At SXSW, Brian Oberkirch shares with Jeremiah Owyang how to build Web apps by assembling the right “tribe.” He shares his strategies on social media, marketing, pr, and how companies have to change their communication styles to listen to them. [See the full post…]

The tech media and blogs buzzed recently over the launch of ooma, a Palo Alto start-up that’s promising free long distance calls for life. CEO Andrew Frame explains how ooma works (you need to buy a $400 box, first). And [See the full post…]

Andrew MacFarlane, CEO of Buzzwire, dropped by to discuss Buzzwire’s new service, opening Monday, that will let you watch or listen to a number of video and audio shows — all from your cell phone.

Andrew MacFarlane, CEO of Buzzwire, demonstrates the company’s new content service, which lets you build new kinds of video and audio shows for your cell phone.

Research analyst Adam Wright says a new study by Paris-based Ipsos Insight Research shows that social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Mixi and Cyworld have emerged as major factors in the culture of communication for adults around the world. Even [See the full post…]

Julio Vasconcellos, from The Experience Project caught up with Blogher co-founder Elisa Camahort on Day 1 of the 2007 Blogher Conference in Chicago. In this video, Elisa gives an overview of this year’s conference, and you’ll also see fellow co-founder [See the full post…]

At the Internet Strategy Forum last week, I met Mike Moran, who gave an interesting talk about, um, marketing. Huh? A distinguished engineer at IBM talking about marketing? What? Listen in and learn about Mike’s ideas on marketing. Also a [See the full post…]

Meet Y2E2, Stanford University‘s new green Environment and Energy building, in the making. In this podcast we interview Jeffrey R Koseff, director of Woods Institute for the Environment. He tells us that Y2E2 aims at using 50 percent less energy [See the full post…]

Yes, Human Aftertaste is the name of this band. They’re from Iowa. They sell their own brand of canned meat. Their show is disgusting. (It’s part of Dirty Week for a reason.) If you like sick acts, you might like [See the full post…]

Niles is a town in the Bay Area that is dedicated to its Silent Film History. Charlie Chaplin had a formative year there where he created his character, The Tramp. And when you think about his impoverished background growing up [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint technologist and Senior Manager Scott Kimbel in this podcast, as he dives into the state of electronic messaging and how it affects the enterprise. Most companies try to block certain electronic messaging such as IM (Instant Messaging) because [See the full post…]

After rowing across the Atlantic in 2006, Roz Savage is leaving San Francisco (her Website has updated departure dates) to conquer her next ocean: the Pacific. Roz’s rowing vessel is fully self-sustained. During this two-plus months adventure, a total of [See the full post…]

Lorie Wigle discusses Intel’s work through the newly-launched initiative to establish innovative energy efficiency and power management targets for the computing industry. Related Stories: IntelMooresLaw

Velvet Puffin is a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it keeps running after you close your browser. Here, R. Chandrasekar demonstrates it for me and you.

Dell is a case study for doing it wrong — then right — in social media. As the Digital Media Manager at Dell, Lionel Menchaca is responsible for the social media programs at one of the world’s largest and well-known [See the full post…]

R. Chandrasekar, CEO and co-founder of Velvet Puffin, shows me a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it’ll keep running after the browser gets closed. We talk about his new company here and what Velvet Puffin [See the full post…]

A few facts: in the U.S., residential and commercial space accounts for 40 percent of our primary energy consumption and 38 percent of CO2 emissions are from operating buildings. Why, then, is so little attention paid to building energy efficient [See the full post…]

During Hybridfest 2007 in Madison, Wisc., Francis Vogel, executive director of Clean Cities Wisconsin, gave a talk about Fleet Vehicles and Emissions.

TalkPlus lets you use your mobile phone to make local calls to any city — and have people in any city make a local call to you — no matter where you are.

Need more time to do what really counts? Learn how HP’s unique approach to blade management builds a ‘time-smart’ infrastructure that raises productivity and saves more every day. Learn more about HP server blades

Ustream.tv is one of a new set of networks that let you publish live streaming video on the Internet. Presidential candidate John Edwards, on Monday evening, used Ustream to talk with thousands of people after the CNN/YouTube debates. But today [See the full post…]

Last week at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit, I met with longtime CNET executive Erik Kokkonen, vice president of global publishing services. He’s seen a lot happen in online media and in this 17-minute interview, we cover quite a bit [See the full post…]

Meet a master of storytelling. Have you ever thought about what makes a good story, or how storytelling can be used to help companies evolve? Storylab has offices in Stockholm and Tokyo, doing exactly this kind of work for clients [See the full post…]

We continue our discussion on carbon credits with Tom Arnold, chief environmental officer of Terrapass.

Blowfly started his career in the 1960s as a songwriter (he’s written songs under his real name, Clarence Reid). He wrote songs for Betty Wright, Sam & Dave, Gwen McRae and KC & the Sunshine Band, among others. But he [See the full post…]