We know you’re busy, so here are just the highlights of the interview I did with Doug Kaufman, CEO of ClearTXT. He talks to me about changes in the way schools communicate with their students. Really interesting stuff now that [See the full post…]

Hi5 is a very popular social network — 100,000 new people join it every day and it’s the most popular network in many countries like Mexico and in Asia. I sat down with Akash Garg, co-founder and CTO, to find [See the full post…]

This is a real treat. Stanford University’s Ian Hsu setup a tour for a fairly large group of photographers. We met Patience Young, who gave us a tour of the Rodin Statue Garden, Bernard Barryte who told us a story [See the full post…]

Cell phones are bringing a new kind of video to the world. You’ve seen them being filmed in museums or concerts: little videos done with cell phones. Zannel is working to make it easier to get those videos up to [See the full post…]

Do you think Google is the best search engine for cell phones? Think again with Taptu’s Bob Last. He’s senior vice president of business development there and talks with me about search engines and how mobile phones aren’t well served [See the full post…]

We do a little test comparing Google to Taptu on a mobile phone. You might be surprised by how much nicer Taptu is for many searches. Here Bob Lastt, senior vice president at Taptu, and I have a race and [See the full post…]

Rocky, my producer, knows you don’t have time to watch the full interview so he’s pulled the highlights out of the interview I did with John Payne, CEO of CircleUp. Six minutes and you’ll see how CircleUp helps you work [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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.