Behind the media/blogger scenes at CES 2008. In this episode: Intel hosts a cocktail party for bloggers at the Atomic Test Museum. Then more BlogHaus media….

We’re in the Bloghaus during Bill Gates’ final keynote. Here is some of the flavor. You may recognize some of the people….

A quick fly through ShowStoppers and the PodTech BlogHaus, day two… CES 2008, Las Vegas.

This is a taste of my Saturday on the Podtech BlogHaus bus drive to Las Vegas. On board are A-List bloggers: Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Luic Le Meur, Marc Canter, Jeremy Toeman, Robert McLaws, plus Valerie Cunningham, Rocky, and many more.

It includes a demo of a Samsung ultramobile device ...

Seth Goldstein talks about advertising on Facebook and the use of applications as “appvertising.” But some apps involve slinging virtual food between Facebook friends, can such apps also become an effective advertising platform? Can apps like this really be monetized in a fashion that yields gratifying returns? From the recent ...

Lance Tokuda is CEO of Rock You, which has emerged as the leading developer of Facebook apps. Rock You can create an app for you over the weekend and launch it by Monday. He talks about some of the issues in developing Facebook apps.

Charlene Li is a senior analyst at Forrester Research on social media and related technologies. She talks about some of the mistakes big brands are making on social network platforms such as Facebook, and the challenges they face. From the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference.

Dave McClure, kicks off the recent Graphing Social Patterns FaceBook Developer Conference. He is followed by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, a business oriented social network site. Mr Hoffman thinks that FaceBook will be one of many social networking sites organized around different activities. He also points out some of ...

You don’t need to be a developer to create mashups or FaceBook apps. Dan Fernandez demonstrates creating a FaceBook app in minutes using an alpha release of PopFly. It is built on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. With tools such as these, brace yourself for a flood of FaceBook apps coming your ...

Sun has become one of the most enthusiastic supporters for open source technologies after a long period of ignoring the movement. Sun recently hosted an Open Source Summit in a bid to identify itself more closely with open source software. This event offered global perspectives and was moderated by Sun’s ...

The final session of the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference featured a “Fanboy” panel discussion moderated by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch. With his bosom buddy Jason Calacanis on the panel, it became the “Arrington & Calacanis Show.” Fellow panelists Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford, and Dave McClure had to fight their ...

The final session of the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference featured a “Fanboy” panel discussion moderated by Michael Arrington, from TechCrunch. With his bosom buddy Jason Calacanis on the panel, it became the “Arrington & Calacanis Show.” Fellow panelists Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford, and Dave McClure had to fight their ...

I was over at the Halo 3 launch party at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus and ran into Dan Fernandez, lead product manager for Visual Studio, demonstrating Popfly. It’s an alpha version of an easy-to-use mashup platform that allows consumers to easily create web services with multiple data sources, and embed ...

Jeremiah Owyang is Forrester Research’s new senior analyst focused on Social Computing. He is leaving PodTech where he was community manager and spent a lot of time travelling and speaking at conferences evangelising social media. Previously to that he managed the community marketing program at Hitachi Data Systems where ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 25, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and

Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, kicks off Dreamforce ‘07, with exciting product, platform, and customer announcements you won’t want to miss. Witness as salesforce.com unveils the next generation of on demand and learn what that means for your success. See how community-driven models-arising from the Internet-inspire ...

Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, kicks off Dreamforce ‘07, with exciting product, platform, and customer announcements you won’t want to miss. Witness as salesforce.com unveils the next generation of on demand and learn what that means for your success. See how community-driven models–arising from the Internet–inspire ...

Salesforce has always been a powerful platform for creating mashups, and the latest platform features make it more capable than ever. This session offers an introduction to some of the more popular Web APIs and shows how they can be leveraged inside your apps. Presentations include sample code demonstrating these ...

Nick Carr is an acclaimed business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology. His 2004 book “Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage,” published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. Nick ...

John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems, gave a keynote at Saleforce.com’s user conference. He spoke about the growing use and importance of Internet video in helping companies collaborate on projects and communicate with staff and customers. Internet video will be a key driving force fueling the expansion of ...

Adam Carson is sharing some of his experiences in bringing Enterprise 2.0 to Morgan Stanley. He is providing valuable insights to how large organizations can start thinking about Enterprise 2.0 strategies, adoption methods, deployments, and risks. Adam discusses the approaching “generational wave” and how a partnership with IT is critical ...

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 business conditions; Where should you compress your ...

Social computing is the rage, everyone knows that. But isn’t it just kid’s stuff? Why should an enterprise focused on B2B even bother with it — and if it does, are the rules of engagement any different than for the run-of-the-mill consumer kind? This panel looks at two fresh research ...

Generation Y is entering the workforce 70 million strong, should the current organizations implement new ways, structures to accommodate the new behaviors of Generation Y? What else should companies know about the new workforce?