At this year’s Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education was among the Microsoft Education Award Laureates. The Institute founded the OER Commons with the goal of sifting through mountains of free information available online, using technology to ...

Hi5 is a very popular social network — 100,000 new people join it every day and it’s the most popular network in many countries like Mexico and in Asia. I sat down with Akash Garg, co-founder and CTO, to find out what Hi5 is up to and also to ...

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 ...

Live, from the “Upload Lounge” at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel Vice President and CIO John “JJ” Johnson spoke with PodTech for this podcast about some of the hot topics being talked about at this year’s Fall IDF.

Johnson talks about the many ways in which Intel’s Enterprise ...

In part 2, Dan Farber continues his moderation of a discussion panel surrounding collaboration and Web 2.0 during the 2007 Office 2.0 conference. Panelists include Scott Dietzen, Etay Gafni, Sam Lawrence, Oliver Marks, Paul Pedrazzi and Jay Simons.

Dan gets more input about ...

This is a question and answer session with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, that I conducted for a workshop on the Transparent Federal Budget project that took place in Austin, Texas last month. The Transparent Federal Budget project is a collaborative, open effort to bring greater ...

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 ...

“Corporate Websites are losing a bit of relevance,” says Bob Duffy, Intel’s online community strategist. “Open Port is Intel’s first public online community targeted at the IT tech enthusiast audience; it’s a central destination for Social Media.”

Because of the Web every company is suddenly a media outlet. Intel says it ...

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, ...

Sun Microsystems leaped ahead of rivals this week with what it claims is the world’s fastest server microprocessor. Analysts such as Nathan Brookwood from Insight64 were impressed. Sun also said that it would open up all of its business units as standalone profit centers in a bid to attract additional ...

Gregory Cypes and Kevin Lawver from AOL hosted an open discussion from MashUp Camp IV and the Computer History Museum. Art in Social Networking is the basis for success across several social Websites. Cypes and Lawver open the floor to what works in the social networking arena. ...

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. ...

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 ...

The best company cultures that work for social media are just like people who embrace conversations and two-way interactions — they are open, trusting and talkative. Jennifer McClure, executive director of the Society for New Communications Research talks to Marketing Voices host Jennifer Jones about corporations like IBM that ...

vSpring v100 member Phil Windley speaks with Dennis Wood about identity management and the emergence of reputation-driven business. He discusses his interest in identity management and reputation systems and the foundational roles these systems play in both the enterprise software and Internet applications spaces. Windley sees the identity ...

Stepped up activity is the underlying theme of this week’s tech round-up on India.

There is stepped up activity in VC funding in India. Two 10-year old companies received $10 million this past week. Sulekha, an Indian social networking site received $10 million in funding from Norwest Venture Partners. ...

It’s freezing cold in Dharamsala, India, in the mountain state of Himachal Pradesh. Clouds chase the sun away, and rain shatters the sky with numbing regularity. But something about this place has a special meaning to everyone who comes here. Once upon a time, it was for a metaphysical search, ...

Driving in Karachi is an exercise in confusion, damped-out road rage and sheer fun. The roads are mostly quite wide, but the combination of a large variety of vehicles and quaint driving styles makes for what the ancient Chinese legendarily called an “interesting life.”

The senior police officer, currently director, cybersecurity, at NASSCOM, India’s IT industry heavyweight association, talks about bringing about awareness on security issues to various stakeholders, including law enforcement, commerce and industry, users and foreign organisations outsourcing work into India.

Critics, enthusiasts, and followers of social media have often pointed out social media’s lower barriers to entry compared to traditional media—it is precisely these lower barriers to entry that have made social media tools a compelling vehicle for educational technology.

In a recent post, Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web ...

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Mike Fridgen of briefly introduces the airline fare prediction site to the audience at Gnomedex, and provides interesting statistics and anecdotes on how Farecast benefited from the blogging and social media community. Fridgen discusses how Techcrunch, Digg, ...

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Dot connectors Kabir Shahani and Mohit Srivasta officially launch Bluedot, a social discovery-inspired service that allows people to share digital information and interesting web content globally. Bluedot attempts to find a balance between social sites that are loaded with information ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — In a panel discussion on the opening day of the VentureOne Summit, panelists Scott Bonham, Managing Director, Granite Global Ventures, Brad Feld, Managing Director, Mobius Venture Capital, and Bill Gross, CEO, Chairman & Founder of IdeaLab, agreed that renewable ...