Nestoria Blog

Greetings Nestorinites!

As a team of very limited resources we’re always stretched. More and more the issue becomes not how to do things, but what we should be doing at all.

Over the last year each month we’ve made space here on the blog to interview different thought leaders from the world of property, online mapping, and how internet technologies are influencing our lives. Our hope is that by highlighting the opinions of some of these influencers we can stimulate the debate regarding how best to apply the amazing technical possibilities the internet allows.

For today’s post we thought we’d highlight these conversations and also update you on where some of these people have now gone.

From the realm of Property we had the pleasure of speaking with:

• Adam Samuel of Nubricks
• Harvey Edgecombe of Renthusiast
• Joel Burslem of The Future of Real Estate Marketing
• Mike Price now at MLBroadcast

The rapidly innovating world of ‘neogeography‘ is a space we draw a lot of product inspiration from. We were lucky enough to speak with some of the space’s most influential thinkers over the last year:

• Artem Pavlenko, inventor of Mapnik
• Gregory Marler of Living with Dragons
• Marc Wick of GeoNames
• Nick Black, now at ZXV Ltd
• Steve Coast, founder of OpenStreetMap, now of ZXV Ltd.
• Ed Parsons, now at Google

Finally, many of the challenges we face here at Nestoria like relevancy, usability, extracting meaning from masses of data, and the ever-present challenge of grappling with new technologies and their uncertain implications are shared by other web businesses. As such it’s natural for us to draw ideas from other innovative internet sites. We spoke with several folks from diverse sites about the issues they see and what we can learn from it.

• Gabor Cselle of Xobni
• Flemming Madsen of Onalytica
• Prashant Agarwal now of mippin
• Paul Carr of Kudocities

Thanks to all of this year’s interviewees. We’ll of course be continuing the series into 2008, and welcome all suggestions as to whom you’d like to see interviewed. In writing this review one thing that leaps out at me is that our list is 100% male, which is of course a very poor reflection of the reality of the world. We’ll see what we can do to address this gender imbalance in the new year.

BTW - For our Spanish reading friends, we of course also run a parallel interview series on our Spanish blog.

And with that all that remains is for me to extend happy New Year’s greeting to all our readers! See you in 2008.