Nexidia‘s senior vice president of media shows us how its system takes video, indexes it, makes it searchable, and also makes it possible to bring contextual advertising and place it next to the video.

Drew Lanham, senior vice president of media at Nexidia, showed me a really interesting system that makes video searchable on the Internet. Then, his prototype uses that text and puts contextual advertising next to the video.

Enterprises (big companies) need to look at relationships all the time to figure out who to talk with. Coleman Barney, president and CEO of Cogito, Inc., talks to me about how they look at relationship networks on the Web. Cogito [See the full post…]

Tom Karren, CEO of WingateWeb, demonstrates the social networking, auto-calendar population, and session management features in their latest event and conference management system. Fortune 500 companies — including many in the tech sector — turn to the combination of services [See the full post…]

Way back in 1998, Tom Karren and a handful of fellow Novell engineers set out to deliver a hosted application service built on Web technologies. The result was WingateWeb, an event and conference reservation and management system. Today WingateWeb’s offering [See the full post…]

This podcast provides an overview of the Symantec white paper “IT Risk Management for Financial Services: An Essential Strategy for Business Success.” The white paper can be downloaded in its entirety at: www.symantec.com/financial

Summary: This podcast provides a brief overview of the Symantec technical brief about the value of early warning solutions. The technical brief is available for download in its entirety at: www.symantec.com/earlywarning2

We sit down with Steve Chazin, VP of marketing at Adesso, and talk about what was behind the company’s decision to do its Tubes service, which lets you send files around securely to your friends, family, and the world.

Sssssshhhhhuuuuunnnnnnkkkkkkk… A new file has arrived in your Adesso Tube. Maybe that wacky senator is right, that the Internet is a series of tubes. Or make that Tubes. Check out this new service from Adesso as Steve Chazin, VP of [See the full post…]

Highlights from the interview and demo of TV Tonic, a service for Windows Media Center that lets you watch Internet video.

Michael Sprague, president of TV Tonic, demonstrates how to get video onto your Windows Media Center (which comes with most versions of Windows Vista).

TV Tonic is a service that lets you get Internet video shows onto your Windows Media Center (most versions of Windows Vista has it built in). Here we talk with Michael Sprague, president of TV Tonic, about that and about [See the full post…]

The Editor’s Choice is Rocky’s edited, shortened highlights from the interview and demo that Diana Cartwright, senior director of Seagate’s branded solutions group, recently gave us, in which she showed off Seagate’s latest FreeAgent hard drives. Seagate generously sponsors the [See the full post…]

At CES in January, Seagate announced these new Free Agent hard drives but here we get another look at the drives now that they are shipping and you can buy them. Diana Cartwright, senior director of Seagate’s branded solutions group, [See the full post…]

We talk with Diana Cartwright, senior director of Seagate’s branded solutions group. Seagate generously sponsors the ScobleShow (no one else pays to get on here, so we really appreciate the ability to do what we’re doing) and I thought it [See the full post…]

When these homeowners wanted to add smart home functionality to an existing home, they turned to an integrator. The integrator presented Control4 as both a feature rich and affordable solution. Now this family has a single-remote experience to manage all [See the full post…]

When I visited Geneva, Switzerland to speak at the LIFT Conference, Laurent Haug, planner of the conference, invited Maryam and me on a tour of one of Switzerland’s most famous watch makers: Franck Muller. Here, you get a little taste [See the full post…]

Just the best stuff from Digipede‘s interviews and demos where they talk about how easy it is to build an application that uses a grid architecture with the Digipede Network. This is a great video for developers and CTO types.

Daniel Ciruli, director of products at Digipede, demonstrates how to build a grid architecture using the Digipede Network and Visual Studio. This video will be of interest mainly to developers and CTO types.

John Powers, president and CEO of Digipede Technologies, and Robert Anderson, Digipede’s CTO, talk with me about how they are enabling .NET developers to build grid computing architectures. This lets developers on Windows get incredible scale across many machines. This [See the full post…]

Here’s a demo of Weblo.com, a virtual world where you can buy and trade cities, countries, properties, domains, and other things. It’s fun and potentially profitable.

Rocky Mirza, founder and CEO of Weblo.com, tells me about his new virtual world where people can buy and sell real estate, corporations and domains: all virtually. It’s fun and you can make some dough (or spend it to buy [See the full post…]

John Poisson, founder and CEO of Tiny Pictures, shows off its new social network: Radar.net. It lets you have photo conversations with your friends and family. Hours of entertainment with your cell phone’s camera.

You’ve heard of Flickr and Twitter, but here is Tiny Pictures’ Radar, which lets you entertain your friends and family with your cell phone’s camera. Here we talk with John Poisson, Radar’s founder and CEO.

Kris Krug is one of our favorite photographers, he’s a photographer up in Vancouver, Canada. Here, he hosted a session on photography that I participated in and am sharing the video here.