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Welcome to Classic ScobleShow

editor — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:40:44 +0000

It started with an innocuous audio interview with the then-President of the Products and Technology Group at SAP AG, Shai Agassi. Then came Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, sitting at a table with an umbrella. It wasn’t long before Scoble introduced us to Thomas Hawk (investment advisor by day, ubiquitous digital media creator by night). There was the Golden Gate Bridge walk (spread over three parts!), and then came pumpkins — lots of pumpkins. Somewhere between the Golden Gate Bridge and the pumpkin patch, conversations with entrepreneurs like b5media Founder and President Jeremy Wright and SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill.

There was lunch with Bill Gates and another lunch with Mark Cuban. We met folks from Salesforce and Zillow, SocialText, Retrevo and Maxthon. We met political bloggers and a presidential candidate on the campaign trail.

But one of our favorites? It’s an interview with Microsoft’s Gary Flake on Photosynth.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Robert Scoble is still the author of the incredibly popular tech geek blog, Scobleizer.com. He’s also the managing director over at FastCompany.tv, where ScobleShow editor and producer Rocky Barbanica is also now a senior producer.

Since that fateful first ScobleShow, Agassi has moved on to found Project Better Place, in order to pursue interests in alternative energy and climate change. Jonathan Schwartz is still at Sun, still blogging, and lots of the start-ups we met are still kicking around, some of them very successfully! It’s worth taking a few minutes to surf through the archives, or just wait to see what pops up in the Classic feed. Good for a few goofy laughs and a little insight into where we’ve been and where we might be going. Oh, and Thomas Hawk is still evangelizing for photo sharing and digital media, and still believes that the best pictures in the world have yet to be taken.

Tags: SAP, Shai Agassi, Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, Thomas Hawk, b5media, Jeremy Wright, SmugMug, Don MacAskill, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban, Salesforce, Zillow, SocialText, Retrevo, Maxthon, Microsoft, Gary Flake, Photosynth, Robert Scoble, Scobleizer.com, FastCompany.tv, Rocky Barbanica, Project Better Place

IDF Live: Is Social Media a Friend or Foe of IT?

Jason Lopez — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:35:49 +0000

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 in opposition to the kinds of needs created by those newer social networks.

The panel in this podcast includes Peter Kaminski, CTO of Socialtext, Jackie Medecki, attorney for social media and marketing at Intel, Jeff Moriarty, a social media/Web 2.0 design engineer at Intel, John Miner, an IT methodologist at Intel, and Eleanor Wynn, a social technology architect at Intel

It’s IT’s stereotypical response (”No”) to questions about setting up blogs and wikis, that prompts the debate. But as John Miner points out, most large companies inherently already have blogs and wikis — they just don’t realize it. This, he says, is because they tend to grow organically inside of large IT structures. But the fact is that the candor and conversation that make up the substance of blogs and wikis do tend to threaten some of the structures of the enterprise — especially when it comes to legal concerns.

How does Intel handle the challenges? Especially when it comes to the “gray areas?” This video podcast shows how one large corporation is navigating social media in the enterprise.

Check out the IT@Intel Community - Click here.

Tags: Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher, Intel Developer Forum, social media, IT, social networks, Peter Kaminski, Socialtext, Jackie Medecki, Jeff Moriarty, John Miner, Eleanor Wynn, social technology, blogs and wikis, IT@Intel

Inside the first Wiki company, SocialText

Robert Scoble — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:20:56 +0000

I spend almost an hour with Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom and bust cycles. We hear what SocialText is up to, and what Ross is seeing from his office in downtown Palo Alto.

Click here for transcript.

Tags: Ross Mayfield, SocialText, Wiki, Web 2.0, blogging, social media

Video: Intel’s Web 2.0 Suite for Enterprise

John Furrier — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:10:50 +0000

At the recent announcement from Intel on their new Web 2.0 Enterprise Suite, PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier spoke with Ross Mayfield, CEO of SocialText to talk about the new offering from Intel.

Click here for transcript.

Tags: Intel, Web 2.0, PodTech, John Furrier, Ross Mayfield, SocialText

Ross Mayfield and Andrew McAfee: Web 2.0 for Enterprise

Michael Johnson — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:01:41 +0000

According to these leaders of the Web 2.0 movement, businesses can stimulate collaboration from within by adopting blogs, wikis, RSS, AJAX and other tools and services. Jointly conducting a keynote address at the Fall ‘06 Interop meetup in New York City: Ross Mayfield, CEO, SocialText, and Andrew P. McAfee, associate professor, Harvard Business School.

Tags: Interop, Ross Mayfield, SocialText, Andrew P. McAfee

Marketing Voices: Delving Into the Real Value of Wikis

editor — Mon, 15 May 2006 17:00:40 +0000

Marketing Voices Host Jennifer Jones talks with CEO of Socialtext, Ross Mayfield about wikis and their use for companies both large and small. Jones and Mayfield delve into the real value wikis can provide to marketers and how they changing the face of marketing for both external and internal communications.

New Podcast Brand Launched - PodTech’s Marketing Voices

Admin — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:06:54 +0000

PodTech.net Launches Marketing Voices™. New PodTech Podcast Brand Focuses on Social Media’s Impact on Marketing. Show Created and Hosted by Marketing Aficionado Jennifer Jones

MENLO PARK, CA. (May 1, 2006) PodTech.net, Inc.a media company dedicated to podcasting and delivering Fresh Voices™ for the iPod generation, today announced the debut of a new podcast brand called Marketing Voices™ on the InfoTalk™ network. The show represents the second in a new series of podcasts launched by PodTech in the last two weeks.

Under the Marketing Voices™ brand, PodTech will feature the fresh voices of innovative provocative leaders examining, among other topics, how social media tools such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, and online videos are changing marketing throughout the world. Marketing Voices™ will be hosted by industry veteran and known marketer, Jennifer Jones. Jones has counseled many of Silicon Valley’s premier companies including Apple Computer, Goldman Sachs, and Mayfield venture capital during her more than two decades in the technology industry.

According to John Furrier, CEO of PodTech.net, “Marketing Voices™ is unique in the podcasting industry. There is no other show being offered today that has this type of guest or content. Offering fresh voices who are driving the new perspectives of marketing is key to the podcast’s success. Given Jennifer’s marketing savvy and strategic expertise in branding and marketing, her background in technology and broadcast news and love of communicating new concepts, I am certain the show will resonate with our podcast audience,” Furrier added.

GUESTS ON MARKETING VOICES™ (MV)

The first guest on Marketing Voices is Steve King, Senior Counsel of Institute for the Future (ITF). King’s focus at ITF is how new media technology is impacting consumers and marketing. Future MV guests include, Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext; Robert Scoble, recent author of the book, “Naked Conversations:How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers”; and Pete Blackshaw, Chief Marketing Officer of Nielsen Buzzmetrics.

ABOUT JENNIFER JONES
Jennifer Jones is a 25-year technology marketing veteran. Prior to PodTech, she was the first marketing partner at Mayfield, a premier venture capital fund based in Menlo Park. Jennifer worked with Mayfield and its portfolio companies providing strategic marketing and branding expertise for more than 15 years. Before Mayfield, Jennifer was a former Senior Vice President and General Manager of Regis McKenna, Inc (RMI) where she counseled technology companies including Apple Computer, Intel and Tandem Computers. Jennifer was the first marketing expert to develop and host a television show focusing on technology, called High Tech Visions, which was broadcast in the Bay Area in 1988. Prior to RMI, Jennifer also spent numerous years developing advertising and public relations campaigns for consumer companies while a Vice President at Ketchum Communications in San Francisco. Jennifer started her career in broadcast journalism as a reporter and producer at local and national news organizations.

Congrats to Jennifer.

Miki is born - This is the future

Admin — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:20:37 +0000

Ross Mayfield gives birth to Miki. What’s really important about Miki is that this is a clear sign that mobility features will be integrated into social media platforms. SocialText, a pioneer in social platforms, is introducing a new mobility piece called Miki. Soon all social platforms must include mobililty features to reach mobile users. More on memeorandum.

Nice work Ross.

Tags: Miki

Innovation Journalism Emerging at Stanford April 5-7

Admin — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:30:35 +0000

Next week there is a cutting edge conference at Stanford that is free for journalism and innovation professionals to attend. Registration: http://scil.stanford.edu/InJo-2006/signup.fft. Vint Cerf, PodTech, Google, CNet, Tony Perkins, Ross Mayfield, Dan Gillmor, USVP’s Paul Mateucci, and other great folks like Harry McCracken, Michael Kanellos.

Innovation journalism is journalism dedicated to the coverage of innovation. Innovation is the leading driver of economic growth and the core activity of many leading industries. Innovation Journalism stretches across traditional newsbeats, such as business, technology and politics, reporting on innovation and innovation processes. The practice of Innovation Journalism involves identifying the key issues and key actors in the innovation systems, and reporting on how they interact. The reporting combines issues such as science and technology trends, science and R&D policies, intellectual property, investments, standardization, industrial production processes, marketing of new technologies, business models, politics, and more.

David Nordfors, Publisher and Editor, organized the event and if anyone is interested please come and join the discussion. The complete conference documentation is available at www.innovationjournalism.org

The conference has 31 presentations, each one followed by a panel discussion. There are 87 speakers and panellists. The main themes are: Innovation Journalism, Innovation Communication & Journalism, Innovation Journalism Initiatives Around the World, The Role of Journalism in Innovation Systems.

The list of speakers/panelists includes
Professional Journalists working for (USA:) Business 2.0, Center for Citizen Media, CNET News.com, Fortune, PodTech Networks, Red Herring, PC World, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Spot-On, Technology Review, US News and World Report, Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, Common Sense Media, (in SWEDEN:) Affärsvärlden, Aftonbladet, Computer Sweden, Elektroniktidningen, Entreprenör, Göteborgsposten, Process Nordic, Rapidus (in FINLAND:) Helsingin Sanomat, Arvopaperi (UK:) BBC, (France:) Le Monde, (Spain:) El Pais, (Mexico:) Reforma, (Chile:) El Mercurio

Academic Researchers from Stanford University, Linköping University (Sweden), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Tampere University (Finland), University of Jyväskylä (Finland), University of Helsinki (Finland), University of Hohenheim (Germany), Univeristy of Southern California (USA)

Innovation Experts from Stanford Center for Innovations in LearningI (SCIL), VINNOVA - Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, Google, ICANN, SRI International, J E Austin Associates, Embassy of Sweden in Washington, The 451 Group, Vibacom (Slovenia), Fish & Richardson, Addison Marketing, International Knowledge Cluster of Basque Country (Spain), Mohr Davidow Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, GZ Group (Sweden), AlwaysOn Networks, Socialtext, PodTech Inc, US Venture Partners, Hoffman Agencies, Wallenberg Global Learning Network, Reuters Digital Vision Fellowships (Stanford), Media-X (Stanford), CSLI (Stanford), J E Austin Associates, TeliaSonera (Finland), TEKES - National Finnish Technology Agency, SITRA - Finnish Industry Fund, USAID

Mashup Camp InfoTalk with Ross Mayfield

John Furrier — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:42:16 +0000

John Furrier sat down with Ross Mayfield to shoot the breeze on Mashups and unstructured data. Of course Ross always loves to talk Wikis.

Full Disclosure: Ross Mayfield is one of the nicest guys I know. When PodTech was first formed Ross let me and my team use his office at SocialText. In the spirit of sharing, it was a great start for PodTech. Thanks Ross! He booted PodTech out, because his company was growing so fast that he needed the space - congrats.

PodTech is now in fresh new office space.

Thank You Listeners - I’m Looking for the Best of PodTech 2005

John Furrier — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:16:06 +0000

In this short podcast I’d like to thank all of the people who have downloaded and listened to PodTech.net’s infoTalk and News programs. Since the beginning, over six months ago, we’ve posted over 250 podcasts. I’d also like to thank all the guests who have been on PodTech. I’m looking forward to expanding in 2006… to include new podcasters from both Silicon Valley and around the world. We’ll also be expanding our blog coverage at podtech.wordpress.com for commentary and non-audio news and editorial.

Over the next week I will be putting together a best of PodTech 2005. If you’ve been a listener of PodTech please submit the PodTech podcasts that you think are deserving of the top PodTech podcasts of 2005. Additionally, I’ll be giving away $500 to one of the listeners who submits their favorite PodTech podcasts.

Submit your favorite PodTech podcasts to John at PodTech dot Net

Happy New Year and thanks for downloading and listening.

Some 2005 guests have included:

IBM executives

Roche Pharma

Juniper Networks

Foresight Nanotech Institute

Microsoft RSS Product Team

Heidi Roizen Mobius Venture Capital

August Capital, David Hornik

TechCrunch

Web 2.0 Workgroup

Gabe Rivera - Founder Memeorandum

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Barracuda Networks

Yahoo!

Telecosm

Steve Forbes, Forbes Inc.

Steve Gilmor, Gilmor Gang

Jerremy Pepper– PR Blogger

Cathy Brooks, Porter Novelli

Chris Shipley, Guidewire Group, Demo

Mike Sigal, Guidwire Group

Mark Kvamme, Sequoia Capital

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn

Mark Radcliff, DLA Piper

Dave Hodson, Microsoft

John McDowell, Loyalty Lab

Rob Chandra, Bessemer Venture Partners

Scott Sandel, New Enterprise Associates

McDonalds, Steve Wilson

Robert Scoble, Microsoft

Linden Lab

John Markoff, NY Times

Kevin Manney, USA Today

Ryan McIntyre, Mobius Venture Capital

Plaxo, Founders Tod and Cam

Ross Mayfield, SocialText

Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor under Bill Clinton

BlogOn Conference

DemoFall Conference

Vortex Conference

Optimal Media Group, Kristen Nobles

IBD - Under the Radar Event

SuperNova Conference

Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Andreas Stavropolis

Alwayon Innovation Summit

George Gilder, Gilder Publishing

Paul Saffo,

Denise Howell, Legal Blogger “ Bag and Baggage” & (get name of her firm)

Mark Cuban, Owner Dallas Mavericks, Founder of HDNET (previously founder of Broadcast.com) - the most popular podcast on PodTech

Sharon Weinbar, Bank of America Venture Capital

Garage Technology Ventures, Bill Reichart

Burgarht Tenderich, BitePR

Blinx, Founder CTO Suranga Chandratillake

VideoEgg, Kevin Sladek

vSpring Venture Capital, Paul Alstrom

Thomson’s Private Equity Week, Daniel Primack

Twelve Horses, David LaPlante

Jennifer Jones Consulting ,Jennifer Jones

ActiveWords, Buzz Buggerman

BlogHer

Anina.net

Six Apart, Mena Trott, Andrew Anker

Halley Suit, Blogger

Bloggett Communications, Rene Bloggett

Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe, Wired Magazine

Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine

Scott Berkun, Author Art of Project Management

JD Lasica, Author DarkNets, Founder OurMedia.org

Adam Curry, Daily Source Code, PodShow

Steve Rubel, Micropersuasions

Matt Mullenweg, WordPress Inventor

Bloglines Founder, Mark Fletcher

Feedster cofounder, Mark Johnson

Morganthaler Venture Capital, Ken Gullicksen

IMEEM, Dalton Caldwell

Eric Rice, cofounder Audioblog, EricRice Show, Everday Films

Jeff Clavier, Softech VC

Jeremy Allaire, Founder Brightcove

Keith Benjamin, Leventhal Venture Partners

Wilson Sonsin – Bob O’Connor

Shel Israel ,Author Naked Conversations, PR & Marketing Professional

Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path

John Patrick, Founder Attitude LLC.; Author of Net Attitudes. Retired IBM VP of Technology

Suz Charman, DarkBlogs, Corante

Theresia Ranzetta, Accel Partners

David Hills, CEO Looksmart

Charlene Li, Forester Research

Julia Komarachik, Glennbrook Networks

Shasta Ventures, Tod Francis

Knownow, CTO

Bill Flitter, Pheedo

Blogtronix, Vassil M

USA Today, Kevin Maney

Virginia Hospital, Mark Rein

New York Legal Services, John Grenier

Mirage Las Vegas CTO - Laura Fucci

Podvertiser,

Pluck Founders

Jason Lopez - PodTech News

Jeff Karnes - Yahoo

Amr Awadallah - Yahoo and Stanford PhD candidate

Kevin Efrusy from Accel Partners

Rich Karlgaard - Forbes

Scott Hirsch, Founder of Management Innovation Group

Venture Capitalist, Entrepreneur, and CEO Veteran - Mitchell Kertzman of Hummer Winblad

Dan’l Lewin Microsoft Exec

Network Appliance

Yahoo’s Geoff Ralston

Joe Hayashi, Yahoo Podcasting

Scott Gatz, Yahoo Personalization and RSS

Open Source “The Wiki Way” - SocialText Goes Open Source and Raises Money with Ross Mayfield

Admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:03:37 +0000

Open Source -”The Wiki Way”. Today I got the story today from Ross Mayfield on their big announcement for Web2.0 conference. Ross and SocialText are going OpenSource and going big with it. Great stuff Ross. Socialtext, the first wiki company and market leader in enterprise wiki solutions, announced today that it is returning to its open-source roots by adopting a new commercial business model. After several years of market momentum — with an assortment of wiki solutions developed on top of an open-source wiki — Socialtext has begun sharing code with the developer community to further the adoption of wikis in the enterprise. The company’s first contribution is the Wikiwyg, an innovative, user-friendly “what you see is what you get” editing tool for wikis. Socialtext is a winner of Business Week’s 2005 “Best of the Web,” and is widely recognized for pioneering the development and use of open source technology and best practices in the enterprise.

This moment toward Wiki’s and the rise of SocialText is a proof point that the shift to Web2.o is here. Open, simple, easy to use tools for users not just geeks.

It’s companies like SocialText for Wikis and NextPage for document management that define this real shift.

Anina - Fashion Blogger and PodTech Podcaster in Paris

Admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:07:44 +0000

Here is an interview with Anina at Anina.net who is doing an amazing job with her fashion platform. She is working on a new platform for the fashion and mobile platform called 360fashion.anina.net. Below is an invitation for anyone in Paris looking to hookup with Anina. Also Anina will be part of the PodTech Network soon to be podcasting the fashion world via a dedicated Podcast interview and analysis of the leading edge of fashion and the people involved.

Nous vous invitons à la première conférence sur les blogs et l’univers de la mode, organisée par Anina (http://www.anina.net/) le top model geek blogger, Nokia France (http://www.nokia.fr/) et Six Apart (http://www.sixapart.com/).

Pour en savoir plus, visitez 360 fashion (http://www.socialtext.net/loicwiki/member/index.cgi?fashion_blogging_conference).

Rendez-vous le lundi 3 octobre de 13h à 16h à l’Atelier Richelieu
Adresse : 60, rue de Richelieu – 75002 Paris
M° : Bourse, Palais Royal
Pkg : Paris Bourse – Place de la Bourse – 75002 Paris
RSVP : nokia.presse@hl-com.com / Agence HL.Com : +33 1 45 00 46 66