Roman Scharf, Jajah‘s CEO, demonstrates how Jajah works to make low-cost – even free – phone calls around the world with a regular phone. On the other line is Guy Kawasaki, famous evangelist and blogger.

Yesterday, Mark Cuban spoke at the Consumer Electronics Association luncheon. Before he spoke I had lunch with him and asked him for a quick comment on his hopes for the Dallas Mavericks basketball team (he’s the owner) and his thoughts [See the full post…]

Ryan Block is managing editor of Engadget.com and he invited me over to get a tour of his San Francisco “crib.” We see, and talk about, dozens of gadgets from cameras to cell phones to HDTVs.

Tony Conrad, Sphere’s CEO (they make a nice blog search engine) shows me a cool new bookmarklet for bloggers that can help you figure out who is talking about a specific topic.

At Demo in Los Angeles, PodTech CEO and Founder John Furrier had a chance to speak with Howard Lee Morgan and Joshua Kopelman, two prominent early-stage venture capitalists from First Round Capital. Although Josh is now deeply involved in the [See the full post…]

Go Shopping! Here we interview Michael Yang, CEO of Become.com, which is a new shopping search engine. They claim that it works better than Google for when you’re looking for products to buy. Hear what he sees as his advantages [See the full post…]

This Christmas, Michael Yang hopes you’ll use his search engine to find things to buy for your friends and family. Here, the CEO of Become.com demos what he says makes his service better for shopping than other search engines.

PodTech is built on top of WordPress, a blogging and content management package from Automattic. Here we sit down with Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic, to talk about a variety of things — from Om Malik to splogs and what [See the full post…]

Recently-formed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Bridgescale Partners celebrated over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with a crowd that included PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier. Here, he talks with partners Matthew Cowan and Rob Chaplinsky about their investment strategies, smart [See the full post…]

Ever need to cut something out of a movie? Or want to come up with a custom edit, but didn’t know how to do it? Well, Cuts is a new way to watch your movies and here CEO Evan Krauss [See the full post…]

Evan Krauss had a problem – his kids were scared by certain parts of certain movies. So he wanted to cut them out, but found that the process of doing that (ripping the DVDs onto his computer, then using editing [See the full post…]

If you hear the name “Brad Chase,” do you think of the Internet? I do. He was one of the key executives at Microsoft and helped build Internet Explorer, among other things. So, when he said he had something cool [See the full post…]

Brad Chase, a former Microsoft executive, came over to PodTech’s offices to talk about blogging and mobile devices. He’s now an investor in Vizrea and talks about why he’s excited about the company.

“Ray was like a Super Hero. He wasn’t wearing the cape and everything else, but he was always fighting the big fight for everyday people,”

Eric Billingsley used to design nuclear power plants, but his new job is no less interesting: he is the senior director of eBay’s new research labs. Come along and listen as he tells you what eBay is up to and [See the full post…]

Dori Smith — credited with getting Robert to blog and the author of the definitive book on JavaScript — speaks with Maryam and Robert Scoble about JavaScript issues past, present and future as she finds herself at the center of [See the full post…]

Jim Lussier is a general partner at Norwest Venture Partners. The highly-regarded venture capital firm has invested in more than 300 companies, including Tivoli, Documentum, Peoplesoft and Collabnet. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier caught up with him at the [See the full post…]

The wiki is coming to the enterprise and Atlassian has more than 15,000 enterprise users and is coming on strong. Here you’ll meet Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian and Jonathan Nolan, director of developer relations and they talk about what [See the full post…]

David Chamberlain runs one of the more interesting socially responsible businesses we’ve ever heard of: one that’ll take you on an interesting vacation! Obviously aimed at affluent people who are looking for ways to experience an authentic cultural immersion, Exquisite [See the full post…]

Geoffrey Arone is the co-founder of Flock, which is a new browser that’s based on the same open-source engine that powers Firefox. Why do we need yet another browser? Geoffrey demonstrates that Flock integrates in services like Flickr photo sharing [See the full post…]

Joe Kraus, CEO of JotSpot, has seen Silicon Valley’s highs and lows (he was founder of one of the 1990s hottest companies: Excite at Home) and here he shares with us his insights about whether we’re going through a bubble, [See the full post…]

Have you ever tried to plan something like a family vacation overseas and got lost in all the details you had to track? Hotels. Flights. Meals. Museums. Sights. Well, Manish Chandra, CEO of Kaboodle, designed a new service to help [See the full post…]

As we get around to meet the various Wiki companies, one name stands out: Wikipedia. Well, Wikia has the same parents and the same technology. Here we meet Gil Penchina, Wikia’s CEO and learn more about why Wikia is seeing [See the full post…]

Jason Calacanis is senior vice president of AOL and general manager of Netscape. PodTech CEO John Furrier caught up with him last Friday at the Portable Media Expo, where they talked about the PodShow financing, the latest taping of the [See the full post…]

Here we change gears during our Photowalking series: we head into the city for some urban nighttime photography. You’ll get lots of tips on how to shoot at night.