The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of [See the full post…]

This podcast highlights some of the threats and dangers Symantec reported on in January 2007 and offers suggestions on how to stay protected. More information at: Symantec.com

ClipMarks is shipping a new version today and it’s an innovative service that lets you bookmark and link to information deep inside a page. You can choose a paragraph, a sentence or a picture — or other items — and [See the full post…]

I sit down with Eric Goldstein, co-founder of ClipMarks, to talk about his new company and service (shipping a new version this morning). It’s a cool way to annotate or bookmark pieces of content on Web pages. Very useful.

What has 400 horsepower, a supercharged 4.6-liter V-8 and 400-pound feet of torque to the full-time all wheel drive system? Here’s a clue: It’s made by Kia. While at the Chicago Auto Show, I spoke with Kia public relations manager [See the full post…]

Here Ning co-founder Gina Bianchini, shows off the new Ning social media creation platform. We get an in-depth demo of how Ning (version 2 just released today) enables you to build your own social network.

Ning just released version 2.0 of its social networking platform this morning and here we talk with Marc Andreessen (yeah, the Marc who started Netscape) and co-founder Gina Bianchini, about a whole raft of things from what this new release [See the full post…]

Convenience. That’s the big benefit of having all your music and video entertainment at your fingertips. Control4‘s Ed Ryan and Jeff Thomas discuss the benefits of every-room entertainment with Brad Baldwin. Using something called “scenes,” Control4 allows you to integrate [See the full post…]

Businesses are dealing with compliance and reporting from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in many ways. Allegiance CEO and Founder Adam Edmunds saw a niche three years ago and entered the market to provide confidential communication with his Silent Whistle product. Today, [See the full post…]

Attensa has a range of services aimed at large companies who need to keep up to date and share information via RSS and Atom feeds. Here you’ll see Scott Niesen, director of marketing at Attensa, demonstrate Attensa’s latest RSS aggregators [See the full post…]

Scott Niesen, marketing director for Attensa, talks to us about his company’s role in the RSS aggregator and service space. Attensa has a range of feed-reading services aimed at enterprises and it’s interesting to get his view of how companies [See the full post…]

In a world full of data that is quickly being accessed by mobile devices, ownership over that information — and over one’s own reputation and identity — rises in priority. Searls speaks with Jeremiah Owyang at the recent Mobile Identiy [See the full post…]

Tivo changed the way we watch TV. Just like you record your favorite 24 episode, Solera Networks offers network security for enterprises and governments that captures and replays an organization’s network traffic. Steve Shillingford, vice president of worldwide sales, speaks [See the full post…]

When Frank Russell founded GeoLearning ten years ago, the landscape for delivering corporate training materials was quite different from what it is today. As the network became more and more vital for business, and as software-as-a-service began to mature, Frank [See the full post…]

Understand why enterprise content management is gaining visibility in today’s market and how companies are developing their ECM strategies. Learn more about how content management is utilized across multiple industries and customer examples for critical content-centric businesses processes. Additionally, we [See the full post…]

While at the Chicago Auto Show, I had the opportunity to speak with Pontiac’s General Manager, John Larson, who asked me what he had to do to get me into the new Solstice. As a roadster lover and owner of [See the full post…]

Eighty-eight colleges and universities. Two-and-a-half million downstream users. Paul Schopis is associate director of OARnet, based at The Ohio State University, and as such he oversees an expansive network for users with a wide range of needs. In this podcast [See the full post…]

Scott K. Wilder, group manager of the small business division for Intuit tells how to make social media tools work for a large corporation. Intuit is viewed as a leading social media company — one that has created guideposts and [See the full post…]

El Dorado Ventures General Partner Charles Beeler continues his man-on-the-street interviews at DEMO 07. Paul Holland was impressed with a few of the companies he saw at the conference, as well as with the spinach salad at a VC dinner. [See the full post…]

Stephen Frears may not be entirely comfortable as an Oscar nominee. Lucy Gray remembers a conversation with him — back in 1985 — when he was focused on keeping his production costs down and his financial expectations about the same. [See the full post…]

MOTO is Paul Caporino‘s band from Chicago. This punk rock outfit has been around since 1981 and is still going strong. Paul turns simple, infectiously dumb lyrics into punk rock gold that is somehow reminiscent of The Ramones. This is [See the full post…]

Hear from Claire Hogikyan, senior director – Intellectual Property at Pfizer, about how Pfizer has achieved a 113-percent ROI with a break even point or payback period of just 18 months after the EMC Documentum deployment, based on a study [See the full post…]

Maryam and I head to Freiburg, Germany. Not exactly a place you’d think you’d find geeks, or bloggers, but we did! In between beers (it’s Germany) we got some fun geeks and bloggers onto camera.

During the Chicago Auto Show, I spoke with Sage Marie, Honda‘s manager of public relations, about the new Honda Accord coupe. A new look with new stylings and technologies, the vehicle incorporates Honda’s next-generation Variable Cylinder Management technology and features [See the full post…]

We sat down with Venu Venugopal, vice president of solutions marketing at CA, to discuss strategies for management of an MPLS VPN rollout. There are some great benefits, but along with those benefits come serious challenges. Venu helps you sort [See the full post…]