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Getting a look at “New TV” from Kyte.tv

June 27th, 2007 |
Getting a look at “New TV” from Kyte.tv

Daniel Graf, CEO and founder of Kyte.tv, shows us how you can build a new kind of online TV channel: one that plays on mobile phones, Facebook, and Web pages and includes chat and more. It’s very cool and worth [See the full post…]

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Hi-def independent films online with Jaman

June 27th, 2007 |
Hi-def independent films online with Jaman

Did you know that most movies that are produced in the world never get shown in a theater? Even award-winning movies at film festivals like Sundance often don’t get shown. Not to mention famous films from overseas. Well, Jaman gives [See the full post…]

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Comparing salaries with PayScale founder

June 25th, 2007 |
Comparing salaries with PayScale founder

PayScale is a service where you can compare salaries with other people in your industry. Here, Joe Giordano, founder and chairman of Payscale, talks to me about the service, what he’s learned, and shows me the latest iteration.

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Plaxo’s new social contact platform demonstrated

June 24th, 2007 |
Plaxo’s new social contact platform demonstrated

Here, John McCrea, vice president of marketing at Plaxo, gives me a tour of its just-released platform. Quite useful, it brings contacts into and out of a bunch of different applications and services like Microsoft’s Outlook, Google’s GMail, among others.

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Talking with the “Switzerland” of social networks, Plaxo

June 24th, 2007 |
Talking with the “Switzerland” of social networks, Plaxo

Plaxo‘s founder, Todd Masonis, chief platform architect, Joseph Smarr, and VP of marketing, John McCrea tell me how Plaxo has changed from a contact manager for Outlook to a Web service that lets you back up and share your contacts [See the full post…]

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Talking about presentation technologies

June 22nd, 2007 |
Talking about presentation technologies

Are you tired of boring PowerPoint presentations with standard effects and boring blue backgrounds? Here, Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, shows us his tool and talks about the state of the art in presentations.

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Take PowerPoint to a whole new level

June 22nd, 2007 |
Take PowerPoint to a whole new level

Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, demonstrates how to use it to make your presentations much better than anyone else’s.

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Broadcasting live video with Veodia

June 21st, 2007 |
Broadcasting live video with Veodia

Guillaume Cohen, founder and CEO of Veodia, demonstrates live video Webcasting with Veodia. Pros? Professional quality and instant archiving.

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Talking with Veodia about Professional videocasting

June 21st, 2007 |
Talking with Veodia about Professional videocasting

Guillaume Cohen, founder and CEO, and Sylvain Rebaud, vice president of engineering at Veodia speak with me about videocasting and Veodia’s part in that market.

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Getting a community online

June 20th, 2007 |
Getting a community online

In Burlington, Vermont, 20 percent of the real-world residents have joined a new online service called Front Porch Forum. Here, you meet Michael Wood-Lewis, co-founder, and we talk about why he started the service and why it’s been so successful [See the full post…]

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Webcasting with Interactive Video Technologies

June 20th, 2007 |
Webcasting with Interactive Video Technologies

Interactive Video Technologies‘ CEO, Greg Pulier demonstrates its Webcasting solution.

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Talking about Webcasting

June 20th, 2007 |
Talking about Webcasting

Greg Pulier, president and CEO of Interactive Video Technologies, talks with me about corporate Webcasting and how IVT’s solutions help companies and people create better Webcasts.

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A look into Search Engine Marketing

June 19th, 2007 |
A look into Search Engine Marketing

Search Engine Marketing isn’t something that many people do. This isn’t optimizing your Web site so it shows up high on Google or Yahoo. It’s coming up with strategies for how to advertise on search engines and then executing on [See the full post…]

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Add online music to your house with Sonos

June 15th, 2007 |
Add online music to your house with Sonos

Sonos is a unique addition to your home entertainment system. It lets you play digital music anywhere in your house. Here, John McFarland, CEO, gives us a good runthrough of what Sonos is.

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Looking at ThinkFree’s new online Office

June 15th, 2007 |
Looking at ThinkFree’s new online Office

Want a free online alternative to Microsoft Office? Don’t think it’s good enough? ThinkFree‘s offerings might surprise you. Here, Jonathan Crow, director of marketing for ThinkFree, shows of its latest offerings.

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Talking about Work 2.0 with ThinkFree

June 15th, 2007 |
Talking about Work 2.0 with ThinkFree

Jonathan Crow, director of marketing for ThinkFree, speaks with me about how our office work is changing and how ThinkFree’s online office plays into that.

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Editor’s Choice: highlights of Mixercast’s interview and demo

June 12th, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: highlights of Mixercast’s interview and demo

Here Rocky Barbanica, my amazing editor, picks the highlights of the interview and demo I did with Mixercast‘s CEO, Jennifer Cooper.

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Mashing up personal media with Mixercast

June 12th, 2007 |
Mashing up personal media with Mixercast

MixerCast’s CEO, Jennifer Cooper, demonstrates how to use Mixercast to build new “media stories” that include photography, music, photos, and other media. Here we mix up an interview and get a demo of Mixercast too.

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Meeting the geek behind Apatar

June 11th, 2007 |
Meeting the geek behind Apatar

Here you meet Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, and we have a chat about the changes that are coming to enterprise systems thanks to Web 2.0.

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Moving data around with Apatar

June 11th, 2007 |
Moving data around with Apatar

Apatar is a way to move data between third party applications and existing enterprise systems. Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, demonstrates his system here.

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A one-way ticket from Germany to Silicon Valley

June 11th, 2007 |
A one-way ticket from Germany to Silicon Valley

Steli Efti came up to me at a blogger dinner and said “this is my first day in America, I bought a one-way ticket here to follow my dream.” That alone intrigued me and so we had a conversation on [See the full post…]

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Talking restaurant-communication tech with Applebees’ geeks

June 9th, 2007 |
Talking restaurant-communication tech with Applebees’ geeks

We meet Bambi George, communications technology manager, and Justin Goldsborough, communications specialist at Applebees International. I met up with them at BEA’s Connect event in Atlanta and have a nice chat with them about how the intranet they are building [See the full post…]

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BEA mashes up

June 9th, 2007 |
BEA mashes up

Adrian McDermott, vice president of Engineering at BEA Systems, demonstrates two new Web 2.0 focused products. Ensemble and Pathways. Both are interesting examples of how Web 2.0 based concepts like mashups and tagging are making its way into the enterprise.

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Getting Social with BEA

June 9th, 2007 |
Getting Social with BEA

You’ve probably used BEA’s technology and not even known it. For instance, if you check your bank accounts online, most likely you’ve used a BEA system. I wanted to learn more about what BEA is doing, so I headed to [See the full post…]

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Managing your business processes with BEA Systems

June 9th, 2007 |
Managing your business processes with BEA Systems

Eduardo Chiocconi, product manager, BEA Systems, talks with me about the latest in BEA’s business process management initiatives at the BEA Connect event in Atlanta.

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