On today’s episode of Every Company is a Media Company, Tom Foremski gives us his take on Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before congress last week.

How does a brand navigate this era of fake news and advertiser surveillance? It’s all about trust. In this podcast we talk about the importance of a long term commitment to creating media that really serves an audience or community [See the full post…]

Facebook has claimed to not be a media company in the past but this past year it seems its position has softened. That’s especially true as it’s discovered it needs media solutions, not engineering ones, to media problems such as [See the full post…]

In this episode of the Silicon Valley Watcher podcast I talk with veteran serial entrepreneur Marc Canter about how things have changed over the past thirty years, his new startup and the future of AI chatbots. Marc is one of [See the full post…]

Bloghaus is the place to be for CES 2008 in Las Vegas, Nev. The blogger community was in full force at the opening night of the Seagate-sponsored spot for some of the best bandwidth at CES 2008. Some of the [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski, editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, led a panel discussion on Day 1 of the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The panel dealt directly with the friction that often arises between the burgeoning social media forces in [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski speaks with Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen from Sun and Ronit Belson from OpTier, an ISV partner of Sun’s, about virtualization. The conversation covers five points about virtualization: Understanding your business application; How do your virtualization technologies fit your [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski speaks with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the second-largest open source company, about Silicon Valley and the challenge of managing teams of programmers spread across the world.

Tom Foremski talks with David Thompson, CEO of Genius, an on demand software company with a unique technology that enables sales people to track leads. Genius also announces its first conference, Sales 2.0, in San Francisco at the end of [See the full post…]

Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president at Microsoft, heads up its strategic and emerging business initiatives. This means that he and his team work with startups in Silicon Valley and beyond, and with large companies partnering with Microsoft. Mr. Lewin is [See the full post…]

Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski speaks with Diedier Diaz, SVP for Product Strategy Management at Access Systems Americas. “Access is one of the largest companies you’ve never heard about,” says Mr. Diaz. Its specialty is in creating applications for cell phones. It also [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski speaks with Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource about the company’s packaged application suites. Spikesource takes dozens of open source components and combines them into sophisticated enterprise applications. Each suite is tested, and then retested when upgrades and patches [See the full post…]

In today’s TechOne: Here is Keen on Politics part 2 of the YouTube debate between Andrew Keen, Steve Gillmor, Tony Perkins, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Heather Harde and Robert Scoble. Part 1 can be found here, and part 3 is [See the full post…]

I’m happy to announce that Tom Foremski has signed with the PodTech Network as a content partner. Tom has been a great example of a professional using the Web as a direct business model. He is a recognized leader and [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…]