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A killer spreadsheet for your iPhone: EditGrid

September 20th, 2007 |
A killer spreadsheet for your iPhone: EditGrid

At the recent Office 2.0 conference, we met David Lee, chairman of Editgrid, in the hall at the conference and he gave us a short demo of what’s great about Editgrid for iPhones.

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Mint wins a mint at TechCrunch 40

September 19th, 2007 |
Mint wins a mint at TechCrunch 40

Mint.com was voted the best company out of 700 submissions at the TechCrunch 40 conference. Before he won the award we sat down with CEO Aaron Patzer and got a good look at this financial management service. He showed us [See the full post…]

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LUNARR brings a new “backward” way to collaborate

September 18th, 2007 |
LUNARR brings a new “backward” way to collaborate

Ever see the underside of a Web page? Neither had we until LUNARR came into our lives. Its metaphor of “create, flip, and share” is easy to understand. Will it take off? Watch the video with Toru Takasuka CEO and [See the full post…]

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BlogTalk Radio lets you do talk radio

September 16th, 2007 |
BlogTalk Radio lets you do talk radio

Have you ever wanted to host a talk radio show? You know where you have guests and can take calls from your audience? Well, Alan Levy, CEO and founder of BlogTalk Radio tells us about his new service aimed at [See the full post…]

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The first sister of Facebook

September 13th, 2007 |
The first sister of Facebook

You might not know it, but Facebook is a family affair. Randi Zuckerberg is director of market development at Facebook and also a sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I met her for coffee on University Ave., near Facebook’s headquarters, and [See the full post…]

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AMD CEO heralds Quad-Core CPU datacenter age

September 12th, 2007 |
AMD CEO heralds Quad-Core CPU datacenter age

Yesterday, AMD announced that its new Barcelona chips were shipping. These are new quad-core CPUs aimed at use in enterprise datacenters. We have a conversation about what these new chips mean for AMD and some of the trends he sees [See the full post…]

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Web 2.0 goes Enterprise with Siderean

September 11th, 2007 |
Web 2.0 goes Enterprise with Siderean

Brad Allen, founder and CTO of Siderean, shows me how Oracle and other companies are using his company’s software to capture and share knowledge. You know, people’s ideas.

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VTap brings innovative video search to cell phones

September 7th, 2007 |
VTap brings innovative video search to cell phones

This is a killer app for your cell phone or iPhone. Why? Getting video onto your cell phone is often impossible. Many sites use Flash only, and don’t provide a format that will work on your cell phone. Well, VTap [See the full post…]

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Seagate’s top execs on “to Flash or not to Flash”

September 5th, 2007 |
Seagate’s top execs on “to Flash or not to Flash”

Seagate‘s a hard drive company, right? So we wondered if they have anything to say about Flash-based memories? You know, memory that doesn’t require a hard drive? Turns out they do. Here’s Seagate’s CEO, Bill Watkins, along with Mike Wingert, [See the full post…]

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Seagate brings us more storage

September 5th, 2007 |
Seagate brings us more storage

Disclaimer: Seagate is the sole sponsor of the ScobleShow. We greatly appreciate them and once in a while we meet with them to find out what they are up to. This is one of those times. Here you meet Marc [See the full post…]

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Talking storage systems with Sun’s ZFS team

September 5th, 2007 |
Talking storage systems with Sun’s ZFS team

The inventors of Sun Microsystems’ ZFS, Jeff Bonwick, distinguished engineer and storage CTO, and Bill Moore, hardware/software architect, tell me what was behind coming up with ZFS. It’s a file system. That sounds boring, right? But it’s not, since this [See the full post…]

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The hottest social media app company: RockYou!

September 4th, 2007 |
The hottest social media app company: RockYou!

RockYou is one of the largest social media application developers around. Millions of people use their apps on MySpace and Facebook. Here, we meet Jia Shen, CTO and co-founder of RockYou, where we talk about RockYou’s plans. Yes, mostly we [See the full post…]

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Talking about U.S. computer science university enrollment trends

August 31st, 2007 |
Talking about U.S. computer science university enrollment trends

A short talk on computer science enrollment trends with Mehran Sahami, associate chairman of undergraduate education at Stanford University.

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The guy who runs Stanford’s undergraduate computer science department

August 31st, 2007 |
The guy who runs Stanford’s undergraduate computer science department

Mehran Sahami is the associate chairman of undergraduate education. What does that mean? He runs probably the most important computer science undergraduate department in the world. This is the department that gave birth to Google, after all (and a bunch [See the full post…]

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Building robotic cars at Stanford University

August 30th, 2007 |
Building robotic cars at Stanford University

Mike Montemerlo is the artificial intelligence guy on Stanford University’s DARPA challenge team. Basically, they are building a robotic car that’ll be able to negotiate a course without humans being involved. He also thinks about the act of driving in [See the full post…]

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Enterprises: follow the blog conversation about you

August 29th, 2007 |
Enterprises: follow the blog conversation about you

Here, you can see how Visible Technologies makes it possible for big enterprises to follow and participate in online conversations about them. Blake Cahill, VP of Marketing, and Miles Ward, practice lead, community intelligence, of Visible Technologies, gives us a [See the full post…]

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Plaxo to ship online identity aggregator based on microformats

August 28th, 2007 |
Plaxo to ship online identity aggregator based on microformats

Joseph Smarr, Plaxo‘s architect, and John McCrea, VP of marketing, introduce Robert Scoble to Plaxo’s new offices, talk about a new feature, to be released on Wednesday, which is an “online identity aggregator,” and explain how it works and why [See the full post…]

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New mobile UI with ZenZui

August 28th, 2007 |
New mobile UI with ZenZui

ZenZui has a new “zoomable” UI for mobile phones that’s quite unique and fun to use. Come along as John SanGiovanni, co-founder and VP of products and services at ZenZui, tells me about his company’s plans and shows me how [See the full post…]

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Overlay your stuff on top of video with Overcast

August 24th, 2007 |
Overlay your stuff on top of video with Overcast

Are you a director who wants to overlay your commentary on top of your video? Sort of like when you get a DVD? Or, are you a critic that wants to point out mistakes in the film? Now you can, [See the full post…]

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Demo of the easiest Wiki service: WetPaint

August 24th, 2007 |
Demo of the easiest Wiki service: WetPaint

WetPaint is my favorite Wiki service. A Wiki is a page where a group of people can collaboratively work together to update the page. Sign in, click “edit” and away you go. But there’s a lot more to WetPaint than [See the full post…]

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Joe Hewitt, author of my favorite iPhone apps

August 23rd, 2007 |
Joe Hewitt, author of my favorite iPhone apps

On Sunday, at the HP Garage, we met Joe Hewitt, the author of Facebook‘s iPhone application. We just had a short chat with him, mostly to say thanks for building a cool app. There’s a longer audio conversation with Joe [See the full post…]

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Visiting “Birthplace of Silicon Valley:” HP Garage during BarCampBlock

August 23rd, 2007 |
Visiting “Birthplace of Silicon Valley:” HP Garage during BarCampBlock

I’ve lived in Silicon Valley most of my life and, while I’ve been to the HP Garage several times, I’ve never gotten to actually visit it. HP was gracious enough to open the garage for me and a few of [See the full post…]

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The “unwiki” wiki: WetPaint

August 22nd, 2007 |
The “unwiki” wiki: WetPaint

Here we talk with Ben Elowitz, CEO of WetPaint, about WetPaint’s collaborative Web service, which is an easy-to-use collaborative Web page design and editing tool. Er, a wiki that’s not quite a wiki. Why isn’t it a wiki? Because it [See the full post…]

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Improving education with teacher of the year

August 20th, 2007 |
Improving education with teacher of the year

Dr. Elliot Soloway has taught some interesting people in his classroom at the University of Michigan. How about Larry Page, co-founder of Google? Among others. He’s been named “Teacher of the Year,” but that’s not why I talked with him. [See the full post…]

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Marc Canter gets Social

August 17th, 2007 |
Marc Canter gets Social

You might know Marc Canter as the founder of Macromedia but that’s his past. You probably don’t know what he’s thinking about now as head of Broadband Mechanics, which makes social networks. We talk about that and a whole lot [See the full post…]

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