BricaBox came out of alpha the week before founder and CEO Nate Westheimer headed to Austin for SXSWi. BricaBox lets users create their own social content site (for free), a kind of mashup’s mashup. Speaking at AMD’s BlogHaus with InternetGeekGirl, Nate talks about wiki-life, life ...

Stephanie Agresta, also known as Internet Geek Girl, is hosting the BlogHaus at SXSW Interactive Conference this year in Austin, Texas. Among the highlights will be interviews with Chris Brogan, Deb Schultz, Robert Scoble, Stowe Boyd, Shel Israel and Hugh MacLeod, as well ...

One of our favorite events of the year is the SXSW events, which really are three events in one city over two weeks. One focused on interactive media (the one we go to), one focused on music, and another focused on movies. But here Jim Butler, creative industries development manager ...

While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with Luke Kanies about Puppet, the open source server configuration automation (or “provisioning” in my personal lexicon) project. Luke first gives us a detailed overview of Puppet: what it does, how it works, and the puppet DSL. We then ...

While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with John Willis and Mark Hinkle about CMDBs and federated CMDBs. Mark starts out with a general update on Zenoss, and then after briefly talking about model-driven IT management, all three of us talk about CMDBs in ...

While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with John Willis and Mark Hinkle about customizing interfaces for IT management software. We start by hearing John’s take on using Eclipse as a front-end, and then hear some more general commentary from both John and Mark about ...

I know, I know - flying places is not very green at all, I hear ya - but getting to and from the airport can be. Recently, on a trip to L.A., I decided to bypass the forever clogged L.A. highway system and go the Green LA Girl route ...

Indy Gill, CEO of Unwirednation.com, an Austin-based startup, explains how their voice publishing platform enables mobile content producers to monetize their content through their ad insertions. Gill explains how the platform builds upon a successful partnership with eBay that enabled voice-based interaction with bidders on eBay to notify them when ...

Indy Gill, CEO of Unwirednation.com, an Austin-based startup explains how their voice publishing platform enables mobile content producers to monetize their content through their ad insertions. He talks the advantages of their voice publishing platform over of text-based messaging in terms of reducing barriers and improving cost effectiveness.

At the BMC Software, Inc. Austin campus (one of my former employers), I talk with Israel Gat about introducing and then benefiting from Agile Software development at BMC. The projects under Israel are each “enterprise software” and peopled with large teams. Thus, his experience and the lessons learned ...

In this second part of my interview with Lauren Sell and Josh Dilworth of Porter Novelli Austin, I ask them about the changing role of PR in the face of the Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and all those other “2.0″ channels. We talk about the timing of PR campaigns ...

Last week, I talked with Lauren Sell and Josh Dilworth of Porter Novelli Austin about doing PR for tech startups. My primary interest was figuring out what the day-to-day life of a tech PR person is, and to figure out and lessons learned. In this first part, we ...

This is a question and answer session with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, that I conducted for a workshop on the Transparent Federal Budget project that took place in Austin, Texas last month. The Transparent Federal Budget project is a collaborative, open effort to bring greater ...

K Vaitheeswaran is currently the chief operating officer of Indiaplaza, the world’s largest India-centric e-commerce company with operations in Bangalore, Chennai and Austin, Texas.

K Vaitheeswaran is a co-founder of www.fabmall.com, the company that pioneered the Indian E-commerce Industry. Since September 1999, he spent all his time and efforts ...

In May, I caught up with Michael Farnum at the Texas Regional Infrastructure Security Conference in Austin, Texas. Michael is a fellow blogger and writer for Computerworld, who gave a presentation on the importance of reading blogs to secuity professionals today. Even in a high-tech career like ...

Here, you get to meet Make Magazine Senior Editor Philip Torrone and Maker Faire Founder Dale Dougherty. They talk about what makes the Maker Faire special, and talk about their future plans — the next Maker Faire will be in Austin, Texas, on October 20-21.

Coté talks with Paul Terry Walhus about running IT for Austin’s Hotel San Jose and Jo’s coffee house. We go over the setup between different locations and then check out the data center.

Less than one year ago, LaVerne Council joined Johnson & Johnson, charged with crafting a new IT strategy to drive the global enterprise. In part one of this two-part podcast, join host John Gallant and Council, who takes audience questions and shares: