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from time to time, shmula interviews companies that are disruptive-but-value-adding, either in their approach to business, their revenue model, or in their technology.  to read about the companies featured on shmula, please go to the company interview page.

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on today’s segment of disruptive companies, we’re speaking with joshua steimle, the founder and ceo of mwi. we’re going to learn about how a full-service marketing, branding, seo, and web development firm manages to stir things up and add value. welcome, josh.

1) please provide a short bio on yourself

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from time to time, shmula interviews companies that are disruptive-but-value-adding, either in their approach to business, their revenue model, or in their technology. to read about the companies featured on shmula, please go to the company interview page.

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it’s not often that one encounters innovation that also does the world some good. today on shmula, we’re speaking with Dr. Lloyd Hildebrand, co-founder and chief operating officer of inoveon. inoveon is a medical services company that detects, stages, and monitors diseases affecting the eye — diabetic retinopathy, macular edema, and glaucoma. inoveon is a venture funded company and the list includes eli lilly, centerpoint ventures, massey burch, prolog, and chisholm.

i’m a fan of the tv show lost. i was stoked to hear that abc is testing free online distribution of the tv show lost as well as other abc shows such as commander in chief, desperate housewives, and alias. the shows will be streamed on abc.com the day after they’re shown on tv. previously, abc had been selling episodes of lost and desperate housewives on itunes for $1.99.

shmula was google blogoscoped today. thanks, philipp. nice.

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from time to time, shmula interviews companies that are disruptive-but-value-adding, either in their approach to business, their revenue model, or in their technology. to read about the companies featured on shmula, please go to the company interview page.

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you’re going to love this next disruptive company highlight. today, we’re speaking with Ryan Kiskis of Xfire. Xfire is the de facto standard of online gaming. we’re excited to have ryan on shmula today.

i’ve been playing around with yahoo! open shortcuts. it’s pretty cool. yahoo! is allowing users to create custom query shortcuts. i’ve created several already. i’m glad to see yahoo! taking this initiative. check it out.

university of texas at austin got hacked. i received an email today from the school indicating that the business school was hacked. ut austin was one of the schools i considered for graduate school. i never applied there, but for some reason i got on their email list. ut austin is top-notch in computer science. perhaps this incident will beef-up their focus on security.

data theft is such a terrible problem — it’s reprehensible and really devastates the victims life for a long time. despite that, though, the techie in me is really interested in how ut austin was hacked. i wonder how they did it?

i’ve been using findory for some time now. i’m really impressed with it. it may be the first learning application that truly works –

i wrote about personalization a while ago. this one actually works.

the founder is a former amazonian that was on the personalization team. he’s done some great work here. they’ve taken personalization to a whole different level. their business model is based on adsense, but they, too, take that to a whole new level. to monetize, they make sure it’s hyper-personal, not just render an ad based on what is on the current page. read more about what they are doing here.