Brandon Watts, developer of the Leopard Programming Language, tells me about how Leopard will help people learn to program. It’s a new language optimized for learning and is getting good reviews from instructors who are trying to find a way to get more kids into computers.
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Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare and Min Xu, R&D engineer at VMWare, demonstrate the company’s newest virtualization technology.
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It’s not often that you get to meet one of the people who helped make Silicon Valley the tech powerhouse it is today. Here you get to meet Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare. He also teaches computer science at Stanford University. Translation: he’s smart and you’ll enjoy getting to know a little bit about him, VMWare, and Stanford’s role in building the tech economy in Silicon Valley.
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Daniel Graf, CEO and founder of Kyte.tv, shows us how you can build a new kind of online TV channel: one that plays on mobile phones, Facebook, and Web pages and includes chat and more. It’s very cool and worth checking out to get a sense of where the future of online video is going to be.
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Did you know that most movies that are produced in the world never get shown in a theater? Even award-winning movies at film festivals like Sundance often don’t get shown. Not to mention famous films from overseas. Well, Jaman gives us all a new way to find and watch independent films and here, Gaurav Dhillon, CEO, and Faisal Galaria, general manager in Europe for Jaman, show off the latest way to watch high-definition movies on your computer.
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PayScale is a service where you can compare salaries with other people in your industry. Here, Joe Giordano, founder and chairman of Payscale, talks to me about the service, what he’s learned, and shows me the latest iteration.
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Here, John McCrea, vice president of marketing at Plaxo, gives me a tour of its just-released platform. Quite useful, it brings contacts into and out of a bunch of different applications and services like Microsoft’s Outlook, Google’s GMail, among others.
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Plaxo’s founder, Todd Masonis, chief platform architect, Joseph Smarr, and VP of marketing, John McCrea tell me how Plaxo has changed from a contact manager for Outlook to a Web service that lets you back up and share your contacts (and follow your social network based on such) with its just-released new platform.
Tags: Plaxo, Todd Masonis, Joseph Smarr, John McCrea, social network
Are you tired of boring PowerPoint presentations with standard effects and boring blue backgrounds? Here, Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, shows us his tool and talks about the state of the art in presentations.
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Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, demonstrates how to use it to make your presentations much better than anyone else’s.
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