ClickUni is an interesting service that gives university clubs and social groups the tools to manage their membership lists, events, newsletters and organizational network details. It is the brainchild of two Oxford University students David Langer, managing director, and Andy Young, techincal director. They were recently in Silicon Valley ...

Online games are big business and people love chess. it’s no wonder that web 2.0 goodness has come to a game that has been loved for centuries. Chesspark is a platform for playing chess online with other players or against Robopawn, a virtual cyborg competitor. Strategic advisor and serial ...

Gleamd is a brand new service, still in invite-only beta, that is geared towards tracking and ranking people. Users create bios of famous and not-so-famous people and then others can vote on them, much like digging works on Digg. Gleamd’s creator Matt McInerney was in town last week, ...

SeeqPod is an interesting music discovery service that provides a way to find most any linked music files on the Internet. You can quickly build playlists from found music, discover similar music based on genetic similarities and share your playlists by embedding them in your blog. SeeqPod also has ...

Just a week after the debut of the iPhone, about 300 developers gathered at the Adobe offices in San Francisco this weekend for a three-day developers camp/hackathon. The goal was to hack together applications for the iPhone. Apple doesn’t allow developers to write applications for the phone itself, so ...

Many people strive for the freedom that working for themselves and freelancing brings. You can work odd hours in your pajamas at home, travel to exotic locales but still be on the job, not have to clock in at an office. After the initial exhilaration of being independent cools a ...

Believe us when we say that no chickens were hurt in the making of this episode. Our friends Raven, Baxter and Adesina have made the leap from avid backyard gardeners, to avid backyard chicken enthusiasts! Though their motivation for getting into the chicken-caper was pretty solidly egg-based, the love ...

The Shondes (shonde is a Yiddish term meaning disgrace) are from Brooklyn, they’re Mets fans, and they’re Jewish political activists who work for issues like Palestinian justice, Queer/transgender rights and other causes. They also rock — Hard.

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SNiPiTRON is an interesting service geared toward academics and researchers who want to collect Web pages, photos, videos, PDF documents and other files into online projects. Ryan Rouland, one of SNiPiTRON’s founders, stopped by the Hat Factory to have awesome sandwiches from Hazel’s Kitchen and to take ...

We first met Darius through the Coworking experiment at The Hat Factory. Spending even a few minutes with Mr. Roberts and you will surely find out that his passion is transit. How can mass transit be more efficient? How can cities, metropolitan areas, and even small towns make ...

As host of The Next Gear, I get to meet people who are trying to bring about postitive changes in the automotive industry. Many of the people I meet are entrepreneurs whose inventions have the potential to change the world, and many of these people are using their own money, ...

Revision3’s David Prager stopped by the Hatfactory today and spoke with us about the growing Internet media company he co-founded. Revision3 focuses on original content created mostly in-house geared towards geek and technology savvy audiences. Revision3 currently has a network of roughly a dozen Internet distributed shows including ...

Brian Walsh is the founder of Castfire, a comprehensive online distribution and management platform for audio and video podcasting. Walsh stopped by the Hat Factory, in San Francisco, to show us how Castfire can quickly build dynamic videocasts with custom intros, outros and ads. He also shows ...

Today we meet with John Merrells, CEO of Embrace Mobile, at the Hatfactory in San Francisco. Merrells’ company provides market research surveys to mobile phones. He tells us a bit about how a simple idea on the face is actually quite complex in implementation. With hundreds of cellular ...

Intel CFO Andy Bryant says that 2006 was a year when chipmaker AMD won some marketing battles with better products. But that changed in the 4th quarter of the year when Intel was able to start applying pricing pressure to its rival. More to the point: Intel will retool ...

This fourth in the series of podcasts from WebEx features a conversation with Bill Appleton, chief technical officer and founder of Dream Factory. His background as a developer gives him unique insights into the world of on-demand software, and he shares those insights in this discussion.

YouTube sold out for a whopping $1.65 billion to Google recently. And guess what the YouTube users got? Nothing. So, this has rubbed people like Chris Messina the wrong side. We talk to Chris about CrowdSourcing and he explains why big companies buying popular user-generated content websites may ...

I sat down with Darren Lee, NextPage CEO and President in Utah. Darren’s years of entrepreneurial experience bring him rich perspective in his field. As co-founder of Knowlix Darren has become a guru in the document market. We spoke of the many ...