working from home who are missing that feedback that you would get in an office setting.

We interviewed Mandi Leman, CEO of Blellow, at SXSW. She talked to us about why she started Blellow and gave us a demo of the features.

Nutshell Mail and Mark Schmulen

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:39:00 +0000

At SXSW we had the opportunity to find about Nutshell Mail, the free, web-based service developed to help you better access, manage, and monitor all your email and social networking accounts through your most commonly used inbox. Sarah spoke to the Mark Schmulen, Nutshell Mail’s Co-Nut to get a demo of the service.

In the Hallways

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:08:12 +0000

What’s it all About went to SXSW Interactive this year and we ran into some great people in the hallways. In this episode we talked to Ari Greenberg, Annie Boccio, Tracy Apps, Phil Campbell, Dave Goodchild, Michael Gruen, Nichelle Stephens, Andrew Hyde, Amber Case, Derek Overbey, Aaron Brazell, and Erica O’Grady.

In talking to all of these great people we really discovered the value of the hallways at SXSW. That’s why people come here. Of course there are always the sessions also.

Bonus points if you can name the people in the background in the comments.

Mentioned in this episode:

http://www.sxsw.com/node/1475 - Tony from Zappo’s audio

http://www.sxsw.com/node/1398 - Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong

http://www.sxsw.com/node/1587 - Make it So (Sexy): Lustful Design in Mainstream Science Fiction

http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue/making-whuffie-1148281 - Makin’ Whuffie

http://100-interviews.com/ - 100 Interviews

See You at SXSWi

Sarah Cooley — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:59:09 +0000

Will you be at SXSWi? Do you help make the internet better, faster and smarter? We want to talk to you in Austin.

What’s it all About is looking for companies with web products to interview at SXSW interactive. If you think your product would feature well on the show, then please let us know.

Email us at sxsw@whatsitallabout.tv

Episode 3: Google Friend Connect vs Facebook Connect

Sarah Cooley — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:58:45 +0000

In this episode of What’s it All About we talk about the differences between Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect for the user and the blogger or site owner.

To see Google Friend Connect in action, check out Google Inside. You can follow the blog, become friends with the other readers, and promote the blog to your Google contacts.

To see Facebook Connect in action, check out the Howcast page for “How Not to Get Mugged” and you can comment using your Facebook account, which will send information back to your newsfeed. If you are interested in details on how to add facebook connect to your blog with Disqus, you can sign up at disqus.com.

The “Sad Panda” image came from vee_smith on Flickr.