Eric Chin, partner at Bay Partners, takes time out from DEMO networking to talk with Charles Beeler. Chin and Bay Partners may not have had any investments on display this time, but at the Fall conference, they were the talk [See the full post…]

Before he handed off the microphone to Charles Beeler, PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier spoke with Beeler about life at El Dorado Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, located in the heart of Silicon Valley VC territory, on famous [See the full post…]

Hany Nada, from Granite Global Ventures, talks about the expansion-stage firm’s interests at DEMO 07, and their track record in China.

I sit down with Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes, who tells me about his company’s efforts to become your startup page.

Here Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes, demonstrates his new service, which makes a killer start page.

Here you can see Reena Jadhav, chief marketing officer at Conduit, demonstrate how to build your own community toolbar.

Conduit‘s Chief Marketing Officer, Reena Jadhav, talks to me about how you can use Conduit to build a custom toolbar that’s something like the Google or Yahoo toolbars, but for your own community.

I sat down with Juan Carlos Soto, vice president, marketing, at Sun Microsystems, and he talks to me about trends that Sun Microsystems is seeing, and we talk about a new program that Sun announced to help startup companies out.

It’s not often you get to pick the brain of a Dow Jones and Company Executive Vice President (they own the Wall Street Journal, among many other important media properties) but here we sit down with Clare Hart who has [See the full post…]

ClipMarks is shipping a new version today and it’s an innovative service that lets you bookmark and link to information deep inside a page. You can choose a paragraph, a sentence or a picture — or other items — and [See the full post…]

I sit down with Eric Goldstein, co-founder of ClipMarks, to talk about his new company and service (shipping a new version this morning). It’s a cool way to annotate or bookmark pieces of content on Web pages. Very useful.

Here Ning co-founder Gina Bianchini, shows off the new Ning social media creation platform. We get an in-depth demo of how Ning (version 2 just released today) enables you to build your own social network.

Ning just released version 2.0 of its social networking platform this morning and here we talk with Marc Andreessen (yeah, the Marc who started Netscape) and co-founder Gina Bianchini, about a whole raft of things from what this new release [See the full post…]

Convenience. That’s the big benefit of having all your music and video entertainment at your fingertips. Control4‘s Ed Ryan and Jeff Thomas discuss the benefits of every-room entertainment with Brad Baldwin. Using something called “scenes,” Control4 allows you to integrate [See the full post…]

Businesses are dealing with compliance and reporting from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in many ways. Allegiance CEO and Founder Adam Edmunds saw a niche three years ago and entered the market to provide confidential communication with his Silent Whistle product. Today, [See the full post…]

Attensa has a range of services aimed at large companies who need to keep up to date and share information via RSS and Atom feeds. Here you’ll see Scott Niesen, director of marketing at Attensa, demonstrate Attensa’s latest RSS aggregators [See the full post…]

Scott Niesen, marketing director for Attensa, talks to us about his company’s role in the RSS aggregator and service space. Attensa has a range of feed-reading services aimed at enterprises and it’s interesting to get his view of how companies [See the full post…]

Tivo changed the way we watch TV. Just like you record your favorite 24 episode, Solera Networks offers network security for enterprises and governments that captures and replays an organization’s network traffic. Steve Shillingford, vice president of worldwide sales, speaks [See the full post…]

El Dorado Ventures General Partner Charles Beeler continues his man-on-the-street interviews at DEMO 07. Paul Holland was impressed with a few of the companies he saw at the conference, as well as with the spinach salad at a VC dinner. [See the full post…]

Maryam and I head to Freiburg, Germany. Not exactly a place you’d think you’d find geeks, or bloggers, but we did! In between beers (it’s Germany) we got some fun geeks and bloggers onto camera.

Venture capital investor Charles Beeler speaks with fellow-VC Steve Hall (his DEMO observations can be found here), from Vulcan Capital, at DEMO 2007 in January. Another positive mention for Zink, and agreement that lots of small steps are being taken [See the full post…]

I’ve been reading an interesting book recently called She’s Such a Geek, which has tons of stories about women who’ve made an impact on the technology world. Here we meet the authors, Charlie and Annalee, and have a conversation about [See the full post…]

I haven’t been interviewing as many developers as I’d like, so I’m happy that I got to meet Sebastian Moser, a 20-year-old Austrian developer who has been programming since he was 14. He’s working on starting a company, you can [See the full post…]

WiLife COO, Grant Beckmann, talks about managing growth in start-up companies. During the past 18 years, Beckmann has worked with some of Utah’s fastest-growing startups, including Folio (now FAST), Tenfold, NextPage, and WiLife. He discusses what he has learned about [See the full post…]

Edgeio today is shipping into beta “Marketplaces,” which let you put classified ads and other board-type information onto your own blog. John Dowd, product manager on Edgeio’s Marketplaces, explains more about why these are useful in this interview and demo.