James Au worked at the embedded reporter in Second Life, the virtual world where users build everything you interact with. I sit down with James for a beer on a Saturday afternoon recently and here’s our conversation. This is the [See the full post…]

Meet Professor Pam Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and renowned scientist. Pam is super-excited about the opportunities that ever-increasing levels of private and industrial funding for energy and environmental research offer. How can universities [See the full post…]

At the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one can’t help but notice some very practical ideas that could land some enterprising 17 year-old a nice business deal. High school senior Ruby Kandah says she’s [See the full post…]

Plants are not as efficient as you might think in capturing solar energy. Current photovoltaic panels can capture more energy per square meter — quite a bit more in fact — than biomass crops that are being suggested as feedstock [See the full post…]

California’s Title 24 presents implications for those engaged in new and retrofit home construction. While there are many different ways to look at power conservation and consumption, Paul Nagel, Control4‘s VP of engineering, talks about how home automation systems create [See the full post…]

Another ride in GM‘s Chevy Camaro Convertible concept with Brian Smith, at Willow Springs International Raceway, outside of Rosamond, Calif.

Hitachi GST‘s Travelstar Upgrade Kit is a complete, do-it-yourself upgrade solution for notebook PCs. The kit includes a 2.5-inch internal hard drive for upgrade and an external storage back-up solution to convert your existing hard drive, too. John Osterhout, Hitachi [See the full post…]

Do remember what you were doing at 17? For high school seniors JinJu Yi and Vijay Jain they’ll look back at the integrated smart chip they developed for the early diagnosis of cancer. In this podcast they spoke with PodTech’s [See the full post…]

Can science do anything? Patrick Dalton used it to settle a difference with his mother. Then he created a hypothesis and a methodology. He lost. But the point is, he asked questions and tested his assumptions. Dalton was one of [See the full post…]

The high school kids who participate in Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair 2007 are certainly focused on their entry projects. Many will use their research in college, which could become the basis of future careers. For Atlanta, Georgia high [See the full post…]

One can’t have a science fair these days without Google — at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Pictured is the brainchild of South Korean high school student Ukseong Moon, 16, who has come [See the full post…]

Humans understanding (or misunderstanding) other humans couldn’t be a bigger topic as the world gets smaller and the global population grows. One high school student looked at the abilities of elementary school children, from a mostly white community, to understand [See the full post…]

From the floor of the Albuquerque Convention Center, Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair provided a day full of compelling ideas. Listen to this podcast of three Malaysian high school students who have begun to study the possibility of using [See the full post…]

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt have something in common: Both are conservative politicians with a rather liberal (and green) agenda. This week, they met in Sacramento, Calif., to talk about green policymaking and how to [See the full post…]

In this podcast from RSA 2007 in San Francisco, Martin McKeay of the Network Security Podcast wraps up the security show with F5 Technical Marketing Managers Alan Murphy and Lori MacVittie. This is an F5 podcast.

Brad Hintze, product marketing manager at Bungee Labs, shows Brad Baldwin the benefits of Bungee Connect, a rich Ajax and browser-based development environment. Hintze quickly mashes up the Rhapsody service showing how easy it is to create and deploy Web [See the full post…]

After years of working with developers at Microsoft, Alex Barnett thought the pitch from Bungee Labs was too good to be true. A Web-based development environment with the richness and power of a fat, local IDE but with a easier [See the full post…]

During the GM Concept Ride & Drive event at California’s Willow Springs International Raceway just outside Rosamond, we caught up with Product Integration Manager for GM Performance Parts, Dr. Jamie Meyer, who introduced us to the 1969 Reggie Jackson Camaro. [See the full post…]

Jim McNiel, CEO, and Steve Repetti, CTO of Fifth Generation Systems, dropped by my table at the Web 2.0 Expo to show off a very cool Web site tool called Zude. It was the coolest thing I saw at the [See the full post…]

Vijay Pullur and I talk about Dekoh, the service/company he co-founded which enables users to share their files with other people easily from their desktops.

At the Web 2.0 Expo I met Gretchen O’Hara who helps run Microsoft’s partner program. We catch up with how the partner program is working and where it’s going.

Vlad Voskresensky, CEO of InvisibleCRM, drops by to talk about how his company’s service helps enterprises at the recent Web 2.0 Expo.

Caroline Vanderlip, CEO of SharedBook Inc., sits down with me for a chat at the recent Web 2.0 Expo where she shows me their product: cool photo books.

In the F5 booth at RSA 2007, Martin McKeay of the Network Security Podcast, taps some of the top security bloggers to get their take on the current security scene. Guests include: Teneable’s Ron Gula, Cutaway, and Mike Rothman. This [See the full post…]

During the Detroit Auto Show, I had my first glimpse of the EFIJY, GM‘s tribute to Australia’s 1953 Holden FJ. So, I didn’t have to be asked twice if I wanted to ride along in this stunning vehicle at the [See the full post…]