Craigslist is one of the largest privately owned companies, with 20 Billion page views a month worldwide. Not just a house hold name, Craigslist.org is used by 77 countries, and we are very excited to have founder Craig Newmark on the show live from the West Coast!

Born in NJ, best known for starting his SFO based company craigslist.org, Newmark is vocal about keeping the internet free.

A web-oriented software engineer by training, with 30 years of IT experience at companies such as IBM and Bank of America,Craig now spends his days working as a customer service rep at craigslist.

In 1995 while Craig was working at Schwab, he started craigslist as an email list for friends and co-workers about events going on in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1999, Craig retired from IT consulting to work full-time on craigslist. What started as a fun side project in Craig’s living room has since grown into one of the busiest sites on the internet, helping people with basic day-to-day needs such as finding a job, an apartment and a date, all within a culture of trust.

Craig continues to embrace his inner nerd though he no longer wears thick black glasses that are held together with tape, and he retired the plastic pocket protector some years ago.

Craig is involved with a variety of community efforts and is particularly interested in organizations promoting public diplomacy, mideast peace and new forms of media such as participatory journalism. He’s on the boards of Sunlight Foundation, OneVoice, FactCheckED, and VotoLatino.

From inspiring a Wierd Al Yankovic song, to an award winning documentary, the most striking thing about Craigslist is it’s staunch decision to stay minimal CSS based. In a world where web 2.0 is already outdated, it is simply remarkable to have a site that is so overwhlmingly popular yet largely free and community moderated.

Craig graduated from Case Western University and will talk to us about the Presidents call to volunteer-ism, a subject very dear to him. Using the net for social change is also a subject he cares deeply for an one that goes to the core of NetIP’s values: social change.

For more check out Craig’s blog, http://www.cnewmark.com/ and send in your questions for Craig to primetime@netip.org

Craig will be streaming live on twitter during the show, be sure to follow @netipna and re-tweet using the hashtag #netipradio. Follow Craig @craignewmark

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Prime Time with NetIP presents Celebrity Chef Jehangir Mehta. Broadcasting LIVE from Graffiti Food and Wine bar in New York with an audience, join NetIP’s brand Strategist Pooja Dhawan and guest co-host Shweta Subramanian of HumDesi Radio. June 7th, 7pm EST.

We invite you to have a listening party and serve up some goodies while you listen to our live show. Download the iPhone app and listen on the go.

Besides being the author of the book Mantra: Rules of Indulgence, (HarperCollins) he was the runner up on the Next Iron Chef, aired on Food Network, and was also on the Martha Stewart show. In collaboration with NetIP New York, all guests in the audience will receive Jehangir’s signed book after the show.

Vote for Jehangir Mehta on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=browse

Currently, Jehangir, a former pastry chef to the brilliant Jean-Georges Vongerichten of Jean-Georges fame, is working on a multi-city tour with Whole Foods on a program called Kids Food Adventure with Chef Jehangir, where he teaches children to cook and eat healthy.

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About Prime Time with NetIP

NetIP launched its radio show in 2009 and has a large listener ship across its broadcast cities and the web. During this regular show, leading business, financial, arts and media professionals discuss issues such as; surviving the financial turmoil by leveraging South Asian roots; the political voice of South Asians; the face of the 21st century Indian American professional; struggling for the American dream, immigration, economics and much more. The show gets over 6000 listeners on the internet alone. Every show brings NetIP’s social networks to life with questions, comments, status updates and more. Hum Desi Radio is a division of World Band Media, North America’s first Ethnic Digital Radio Network.

15 amazing show, 12 tireless months, 20 big-name personalities (including the NetIP Executive Team), a valuable alliance partnership & thousands of man-hours of prep later, we are at the one year anniversary of our most successful visibility campaign- Primetime with NetIP. About a year and a half back we got together and dreamed of creating a radio show dedicated to NetIP listeners and covering topics & speakers that would be valuable to our diaspora. After bringing on our first guest (Saira Mohan on May 25th, 2009), little did we know that we had created a “monster” that instantly attracted globally admired and recognized personalities. A show that propelled NetIP’s visibility to a whole new level. A show that attracted over 200,000 listeners both on the radio and through live internet streaming. A show that helped us acquire key sponsors. A show that helped us build one of the strongest Alliance Partnerships  in NetIP’s history with World  Band Media and Hum Desi Radio.

This unbelievable success is owed to the support of the NetIP Executive Team, the many tireless NetIP-NA volunteers, the support of the NetIP Chapters who participate and promote  the show, support of World Band Media and Hum Desi Radio and most of all to the efforts of Pooja Dhawan, Brand Strategist for the NetIP External Affairs Team!
What’s next? NetIP on Public Television and Radio?
Stay tuned…

Buckle your seat belts for CEO of Air Asia and owner of the prestigious Lotus Team F1 Grand Prix. Tony will be on the show live from Malaysia, this is one Prime Time you won’t want to miss.

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NetIP is pleased to have Simran Sethi on our radio show this month. Join in the conversation on February 17th, 7pm EST on HumDesiRadio.com as we talk about green living and the environment.

Simran currently blogs about energy policy and life cycle analysis for The Huffington Post and Alternet, and about the process of greening her own home in Lawrence, Kansas for Oprah.com.

Simran Sethi is an award-winning journalist and associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications, where she teaches courses on sustainability and environmental communications. She is currently writing a book on contemporary environmentalism and has been named one of the top 10 eco-heroes of the planet by the UK’s Independent and lauded as the “environmental messenger” by Vanity Fair.

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Manu Narayan has been hailed as a “promising young star…a compelling actor and outstanding singer who can light up a stage with sheer force of personality. Manu has starred on Broadway’s Bombay Dreams, and co-stars alongside Mike Myers in the Film The Love Guru. Manu was born in Pittsburgh and now lives in New York City.

The music for Bombay Dreams was created by A. R. Rahman, plot was written by Meera Syal and it was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Love Guru starred Mike Myers, Jessica Alba along with Justin Timberlake. Manu has also starred in Quarter Life Crises with Maulik Pancholy, Lisa Ray and Russel Peters.

Ami Sheth is a model and actress that began her career at 16 with a fashion show at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. She attended Boston University and has a degree in biology. She is a licensed vet. NetIP’s New York Chapter featured Ami as one of the Auctioned Dates at their summer 2009 cruise to help raise money for charity.

Ami starred in ‘Hotel Chelsea’ and recently modeled for Indias Reebok spring/summer line and is currently shooting the tv show “Delocated”. You can see Ami on Claritin’s commercial nationally.

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Join us September 28th, 7pm EST on Humdesi Radio.

Vidur Kapur’s stand-up comedy is based on the social commentary of a one-man culture clash. A South Asian raised in a conservative upper middle class family in New Delhi, an overachiever with a degree from The London School of Economics and Ph.D. coursework from the University of Chicago, a misfit in a family focused on arranged marriages and social status, a chic urban trend-crazy gay fashion victim in West Hollywood and Manhattan, a corporate executive from blue chip international firms, an immigrant to the US and a person horrified at being mistaken for a terrorist in a post 9/11 America.  Join in the laughter as we speak to Vidur about his struggles and his triumps in the big bad world of comedy.

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Join us on August 25th at 7 PM EST for a live interview with Ramit Sethi, New York Times best selling author of ”I will teach you to be Rich”, only on Prime Time with NetIP on HumDesi Radio: http://www.netip.org/membership/primetime.html.

 

A financial guru and a Stanford University graduate, Mr. Sethi is sure to keep the audience at the edge of their seats.  His site, www.Iwillteachyoutoberich.com , is a community focused on personal finance and entrepreneurship for college students, recent college grads, and everyone else. It hosts over 250,000 readers per month and 30,000+ newsletter subscribers. It’s been featured in most major media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, ABC News, and CNBC.

Call in live and ask your questions! All callers will receive the first chapter of Mr. Sethi’s book “I will teach you to be rich” as our thanks for joining us on Prime Time with NetIP. (Be sure to announce your name with your question).

 

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Mohan shared some advice to listeners looking for success:
“We’re living in an evolved time and you need to forge your own way. You’ve got to go with your gut and you’ve got to go with what you feel”, said Mohan. “It’s about expanding our minds, expanding our cultures and our traditions and exposing and making them more than what they were. Every generation we become better and more evolved and we’ve just go to continue on with that”.
 
Saira Mohan is both a modern woman of today and an inspirational South Asian. Her success fuels the dreams of many and her passion for achieving that success through the many spheres of life makes her story truly inspirational.
 
Thanks to the many NetIP members and listeners that helped make the inaugural Radio show a success! The next episode of “Primetime with NetIP” on HumDesi Radio will be held in June. For all updates on the show, please click here.