At MashUp Camp 4 at the Computer History Museum, Plaxo showed its Pulse application, which looks very much like FaceBook, with similar features. Are we heading into a mashup world where everything shares addresses, photos, movies, etc? Does FaceBook hold pole position?

SJ Klein is director of content at the One Laptop Per Child project. The vision of the project is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. And one such way is through a very inexpensive yet rugged laptop. OLPC is the ...

We spent the weekend at the Get Tough or Die Farm (a.k.a. Tanja’s mother’s house). When neighborhood cats and children aren’t disappearing in the “Tomato Triangle,” they’re dodging the assault of the trained attack rabbits, and let’s not even mention the sunflowers. It was a most relaxing weekend, filled with ...

MixerCast’s CEO, Jennifer Cooper, demonstrates how to use Mixercast to build new “media stories” that include photography, music, photos, and other media. Here we mix up an interview and get a demo of Mixercast too.

What do you get when you throw a productive photographer into a show with 2,000 machines? Sheer chaos, that’s what. Oh, and some great photos! Come along for Half Moon Bay’s Dream Machines show, where you follow Thomas Hawk along for some of his photo shooting and get to ...

AeroVironment is a Monrovia, Calif.-based pioneer in the conception and development of alternative energy vehicles, having helped to develop the solar-powered GM Sunraycer and the all-electric GM Impact, a prototype for General Motors’ EV-1 electric automobile, and others. If you watched the movie, Who Killed the ...

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 ...

In this podcast, sounds from the floor of INTEROP 2007. At the NETGEAR booth, PodTech’s Michael Johnson talks with a number of conference participants who share their thoughts on SMB challenges, and their experience using NETGEAR in their everyday work lives.

Adobe Photoshop is probably the best-known of Adobe’s applications because it’s used to edit much of the world’s photographs. Here I meet with Adobe’s John Nack and get an insider’s look at the latest Photoshop.

I caught up with Sean Penn (no, not the actor), vice president of Roxio Labs, at a recent promotional event at the House of Shields in San Francisco. Roxio Labs is Roxio’s sandbox for new beta software, previews and freeware. Sean shows me two products from the lab, ...

SNiPiTRON is an interesting service geared toward academics and researchers who want to collect Web pages, photos, videos, PDF documents and other files into online projects. Ryan Rouland, one of SNiPiTRON’s founders, stopped by the Hat Factory to have awesome sandwiches from Hazel’s Kitchen and to take ...

If you use photo sharing sites you might not be aware of some of the kinds of stories you can create with your photography. Here, Simple Star’s CEO, Chad Richard, shows me how to use his company’s service, PhotoShow, to create really great photo stories.

Chad Richard, CEO of Simple Star, tells me about his services that help photographers create stories for their friends and families. Great for people who want to use photos in a new way.

Here we continue our Photowalk around Half Moon Bay with a 600mm monster lens where we take photos of people looking at tide pools, stunt bikers jumping over rocks, and more surfers. All while meeting some of the 25 people who showed up for the Photowalk. Next Photowalk, by ...

To the average Web surfer, SplashCast is an embedded multimedia slideshow viewer. To a publisher, SplashCast is a distribution platform for pushing out audio, video, photos, PowerPoint, PDF documents and RSS feeds to blogs and other websites. At the recent Podcast Hotel, I caught up with Alex Williams, ...

SXSW is all about people. Amazing people. I took a lot of photos at this year’s SXSW and some of those were of the band The Go Station. After their set, I went up to the lead singer and showed him the photos I had taken. He ...

This part two of the photowalking tour of San Francisco’s Chinatown district led by Thomas Hawk. Joining Thomas is Andy Williams, Kristopher Tate, Matt Roe, Andrew Moore and others as they document the streets and alleys of Chinatown.

Thomas Hawk leads a photowalking tour through San Francisco’s Chinatown district. He’s joined by Kristopher Tate, Matt Roe, Andrew Moore and others as they capture the detailed visual landscape this section of the city has to offer. Podtech’s Eddie Codel runs camera on this one. ...

In our second review of videobloggingweek2007, Irina tallies up the hundreds of videos submitted so far and picks out three vloggers she likes: the indefatigable TwitterVlog, the decidedly un-medical Out On the Stoop and the stories behind the photos of Completely Known.

Originally from Texas, this modder goes by the handle “Envador.” He graduated from the University of Texas in 2000, and he’s been living in Southern California for the past 4 years, where he and his wife were married in the fall of 2005. He works at an A/V electronics company ...

Get just the facts with the highlights of our interview with MixPo’s President, Anupam Gupta, as he shows us how to build stories with video, audio, and photos – all in the single MixPo player.

Anupam Gupta, President of MixPo, takes us around his new media widget that lets people tell stories with video, audio, photos, and other graphical details. All in one player. This video includes both an interview with Anupam as well as a demo of the MixPo player.

Passionate Kevin Schofield continues us on the tour of Microsoft Research’s TechFest. Interesting demos you’ll see on this second part?

Rocky picked the coolest stuff off of the Microsoft Research TechFest Tour so if you only have 16 minutes, you can see our favorite stuff from the tour (part 1 of the full tour is about an hour long, so we’ve edited it down into three more shorter videos — ...

Kevin Schofield invited me up to see Microsoft Research’s TechFest. We get to see a TON of cool stuff (some of the coolest research ever). Kevin is the guy responsible for moving technology from Research into the product teams, so he seems to know everyone working on Research and ...