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Microsoft’s Xbox Live Blogger from CES

Robert Scoble — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:47:31 +0000

Larry Hryb is one of Microsoft’s most famous bloggers. He works on the Xbox Live team and visited the CES BlogHaus to talk about what he’s seeing.

Tags: Larry Hryb, Microsoft, Xbox Live, CES, BlogHaus, CESBlogHaus

Retrevo Gang: Report from CES, Part II

Robert Scoble — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:40:47 +0000

Andrew Eisner, head geek from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, and Fred Davis, who helped start Wired Magazine, among other things, sit down for the second of two fun reports from the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 in Las Vegas.

Tags: Andrew Eisner, Retrevo, Fred Davis, Wired Magazine, CES, BlogHaus, CESBlogHaus

Cool new 3D search interface from CES 2008

Robert Scoble — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:31:16 +0000

One of the coolest things I saw at CES was SpaceTime.com, which brings us a 3D view of search and browsing. It is something you have to see to appreciate and Eddie Bakhash, CEO, gives us a great demo.

Tags: SpaceTime.com, 3D, Eddie Bakhash, CES, BlogHaus, CESBlogHaus

A little treat: my first girlfriend

Robert Scoble — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:17:28 +0000

While at the BlogHaus at CES 2008 I had a little surprise: my first girlfriend from high school showed up. I hadn’t seen her since 1983. She’s now director of marketing at Plantronics, and we have a fun chat about high school back in the 1980s with Fred Davis, the guy who helped start Wired Magazine, among other things. Fun conversation and a little personal too boot!

Tags: Fred Davis, Wired Magazine, CES, BlogHaus, CESBlogHaus, Robert Scoble’s Girlfriend

Meeting the user input visionary, Doug Engelbart

Robert Scoble — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:13:39 +0000

If you haven’t heard of Doug Engelbart, you really should do some Google searches and get to know some of the things he’s invented. Let’s just start with the mouse. But here Doug Engelbart and Valerie Landau show off a new user-input invention they are working on: a glove that you can type and control the cursor with. Really great conversation with one of the true visionaries in our industry.

Tags: Doug Engelbart, Valerie Landau

A tour of HP’s SmartHouse

Robert Scoble — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:04:51 +0000

HP might have started in a garage but lately they’ve moved their coolest stuff into a SmartHouse. We get a tour of the SmartHouse, which is really a place they can test out concepts and, also, demonstrate their latest products to customers, partners, and the media.

Tags: HP, SmartHouse

Turn your cell phone into a wifi phone

Robert Scoble — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:42:20 +0000

We met Nitzan Shaer, COO of Mobivox, on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show, where he showed us his service that can be used to make very low-cost calls (often free) around the world from your cell phone.

Tags: Nitzan Shaer, Mobivox, CES, BlogHaus, CESBlogHaus

FragDolls kick boys’ behinds at CES

Robert Scoble — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:33:29 +0000

We sit down with Morgan Romine, aka Rhoulette, one of the leaders of an all-girl-gaming team named “FragDolls” with Fred Davis, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, among other things. We discover why none of the boys have been able to beat this team at CES 2008 in a fun discussion.

Tags: Morgan Romine, Rhoulette, FragDolls, Fred Davis, Wired Magazine, CES, BlogHaus, CESBlogHaus

Inside HP’s notebook design brains

Robert Scoble — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:32:28 +0000

I aimed our cameras at HP’s Director of Notebook Product Design, Stacy Wolff, while at CES 2008. We talk about HP’s latest design trends and its efforts to gain the upper hand in the computer design wars.

[tags]HP, ces, bloghaus, cesbloghaus, stacy wolff[/tag]

In the BlogHaus with Seagate’s CEO

Robert Scoble — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:28:34 +0000

We met up with Seagate’s CEO, Bill Watkins, while hanging out in the CES BlogHaus that Seagate sponsored. Lots of fun and we get insights into what storage trends are coming at us in 2008.

Tags: seagate, bill watkins, ces, bloghaus, cesbloghaus

Tour of AMD’s booth at CES 2008

Robert Scoble — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:57:27 +0000

Here Stephen DiFranco, VP of Sales and Marketing at AMD, gives us a tour around AMD’s booth and shows us several trends that one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies is seeing.

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Tags: Stephen DiFranco, AMD, semiconductor

Retrevo Gang: Report from CES, Part I

Robert Scoble — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:45:40 +0000

Andrew Eisner, head geek from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, and Fred Davis, who helped start Wired Magazine, among other things, sit down for the first of two fun reports from the [tag]Consumer Electronics Show 2008[/tags] in Las Vegas.

Tags: Andrew Eisner, Retrevo, Fred Davis, Wired Magazine, CES, BlogHaus, CESBlogHaus

Meet Mr. TechCrunch UK

Robert Scoble — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:33:28 +0000

When I was in London I sat down for a beer with Mike Butcher, the editor of TechCrunch UK and we talk about what’s happening in Europe.

Tags: Mike Butcher, TechCrunch

Demo of Pringo, your business social network

Robert Scoble — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:03:01 +0000

Get a demo of Pringo from Pringo’s founder and CEO, Harvard Young, and President Gary Hall who show you how easy it is to get your own social network built for your business.

Tags: Pringo, Harvard Young, Gary Hall

Talking about your own social network with Pringo CTO

Robert Scoble — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:56:13 +0000

The trend right now is to create your own social network for your business. Why do that? A few reasons. First, it lets you build better relationships with your customers. Second, you can add value onto your products or services by having a community that’s supporting each other and
showing each other how to take your product or service further. Third, you might already have a community (like a newspaper or football team does) and you need a place for that community to hang out together. Anyway, here Pringo’s founder and CEO, Harvard Young, and President Gary Hall talk about the social networking business and how Pringo helps businesses with their social networking needs.

Tags: Pringo, Harvard Young, Gary Hall

Demo of easy and free conference calls

Robert Scoble — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:58:28 +0000

Check out how easy it is to make a conference call with Rondee. Here Andre Vanier, CEO, demonstrates his company’s service.

Tags: Rondee, Andre Vanier

Talking about free conference calls with Rondee

Robert Scoble — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:53:52 +0000

Rondee lets you do conference calls with a twist: it is easier to use than other conference services and it’s free. Here CEO, Andre Vanier, talks to me about the conference calling business and what Rondee’s doing.

Tags: Rondee, Andre Vanier

Demo of online storage service Box.Net

Robert Scoble — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:39:04 +0000

Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.Net, demonstrates his online storage service and it’s integration with other Web 2.0 services.

Tags: Aaron Levie, online storage, Web 2.0

Talking about the online storage business with Box.Net

Robert Scoble — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:35:43 +0000

Box.Net is a cool way to store files on the internet. It’s like a hard drive in the sky. Here Box.Net CEO, Aaron Levie, talks to me about file storage and the online storage business.

Tags: Box.Net, Aaron Levie, online storage

A new “Fav.or.it” RSS reader

Robert Scoble — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:01:42 +0000

Fav.or.it’s founder, Nick Halstead, introduced me with a challenge: he thought he could get me to switch my RSS reader. He then proceeded to impress me with his system.

Tags: Fav.or.it, Nick Halstead

John Battelle on 2007 predictions and advertising industry

Robert Scoble — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:01:58 +0000

You might have heard of John Battelle. He plans the Web 2.0 Summits, wrote a book about Google, runs an online advertising company, among many other things. I spent some time with him this week talking about his predictions (which, for the past few years, have turned out to be quite accurate) as well as his advertising business, Federated Media, which provides advertising and revenues for famous blogs like Boing Boing and TechCrunch.

Tags: John Battelle, Web 2.0, Google, Federated Media, Boing Boing, TechCrunch

Meeting the brains behind Dopplr, online business traveler’s service

Robert Scoble — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:10:46 +0000

Dopplr is a service for frequent business travelers that helps them let their friends know where they are. It’s popular. Wikipedia’s founder says it’s one of his favorite sites. Here we get a demo and hear from the geek behind the site, CTO Matt Biddulph, who gives us more details about how the service works and what you can do with it. I interviewed him from the seats the the LeWeb3 conference where they turned on the service for the first time.

Tags: Dopplr, Matt Biddulph, LeWeb3

Talking with Dopplr’s CEO about business travel tool

Robert Scoble — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:04:33 +0000

Dopplr is a really cool way to let everyone know where you are while you travel on business. It’s a service that’s gotten very popular with many of us in the tech community and here you meet Lisa Sounio, CEO of Dopplr. We catch up to her in a car on the way to the LeWeb3 conference in Paris. Sorry it’s so dark, but we think you’ll enjoy this interview anyway where you get some insights into her company.

Tags: Dopplr, Lisa Sounio, LeWeb3

Virtualization technology makes setting up servers easy

Robert Scoble — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:32:14 +0000

Sean Tierney, co-founder and COO of JumpBox, shows me how to create a complex database server within seconds by using JumpBox.
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Tags: Sean Tierney, JumpBox

Editors Choice of our Fotonation interview

Robert Scoble — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:31:22 +0000

Eight minutes of select video with Fotonation’s CEO and CTO.

Tags: Fotonation