Craig “Tech Daddy” Tate, a well known PC modder, talks with NVIDIA to discuss his experiences with modding computers. In the first in a two-part podcast series, Craig introduces modding basics, reveals techniques for new modders, and provides recommendations for [See the full post…]

At the Forrester Consumer Forum Conference 2006 in Chicago, Forrester Researcher Michaela Ion spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson. Ion studies patterns in the adoption and use of technology in Asian/Pacific consumers. Click here for transcript.

The markets are back up, with several big corporate buyouts bolstering confidence on the day before Election Day. Google made the papers today, as it prepared to roll out auctioned-off ad space in some of the most prestigious newspapers in [See the full post…]

Finding stuff you want to listen to in podcasts and audio files can be frustratingly hard. Why should you listen to an ESPN report when all you want to hear is how Tiger Woods did over the weekend? Well, Pluggd [See the full post…]

Sit down with Pluggd‘s CEO, Alex Castro, and hear his plans for making Internet audiocasts easier to find and consume. Click here for transcript.

We’re really happy to post the official list of The Vloggies winners announced on Saturday night. Many congratulations to Alive in Baghdad, which won six awards including Favorite Vlog, Favorite Group Blog, Favorite Political Vlog, and Favorite Interview Vlog. Alive [See the full post…]

“Every brand is a distribution channel,” says Kevin Townsend. It’s been a long time since digital media meant special effects. Townsend was at Industrial Light and Magic when it produced Jurassic Park. Now, his company, Science + Fiction, is helping [See the full post…]

The continued proliferation of mobile devices is driving a need to allow access to corporate data from an increasing number of endpoints. At the same time, evolving compliance and regulation issues are driving a reconsolidation of the enterprise data center [See the full post…]

Video montage of the Vloggies party in San Francisco. Includes intro by PodTech CEO, John Furrier and interviews with Jerry Zucker – Director/Producer, Airplane!, Naked Gun, Ghost; Kevin Rose – founder, Digg.com, Revision3; Tom Foremski – founder, Silicon Valley Watcher; [See the full post…]

Bradley Silver, CEO of BrandIntel, the leader in analyzing consumer published content to advance decision making for brands, talks with Jennifer Jones about the ways corporations can determine the content of social media conversations. Looking back at what was said [See the full post…]

The Vloggies first annual videoblog awards night made its debut in San Franscisco. The net paparazzi were out in force. PodTech, along with other videobloggers, has extensive coverage of the night. We will release that content shortly, but here is [See the full post…]

Now in the final stretch leading up to Tuesday and Election Day, has our voting process improved much, six years after the Florida recounts? We take a closer look at electronic voting machines. Also, MIT’s new research initiative on the [See the full post…]

Forrester Analyst Josh Bernoff speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at the Forrester Consumer Forum Conference 2006 in Chicago. He discusses the future of online video and the caveats for broadcast networks that now want to have a share of the [See the full post…]

Forrester Principal Analyst Ted Schadler specializes in research on consumer technology. He talks about the changing trends in consumer behavior given the growth in mobile and digital channel content delivery, at the Forrester Consumer Forum Conference 2006 in Chicago. Click [See the full post…]

The emergence of the digital lifestyle will be discussed at UC Berkeley’s 2nd annual Digital Media Conference. PodTech’s John Furrier spoke with UC Berkeley students Nate Anthony and April Underwood about the November 18th event. Click here for transcript.

Dan Primack of PE Week is launching a new blog called PEHub. This is a great move. I’ve been talking to Dan about blogging for some time and so has Jeff Clavier. Dan has a ton of talent and I’m [See the full post…]

Here’s the third and last segment of our walk with Thomas Hawk around a Half Moon Bay pumpkin patch. It starts out with us almost getting kicked out of the store for filming. Lots of fun. Later you meet David [See the full post…]

Marco Boerries, Yahoo!’s senior vice president of connected life, chats with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about Yahoo! Go and the company’s vision of the UMPC category.

Forrester analyst Paul Jackson comments on some of the latest devices and trends in social computing. He spoke at the Forrester Consumer Forum Conference 2006 in Chicago. Click here for transcript.

To many TV watchers and users of Internet-based media services, Hollywood is expected to call the shots on how video is delivered. After all, Napster, Grokster and others didn’t get very far with peer-to-peer networks. But analysts like Forrester’s Maribel [See the full post…]

Electronics manufacturers expect a banner holiday season this year selling video and audio gear to consumers. Unfortunately, users do not have the freedom they want or expect whent it comes to consuming their content however they want. In this podcast, [See the full post…]

On this podcast, a discussion with Forrester Research Vice President Charlene Li. Her studies focus on consumer search, social computing, consumer search and more. This is a follow-up to an earlier panel on business and its approach to social computing [See the full post…]

The market presented by the mobile platform, with its existing network of devices already in place, keeps developers in the gaming industry up late trying to take advantage of this potential. According to Forrester Senior Analyst Paul Jackson, to date [See the full post…]

Marketers need to understand that the mobile channel is unique, with unique opportunities. Consumers need to change their behavior around their mobile devices to open up some of these possibilities. What does this mean for the future of mobile? Charles [See the full post…]

Nicholas Negroponte is taking a leave of absence from his position as director of the MIT Media Laboratory to chair the non-profit One Laptop Per Child. The organization seeks to re-think the portable computer, and to put thousands of machines [See the full post…]