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November 30, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Troy Haaland and three fellow programmers in Chicago developed a tool called eSigma that aggregates Web-based business process software. eSigma has developed a global Web Service-based repository for business processes that provides process discovery, publishing, testing and management delivered over the World Wide Web. We are able to provide these services utilizing public networks, leveraging existing market services reducing the cost of participation significantly.

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Ed Kohler A Microsoft employee named Anand Iyer recently founded an organization called the Global Network of Technology Evangelists (GNoTE) to catalyze technology evangelism, networking, learning, and tech agnosticism about the global technology evangelist committee. We here at Technolgoy Evangelist were, of...






November 29, 2006
Ed Kohler Young switching off TV in favor of Internet: study - Yahoo! News "The rise of high-speed Internet and the explosion in online video content is fuelling a widespread decline in the number of people watching television according to a...






Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Justin Chen and John Li are two UC Berkeley alumni who love eating and coming up with new ideas and one of those ideas was www.menuism.com. After college they took detours through large corporations, but kept dreaming of the day when they could do something smaller that was their own. That day finally came earlier this year at the end of a weekend brainstorm session, where the idea for Menuism was born. Amped up on excitement, opportunity and caffeine, Juston and John both gave their 2-week notices the very next day at work, and they have been working at this ever since.

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November 28, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Mary Beth Hughes founded Big Thinking By The Hour, Inc. in 2004. BigThinkingByTheHour.com helps users bring Internet video content to their web site to help their Internet marketing needs. Their objective is to "become the preeminent creators of strategic Internet video content, designed around the way people Web."

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November 27, 2006
Ed Kohler EU says more than half e-mails are spam "The biggest culprit of spam remains the United States, which accounts for 21.6 percent of spam coming into the 25-nation EU. China is the second-biggest producer with 13.4 percent, while EU...






Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Phil Kruzel works for LiquidTalk Networks in Business Development. LiquidTalk Networks creates enterprise business applications for digital media devices (iPods, smart phones, etc.). Their patent-pending technology combined with professional services enable new ways for businesses to create, organize, and distribute business content for sales enablement and employee learning and communication. Digital media players are the ideal platform for employee knowledge transfer due to their portability, ease of use, and start-and-stop playing flexibility.

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November 26, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Mike Evens and Matt Maloney are the founders of GrubHub.com. Around 2 years ago, Mike and Matt were working at a major Internet company in Chicago. They were just sick of ordering from <insert restaurant name here> and frustrated that one of the original promises of the Internet, ''Find out who delivers to you'' was still unfulfilled. It wasn't a eureka moment, it was more disbelief that no one had done this before. Matt started with,'' Grub '' and Mike replied, '' Hub. ''

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November 25, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Kris Smtih is the founder and owner of Palegroove Studios, the first podcast production studio in the world.

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November 24, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Jason Jacobsohn is an entrepreneurial business professional with cross-functional expertise in consulting, research, strategy, relationship management, due diligence, and financial and business analysis

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November 23, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Dan Green is a widely-recognized mortgage expert among national press and his wildly popular mortgage industry blog, The Mortgage Reports, has been featured by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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November 22, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Eric Olson and Frank Gruber are the two behind the event and in this video we get a quick little peek into their mind.

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November 21, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. This video is the first in our series on Christopher Monaghan from Time59.com


Christopher Monaghan, a Chicago-based self-employed programmer/analyst, developed Time59 in response to his own timekeeping requirements. "I needed to track hours for each client so that I could produce invoices each month," he recalls. "My goal was to create a timekeeping system that was as quick and easy to use as e-mail."


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November 20, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

Benjamin Higginbotham takes a look at the remote desktop and file sharing tools from LogMeIn.com including LogMeIn Free, LogMeIn Pro and LogMeIn IT Reach. Higher resolutions available in iTunes, Democracy and FireAnt, subscribe below or watch via Flash:

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November 19, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

1 year ago today the Technology Evangelist blog was born. It has been a great amount of fun thanks in no small part to our readers and everyone who helps contribute through comments.


We have a very exciting 2nd year planned with a lot more great content. To celebrate we will be releasing a video every day from now until the end of the month.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY!