Classic ScobleShow

Eric Zocher and Wayne Smith sit down to talk with me about Microsoft’s Expression Web, a new tool for helping design and develop Web sites. Interesting discussion about Microsoft’s approach to Web development and design teams and the tools they’ll need.

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

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Tags: Eric Zocher, Wayne Smith, Microsoft, Expression Web, Web development

Jan Kabili, who does Photoshop Online TV, continues her lessons of how to make your photos look better with Adobe Photoshop. In Part II, she goes into sharpening and other Photoshop techniques that you should know to make your photos better.

Tags: Jan Kabili, Photoshop Online TV, Adobe, Photoshop

Jan Kabili, who does Photoshop Online TV, comes over to my house to teach Thomas Hawk a bunch of Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks. In Part I he gets schooled on Adobe Bridge, which is a great program to bring RAW images into your computer and do some basic pre-processing.

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Tags: Jan Kabili, Photoshop Online TV, Thomas Hawk, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge

Robert Holcomb, director of product management at SOASTA, gives me a demo of their automated Web testing tool and its unique, Apple Garage Band-like interface.

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Tags: Robert Holcomb, SOASTA

Ken Gardner, founder and executive chairman of SOASTA, explains what’s behind his new startup which builds visual tools to automate web testing. Ken’s an interesting guy, believes that enterprise software needs a user interface that looks more like Apple’s Garage Band and less like SAP’s interface. One thing that caught my eye? He gives me a tour and every employee had a 30-inch Apple monitor along with both a MacPro and a MacBookPro (and every employee has another 30-inch monitor at home). Listen to the interview to find out why.

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Tags: Ken Gardner, SOASTA

Bill Watkins, the CEO of Seagate, sits down with me for a half hour conversation that covers everything from why Seagate is sponsoring my show to the technology behind its largest hard drives (Seagate makes the largest single hard drives available today, 750GB).

Tags: Bill Watkins, Seagate

She’s Microsoft’s “BlogQueen” and used to run the site that holds most of Microsoft’s employee blogs, blogs.msdn.com, but now she’s working on Windows Live QnA site, which is a place where you can ask questions and get answers (or answer other people’s questions). She talks with Maryam here after the recent Blog Business Summit about the QnA site and other things Microsoft.

Tags: Microsoft, Windows Live QnA

Hamid Shojaee, CEO of Axosoft, shows off Axosoft’s OnTime software management system. The system lets your development team track issues through either a Web interface or one built into Visual Studio.

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Tags: Hamid Shojaee, Axosoft, OnTime

I meet Hamid Shojaee, CEO of Axosoft, and we talk about his tool, which helps software development teams ship on time (software development process manager). It’s a remarkable application (our engineers checked it out) that tracks bugs, issues, and keeps track of code. Hamid also lays out the industry and talks about the strengths and weaknesses of Axosoft’s offering when compared to its competitors.

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Tags: Hamid Shojaee, Axosoft

Here Adam Gross, vice president of developer marketing at Salesforce.com, demonstrates the latest developer-centric version of the site.

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Tags: Adam Gross, Salesforce.com