Challenge X Winner

June 13th, 2007 |
Challenge X Winner

Christopher Witt, co-team leader for Mississippi State’s Challenge X team, discusses his school’s victory this year.

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Bunnygrunt

Bunnygrunt

Ok, I have another clip from the Southside Rock ‘n’ Roll Rave. This time, it’s a band called Bunnygrunt. They have a great power pop sound that’s pretty catchy. I also include here a clip of their performance with Bob [See the full post…]

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Are blade servers for you? (Part 2 of 4) – The Benefits of Blades

Are blade servers for you? (Part 2 of 4) – The Benefits of Blades

Learn how blade servers can help solve the challenges of power and cooling and space contraints.

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Meet an energetic energy investor

June 13th, 2007 |
Meet an energetic energy investor

Erik Straser leads the cleantech investment of Mohr Davidow Ventures. It’s his job to seek out promising start-ups in solar energy, biofuels, energy storage, industrial biotech and clean coal.

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Chris Baum on Information Architecture in the Modern Web Team

June 13th, 2007 |
Chris Baum on Information Architecture in the Modern Web Team

Not sure what Information Architecture is? Learn how to use this important role and skill within a modern Web strategy, from business messaging, search and social media. Chris is the editor of popular IA webzine, Boxes and Arrows, and is [See the full post…]

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Inside the Wild Mind of the Entrepreneur

Inside the Wild Mind of the Entrepreneur

To be an entrepreneur takes a special kind of person — often, the kind who is driven by a particular vision, even if the path to fulfilling that vision lacks definition. Max Samuels, career coach and TV-personality, speaks with PodTech’s [See the full post…]

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Challenge X: Year 3 Awards

June 12th, 2007 |
Challenge X: Year 3 Awards

In Challenge X, the U.S. Department of Energy has partnered with GM for a three-year competition, giving engineering schools an opportunity to participate in hands-on research and development with leading-edge automotive propulsion, fuels, materials, and emissions-control technologies. Seventeen teams were [See the full post…]

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Editor’s Choice: highlights of Mixercast’s interview and demo

June 12th, 2007 |
Editor’s Choice: highlights of Mixercast’s interview and demo

Here Rocky Barbanica, my amazing editor, picks the highlights of the interview and demo I did with Mixercast‘s CEO, Jennifer Cooper.

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Mashing up personal media with Mixercast

June 12th, 2007 |
Mashing up personal media with Mixercast

MixerCast’s CEO, Jennifer Cooper, demonstrates how to use Mixercast to build new “media stories” that include photography, music, photos, and other media. Here we mix up an interview and get a demo of Mixercast too.

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Meeting the geek behind Apatar

June 11th, 2007 |
Meeting the geek behind Apatar

Here you meet Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, and we have a chat about the changes that are coming to enterprise systems thanks to Web 2.0.

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Moving data around with Apatar

June 11th, 2007 |
Moving data around with Apatar

Apatar is a way to move data between third party applications and existing enterprise systems. Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, demonstrates his system here.

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A one-way ticket from Germany to Silicon Valley

June 11th, 2007 |
A one-way ticket from Germany to Silicon Valley

Steli Efti came up to me at a blogger dinner and said “this is my first day in America, I bought a one-way ticket here to follow my dream.” That alone intrigued me and so we had a conversation on [See the full post…]

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Faith Wheeler and Sara Barker

Faith Wheeler and Sara Barker

Faith Wheeler and Sara Barker are two highly original and successful food and wine branders. In an effort to make something of their own, they have written their first screenplay, which they submitted to a contest at the San Francisco [See the full post…]

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ConnectCast E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Small Business Index Up, AtTask Raises $7M

June 11th, 2007 |
ConnectCast E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Small Business Index Up, AtTask Raises $7M

Regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award winners were announced for this year, including our friend Thomas D. Dickson for K-TEC/Blendtec, you might remember him from the www.willitblend.com campaign, Amy Rees Lewis for her work with MediConnect Global, [See the full post…]

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Phil Myers: The Secrets of Market-Driven Leaders

June 11th, 2007 |
Phil Myers: The Secrets of Market-Driven Leaders

Phil Myers is the President of Pragmatic Marketing, the industry standard for technology product management and marketing. Pragmatic Marketing teaches a practical, market-driven approach to creating and delivering technology products. 90 percent of 40,000+ alumni indicate the training essential or [See the full post…]

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Blogger Interview with GM’s Nick Zielinski & Dr. Gary Smyth

June 11th, 2007 |
Blogger Interview with GM’s Nick Zielinski & Dr. Gary Smyth

GM’s Nick Zielinski, Chief Engineer of the Volt and Gary Smyth, GM’s Director of Powertrain Systems, sat down to dinner with a group of bloggers including Sam Abuelsamid of AutoblogGreen, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, Lyle Dennis of GM-Volt.com, [See the full post…]

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Apple WWDC 2007 – Steve Jobs Keynote – Part 2 of 2

June 11th, 2007 |
Apple WWDC 2007 – Steve Jobs Keynote – Part 2 of 2

In the second part of the Apple WWDC 2007 Steve Jobs keynote, we get more demos of Leopard (OS X 10.5), including Core Animation, BootCamp, Time Machine and iChat, as well as showing Safari for Windows, and apps for the [See the full post…]

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Apple WWDC 2007 – Steve Jobs Keynote – Part 1: Games come to the Mac

June 11th, 2007 |
Apple WWDC 2007 – Steve Jobs Keynote – Part 1: Games come to the Mac

In part 1 of the Apple WWDC 2007 Steve Jobs Keynote, Electronic Arts and ID Software showed new games and a commitment to the Macintosh OS X platform. Note: Due to technical issues, this podcast is not up to PodTech [See the full post…]

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How to Engage Your Prospects

June 11th, 2007 |
How to Engage Your Prospects

This podcast features a wide-ranging discussion on the topic of engagement as it applies to the sales process. Our guests are Jeff Weinberger, Senior Product Marketing Manager for WebEx, and Gerhard Gschwandtner, founder and publisher of Selling Power Magazine.

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Tips on Going Global for SMBs

June 11th, 2007 |
Tips on Going Global for SMBs

As business becomes increasingly global, entrepreneurs must organize, plan, operate and execute in new ways to stay competitive. For small business owners who are interested in conducting business globally, there are vital principles that apply in order to be successful [See the full post…]

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Truemor Co-Founder Guy Kawasaki Addresses Criticisms About The New Startup

June 11th, 2007 |
Truemor Co-Founder Guy Kawasaki Addresses Criticisms About The New Startup

Criticisms are being made by bloggers on Guy Kawasaki’s newest venture, Truemors. Kawasaki candidly addresses these challenges in this latest post on Marketing Voices. Kawasaki launched Truemors on approximately a $12,000 budget. Jones also prods Kawasaki to talk about how [See the full post…]

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Entrepreneurs vs. VCs in epic dodgeball showdown

Entrepreneurs vs. VCs in epic dodgeball showdown

The valley venture capitalists thought they brought their A-game in this historic 1st Annual Labor vs. Capital Dodgeball Tournament. But the tournament ended up being hard-fought, as the laborers from Google, Ustream, jaxtr, BitTorrent and elsewhere showed up ready to [See the full post…]

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Apple WWDC 2007 – Steve Jobs Keynote Podcast Preview – Show us Leopard, the iPhone and one more thing!

June 9th, 2007 |
Apple WWDC 2007 – Steve Jobs Keynote Podcast Preview – Show us Leopard, the iPhone and one more thing!

The Apple WWDC 2007 keynote with Steve Jobs is this Monday, June 11 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to come to PodTech where, as like last year, you can start listening to the Apple WWDC Steve Jobs [See the full post…]

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Talking restaurant-communication tech with Applebees’ geeks

June 9th, 2007 |
Talking restaurant-communication tech with Applebees’ geeks

We meet Bambi George, communications technology manager, and Justin Goldsborough, communications specialist at Applebees International. I met up with them at BEA’s Connect event in Atlanta and have a nice chat with them about how the intranet they are building [See the full post…]

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BEA mashes up

June 9th, 2007 |
BEA mashes up

Adrian McDermott, vice president of Engineering at BEA Systems, demonstrates two new Web 2.0 focused products. Ensemble and Pathways. Both are interesting examples of how Web 2.0 based concepts like mashups and tagging are making its way into the enterprise.

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