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Editor’s Choice: the highlights of Brightroll’s approach to video advertising

April 18th, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: the highlights of Brightroll’s approach to video advertising

Here my editor, Rocky, picks out the best of the interview and demo that I did with Tod Sacerdoti, founder of Brightroll, where he discusses his advertising network’s approach to video advertising.

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See the latest in video advertising

April 18th, 2007 |
See the latest in video advertising

Tod Sacerdoti, founder and CEO of Brightroll — an advertising distribution network — shows off the latest advertising for video and Web 2.0 sites.

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Discussing New Media advertising with BrightRoll CEO

April 18th, 2007 |
Discussing New Media advertising with BrightRoll CEO

Web 2.0 and Internet video are forcing changes to how advertising is done. Here, Tod Sacerdoti, founder of Brightroll, discusses his firm’s philosphy and talks about what’s happening to advertising on the Web.

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The killer business: paper models?

April 16th, 2007 |
The killer business: paper models?

This is a departure from my usual tech-focused videos. In Phoenix, Ariz., at an entrepreneurs’ conference, I met Lon Safko who told me about his business, PaperModels, Inc.. You’ll find this business to be really incredible. He makes money without [See the full post…]

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Adobe ships Flash with CS3 Suite

April 15th, 2007 |
Adobe ships Flash with CS3 Suite

Today Adobe is shipping its CS3 Suite of developer and design tools, so I headed up to Adobe to get several interviews with product teams. Here you meet Rich Galvan, technical product manager for Flash, where we sit down and [See the full post…]

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Editor’s Choice: highlights from Flash, Dreamweaver, Apollo CS3 Suite tour of Adobe

April 15th, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: highlights from Flash, Dreamweaver, Apollo CS3 Suite tour of Adobe

Here’s the highlights of the three interviews I did at Adobe last week to learn more about some of the parts of Adobe’s CS3 suite. Featured here are Flash, Dreamweaver, and Apollo.

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Building great sites with Adobe Dreamweaver, CS3 edition ships today

April 15th, 2007 |
Building great sites with Adobe Dreamweaver, CS3 edition ships today

To celebrate Adobe shipping its CS3 Suite I sat down with Kenneth Berger, product manager of Adobe’s Dreamweaver and learn all about the latest in that tool. We talk about all sorts of stuff. Accessibility. Standards. Database integration. And much [See the full post…]

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Talking about Rich Internet Applications Apollo/CS3 style with Mike Downey

April 15th, 2007 |
Talking about Rich Internet Applications Apollo/CS3 style with Mike Downey

The hottest new thing on the Internet is Rich Internet Applications. These are like Web sites except they work offline and have a much richer user experience than is possible with HTML. Adobe is one of the companies that is [See the full post…]

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Demo of contextual advertising on video streams

April 12th, 2007 |
Demo of contextual advertising on video streams

Nexidia‘s senior vice president of media shows us how its system takes video, indexes it, makes it searchable, and also makes it possible to bring contextual advertising and place it next to the video.

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Making video searchable with Nexidia executive

April 12th, 2007 |
Making video searchable with Nexidia executive

Drew Lanham, senior vice president of media at Nexidia, showed me a really interesting system that makes video searchable on the Internet. Then, his prototype uses that text and puts contextual advertising next to the video.

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Interview with CEO of Cogito, relationship network expert

April 12th, 2007 |
Interview with CEO of Cogito, relationship network expert

Enterprises (big companies) need to look at relationships all the time to figure out who to talk with. Coleman Barney, president and CEO of Cogito, Inc., talks to me about how they look at relationship networks on the Web. Cogito [See the full post…]

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Getting into Adesso’s tubes

April 11th, 2007 |
Getting into Adesso’s tubes

We sit down with Steve Chazin, VP of marketing at Adesso, and talk about what was behind the company’s decision to do its Tubes service, which lets you send files around securely to your friends, family, and the world.

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Demo of Adesso Tubes: secure file sending/sharing/replication

April 11th, 2007 |
Demo of Adesso Tubes: secure file sending/sharing/replication

Sssssshhhhhuuuuunnnnnnkkkkkkk… A new file has arrived in your Adesso Tube. Maybe that wacky senator is right, that the Internet is a series of tubes. Or make that Tubes. Check out this new service from Adesso as Steve Chazin, VP of [See the full post…]

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Editor’s Choice: highlights of TV Tonic

April 11th, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: highlights of TV Tonic

Highlights from the interview and demo of TV Tonic, a service for Windows Media Center that lets you watch Internet video.

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Demo of video on Windows Media Center with TV Tonic

April 11th, 2007 |
Demo of video on Windows Media Center with TV Tonic

Michael Sprague, president of TV Tonic, demonstrates how to get video onto your Windows Media Center (which comes with most versions of Windows Vista).

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Talking Media Center with TV Tonic

April 11th, 2007 |
Talking Media Center with TV Tonic

TV Tonic is a service that lets you get Internet video shows onto your Windows Media Center (most versions of Windows Vista has it built in). Here we talk with Michael Sprague, president of TV Tonic, about that and about [See the full post…]

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Editor’s Choice: best and shortest look at Seagate’s new FreeAgent

April 11th, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: best and shortest look at Seagate’s new FreeAgent

The Editor’s Choice is Rocky’s edited, shortened highlights from the interview and demo that Diana Cartwright, senior director of Seagate’s branded solutions group, recently gave us, in which she showed off Seagate’s latest FreeAgent hard drives. Seagate generously sponsors the [See the full post…]

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Demo of Seagate’s Free Agent hard drives and software

April 11th, 2007 |
Demo of Seagate’s Free Agent hard drives and software

At CES in January, Seagate announced these new Free Agent hard drives but here we get another look at the drives now that they are shipping and you can buy them. Diana Cartwright, senior director of Seagate’s branded solutions group, [See the full post…]

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Getting to know Seagate’s latest hard drives

April 11th, 2007 |
Getting to know Seagate’s latest hard drives

We talk with Diana Cartwright, senior director of Seagate’s branded solutions group. Seagate generously sponsors the ScobleShow (no one else pays to get on here, so we really appreciate the ability to do what we’re doing) and I thought it [See the full post…]

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Get a tour of Franck Muller, famous Swiss watch maker

April 6th, 2007 |
Get a tour of Franck Muller, famous Swiss watch maker

When I visited Geneva, Switzerland to speak at the LIFT Conference, Laurent Haug, planner of the conference, invited Maryam and me on a tour of one of Switzerland’s most famous watch makers: Franck Muller. Here, you get a little taste [See the full post…]

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Editor’s Choice: highlights from Digipede’s interview and demo

April 5th, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: highlights from Digipede’s interview and demo

Just the best stuff from Digipede‘s interviews and demos where they talk about how easy it is to build an application that uses a grid architecture with the Digipede Network. This is a great video for developers and CTO types.

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Demo of building a grid with Digipede

April 5th, 2007 |
Demo of building a grid with Digipede

Daniel Ciruli, director of products at Digipede, demonstrates how to build a grid architecture using the Digipede Network and Visual Studio. This video will be of interest mainly to developers and CTO types.

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Talking about Digipede’s grid technology

April 5th, 2007 |
Talking about Digipede’s grid technology

John Powers, president and CEO of Digipede Technologies, and Robert Anderson, Digipede’s CTO, talk with me about how they are enabling .NET developers to build grid computing architectures. This lets developers on Windows get incredible scale across many machines. This [See the full post…]

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Demo: build your own virtual realestate empire with Weblo

April 4th, 2007 |
Demo: build your own virtual realestate empire with Weblo

Here’s a demo of Weblo.com, a virtual world where you can buy and trade cities, countries, properties, domains, and other things. It’s fun and potentially profitable.

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Talking about a new slant on virtual worlds

April 4th, 2007 |
Talking about a new slant on virtual worlds

Rocky Mirza, founder and CEO of Weblo.com, tells me about his new virtual world where people can buy and sell real estate, corporations and domains: all virtually. It’s fun and you can make some dough (or spend it to buy [See the full post…]

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