Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

Meet the techie “sister” behind Vatican’s Website

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Sister Judith Zoebelein, editorial director of the Holy See, runs the team that builds the Vatican’s Website. We have a fun talk at the recent LIFT conference, where we discuss the challenges of building a site for one of the world’s oldest organizations.

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Meet best-known German blogger

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Nicole Simon is the German blogger we see most often at various conferences around the world. She’s a geek — and more — and here we get to know her a little bit better, and hear why she does so many podcasts of conference speakers at conferences like LIFT, which is where we caught up with her.

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Get into the Seagate car at CES

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Seagate was showing off — at the recent Consumer Electronics Show — when it spotlighted innovative Scion to demonstrate the kinds of entertainment and navigational systems that’ll soon be arriving in cars. Join Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global consumer hard disc drives, as he gives us a tour of the Seagate-powered Scion.

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Seagate’s Home Entertainment Booth at CES

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Here we meet with David Burks who is the senior manager of consumer electronics marketing at Seagate and get a look at what Seagate is doing for home entertainment. Love that media storage farm!

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Looking for Investments at CES

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Jim Jones is a managing director at Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital firm which invests in emerging tech and healthcare companies. Jim’s focus is on semiconductors and consumer electronics, so we met with him last week at CES to see what he was seeing on the show floor.

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From CES: Retrevo Gang, Day 3 - Gadgets galore

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Here, on the final day of the Retrevo Gang from the Seagate booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, Vipin Jain, Retrevo’s CEO, and Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s biggest gadget freak get together to wrap up what they saw on the show floor with me.

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Just walking through CES

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

We wanted to see how long it’d take to walk through the main hall at CES from one end to the other. Along the way you get a sense of just how big this is. Keep in mind you only saw one floor in this walk and there’s an entire other conference hall (which alone is far bigger than Mac World) that you haven’t seen yet.

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Seeing the Seagate Booth with Jim Druckrey

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Jim Druckrey tells me about what Seagate is trying to do with its booth at the Consumer Electronics Show and gives me a quick tour of its new products and branding. By the way, if Jim’s face looks familiar, this might explain why.

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The Great and Grand Mary Jo Foley

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Maryam Scoble ran into Mary Jo Foley at the BlogHaus, where she talked about why her name was once feared on the Microsoft Campus, why she covers Microsoft topics and what she is working on now.

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Girl Geek: Meet Sarah Blow, founder of Girl Geek Dinners

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Maryam sits down with Sarah Blow. She’s a programmer with a phone company in London and hated that she didn’t see many girl geeks at parties. Worse, she was accused of being a marketer, which rubbed her the wrong way. Funny, when she said she wasn’t a marketer, Hugh Macleod said “bull****.” Ahh, we were having fun interviewing her in the hotel where Hugh Macleod was staying.


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