Archive for July, 2007

Talking about AdaptiveBlue

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Alex Iskold, founder and CEO, and Andy Roth, chief quality officer of AdaptiveBlue, tell me about their browser plugin at the Supernova conference. Pretty cool way to hook into a bunch of Web 2.0 services.

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Using Spock to find information about people on the Web

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Here, co-founder of Spock, Jay Bhatti, gives us a demo of how Spock makes searching for people more powerful, easier, and more fun.

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Talking personal search with Spock

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Spock is a search engine that won’t compete with Google, except in one area: searching personal information about people. Want to find an old friend? Look up a job candidate’s background? Find a person’s blog or other social networking page? Then Spock is for you. Here, we meet Jay Bhatti, Spock co-founder, who tells us why Spock is a search engine you should consider.

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Editor’s Choice: more than 1,000 games on Kongregate

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Here’s a short version of just the highlights of the interview and demo I filmed with Jim Greer, co-founder of Kongregate, a hot new video game distributor.

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Playing games with Kongregate

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Jim Greer, co-founder of Kongregate, demonstrates a new video game distribution platform and some of the hottest new games on the Web today.

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Meeting the founders of hottest new game site: Kongregate

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Kongregate is the hottest new game site on the Web. More than 1,000 games. Traffic that more than doubled from last month. Hot games that lots of people are talking about. A co-founder that came from Electronic Arts. Meet Jim Greer, co-founder of Kongregate and learn what’s up in the online videogame industry.

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MeFeedia’s founder talks about online video trends

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Frank Sinton, CEO of MeFeedia, dropped by to discuss his service, MeFeedia.com, which helps you find video online. We have a chat about what he’s seeing happen in the industry. This is an Editor’s Choice video, so only the highlights are presented here.

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Microblogging comes of age with Jaiku

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Jaiku is one of a new breed of microblogging tools. Twitter and Pownce are the other two (we’ll try to visit them in the future), but Jaiku was the first to bring us threaded discussions and a Facebook app that works. Plus, Leo Laporte loves it, so lots of people have joined it. Here Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, co-founders of Jaiku, give us a tour and tell us what’s up with Jaiku and where it’s going.

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Autonomy picks up Business Process Management

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Here, we get a look at the Enterprise side of the tech world with an interview of Autonomy Cardiff’s CEO, Mark Seamans, who details what Autonomy is doing in the Business Process Management space.

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For developers: A conversation with Sun’s DTrace team

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Sun Microsystems’ DTrace lets developers look at a multi-machine system and understand what’s going on. It’s very popular with developers — it’s gotten mentioned several times in conversations I’ve been in — so I wanted to meet the team and understand what it does and why developers love it so much. Here you meet the three developers who wrote DTrace: Bryan Cantril, Mike Shapiro, and Adam Leventhal.

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