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Editor’s Choice: Pandora’s CTO talks music and politics

May 22nd, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: Pandora’s CTO talks music and politics

Here’s the highlights of a conversation I had with Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora, one of my favorite Internet services. It lets you build a customized radio station by starting with the names of your favorite bands and songs. It [See the full post…]

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Keep your laptop cool with Dean Haglund’s invention

May 21st, 2007 |
Keep your laptop cool with Dean Haglund’s invention

Dean Haglund is a comedian, actor, and inventor. You might have seen him on the X-Files or other shows. He comes into PodTech to talk about his invention which keeps your laptop cool while you’re using it in your lap.

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State of Second Life: talking with Second Life’s embedded reporter, Part IV

May 18th, 2007 |
State of Second Life: talking with Second Life’s embedded reporter, Part IV

James Au worked at the embedded reporter in Second Life, the virtual world where users build everything you interact with. I sit down with James for a beer on a Saturday afternoon recently and here’s our conversation. This is the [See the full post…]

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State of Second Life: talking with Second Life’s embedded reporter, Part III

May 18th, 2007 |
State of Second Life: talking with Second Life’s embedded reporter, Part III

James Au worked at the embedded reporter in Second Life, the virtual world where users build everything you interact with. I sit down with James for a beer on a Saturday afternoon recently and here’s our conversation. This is the [See the full post…]

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State of Second Life: talking with Second Life’s embedded reporter, Part II

May 18th, 2007 |
State of Second Life: talking with Second Life’s embedded reporter, Part II

James Au worked at the embedded reporter in Second Life, the virtual world where users build everything you interact with. I sit down with James for a beer on a Saturday afternoon recently and here’s our conversation. This is the [See the full post…]

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State of Second Life: talking with Second Life’s embedded reporter, Part I

May 18th, 2007 |
State of Second Life: talking with Second Life’s embedded reporter, Part I

James Au worked at the embedded reporter in Second Life, the virtual world where users build everything you interact with. I sit down with James for a beer on a Saturday afternoon recently and here’s our conversation. This is the [See the full post…]

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Web 2.0 Expo: Zude, A Web service so popular, it’s getting reengineered

May 16th, 2007 |
Web 2.0 Expo: Zude, A Web service so popular, it’s getting reengineered

Jim McNiel, CEO, and Steve Repetti, CTO of Fifth Generation Systems, dropped by my table at the Web 2.0 Expo to show off a very cool Web site tool called Zude. It was the coolest thing I saw at the [See the full post…]

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Web 2.0 Expo: Sharing Your Stuff with Dekoh’s co-founder

May 16th, 2007 |
Web 2.0 Expo: Sharing Your Stuff with Dekoh’s co-founder

Vijay Pullur and I talk about Dekoh, the service/company he co-founded which enables users to share their files with other people easily from their desktops.

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Web 2.0 Expo: Partnering with Microsoft

May 16th, 2007 |
Web 2.0 Expo: Partnering with Microsoft

At the Web 2.0 Expo I met Gretchen O’Hara who helps run Microsoft’s partner program. We catch up with how the partner program is working and where it’s going.

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Web 2.0 Expo: Bridging the gap with InvisibleCRM’s CEO

May 16th, 2007 |
Web 2.0 Expo: Bridging the gap with InvisibleCRM’s CEO

Vlad Voskresensky, CEO of InvisibleCRM, drops by to talk about how his company’s service helps enterprises at the recent Web 2.0 Expo.

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Web 2.0 Expo: SharedBook’s CEO

May 16th, 2007 |
Web 2.0 Expo: SharedBook’s CEO

Caroline Vanderlip, CEO of SharedBook Inc., sits down with me for a chat at the recent Web 2.0 Expo where she shows me their product: cool photo books.

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Meeting iCybie’s inventor

May 16th, 2007 |
Meeting iCybie’s inventor

While we were at the Computer History Museum, we met Andrew Filo, the inventor of the famous robot dog, iCybie (which Hasbro marketed for several years) and had a chat about what Andrew is working on now.

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Editor’s Choice: highlights of Mark Richards’ photography

May 15th, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: highlights of Mark Richards’ photography

Mark Richards is an accomplished photographer who just completed a really great coffee table book full of photographs he made over two years at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. Here’s just the highlights of our interview with Mark.

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Getting Photographic at Computer History Museum

May 15th, 2007 |
Getting Photographic at Computer History Museum

Mark Richards is an accomplished photographer who just completed a really great coffee table book full of photographs he made over two years at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. We interview him inside the museum and get a look at [See the full post…]

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Talking about RSS Advertising with Pheedo

May 15th, 2007 |
Talking about RSS Advertising with Pheedo

Pheedo‘s founder and VP of marketing, Bill Flitter, came over to PodTech to talk with me about advertising in RSS feeds, among other things happening in the blogging industry.

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Inside Adobe Photoshop CS3 with John Nack

May 13th, 2007 |
Inside Adobe Photoshop CS3 with John Nack

Adobe Photoshop is probably the best-known of Adobe’s applications because it’s used to edit much of the world’s photographs. Here I meet with Adobe’s John Nack and get an insider’s look at the latest Photoshop.

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Videoing the world with Adobe Premiere Pro/CS3

May 13th, 2007 |
Videoing the world with Adobe Premiere Pro/CS3

Giles Baker, of Adobe‘s Premiere team, gives me a good demo of Adobe’s latest video editing software, and we talk about making great videos.

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Drawing the latest with Adobe Illustrator CS3

May 11th, 2007 |
Drawing the latest with Adobe Illustrator CS3

Graphic designers will appreciate this interview with Phil Guindi, who shows me the latest Adobe Illustrator.

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Collaborative design app wows at Mix

May 7th, 2007 |
Collaborative design app wows at Mix

ConceptShare was my favorite thing at the recent Office 2.0 Conference. Here I run into Bernie Aho, co-founder of ConceptShare, at the Mix BlogZone last week and he gave me a short demo. ConceptShare lets you work with designers on, [See the full post…]

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Keeping track of your life with Meosphere’s CEO

May 4th, 2007 |
Keeping track of your life with Meosphere’s CEO

What have you done? Where have you been? That’s what Meosphere wants you to tell it. Here, Founder and CEO Eric Eliason shows us the Meosphere.

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Keeping track of your life with Meosphere’s CEO

May 4th, 2007 |
Keeping track of your life with Meosphere’s CEO

Eric Eliason, founder and CEO of Meosphere, tells me about his service that lets you keep track of everything you’ve done and places you’ve been to.

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Collaborative design app wows at Mix

May 4th, 2007 |
Collaborative design app wows at Mix

ConceptShare was my favorite thing that I saw at the recent Office 2.0 Conference. Here I run into Bernie Aho, co-founder of ConceptShare, at the Mix BlogZone last week and he gave me a short demo. ConceptShare lets you work [See the full post…]

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Compete’s charts Web traffic trends

May 4th, 2007 |
Compete’s charts Web traffic trends

Market research firm Compete.com has an interesting Web traffic trend analysis service and here David Cancel, co-founder and CTO, demonstrates the service and what it does for us.

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Talking about tracking Web site traffic/trends with Compete

May 4th, 2007 |
Talking about tracking Web site traffic/trends with Compete

David Cancel, co-founder and CTO of Compete, Inc. talks with me about Compete’s Web traffic analytics service and trends he’s seeing in Web traffic.

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Making storage easier with Fabrik

May 2nd, 2007 |
Making storage easier with Fabrik

Mike Cordano, CEO and co-founder of Fabrik shows me the new SimpleTech’s software and we talk about the storage, er, hard drive, business and how they are trying to differentiate themselves with software that makes backing up and finding files [See the full post…]

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