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Seagate’s Home Entertainment Booth at CES

January 23rd, 2007 |
Seagate’s Home Entertainment Booth at CES

Here we meet with David Burks who is the senior manager of consumer electronics marketing at Seagate and get a look at what Seagate is doing for home entertainment. Love that media storage farm!

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Product naming insights from the guy who named “WiFi”

January 23rd, 2007 |
Product naming insights from the guy who named “WiFi”

Edward Saenz, principal of Gravity Branding, has worked with tons of organizations and companies to come up with product names and marketing insights. He came up with the name “WiFi” and several of Nissan’s truck names, for instance. Here we [See the full post…]

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Looking for Investments at CES

January 19th, 2007 |
Looking for Investments at CES

Jim Jones is a managing director at Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital firm which invests in emerging tech and healthcare companies. Jim’s focus is on semiconductors and consumer electronics, so we met with him last week at CES to [See the full post…]

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Sun Microsystems CEO: “We almost died”

January 17th, 2007 |
Sun Microsystems CEO: “We almost died”

Yesterday I sat down with Sun Microsystems‘ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and Tim Marsland, Sun’s CTO in charge of Solaris, and had a wide-ranging discussion from his pitch to Steve Jobs as to why Apple should include the Java runtimes on [See the full post…]

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From CES: Retrevo Gang, Day 3 – Gadgets galore

January 17th, 2007 |
From CES: Retrevo Gang, Day 3 – Gadgets galore

Here, on the final day of the Retrevo Gang from the Seagate booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, Vipin Jain, Retrevo’s CEO, and Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s biggest gadget freak get together to wrap up what they saw on the show [See the full post…]

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From CES: Retrevo Gang, Day 2 – Apple and more

January 17th, 2007 |
From CES: Retrevo Gang, Day 2 – Apple and more

Every day at CES last week we met with the Retrevo Gang – folks from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, who held court and talked about the latest news – Apple iPhone and other gadgets. On the second day, [See the full post…]

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Just walking through CES

January 9th, 2007 |
Just walking through CES

We wanted to see how long it’d take to walk through the main hall at CES from one end to the other. Along the way you get a sense of just how big this is. Keep in mind you only [See the full post…]

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Seeing the Seagate Booth with Jim Druckrey

January 9th, 2007 |
Seeing the Seagate Booth with Jim Druckrey

Jim Druckrey tells me about what Seagate is trying to do with its booth at the Consumer Electronics Show and gives me a quick tour of its new products and branding. By the way, if Jim’s face looks familiar, this [See the full post…]

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Retrevo Gang: best and worst from day 1 of CES

January 9th, 2007 |
Retrevo Gang: best and worst from day 1 of CES

Every day from CES we’re meeting with staff members from Retrevo, a consumer electronics search engine, to hear what they are seeing at CES. They are walking miles to find you the best (and worst) of new gadgets from the [See the full post…]

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Seagate announces new hard drives at CES

January 7th, 2007 |
Seagate announces new hard drives at CES

We get an exclusive look at the new hard drives that Seagate just announced tonight in the Seagate PodTech BlogHaus at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.

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Exclusive lunch with Robert Scoble and Bill Gates

January 7th, 2007 |
Exclusive lunch with Robert Scoble and Bill Gates

This is probably Microsoft’s biggest CES ever with Windows Vista shipping in a few days and Bill Gates met with bloggers from Engadget, Gizmodo, Kotaku, PodTech.net, and Joystiq for a wide-ranging interview about everything from Bill’s speeding tickets to software [See the full post…]

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GigaOm up close and personal

January 5th, 2007 |
GigaOm up close and personal

Om Malik runs the GigaOm series of properties (some of our favorite blogs) and we sit down and have a nice chat about what he’s working on now and look back at 2006.

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Get better music with iLike.com

January 5th, 2007 |
Get better music with iLike.com

Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike.com, shows me his new service, which helps you find new music (it’s really cool!)

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Behind iLike.com

January 5th, 2007 |
Behind iLike.com

Meet Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike.com, which is an innovative new service that helps you find new music.

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Rebuilding in New Orleans

January 4th, 2007 |
Rebuilding in New Orleans

Larry Knight impressed me because of his spirit. His home had been destroyed in one of the poorer parts of New Orleans (Ninth Ward), but he was taking it all in stride – rebuilding his home. Gave me great optimism [See the full post…]

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Me.dium.com: a new tracker of Web attention data

January 4th, 2007 |
Me.dium.com: a new tracker of Web attention data

Meet the team behind Me.dium, an innovative new service coming soon, that will let you watch where your friends are surfing on the Internet. Robert Rich and Kimbal Musk, founders, tell you what’s behind their new service.

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Demo of Me.dium.com, follow your friends around Web

January 4th, 2007 |
Demo of Me.dium.com, follow your friends around Web

Me.dium.com is a lot of fun. You can watch your friends surf the Web and they can watch you. Here Kimbal Musk, Me.dium’s CEO, gives us a good runthrough.

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Meeting the bloggers in New Hampshire

January 4th, 2007 |
Meeting the bloggers in New Hampshire

One of the things I was studying is how the Edwards campaign would use bloggers. Here, John Edwards meets a variety of bloggers and videobloggers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. You’ll see Steve Garfield and Chuck Olsen, videobloggers, in the background [See the full post…]

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Geeks and Politics Join

January 4th, 2007 |
Geeks and Politics Join

Alfred Thompson and Don Dodge, who blog for Microsoft, meet up with me at the John Edwards’ campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and we talk a little bit about social media and how that’ll intersect with politics. New Hampshire [See the full post…]

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Politics and Bloggers meet in Iowa

January 4th, 2007 |
Politics and Bloggers meet in Iowa

Meet some of the Iowan bloggers, sit in on a meeting they had with John Edwards. Toward the end I left in a bunch of “b-roll” video of stuff behind the scenes, waiting for him to get off of the [See the full post…]

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Get a demo of Microsoft’s Live.com

January 3rd, 2007 |
Get a demo of Microsoft’s Live.com

Sanaz Ahari, program manager in charge of Microsoft’s Live.com home page, gives us a good demo of the things you’re able to do with Live.com, which is a host page for gadgets that’ll bring you news, games and lots of [See the full post…]

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Exclusive John Edwards interview: Talking about Social Media and its role in running for President

January 3rd, 2007 |
Exclusive John Edwards interview: Talking about Social Media and its role in running for President

Last week, I was invited to ride on Senator John Edwards’s plane as he visited four states (Louisiana, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada) following his announcement that he is running for President in the 2008 election. Here I sat down [See the full post…]

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Exclusive With Sen. John Edwards, Audio Only

January 3rd, 2007 |

While I was recording John Edwards in one of his many, many “exclusive” interviews last week, following his announcement that he’s running for President, I ran into some technical difficulties with the camera (battery life!). Luckily, I did have an [See the full post…]

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PhotoAlbums and more with Doug Rowan and Scott Beale

December 29th, 2006 |
PhotoAlbums and more with Doug Rowan and Scott Beale

Doug Rowan, former CEO of Corbis (Bill Gates’ photo/image company) and founder of ZoomAlbum, met up with Scott Beale, founder of Laughing Squid (and an excellent photographer) to talk about photography and to show off his latest product: ZoomAlbums, which [See the full post…]

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Blog advertising from the company with a funny name

December 29th, 2006 |
Blog advertising from the company with a funny name

You’ve heard of PayPerPost, which is a company that pays you to write posts on your blog. Here we hear from Agloco, which takes that idea a little further. If you’re interested in taking advertising on your blogs, this is [See the full post…]

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