Classic ScobleShow

Here we talk with Ben Elowitz, CEO of WetPaint, about WetPaint’s collaborative Web service, which is an easy-to-use collaborative Web page design and editing tool. Er, a wiki that’s not quite a wiki. Why isn’t it a wiki? Because it doesn’t force you to learn geeky “wiki codes” to use it. Although it basically does the same thing a wiki does: lets a group of people edit a single page. But it goes a lot further than that. Hear Ben explain how. This is my favorite Wiki service and has seen half a million WetPaint sights start up in the past year.

Tags: Ben Elowitz, WetPaint, wiki

Dr. Elliot Soloway has taught some interesting people in his classroom at the University of Michigan. How about Larry Page, co-founder of Google? Among others. He’s been named “Teacher of the Year,” but that’s not why I talked with him. What we talked about is the state of education and how he sees it being improved. He’s quite passionate and this is one of my favorite interviews so far. He’s also started a company, GoKnow Learning, although we don’t talk about that much here, focusing instead on the changes that are coming to education due to technologies like the cell phone.

Tags: Elliot Soloway, Larry Page, Google, education, GoKnow Learning

You might know Marc Canter as the founder of Macromedia but that’s his past. You probably don’t know what he’s thinking about now as head of Broadband Mechanics, which makes social networks. We talk about that and a whole lot more. Oh, and even more fun? Marc has been saying my videos are too long and boring over on his blog for a while now. I get even with him and we go for almost an hour.

Tags: Marc Canter, Macromedia, Broadband Mechanics, social networks

Take something like Yelp. Great local restaurant reviews. But often you need more information. Palore sits on top of the Yelp results and brings you a lot more. Here, Hanan Lifshitz, CEO and founder of Palore, tells us and shows us how it all works. Coming soon!

Tags: Yelp, Palore, Hanan Lifshitz

Steven Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify.net, sits down with me at the AlwaysOn conference and shows me Magnify.net, which builds a community page. Say, for remote control airplanes. Including video and content from around the Internet. If you are looking for ways to improve your Web site, you should check this out.

Tags: Steven Rosenbaum, Magnify.net, AlwaysOn

David Orenstein, Communications and PR Manager, and Ian Hsu, director of Internet Media Outreach at Stanford University, greet me and show me around the “Gates building,” aka the Computer Science building. We were there to interview Scott Klemmer, assistant professor in the computer science department.

Tags: David Orenstein, Ian Hsu, Internet Media Outreach, Stanford, Gates building, Computer Science, Scott Klemmer

Scott Klemmer is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. We spend an hour talking about a variety of topics. Modern software development trends that Scott is seeing from companies like Google and Yahoo (both of which started at Stanford). Mobile development. What his students are working on. What the future of Stanford’s computer science department holds and much more.

Tags: Scott Klemmer, computer science, Stanford, Google, Yahoo

Ever want to spend an hour talking with one of IBM’s top intellectual property lawyers? Well, generally you don’t because that means he’s getting involved in your life. So, I did it for you and we have an interesting conversation about all sorts of legal things with David Kappos, IBM vice president and assistant general counsel. Patent trolling. Open source licensing. How and why the patent system should be overhauled. That kind of stuff.

Tags: IBM, David Kappos, Patent trolling, Open source

I get pitched all the time in the hallways at conferences and I thought it would be interesting to share one of these pitches with you. Here’s 411Sync’s CEO and founder Anurag Nigam showing us his service, 411sync which brings your favorite Web sites onto your cell phone.

Tags: Anurag Nigam, 411sync

You’ve heard how Digital Research flubbed the operating system deal with IBM. You’ve heard lots of old-time industry stories in our previous two conversations with Tom Rolander who was Gary Kildall’s best friend and operating system pioneer at Digital Research. But now let’s take a walking tour around Pacific Grove where you get a look at the places that now are historical memories. There are no plaques. No statues. Just Tom’s memories and we walk around Pacific Grove talking about what used to be the world’s top personal computer operating system company.

Tags: Digital Research, IBM, Tom Rolander, Gary Kildall