Archive for July, 2007

Editor’s Choice: highlights of Your Truman Show

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Highlights of the interview and demo with Arturo Artom, CEO of Your Truman Show, who talks with me about this innovative video storytelling service.

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Talking about mobile-phone media with Buzzwire

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Andrew MacFarlane, CEO of Buzzwire, dropped by to discuss Buzzwire’s new service, opening Monday, that will let you watch or listen to a number of video and audio shows — all from your cell phone.

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Getting more great content on your cell phone with Buzzwire

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Andrew MacFarlane, CEO of Buzzwire, demonstrates the company’s new content service, which lets you build new kinds of video and audio shows for your cell phone.

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Talking with an IBM distinguished engineer about marketing

Friday, July 27th, 2007

At the Internet Strategy Forum last week, I met Mike Moran, who gave an interesting talk about, um, marketing. Huh? A distinguished engineer at IBM talking about marketing? What? Listen in and learn about Mike’s ideas on marketing — he wrote a very popular book on search engine marketing.

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First look at Velvet Puffin, IM and social network for the Web

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Velvet Puffin is a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it keeps running after you close your browser. Here, R. Chandrasekar demonstrates it for me and you.

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Talking about Velvet Puffin, IM in the Web (and out)

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

R. Chandrasekar, CEO and co-founder of Velvet Puffin, shows me a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it’ll keep running after the browser gets closed. We talk about his new company here and what Velvet Puffin is trying to do.

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Ustream gets new chat and other streaming video features

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Ustream.tv is one of a new set of networks that let you publish live streaming video on the Internet. Presidential candidate John Edwards, on Monday evening, used Ustream to talk with thousands of people after the CNN/YouTube debates. But today Ustream is shipping new features including a new chat application, and a new way for viewers to rate how good a video stream is at this moment. Here, CEO Chris Yeh and marketing assistant Mary-Jo Montreynaud, tell me what the latest is at Ustream and give me a preview of the new features which will be live today.

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The view from a long-time media exec at CNET

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Last week at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit, I met with longtime CNET executive Erik Kokkonen, vice president of global publishing services. He’s seen a lot happen in online media and in this 17-minute interview, we cover quite a bit about what’s happening in online media.

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Demo of Plazes.com, mobile app to show where you are

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Here, Plazes.com’s founder, Felix Petersen, demonstrates what Plazes lets you do with your mobile phone, and how you might use it to improve your life.

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Talking about mobile services with Plazes’ founder Felix Petersen

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Plazes.com is one of the favorite of a group of apps designed to help you share your location with others. Now, that might sound sort of weird, but Felix Petersen, founder of Plazes, sees a lot of value in sharing where you’ll be, or where you are. Here, we talk about his mobile service vision and what he’s seeing in the mobile industry.

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