The tech media and blogs buzzed recently over the launch of ooma, a Palo Alto start-up that’s promising free long distance calls for life. CEO Andrew Frame explains how ooma works (you need to buy a $400 box, first). And [See the full post…]

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.

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.

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…]

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.

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…]

TalkPlus lets you use your mobile phone to make local calls to any city — and have people in any city make a local call to you — no matter where you are.

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…]

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…]

Meet a master of storytelling. Have you ever thought about what makes a good story, or how storytelling can be used to help companies evolve? Storylab has offices in Stockholm and Tokyo, doing exactly this kind of work for clients [See the full post…]

Who are you and what do you do? A Silicon Valley Minute pitch from Tim Ferriss, the author of 4-Hour Work Week.

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.

Plazes.com is one of the favorite of a group of apps designed to help you share your location with others. Now, that might sound sort of weird, but Felix Petersen, founder of Plazes, sees a lot of value in sharing [See the full post…]

There’s no one right or wrong way to launch a start-up. But there are smart moves an entrepreneur can make – and mistakes to avoid – that can boost the odds of success. STIRR, the valley entrepreneur network, reinvented its [See the full post…]

At MashUp Camp 4 at the Computer History Museum, Plaxo showed its Pulse application, which looks very much like FaceBook, with similar features. Are we heading into a mashup world where everything shares addresses, photos, movies, etc? Does FaceBook hold [See the full post…]

It’s not everyday I get to sit down with a guy who runs corporate strategy for the biggest and best known software company in history: IBM. Here you meet Drew Clark, co-founder of IBM Venture Capital. We spend 56 minutes [See the full post…]

You’ve played games on the Web before, but have you made your own game? Robert Norton, VP of Business Development, shows me how easy and fun it is.

Continuing my tour through the online gaming world, I meet with Robert Norton, VP of Business Development for King.com and MyGame.com, a new service for delivering and playing customized games on the Web. We hear his view of the gaming [See the full post…]

Kevin Lynch, SVP and Chief Software Architect at Adobe, introduces me to the Adobe Integrated Runtime bus that’s touring America now, bringing Adobe’s executives and evangelists to developers where, they are showing how to use AIR. In this video, you [See the full post…]

CEO of PodTech Network, John Furrier interviews Cammie Dunaway the CMO of Yahoo on the topic of Internet Strategy. Web 2.0 Social Media marketing has arrived. Leading marketers are re-engineering their practices to include more online components to reach customers. [See the full post…]

I went to the iPhoneDevCamp, where I met Nicole Lazzaro, founder of XEODesign, who helps video game designers make their games more fun to use. While at the iPhoneDevCamp (by the way, you can check out another video up from [See the full post…]

Here, you get to meet Make Magazine Senior Editor Philip Torrone and Maker Faire Founder Dale Dougherty. They talk about what makes the Maker Faire special, and talk about their future plans — the next Maker Faire will be in [See the full post…]

Mercury News columnist Dean Takahashi takes us on a quick tour inside Google’s Mountain View headquarters.

We walk around with Flickr-famous photographer (he’s also CEO of competitor Zooomr) Thomas Hawk at the second Maker Faire. If you’ve never been to a Maker Faire, this is a good chance to get a look at some of what [See the full post…]

Matthew Gertner, CTO of AllPeers, shows me how easy it is to share music and files with my friends using AllPeers.