It’s not every day you get to hack your dinner with an anarchist, computer whiz, chef — unless you are one like Marc Powell. We had the pleasure of attending a Unicorn Precinct 13 Supper Club and hanging out for a bit before the cooking frenzy. Marc shares ...

Marc Powell is an anarchist, hacker chef who opens his kitchen up to strangers and friends every Thursday to cook up some amazing hacked food creations. Attending a food hacking supper club is a mind-expanding experience that teaches folks not to be afraid of experimenting with your cuisine. ...

Spock is a search engine that won’t compete with Google, except in one area: searching personal information about people. Want to find an old friend? Look up a job candidate’s background? Find a person’s blog or other social networking page? Then Spock is for you. Here, we meet Jay ...

LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffman talks with Mercury News venture capital reporter Connie Loizos about where he sees the social networking space headed, as well as his investment strategy these days.

Manish Arora is the founder of Kincafe, a Silicon Valley-based social networking and Web 2.0 company. Kincafe is focused on connecting and cherishing your family connections by sharing photos, videos and other files in a secure environment. I caught up with Manish at TiECon 2007, where we spoke about ...

Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter talks about the social networking and micro-blogging service’s runaway success, and how marketers can leverage this new tool. Speaking to Jennifer Jones, Biz describes how people are using Twitter, and answers Marketing Voices viewers’ questions concerning privacy, monetization and the cats.

This week on The Vloggies Show, Irina tries lifecasting for a day… and asks Jackson West, “who needs editing when you can stream live?” And the Mommy Vlogger struggles to manage her uber difficult hyperactive child… It’s tough being a parent. But on a more serious note, ...

Forrester Research’s Vice President and Principal Analyst Charlene Li believes that social networking is becoming so important that it is like air, it is everywhere. In a videopodcast with Marketing Voices, Jennifer Jones, Li says that companies who don’t embrace social networking will lose their competitive edge. Li describes ...

Tom Karren, CEO of WingateWeb, demonstrates the social networking, auto-calendar population, and session management features in their latest event and conference management system. Fortune 500 companies — including many in the tech sector — turn to the combination of services and private-label friendly WingateWeb solution to pull off ...

Way back in 1998, Tom Karren and a handful of fellow Novell engineers set out to deliver a hosted application service built on Web technologies. The result was WingateWeb, an event and conference reservation and management system. Today WingateWeb’s offering is used by Fortune 500 and big name ...

India has the fast growing mobile market in the world, and Bangalore is the hotbed of mobile innovations and start-ups. Mobile search is the new hot word in India, and Ziva Software wants to be a significant player in this area.

The one-year-old mobile search company is located in an ...

Ninety-three percent of all teens are online today, and 55 percent of all teens online use social networking sites. Girls use social media more than boys. Pew Senior Research Specialist Mary Madden knows all about teens and how they are working the web. Email is considered the “old way” ...

Vloggiesshow.com’s Irina Slutsky chats with Dan Fost, columnnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, about his favorite thing at SXSW. Dan’s pick is Twitter. This social networking space operates on your mobile phone. It answers one simple question: “what are you doing?” So you can keep tabs ...

Ning just released version 2.0 of its social networking platform this morning and here we talk with Marc Andreessen (yeah, the Marc who started Netscape) and co-founder Gina Bianchini, about a whole raft of things from what this new release enables users and developers to do to trends these ...

Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported on the growing influence of Web sites like Digg. For example, last summer a popular Digg contributor commented favorably on a family-friendly social networking site called famster.com, thereby causing traffic to skyrocket at the site. Kristin Criss, is Famster’s vice president of ...

David Hornik is a general partner at August Capital. As early-stage investors in companies like Microsoft, August knows what makes great companies, and Hornik serves as its social media expert. He sits on six boards including Six Apart. Hornik was also the first VC to blog and to ...

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 ...

Here we get an exclusive first look, from the floor of the LIFT conference that happened last week in Geneva, Switzerland, to UrbanSeeder, which is a unique social networking application. Maya started it to meet people and to get out of the dating scene which she found totally unsatisfying.

Jeremy Mehrle has turned the basement of his suburban St. Louis home into one of the coolest private computer museums you will ever see. He has 74 vintage Apple Macintosh computers impeccably displayed. All of them are fully-functional so you can see what the old operating systems were like. ...

In an interview with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida, MetaSwitch’s Chris Mairs, CTO and senior vice president, business development, and Andy Randall, vice president, marketing, discuss the partnership between Cisco and MetaSwitch, the definition of service in next generation networks, and the challenges CLECs ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast, brought to you by SAVVIS, Andy Schroepfer, president & founder of Tier 1 Research, discusses his view on the hosting industry, including the market forecast and segmentation, future growth areas, and how the buyer — not the supplier — is driving the future of ...

Fourteen years ago, in the early days of the Internet, it may have been hard to imagine shopping for a car, ordering food, or making other important consumer decisions all online. Organic saw an opportunity, though, and that’s when it began to work with some forward-thinking companies that saw the ...

PodTech.net’s Michael Johnson investigates the changing landscape of the home, thanks to Intel’s Core2Duo dual core processors, and the next generation of Core2Extreme and Core2Quad, featuring four compute engines on one chip, which is ramping up the possibilities of digital life from downloading and recording viral videos from YouTube ...

The LunchMeet crew stopped by the offices of MingleNow in San Francisco for sandwiches and and good conversation. Eddie Codel and Irina Slutsky speak with Krishna Subramanian, general manager of MingleNow, about his newly launched social networking service that caters to the late-night crowd. MingleNow is a visually rich ...

When Deer Valley Resort wanted to reach the Gen Xer’s and Y’s to market the Freestyle FIS World Cup, they turned to social networking and new media distribution like YouTube. Erin Grady, Deer Valley’s communications manager, worked with the Park City Chamber and Visitors Bureau to create ...