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Silicon Valley Watcher: Wizard of the Modern Age, Marc Canter

June 14th, 2017 |
Silicon Valley Watcher: Wizard of the Modern Age, Marc Canter

In this episode of the Silicon Valley Watcher podcast I talk with veteran serial entrepreneur Marc Canter about how things have changed over the past thirty years, his new startup and the future of AI chatbots.

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My House to Bloghaus: The Media Center Bus to CES in Las Vegas

January 7th, 2008 |
My House to Bloghaus: The Media Center Bus to CES in Las Vegas

This is a taste of my Saturday on the Podtech BlogHaus bus drive to Las Vegas. On board are A-List bloggers: Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Luic Le Meur, Marc Canter, Jeremy Toeman, Robert McLaws, plus Valerie Cunningham, Rocky, and many [See the full post…]

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Popfly: Microsoft Shows Mashups for Consumers – Make Your Own FaceBook App In Minutes

October 18th, 2007 |
Popfly: Microsoft Shows Mashups for Consumers – Make Your Own FaceBook App In Minutes

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…]

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Sun Microsystems: Open Source Worldwide Panel

October 17th, 2007 |
Sun Microsystems: Open Source Worldwide Panel

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…]

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Facebook Fanboys: Are you Pro or Con? part 2

October 12th, 2007 |
Facebook Fanboys: Are you Pro or Con? part 2

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…]

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Facebook Fanboys: Are you Pro or Con?

October 11th, 2007 |
Facebook Fanboys: Are you Pro or Con?

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…]

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Microsoft’s Popfly: A Mashup Platform for Consumers

October 1st, 2007 |
Microsoft’s Popfly: A Mashup Platform for Consumers

I was over at the Halo 3 launch party at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus and ran into Dan Fernandez, lead product manager for Visual Studio, demonstrating Popfly. It’s an alpha version of an easy-to-use mashup platform that allows consumers to [See the full post…]

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Meet Forrester’s New Social Computing Analyst

September 28th, 2007 |
Meet Forrester’s New Social Computing Analyst

Jeremiah Owyang is Forrester Research’s new senior analyst focused on Social Computing. He is leaving PodTech where he was community manager and spent a lot of time travelling and speaking at conferences evangelising social media. Previously to that he managed [See the full post…]

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The Sun and Intel Alliance

September 27th, 2007 |
The Sun and Intel Alliance

SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 25, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is [See the full post…]

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Dreamforce: THE FUTURE OF SOFTWARE part 2

September 25th, 2007 |
Dreamforce: THE FUTURE OF SOFTWARE part 2

Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, kicks off Dreamforce ’07, with exciting product, platform, and customer announcements you won’t want to miss. Witness as salesforce.com unveils the next generation of on demand and learn what that means [See the full post…]

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Dreamforce: THE FUTURE OF SOFTWARE part 1

September 24th, 2007 |
Dreamforce: THE FUTURE OF SOFTWARE part 1

Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, kicks off Dreamforce ’07, with exciting product, platform, and customer announcements you won’t want to miss. Witness as salesforce.com unveils the next generation of on demand and learn what that means [See the full post…]

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Dreamforce: Building the Ultimate Google Salesforce Mashup

September 23rd, 2007 |
Dreamforce: Building the Ultimate Google Salesforce Mashup

Salesforce has always been a powerful platform for creating mashups, and the latest platform features make it more capable than ever. This session offers an introduction to some of the more popular Web APIs and shows how they can be [See the full post…]

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DreamForce: The Future of On Demand

September 20th, 2007 |
DreamForce: The Future of On Demand

Nick Carr is an acclaimed business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology. His 2004 book “Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage,” published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a [See the full post…]

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Dreamforce: Cisco’s Chief Touts the Power of Internet Video

September 20th, 2007 |
Dreamforce: Cisco’s Chief Touts the Power of Internet Video

John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems, gave a keynote at Saleforce.com‘s user conference. He spoke about the growing use and importance of Internet video in helping companies collaborate on projects and communicate with staff and customers. Internet video [See the full post…]

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Office 2.0: What is Enterprise 2.0

September 19th, 2007 |
Office 2.0: What is Enterprise 2.0

Adam Carson is sharing some of his experiences in bringing Enterprise 2.0 to Morgan Stanley. He is providing valuable insights to how large organizations can start thinking about Enterprise 2.0 strategies, adoption methods, deployments, and risks. Adam discusses the approaching [See the full post…]

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Five things you should know about IT virtualization

September 17th, 2007 |
Five things you should know about IT virtualization

Tom Foremski speaks with Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen from Sun and Ronit Belson from OpTier, an ISV partner of Sun’s, about virtualization. The conversation covers five points about virtualization: Understanding your business application; How do your virtualization technologies fit [See the full post…]

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Office 2.0: Social Computing

September 14th, 2007 |
Office 2.0: Social Computing

Social computing is the rage, everyone knows that. But isn’t it just kid’s stuff? Why should an enterprise focused on B2B even bother with it — and if it does, are the rules of engagement any different than for the [See the full post…]

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Office 2.0 – Culture Technology

September 13th, 2007 |
Office 2.0 – Culture Technology

Generation Y is entering the workforce 70 million strong, should the current organizations implement new ways, structures to accommodate the new behaviors of Generation Y? What else should companies know about the new workforce? [See the full post…]

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Friction.TV: Online video debates from the UK

September 11th, 2007 |
Friction.TV: Online video debates from the UK

I recently met with Omer Shaikh, one of the co-founders of Friction.TV, a British company launching the U.S. Mr. Shaikh used to head Saatchi and Saatchi Interactive and he says he founded Friction.TV to encourage debate. The site has quickly [See the full post…]

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Silicon Valley Watcher: Marten Mickos

September 4th, 2007 |
Silicon Valley Watcher: Marten Mickos

Tom Foremski speaks with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the second-largest open source company, about Silicon Valley and the challenge of managing teams of programmers spread across the world. [See the full post…]

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How to succeed in developing Facebook apps

August 28th, 2007 |
How to succeed in developing Facebook apps

I spent Saturday afternoon crammed into a room in Palo Alto with a couple of hundred people listening to presentations from young developers creating Facebook apps. The enthusiasm was great and there was a sense of being at the start [See the full post…]

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Social media in the enterprise: How to deal with IT roadblocks

August 24th, 2007 |
Social media in the enterprise: How to deal with IT roadblocks

Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting [See the full post…]

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Silicon Valley Watcher: Anurag Nigam

August 19th, 2007 |
Silicon Valley Watcher: Anurag Nigam

I ran into Anurag Nigam, CEO and co-founder of IncSync recently, and got a quick demo of their 411Sync service. It’s a really easy and quick way to move any kind of information onto your cell phone without requiring any [See the full post…]

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Silicon Valley Watcher: Genius beefs up its sales lead automation service and announces conference

August 16th, 2007 |
Silicon Valley Watcher: Genius beefs up its sales lead automation service and announces conference

Tom Foremski talks with David Thompson, CEO of Genius, an on demand software company with a unique technology that enables sales people to track leads. Genius also announces its first conference, Sales 2.0, in San Francisco at the end [See the full post…]

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Silicon Valley Watcher: Motorola aggressively adopting mobile linux

August 13th, 2007 |
Silicon Valley Watcher: Motorola aggressively adopting mobile linux

Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market [See the full post…]

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