Last week, we talked with Nick DeMonner, Lisa Hansen and Mike Minardi about the cookbook they’ve written that is aimed at start-ups. This week, we learn about their San Jose start-up, called BzzyBee. It’s an online collaborative writing tool for [See the full post…]

Jeremiah Owyang speaks with Mary Alice Colvin, senior marketing consultant and Kendrick Efta, founder and practice manager of Allyis, at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit in Portland in July 2007. Social networking is important to many corporations, but adoption can [See the full post…]

Lynn Hershman Leeson has twenty-six venues to show her film, Strange Culture all over the world. She’s also nearly finished editing a documentary she’s been working on for forty years, called Women + Art = Revolution. There are trailers for [See the full post…]

I ran into Anurag Nigam, CEO and co-founder of IncSync recently, and got a quick demo of their 411Sync service. It’s a really easy and quick way to move any kind of information onto your cell phone without requiring any [See the full post…]

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is today’s simplest marketing and publishing tool allowing content to get distributed fast and efficiently. Robyn Tippins, Yahoo’s community manager for MyBlogLog tells Jennifer Jones just how to make RSS work best. Putting it on the [See the full post…]

Roz Savage launched her boat, The Brocade August 12th at 7:00 a.m. from Point Saint George, located in the town of Crescent City, Calif. (on the Oregon border). Roz’s launch was postponed nearly a month due to unfavorable weather conditions. [See the full post…]

Burton Richter is professor emeritus at Stanford University, a 1976 Nobel Prize winner and an expert on nuclear energy. This is the last in our five-part series with Richter.

Mark Vickroid makes his own guitars from cigar boxes. Some of them have little amps built in. I first came across him playing in the street when I was shooting the RFT St. Louis Music Showcase in June. His guitars [See the full post…]

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…]

Charles Coonradt is the author of the book The Game of Work. Coonradt had an epiphany one day when he watched how engaged and excited people were when playing basketball on a work break. His thought was why couldn’t this [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint manager and technologist Zahra Rahemtulla, as she presents a case for use cases and their role as an effective vehicle to map out activities an IT organization should put in place for a proactive approach to service delivery. [See the full post…]

One of the founders of Plug In America, Paul Scott, was on hand at the West Coast launch of the Vectrix, the new zero-emissions vehiclez, (ZEV). I had the opportunity to talk with him about the new scooter, and the [See the full post…]

VC are investing more money than ever before. But is it a good time to investment? There is a dearth of good exit strategies. The IPO market is still moribund and there are fewer large companies that are interested in [See the full post…]

Andrew Fanara, Team Leader for the Energy Star Products Group with the EPA, discusses how Energy Star impacts computing platforms from both a client and a data center perspective. Related stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw

Part four of our interview with nuclear energy expert, Stanford University Professor Emeritus and 1976 Nobel Prize Winner Burton Richter.

Doba offers a Web-based product sourcing platform connecting eCommerce retailers with wholesale suppliers who drop ship products. Retailers can see inventory and integrate a complete photo and product description database into their own web sites or even eBay. Jeremy Hanks, [See the full post…]

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.

Tom Foremski talks with David Thompson, CEO of Genius, an on demand software company with a unique technology that enables sales people to track leads. Genius also announces its first conference, Sales 2.0, in San Francisco at the end of [See the full post…]

Convergence 2.0, The Deal’s September 17, 2007 conference being held in New York City is looking like a sell-out event. Richard Morgan, Assistant Managing Editor of The Deal, talks with PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about the gathering of private equity, venture [See the full post…]

During the launch of the ZEV Vectrix Maxi in San Francisco, Chelsea Sexton of Who Killed the Electric Car, gave some opening remarks. Afterwards, I spoke with her about the promise of the vehicle and other topics.

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…]

Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president at Microsoft, heads up its strategic and emerging business initiatives. This means that he and his team work with startups in Silicon Valley and beyond, and with large companies partnering with Microsoft. Mr. Lewin is [See the full post…]

Google Docs and Spreadsheets provides free online Office-like applications. Product manager Jen Grants explains how it can benefit families.

The third installment of our interview with Burton Richter, professor emeritus at Stanford University, 1976 Nobel Prize winner and an expert on nuclear energy.

Marketing is undergoing a dramatic shift as social media takes hold. In this podcast, Eric Vidal of WebEx speaks with John Battelle, entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and the founder and chairman of Federated Media. John also helped launched the Web 2.0 [See the full post…]