Archive for May, 2007

Editor’s Choice: Highlights of Real Networks’ new RealPlayer

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Here are the highlights of the new RealPlayer that Jeff Chasen, vice president at Real Networks, showed me. Highlights? It lets you download YouTube videos (and other online videos) for offline viewing so you can watch your favorite videos while on, say, an airplane.

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Real Networks announces new offline player for YouTube

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Jeff Chasen, vice president of Real Networks, gave me an exclusive look at the new Real Networks’ RealPlayer, which will let you download YouTube videos (and other online videos) and store them for offline viewing. We also catch up on a variety of other things (and I ask him some questions about things that have made users mad about Real Player in the past).

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Editor’s Choice: Highlights of GroupScope interview and demo

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

In this Editor’s Choice, we show you the highlights of an interview and demo that Brad Cohen, director of Applied Research at GroupScope did to show how it can present information in new, more graphical, ways so you can more easily visualize networks.

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Visualize networks in new way with GroupScope

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Brad Cohen, director of applied research at GroupScope, shows me his new system that presents information in more graphical ways so you can more easily visualize networks.

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Demo of Geni: more social genealogy service

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Here, David Sacks, co-founder and CEO of Geni, demonstrates a new kind of genealogy software that lets you stay in touch with your family tree in a new way.

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Talking about your family tree on Geni

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

David Sacks, co-founder & CEO of Geni, talks with me about genealogy and how software is enabling a new (and more social) way of keeping in touch with your family members and learning about your family’s past. Don’t know who David Sacks is? He’s a co-founder of PayPal too.

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Sneak peak: speech to text technology

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Dave Grannan CEO, and Mike Phillips, CTO, of a new company that’ll come out this fall give us a sneak peak at technology that’ll come to cell phones that’ll let you talk with them. The company is code-named Mobeus (they don’t have a Web site yet). They are funded by Charles River Ventures, and we’ll bring you more news as they get their product ready for market.

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Demo of Goowy’s YourMinis

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

I love Goowy’s YourMini’s customized start page, which gives you tons of widgets that make your life better. Here, Gary Benitt, COO, demonstrates YourMinis.

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Widgetizing your life with yourminis

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Customized start pages with tons of widgets are hot and Goowy’s yourminis is one of the best. Here we talk with Alex Bard, Goowy’s CEO and Gary Benitt, COO about yourminis.

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Zoho Notebook demoed

Friday, May 25th, 2007

See the just shipped Zoho Notebook and other Zoho applications demoed by Evangelist Raju Vegesna. Zoho Notebook lets you take notes in a meeting — and record them, too — in audio, and share those notes with coworkers or other people instantly, via the Internet.

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