I was one of the few outsiders to visit eBay and witness an internal “Demo Expo.” The Demo Expo was a way for employees to come up with a new technology or feature and show it off to eBay’s employees [See the full post…]

I was one of the few outsiders to visit eBay and witness an internal “Demo Expo.” The Demo Expo was a way for employees to come up with a new technology or feature and show it off to eBay’s employees [See the full post…]

I was one of the few outsiders to visit eBay and witness an internal “Demo Expo.” Here, Max Mancini, senior director of eBay’s Platform Innovation Team, gives me the details behind the Demo Expo. The Expo was a way for [See the full post…]

I was one of the few outsiders to visit eBay and witness an internal “Demo Expo.” The Demo Expo was a way for employees to come up with a new technology or feature and show it off to eBay’s employees [See the full post…]

Enterprises are turning to IT to automate and simplify business processes, but as a result, IT systems are becoming more complex and difficult to manage. One of the major points of business impact within IT — enterprise Web applications — [See the full post…]

During the New York International Auto Show, I spoke with Beth Lowery, GM‘s vice president of environment & energy. A woman in what is typically a man’s world, Lowery is one of the best at not giving away anything she [See the full post…]

Well-known blogger, marketer and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, gives tips on how to write a great blog and discusses how he became ranked as blogger number 24 on Technorati. Speaking from his home in California, he meets with Marketing Voices’s [See the full post…]

Forget alternative energies: in the short term the only feasible solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum dependencies is energy efficiency. There is much to be gained, especially in the U.S., where energy consumption per person has risen above [See the full post…]

The San Francisco International Film Society has a new director, Graham Leggat. He (and about 50 other people, he tells me) put on a spectacular opening night for the 50th Anniversary. It’s the oldest film festival in America and it’s [See the full post…]

It’s exciting to see young engineers excited about designing new green energy technologies. Meet one of them: Adam Kreek. Adam designed and built a (small scale!) biodiesel plant in the basement of my university building, which takes waste oils and [See the full post…]

Silicon Valley is buzzing, but not just because of software and hardware investments. The new boom is in green energy technologies. James Horn is an investment manager for Noventi, one of the many Venture Capitalist firms excited about the energy [See the full post…]

On your next visit to the dentist, you might notice a computer monitor to the side of that ergonomic chair. That’s because software designed to manage a dental practice from companies like Dentrix is being used not only to automate [See the full post…]

The President of the Web Marketing Association, Bill Rice believes that using social media on Website should be a “no brainer.” But in many industries like financial services, social media is tough to sell. In an interview at the AdTech [See the full post…]

LoFi Saint Louis is an online video show hosted and produced by respected vlogger, Bill Streeter, winner of Favorite Non-Fiction Entertainment Vloggie 2006. Bill’s weekly programming brings band interviews, festivals, indie culture, and obscure rock n’ roll to a digital [See the full post…]

Over the past few years, advancements in safety and design, technology, fuel efficiency, alternative fuels (and the vehicles that rely on them) have transformed the automotive industry. Matt Kelly, host of the Next Gear on PodTech.net, invites you to join [See the full post…]

GM‘s Creative Designer, Chris Webb, is a colorful character. His job is to find the hottest trends in color and to translate that to vehicles. His work is evident in the Chevy Beat, Groove and Trax, the three concept Global [See the full post…]

Here we continue our Photowalk around Half Moon Bay with a 600mm monster lens where we take photos of people looking at tide pools, stunt bikers jumping over rocks, and more surfers. All while meeting some of the 25 people [See the full post…]

You may like them or you may not, but nuclear power plants will no doubt be proposed as alternatives to coal-fired power plants. Yes, the nuclear waste problem is significant, but nuclear plants emit negligble amounts of green house gases, [See the full post…]

Beyond the help desk, there are a number of technologies that have been around for years, but today there are more and more intuitive tools that allow for better automation. Now the IT organization can turn the dial, depending on [See the full post…]

EquaTerra needed a better way to manage its geographically-dispersed IT assets. With WebEx System Management, EquaTerra’s one-person IT department gained full control over global asset management without hiring additional employees or relying on user intervention. WebEx System Management enabled the [See the full post…]

Fred Kanter is part genius, part visionary and part eccentric. He’s the kind of guy who makes you believe he could move mountains by his belief in the power of his ideas and the sheer strength of will to bring [See the full post…]

Pinebox Serenade hails from Denton, Texas. This performance at Off Broadway was their first appearance in St. Louis. They play a dark, deep country-blues-rock style that can haunt you for days.

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, and Mike Chambers, senior product manager, developer relations, walk to the whiteboard and give us a look at Adobe Flash’s architecture and give further details about what is [See the full post…]

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, sit down with me for a little announcement: Adobe is taking Flex open source. Here Ely and David explain what moving Flex to Open Source means for developers.

Yet another concept from Kia, the Soul, a crossover sport utility vehicle. During the New York International Auto Show, Alex Fedorak once again provides the introduction to this design produced by Kia’s California and Korean design studios.