David Sacks, co-founder & CEO of Geni, talks with me about genealogy and how software is enabling a new (and more social) way of keeping in touch with your family members and learning about your family’s past. Don’t know who [See the full post…]

Dave Grannan CEO, and Mike Phillips, CTO, of a new company that’ll come out this fall give us a sneak peak at technology that’ll come to cell phones that’ll let you talk with them. The company is code-named Mobeus (they [See the full post…]

Fabrik is an interesting Web 2.0 company because of its business strategy: it has combined a Web 2.0 consumer/small business service called MyFabrik, which organizes and stores digital media online — with physical storage such as hard drives and flash [See the full post…]

I love Goowy’s YourMini‘s customized start page, which gives you tons of widgets that make your life better. Here, Gary Benitt, COO, demonstrates YourMinis.

Customized start pages with tons of widgets are hot and Goowy’s yourminis is one of the best. Here we talk with Alex Bard, Goowy’s CEO and Gary Benitt, COO about yourminis.

The term ROI means one thing to CFOs where the concern is return on investment, but takes on a whole different meaning for CIOs where ROI is more about return on innovation. Both are needed. Learn more about HP’s Business [See the full post…]

IMPCO Technologies says it’s dedicated to a better world through cleaner fuels. Rob Mercer, IMPCO business manager, discusses the company’s systems specializing in natural gas, LNG and dual fuel applications for mobile and stationary engine uses.

On this podcast from Futurenet 2007, Alla Reznik, group manager for IP & Ethernet Services at Verizon Business, discusses their recently launched Ethernet VPLS, which delivers new Wide Area Network options that are robust, flexible and feature-rich, and how companies [See the full post…]

Susie Wee has a great job — she’s the director of the HP Labs Mobile and Media Systems Lab, which means she works on gaming and entertainment systems. I spoke with Ms. Wee in San Francisco, at an HP Gaming [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Mike Marcellin, VP Product Marketing at Verizon Business, and Stuart Elby, VP Network Architecture at Verizon, talk about MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) and its place in converged data networks for enterprise. This is a Verizon Business [See the full post…]

In a podcast from the floor of Interop 2007 in Las Vegas, John Grady, Netgear‘s senior director of product marketing for SMB, outlines Netgear’s upcoming strategy for SMB products, and talks about the ProSafe line of products with a lifetime [See the full post…]

Michael Taylor is the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s car section. He is also the son of screenwriter Samuel Taylor, who wrote plays and movies (including Sabrina and Vertigo, which was made in San Francisco fifty years ago).

This spring, several local breweries got together to celebrate the rich brewing heritage in St. Louis. As a birthplace of the modern brewing industry, we have quite a heritage to celebrate. Brewers of all types were there to enjoy beer [See the full post…]

Part Two: In this second of two podcasts featuring a round-table conversation on software as a service held at WebEx. The panelists are Eric Rubin, president of DreamFactory, David Thompson, president and co-founder of Genius.com, and Phil Wainewright, writer and [See the full post…]

What do you get when you combine hydrogen and methane? You get Hythane, an engineered alternative fuel blend patented by Hythane Company, LLC out of Littleton, Colo. David Egan, East Coast sales manager for the company, discusses the promise of [See the full post…]

Why is the CEO of blog search engine Technorati stepping aside? Is the San Francisco company really not for sale? And what are its plans for growing into a new media powerhouse? In this interview with the Mercury News, company [See the full post…]

Darren Aftahi, vice president of Equity Research at ThinkEquity Partners, believes video’s use today is just in its infancy, and that the impact for marketers is unlimited. He says the Internet will become the broadcast market of choice, and text [See the full post…]

Stephan Spencer is the founder and president of Netconcepts, which describes itself as a premier natural search firm enabling a leading tier of the top 200 Internet Retailers to “get found” online.

See the just shipped Zoho Notebook and other Zoho applications demoed by Evangelist Raju Vegesna. Zoho Notebook lets you take notes in a meeting — and record them, too — in audio, and share those notes with coworkers or other [See the full post…]

Here we sit down with Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu and Evangelist Raju Vegesna in Zoho‘s Pleasanton, Calif. office. If you haven’t heard of Zoho yet, you will. They just were named to PC World’s 100 best products of 2007 list [See the full post…]

With many data centers built more than a decade ago, facilities no longer fit current and future requirements from a business perspective. In addition, security requirements have evolved exponentially along with capacity issues like power and space shortages. Join BearingPoint [See the full post…]

Jeff Bell is Microsoft’s vice president of global marketing, interactive entertainment business. That’s the division that makes and markets the Xbox. He gave a keynote at the Market to the Max conference in Seattle earlier this week, and gave some [See the full post…]

In this podcast, VP of Recovery, Access, Provisioning and Security at Symantec Corporation, Don Kleinschnitz provides an overview of the Windows Protection track the Symantec Vision 2007 Conference. For more information, visit: www.symantec.com/vision

GM sponsored a design competition among students the College of Creative Studies to personalize a Chevy HHR with a one-of-a-kind image, and develop a marketing campagin to go along with it. The winner? Jimmy McCammon and his Flaming Skull of [See the full post…]

World corn prices have risen considerably in recent years because of corn ethanol production. If you are poor and rely on cheap corn as your staple food, such price increases are bad news. This is just one example of how [See the full post…]