The founder of Futuretext, a technology book publisher, is Ajit Jaokar and here he sits down with me to talk about the mobile Web. He wrote a book on that topic and is one of the world’s experts on mobile Web trends.
Tags: Futuretext, Ajit Jaokar, mobile Web
ScreencastsOnline.com is a popular site to learn new things on the Macintosh. Everyday Don fires up his Mac and teaches you to do something cool. Learn more about what’s behind this interesting business (yes, business, he quit his day job to do this full time).
Tags: ScreencastsOnline.com, Macintosh, Mac
Amit Kothari, the founder of a Web 2.0 site that’ll bring you cool quotations, sits down with me for an interesting talk about developing such a service and trends in the Web industry.
Tags: Amit Kothari, Web 2.0
Disclaimer: Seagate sponsors my show, which I greatly appreciate — that sponsorship lets me continue bringing you all the other people and products you see here (no one else pays to be here).
Here’s our second entry in a series where we’re getting around inside Seagate to learn about what Seagate — which has the biggest marketshare of any hard drive/storage manufacturer — is trying to do. Rob Pait sits down with me for an interview. He’s an interesting guy, is director of global consumer electronics marketing and he shows us one of the new products Seagate is going to announce at CES — a 60GB 1.8-inch hard drive designed for mobile media players (like iPods or Zunes).
Tags: Seagate, Rob Pait, consumer electronics, CES
Heather Champ is one of our favorite photographers. Not only is she the community contact at Flickr, but she’s the co-founder of JPG Magazine. Here Thomas Hawk and I follow her around as she shows off how she makes unique images with Polaroid cameras. Neat stuff, although who knew we’d have an analog camera on Photowalking? Not me. Unfortunately we were having some problems with Heather’s microphone, sorry for the occasional pops.
Tags: Heather Champ, Flickr, JPG Magazine, Photowalking
Maryam sits down with Sarah Blow. She’s a programmer with a phone company in London and hated that she didn’t see many girl geeks at parties. Worse, she was accused of being a marketer, which rubbed her the wrong way. Funny, when she said she wasn’t a marketer, Hugh Macleod said “bull****.” Ahh, we were having fun interviewing her in the hotel where Hugh Macleod was staying.
Tags: Maryam, Sarah Blow, London, girl geeks, Hugh Macleod
Are you an entrepreneur thinking about going for venture capital? Well, Philip Baddeley works with startups in Cambridge, England, and helps entrepreneurs know what to expect and prepare their pitches. I found him interesting to talk with, and he gave me lots of good information on how to approach the venture capital industry, not just in England, but anywhere.
Tags: Philip Baddeley, England
Ken Thompson studies how animals work together and applies that to finding ways for humans to work together better, too — he calls the methodology “BioTeaming.” I found his viewpoint to be different (he lives in Belfast, Ireland, so he comes at the world from a few different viewpoints than folks in Silicon Valley do), refreshing, and worth considering for your teams.
Tags: Ken Thompson, BioTeaming, Ireland, Silicon Valley
Ken Thompson built a system for people to work together better based on his understanding of how animals work together better. Here he demos his system, which he calls the toolset for Bioteams.
Tags: Ken Thompson, Bioteams
What happens when we get a bunch of geeks get together on a Friday afternoon in London? The “Pissed as Newts” tour! Here’s a small part of the tour (we visited five pubs). You get to watch Hugh Macleod draw one of his famous little drawings on the backs of business cards for his blog at www.gapingvoid.com. In the background are about 20 London geeks. The rest of the tour? It was off the record. 
In the second half of the video, we speak with Hugh during a London taxi ride — you’ll also meet software developer Sarah Blow, founder of Girl Geek Dinners — where we have a fun conversation.
Tags: geeks, Pissed as Newts, Hugh Macleod, Sarah Blow
