Peopleized Interviewed?

Peopleized is a website when you can interview real people and publish these interview in your blog/journal/website, interviews made by you or other users inside Peopleized.

Is great cause they are real people with real stories on the site, so is fresh content for your blog.

Let´s get two interviews (1, 2) to Halil Mandal, one of the founders of the site and publish some excerpts here, following the dynamic and function on the site.

Interview excerpts

DariaBlack: Tell me a little bit about yourself.

Halil: Halil Mandal, 26, single. Turkish origin and liveing in Germany/Stuttgart. Interested in cooking, Internet, Audio-books and networking. Former financial adviser with sales and marketing background, since 4 month full time Internet entrepreneur.

DariaBlack: This is a wonderful idea for a website. How did the idea for Peopleized come about?

Halil: Thank you. We come up with the idea as we saw that a lot of good blogs at the blogosphere have great content but not as many reader as they should have. So we decided to start Peopleized. The idea was a community where people interview people and share the interviews to promote each other, by using the interviews as “behind-the-scenes” tool to gain new reader to the content.

DariaBlack: How long did it take to bring your dream to fruition?

Halil: We needed about 3 months from the idea to our launch. It is much easier to launch a project then I thought, but much more difficult to start working on it!

DariaBlack: What can users do to get the most out of Peopleized?

Halil: Do a lot of good interviews and share them with other users. You can take every interview from Peopleized and publish it on your blog. So everyone benefits, You got great content for your Blog, the interviewer and the interviewed person get some link love to their blogs from you. That´s a win win situation for everyone. And that´s the way Peopleized wins too

DariaBlack: What are your goals for the project?

Halil: At first we want to make the basic platform work 100%. After that we want to add more valuable things for our users to make it easier to promote yourself with Popleized.
We want to serve the blogosphere and become a part of this wonderful community.

Szavanna: Where will Peopleized stand in 12 months’ time - what are your predictions?

Halil: We want to serve the blogosphere and become a part of this wonderful community.

Szavanna: What are some of the improvements - features you plan to add?

Halil: We started Peopleized very focused. At first we want to make the basic platform work 100%.After that we will add a more interactive way to interview each other and a tool to give all the People who take a interview from Peopleized on their site a track back ( Euripids work hard on it )….

DariaBlack: Any additional information you would like readers to know.

Halil: I think there are a lot of great ideas out there you just have to start them and anything else will happen in the right way. The right persons will come together to make it successful.

Our view on Peopleized

The name is nice, hard to type on the URI though, but invoke action and peopl, that´s a great thing. The logo was made by Ilker (great in/outs of the process).

Peopleized is backed by Joomla (thanks BuiltWith, my new toy of choice) and also use MooTools in the front-end.

The interview process

Once inside Peopleized you select the user you want to interview and send the questions, the interviewed will answer it when he/she is back online.

The flow is not so well define and you will have to get some trips to the site home page to figure out how the site works.

Finally

Other great idea, with many users already, great community, that solve a real problem:  where to find quality content to publish. And as many startups web apps they have to improve some things like: have a custom app for the site, not rely on Joomla which is great but is not meant to this type of apps. Improve their UI/UX, etc.