Your bathroom is a sacred place where you clean your body inside and out (literally). What better way to treat yourself than to green it up a bit? There are so many little things that can be done to make sure that every thing coming in (water, soap, humans) and ...

BOT house, the morning after…

Barb, Oscar and Tanja are tired after a big weekend of partying. All the dip has been eaten, but there’s still flax crackers and nice raw veggies left! What’s a fresh chef to do? Make more of the most popular dip, of course! Even though she’s ...

Our kitchen got a surprise mini-makeover featuring Ikea furnishings courtesy of the show Dream Home with the wonderful Lisa Quinn! It’s now supra-organized and has some nice new accoutrements we’re perhaps a little too stoked about….

We’ve had bees on the brain! Freshtopia.net dove into the sad tale of Colony Collapse Disorder, or “CCD,” and its grim implications, to emerge on the other side with some words of wisdom on how to show our busy little sisters some love, and a sweet recipe to cheer us ...

Taking a savory break from our sweet escape to ice cream land, we’ve concocted a great antidote to those pesky taco cravings. Crunchy, flavorful, and packed with delicious whole-food nutrition:

Behold, The Perfect Taco!!!

Thanks to Jeffrey Rowland, Tanja’s favorite online comic artiste for today’s blackboard quote. Stop by his site ...

Look out Blutos of the world — spinach is getting the Freshtopia treatment! After all the explosiveness of our last installment, Flaxploitation, we’re smoothing things out with a deliciously simple rendition of a party staple; spinach dip! With the bright flavor of lemon and the nutrition of dark leafy ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, James Richardson, senior vice president at Cisco discusses how Cisco is helping enterprise CIOs prepare for the Web 2.0 world. He also sheds some light on Services Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) and its value for the Enterprise and the role virtualization plays in the Web 2.0 world.

Eighty-eight colleges and universities. Two-and-a-half million downstream users. Paul Schopis is associate director of OARnet, based at The Ohio State University, and as such he oversees an expansive network for users with a wide range of needs. In this podcast Paul discusses the challenges he faces in building and maintaining such a network, shares some knowledge learned in his ten years at OARnet, and explains the fish problem.

This Juniper Networks podcast is part of the Juniper Networks Master of IT program.

Taking a break from the bustle of RSA 2007, some of the best-known security bloggers got together at the Foreign Cinema, a French bistro and movie house in San Francisco, hosted by network security podcaster Martin McKeay. Check out the guest list, as we roam the crowd ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Rona Shuchat, research director, IDC, shares her unique perspective, gained through the study of the strategic impact of telecommunications and web hosting. She discusses what’s interesting in corporate networking, such as deep packet inspection, the use of web-based portals ...

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage in San Francisco Monday to announce a new alliance. Listen here for the audio of the entire presentation and the Q&A session.

Transcript:
Guest: Jonathan Schwartz - Sun
Guest: Paul Otellini - Intel

Jonathan Schwartz - Sun

In this third podcast in the series examining the changing demands on the CIO, Frank Buytendijk, vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion, discusses the dilemma of bridging IT governance and business governance. Although a dilemma like this can seem intractable, Frank says that by taking a closer ...

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.

Robert Holcomb, director of product management at SOASTA, gives me a demo of their automated Web testing tool and its unique, Apple Garage Band-like interface.

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Ken Gardner, founder and executive chairman of SOASTA, explains what’s behind his new startup which builds visual tools to automate web testing. Ken’s an interesting guy, believes that enterprise software needs a user interface that looks more like Apple’s Garage Band and less like SAP’s interface. One thing that ...

developerWorks’ SOA and Web services zone editor Pat Flanders and editor-in-chief Michael O’Connell talk about the big IBM announcement last week around service-oriented architecture and cover some developerWorks resources for SOA.

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LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — Control Room, formerly Network Live and MSN, Microsoft’s web portal, yesterday announced a multi-year content agreement to distribute live concert performances online. The deal gives Control Room, producer of last year’s Live 8, several global distribution platforms, including the nearly 465 million monthly MSN visitors

Interop goes to the Big Apple for its second U.S. IT event this year. PodTech’s Michael Johnson takes to the floor and talks with a few of the exhibitors: Netcordia, CA, Inc., and Network General.

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LOS ANGELES, September 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft officially entered the video sharing space with the beta launch of Soapbox on MSN Video. Codenamed Warhol, Soapbox will be featured on the MSN Video site and be integrated in new Windows Live Spaces and Live Messenger software. With the announcement, the new video-sharing service goes head-to-head with the hip and popular YouTube website, which attracted 34 million monthly unique visitors and 1.2 billion page views in August. The question: how will MSN get its millions of users to use this video-sharing site? PodTech’s Matt Kelly spoke with Rob Bennett, general manager of entertainment and video services for MSN for comment, as well as Jupiter research analyst Joe Wilcox, who’s been covering Microsoft for several years.

SAP Senior Vice President of Architecture Vishal Sikka discusses key information technology topics like SOA, Open Source, and industry consolidation and competition. Mr. Sikka shares his thoughts on the future of enterprise applications and what SAP is doing to shape that future.

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MENLO PARK (June 14, 2006) PodTech News — National Semiconductor announced Monday it’s just given every one of its 8,500 employees a 30GB video iPod. But employees won’t just be catching up on soaps or rocking out at work. ...

In part 2 of this two-part podcast, Senior VP of Oracle Server Technologies Thomas Kurian sheds light on SOA 2.0, and discusses Web 2.0 as the next application platform from dynamic user interfaces.

Daryl Plummer is Gartner’s Managing VP and Chief of Research. At the Gartner ITxpo Symposium 2006 in San Francisco, Plummer speaks about Service-Oriented Architecture’s with PodTech’s Michael Johnson , and about how it’s really not a static concept. Plummer says, “You can define (SOA) conceptually, but in reality ...