Archive for June, 2007

Mashing up personal media with Mixercast

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

MixerCast’s CEO, Jennifer Cooper, demonstrates how to use Mixercast to build new “media stories” that include photography, music, photos, and other media. Here we mix up an interview and get a demo of Mixercast too.

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Meeting the geek behind Apatar

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Here you meet Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, and we have a chat about the changes that are coming to enterprise systems thanks to Web 2.0.

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Moving data around with Apatar

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Apatar is a way to move data between third party applications and existing enterprise systems. Renat Khasanshyn, founder and CEO of Apatar, demonstrates his system here.

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A one-way ticket from Germany to Silicon Valley

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Steli Efti came up to me at a blogger dinner and said “this is my first day in America, I bought a one-way ticket here to follow my dream.” That alone intrigued me and so we had a conversation on his second day in America to talk about why he came to Silicon Valley and the school of the future idea that he’s trying to get done.

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Talking restaurant-communication tech with Applebees’ geeks

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

We meet Bambi George, communications technology manager, and Justin Goldsborough, communications specialist at Applebees International. I met up with them at BEA’s Connect event in Atlanta and have a nice chat with them about how the intranet they are building that’ll let them communicate with their franchisees more effectively.

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BEA mashes up

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Adrian McDermott, vice president of Engineering at BEA Systems, demonstrates two new Web 2.0 focused products. Ensemble and Pathways. Both are interesting examples of how Web 2.0 based concepts like mashups and tagging are making its way into the enterprise.

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Getting Social with BEA

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

You’ve probably used BEA’s technology and not even known it. For instance, if you check your bank accounts online, most likely you’ve used a BEA system. I wanted to learn more about what BEA is doing, so I headed to Atlanta for the BEA Participate conference. There I met Jay Simons, Senior Director Product Marketing at BEA Systems, and Adrian McDermott, Vice President of Engineering at BEA. They take me through their latest social media initiatives. Whoa, bringing RSS feeds, searching Technorati, what’s up at BEA? We see BEA AquaLogic Pages, which lets enterprises get all the latest social stuff including wikis, blogs, and more.

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Managing your business processes with BEA Systems

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Eduardo Chiocconi, product manager, BEA Systems, talks with me about the latest in BEA’s business process management initiatives at the BEA Connect event in Atlanta.

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Geeking out with Aflac

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

I met Frank Braski, manager of Aflac’s high performance workplace initiatives at the BEA Participate conference and he gives me a rundown on what Aflac (one of the world’s largest insurance companies) is trying to do with its IT initiatives.

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Talking about CRM for Google

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Danny Kolke, CEO of Etelos, talks about what Etelos is trying to do for office workers with services like CRM for Google.

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