Social media and public relations activities are converging at different paces and in different ways for companies. Cheryl Snapp Conner, partner & executive PR director at Salt Lake City-based Snapp Norris Group talks about this evolution and the impact of [See the full post…]

Yesterday I sat down with Sun Microsystems‘ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and Tim Marsland, Sun’s CTO in charge of Solaris, and had a wide-ranging discussion from his pitch to Steve Jobs as to why Apple should include the Java runtimes on [See the full post…]

Here, on the final day of the Retrevo Gang from the Seagate booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, Vipin Jain, Retrevo’s CEO, and Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s biggest gadget freak get together to wrap up what they saw on the show [See the full post…]

Every day at CES last week we met with the Retrevo Gang – folks from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, who held court and talked about the latest news – Apple iPhone and other gadgets. On the second day, [See the full post…]

In this inaugural v|100 Show podcast, vSpring Capital’s Dennis Wood, human capital, and Gavin Christensen, principal, introduce the reason for creating the v100 Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs program and set the stage for future conversations with v100 members. They discuss [See the full post…]

Skullcandy hosted Supernatural as a booth attraction at CES. Supernatural holds the world’s record for the longest a freestyle rap at over nine hours. In this video, in addition to the impressive skill of Supernatural, you’ll spot Skullcandy CEO Alden [See the full post…]

Rick Alden, CEO and founder of Skullcandy, created a lifestlye technology brand that integrates cell phone and audio switching so the active lifestyle can easily switch from tunes to voice calls. The patented Skullcandy Link is available in Skullcandy-branded products [See the full post…]

When Deer Valley Resort wanted to reach the Gen Xer’s and Y’s to market the Freestyle FIS World Cup, they turned to social networking and new media distribution like YouTube. Erin Grady, Deer Valley’s communications manager, worked with the Park [See the full post…]

ShieldZone Founder Phillip Chipping and CEO Robert Pedersen speak with Brad Baldwin about the benefits of protected, “naked” gadgets. Industrial designers are working hard to create the sexiest and sleekest products. Why hide the design behind a bulky, unattractive case? [See the full post…]

Ed Ryan and Fred Geiger from Control4 talk about their 4Sight service. 4Sight enables remote access to your home via the Web so it’s easier to interact with the automated features of your home. They talked to us about how [See the full post…]

Gary Kennedy, one of the first 10 employees at Oracle, has a new home as CEO of RemedyMD, a health care informatics and decision support sevice for practitioners, researchers, and patients. Kennedy says it’s crazy that retailers can tell you [See the full post…]

We wanted to see how long it’d take to walk through the main hall at CES from one end to the other. Along the way you get a sense of just how big this is. Keep in mind you only [See the full post…]

Jim Druckrey tells me about what Seagate is trying to do with its booth at the Consumer Electronics Show and gives me a quick tour of its new products and branding. By the way, if Jim’s face looks familiar, this [See the full post…]

Every day from CES we’re meeting with staff members from Retrevo, a consumer electronics search engine, to hear what they are seeing at CES. They are walking miles to find you the best (and worst) of new gadgets from the [See the full post…]

We get an exclusive look at the new hard drives that Seagate just announced tonight in the Seagate PodTech BlogHaus at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.

This is probably Microsoft’s biggest CES ever with Windows Vista shipping in a few days and Bill Gates met with bloggers from Engadget, Gizmodo, Kotaku, PodTech.net, and Joystiq for a wide-ranging interview about everything from Bill’s speeding tickets to software [See the full post…]

Om Malik runs the GigaOm series of properties (some of our favorite blogs) and we sit down and have a nice chat about what he’s working on now and look back at 2006.

Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike.com, shows me his new service, which helps you find new music (it’s really cool!)

Meet Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike.com, which is an innovative new service that helps you find new music.

Intel is one of many companies attending CES 2007 in Las Vegas next week. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier visited with Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Sean Maloney to explore top tech-lifestyle trends for 2007 and the impact [See the full post…]

Larry Knight impressed me because of his spirit. His home had been destroyed in one of the poorer parts of New Orleans (Ninth Ward), but he was taking it all in stride – rebuilding his home. Gave me great optimism [See the full post…]

Meet the team behind Me.dium, an innovative new service coming soon, that will let you watch where your friends are surfing on the Internet. Robert Rich and Kimbal Musk, founders, tell you what’s behind their new service.

Me.dium.com is a lot of fun. You can watch your friends surf the Web and they can watch you. Here Kimbal Musk, Me.dium’s CEO, gives us a good runthrough.

One of the things I was studying is how the Edwards campaign would use bloggers. Here, John Edwards meets a variety of bloggers and videobloggers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. You’ll see Steve Garfield and Chuck Olsen, videobloggers, in the background [See the full post…]

Alfred Thompson and Don Dodge, who blog for Microsoft, meet up with me at the John Edwards’ campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and we talk a little bit about social media and how that’ll intersect with politics. New Hampshire [See the full post…]