Latest Web marketing Podcast Episodes
Jesse Lipson @ ShareFile: The Solo Founder Who Bootstrapped an Enterprise SaaS App
Web Masters - May 16, 2022 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsAs the ShareFile name implies, it's a software for sharing, storing, and otherwise managing files in the cloud. It's not a particularly unique service. In this episode, you'll hear ShareFile's founder, Jesse Lipson, mention some familiar competitors -- companies like Dropbox and Box and...
Mitch Kapor @ Lotus, the EFF, and Mozilla: The Founder Who Became an Activist
Web Masters - May 09, 2022 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsMost founders are lucky if they build one organization that changes the world. Mitch Kapor has done it multiple times. And he's supported dozens more through venture backing and philanthropy. On this episode of Web Masters, Mitch talks about his experiences building Lotus Software, the...
Matt Shobe @ FeedBurner: The Designer Who Helped People Monetize RSS"
Web Masters - May 02, 2022 07:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsBefore social media websites became our feeds of information from around the Internet, people relied on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to build their own feeds of content from different websites. While this was a great way for consumers to keep updated on what their favorite sites were...
Matt Shobe @ FeedBurner: The Designer Who Helped People Monetize RSS
Web Masters - May 02, 2022 07:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsBefore social media websites became our feeds of information from around the Internet, people relied on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to build their own feeds of content from different websites. While this was a great way for consumers to keep updated on what their favorite sites were...
Scott Heiferman @ Fotolog: The Serial Entrepreneur Who Created Instagram Before Instagram
Web Masters - April 25, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsScott Heiferman was the featured guest on Web Masters Episode #80. In that episode, we heard about how Scott built Meetup, the pioneering website for helping people find their local communities. But that wasn't the only popular website Scott built. He also built Fotolog. Fotolog was a ...
Scott Heiferman @ Meetup: The Neighbor Who Helped People Find Their Communities
Web Masters - April 18, 2022 07:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe all know the Internet is a great place for connecting with people anywhere in the world who share the same interests and passions, but can it also be a great place for getting connected with people in your local comunity? The guest in this episode of Web Masters thought it could be. ...
Gamifying Developer Education With TwilioQuest
MX Matters - April 11, 2022 21:42 - 14 minutesMargaret Staples, staff developer educator at Twilio, introduces TwilioQuest - a free learning platform that takes developers through gamified adventures. Along with Tessa Mero of Cloudinary’s Developer Relations Team, Margaret elaborates on the platform and its successes, as well as it...
Michael Robertson @ MP3.com: The Entrepreneur Who Got Sued for Making Music Streamable
Web Masters - April 11, 2022 07:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsHard as it may be to remember now, there was a time when every song we wanted to listen to wasn’t available to stream instantly. Instead, we had to own physical copies. First came the record, then the tape, then the CD. However, in the late 90s, a new encoding technology was developed ...
Andrew Conru @ FriendFinder Networks: The PhD Who Made Online Dating More 'Friendly'
Web Masters - April 04, 2022 07:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsNot every online dating website needs to be for everyone. At least, that's what Andrew Conru believed. Rather than creating a single dating website and expecting everyone to join it -- which was the strategy of dating mega-site Match.com -- Andrew took a different approach to online dat...
Steve Madere @ Deja (Google Groups): The Developer Who Could Have Built Google
Web Masters - March 28, 2022 07:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsMost people can’t imagine a form of the Internet that doesn’t involve the World Wide Web. In fact, the World Wide Web and the Internet are so deeply entwined that the majority of users don’t even realize there’s a difference. But that’s only because the World Wide Web was the winning te...
Mike Davidson @ Newsvine: The Designer Who Re-Built Journalism for the Digital Age
Web Masters - March 21, 2022 07:05 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsYou're probably used to getting your news via social media. But there was a time, early in the age of social media, when news and social media weren't so deeply integrated. Instead, Internet users flocked to social news websites. One of those websites was Newsvine. It was a creator pla...
Patrick Lee, Stephen Wang, Senh Duong @ Rotten Tomatoes: The College Buddies Who Liked Watching Martial Arts Movies
Web Masters - March 14, 2022 07:05 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsRotten Tomatoes began as a hobby project. Senh Duong, the original creator, started posted reviews for movies he enjoyed on a small, personal website. Pretty soon after he began, lots of people started relying on those reviews in order to choose the movies they wanted to watch, and the ...
Marshall Brain @ HowStuffWorks: The Writer Who Built the 'Coolest Site on the Internet'
Web Masters - March 07, 2022 08:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe Internet has always been a place to learn about new things. But, in the early days of the Web, one writer took that opportunity for learning to an extreme by creating an entire website devoted to explaining how stuff works. His name is Marshall Brain, and he named his website -- qui...
Nugget McNett @ FlightAware: The Pilot Who Helped Make Flight Tracking More Accessible
Web Masters - February 28, 2022 08:05 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsFlight tracking might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about how the Internet has changed the world, but, as with so many other industries, the Web changed commercial aviation forever. However, it didn't change it the way you might think. FlightAware made the da...
Jon Oringer @ Shutterstock: The Software Engineer Who Created a Marketplace for Photographers
Web Masters - February 21, 2022 08:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsShutterstock probably isn’t the first company that comes to mind when most people think of successful, billion dollar New York tech companies. Instead, the list includes names like BuzzFeed, Rent the Runway, and WeWork. But that’s only because most people don’t spend much time trying to...
Jane Metcalfe & Louis Rossetto @ WIRED: The Partners Who Published the Mouthpiece of the Digital Age
Web Masters - February 14, 2022 08:05 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn the early 1990s, emerging digital and Internet culture weren't mainstream, but it was clear they were going to change the world. People wanted to understand how these new technologies were going to impact them, so they turned to a technology they were already familiar with: magazines...
Erik Selberg @ MetaCrawler: The Grad Student Who Searched Other Search Engines
Web Masters - February 07, 2022 08:05 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIf you need to find something on the Web, it's as simple as going to Google and typing whatever you're looking for. You don't even think twice about whether or not you'll get useful results. Heck, you don't even think twice about whether or not the Google webpage will actually load. But...
Erik Selberg @ MetaCrawler: The Grade Student Who Searched Other Search Engines
Web Masters - February 07, 2022 08:05 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIf you need to find something on the Web, it's as simple as going to Google and typing whatever you're looking for. You don't even think twice about whether or not you'll get useful results. Heck, you don't even think twice about whether or not the Google webpage will actually load. But...
Rand Fishkin @ MOZ: The Writer Who Helped Everyone Become Better at SEO
Web Masters - January 31, 2022 08:05 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsHow do you get your website listed at the top of Google? It's a simple question with an answer so difficult and complex that Rand Fishkin built an enormous company around it. It's called MOZ, and it's the world's premier search engine optimization (SEO) company. On this episode of Web ...
Yvonne Marie Andres @ Global SchoolNet: The Teacher Who Pioneered E-Learning
Web Masters - January 24, 2022 08:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsYou might think "Zoom Classrooms" and #EdTech are new things. They're a byproduct of ubiquitous computers and faster Internet connections. But that's not actually the case. Even before the World Wide Web existed, creative teachers were figuring out how to use the Internet to engage stu...
Dries Buytaert @ Drupal: The Coder Who Helps People Manage Their Websites
Web Masters - January 17, 2022 08:05 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsYou may or may not know what Drupal is. However, when you're using a website, there's a decent chance you're using it. It's one of the Web's most used open source content management platforms, and it's currently being used to operate millions of sites. But Drupal didn't start as a cont...
Phil Fernandez @ Marketo: The Marketer Who Helped Jumpstart the SaaS Industry
Web Masters - January 10, 2022 08:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn the early days of computers, software was sold as a one-off license. But why let someone pay you once when you can get that person to pay you for the same product multiple times? At least, that's the mantra of the Software As A Service industry, otherwise known as SaaS. Helping lead...
Jacob Lodwick @ Vimeo: The Filmmaker Who Pioneered Online Video Sharing
Web Masters - January 03, 2022 08:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsVideo streaming is a relatively recent addition to the Web. That shouldn’t surprise anyone with even a cursory knowledge of how the Internet works. Compared with things like text and images, the storage and bandwidth required for online video is obviously significantly higher, and it to...
Who Invented the "Like" Button?
Web Masters - December 27, 2021 08:05 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsEvery major social media platform has a "like" button. It's a core part of Internet culture and a simple measuring stick to determine how popular a piece of content is. But even though it seems obvious today, it wasn't such an obvious way of judging content in the early days of social m...
Milo Medin - @Home: The Farm Boy Who Gave the World Faster Internet
Web Masters - December 20, 2021 08:05 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIf you're reading this, chances are you'e connected to the Internet all the time. But that wasn't always the case. In the early days of the Web, people would dial into the Internet using their phone lines, do what they needed to online, and then turn off their connections. That began t...
Peter Rojas @ Gizmodo & Engadget: The English Major Who Built Two Popular Gadget Blogs
Web Masters - December 13, 2021 08:05 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsPublishing about niche topics used to be too expensive. But then the Web happened, and the costs for publishing and distribution dropped to almost nothing. That change opened the door to an entirely new generation of publications targeting small, focused audiences. Peter Rojas took adv...
Joey Anuff @ Suck.com: The Guy Who Thought the Early Web Sucked
Web Masters - December 06, 2021 08:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThere was a lot of hype and excitement surrounding the early Web. Problem was, it wasn't nearly as refined as it is now. In fact, the early Web was pretty terrible. While most publications -- publications like Wired Magazine -- were evangelizing and praising the tech revolution, Joey A...
Dennis Crowley @ Foursquare: The 'Location Guy' Who Wants to Curate Experiences
Web Masters - November 29, 2021 08:05 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWhen you think of Foursquare, the popular, location-based social media app, you surely think of things like check-ins and badges and becoming "mayor." That was fine with Dennis Crowley, Foursquare's founder, so long as it meant you were using Foursquare. But it's not what he cared about...
Sabeer Bhatia @ Hotmail: The Engineer Who Made Email Free
Web Masters - November 22, 2021 08:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIf you used the Web in the late 90s or early 2000s, there’s a good chance you had a Hotmail email account. At the very least, you knew plenty of people with one. After all, at its peak, 25% of Internet users had Hotmail accounts. As a result, lots of people associate the creation of ema...
David Cummings @ Pardot: The Founder Who Productized B2B Marketing Automation
Web Masters - November 15, 2021 08:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe process for selling a product to consumers used to be very different than the process for selling products to other businesses. However, like so many things, the Internet changed that. A big reason was Pardot. Pardot helped introduce B2B companies to a different type of sales proce...
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