So Hitwise is reporting that del.icio.us traffic has doubled since the end of last year, which is quite impressive given the (apparently) low promotional support it has received from Yahoo since being acquired. The Hitwise report also highlights the valuable [See the full post…]

Critics, enthusiasts, and followers of social media have often pointed out social media’s lower barriers to entry compared to traditional media—it is precisely these lower barriers to entry that have made social media tools a compelling vehicle for educational technology. [See the full post…]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was featured in a keynote conversation with Search Engine Strategies Chair Danny Sullivan at the Search Engine Strategies convention in San Jose on Wednesday. In Part One of the keynote, Schmidt talks about the history of [See the full post…]

SAN JOSE, August 9, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked with the press about search, network neutrality, the recent AOL search term privacy debacle, and more at the Search Engine Strategies conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention [See the full post…]

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer and his daughter Carly take a trip to AT&T Park to talk to the San Francisco Giants about how they manage their kids’ media use. Jason Schmidt, Steve Finley and Ray Durham talk about [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 8, 2006 (Podtech News) — Sprint Nextel today announced plans to develop and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband mobile network using WiMAX. Sprint said it will work with Intel on mobile WiMAX-enabled chipsets and with Motorola and [See the full post…]

The explosion of digital content in the home, the hand, the office and the car has resulted in impressive growth for Seagate. The company reported an increase of over 20% in annual revenue… totaling $9.2 billion for its fiscal year [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 7, 2006 (PodTech News) – Apple Computer’s CEO Steve Jobs ended his keynote speech at last year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with the statement, “The soul of a Mac is its operating system, and we’re not [See the full post…]

Steve Jobs continues the countdown of ten Leopard features in part three of his keynote address from the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Enhancements to iChat elicited the biggest buzz from the crowd of 4,000 [See the full post…]

At the Apple 2006 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple CEO Steve Jobs went over the new features of “[tagLeopard”, the next evolution of the OS X operating system for the Macintosh. 1. Full native support for 64-bit apps – [See the full post…]

San Francisco, August 7, 2006 (PodTech News) Apple Computer Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs kicked off the World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) at Moscone West in San Francisco before a packed convention hall expecting major announcements regarding the company’s line [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — Rumors swirled around the web about just what Steve Jobs would, and wouldn’t, be announcing during this morning’s keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco’s Moscone West. [See the full post…]

Steve Rubel, Edelman Public Relations (www.edelman.com) Senior Vice President and blogger: Micro Persuasion www.micropersuasion.com discusses the impact of social media on the practice of public relations. Rubel states that some of the practices of public relations are becoming obsolete and [See the full post…]

On Monday, August 7, PodTech.net will be reporting from the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Podcasting and photostreams will start at 10:00am PT. Coverage will include the keynote by Steve Jobs. Subscribe now on iTunes Word on [See the full post…]

“What would you want to give to your audience?” asked Charlene Li of companies who are using blogging as a marketing tool. The Forrester Research analyst spoke on a panel about corporate blogging at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit on the [See the full post…]

SUNNYVALE, August 4, 2006 (PodTech News) – Yahoo, Inc. jumped on the corporate blogging bandwagon Wednesday with the launch of an official mouthpiece called Yodel Anecdotal. The title of the blog’s first post, “Yet Another Self-Serving Corporate Blog!” pokes fun [See the full post…]

   Watch Video | Download Video Mike Fridgen of briefly introduces the airline fare prediction site to the audience at Gnomedex, and provides interesting statistics and anecdotes on how Farecast benefited from the blogging and social media community. Fridgen discusses [See the full post…]

Emerging mobile technologies, competition, and the future of mobile computing and communications are the topics for discussion among these venture capitalists and Palm CEO, Ed Colligan. More from PodSummit

Is your computer riddled with spyware, adware and other malware? ShortCuts security expert Rocky Oliver shares his tips for beating the spyware menace. Rocky recommends two freeware programs: Ad-Aware Spybot Search and Destroy

MENLO PARK, August 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — IBM Corporation, or “Big Blue”, is the world’s largest information services company. It’s also one of the oldest. Since the 1920s, International Business Machines has grown a reputation as a reliable, solid, [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 02, 2006 (PodTech News) – Time Warner Inc. announced today that its AOL division’s email and other webservices will be made available for free to broadband users. The move is a bid to attract more viewers and [See the full post…]

With over 3,200 technology and 500 life science companies in the state, and 8% year-over-year growth, Utah leads the western states region in creating and sustaining these companies. Richard Nelson, president and CEO of the Utah Technology council (formerly UITA) [See the full post…]

Enabling organizations from broad retail to the extermination industry, Helius provides an open IP video broadcasting application platform for simple, secure, and reliable delivery of content ranging from globally delivered training materials for Orkin to digital sign-age in the form [See the full post…]

Visitors share their first impressions at the opening reception for “IDEO Prototypes the Future,” at the Palo Alto Art Center June 21st. The exhibition is up through September 10th.

“You can’t live in this community without having this grand curiosity about IDEO,” said Palo Alto Art Center Curator Signe Mayfield. She talked with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about putting together the exhibition “IDEO Prototypes the Future”.