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Talking about mobile services with Plazes’ founder Felix Petersen

July 23rd, 2007 |
Talking about mobile services with Plazes’ founder Felix Petersen

Plazes.com is one of the favorite of a group of apps designed to help you share your location with others. Now, that might sound sort of weird, but Felix Petersen, founder of Plazes, sees a lot of value in sharing [See the full post…]

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Meeting IBM Ventures

July 20th, 2007 |
Meeting IBM Ventures

It’s not everyday I get to sit down with a guy who runs corporate strategy for the biggest and best known software company in history: IBM. Here you meet Drew Clark, co-founder of IBM Venture Capital. We spend 56 minutes [See the full post…]

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Demo of MyGame.com, custom games on the Web

July 19th, 2007 |
Demo of MyGame.com, custom games on the Web

You’ve played games on the Web before, but have you made your own game? Robert Norton, VP of Business Development, shows me how easy and fun it is.

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Casual gaming with King.com and MyGame.com

July 19th, 2007 |
Casual gaming with King.com and MyGame.com

Continuing my tour through the online gaming world, I meet with Robert Norton, VP of Business Development for King.com and MyGame.com, a new service for delivering and playing customized games on the Web. We hear his view of the gaming [See the full post…]

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On AIR (bus) with Adobe

July 18th, 2007 |
On AIR (bus) with Adobe

Kevin Lynch, SVP and Chief Software Architect at Adobe, introduces me to the Adobe Integrated Runtime bus that’s touring America now, bringing Adobe’s executives and evangelists to developers where, they are showing how to use AIR. In this video, you [See the full post…]

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Talking emotional software design in games and iPhone

July 17th, 2007 |
Talking emotional software design in games and iPhone

I went to the iPhoneDevCamp, where I met Nicole Lazzaro, founder of XEODesign, who helps video game designers make their games more fun to use. While at the iPhoneDevCamp (by the way, you can check out another video up from [See the full post…]

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The guys behind Maker Faire

July 16th, 2007 |
The guys behind Maker Faire

Here, you get to meet Make Magazine Senior Editor Philip Torrone and Maker Faire Founder Dale Dougherty. They talk about what makes the Maker Faire special, and talk about their future plans — the next Maker Faire will be in [See the full post…]

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Photowalking 10: Maker Faire

July 13th, 2007 |
Photowalking 10: Maker Faire

We walk around with Flickr-famous photographer (he’s also CEO of competitor Zooomr) Thomas Hawk at the second Maker Faire. If you’ve never been to a Maker Faire, this is a good chance to get a look at some of what [See the full post…]

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Demo of sharing service AllPeers

July 12th, 2007 |
Demo of sharing service AllPeers

Matthew Gertner, CTO of AllPeers, shows me how easy it is to share music and files with my friends using AllPeers.

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Sharing with AllPeers

July 12th, 2007 |
Sharing with AllPeers

Cedric Maloux, CEO of AllPeers, and Matthew Gertner, CTO talk with me about AllPeers and the burgeoning sharing market. AllPeers is a cool tool to send stuff to your friends.

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Organize your Web in Firefox with AdaptiveBlue

July 11th, 2007 |
Organize your Web in Firefox with AdaptiveBlue

Alex Iskold, founder and CEO, shows me the AdaptiveBlue browser plugin at the Supernova conference. Pretty cool way to hook into a bunch of Web 2.0 services.

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Talking about AdaptiveBlue

July 11th, 2007 |
Talking about AdaptiveBlue

Alex Iskold, founder and CEO, and Andy Roth, chief quality officer of AdaptiveBlue, tell me about their browser plugin at the Supernova conference. Pretty cool way to hook into a bunch of Web 2.0 services.

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Using Spock to find information about people on the Web

July 10th, 2007 |
Using Spock to find information about people on the Web

Here, co-founder of Spock, Jay Bhatti, gives us a demo of how Spock makes searching for people more powerful, easier, and more fun.

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Talking personal search with Spock

July 10th, 2007 |
Talking personal search with Spock

Spock is a search engine that won’t compete with Google, except in one area: searching personal information about people. Want to find an old friend? Look up a job candidate’s background? Find a person’s blog or other social networking page? [See the full post…]

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Editor’s Choice: more than 1,000 games on Kongregate

July 9th, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: more than 1,000 games on Kongregate

Here’s a short version of just the highlights of the interview and demo I filmed with Jim Greer, co-founder of Kongregate, a hot new video game distributor.

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Playing games with Kongregate

July 9th, 2007 |
Playing games with Kongregate

Jim Greer, co-founder of Kongregate, demonstrates a new video game distribution platform and some of the hottest new games on the Web today.

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Meeting the founders of hottest new game site: Kongregate

July 9th, 2007 |
Meeting the founders of hottest new game site: Kongregate

Kongregate is the hottest new game site on the Web. More than 1,000 games. Traffic that more than doubled from last month. Hot games that lots of people are talking about. A co-founder that came from Electronic Arts. Meet Jim [See the full post…]

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MeFeedia’s founder talks about online video trends

July 6th, 2007 |
MeFeedia’s founder talks about online video trends

Frank Sinton, CEO of MeFeedia, dropped by to discuss his service, MeFeedia.com, which helps you find video online. We have a chat about what he’s seeing happen in the industry. This is an Editor’s Choice video, so only the highlights [See the full post…]

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Microblogging comes of age with Jaiku

July 5th, 2007 |
Microblogging comes of age with Jaiku

Jaiku is one of a new breed of microblogging tools. Twitter and Pownce are the other two (we’ll try to visit them in the future), but Jaiku was the first to bring us threaded discussions and a Facebook app that [See the full post…]

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Autonomy picks up Business Process Management

July 4th, 2007 |
Autonomy picks up Business Process Management

Here, we get a look at the Enterprise side of the tech world with an interview of Autonomy Cardiff‘s CEO, Mark Seamans, who details what Autonomy is doing in the Business Process Management space.

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For developers: A conversation with Sun’s DTrace team

July 3rd, 2007 |
For developers: A conversation with Sun’s DTrace team

Sun Microsystems’ DTrace lets developers look at a multi-machine system and understand what’s going on. It’s very popular with developers — it’s gotten mentioned several times in conversations I’ve been in — so I wanted to meet the team and [See the full post…]

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Automating your house with iControl networks

July 2nd, 2007 |
Automating your house with iControl networks

There’s a new kind of home-automation gadget coming out. They will watch your front door, let you control your temperature in new ways, and do a variety of other tasks. Here, Reza Raji, founder and CEO of iControl, shows us [See the full post…]

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A new programming language for learning to program

June 29th, 2007 |
A new programming language for learning to program

Brandon Watts, developer of the Leopard Programming Language, tells me about how Leopard will help people learn to program. It’s a new language optimized for learning and is getting good reviews from instructors who are trying to find a way [See the full post…]

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A talk with VMWare’s lead geek

June 28th, 2007 |
A talk with VMWare’s lead geek

It’s not often that you get to meet one of the people who helped make Silicon Valley the tech powerhouse it is today. Here you get to meet Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare. He also teaches [See the full post…]

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Demo of VMWare’s latest virtualization technology

June 28th, 2007 |
Demo of VMWare’s latest virtualization technology

Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare and Min Xu, R&D engineer at VMWare, demonstrate the company’s newest virtualization technology.

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