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Protect your kids from IM predators with IMSafer

December 28th, 2006 |
Protect your kids from IM predators with IMSafer

IMSafer helps protect children from online predators through a unique community-based system. It doesn’t play “Net Nanny” but rather warns you when your kids are doing something that could play into a predator’s hands. Hear about this unique system from [See the full post…]

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Get a quick look at new browser: Maxthon

December 28th, 2006 |
Get a quick look at new browser: Maxthon

Maxthon takes browsing to new levels. Here, Maxthon founding partner and senior vice president Netanel Jacobsson gives a demo of what makes Maxthon a browser you should consider using.

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Browser War Part 237: Maxthon founding partner gives a look behind Chris Pirillo’s favorite browser

December 28th, 2006 |
Browser War Part 237: Maxthon founding partner gives a look behind Chris Pirillo’s favorite browser

If you read Lockergnome, Chris Pirillo’s excellent set of newsletters for computer enthusiasts, you know that his favorite browser is Maxthon. Here we meet Maxthon founding partner and senior vice president Netanel Jacobsson, and we find out more about the [See the full post…]

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Getting businesses into Web and phone advertising

December 27th, 2006 |
Getting businesses into Web and phone advertising

AdBasix is a new company that helps companies — especially small ones that aren’t very Web-savvy — learn how to use Web advertising. Here, two founders of AdBasix show off how their service will let businesses track their advertising using [See the full post…]

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Walking around Wales with funny blogger

December 27th, 2006 |
Walking around Wales with funny blogger

Have you subscribed to A Welsh View? We have, and Robert Gale, who writes that blog, finds the weirdest and funniest stuff. Recently I had a chance to walk around his hometown of Newport, Wales with him and I think [See the full post…]

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Talking about Seagate’s Brand

December 26th, 2006 |
Talking about Seagate’s Brand

Another in a series of interviews with Seagate‘s executives as it prepares for the big CES show in Las Vegas, January 8-10. Here you meet James Druckrey, senior vice president and general manager of Seagate’s branded solutions. Here he hints [See the full post…]

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Demo of Tablane’s TClipper, Web Research Tool

December 22nd, 2006 |
Demo of Tablane’s TClipper, Web Research Tool

Here we get a demo of Tablane‘s TClipper, a Windows application, that lets you keep track of Web sites and manage them.

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Ajit Jaokar, publisher of Mobile Web 2.0, on mobile Web trends

December 22nd, 2006 |
Ajit Jaokar, publisher of Mobile Web 2.0, on mobile Web trends

The founder of Futuretext, a technology book publisher, is Ajit Jaokar and here he sits down with me to talk about the mobile Web. He wrote a book on that topic and is one of the world’s experts on mobile [See the full post…]

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Don McAllister shows off Screencasts Online

December 22nd, 2006 |
Don McAllister shows off Screencasts Online

ScreencastsOnline.com is a popular site to learn new things on the Macintosh. Everyday Don fires up his Mac and teaches you to do something cool. Learn more about what’s behind this interesting business (yes, business, he quit his day job [See the full post…]

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Developing a Web 2.0 site for Quotations

December 22nd, 2006 |
Developing a Web 2.0 site for Quotations

Amit Kothari, the founder of a Web 2.0 site that’ll bring you cool quotations, sits down with me for an interesting talk about developing such a service and trends in the Web industry.

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Getting ready for CES at Seagate Marketing

December 21st, 2006 |
Getting ready for CES at Seagate Marketing

Disclaimer: Seagate sponsors my show, which I greatly appreciate — that sponsorship lets me continue bringing you all the other people and products you see here (no one else pays to be here). Here’s our second entry in a series [See the full post…]

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Photowalking #4: shooting Polaroid with Flickr’s Heather Champ

December 21st, 2006 |
Photowalking #4: shooting Polaroid with Flickr’s Heather Champ

Heather Champ is one of our favorite photographers. Not only is she the community contact at Flickr, but she’s the co-founder of JPG Magazine. Here Thomas Hawk and I follow her around as she shows off how she makes unique [See the full post…]

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Philip Baddeley, Venture Capital Tips from London

December 20th, 2006 |
Philip Baddeley, Venture Capital Tips from London

Are you an entrepreneur thinking about going for venture capital? Well, Philip Baddeley works with startups in Cambridge, England, and helps entrepreneurs know what to expect and prepare their pitches. I found him interesting to talk with, and he gave [See the full post…]

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Meet the BioTeams Blogger

December 19th, 2006 |
Meet the BioTeams Blogger

Ken Thompson studies how animals work together and applies that to finding ways for humans to work together better, too — he calls the methodology “BioTeaming.” I found his viewpoint to be different (he lives in Belfast, Ireland, so he [See the full post…]

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Working together “swarm style” with Swarm-it

December 19th, 2006 |
Working together “swarm style” with Swarm-it

Ken Thompson built a system for people to work together better based on his understanding of how animals work together better. Here he demos his system, which he calls the toolset for Bioteams. Click here for transcript.

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Hugh Macleod takes us on a tour of Saville Row

December 19th, 2006 |
Hugh Macleod takes us on a tour of Saville Row

What happens when we get a bunch of geeks get together on a Friday afternoon in London? The “Pissed as Newts” tour! Here’s a small part of the tour (we visited five pubs). You get to watch Hugh Macleod draw [See the full post…]

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Breakfast with Sam Sethi and the London geeks

December 19th, 2006 |
Breakfast with Sam Sethi and the London geeks

Sam Sethi is one of the most connected geeks in London (he used to run TechCrunch UK) and we sat down with him and a few of his friends for a fun breakfast. We talk about the five things geeks [See the full post…]

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Google’s Shashi Seth has your custom search engine

December 15th, 2006 |
Google’s Shashi Seth has your custom search engine

Shashi Seth runs Google Co-op, which is a set of services that let you build your own custom search engine and add that to your blog or site. What’s cool about that? Well, you could add a search box to [See the full post…]

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Mark Lucovsky adds Google bling to your blog

December 15th, 2006 |
Mark Lucovsky adds Google bling to your blog

Mark Lucovsky runs the Ajax Search service at Google and sits down for both an in-depth interview about what he’s been working on, but then pulls out some cool demos of ways you can add search to your blog that’ll [See the full post…]

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StumbleUpon new and fun videos with this new service

December 13th, 2006 |
StumbleUpon new and fun videos with this new service

We sit down with StumbleUpon‘s chief architect, Garrett Camp, and David Feller, VP of marketing, and talk about the success Stumbleupon has seen (about 1.5 million users in just a few months) as well as get a look at the [See the full post…]

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Demo of StumbleUpon, surfing tool for the community-driven Internet

December 13th, 2006 |
Demo of StumbleUpon, surfing tool for the community-driven Internet

Ever have half an hour to just waste and wondered what cool stuff is there on the Internet? Well, StumbleUpon is the answer. They have 1.5 million people who are adding sites and rating them. It makes for a fun [See the full post…]

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Talking about email with Sendmail founder

December 13th, 2006 |
Talking about email with Sendmail founder

A large percentage of the world’s email is sent using the Sendmail protocol, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, so I sat down with Eric Allman, founder of Sendmail, to talk about what’s happened in the 25-year history of Sendmail. [See the full post…]

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Talking Gadgets with NETGEAR’s CEO

December 12th, 2006 |
Talking Gadgets with NETGEAR’s CEO

NETGEAR makes a lot of the world’s WiFi devices, among other consumer electronics gadgets. Since it’s getting close to CES time, we thought we’d come over and meet up with Patrick Lo, CEO of NETGEAR. Click here for transcript.

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TailRank the memetracker that lets you see what blogs are talking about

December 8th, 2006 |
TailRank the memetracker that lets you see what blogs are talking about

Kevin Burton, founder of TailRank, gives us a demo of his memetracker which shows what the hottest conversations are in the blogosphere. Click here for transcript.

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Conversation with Memetracker developer Kevin Burton

December 8th, 2006 |
Conversation with Memetracker developer Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton is a talented developer who has worked on a variety of startups already including Rojo, and now TailRank which he started to be able to see what bloggers were talking about. Here I sit down with him for [See the full post…]

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