Are you building an Internet service and need to know how it’ll look on computers or mobile phones around the world? What the response times will be? How to make it better? Then you’ll need Keynote Systems. Here, Manny Gonzalez, [See the full post…]

Sun has become one of the most enthusiastic supporters for open source technologies after a long period of ignoring the movement. Sun recently hosted an Open Source Summit in a bid to identify itself more closely with open source software. [See the full post…]

Atlassian builds enterprise wikis and is white hot. Today at the Web 2.0 Summit Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, will announce that it is partnering with Atlassian, who is building a Sharepoint connector so that Sharepoint customers can use Atlassian’s wiki. [See the full post…]

Want a new way to discover what is going on in your feeds? FeedHaus has a way: a tag cloud. Chris Bucchere, CEO, discusses and demostrates his new service.

During our recent photowalking, Stanford University rolled out its STARMAC team (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control). These are quadrotor helicopters that can fly remotely without much human assistance. Really cool research project that you’ll want to check [See the full post…]

Malware delivered through links in email is working. Unfortunately, those organizations that don’t have a strategy to prevent this attack stand to suffer significant financial loss, and perhaps worse, their reputation. Avinti provides a solution that processes email through a [See the full post…]

My producer knows you don’t have time to sit through an hour-long conversation with the Six Apart executives, so he’s pulled out a few highlights.

Six Apart just released a new Moveable Type, so I wanted to find out what was up cause it really has a lot of great services that help people communicate. From LiveJournal, which is used by people to talk with [See the full post…]

While it was earlier hyped by some in the press as an “Outlook killer” (probably due to Mitch Kapor’s statements — he funded this open source project) Chandler has evolved to be a new collaborative tool aimed at small groups [See the full post…]

The final session of the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference featured a “Fanboy” panel discussion moderated by Michael Arrington, from TechCrunch. With his bosom buddy Jason Calacanis on the panel, it became the “Arrington & Calacanis Show.” Fellow panelists Robert [See the full post…]

This is my favorite demo of the year so far and Rocky, my producer, pulled out some cool Zude highlights in this video.

Jim McNiel, CEO, and Steve Repetti, CTO of 5th Generation Systems, show me and talk to me about Zude, its new Web-building service. Zude is the coolest way to build Web sites I’ve seen. This demo is long, about an [See the full post…]

Trutap is a new mobile social networking application whose aim is let people stay connected with friends. Company CEO Doug Richard demonstrated the tool for the Mercury News at the recent TechCrunch40 conference.

Have you ever wondered if being an early adopter of development technologies really pays off? Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist Jason De Lorme chats with Russ Agrusa, CEO and founder of Iconics. Agrusa and Iconics have lived on the bleeding edge [See the full post…]

Matt Schmitt of Reflect Systems talks with us about their extensive digital signage network and how technologies like WPF and Business Intelligence help to differentiate their product.

Editor’s Choice: my editor pulled out the highlights of the interview we did with conference planner and big tech thinker, Eric Norlin (he’s planning the Defrag conference and was one of the founders of the Digital ID World series of [See the full post…]

Eric Norlin is the senior editor of Digital ID world and founder of a new conference, named Defrag. He’s one of the big thinkers I admire cause he helped build Digital ID world and other conferences into large industry events. [See the full post…]

Here’s Brett Wilson, CEO of Tube Mogul, demonstrating how his tool lets you upload and track videos to several different sites like Blip.tv and YouTube.

Brett Wilson, CEO of Tube Mogul, talks with me about video distribution and analysis. You know, there are a ton of sites you can upload video to and it’s hard to upload and track results through all of those sites. [See the full post…]

Almost all software packages store data. Aneal Roney, an architect from Advaiya and Warren Wilbee be a Microsoft Architect Evangelist sit down and discuss how to craft that data into a world class solution.

This is the digest version of my talk with Christopher Longhurst, a Stanford general pediatrician. If you like this, I urge you to watch the long version where we go deep into the IT side of medical care.

Ever wonder about information technology trends inside hospitals? I had lots of questions about the technology being used inside Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (where our son, Milan, was born three weeks ago). So I sat down with Christopher Longhurst, [See the full post…]

Today’s skis are a blend of high-tech construction and art. So to hear that Bluehouse Skis had implemented a ski core based on bamboo seemed a bit “old-fashioned” to say the least. Adam Hepworth and Jared Richards determined their dream [See the full post…]

David Steinberg, founder and CEO behind MyQuire, talks to me about his new project-management service that lets you get work done from anywhere with the tools you already know. It is another building block of the Work 2.0 movement where [See the full post…]

I met Sally Strebel on Twitter. She’s bizgirl. Named that because she’s started several businesses in Phoenix, Ariz. and her latest is BestPartyEver.com, a service that makes it easier to plan a great party.