Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Microsoft brings “live” collaboration to the office

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Kirk Gregeresen, director Office Client Product Management and Eric Gilmore, MS Office Product Manager Information Worker group show off a new version of Microsoft’s Office Live which brings far better collaboration features to Office users than they had previously.

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Smugmug brings us “Mugnormous” photos and videos

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Don MacAskill, co-founder and CEO of Smugmug, gives us a little tour of the Smugmug office and also demonstrates for my cameras its new photo and video sharing service which blows away other photo sharing sites on large monitors.

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Beneath great user experiences

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Anthony Franco, President of EffectiveUI, shows me some of the Web apps that his company has created for eBay and gives us the story behind the user experience.

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Creating Killer UIs

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

RJ Owen, Senior Developer at EffectiveUI, talks to me about creating great user experiences for Web apps.

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Creating great UIs for clients

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I sit down with Anthony Franco, President of EffectiveUI and talk about the design process. EffectiveUI creates software for a ton of big companies including eBay, Microsoft, and others.

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Searching for the best video

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Gary Baker, CEO of Clipblast shows me its new video search. This is a good way to find videos from mainstream TV and he talks about what differentiates Clipblast from other video search engines.

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Let’s Disqus a new commenting system for your blog

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Daniel Ha, CEO of Disqus, talks to me about its new commenting system that tons of popular bloggers, like Dave Winer, are using on their blogs.

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Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee and the Web Science Research Initative

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

After his talk Tim Berners-Lee took questions from the audience on a variety of topics including what should Facebook look like in five years?

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Interview with inventor of the Web

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

After his talk at HP Labs on Tuesday I got a chance to sit down with the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Here’s that interview where we talk about his passions and his view of what will happen in social software and the future of the Web.

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Inventor of the Web talks about future of the Web

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Tim Berners-Lee, on Tuesday, visited HP Labs in Palo Alto where he talked with employees and the press about the trends he’s seen happen on the Web and where its future lies. He’s working with the Web Science Research Initiative and the University of Southampton in England on a variety of research initiatives, mostly focused around developing technologies for the semantic Web and social software. He talked at length about the coming shift of the Web away from pages to more granular information that can be displayed as pages, as graphs, or in other ways.

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