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This is the second segment of this episode with Localmind co-founder Lenny Rachitsky (Part 1: Localmind co-founder Lenny Rachitsky talks version 2.0) where the conversation focuses on the changes in the industry over the past year that have influenced their product decisions, the competitive landscape and Localmind’s differentiation, the impact that voice will have on search and their business, plus Lenny leaves us with 3 lessons his team learned while building and deploying Localmind 2.0.

In this first segment with Lenny Rachitsky, co-founder of Localmind, we dive into the new version of the product, the algorithm by which they determine who is the most appropriate person to send questions to, the big changes in the product and the changes in their perception of the product as they went back into development after extensive user testing and feedback.

This is part 2 (of 3) of a deeper dive with Piictu founder Jon Slimak. In this segment we talk about the importance of the user experience and their approach to app development as well as their involvement in TechStars and the fact that Jon comes from a non-technical background and how that impacted the app experience.

Mobile and photographs are a perfect match and an early wave of disruption as a result of the mobile industry. We are now in the midst of a transition from what photos were (memories) into what they are becoming (conversations) and in the middle of this is Jon Slimak and his company Piictu. This is part 1 of a deep conversation around the future of the photo and how Jon’s company is creating communities of conversations around the pictures we take.

Michael Albers of Xobni details the process they went through to re-imagine contacts in a mobile context, the impact of the cloud on their business, the trials and triumphs of developing an app that extends an existing brand and how they remained constant and true to the other platforms already deployed and in use.

In this episode we get a quick run through of the things whurley and his team at Chaotic Moon have been up to including Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily and Sesame Street’s classic Grover tale, The monster at the end of this book. Why has this small company been able to build some of the most innovative and advanced mobile applications out there and what is with the Board of Awesomeness?

Josh Vautour is the founder of Ottawa-based AirVM – a provider of mobile cloud services among other things – and is tasked with highlighting the opportunities that the cloud brings to mobile developers, enterprises embracing mobile and the average consumer. We discuss tactics for starting with the cloud and implications if you don’t.

What is the difference between the app economy and an app ecosystem and why does it matter to developers? Marco Argenti, SVP, Developer & Marketplace for Nokia talks to us about the thick and prosperous long tail that is beyond the international mobile blockbuster apps and why the real value is around hyper local app economies.

UNTETHER.tv dives in with Zappos mobile team leads, Ian Klassen and Alex Kirmse, about the experience and pressures of building a mobile experience that reflects the brand the company has become. We even get into some forward thinking talk about where Zappos plans to go in 2012.

What does it take to make a mobile game? Well, for the most experienced team of game designers and developers it can be a daunting task but what if you’ve never done it before? Enter Adam Kahn, Creative Director of CBLabs, makers of The Adventures of Timmy. This is a great story about how and [...]

Is the biggest misconception that search is a mature industry that has already been won by the big guys at Google and Bing? Have developers and innovators handed over the keys to these companies before even trying anything new? I suppose if you think of the way we currently use the Internet and mobile to [...]

Massively multi-player online games were once a stationary, sedentary act. Players would sit at a computer and interact with each other over the bitsphere and activity was limited to the big screen. Not anymore. I asked Darren Pye, CEO of Going AFK (an Ottawa, Canada company), to come on to UNTETHER.tv to talk about the [...]