We air live every Tuesday (or maybe Thursday) around 9am at www.ustream.tv/channel/good-morning-interwebs.
We'll be doing the next episode from Dogpatch Labs on Thursday, January 28th at 9am.The show is hosted by Alli Mooney and Meghan Keane
Today on Good Morning Interwebs’ Wake Up With a Start Up:
Alli and Meghan went to Buzzd to speak with Nihal Mehta and Deepen Shah.
We were reminded that start up hours do not often begin at 9A, but it was a great show. Nihal and Deep just got back from visiting Apple and Twitter in San Francisco and gave us some dirt on what those companies are up to as well as some really great insights into the state of social in mobile. (Bonus: Deep closes the show with some pretty amazing beat boxing skillz.)
If you’d like to visit specific clips, here’s what we talked about and when:
1:05: Our tech crew (Alli) improved our camera by 500%. By wiping the lens.
2:00 Buzzd COO Kevin Bradshaw preps for our cooking segment off camera. (We don’t have a cooking segment.)
2:20 Nihal checks out his hair and we get an Axe ad. Ladies, believe us, it was hard to control ourselves.
3:55 Nihal describes what buzzd does and what sets them apart in the mobile social market.
6:30 Nihal tells us what it looks like behind the scenes at Apple and Twitter in San Francisco and what Twitter is working on in geolocation.
8:00 Nihal used someone else’s thumb to get past a biometric scanner recently. We decide drunk homeless people are going to be the “key rocks” of the the future.
9:55 Twitter’s new retweeting feature went live yesterday. We discuss how it will help professional usage of the service and why geolocation matters for social.
11:53 Alli admits that she loves to steal Meghan’s identity online and post things from her accounts/computer. (Like the time she took a picture of me sleeping with my iPhone and posted it to my Flickr account. (I’m not bitter though.))
13:00 Welcome Deep!
14:30 buzzd is getting more location aware.
15:00 Alli has a Webster Hall app on her iPhone. It’s mostly for pimps and stalkers.
18:00 There’s a rash of companies that put out press releases about iPhone apps that will never exist. Why?
19:30 Alli explains what Stalqer is.
25:00 Nihal says that 99% of consumers want to consume, 1% want to create. buzzd built its iPhone app for the 99%, while other mobile companies are going after the active 1%.
27:00 Why buzzd over other social mobile services?
28:40 buzzd is letting other companies integrate hashtags into their applications to help standardize mobile locations. Deep gives a shoutout to “Mike,” who helped make that happen. Good work Mike.
35:30 Deep beat boxes. Awesomeness.