Ben McConnell, co-author of the book Citizen Marketers: When People Are The Message, speaks with Jennifer Jones the “opinion leaders” in today’s social media revolution. McConnell has broken down citizen marketers into four main groups: Filters, Fanatics, Faciliators, and Firecrackers. [See the full post…]

It’s no secret in the valley that venture capitalist Roger McNamee is a rocker at heart. By day, he does deals from his Elevation Partners office on Sand Hill Road. But in his spare time, he writes songs and plays [See the full post…]

John Robinson, the chief of Media Services Center, manages the United States Army’s official Website. This is the fourth largest government site in the U.S., and the largest military site in the world. John shares with me the intention, features, [See the full post…]

The US imports 10 million barrels of oil per day. This is more than it is producing itself, and over half of its oil consumption. If the US keeps consuming oil as it is now, imports will make up an [See the full post…]

Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems president and CEO, discusses how emerging markets are beginning to realize the unlimited potential of the Internet. Also on TechOne: Jay Smooth comments on who’s smarter, Miss Teen South Carolina or George Bush?

A short talk on computer science enrollment trends with Mehran Sahami, associate chairman of undergraduate education at Stanford University.

Here is the last performance I’m bringing you from the Lot Fest in STL but there will be more video from the other performances at the Metropolis St. Louis Web site in the coming weeks. This episode we also look [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Benedicte Lambert, as she describes the current state of data privacy regulations throughout the world and offers advice for IT managers with data centers in different continents. This is a Bearing Point podcast.

Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems president and CEO, discusses how emerging markets are beginning to realize the unlimited potential of the internet. Also on TechOne: Michael Cote reports from the iPhoneDevCamp.

Pat Cadam is owner of Pat’s Garage, an independent auto repair shop located in San Francisco’s SOMA district. He and his mechanics work primarily on hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight. He’s also one of the few “green” [See the full post…]

Mehran Sahami is the associate chairman of undergraduate education. What does that mean? He runs probably the most important computer science undergraduate department in the world. This is the department that gave birth to Google, after all (and a bunch [See the full post…]

If you believe that the traditional stock photography industry has lost touch with the personal photographer, learn about some of the alternatives to larger stock libraries that may be overused. Bryan Zmijewski of Lucky Oliver shares with me.

Mike Montemerlo is the artificial intelligence guy on Stanford University’s DARPA challenge team. Basically, they are building a robotic car that’ll be able to negotiate a course without humans being involved. He also thinks about the act of driving in [See the full post…]

Jumbling Towers have one of the most identifiable sounds of any band to come out of St. Louis in a while. If you like them, check out some more of their stuff on their MySpace page. This performance was taped [See the full post…]

This podcast provides a preview of the Symantec white paper titled, The Veritas NetBackup Platform: Delivering Next-Generation Protection and an Introduction to Veritas NetBackup 6.5. To download the white paper in its entirety, visit www.symantec.com/netbackup.

If one man could be credited with bringing the first plug-in hybrid electric school bus to California, it would be Ralph Knight. As transportation director for the Napa Valley Unified School District, Ralph’s tireless four-year effort paid off with the [See the full post…]

Eddie Muller, the Czar of Noir, talks about all his books beginning with Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of ‘Adults Only’ Cinema and Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir all the way up to the movie he just finished [See the full post…]

If you’ve been following Lo-Fi Saint Louis you’ll know that we’ve covered these guys before. This time I caught the 7 Shot Screamers at The Lot Festival, an annual music event hosted by Metropolis St. Louis. It’s always a good [See the full post…]

There are more than 500,000 yellow school buses in the U.S. Those buses, on average, get between 7 and 8 miles per gallon. Imagine if those buses were hybrid buses, capable of a 40-percent increase in fuel efficiency and a [See the full post…]

Get the most out of your new BladeSystem solution with a portfolio of services designed to build, deliver and support a ‘best-run’ infrastructure. Learn more about HP server blades.

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Here, you can see how Visible Technologies makes it possible for big enterprises to follow and participate in online conversations about them. Blake Cahill, VP of Marketing, and Miles Ward, practice lead, community intelligence, of Visible Technologies, gives us a [See the full post…]

Joseph Smarr, Plaxo‘s architect, and John McCrea, VP of marketing, introduce Robert Scoble to Plaxo’s new offices, talk about a new feature, to be released on Wednesday, which is an “online identity aggregator,” and explain how it works and why [See the full post…]

ZenZui has a new “zoomable” UI for mobile phones that’s quite unique and fun to use. Come along as John SanGiovanni, co-founder and VP of products and services at ZenZui, tells me about his company’s plans and shows me how [See the full post…]

While in San Francisco for the launch of the Vectrix, the all-electric motorcycle, I spoke with Tansy Brook of British Motor Cars. BMC will be the exclusive distributor of the ZEV throughout California. From the company’s flagship store in San [See the full post…]