Archive for October, 2006

Sphere CEO demos new blogsearch bookmarklet

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Tony Conrad, Sphere’s CEO (they make a nice blog search engine) shows me a cool new bookmarklet for bloggers that can help you figure out who is talking about a specific topic.

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Tour Gadget Geek’s Home

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Ryan Block is managing editor of Engadget.com and he invited me over to get a tour of his San Francisco “crib.” We see, and talk about, dozens of gadgets from cameras to cell phones to HDTVs.

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Demo of new shopping search engine: Become.com

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

This Christmas, Michael Yang hopes you’ll use his search engine to find things to buy for your friends and family. Here, the CEO of Become.com demos what he says makes his service better for shopping than other search engines.

Go shopping with Become.com’s CEO

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Go Shopping! Here we interview Michael Yang, CEO of Become.com, which is a new shopping search engine. They claim that it works better than Google for when you’re looking for products to buy. Hear what he sees as his advantages for shoppers.

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Wordpressing with Automattic’s CEO, Toni Schneider

Monday, October 16th, 2006

PodTech is built on top of Wordpress, a blogging and content management package from Automattic. Here we sit down with Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic, to talk about a variety of things — from Om Malik to splogs and what Automattic is doing about that problem.

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Demo: Scrapblog — multimedia blogging

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Create your own multimedia scrapbook online with Scrapblog. Here CEO Carlos Garcia gives you a good tour. Don’t miss the book that he made with Scrapblog!

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Demo: Cuts enables new movie/video editing

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Ever need to cut something out of a movie? Or want to come up with a custom edit, but didn’t know how to do it? Well, Cuts is a new way to watch your movies and here CEO Evan Krauss gives you a demo of how it works.

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Editing your movies with Cuts’ CEO

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Evan Krauss had a problem - his kids were scared by certain parts of certain movies. So he wanted to cut them out, but found that the process of doing that (ripping the DVDs onto his computer, then using editing software, then saving the movie back to a DVD) was too hard and time consuming. Solution? Cuts. Here he talks about what Cuts does and why he thinks it’s important. We caught him preparing for a big demo at the famous Demo conference.

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Brad Chase Demonstrates Vizrea Mobile Blogging

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

If you hear the name “Brad Chase,” do you think of the Internet? I do. He was one of the key executives at Microsoft and helped build Internet Explorer, among other things. So, when he said he had something cool to show me, I was very interested. Here he shows us Vizrea, which is a mobile blogging service.

Brad Chase on Vizrea, mobile blogging

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Brad Chase, a former Microsoft executive, came over to PodTech’s offices to talk about blogging and mobile devices. He’s now an investor in Vizrea and talks about why he’s excited about the company.

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