Interviews

The end of Moore’s law: Q&A with POET technologies’ Peter Copetti

In the third and final installment on the Moore’s Law series, Graeme Lipschitz sits down with POET technologies executive, Peter Copetti, to discuss their…

Rich story telling with minimal effort and skill: Q&A with SooMeta founder

You might not have heard of SooMeta yet but I suspect you will soon. The team that brought us Dragontape has now made a…

Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web

From the mind of a 19-year-old to the world’s most popular content management system (CMS) — WordPress has done some serious growing up in…

Trendwatching’s Henry Mason on pretail and why marketing should be simple

I first met Henry Mason after he had (for all the wrong reasons) a very tough act to follow. It was late in the…

Google Knowledge Graph and the future of voice-activated intelligent search

Google’s core business is all about finding you what you need to know. The company has become synonymous with searching the internet, so it…

Africa’s ‘Bill Gates’ on technological innovation

As the co-founder of SOFTtribe limited, one of the leading software houses in West Africa, Herman Chinery-Hesse has been described by the BBC as…

Social media fatigue, Radiohead and QR Codes: Q&A with Josh Spear

As one of the youngest and most influential marketing strategists in the world, Josh Spear owns Undercurrent, a New York-based consultancy that applies a…

Sketching, prototyping — The key to solving design problems

A leading figure in the British user experience community, Cennydd Bowles is a user experience designer and writer based in Brighton, England. He works…

Africa’s road to technological success lies in hardware production

As the founder of the non-profit African Institute of Technology and Fasmicro(AFRIT), Africa’s first integrated circuit design house, Nigerian academic and inventor Ndubuisi Ekekwe…

Losing $80-million without blinking: Koos Bekker’s Memeburn Q&A

Naspers is an oddity. Who would have bet that a one-time newspaper company would have become an emerging-market internet giant? After all “Naspers” means…

The Memeburn Interview: Q&A with Prezi CEO on ‘non-linear’ presentations

With five-million users, Prezi is becoming the online presentation tool of choice. The service is a cloud-based (SaaS) presentation software and storytelling tool for…

Q&A: Bob Garfield on the future of marketing and ‘masturbating thieves’

A columnist, critic, host, writer, analyst and panelist, Bob Garfield is an advertising legend who has written for publications including The Washington Post, The…

Q & A with Heather Ford: Makmende, Web Ethnography and Ostrich

Heather Ford was recently selected as one of the 10 most influential women in science and technology in Africa by IT News Africa. Andrew…

‘The blog is dead, long live the blog’ — Chris Anderson on the future of media

We may need new words for journalists, editors and the “news”, because their definitions are constraining and changing. Maybe the editors of the future…

The ‘closing’ web: The Memeburn interview with Chris Anderson Pt I

With additional reporting by Michelle Atagana and Steven Norris. If you don’t know who Chris Anderson is, you don’t really understand the internet. He’s…

Ex Naspers exec talks emerging markets and entrepreneurship

Former Naspers executive Kim Reid is the man behind Takealot. This South African online retail site is looking to gain significant market share in…

Internet at the heart of everything: Q&A with Chrome OS

Google’s Chrome operating system changes everything. It puts the internet at the centre of our computing experience. Chrome OS goes beyond software. Google has…

The future of WordPress: Q&A with founder Matt Mullenweg

Named as one of the 25 most influential people on the web, Matt Mullenweg founded and runs an open source web platform that has…

Coming soon: Memeburn’s 1-on-1 with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg

On Friday, Memeburn will publish an exclusive one-on-one interview with Matt Mullenweg, named as one of the 25 most influential people on the web…

Broadband for the people — The next generation of mobile data access

Qualcomm is one of those companies that you’ve heard of, but that few people outside of the telecommunications industry know a huge amount about….

Google News: Four-billion monthly clicks, and counting [Q&A]

It’s not easy to run an online content business in an age where everyone is a publisher. Everyone is doing it and there’s never…

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