Forrester analyst and vice president Lisa Pierce told a group of Qwest customers that the great unknown — whether IT decisions today will fit with technologies of tomorrow — is a fact of life. While the fear of making mistakes [See the full post…]

I spend almost an hour with Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — Search competition may be heating up with Ask.com’s revamped services. Other search firms have pumped some ad revenue into the newspaper industry. How are newspapers reacting? They may be starting to look [See the full post…]

Vipin Jain, CEO of Retrevo, gives us a tour around Retrevo’s consumer electronics gadget portal. Click here for transcript.

Mash-ups, micro-apps, real time collaboration – there’s a revolution going on in how knowledge workers maximize flexibility and productivity. This series of podcasts turns to IT and business leaders to discuss the latest trends in on-demand business. In this first [See the full post…]

Lots of provocative thoughts from a search engine guru in this conversation with Bob Heyman, also a well known speaker on Internet marketing and the chief search officer at Mediasmith. He’s also credited with pioneering the agency side of search [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — “Clean, flat sheets of bronze.” That’s one way to describe one of your modern PC’s progenitors. Researchers at Hewlett-Packard are in the news this week for the interest they’ve taken in the [See the full post…]

The PRSA Silicon Valley chapter of PRSA (Public Relations Society of America) announces a Tech Media Influencer event, “Media Predictions 2007.” Listen to the all-star media panel that met in the heart of Silicon Valley on December 1, 2006, looked [See the full post…]

A Symantec backup/disaster recovery solution at LifeGift Organ Donation Center is so cost-efficient and effective that its specifications are being shared with 97 other organizations. Samuel Holtzman III, President and CEO, LifeGift Organ Donation Center, Charley Ballmer, Solutions Architect, CompuCom. [See the full post…]

Heidi Roizen is a Silicon Valley veteran who spent her time building companies during the software and PC boom. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier spoke with her about how and when to raise venture capital funding. She says that [See the full post…]

This is a different kind of show for the ScobleShow, one where we talk about an issue that we should think about — in this case whether companies who are scanning books and other information from the world’s libraries and [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 1, 2006 (PodTech News) — At long last, Microsoft has launched its Vista operating system for businesses. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called it the biggest launch in the company’s history. It could have been even bigger, though [See the full post…]

A professional-turned-entrepreneur, Deep Kalra promoted India’s most successful online travel company, MakeMyTrip in April 2000. MMT is a comprehensive travel services provider for leisure travel to, from and within India. Over the past 5 years, MMT has grown rapidly to [See the full post…]

We met up with Koral‘s CEO, Mark Suster and talk about content management inside enterprises. We also talk about startup success in downtimes (his last company did well through the bad times of 2001-2003). Click here for transcript.

Ever have an Excel file that was emailed around only to have someone change a formula, which made everyone else out of sync? Well, Koral has found a unique way to make sure your employees collaborate with each other and [See the full post…]

The Canyons is a massive ski and snowboarding resort. Last year, it was the first resort to use video podcasts as a way to differentiate itself from other destinations (view videocasts | subscribe to videocasts). My personal favorite from last [See the full post…]

While YouTube finds its footing with Google, not everyone’s concerns over the site’s reliance on copyrighted material have been settled. In particular, there’s a certain Mouse that might need some special attention. Disney fires a warning shot. Also, today is [See the full post…]

PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with F5’s Ameet Dhillon, director of product management for secure remote access and WAN optimization. For more information visit www.f5.com/products/optimization. Click here for transcript.

Hear how Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, has built a white-label turnkey “Channel 9” for your company. Channel 9 is Microsoft’s videoblog/social software community. Blogtronix has blogs, a social network, wikis, video, audio, and all the stuff an enterprise would [See the full post…]

If you’ve been over to Microsoft’s Channel 9, a social-software community and videoblog that Microsoft built, you’ve seen the power of having a videoblog combined with a forum combined with a wiki. Maybe you’d like to have a Channel 9 [See the full post…]

IBM developerWorks Community Programs manager, Rawn Shah, talks about a pioneering university course on Web 2.0 and online communities and a ground-breaking course he helped to launch and is co-teaching at the University of Arizona. As Community Programs manager, Shah [See the full post…]

After the recent Blog Business Summit Maryam sat down with Liz Lawley, who teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology (teaching really doesn’t define what she does — she’s also the director of RIT’s lab for Social Computing), and just [See the full post…]

Kim Sacha is one of the top Zuma players (a popular game on Xbox 360) in the world and she shows us how she does it. Why is this important? Because casual gamers are turning out to be an important [See the full post…]

The Nintendo Wii has been proving to be physically demanding for many users. Soreness and pain are two of the system’s reported side effects. The official response so far: get in shape — then you won’t be sore. Also, a [See the full post…]

General overview of Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange: key features, competition, and FAQ. More information at: Symantec.com Click here for transcript.