Humans understanding (or misunderstanding) other humans couldn’t be a bigger topic as the world gets smaller and the global population grows. One high school student looked at the abilities of elementary school children, from a mostly white community, to understand [See the full post…]

In this podcast from RSA 2007 in San Francisco, Martin McKeay of the Network Security Podcast wraps up the security show with F5 Technical Marketing Managers Alan Murphy and Lori MacVittie. This is an F5 podcast.

Brad Hintze, product marketing manager at Bungee Labs, shows Brad Baldwin the benefits of Bungee Connect, a rich Ajax and browser-based development environment. Hintze quickly mashes up the Rhapsody service showing how easy it is to create and deploy Web [See the full post…]

After years of working with developers at Microsoft, Alex Barnett thought the pitch from Bungee Labs was too good to be true. A Web-based development environment with the richness and power of a fat, local IDE but with a easier [See the full post…]

Jim McNiel, CEO, and Steve Repetti, CTO of Fifth Generation Systems, dropped by my table at the Web 2.0 Expo to show off a very cool Web site tool called Zude. It was the coolest thing I saw at the [See the full post…]

Vijay Pullur and I talk about Dekoh, the service/company he co-founded which enables users to share their files with other people easily from their desktops.

At the Web 2.0 Expo I met Gretchen O’Hara who helps run Microsoft’s partner program. We catch up with how the partner program is working and where it’s going.

Vlad Voskresensky, CEO of InvisibleCRM, drops by to talk about how his company’s service helps enterprises at the recent Web 2.0 Expo.

Caroline Vanderlip, CEO of SharedBook Inc., sits down with me for a chat at the recent Web 2.0 Expo where she shows me their product: cool photo books.

While we were at the Computer History Museum, we met Andrew Filo, the inventor of the famous robot dog, iCybie (which Hasbro marketed for several years) and had a chat about what Andrew is working on now.

Dr. Larry Dalton, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the George B. Kauffman Professor of Chemistry & Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and Nobel Prize nominee, talks about his work with polymers, photonics and electro-optics. Electro-optics and photonics play [See the full post…]

Mark Richards is an accomplished photographer who just completed a really great coffee table book full of photographs he made over two years at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. Here’s just the highlights of our interview with Mark.

Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair has been described as a junior Nobel Prize competition, as more than a thousand high school kids from around the world come together to show their work and make connections. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett, [See the full post…]

Mark Richards is an accomplished photographer who just completed a really great coffee table book full of photographs he made over two years at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. We interview him inside the museum and get a look at [See the full post…]

Pheedo‘s founder and VP of marketing, Bill Flitter, came over to PodTech to talk with me about advertising in RSS feeds, among other things happening in the blogging industry.

At RSA 2007, F5 Networks Brian Hatch builds a virtual server in minutes with F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, and F5 Technical Marketing Manager Alan Murphy talks security and network application delivery.

Where do you look if you want to rent a vacation home on a beach in South America? That was the question that led serial entrepreneur and vSpring v100 recipient Bob Barnes to start Zonder, a new Web and eCommerce-based [See the full post…]

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Sebastian Tevarotto discusses the Four Imperatives of Web 2.0 and how communications and content are coming together. He also reviews the strategies a business can use to enhance the overall [See the full post…]

Backcountry.com was acquired by Liberty Media Corp. The deal will be finalized this quarter. Backcountry.com will continue to expand and add 1250 employees this year. Utah gets $5 million from the WIRED program to train future workforce in biotech and [See the full post…]

The convergence of voice and data on the network is now a reality. The same network is expected to carry both data and voice traffic using various technologies including wireless and video. A reduction in the number of networks is [See the full post…]

Are there so many moving parts to the Utility Computing puzzle that you’re unsure where and how to start? Do you have the tools you need in place so you can band resources and achieve the goal of utility computing [See the full post…]

Continued innovation is key to the success of most companies, and Yahoo is no different. The Internet giant recently opened an “idea incubator” called “Brickhouse” in the trendy South Park area of San Francisco. Select Yahoo employees will take turns [See the full post…]

Adobe Photoshop is probably the best-known of Adobe’s applications because it’s used to edit much of the world’s photographs. Here I meet with Adobe’s John Nack and get an insider’s look at the latest Photoshop.

Giles Baker, of Adobe‘s Premiere team, gives me a good demo of Adobe’s latest video editing software, and we talk about making great videos.

As a former executive with America Online, Netscape, and Lotus, Ben Horowitz knows both the application and IT infrastructure space. In this edition of Thought Leaders, Ben Horowitz discusses the impact Web 2.0 applications have on IT operations, including management [See the full post…]