Classic ScobleShow

You might have heard of John Battelle. He plans the Web 2.0 Summits, wrote a book about Google, runs an online advertising company, among many other things. I spent some time with him this week talking about his predictions (which, for the past few years, have turned out to be quite accurate) as well as his advertising business, Federated Media, which provides advertising and revenues for famous blogs like Boing Boing and TechCrunch.

Tags: John Battelle, Web 2.0, Google, Federated Media, Boing Boing, TechCrunch

Dopplr is a service for frequent business travelers that helps them let their friends know where they are. It’s popular. Wikipedia’s founder says it’s one of his favorite sites. Here we get a demo and hear from the geek behind the site, CTO Matt Biddulph, who gives us more details about how the service works and what you can do with it. I interviewed him from the seats the the LeWeb3 conference where they turned on the service for the first time.

Tags: Dopplr, Matt Biddulph, LeWeb3

Dopplr is a really cool way to let everyone know where you are while you travel on business. It’s a service that’s gotten very popular with many of us in the tech community and here you meet Lisa Sounio, CEO of Dopplr. We catch up to her in a car on the way to the LeWeb3 conference in Paris. Sorry it’s so dark, but we think you’ll enjoy this interview anyway where you get some insights into her company.

Tags: Dopplr, Lisa Sounio, LeWeb3

Sean Tierney, co-founder and COO of JumpBox, shows me how to create a complex database server within seconds by using JumpBox.

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Tags: Sean Tierney, JumpBox

Eight minutes of select video with Fotonation’s CEO and CTO.

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Eric Zarakov, vice president of marketing, and Eran Steinberg, CEO of Fotonation, Inc. talk to me about the digital photography world and the technology that they’ve put inside 80 million cameras that do things from face detection to red-eye elimination.

Tags: Eric Zarakov, Eran Steinberg, Fotonation, photography, face detection, red-eye elimination

A saturated and short extraction of the Twine interview. Got a quick 10 minutes?

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Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks demonstrates its new Twine service which goes way beyond other Web bookmarking and collecting tools. It’s hard to explain what this tool does because we haven’t seen a tool that does a lot of what Twine does before. Once you try it, though, you’ll want everything on the Web to behave like this.

Tags: Nova Spivack, Radar Networks, Twine

Anoop Bhattacharjya, CTO, gives me the details behind Asterpix‘ very cool new interactive video technologies that let video content creators put clickable links on top of the video (and a whole lot more).

Tags: Anoop Bhattacharjya, Asterpix, interactive video

Nat Kausik, CEO of Asterpix, shows me more of the ways that video creators can use Asterpix to add links to certain parts of the video, to interact with the surrounding area, to add clickable areas to the video, and much much more. This is some of the coolest video technology I’ve seen lately and will let us create new kinds of interactive video experiences.

Tags: Nat Kausik, Asterpix, interactive video