One of the companies with something big to announce at DEMO 07 was ThePort, which premiered Blerts. Here, PodTech Founder John Furrier talks with ThePort Network CEO and Chairman Robert Cramer about the future of social media.

Photo: Rob Lee via Flickr/Creative Commons

The first amendment has always been nettlesome, but a thriving online community of bloggers is proof that excercising constitutional freedoms can be healthy and profitable. Blogs they also have a tendency to rock the boat, raising new challenges for corporations — and the courts — to navigate. This case began ...

While many Americans are thinking about going green by buying smaller cars, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety cautions motorists that real-life crash test results show any car that’s very small and light isn’t the best safety choice when there are large SUV’s on the roadways. The Institute just ...

Lee Gibbons talks about how Podango plays in the space by offering a content distribution platform. He shares his vision on where the future of content delivery is going, and he predicts a future where all content, not just the “hits,” will be able to find an audience ...

George Wright, marketing director at Blendtec, invited us back stage for the filming of Blendtec’s next Will it Blend? video. Currently YouTube’s #3 most watched video producer, Blendtec has found an amazing ROI for their $50 marketing spend. With over 6 million visitors to their WillitBlend.com ...

Shan Appajodu of RingCube Technologies talks about MojoPac - his company’s cool new technology that has been variously described as “a computer in your pocket” or “pour your PC into your pocket.”

Recently, MojoPac won the DemoGod award in San Diego, where they first unveiled their product.

Shan ...

Launched today, George Zachary talks about Charles River Ventures‘ QuickStart program, a seed funding program to jumpstart “capital lite” companies. He talks about the benefits to entrepreneurs, why it’s good timing for the current landscape, and why he is excited about it. With 1,000 emails in the QuickStart quickstart@crv.com ...

In this podcast, we hear from Kim Hatfield, group IT manager for community services, on how the County of San Diego has implemented EMC Documentum across a broad range of content applications. Learn what factors the County of San Diego considered when developing their content management strategy for applications as diverse as geographic survey records and online job application processes. Additionally, you’ll hear why they chose the EMC Documentum platform to support the needs of fifty different departments.

The Home Depot discusses standardizing on the EMC Documentum content management platform. In this podcast, you’ll learn what criteria The Home Depot used when choosing EMC Documentum as their Enterprise Content Management platform. In this episode, you will hear Lee Dallas, systems architect at The Home Depot, discuss his experience ...

Most Silicon Valley technocrats will recognize three of the four people in this picture. They are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, and John Doerr from Kliener Perkins Caufield & Byers.

But you might not recognize the recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Dr. Yunus ...

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 ...

Even Tim Bray is blown away at the popularity of XML. He was one of the co-creators of the XML spec back in the mid 1990s and in this audio interview he and I talk about the state of XML and get his views on what the future holds for ...

LOS ANGELES, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — A group of hackers, human rights workers, lawyers and artists today launched a new web browser to protect computer users from hostile governments who would seek to identify them. Called “Torpark,” the program changes the unique numbers used by websites to identify individual computers online every few minutes. It was created by Hactivismo, a consortium that evolved from the Texas-based hacker organization “Cult of the Dead Cow.”

MENLO PARK, September 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Nintendo has received its first batch of CPU’s for the Wii gaming console. Named “Broadway,” the chips are manufactured by IBM and are key to Wii’s architecture. IDC Senior Industry Analyst IdaRose Sylvester spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about what this means for Wii’s initial launch.

MENLO PARK, September 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel Corporation director Will Swope said today that his company’s new vPro technology package will make life for IT managers a whole lot easier. Swope, who directs Intel’s digital enterprise management division, talked with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about the business PC platform that Intel rolled out today.

LOS ANGELES, August 31, 2006 (PodTech News) — It seems a day doesn’t go by without another cyber attack from hackers, spammers, phishers or those seeking to steal your identity. But are we under attack more than ever before? PodTech’s Matt Kelly put that and other questions to Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility.

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 ...

Niall Kennedy was on the job for only three months. Hey how long can you sit around waiting to build a platfrom. Google is expanding and MSN seems to be cutting back according to Niall. Bummer the project sounded perfect for Niall and for MSN. ...

Here is a GeekCast from friends in SLC. Robert was there as part of his road trip to the “off the grid” in Montana… Thanks to Laura Moncur for posting the video. Looks like a great time.

Also coverage by M. David Peterson who posts ...

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At Gnomedex, blogging, RSS, and podcasting pioneer looks back on the past and ahead to the future, given the evolution of Internet, computing, and the new economics of decentralization. In a world shifting towards user-driven ideation, Winer envisions creativity as ...

At Web2.0 I sat down with Ron Rasmussen the CTO of KnowNow. KnowNow is doing some very interesting things with RSS and distribution of content.

Steve Jobs Keynote at MacWorld. PodTech News on the scene records Steve Jobs as he highlights the Macworld’s newest and brightest unveilings. In his normal command of the audience he unveiled many new initiatives. Most impressive were the Intel relationship and new MacBook Pro. Here is ...

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. ...

Multimedia formats are changing the landscape of the search business. Yahoo’s multimedia guru Jeff Karnes talks with me about ‘multimedia’ search and how it is developing.

Multimedia search is one of those things that not alot of people are talking about but is a big deal. As ...

SUNNYVALE, CA, December 14, 2005 (PodTech News): Today Yahoo! launched “My Subscriptions,” a new Yahoo! Podcasts feature that helps people keep track of all their podcast subscriptions in one online location at http://podcasts.yahoo.com/my.

If a consumer listens to podcasts directly from their web browser, they can ...