Cemaphore Systems’ MailShadow for Google Apps keeps your Microsoft Outlook environment in sync with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Gmail Contacts. Make a change in one, and the other is instantly updated to reflect the change. MailShadow for Google Apps is receiving a lot of attention since organizations can ...

What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.
And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today!

I was one of the few outsiders to visit eBay and witness an internal “Demo Expo.” ...

What’s ahead for open social? How does the social networking universe continue to impact the way we do business? What parties is Jeremiah going to? These important questions are answered in this brief video podcast interview with Forrester Senior Analyst Jeremiah Owyang. He spoke with InternetGeekGirl Stephanie ...

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 ...

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 ...

Udi Manber is Vice President of Engineering at Google. During his Spotlight session for Supernova 2007 he spoke of the challenges of search as well as the progress. What direction is search taking us and is search the center of the internet experience are ...

Hi5 is a very popular social network — 100,000 new people join it every day and it’s the most popular network in many countries like Mexico and in Asia. I sat down with Akash Garg, co-founder and CTO, to find out what Hi5 is up to and also to ...

Do you think Google is the best search engine for cell phones? Think again with Taptu’s Bob Last. He’s senior vice president of business development there and talks with me about search engines and how mobile phones aren’t well served by the major search engines from Yahoo, Google, or ...

We do a little test comparing Google to Taptu on a mobile phone. You might be surprised by how much nicer Taptu is for many searches. Here Bob Lastt, senior vice president at Taptu, and I have a race and Bob shows off some of the cool features of ...

Jay Sears, senior vice president for Context Web and ADSDAQ talks with John Ince about how advertising exchanges have suddenly emerged as premium Web properties with Google acquiring Doubleclick for $3.1 billion, Yahoo! acquiring Right Media for $800 million and Microsoft acquiring aQuantive for $6+ billion. Sears believes that this ...

Is the valuation a term that is taken too lightly? These days, new tech companies like Facebook seem to be popping up from every part of Silicon Valley. Can Facebook actually monetize the bazillion apps that are being thrown their way? And from the consumers perspective, do we care? Farber ...

Erik Collier, director of product management for Ask.com, talks about how new research in usability are driving innovation in search. Ask has developed a new user interface that blends search results while Google has introduced “Universal Search” that integrates images and videos with text based results. And Collier’s colleagues at ...

Ever wonder about information technology trends inside hospitals? I had lots of questions about the technology being used inside Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (where our son, Milan, was born three weeks ago). So I sat down with Christopher Longhurst, a general pediatrician at the hospital, and we talk ...

One problem with existing contextual advertising is that it isn’t very contextual when placed on blogs and other Web information. For instance in Google’s advertising. Proximic, today, is releasing a new search platform that’s taken five years to develop. They demonstrate how it could be used on blogs and ...

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 ...

Ari Klinger, CEO of Wookah.com, talks with John Ince about their multi-engine search platform. Wookah searches in discreet categories using a major search engine like Google or Yahoo. Essentially it’s a way to do a deep search across the best sites all from one window.

It wasn’t that long ago that newspaper headlines began calling our attention to claims that large computer server systems like those used by companies like Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo, and EBay (to name but a few) were consuming more than 10 percent of all electricity in the U.S. It sounds pretty ...

Steven Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify.net, explains how anyone who has a Website or wants to build one can have their own YouTube-like video channel almost overnight. The Magnify.net platform searches video channels like YouTube looking for cool videos that match the keywords that you enter, and then posts them on ...

Will the use of online apps change the way people work? That’s a question discussed by a panel at theOffice 2.0 conference, moderated by Om Malik from GigaOm: Steven Aldrich, VP of strategy & innovation, Intuit; Denis Browne, senior VP, SAP Labs; Danny Kolke, CEO of Etelos; Richard McAniff, corporate ...

Pat Cadam is owner of Pat’s Garage, an independent auto repair shop located in San Francisco’s SOMA district. He and his mechanics work primarily on hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight. He’s also one of the few “green” auto repair shops in the Bay ...

Mehran Sahami is the associate chairman of undergraduate education. What does that mean? He runs probably the most important computer science undergraduate department in the world. This is the department that gave birth to Google, after all (and a bunch of other companies). This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for ...

Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting of the Third Thursday club held at ...

Dr. Elliot Soloway has taught some interesting people in his classroom at the University of Michigan. How about Larry Page, co-founder of Google? Among others. He’s been named “Teacher of the Year,” but that’s not why I talked with him. What we talked about is the state of education and ...

Tools are tools, whether you’re using a bow and arrow, a GPS unit, or a search engine. Google is bringing together all the technology tools at hand to help non-profit organizations tell their stories in the vivid, 3-D language of Google Earth. In this video podcast, Catherine Girardeau takes ...