Archive for February, 2007

Talking search with Dow Jones Vice President

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

It’s not often you get to pick the brain of a Dow Jones and Company Executive Vice President (they own the Wall Street Journal, among many other important media properties) but here we sit down with Clare Hart who has two roles, EVP, and president, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. One powerful and connected woman (she used to be CEO of Factiva). Here we sit down for an interesting chat about the state of the search industry, particularly as it pertains to enterprises (Factiva is a search service that big companies including Microsoft use internally to stay on top of markets).

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Demo of a better bookmark: ClipMarks

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

ClipMarks is shipping a new version today and it’s an innovative service that lets you bookmark and link to information deep inside a page. You can choose a paragraph, a sentence or a picture — or other items — and save those for later, or send them to your friends, or link to them. Here, co-founder of ClipMarks Eric Goldstein, gives us a demo and shows us why this should be useful for you.

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Just released: ClipMarks, new bookmarking and annotation service

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I sit down with Eric Goldstein, co-founder of ClipMarks, to talk about his new company and service (shipping a new version this morning). It’s a cool way to annotate or bookmark pieces of content on Web pages. Very useful.

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Build your own social space with Ning, version 2

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Here Ning co-founder Gina Bianchini, shows off the new Ning social media creation platform. We get an in-depth demo of how Ning (version 2 just released today) enables you to build your own social network.

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Social Networking with Ning, version 2.0

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Ning just released version 2.0 of its social networking platform this morning and here we talk with Marc Andreessen (yeah, the Marc who started Netscape) and co-founder Gina Bianchini, about a whole raft of things from what this new release enables users and developers to do to trends these two are seeing on the Internet.

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RSS in Enterprise? Attensa demo shows how

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Attensa has a range of services aimed at large companies who need to keep up to date and share information via RSS and Atom feeds. Here you’ll see Scott Niesen, director of marketing at Attensa, demonstrate Attensa’s latest RSS aggregators and services.

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Attensa ramps up RSS reader/services

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Scott Niesen, marketing director for Attensa, talks to us about his company’s role in the RSS aggregator and service space. Attensa has a range of feed-reading services aimed at enterprises and it’s interesting to get his view of how companies are using RSS to keep up to date.

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Geeking out in Germany

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Maryam and I head to Freiburg, Germany. Not exactly a place you’d think you’d find geeks, or bloggers, but we did! In between beers (it’s Germany) we got some fun geeks and bloggers onto camera.

Talking about “She’s Such a Geek”

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I’ve been reading an interesting book recently called She’s Such a Geek, which has tons of stories about women who’ve made an impact on the technology world. Here we meet the authors, Charlie and Annalee, and have a conversation about why they wrote the book and what they’ve learned through their research.

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View of a Young European Developer

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

I haven’t been interviewing as many developers as I’d like, so I’m happy that I got to meet Sebastian Moser, a 20-year-old Austrian developer who has been programming since he was 14. He’s working on starting a company, you can read more about that at looocal.wordpress.com, and tells us his view of all things geeky and European.

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