During our recent photowalking, Stanford University rolled out its STARMAC team (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control). These are quadrotor helicopters that can fly remotely without much human assistance. Really cool research project that you’ll want to check [See the full post…]

My producer knows you don’t have time to sit through an hour-long conversation with the Six Apart executives, so he’s pulled out a few highlights.

Six Apart just released a new Moveable Type, so I wanted to find out what was up cause it really has a lot of great services that help people communicate. From LiveJournal, which is used by people to talk with [See the full post…]

While it was earlier hyped by some in the press as an “Outlook killer” (probably due to Mitch Kapor’s statements — he funded this open source project) Chandler has evolved to be a new collaborative tool aimed at small groups [See the full post…]

This is my favorite demo of the year so far and Rocky, my producer, pulled out some cool Zude highlights in this video.

Jim McNiel, CEO, and Steve Repetti, CTO of 5th Generation Systems, show me and talk to me about Zude, its new Web-building service. Zude is the coolest way to build Web sites I’ve seen. This demo is long, about an [See the full post…]

Editor’s Choice: my editor pulled out the highlights of the interview we did with conference planner and big tech thinker, Eric Norlin (he’s planning the Defrag conference and was one of the founders of the Digital ID World series of [See the full post…]

Eric Norlin is the senior editor of Digital ID world and founder of a new conference, named Defrag. He’s one of the big thinkers I admire cause he helped build Digital ID world and other conferences into large industry events. [See the full post…]

Here’s Brett Wilson, CEO of Tube Mogul, demonstrating how his tool lets you upload and track videos to several different sites like Blip.tv and YouTube.

Brett Wilson, CEO of Tube Mogul, talks with me about video distribution and analysis. You know, there are a ton of sites you can upload video to and it’s hard to upload and track results through all of those sites. [See the full post…]

This is the digest version of my talk with Christopher Longhurst, a Stanford general pediatrician. If you like this, I urge you to watch the long version where we go deep into the IT side of medical care.

Ever wonder about information technology trends inside hospitals? I had lots of questions about the technology being used inside Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (where our son, Milan, was born three weeks ago). So I sat down with Christopher Longhurst, [See the full post…]

David Steinberg, founder and CEO behind MyQuire, talks to me about his new project-management service that lets you get work done from anywhere with the tools you already know. It is another building block of the Work 2.0 movement where [See the full post…]

I met Sally Strebel on Twitter. She’s bizgirl. Named that because she’s started several businesses in Phoenix, Ariz. and her latest is BestPartyEver.com, a service that makes it easier to plan a great party.

Determined to get the story and with no concern for his own saftey, Robert Scoble dives in with his new 5D to cover the Stanford Autonomous quadrotor helicopter. When Scoble let his guard down, just for the slightest moment, the [See the full post…]

The photo geeks visit the USS Hornet and come away with some good memories and a great set of photos. Thomas Hawk leads us around the decks of the famous aircraft carrier that played a key role in World War [See the full post…]

One problem with existing contextual advertising is that it isn’t very contextual when placed on blogs and other Web information. For instance in Google’s advertising. Proximic, today, is releasing a new search platform that’s taken five years to develop. They [See the full post…]

Your Truman Show is bringing a new Widget, called Video Map, to the world that’ll work in Facebook and other Web hosts. This Widget lets you present your video stories in a new way: as a map. Here Matteo Fabiano, [See the full post…]

Yesterday, at Demo, Adesso showed off a new version of Tubes that works on the Web. John van Siclen, CEO of Adesso, came to my house last week to talk about its latest version of Tubes, which is a cool [See the full post…]

SceneCaster just was announced at Demo and here we have an interview with Mark Zohar, founder. He tells us how SceneCaster is different from Second Life and how it’ll enable new 3D experiences for Web site owners.

Here we have an demo of SceneCaster. Mark Zohar, founder, shows us how it enables new 3D experiences for Web site owners.

Do you want to read more feeds but don’t have time? Well, FeedHub is one answer to your problems. Here, Sean Ammirati, VP of business development at Mspoke, makers of FeedHub, talks to me about how their system works and [See the full post…]

Feedhub is a new system that digs through your own feeds looking for news that you might be interested in. That way you don’t have to read all your feeds to get the important stuff out. Here, Sean Ammirati, VP [See the full post…]

Next week is the famous “Demo” conference. Shel Israel has been going to Demo ever since it started back in the 1980s and helping startups prepare. His companies have won “Demo God” awards seven times. Here he gives startups some [See the full post…]

Callwave makes your cell phone more useful. Here, Josh Fraser, VP of Business Development, showes us Callwave. Some things it does that caught our attention? Forwards calls to any phone. Lets you listen to voice mail while it’s being left. [See the full post…]