The Big Web Show

Hosted by Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman.

The Big Web Show features special guests and topics like web publishing, art direction, content strategy, typography, web technology, and more. It's everything web that matters. Recorded live every Thursday at 1:00PM ET.

Episode 14: Design Apps for Fun and Profit


Published on July 29th, 2010 Video hosting & analytics by Wistia
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Show Notes

Jeffrey and Dan talk with Gowalla CEO Josh Williams about social media, being an entrepreneur, developer applications for the web and mobile, marketing a new business, and more.


Guests

Josh Williams

Josh Williams is CEO and co-founder of Gowalla, a mobile and Web service that gives people around the world a new way to communicate and express themselves through the everyday places and extraordinary settings they enjoy. Josh has a long history of entrepreneurial pursuits and successful businesses, like Blinksale, one of the first online invoicing services for small businesses, and Alamofire, the producer of PackRat, a pioneering collectable card game on Facebook. Previously, Josh was founder and principal at Firewheel Design from 2001-2008, a preeminent UI-design consultancy specializing in interface and icon design for desktop, mobile and web, where his clients included Microsoft, Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Thompson Reuters and Causes. Learn more about Josh Williams »


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