Archive for December, 2006

Breakfast with Sam Sethi and the London geeks

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Sam Sethi is one of the most connected geeks in London (he used to run TechCrunch UK) and we sat down with him and a few of his friends for a fun breakfast. We talk about the five things geeks want for Christmas. What do you want for Christmas? The place we’re in is the “Home House” in London, which is where a bunch of tech startups are “incubating.” Sam turns the camera around on me. Makes a common beginner mistake (shoots into a bright window) but you can hear my wishes.


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Google’s Shashi Seth has your custom search engine

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Shashi Seth runs Google Co-op, which is a set of services that let you build your own custom search engine and add that to your blog or site. What’s cool about that? Well, you could add a search box to your site that lets your users just search your site’s info, or just search your friend’s sites. We sit down and learn more about that, and get a good demo of how you can do it on your own site. You can see the custom search engine in action on Shashi’s own blog (about wine): http://grapejooz.blogspot.com.


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Mark Lucovsky adds Google bling to your blog

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Mark Lucovsky runs the Ajax Search service at Google and sits down for both an in-depth interview about what he’s been working on, but then pulls out some cool demos of ways you can add search to your blog that’ll look cool and be functional.

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StumbleUpon new and fun videos with this new service

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

We sit down with StumbleUpon’s chief architect, Garrett Camp, and David Feller, VP of marketing, and talk about the success Stumbleupon has seen (about 1.5 million users in just a few months) as well as get a look at the new video version of Stumbleupon that opens tonight.

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Demo of StumbleUpon, surfing tool for the community-driven Internet

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Ever have half an hour to just waste and wondered what cool stuff is there on the Internet? Well, StumbleUpon is the answer. They have 1.5 million people who are adding sites and rating them. It makes for a fun experience and you’ll find more fun new Web sites with StumbleUpon than any other tool or service we’ve seen. Here we get a demo from co-founder and Chief Architect Garrett Camp.


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Talking about email with Sendmail founder

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

A large percentage of the world’s email is sent using the Sendmail protocol, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, so I sat down with Eric Allman, founder of Sendmail, to talk about what’s happened in the 25-year history of Sendmail.


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Talking Gadgets with NETGEAR’s CEO

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

NETGEAR makes a lot of the world’s WiFi devices, among other consumer electronics gadgets. Since it’s getting close to CES time, we thought we’d come over and meet up with Patrick Lo, CEO of NETGEAR.


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TailRank the memetracker that lets you see what blogs are talking about

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Kevin Burton, founder of TailRank, gives us a demo of his memetracker which shows what the hottest conversations are in the blogosphere.


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Conversation with Memetracker developer Kevin Burton

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Kevin Burton is a talented developer who has worked on a variety of startups already including Rojo, and now TailRank which he started to be able to see what bloggers were talking about. Here I sit down with him for an interesting conversation in the lobby of San Francisco’s Palace Hotel.


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Distribute huge files easier, cheaper, faster with Pando

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

How do you get a big file from your computer to someone else’s computer? Pando Networks has a peer-to-peer way to do just that. Yaron Samid, Pando Networks’ founder, gives me a tour.


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