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A hour with IBM’s top intellectual property lawyer

August 16th, 2007 |
A hour with IBM’s top intellectual property lawyer

Robert Scoble interviews IBM’s patent lawyer David Kappos about software patent reform and open source patents. Also: Parts 1 and 2 of Aron Pruiett’s report on a panel discussion about the the future of the Internet in 20 years.

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Palore soon to add value to your restaurant search

August 16th, 2007 |
Palore soon to add value to your restaurant search

Take something like Yelp. Great local restaurant reviews. But often you need more information. Palore sits on top of the Yelp results and brings you a lot more. Here, Hanan Lifshitz, CEO and founder of Palore, tells us and shows [See the full post…]

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Community pages, video style, with Magnify.net

August 15th, 2007 |
Community pages, video style, with Magnify.net

Steven Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify.net, sits down with me at the AlwaysOn conference and shows me Magnify.net, which builds a community page. Say, for remote control airplanes. Including video and content from around the Internet. If you are looking for [See the full post…]

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Trends in human/computer interaction from Stanford University prof

August 14th, 2007 |
Trends in human/computer interaction from Stanford University prof

Scott Klemmer is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. We spend an hour talking about a variety of topics. Modern software development trends that Scott is seeing from companies like Google and Yahoo (both of [See the full post…]

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A short tour of Stanford’s Computer Science building

August 14th, 2007 |
A short tour of Stanford’s Computer Science building

David Orenstein, Communications and PR Manager, and Ian Hsu, director of Internet Media Outreach at Stanford University, greet me and show me around the “Gates building,” aka the Computer Science building. We were there to interview Scott Klemmer, assistant professor [See the full post…]

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The AlwaysOn Pitch: 411 Sync

August 10th, 2007 |
The AlwaysOn Pitch: 411 Sync

I get pitched all the time in the hallways at conferences and I thought it would be interesting to share one of these pitches with you. Here’s 411Sync‘s CEO and founder Anurag Nigam showing us his service, 411sync which brings [See the full post…]

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Part III of conversations with Tom Rolander

August 10th, 2007 |
Part III of conversations with Tom Rolander

You’ve heard how Digital Research flubbed the operating system deal with IBM. You’ve heard lots of old-time industry stories in our previous two conversations with Tom Rolander who was Gary Kildall’s best friend and operating system pioneer at Digital Research. [See the full post…]

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Part 2 of conversations with Tom Rolander

August 9th, 2007 |
Part 2 of conversations with Tom Rolander

In the second part of Tom Rolander‘s conversations with us about early computer industry history we head to a restaurant in Pacific Grove (near Monterey, CA) and hear more stories about industry history. Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of Activewords, gets involved [See the full post…]

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Help your friends and family with Crossloop

August 9th, 2007 |
Help your friends and family with Crossloop

Crossloop is a great free way to take control of a friend’s computer and help them out. Here Tom Rolander, CTO of Crossloop, demonstrates how it can be used to help your friends and family get over their computer troubles. [See the full post…]

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The rest of the story: How Bill Gates beat Gary Kildall in OS war, Part 1

August 8th, 2007 |
The rest of the story: How Bill Gates beat Gary Kildall in OS war, Part 1

You’ve heard the story. Bill Gates and Microsoft became a hugely successful business after it bought DOS from a small computer store in Seattle and licensed it to IBM. But what really happened? Did you know that Bill Gates didn’t [See the full post…]

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Talking with long-time IBM’er

August 7th, 2007 |
Talking with long-time IBM’er

Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger just retired from a long and decorated IBM career of 37 years. He’s seen it all and here we talk about the future of virtual worlds with him. Also interviewing him is Larry Magid of PodTech and [See the full post…]

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This isn’t your father’s Web development tool

August 6th, 2007 |
This isn’t your father’s Web development tool

Matthias Henze, founder, demonstrates how to use JimDo to make Web sites. Sounds boring, but this service is very popular in Europe and is worth considering for your next Web project.

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Talking about Web site creation with founder of JimDo

August 6th, 2007 |
Talking about Web site creation with founder of JimDo

Making Web sites is much easier today than when I started. There’s a new set of online tools and JimDo is one of the nicest I’ve seen. Here you meet founder Matthia Henze who tells us what’s going on in [See the full post…]

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Inspirational teenager

August 3rd, 2007 |
Inspirational teenager

When I met Daniel Brusilovsky he impressed me. Why? I can’t exactly say, but everyone who watches this video so far around the office says “wow.” Daniel’s 14, has an IT job and an Apple-focused podcast and we have a [See the full post…]

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An inside look at Twitter

August 2nd, 2007 |
An inside look at Twitter

You’ve heard the hype about Twitter. Maybe you don’t understand why it’s important or what it is. It’s a microblogging tool that I’ve found very useful. It lets you send 140-character messages to the world telling them what you’re doing. [See the full post…]

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Editor’s Choice: highlights of Your Truman Show

August 1st, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: highlights of Your Truman Show

Highlights of the interview and demo with Arturo Artom, CEO of Your Truman Show, who talks with me about this innovative video storytelling service.

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Your Truman Show brings innovative video storyline

August 1st, 2007 |
Your Truman Show brings innovative video storyline

Arturo Artom, CEO of Your Truman Show, talks to me about why telling stories with video is interesting and shows me his innovative video storyline capabilities in Your Truman Show.

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Talking about mobile-phone media with Buzzwire

July 29th, 2007 |
Talking about mobile-phone media with Buzzwire

Andrew MacFarlane, CEO of Buzzwire, dropped by to discuss Buzzwire’s new service, opening Monday, that will let you watch or listen to a number of video and audio shows — all from your cell phone.

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Getting more great content on your cell phone with Buzzwire

July 29th, 2007 |
Getting more great content on your cell phone with Buzzwire

Andrew MacFarlane, CEO of Buzzwire, demonstrates the company’s new content service, which lets you build new kinds of video and audio shows for your cell phone.

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Talking with an IBM distinguished engineer about marketing

July 27th, 2007 |
Talking with an IBM distinguished engineer about marketing

At the Internet Strategy Forum last week, I met Mike Moran, who gave an interesting talk about, um, marketing. Huh? A distinguished engineer at IBM talking about marketing? What? Listen in and learn about Mike’s ideas on marketing. Also a [See the full post…]

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First look at Velvet Puffin, IM and social network for the Web

July 26th, 2007 |
First look at Velvet Puffin, IM and social network for the Web

Velvet Puffin is a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it keeps running after you close your browser. Here, R. Chandrasekar demonstrates it for me and you.

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Talking about Velvet Puffin, IM in the Web (and out)

July 26th, 2007 |
Talking about Velvet Puffin, IM in the Web (and out)

R. Chandrasekar, CEO and co-founder of Velvet Puffin, shows me a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it’ll keep running after the browser gets closed. We talk about his new company here and what Velvet Puffin [See the full post…]

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Ustream gets new chat and other streaming video features

July 25th, 2007 |
Ustream gets new chat and other streaming video features

Ustream.tv is one of a new set of networks that let you publish live streaming video on the Internet. Presidential candidate John Edwards, on Monday evening, used Ustream to talk with thousands of people after the CNN/YouTube debates. But today [See the full post…]

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The view from a long-time media exec at CNET

July 24th, 2007 |
The view from a long-time media exec at CNET

Last week at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit, I met with longtime CNET executive Erik Kokkonen, vice president of global publishing services. He’s seen a lot happen in online media and in this 17-minute interview, we cover quite a bit [See the full post…]

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Demo of Plazes.com, mobile app to show where you are

July 23rd, 2007 |
Demo of Plazes.com, mobile app to show where you are

Here, Plazes.com‘s founder, Felix Petersen, demonstrates what Plazes lets you do with your mobile phone, and how you might use it to improve your life.

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