Water. We use a lot of it in California, and especially in Central Valley, one of the largest agricultural areas in the world. This area is inhabited by many wonderful folks, including Bill and George Longfellow, the dairy farmers we [See the full post…]

Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson have made a new movie called There Will Be Blood, based on the Upton Sinclair novel, “Oil.” After seeing a special edition of Moby Dick, made by Arion Press, they called the San Francisco [See the full post…]

We have quick profiles of two companies that launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last week. Metaplace lets users build their own virtual worlds and put them on their Websites. Founder Raph Koster takes us through a demo. And Musicshake is [See the full post…]

Press reports over the past sevearl years have caused some to question whether it’s safe for teenagers to use MySpace, the world’s leading social networking site. But about a year-and-a-half ago, the company hired a safety czar. Hemanshu Nigam, who [See the full post…]

Do you want to read more feeds but don’t have time? Well, FeedHub is one answer to your problems. Here, Sean Ammirati, VP of business development at Mspoke, makers of FeedHub, talks to me about how their system works and [See the full post…]

Feedhub is a new system that digs through your own feeds looking for news that you might be interested in. That way you don’t have to read all your feeds to get the important stuff out. Here, Sean Ammirati, VP [See the full post…]

Ken Salchow, F5 Network’s manager of Core Technical Marketing, explores the IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS. Salchow explains that IMS is set to become the framework that Internet Service Providers will use to deliver new, highly customizable services, by seperating [See the full post…]

When a major North American financial institution sought assistance in transforming its email environment, Procedo was chosen to lead the design and implementation of a solution based on Symantec Enterprise Vault, including the following agents and options: Discovery Accelerator, Compliance [See the full post…]

Facebook is the future. This is according to many analysts and Web experts. Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst with Forrester Research, believes in the power of Facebook. Jeremiah tells Marketing Voices’ Jennifer Jones how the site works, and how communities are [See the full post…]

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…]

Greg Malacane, Sr. Business Analyst @ Alchemy Solutions Group, provides an overview of a recent Business Value Analysis of Shinhan Bank in Korea, and where Shinhan found Business Value in standardizing its data center. http://go.symantec.com/shinhan

Water. We use a lot of it in California, and especially in Central Valley, one of the largest agricultural areas in the world. This area is inhabited by many wonderful folks, including Bill and George Longfellow, the dairy farmers we [See the full post…]

Users are looking for a richer, more cinematic experience from the Internet, according to Justin Rattner, Intel chief technology officer and director, Corporate Technology Group. Rattner gave the final keynote of the Fall IDF in San Francisco, focusing on virtual [See the full post…]

Amanda and Abby are from California. They started their band four years ago. Abby plays guitar and Amanda plays mandolin. They sing in harmony and are joined by their band of boys who play violin, upright bass, lap steel and [See the full post…]

Jeremiah Owyang interviews Web designer Josh Hallett at Miami’s WeMedia conference at the University of Miami, in February, 2007. Josh shares his observations on the clash between traditional media and social media. As a designer, Josh has shared his experience [See the full post…]

Teaching in kindergarten through 12th grades continues to incorporate more technology. One Utah-based company, Timpanogos Technologies, has extended the life of existing district-wide systems while providing teachers and students with software that can create personalized study for individual students. Not [See the full post…]

Next week is the famous “Demo” conference. Shel Israel has been going to Demo ever since it started back in the 1980s and helping startups prepare. His companies have won “Demo God” awards seven times. Here he gives startups some [See the full post…]

Callwave makes your cell phone more useful. Here, Josh Fraser, VP of Business Development, showes us Callwave. Some things it does that caught our attention? Forwards calls to any phone. Lets you listen to voice mail while it’s being left. [See the full post…]

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…]

It wasn’t that long ago that newspaper headlines began calling our attention to claims that large computer server systems like those used by companies like Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo, and EBay (to name but a few) were consuming more than 10 [See the full post…]

In what Intel called the “first ever software keynote address,” Intel Vice President and General Manager of the Software and Solutions Group Renee James kicked off Day 3 of the Fall IDF in San Francisco. James, who manages the global [See the full post…]

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 will [See the full post…]

Greg Warnock has a soft spot for entrepreneurs. Whether it’s through mentoring, work deals at vSpring Capital, or angel investing, Warnock has seen a lot of companies. He’s also learned that it takes more than good technology and a strong [See the full post…]

At the recent Office 2.0 conference, we met David Lee, chairman of Editgrid, in the hall at the conference and he gave us a short demo of what’s great about Editgrid for iPhones.

During the Frankfurt Auto Show, GM Europe‘s (or GME) presentation introduced the new Opel Flextreme, the new Opel Agila, the new Cadillac BLS wagon and more, which highlighted GM’s global strategy for reducing CO2 in the short term and new [See the full post…]