Sun Microsystems’ DTrace lets developers look at a multi-machine system and understand what’s going on. It’s very popular with developers — it’s gotten mentioned several times in conversations I’ve been in — so I wanted to meet the team and [See the full post…]

There’s a new kind of home-automation gadget coming out. They will watch your front door, let you control your temperature in new ways, and do a variety of other tasks. Here, Reza Raji, founder and CEO of iControl, shows us [See the full post…]

Brandon Watts, developer of the Leopard Programming Language, tells me about how Leopard will help people learn to program. It’s a new language optimized for learning and is getting good reviews from instructors who are trying to find a way [See the full post…]

It’s not often that you get to meet one of the people who helped make Silicon Valley the tech powerhouse it is today. Here you get to meet Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare. He also teaches [See the full post…]

Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare and Min Xu, R&D engineer at VMWare, demonstrate the company’s newest virtualization technology.

Daniel Graf, CEO and founder of Kyte.tv, shows us how you can build a new kind of online TV channel: one that plays on mobile phones, Facebook, and Web pages and includes chat and more. It’s very cool and worth [See the full post…]

Did you know that most movies that are produced in the world never get shown in a theater? Even award-winning movies at film festivals like Sundance often don’t get shown. Not to mention famous films from overseas. Well, Jaman gives [See the full post…]

PayScale is a service where you can compare salaries with other people in your industry. Here, Joe Giordano, founder and chairman of Payscale, talks to me about the service, what he’s learned, and shows me the latest iteration.

Here, John McCrea, vice president of marketing at Plaxo, gives me a tour of its just-released platform. Quite useful, it brings contacts into and out of a bunch of different applications and services like Microsoft’s Outlook, Google’s GMail, among others.

Plaxo‘s founder, Todd Masonis, chief platform architect, Joseph Smarr, and VP of marketing, John McCrea tell me how Plaxo has changed from a contact manager for Outlook to a Web service that lets you back up and share your contacts [See the full post…]

Are you tired of boring PowerPoint presentations with standard effects and boring blue backgrounds? Here, Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, shows us his tool and talks about the state of the art in presentations.

Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, demonstrates how to use it to make your presentations much better than anyone else’s.

Guillaume Cohen, founder and CEO of Veodia, demonstrates live video Webcasting with Veodia. Pros? Professional quality and instant archiving.

Guillaume Cohen, founder and CEO, and Sylvain Rebaud, vice president of engineering at Veodia speak with me about videocasting and Veodia’s part in that market.

In Burlington, Vermont, 20 percent of the real-world residents have joined a new online service called Front Porch Forum. Here, you meet Michael Wood-Lewis, co-founder, and we talk about why he started the service and why it’s been so successful [See the full post…]

Interactive Video Technologies‘ CEO, Greg Pulier demonstrates its Webcasting solution.

Greg Pulier, president and CEO of Interactive Video Technologies, talks with me about corporate Webcasting and how IVT’s solutions help companies and people create better Webcasts.

Search Engine Marketing isn’t something that many people do. This isn’t optimizing your Web site so it shows up high on Google or Yahoo. It’s coming up with strategies for how to advertise on search engines and then executing on [See the full post…]

Sonos is a unique addition to your home entertainment system. It lets you play digital music anywhere in your house. Here, John McFarland, CEO, gives us a good runthrough of what Sonos is.

Want a free online alternative to Microsoft Office? Don’t think it’s good enough? ThinkFree‘s offerings might surprise you. Here, Jonathan Crow, director of marketing for ThinkFree, shows of its latest offerings.

Jonathan Crow, director of marketing for ThinkFree, speaks with me about how our office work is changing and how ThinkFree’s online office plays into that.

Here Rocky Barbanica, my amazing editor, picks the highlights of the interview and demo I did with Mixercast‘s CEO, Jennifer Cooper.

MixerCast’s CEO, Jennifer Cooper, demonstrates how to use Mixercast to build new “media stories” that include photography, music, photos, and other media. Here we mix up an interview and get a demo of Mixercast too.

Here you meet Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, and we have a chat about the changes that are coming to enterprise systems thanks to Web 2.0.

Apatar is a way to move data between third party applications and existing enterprise systems. Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, demonstrates his system here.