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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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Categories: Audio Podcast, Silicon Valley Watcher Tags: Instigate, Instigate.ai, Macromind, Marc Canter, Multimedia Gultch, Silicon Valley Watcher, Tom Foremski, Wizard of the Modern Age, Wizards of the Modern Age
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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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Categories: CES BlogHaus 2008, CES Las Vegas - Consumer Electronics Show, Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft, Silicon Valley Watcher Tags: AMD, CESBlogHaus, Dan Farber, Jeremy Toeman, Luic Le Meur, Marc Canter, Microsoft, Mogulus, Robert McLaws, Robert Scoble, Rocky, Samsung, Skype, Valerie Cunningham
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Dan Fernandez, Facebook apps, Popfly, Silverlight
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Brad Vaughan, Bruno Souza, Gill Gravier, Ian Murdock, Joe George, Open Source, Susy Struble, Suvendu Ray
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Dave McClure, Graphing Social Patterns, Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford, TechCrunch
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Dave McClure, Graphing Social Patterns, Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford, TechCrunch
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Dan Fernandez, Halo 3, Popfly, Silverlight, Visual Studio
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Jeremiah Owyang, Social Computing
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Intel, Silicon Valley Watcher, Sun Microsystems, TechOne Tags: Intel Xeon, Solaris, Sun Fire X4150, Sun Fire X4450
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Dreamforce '07, Marc Benioff
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Dreamforce '07, Marc Benioff
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Jeff Ragusa, Salesforce
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Does IT Matter?, Nick Carr, Software as a Service, The Future of On Demand
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Cisco Systems, Corporate networks, Internet video, John Chambers, Saleforce.com
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Adam Carson
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen, OpTier, Ronit Belson, Tom Foremski, virtualization
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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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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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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Friction.TV, Omer Shaikh, Saatchi and Saatchi
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Marten Mickos, MySQL, Open Source, Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Coté, Facebook apps, Liquid Labs, Zane Rockenbaugh
Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Alex Kim, Josh Hallett, Larry Magid, Open Source, Silicon Valley Watcher, social media, Solution Set, Voce Communications
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: 411sync, Anurag Nigam, IncSync, Silicon Valley Watcher
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: David Thompson, Genius, on-demand, Sales 2.0, Tom Foremski
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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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Categories: Connected Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Silicon Valley Watcher, TechOne Tags: Access, Aron Pruiett, Christy Wyatt, Didier Diaz, Kim Polese, mobile linux, Motorola, Razr V8, SpikeSource, Tom Foremski