Watch the three winning pitches of the first ever CRV Entrepreneur Idol (coming to a grad school near you soon). Judges George, Bill Tai and Susan Wu of CRV, as well as Silicon Valley famed blogger and journalist, Matt Marshall [See the full post…]

Heidi Roizen is a Silicon Valley veteran who spent her time building companies during the software and PC boom. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier spoke with her about how and when to raise venture capital funding. She says that [See the full post…]

At the recent announcement from Intel on their new Web 2.0 Enterprise Suite, PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier spoke with Ross Mayfield, CEO of SocialText to talk about the new offering from Intel.

Click here for transcript. [See the full post…]

Bob Pepper was the chief policy guru at the Federal Communications Commission for three presidential administrations (and six FCC chairmen). He speaks with PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier about net neutrality, what it means and who it would benefit. [See the full post…]

Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and Revision3 and co-host of on of Diggnation, was surprised by the sheer number of people who showed up for the Vloggies, where Diggnation picked up the much-coveted Viewers’ Choice award for Tech Vlogs. [See the full post…]

Silicon Valley Watcher founder and publisher Tom Foremski has been a vlogger for about a year. The former writer for the Financial Times spoke with PodTech’s John Furrier at the Vloggies, where he discussed the virtues of posting his commentary [See the full post…]

Megan Cunningham, founder of Magnet Media — and one of the official Vloggies judges — talks with PodTech’s John Furrier at the after-party. Magnet Media is an educational media company serving the entertainment industry. It produces two series of interactive [See the full post…]

An overflow crowd waits for the Eric Schmidt Web 2.0 keynote. At $3,500 per conference attendee, and a full plate of sponsors, it looks like they made some serious bank. Speaking of bank, the Google CEO denies rumors [See the full post…]

An overflow crowd waits for the Eric Schmidt Web 2.0 keynote. At $3,500 per conference attendee, and a full plate of sponsors, it looks like they made some serious bank. Speaking of bank, the Google CEO denies rumors [See the full post…]

Jerry Zucker, producer of Airplane, Ghost and The Naked Gun, spoke at the Vloggies, saying that he had no interest in videoblogging but adding that the Hollywood studios are a mess…. He was kidding, but he did say that online [See the full post…]

PodTech’s John Furrier talks with Joe Klein, the official voice of the Vloggies. Klein is the founder of The Podcast Voice Guys, one of the only companies that does voice-overs specifically for the Internet. Joe not only did the [See the full post…]

Social media guru Jeremy Pepper foresees the Vloggies getting bigger and bigger, and says the future of video is all about creating great content. Video is a really wierd space, says Jeremy — you have to be smart about video! [See the full post…]

PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier talks with Vloggies mastermind Irina Slutsky about the first ever awards night for video bloggers. Irina’s intent was to bring the vlogging community and the business community together to celebrate the many achievements of [See the full post…]

Tanja Andrews and Oscar Grimm of Freshtopia (winners of three Vloggies) talk with PodTech’s John Furrier about how friendly the vlogging community has been to them, providing information and tips on technology, editing and filming. Tanja, who wore a head-to-toe [See the full post…]

Eric Rice, a pioneer in vlogging, has been dark for a few months and plans to come out of the darkness — he’s been playing around with Second Life. He even learned something new at the Vloggies — the [See the full post…]

Real celebrity Daniel McVicar tells PodTech’s [tagJohn Furrier how he decided to join the new media revolution. He talks about how back in the day, TV was “out there” — it wasn’t really an exchange. Now it is, he says. [See the full post…]

Blip.TV co-founder Dina Kaplan explains the importance of the vlogging industry in the new media world, where a single vlogger in the middle of Minnesota is as important as a studio in Hollywood used to be. Now, she tells PodTech’s [See the full post…]

Judges’ Favorite News Vlog winner Rocketboom producer Andrew Michael Baron — who compares himself to Woody Allen — introduces us to some of his correspondents, including Steve Garfield of VlogSoup, Chuck Olsen of Minnesota Stories and Zadi Diaz of [See the full post…]

“Every brand is a distribution channel,” says Kevin Townsend. It’s been a long time since digital media meant special effects. Townsend was at Industrial Light and Magic when it produced Jurassic Park. Now, his company, Science + Fiction, [See the full post…]

Video montage of the Vloggies party in San Francisco. Includes intro by PodTech CEO, John Furrier and interviews with Jerry Zucker – Director/Producer, Airplane!, Naked Gun, Ghost; Kevin Rose – founder, Digg.com, Revision3; Tom Foremski – founder, Silicon [See the full post…]

The Vloggies first annual videoblog awards night made its debut in San Franscisco. The net paparazzi were out in force. PodTech, along with other videobloggers, has extensive coverage of the night. We will release that content shortly, but here is [See the full post…]

The emergence of the digital lifestyle will be discussed at UC Berkeley’s 2nd annual Digital Media Conference. PodTech’s John Furrier spoke with UC Berkeley students Nate Anthony and April Underwood about the November 18th event.

Click here for transcript. [See the full post…]

Dan Primack of PE Week is launching a new blog called PEHub. This is a great move. I’ve been talking to Dan about blogging for some time and so has Jeff Clavier. Dan has a ton of talent [See the full post…]

Launched today, George Zachary talks about Charles River Ventures‘ QuickStart program, a seed funding program to jumpstart “capital lite” companies. He talks about the benefits to entrepreneurs, why it’s good timing for the current landscape, and why he is [See the full post…]

George Zachary of Charles River Ventures speaks with PodTech Founder John Furrier about CRV QuickStart, a new, innovative program the VC firm launched today. QuickStart offers loans of up to $250,000 to entrepreneurs to get their businesses started. Why? [See the full post…]