Here’s just a few minutes of a really great photowalk with professional photographer Marc Silber who takes us around the Long Ridge Open Space Preserve above Silicon Valley. Photos and Photography tips packed in to a few short minutes.

This is a different kind of photowalking than we usually do. First, no Thomas Hawk. Second, we have a real, professional photographer (he even has the license plates to prove it). Third, we go for a nature walk up in the Long Ridge Open Space Preserve above Silicon Valley. ...

Yuri Ammosov, a senior policy officer of the Russian Government in charge of venture capital and high tech development programs, talks with me about how Russia is flush with cash thanks to the rising energy prices (they are one of the world’s leading oil producers) and are working with ...

Is blogger etiquette a viral issue and will users engage in such considerate formalities? Spam has found its way into many daily applications before Facebook, will Facebook’s platform become as congested with unwarranted solicitation as many platforms before it?

Tom Foremski and Lee Cummings captured the business and ...

Autonomy is on a roll this year as it consolidates its leading position as the second largest European software company through new products and acquisitions. Its search technology is dominant in the enterprise software sector where it is embedded into large enterprise software suites from many vendors. And it ...

In a country marked by influences — Berber, Arab, Jewish, French, Spanish — Morocco faces the challenge of absorbing one more: information technology. Countries like India, China, Brazil and Nigeria have seen the astonishing impact that simple PCs can have on an economy - but the key to unlocking the ...

Broadband, connectivity, Wi-Fi, accessibility and education efforts are all priorities for the ongoing efforts in developing nations and regions around the globe. Intel, along with the United Nations and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), among others, is participating this month in the Connect Africa Summit, which aims to bring together human, ...

Tom Foremski and Lee Cummings capture the business and technology of Facebook during their recent Graphing Social Patterns conference. Opening up the social web, user content, viral applications, user etiquette, privacy and profiles are discussed as Tantek Celik moderates David Recordon (SixApart), Chamath Palihapitiya ...

Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris ...

Ted Vucurevich, SVP and CTO at Cadence, and Tom Reeves, vice president, Technology Licensing, IBM Intellectual Property & Standards, discuss the current state of the semiconductor industry and where it’s heading tomorrow and beyond. Topics include IBM’s market focus for chips, the technologies needed to keep shrinking process ...

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 ...

A very successful CDNLive! Silicon Valley recently concluded in San Jose, Calif. Part of a series of global conferences, this event brought together more than 800 Cadence technology users from 16 countries and 183 companies to share ideas, tackle complex issues, and meet Cadence experts. In this podcast ...

I was over at the Halo 3 launch party at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus and ran into Dan Fernandez, lead product manager for Visual Studio, demonstrating Popfly. It’s an alpha version of an easy-to-use mashup platform that allows consumers to easily create web services with multiple data sources, and embed ...

The Computer History Museum is a fascinating visit for anyone interested in the history of computing and Silicon Valley. But there’s more there than meets the eye. Literally. Hidden from public view is a huge back storeroom with hundreds of artifacts, including a prototype tablet computer called the Apple “Cadillac,” ...

Tom Foremski, editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, led a panel discussion on Day 1 of the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The panel dealt directly with the friction that often arises between the burgeoning social media forces in the enterprise and the IT groups that find themselves ...

Gordon E. Moore, Intel retired chairman and CEO (and chairman emeritus of the board) spoke with Moira Gunn onstage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, in an interview that Intel called a “fireside chat.”

In this segment, find out whether or not you owe your workplace set-up to Moore ...

Gordon E. Moore, Intel retired chairman and CEO (and chairman emeritus of the board) spoke with Moira Gunn onstage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, in an interview that Intel called a “fireside chat.”

In this segment, find out how Intel really got its start, and how much of ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen from Sun and Ronit Belson from OpTier, an ISV partner of Sun’s, about virtualization. The conversation covers five points about virtualization: Understanding your business application; How do your virtualization technologies fit your business conditions; Where should you compress your ...

Stowe Boyd moderated the API’s and Feeds discussion during the 2007 Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Stowe continues his discussion of APIs and Feeds in this video by addressing questions from the audience. His panel of Dave McClure, Ben Metcalfe, Oren Michels, Greg ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the second-largest open source company, about Silicon Valley and the challenge of managing teams of programmers spread across the world.

Umang Gupta is CEO of Keynote Systems. I caught up with Umang at the Pan IIT Global Conference in July and talked to him about entrepreneurship and what it takes to do startups and run your business.

Umang wrote Oracle’s first business plan and went on to co-found Gupta Technologies and ...

Valerie Cunningham interviews Jamis McNiven, the owner of Buck’s Diner, in Woodside, Calif. This is where many of Silicon Valley’s most famous companies got their start: pitching their business plans in breakfast meetings with local VCs. Also on TechOne: Josh Hallett and Alex Kim give some great advice on getting ...

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 ...

I’ve lived in Silicon Valley most of my life and, while I’ve been to the HP Garage several times, I’ve never gotten to actually visit it. HP was gracious enough to open the garage for me and a few of my friends who have added me as a Facebook ...