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Talking about browser toolbars with Conduit

March 1st, 2007 |
Talking about browser toolbars with Conduit

Conduit‘s Chief Marketing Officer, Reena Jadhav, talks to me about how you can use Conduit to build a custom toolbar that’s something like the Google or Yahoo toolbars, but for your own community.

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Sun Microsystems looking to help startups

March 1st, 2007 |
Sun Microsystems looking to help startups

I sat down with Juan Carlos Soto, vice president, marketing, at Sun Microsystems, and he talks to me about trends that Sun Microsystems is seeing, and we talk about a new program that Sun announced to help startup companies out.

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Talking search with Dow Jones Vice President

February 28th, 2007 |
Talking search with Dow Jones Vice President

It’s not often you get to pick the brain of a Dow Jones and Company Executive Vice President (they own the Wall Street Journal, among many other important media properties) but here we sit down with Clare Hart who has [See the full post…]

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Demo of a better bookmark: ClipMarks

February 27th, 2007 |
Demo of a better bookmark: ClipMarks

ClipMarks is shipping a new version today and it’s an innovative service that lets you bookmark and link to information deep inside a page. You can choose a paragraph, a sentence or a picture — or other items — and [See the full post…]

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Just released: ClipMarks, new bookmarking and annotation service

February 27th, 2007 |
Just released: ClipMarks, new bookmarking and annotation service

I sit down with Eric Goldstein, co-founder of ClipMarks, to talk about his new company and service (shipping a new version this morning). It’s a cool way to annotate or bookmark pieces of content on Web pages. Very useful.

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Build your own social space with Ning, version 2

February 27th, 2007 |
Build your own social space with Ning, version 2

Here Ning co-founder Gina Bianchini, shows off the new Ning social media creation platform. We get an in-depth demo of how Ning (version 2 just released today) enables you to build your own social network.

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Social Networking with Ning, version 2.0

February 27th, 2007 |
Social Networking with Ning, version 2.0

Ning just released version 2.0 of its social networking platform this morning and here we talk with Marc Andreessen (yeah, the Marc who started Netscape) and co-founder Gina Bianchini, about a whole raft of things from what this new release [See the full post…]

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RSS in Enterprise? Attensa demo shows how

February 26th, 2007 |
RSS in Enterprise? Attensa demo shows how

Attensa has a range of services aimed at large companies who need to keep up to date and share information via RSS and Atom feeds. Here you’ll see Scott Niesen, director of marketing at Attensa, demonstrate Attensa’s latest RSS aggregators [See the full post…]

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Attensa ramps up RSS reader/services

February 26th, 2007 |
Attensa ramps up RSS reader/services

Scott Niesen, marketing director for Attensa, talks to us about his company’s role in the RSS aggregator and service space. Attensa has a range of feed-reading services aimed at enterprises and it’s interesting to get his view of how companies [See the full post…]

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Geeking out in Germany

February 23rd, 2007 |
Geeking out in Germany

Maryam and I head to Freiburg, Germany. Not exactly a place you’d think you’d find geeks, or bloggers, but we did! In between beers (it’s Germany) we got some fun geeks and bloggers onto camera.

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Talking about “She’s Such a Geek”

February 22nd, 2007 |
Talking about “She’s Such a Geek”

I’ve been reading an interesting book recently called She’s Such a Geek, which has tons of stories about women who’ve made an impact on the technology world. Here we meet the authors, Charlie and Annalee, and have a conversation about [See the full post…]

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View of a Young European Developer

February 21st, 2007 |
View of a Young European Developer

I haven’t been interviewing as many developers as I’d like, so I’m happy that I got to meet Sebastian Moser, a 20-year-old Austrian developer who has been programming since he was 14. He’s working on starting a company, you can [See the full post…]

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Edgeio ships new Marketplaces, classified ads for your blog

February 20th, 2007 |
Edgeio ships new Marketplaces, classified ads for your blog

Edgeio today is shipping into beta “Marketplaces,” which let you put classified ads and other board-type information onto your own blog. John Dowd, product manager on Edgeio’s Marketplaces, explains more about why these are useful in this interview and demo.

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Meet the techie “sister” behind Vatican’s Website

February 19th, 2007 |
Meet the techie “sister” behind Vatican’s Website

Sister Judith Zoebelein, editorial director of the Holy See, runs the team that builds the Vatican‘s Website. We have a fun talk at the recent LIFT conference, where we discuss the challenges of building a site for one of the [See the full post…]

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Meet best-known German blogger

February 19th, 2007 |
Meet best-known German blogger

Nicole Simon is the German blogger we see most often at various conferences around the world. She’s a geek — and more — and here we get to know her a little bit better, and hear why she does so [See the full post…]

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Exclusive First Look: UrbanSeeder, new social network

February 16th, 2007 |
Exclusive First Look: UrbanSeeder, new social network

Here we get an exclusive first look, from the floor of the LIFT conference that happened last week in Geneva, Switzerland, to UrbanSeeder, which is a unique social networking application. Maya started it to meet people and to get out [See the full post…]

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CERN Tour: Beginnings of the Web

February 16th, 2007 |
CERN Tour: Beginnings of the Web

Ben Segal and Jean-Francois Groff give me a tour around CERN where we get a look at the computer that hosted the first Web service, visit Tim Berners-Lee’s office (the door was locked, unfortunately, but it’s still fun), and get [See the full post…]

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Podcasting made easy with Gigavox

February 15th, 2007 |
Podcasting made easy with Gigavox

See how Gigavox‘s new system helps make professional podcasting easy.

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The Voice Behind Gigavox

February 15th, 2007 |
The Voice Behind Gigavox

Meet Doug Kaye, the voice behind Gigavox Audio Lite, a new system for podcasters to manage their media, and IT Conversations (one of our favorite tech podcasts).

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Developers: See Krugle Demoed

February 14th, 2007 |
Developers: See Krugle Demoed

Krugle is a search engine just for developers. Here, Ken Krugler, CTO of Krugle, demonstrates it for you.

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For Developers Only: Krugle

February 14th, 2007 |
For Developers Only: Krugle

Ken Krugler, CTO, tells me all about the Krugle search engine for developers.

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See how ODesk will help you get hired

February 13th, 2007 |
See how ODesk will help you get hired

Gary Swart, CEO of ODesk, shows you how it will help you either get hired, or hire someone else.

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Learn how ODesk can help you get hired

February 13th, 2007 |
Learn how ODesk can help you get hired

Meet two managers behind ODesk: Gary Swart, CEO, and Brian Goler, VP of marketing, and hear how ODesk is turning the world of work on its head.

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Building a new kind of house with CleverHomes

February 12th, 2007 |
Building a new kind of house with CleverHomes

This is a bit different today. It’s not about Web 2.0, or startups, or computer science. Instead we take a look inside the industry of home building with CleverHomes Founder Toby Long. Toby is an architect, but one that is [See the full post…]

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Photowalking 5: Thomas Hawk takes us around Sacramento Train Museum, Part II

February 9th, 2007 |
Photowalking 5: Thomas Hawk takes us around Sacramento Train Museum, Part II

Thomas Hawk and about 25 others spent a fun day taking photos in Sacramento, Calif. at the California State Railroad Museum. Here’s part II.

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