Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D. speaks with David Riemer (ex-Vice President of Marketing at YAHOO!) currently an executive in residence at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.

Andreas Weigend is a former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and the author of over 100 scientific papers on the application of machine learning techniques to finance and business problems.

David Riemer is one of the leading marketers in the Internet industry. He spent the last decade developing and bringing great products to web users worldwide. Following his career as an ad agency President, David brought his strategic and marketing leadership to two start-ups and an internet titan, Yahoo!. In various roles over six years at Yahoo!, David led the marketing teams on both the BtoB and Consumer sides of the business where he managed marketing for virtually all of Yahoo!’s products across their customer base of 500M users.

David is now advising emerging Internet and consumer technology companies. He specializes in helping businesses clarify their product strategy, go-to-market approach and business model. David also serves as Executive-in-Residence at Haas Business School (Berkeley). David earned his undergraduate degree from Brown University, and an MBA from Columbia University. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and two (very web savvy) teenage children who help keep him honest.

Relevant read! The Findability Formula: The Easy, Non-Technical Approach to Search Engine Marketing

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

Widget Summit 2008

Widget Summit hosted its third annual conference November 3rd and 4th at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. Widget Summit is the premier widget conference educating hundreds of attendees a year on business and development best practices in the emerging widget industry.

The Widget Summit 2008 conference program included a detailed look inside the widget platforms changing the way users interact with rich content across multiple environments. Widget Summit will help you reach and engage new audiences across multiple platforms including over 180 million Windows Vista desktops, 25 million active Facebook users, 10 million iPhone smartphones, or the millions of users that call My Yahoo! and iGoogle home every day. The world of widgets reaches beyond a standard web address and into the desktops, mobile phones, social networks, blogs, and personal homepages of today’s fragmented online engagements.

Check out the following Widget Summit 2008 videos:

Jonathan Carrigan of CBC shares business lessons learned while completing his MBA and in practice with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Lessons Learned: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Paul Lindner of hi5 presents on the widget container and its worldwide audience.

Widgets Around the World: hi5 from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Laurent Sanchez of ACCESS presents Japanese use of mobile widgets at Widget Summit 2008.

Widgets Around the World: ACCESS from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Will Price from Widgetbox and Freddy Mini from Netvibes discuss widget discovery via galleries with moderator Niall Kennedy.

Meet the Galleries from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

iPhone developers share their mobile development experience on this new platform. Brian Fling of Fling Media, Tom Conrad of Pandora, Dom Sagolla of DollarApp, and Sunil Verma of Mobclix discuss the iPhone native application platform with moderator Raven Zachary.

iPhone Developer Panel from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Andreas Weigend presents Widget Data Strategies at Widget Summit 2008.

Widget Data Strategies from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Steve Souders of Google presents High Performance Widgets at Widget Summit 2008.

High Performance Widgets from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Chris Schalk of Google and Paul Lindner of hi5 Networks present OpenSocial Basics at Widget Summit 2008.

OpenSocial Basics from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Max Newbould of MySpace provides an introduction to creating OpenSocial applications on the MySpace platform.

MySpace Applications from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Max Engel of MySpace presents MySpace Data Portability at Widget Summit 2008.

MySpace Data Portability from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Ryan Sarver of Skyhook Wireless and Chris Butler share the current state-of-the-art for geolocation-aware widget implementations and the data targeting available within.

Geolocation-aware Widgets from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

An excellent ‘related’ read: Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data