Last October, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, suddenly placing Facebook’s value at a lofty $15 billion. Now, we see that revenues for 2007 came to around $150 million, while expenses still leave the company with a negative cash flow that could be as high as $150 million next ...

Twenty-five million visitors a month for Facebook applications! ROCKYOU is like a clothing accessory store for the Web, and people are going nuts for it. It is having enormous success with advertisers. Roy Choy, VP Of Business Development for ROCKYOU, talks to Jennifer Jones about how well a ...

One problem with existing contextual advertising is that it isn’t very contextual when placed on blogs and other Web information. For instance in Google’s advertising. Proximic, today, is releasing a new search platform that’s taken five years to develop. They demonstrate how it could be used on blogs and ...

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 ...

Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes speaks with John Ince about how you can personalize and mashup your homepage choosing your favorite news, weather, sports, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email, calendar, etc. from over 240,000 widgets, and then publish your customized homepage to other users using their “Pagecasting” application.

Vision and viewpoints from Donna Raines, Product Marketing Manager, WebEx Connect Marketplace. An architecture, functionality and feature discussion with Steve Levine of WebEx.

I caught up with Iftach Ian Amit from Finjan right after his talk at Defcon. He explained why widgets and gadgets on various websites and platforms are inherently insecure, despite the fact that standards exist to create secure gadgets. No platform is safe from these insecurities, as ...

In this podcast, Steve Levine, manager of the WebEx Connect Developer Community, speaks with Chuck Fuller, senior architect at WebEx. The two discuss widgets, enterprise 2.0 and how WebEx Connect helps business grade mashups based on the company’s SOA and SAS platforms.

“Dontcha” (iPhone remix) - Featuring Randi Jayne, David Prager, Irina Slutsky and directed by Nora McDevitt.

In this podcast, Steve Levine, manager of the WebEx Connect Developer Community, is in conversation with Rohit Deep, senior architect at WebEx. They talk about the origins of WebEx Connect, the design goals, and the features that make WebEx Connect unique.

Max Levchin (Slide.com/PayPal) during the Supernova 2007 Conference was a speaker on Dark Matter: Are We Missing the Real Internet Economy? Among topics like the real financial backbone of the Internet, Max also brings forward the infancy of new market monetization. The iPhone platform works with ...

I love Goowy’s YourMini’s customized start page, which gives you tons of widgets that make your life better. Here, Gary Benitt, COO, demonstrates YourMinis.

Customized start pages with tons of widgets are hot and Goowy’s yourminis is one of the best. Here we talk with Alex Bard, Goowy’s CEO and Gary Benitt, COO about yourminis.

I recently sat down with VodPod CEO Mark Hall at his San Francisco office. VodPod is an interesting video aggregation and sharing service that works by building ‘pods’ of videos by using the sharing embed code of popular video hosting sites. These pods can then appear as sidebar widgets ...

Eddie Codel and Irina Slutsky sit down with Alex Bard of Goowy Media at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Alex takes us on a tour of yourminis, a rich desktop and browser based widgets application. You’ll never think of the desktop in the same way ...

AOL’s Stephen Benedict announced today at the WebGuild.org annual conference that AOL is opening up APIs for their ‘crown jewel’ AIM Instant Messenger. AOL execs talked with PodTech’s CEO John Furrier in Santa Clara GigaOm had the story yesterday. Here is a video interview with AOL’s Principle Product Manager Stephen Benedict on their new strategy and Open API initiative.

Steve Jobs continues the countdown of ten Leopard features in part three of his keynote address from the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Enhancements to iChat elicited the biggest buzz from the crowd of 4,000 software developers. Those enhancements include a slideshow feature within ...

Yahoo puts out a major release of Konfabulator (3.0). I had a chat with Toni Schneider, Yahoo’s VP of the Developer Network, about this big news for the Yahoo developer group. More on the upcoming Podcast here at PodTech (Toni was busy working all weekend so ...