Mark Lucovsky runs the Ajax Search service at Google and sits down for both an in-depth interview about what he’s been working on, but then pulls out some cool demos of ways you can add search to your blog that’ll [See the full post…]

Services like Gmail hit the market after their developers reengineered the solution to “work” the way the consumer expects the service to work today. Josh Coates, CEO of Berkeley Data Systems, describes his approach to creating Mozy.com, an automatic, secure [See the full post…]

Home and small business surveillance systems are usually associated with lots of wiring, expensive installations, complicated network settings, and long-term contracts. Andrew Hartsfield, CEO of WiLife, tells Brad Baldwin that today it’s possible to add a high-quality surveillance system yourself [See the full post…]

We sit down with StumbleUpon‘s chief architect, Garrett Camp, and David Feller, VP of marketing, and talk about the success Stumbleupon has seen (about 1.5 million users in just a few months) as well as get a look at the [See the full post…]

Ever have half an hour to just waste and wondered what cool stuff is there on the Internet? Well, StumbleUpon is the answer. They have 1.5 million people who are adding sites and rating them. It makes for a fun [See the full post…]

A large percentage of the world’s email is sent using the Sendmail protocol, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, so I sat down with Eric Allman, founder of Sendmail, to talk about what’s happened in the 25-year history of Sendmail. [See the full post…]

NETGEAR makes a lot of the world’s WiFi devices, among other consumer electronics gadgets. Since it’s getting close to CES time, we thought we’d come over and meet up with Patrick Lo, CEO of NETGEAR. Click here for transcript.

At the inaugural (Charles River Ventures) CRV Entrepreneur Idol, presented at Stanford Graduate School of Business, George Zachary of CRV presents to Stanford MBA students about today’s state of early stage venture capital, the rise of consumer Internet businesses, and [See the full post…]

“We want people to understand how we hear things. In these days of media fragmentation, email and voicemail, people mostly pay attention to the first 30 seconds of what they hear.” That’s what George Zachary of CRV says about the [See the full post…]

Watch the three winning pitches of the first ever CRV Entrepreneur Idol (coming to a grad school near you soon). Judges George, Bill Tai and Susan Wu of CRV, as well as Silicon Valley famed blogger and journalist, Matt Marshall [See the full post…]

Kevin Burton, founder of TailRank, gives us a demo of his memetracker which shows what the hottest conversations are in the blogosphere. Click here for transcript.

Kevin Burton is a talented developer who has worked on a variety of startups already including Rojo, and now TailRank which he started to be able to see what bloggers were talking about. Here I sit down with him for [See the full post…]

How do you get a big file from your computer to someone else’s computer? Pando Networks has a peer-to-peer way to do just that. Yaron Samid, Pando Networks’ founder, gives me a tour. Click here for transcript.

We go on a junket. Heck, it’s the only time we’ve been invited to go on a Lear Jet and on a tour of Washington Wineries and we take you along thanks to Greenpoint Technologies and Blog Business Summit’s “Grapes [See the full post…]

I spend almost an hour with Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom [See the full post…]

Vipin Jain, CEO of Retrevo, gives us a tour around Retrevo’s consumer electronics gadget portal. Click here for transcript.

Heidi Roizen is a Silicon Valley veteran who spent her time building companies during the software and PC boom. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier spoke with her about how and when to raise venture capital funding. She says that [See the full post…]

We met up with Koral‘s CEO, Mark Suster and talk about content management inside enterprises. We also talk about startup success in downtimes (his last company did well through the bad times of 2001-2003). Click here for transcript.

Ever have an Excel file that was emailed around only to have someone change a formula, which made everyone else out of sync? Well, Koral has found a unique way to make sure your employees collaborate with each other and [See the full post…]

The Canyons is a massive ski and snowboarding resort. Last year, it was the first resort to use video podcasts as a way to differentiate itself from other destinations (view videocasts | subscribe to videocasts). My personal favorite from last [See the full post…]

Hear how Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, has built a white-label turnkey “Channel 9” for your company. Channel 9 is Microsoft’s videoblog/social software community. Blogtronix has blogs, a social network, wikis, video, audio, and all the stuff an enterprise would [See the full post…]

If you’ve been over to Microsoft’s Channel 9, a social-software community and videoblog that Microsoft built, you’ve seen the power of having a videoblog combined with a forum combined with a wiki. Maybe you’d like to have a Channel 9 [See the full post…]

Kim Sacha is one of the top Zuma players (a popular game on Xbox 360) in the world and she shows us how she does it. Why is this important? Because casual gamers are turning out to be an important [See the full post…]

When you have hundreds — or even thousands — of people working together at the same company, keeping track of all of that knowledge is important. The problem is that before now no one liked using knowledge management systems. When [See the full post…]

We’ve all seen enterprise knowledge management systems that no one uses. ConnectBeam‘s CEO, Puneet Gupta, demonstrates a new kind of knowledge management system that uses Web 2.0 concepts. Click here for transcript.