My editor, Rocky, picked the coolest stuff off of my tour of Microsoft Research‘s TechFest with Kevin Schofield. Here, in the third editor’s choice from the tour, we pick out the best parts from the second tape I shot. On [See the full post…]

Passionate Kevin Schofield continues us on the tour of Microsoft Research‘s TechFest. Interesting demos you’ll see on this second part?

Tony Pearce, president and co-founder of MyComfort, talks with Kip Meacham about they company’s path from startup to leader in the market for innovation-driven cushioning and mattress technology. As an inventor, engineer, researcher and entrepreneur, Pearce took his knowledge and [See the full post…]

Rocky picked the coolest stuff off of the Microsoft Research TechFest Tour so if you only have 16 minutes, you can see our favorite stuff from the tour (part 1 of the full tour is about an hour long, so [See the full post…]

Rocky picked the coolest stuff off of Part 1 of the Microsoft Research TechFest Tour, so if you only have 12 minutes, you can see our favorite stuff from the tour (part 1 of the full tour is about an [See the full post…]

Kevin Schofield invited me up to see Microsoft Research‘s TechFest. We get to see a TON of cool stuff (some of the coolest research ever). Kevin is the guy responsible for moving technology from Research into the product teams, so [See the full post…]

Lots of people have been asking for shorter videos and since we have two hours of content from the Microsoft Research tour, Rocky thought he’d introduce a new series of ScobleShow “shorts.” Here’s his introduction.

I sit down with Glenn Kelman, CEO, and Michael Young, CTO of RedFin, as we talk about this real estate industry disruptor. RedFin lets people buy and sell real estate online without paying real estate agent commission fees (or, at [See the full post…]

Adding a home automation system to an existing home used to require tearing out drywall, installing thousands of feet of wire and surviving the battle of the mess and endless dust. John Yoon, VP of marketing, and Wally Barnum, a [See the full post…]

RubberBall Productions is one of the longest-running independent stock photography studios. Mark Andersen, one of the founders, tells Brad Baldwin the story of moving from a an advertising photography service to a product company. While the Internet helped to create [See the full post…]

Let’s say you’re driving down the freeway and have a thought you’d like to write down. Maybe you want to remember something to pick up at a store later in the day. What do you do? Pull over and write [See the full post…]

It’s more common than ever to use purpose-built hardware and software solutions, ( Xbox, firewalls and VPN appliances, Google Search appliance, etc.). John Yoon, VP of marketing, and Bill Harper, director of development at Control4, discuss the advantages to a [See the full post…]

Ann Crady, founder of parenting site Maya’s Mom, takes us on a tour of the startup’s Silicon Valley garage where her team is hard at work building a new Web site for parents.

Maya’s Mom, a fun parenting site, is the first Silicon Valley startup that we’ve toured that actually is starting up inside a garage. Here, we meet founder Ann Crady and talk about what Maya’s Mom is trying to do and [See the full post…]

Robert Scoble talks to Rocketboom‘s Andrew Baron and ReinventingErica‘s Erica O’Grady, at SXSW.

Here Brian Walsh, founder of Castfire, gives us a good demo of how new media businesses can manage their video and audio content and make better use of it with Castfire’s mediacasting platform.

Are you a new-style media business (like PodTech)? If you are, you’re probably trying to manage tons of video and audio content. We sit down with Brian Walsh, founder of Castfire, to talk about how his system helps media (er, [See the full post…]

Here we continue the tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator by Bebo White. Follow photographer Thomas Hawk as he captures some great images of this wonderful building (the longest in the U.S.).

Bebo White, one of the authors of the first U.S. Web site at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, takes us on a tour of the longest building in the United States (maybe the world) with photographer Thomas Hawk and blogging guru [See the full post…]

Smart lighting makes that “old” light switch cool again. It also saves you money as you conserve power. Ed Ryan and Scott Moulton at Control4 talk about how little, everyday tasks can become conveniences with Smart Lighting. With Control4 “scenes,” [See the full post…]

Dealing with photos, particularly off of your cell phone, is often a pain. Backing them up, getting them onto your PC, and doing other things isn’t easy. Sharpcast does all that and more, and here, Gibu Thomas, CEO of Sharpcast, [See the full post…]

Here I talk with Sharpcast CEO Gibu Thomas, who tells me about his new business aimed at making it easier to synchronize files across multiple devices.

Mentor Associates Founder Jack Carroll speaks with Dennis Wood about sales organizations in startups. He addresses questions such as: What is missing in most startup sales organizations? What to look for when hiring a sales executive? What are the most [See the full post…]

Matt Douglas, founder of MyPunchBowl.com, which is a great way to send out invites and help plan your next party or event, demonstrates what makes MyPunchBowl better than others. Maryam jumps in at the end to give her two cents [See the full post…]

We sit down with Matt Douglas to find out about the “evite” space that his MyPunchBowl.com resides in. Tomorrow morning they are shipping a new version — come back and check out its new features.