Archive for November, 2006

Content collaboration for enterprises with Koral’s Mark Suster

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

We met up with Koral’s CEO, Mark Suster and talk about content management inside enterprises. We also talk about startup success in downtimes (his last company did well through the bad times of 2001-2003).


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Koral, content collaboration for enterprises, demonstrated

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Ever have an Excel file that was emailed around only to have someone change a formula, which made everyone else out of sync? Well, Koral has found a unique way to make sure your employees collaborate with each other and stay in sync. Here co-founder Tim Barker gives us a quick tour around Koral, which they say does content collaboration right.


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Blogtronix built white label “Channel 9″ for enterprises

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Hear how Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, has built a white-label turnkey “Channel 9” for your company. Channel 9 is Microsoft’s videoblog/social software community. Blogtronix has blogs, a social network, wikis, video, audio, and all the stuff an enterprise would need to have both a private and a public social site.


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Blogtronix demoed: a turnkey social software system for your enterprise

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

If you’ve been over to Microsoft’s Channel 9, a social-software community and videoblog that Microsoft built, you’ve seen the power of having a videoblog combined with a forum combined with a wiki. Maybe you’d like to have a Channel 9 of your own at your company but don’t know how to get started. Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, demonstrates how his company takes care of everything.


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Meet the Social Software Associate Professor: Liz Lawley

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

After the recent Blog Business Summit Maryam sat down with Liz Lawley, who teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology (teaching really doesn’t define what she does — she’s also the director of RIT’s lab for Social Computing), and just completed a stint at Microsoft Research. She’s one of the people we trust to tell us what’s going on in the world of social software. Hear what she’s up to lately and get some insights into the Web 2.0 and social computing world. Also she discusses her Personal Ubiquitous Library Project.


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One of the Top Zuma players shows her tricks

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Kim Sacha is one of the top Zuma players (a popular game on Xbox 360) in the world and she shows us how she does it. Why is this important? Because casual gamers are turning out to be an important market for game designers. Also, women are changing the face of gaming and you get a look at why she got into the game, and get some tips for Zuma playing of your own.


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Bookmarking, tagging, and social software comes to the Enterprise

Monday, November 27th, 2006

When you have hundreds — or even thousands — of people working together at the same company, keeping track of all of that knowledge is important. The problem is that before now no one liked using knowledge management systems. When I left Microsoft and NEC I left with gigs of knowledge locked up in email systems. Puneet Gupta, CEO of ConnectBeam, believes he has a better way. Here, he discusses how Web 2.0 concepts are changing enterprise software.


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New corporate knowledge management system demonstrated

Monday, November 27th, 2006

We’ve all seen enterprise knowledge management systems that no one uses. ConnectBeam’s CEO, Puneet Gupta, demonstrates a new kind of knowledge management system that uses Web 2.0 concepts.


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Get a tour of Google’s Kirkland Office

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Peter Wilson and Steve Yegge give me a tour around Google’s Kirkland office. Fun tour, we even interview the chef.

LINK: http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=why-wa-ki.html

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Quick demo of Microsoft Expression Web

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Wayne Smith, product manager on Microsoft’s Expression Web team, takes us on a quick tour through Expression Web.

LINK: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/web_designer/default.mspx


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