I've annoyed a journalist

June 27, 2008

I think I rubbed someone the wrong way tonight. And I didn’t know how much I did until I read his blog post. The two of us and about fifty others were at a blogger event at the Hilton in San Francisco. It was a big schmoozefest. Many of us knew each other. Andrew Sernovitz, […]

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I'm a Cranky Geek with John Dvorak

June 25, 2008

I made another appearance today on John C. Dvorak’s Cranky Geeks. Joining me on the show as always is the Co-Crank, Sebastian Rupley, Editorial Director of PCMagCast, and Dan Goodin, Reporter for The Register, one of my favorite rumor tech sources when I was writing for ZDTV/TechTV. We discussed a variety of subjects including: Every […]

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VIDEO: Interview with George Carlin's last opening act, Rob Paravonian

June 25, 2008

I had dinner with my comic friend from Chicago, Rob Paravonian who you may know well from his insanely successful Pachelbel Rant on YouTube (over 5 million views). It’s from that video that he became George Carlin’s opening act for the past year. A few days after Carlin’s death, Rob and I met up for […]

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Side-by-side comparison: Flip Video Ultra vs. Flip Mino

June 18, 2008

Friend of mine thought his new Flip Mino was delivering worse quality than the older Flip Video Ultra. He asked me if that was the case. I didn’t know, so I decided to do a side by side comparison and see for myself. I shot two short videos looking at a mirror and holding the […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Summary of coverage of the Enterprise 2.0 conference

June 13, 2008

It’s Wednesday night, the big two days of the Enterprise 2.0 conference are coming to an end. I’ve blogged a ton and shot a lot of video at the conference. The overall sentiment I’m getting from all the attendees and from all the sessions I’ve attended is that enterprise 2.0 is not there yet, but […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Social Network Shoot Out

June 13, 2008

It’s the last session of Wednesday, I have absolutely no idea what this session is about, but with a title like “Social Network Shoot Out,” I’m hoping there’s going to be some arguing and maybe some pushing and shoving. Participants in the shoot out include: Moderator Matthew Lees, Analyst Rob Howard of Telligent Systems Sam […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Introducing Social Networking into your Enterprise

June 13, 2008

Yesterday, Don Burke and Sean Dennehy from the CIA told the story of implementing the Intellipedia, the intelligence industry’s social network (watch the video). Today, Simon Revell, Manager of Enterprise 2.0 Technology Development, Information and Knowledge Management at Pfizer told his tale of implementing Web 2.0 tools at his company. Revell’s said Pfizer’s first attempt […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: VIDEO: Karen Appleton on why social networking is critical for business

June 13, 2008

I spoke with Karen Appleton VP of Business Development of Box, the file storage utility. Appleton is also an advisor for the Forum of Women Entrepreneurs and Executives and she just had a session back in Palo Alto, CA that covered many of the similar issues we’ve been discussing for the past couple of days […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: VIDEO: Peter Biddle, encryption will be like air bags

June 13, 2008

I spoke to Peter Biddle of Trampoline Systems, also formerly an encryption expert and creator of BitLocker. We were having a great discussion about cloud computing and why some people don’t encrypt their data. Unfortunately, I wasn’t recording anything, so I turned on the camera and asked him what’s it going to take for everyone […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Mashups: Best practices and best examples

June 13, 2008

The value of mashups is at its core the value of the API (application programming interface). Nobody has to say that it’s OK to launch an API. While you have to get approval to launch an operating system, you don’t with an API. And APIs are very powerful. Entire applications can be built upon them. […]

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