Archive for October, 2007

Highlights of Marc Levoy’s “phototalking” interview

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Editor’s Choice. Here my editor, Rocky (The Rocman) pulled out some highlights of the interview we did with Marc Levoy, Stanford University Professor who is doing exceptional photographic research.

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Advanced Photographic Research at Stanford with Prof. Marc Levoy

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Photographers, don’t miss this one! It’s an interview with Thomas Hawk and Marc Levoy, Stanford University Professor, who is jointly appointed in computer science and electrical engineering. But that’s the geeky way of explaining this dude is doing some radical stuff with cameras. He shows us a camera that can refocus the image AFTER you shoot it! Talks about other research to stitch images together, digitize statues, among many others.

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The future of home entertainment: MediaMaster

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Home entertainment is switching to digital. Even movie rental places like Netflix are delivering their goods via bits that’ll be stored on a hard drive. So, how do you manage all your music and entertainment stuff? Media Master has a really great answer. Here Neil Day, CEO, and Eric Hixon, CTO, show me their system and talk about the home entertainment industry.

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BluePulse has a new take on social networking: mobile only!

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

One of the most unique social networks I’ve seen lately is the one from BluePulse. It’s for mobile phones only and is gaining a lot of fans. Last week I headed over to see what Ben Keighran, founder and CEO is up to and get a look at the new BluePulse that’s being released today at the CTIA show in San Francisco.

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Demo of Mindtouch, “best open source wiki”

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Aaron Fulkerson, co-founder of Mindtouch, gives us a demo of what makes his wiki tool better than other wiki tools. Specifically its strengths are that it’s open source and that it has a great API.

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Talking about Wikis with Mindtouch

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjork, co-founders of MindTouch, talk to me about the Wiki market and what makes their tool better than others.

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Tour of Keynote: one of biggest Internet traffic points

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Keynote Systems does testing and caching for Internet services around the world. They know more about the health of the Internet than probably any other company. Here you get a tour into their datacenter and control center. We talk about what happens there when something breaks on the Internet.

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Testing Mobile services on the Internet with Keynote Systems

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Are you building an Internet service and need to know how it’ll look on computers or mobile phones around the world? What the response times will be? How to make it better? Then you’ll need Keynote Systems. Here, Manny Gonzalez, Sr., director of mobile technologies, talks to me about what the company does and some of the things that new companies should think about when deploying their Web services, particularly on mobile phones.

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Microsoft partners with Atlassian over Sharepoint Wiki

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Atlassian builds enterprise wikis and is white hot. Today at the Web 2.0 Summit Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, will announce that it is partnering with Atlassian, who is building a Sharepoint connector so that Sharepoint customers can use Atlassian’s wiki. This is pretty significant news and here Jeffrey Walker, Atlassian’s president, and Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO, discusses what this means for Atlassian.

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An in-depth look into Feedhaus: tag clouds for your feeds

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Want a new way to discover what is going on in your feeds? FeedHaus has a way: a tag cloud. Chris Bucchere, CEO, discusses and demostrates his new service.

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