Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category

Posted on March 21, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

What’s new with TriOut and the Robert Scoble SXSW video interview with a sneak peak at TriOut v3

Originally posted on TriOut’s blog
How time flies in the location space. Just one year ago, Lawrence Ingram and myself held a TriOut launch party at the Research Triangle Park HQ and launched TriOutNC.com. At the launch party we announced our first hyper local check in deals contest. Since then a lot has changed. TriOut has added a sales manager Gregg Morris and anther iPhone developer, Josh Johnson.

Over the past year, team TriOut had an amazing opportunity to participate at various location based conference such as geom with some of the other location-based services like foursquare, gowalla and scvanger and at blogworld 2010 we launch version two of our iPhone app. With version two of our app we decided to open up TriOut for anyone to use in the world but still remain a hyper local focus. We also launched an API and a HTML5 version of TriOut.

In the first year of TriOut we have learned a lot and watch as the entire location space has evolved and continues to grow. One opportunity that opened to us was to make TriOut a white label platform in which we could build geo based mobile apps using the TriOut api for businesses, brands, universities and more. This led us to a conversation with NC State University to build a location-based social network for the school called “OnCampus”. We’ll have more news about OnCampus and how other schools can have their own location-based social network soon.

During SXSW 2011, I caught up with Robert Scoble for an update on TriOut and showed him a demo of OnCampus along with a sneak peak at TriOut version three iPhone app in the works. Take a look.

Thanks for the support, especially the local Triangle, NC community. We’re excited about the future of TriOut!

Posted on March 8, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Podcast: Enchantment book interview with Guy Kawasaki

Last week I had the opportunity to interview former chief evangelist of Apple and co-founder of Alltop.com, Guy Kawasaki about his new book available today called Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions.

About Enchantment:

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions is Guy’s tenth book. In it, he explains how to influence what people will do while maintaining the highest standards of ethics.

The book explains when and why enchantment is necessary and then the pillars of enchantment: likability, trustworthiness, and a great cause.

The next topics are launching, overcoming resistance, making enchantment endure, and using technology. There are even special chapters dedicated to enchanting your employees and your boss.

Finally, because there are times you may want to resist enchantment, there’s even a chapter about how to do this too

You can listen to my interview with Guy Kawasaki below :
Enchantment book review with Guy Kawasaki by waynesutton

Learn how to order your copy of Enchantment here: http://www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/order/

The Enchantment Facebook fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/enchantment#!/enchantment?sk=app_4949752878

You can subscribe; to the SocialWayne.com Podcast on: iTunes; or subscribe to the podcast XML feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/socialwayne

Disclaimer: I received a free preview copy of Enchantment for review.

Posted on January 3, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Featured in the January edition of Black Enterprise Magazine with 50Cent about TriOut & QR Codes

Happy New Year everyone! Here’s to having a successful 2011, and there’s nothing like starting off the year with a little media attention/press. A few months ago I was interviewed by Marcia Talbert (@newsgyrl), TechWatch Editor for Black Enterprise Magazine, about TriOut and QR Codes for the January edition with Curtis Jackson aka @50Cent on the cover. So… I’m not technically with 50Cent, just in the same magazine. Gotcha!

In the article I talked about how we built a QR Code reader into TriOut and how businesses can use TriOut and QR Codes to engage with their customers. Pick up a copy of the magazine to read the full article or download the Black Enterprise iPad app. [iTunes link].

I want to thank Marcia and Black Enterprise for the opportunity. Also I would like to thank DesignBox for hosting the photo shoot.

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Update

Now I have my own fast QR Code Reader / Scanner. Try my new SocialWayne iPhone app: CLICK HERE

Posted on May 31, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Talk Social News Podcast officially joins the deadpool and a look back my favorite episodes.

It seems so long ago but back in 2008 my good friend/partner Kipp Bodnar (@kbodnar32) and I launched a podcast called Talk Social News http://talksocialnews.com. The goal of the podcast was to cover all things technology, social media, startups and gadgets. Talk Social News started off being a once a week audio podcast then after SXSW 2009 Kipp and I went to a daily video podcast. During the length of the podcast we had a chance to interview a lot of industry leaders such as the following:

• Adam J. Wallace
• Louis Gray
• Thomas Cook
• Danny Burkes
• Erik Martin
• Geoff Livingston
• Angla Benton
• Joel Longtine
• Louis Gray
• Martin May
• MC Hammer
• Peter Shankman
• Tara Hunt

Here a few of my favorite past episodes:
Talk Social News debuts with Brightkite CTO interview On Location Based Applications
The interview,click to play: [audio:http://talksocialnews.com/audio/TalkSocialNews-001-Brightkite.mp3]

Talk Social News episode 17# MC Hammer, on social media, the music industry & twitter. Need we say more?
The interview: [audio:http://talksocialnews.com/audio/Talksocialnews-0017mchammer.mp3]

Talk Social News Episode 12: Talking Whuffi with Tara Hunt aka Missrogue, twitter for voting & twitter for terrorists?, Linkedin, Opera, and Windows 7
The interview: click to play: [audio:http://talksocialnews.com/audio/TalkSocialNews0012Tarahunt.mp3]

Talk Social News Episode 10:Evernote CEO, Phil Libin, what is a mophie iPhone juice pack and who’s failing on twitter.
The interview: click to play: [audio:http://talksocialnews.com/audio/TalkSocialNews0010evernote.mp3]

Talk Social News going daily with video blog, iPhone 3.0 rumors, exectweets, wefollow and your feedback

Loic Le Meur @Loic at #SXSW on @Seemic, Facebook, video comments and startups

Talk Social News Episode 21: Adam Wallace of Roger Smith Hotel talks social media in New York, plus cotweet, twickie, hulu vs boxe and facebook TOS noise
The interview: click to play: [audio:http://talksocialnews.com/audio/TalkSocialNews0021AdamWallacerogersmith.mp3]

I want to say thank you to everyone who supported Talk Social News over the years including our very first sponsor Ripple6 and all of our listeners and friends. A big thanks to Kipp Bodnar for co-hosting the show and pushing me along the way. It was a fun ride!

Since we stopped recording Talk Social News, I’ve been having an on and off again podcast here on SocialWayne.com but as of last week I’m back recording weekly episodes. You find SocialWayne podcast here: http://socialwayne.com/category/podcast/ and you can subscribe to to the show here on: iTunes; or subscribe to the podcast XML feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/socialwayne.

Posted on April 13, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Video: Dr. Jim Goodnight CEO of SAS on cloud computing, iPad, social media analytics & more. #SGF10

Yesterday at the SAS Global Forum in Seattle Washington, SAS launched their SAS Social Media Analytics product along with other announcements on the company’s products and culture. The SAS Global Forum is the world’s largest gathering of SAS users, attended by more than 3,000 business and IT users of SAS software and solutions. During the forum I had chance to interview SAS’s CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight along with a other members of the press. Watch the interview below as Dr. Jim Goodnight discussed his thoughts on Cloud Computing, SAS’s new social media analytics product, handling data, the iPad and being named number one company to work for in the USA.

I have more post on SAS Social Media Analytics product coming soon.

*Disclosure”SAS invited me to their SAS Global Forum user event as their guest to attend the launch of SAS Social Media Analytics. They paid my airfare, hotel and conference registration fees and gave me access to the product for evaluation.”