CircleUp joins your communities together in a way to get your questions answered. Plan a meal. Start an event. Pick a vacation spot. Here John Payne, CEO, shows us the new system.

NewsGator is one of the best news aggregators out there (a place to subscribe to RSS feeds). In this interview with Dave Keller, general manager, and Chris Echelmeier, enterprise sales rep, you’ll hear why NewsGator is making big moves into [See the full post…]

NewsGator owns many of the most popular news readers around and synchronizes them. But now NewsGator is making big strides in bringing its synchronization system to enterprises. Dave Keller, general manager, and Chris Echelmeier, enterprise sales rep, demo the latest [See the full post…]

AtTask‘s VP of Sales, Abraham Knell, shows off the @task Project and Portfolio Management solution. The application has a simple UI that is easy to learn and use. Tabs and drop-down menus in headers give the web-based offering a rich, [See the full post…]

AtTask provides on-demand project and portfolio management software. Scott Johnson, CEO and Founder, and his team have self-funded and enhanced the @task offering over the past six years with dashboard UI, Web 2.0 collaboration, workflow, templates, APIs, and global language [See the full post…]

Eric Engleman, general manager of Bloglines (a very popular RSS feed reader) shows me the hot new features in Bloglines and how they are working to make reading feeds more productive and more fun.

Do you work in noisy conditions? Want to make VoIP systems like Skype work better? Get Noise Free. Here Bill Ribble, VP of marketing at Noise Free, talks to me about how it works.

Jeff Holden, co-founder and CEO of Pelago which released WHRRL last week. He discusses how you’d use whrrl from a mobile phone to find restaurants and other things.

Do you have family overseas and spend a lot of money on phone calls? You need Talkster. Here Mark Gelman, chief architect, demonstrates the free service for me.

Thumbplay brings a bunch of great games to your mobile device. James Finn, executive vice president for Thumbplay.com, talks with me during the CTIA Showstoppers event last week.

Dan Sheehan, CEO and Founder of Winplus, gives us a demo of Yada, a device that hooks up to your dashboard that includes a Bluetooth headset for your cell phone. Because you never take your headset out of your car [See the full post…]

One of our favorite events of the year is the SXSW events, which really are three events in one city over two weeks. One focused on interactive media (the one we go to), one focused on music, and another focused [See the full post…]

I thought this was an interesting service: they teach Spanish speaking people how to speak English through the use of some unique video games that work on any cell phones. Larry Upton, principal at Edioma, shows me the service.

Your flight is delayed which throws off your connecting flights. What do you do? If you had WorldMate it would send you a message giving you alternative flights and other info. Eyran Blumberg, VP of enterprise business at Worldmate, gives [See the full post…]

This is a cool service with a weird name: Utterz. At the CTIA show (mobile phone gadget show) I met Randy Corke, co-founder of the company making Utterz and we have a brief talk about it. It’s a microblogging tool [See the full post…]

After Jay Bean launched and sold his former company ah-ha (now Enhance Interactive) to Marchex, he put his experience in local search, web marketing, and company building to work at OrangeSoda. OrangeSoda’s primary focus is on helping small and medium-sized [See the full post…]

Photographers, don’t miss this one! It’s an interview with Thomas Hawk and Marc Levoy, Stanford University Professor, who is jointly appointed in computer science and electrical engineering. But that’s the geeky way of explaining this dude is doing some radical [See the full post…]

Editor’s Choice. Here my editor, Rocky (The Rocman) pulled out some highlights of the interview we did with Marc Levoy, Stanford University Professor who is doing exceptional photographic research.

Home entertainment is switching to digital. Even movie rental places like Netflix are delivering their goods via bits that’ll be stored on a hard drive. So, how do you manage all your music and entertainment stuff? Media Master has a [See the full post…]

One of the most unique social networks I’ve seen lately is the one from BluePulse. It’s for mobile phones only and is gaining a lot of fans. Last week I headed over to see what Ben Keighran, founder and CEO [See the full post…]

For this weeks ConnectCast we attended the inaugural event of the Women Tech Council “Women Advancing in Technology” event. Over 100 women attended and listen to Teri Sundh CEO of Podfitness.com and Carol Fineagan CIO of Energy Solutions. Teri eloquently [See the full post…]

Aaron Fulkerson, co-founder of Mindtouch, gives us a demo of what makes his wiki tool better than other wiki tools. Specifically its strengths are that it’s open source and that it has a great API.

Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjork, co-founders of MindTouch, talk to me about the Wiki market and what makes their tool better than others.

You don’t need to be a developer to create mashups or FaceBook apps. Dan Fernandez demonstrates creating a FaceBook app in minutes using an alpha release of PopFly. It is built on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. With tools such as these, [See the full post…]

Keynote Systems does testing and caching for Internet services around the world. They know more about the health of the Internet than probably any other company. Here you get a tour into their datacenter and control center. We talk about [See the full post…]