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

February 8th, 2007 |
Photowalking 5: Thomas Hawk takes us around Sacramento Train Museum, Part I

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

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Meet Paul Kunz, developer of first Web site in United States

February 7th, 2007 |
Meet Paul Kunz, developer of first Web site in United States

As we were getting a tour around the Stanford Linear Accelerator with Bebo White we dropped in on the office of Paul Kunz, who developed the first Web site in the United States to have a chat.

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Tour of Stanford Linear Accelerator’s visitor center

February 7th, 2007 |
Tour of Stanford Linear Accelerator’s visitor center

Bebo White, who was on the team that built the first U.S. Web site at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), gives us a tour around SLAC’s visitor center and gives us a little lesson in particle physics.

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Talk with first U.S. Web site team

February 7th, 2007 |
Talk with first U.S. Web site team

My friend, Shel Israel, and I visited the team that built the first U.S. Web Site at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. Here we have a fun discussion about those early days. Thanks to Bebo White who is one of those [See the full post…]

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Get fit with Wellsphere

February 6th, 2007 |
Get fit with Wellsphere

Ron Gutman, CEO of Wellsphere, shows how his service can help you get off the couch and find an exercise group or facility that’ll help keep you motivated about living a healthier lifestyle.

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Meet Excercising 2.0, with Wellsphere CEO Ron Gutman

February 6th, 2007 |
Meet Excercising 2.0, with Wellsphere CEO Ron Gutman

Many geeks, including myself, don’t exercise enough and Wellsphere‘s CEO, Ron Gutman, has a service that could help keep us motivated by helping us find other people and facilities to work out in. Here we talk about Wellsphere and life.

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Reduce travel costs with CFares

February 5th, 2007 |
Reduce travel costs with CFares

CFares CEO Vajid Jafri demonstrates a new way to save money on plane tickets. He says he’s found a way to offer you wholesale pricing, which can save even more over other Internet travel sites.

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Learn about travel industry pricing with CFares CEO

February 5th, 2007 |
Learn about travel industry pricing with CFares CEO

I sit down with CFares CEO Vajid Jafri, who talks with me about the travel industry and how to save money on your next trip.

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Create better classified ads with VFlyer

February 2nd, 2007 |
Create better classified ads with VFlyer

Here’s a new way to create classified advertising on the Internet. VFlyer takes care of getting your ad in all the right places and Oliver Muoto, co-founder of vFlyer, demonstrates the service for you here.

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Learn about the classified ad business with vFlyer founder

February 2nd, 2007 |
Learn about the classified ad business with vFlyer founder

Sit down for a chat with VFlyer‘s co-founder, Oliver Muoto, where we talk about his service’s approach to the classified advertising business.

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Demo of Trailfire shows new way to share find what’s important on the Web

February 1st, 2007 |
Demo of Trailfire shows new way to share find what’s important on the Web

Trailfire is a new way to both mark what you find is important on the Web as well as find other “trails” that people have left for you. I’m not explaining it very well, it’s a cool way to group [See the full post…]

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Building trails on Web with TrailFire’s co-founders

February 1st, 2007 |
Building trails on Web with TrailFire’s co-founders

Here we sit down with Trailfire‘s co-founders for an interesting chat about their new Web navigation and site-sharing service. Get a look behind this innovative service.

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See how Splashcast can put your content across the Web

January 31st, 2007 |
See how Splashcast can put your content across the Web

Splashcast‘s CEO, Michael Berkley, demonstrates how Splashcast’s new services can help get your video and audio the distribution they deserve.

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Splashcast CEO tells us how to get bigger video audiences

January 31st, 2007 |
Splashcast CEO tells us how to get bigger video audiences

Meet Splashcast‘s CEO, Michael Berkley, who discusses Splashcast’s content-distribution system. Read: “get more people to watch your videos.”

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Vodpod cofounder shows cool video sharing service

January 31st, 2007 |
Vodpod cofounder shows cool video sharing service

Mark Hall, co-founder of Vodpod, discusses and demonstrates Vodpod, which lets you share videos with your friends in a new way.

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The non-hostile Apple OSX vs. Windows Vista OS debate, Part II

January 30th, 2007 |
The non-hostile Apple OSX vs. Windows Vista OS debate, Part II

I invited four geeks, representing both sides of the OS aisle. First is Fred Davis, co-founder of Wired Magazine. Second is Harry McCracken, Editor in Chief of PC World. Third is Sam Levin, founder of Stanford Mac User Group, among [See the full post…]

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The non-hostile Apple OSX vs. Windows Vista OS debate, Part I

January 30th, 2007 |
The non-hostile Apple OSX vs. Windows Vista OS debate, Part I

I invited four geeks, representing both sides of the OS aisle. First is Fred Davis, co-founder of Wired Magazine. Second is Harry McCracken, editor in chief of PC World. Third is Sam Levin, founder of Stanford Mac User Group, among [See the full post…]

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Second Part of “Cooking with Geeks”

January 30th, 2007 |
Second Part of “Cooking with Geeks”

We got a group of geeks together, had a great chef come in and teach us how to cook, handed out some wine, and kicked off an interesting conversation. Come on along for the second installment in this podcast of [See the full post…]

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Seagate introduces “Dave,” portable wireless storage device

January 30th, 2007 |
Seagate introduces “Dave,” portable wireless storage device

Here, my sponsor, Seagate, releases a new product, Digital Audio Video Experience (or D.A.V.E) technology, while we walk around San Jose’s famous “Tech” Museum. What is DAVE? It’s a device that fits in your hand, or your pocket. Other devices [See the full post…]

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Cooking with Geeks

January 29th, 2007 |
Cooking with Geeks

We got a group of geeks together, had a great chef come in and teach us how to cook, handed out some wine, and kicked off an interesting conversation. Come on along for a San Francisco geek dinner. Geeks involved [See the full post…]

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Testing out Intel’s new 45 nanometer processors

January 26th, 2007 |
Testing out Intel’s new 45 nanometer processors

Kelin Kuhn is the 45 nanometer device group manager. She runs one of Intel‘s most important test labs where Intel figures out what needs improvement. Intel’s profitability rests on her shoulders because if a fab isn’t yielding enough good chips [See the full post…]

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Intel says goodbye to Silicon Dioxide in new 45 nanometer fab

January 26th, 2007 |
Intel says goodbye to Silicon Dioxide in new 45 nanometer fab

Moore’s Law is very much alive, according to Intel Senior Fellow, Mark Bohr. He gave me a tour of Intel’s newest 45 nanometer fab. This is a very rare look inside Intel‘s newest fab that’ll make processors you’ll be buying [See the full post…]

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Video searching with Blinkx’ CEO

January 25th, 2007 |
Video searching with Blinkx’ CEO

Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx‘ CEO, recently sat down with me to talk about the online video market. Blinkx is a video search engine that’s a lot of fun to use, we talk about what makes Blinkx better than other video approaches.

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Get into the Seagate car at CES

January 23rd, 2007 |
Get into the Seagate car at CES

Seagate was showing off — at the recent Consumer Electronics Show — when it spotlighted innovative Scion to demonstrate the kinds of entertainment and navigational systems that’ll soon be arriving in cars. Join Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global [See the full post…]

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Get great video with DivX’s CEO at CES

January 23rd, 2007 |
Get great video with DivX’s CEO at CES

Jordan Greenhall, CEO and co-founder of DivX, sits down with me at the Consumer Electronics Show. If you haven’t seen the latest from DivX, you should. Its new Stage6 video system brings dramatically better quality than, say, YouTube. Here Greenhall [See the full post…]

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