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 ...

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 ...

The Experience Project is a novel business, its mission is to build online support communities around specific medical conditions. Its first community is Cancer Support Project and one of its lead evangelists is Carol Lin, a former CNN reporter. Experience Project is a for-profit company that hopes ...

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 ...

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.

BarCamp Palo Alto is quickly becoming an annual Silicon Valley spectacle. Local startups open up their offices on the weekend to hundreds of fellow developers to showcase products and share skills. Aron Pruiett captured the hustle and bustle of event.

Also: Robert Scoble’s entertaining interview with Marc Canter, ...

Tom Foremski talks with David Thompson, CEO of Genius, an on demand software company with a unique technology that enables sales people to track leads. Genius also announces its first conference, Sales 2.0, in San Francisco at the end of October.

Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president at Microsoft, heads up its strategic and emerging business initiatives. This means that he and his team work with startups in Silicon Valley and beyond, and with large companies partnering with Microsoft. Mr. Lewin is a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley, and has held top ...

Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market Development at Motorola about the move to Linux and if ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Diedier Diaz, SVP for Product Strategy Management at Access Systems Americas. “Access is one of the largest companies you’ve never heard about,” says Mr. Diaz. Its specialty is in creating applications for cell phones. It also acquired Palmsource, and now has the Palm OS and ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource about the company’s packaged application suites. Spikesource takes dozens of open source components and combines them into sophisticated enterprise applications. Each suite is tested, and then retested when upgrades and patches become available, to make sure everything remains compatible.

Sun Microsystems says it has the world’s fastest server microprocessor, the UltraSPARC T2. And it is the first Sun microprocessor that will be available to other companies. What does this mean for Sun? Tom Foremski talks to analysts Nathan Brookwood from Insight64 and Clay Ryder from the Sageza Group.

In today’s TechOne: Here is Keen on Politics part 2 of the YouTube debate between Andrew Keen, Steve Gillmor, Tony Perkins, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Heather Harde and Robert Scoble. Part 1 can be found here, and part 3 is here.

Also today: Tom Foremski talks with ...

Dave Nielsen gives a synopsis of StrikeIron, Inc . and speaks with Tom Foremski as he finds out how much guarantee data can have in a MashUp environment.

Also, as time contributes to data as an asset, will data valuation from a direct source maintain an increase in ...

I’m happy to announce that Tom Foremski has signed with the PodTech Network as a content partner. Tom has been a great example of a professional using the Web as a direct business model. He is a recognized leader and innovator in media. Also, Tom is a renowned business ...

Silicon Valley Watcher founder and publisher Tom Foremski has been a vlogger for about a year. The former writer for the Financial Times spoke with PodTech’s John Furrier at the Vloggies, where he discussed the virtues of posting his commentary at any time of day, as well as the ...

Video montage of the Vloggies party in San Francisco. Includes intro by PodTech CEO, John Furrier and interviews with Jerry Zucker - Director/Producer, Airplane!, Naked Gun, Ghost; Kevin Rose - founder, Digg.com, Revision3; Tom Foremski - founder, Silicon Valley Watcher; Dina Kaplan - winner,