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January 31, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Michael Berkley, the CEO of SplashCast, talks to Benjamin about their new video service. SplashCast is a media syndication platform that allows people to embed one player into their webpage and be able to publish multiple videos to that...






Ed Kohler One downside of being a cell phone only household (no land line) is losing your phone means you have no phone. And, unlike cordless phones, there is no docking station you can press a button on to locate the darn...






January 30, 2007
Ed Kohler How many times have you talked to a soon to graduate student who possessed absolutely no idea how to find a job? They have often never held an internship, worked in the field they now hope to jump into upon...






Robert X. Cringely When I started writing for the Internet back in 1997, the general thinking among what few net journalists there were back then was that shorter was better.  Stories were supposed to be at most a few paragraphs long.  Everyone seemed...






January 29, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham We have all heard the arguments before in video, music and print both pro and con Digital Rights Management. Content creators like DRM because it helps prevent users from stealing their work. Consumers hate DRM because it prevents them from...






Benjamin J. Higginbotham At CES 2007 the video crew had help from Jeff Deitch in the form of Gopher, programmer, photog and all around great guy. This was Jeff's first time to CES and Ed Kohler took a minute to sit down with...






Robert X. Cringely When all of us were writing last fall about YouTube being purchased by Google for $1.65 billion in stock, part of that mantra was YouTube’s traffic consisting of users viewing 100 million videos per day.  Thousands of news stories and...






January 28, 2007
Ed Kohler Flickr offers a wide variety of organizational tools to help users make sense of their photo portfolios. One option is Sets, which allows you to group photos and set permissions for that group of photos. Creating sets for events, such...






January 27, 2007
Robert X. Cringely Remember Interactive TV ?  What is today Time-Warner Cable ran a trial in Columbus, Ohio in 1976 for a new kind of cable television called QUBE that would allow viewers to buy goods directly from TV, to vote in polls,...






Technology Evangelist Team The videos from CES are all posted, but we wanted to show you a little bit of what went on behind the scenes for those videos. Mostly because while Benjamin and Ed say they are professionals, as these outtakes... Continue reading "CES - Outtakes" »






January 26, 2007
Robert X. Cringely This Sunday I’ll be 54 years old, which doesn’t make me old per se, but probably makes me older than you and DEFINITELY makes me old for a guy with three sons aged four-and-a-half, two-and-a-half, and eight months.  Do the...






Benjamin J. Higginbotham If you were not at TECHCocktail last night this video shows you the type of conversation you might have missed. This is an interview with Jeff Pulver that we shot at TECHCocktail 2. The audio unfortunately is not the... Continue reading "TECHCocktail - Jeff Pulver" »






January 25, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham TECHCocktail 3 is tonight in Chicago! Frank Gruber and Eric Olson got together with us to talk about tonights event, what changes we can expect, what noobies should bring and a bit of what happens behind the scenes. In addition... Continue reading "Podcast - Frank Gruber and Eric Olson talk TECHCocktail 3" »






Ed Kohler Are online retailers driving customers AWAY from their sites? I've noticed in Technology Evangelist's web stats that we get a fair amount of traffic for "coupon code" related searches. With a little digging, I noticed we rank second to a...






January 24, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Technology Evangelist is excited to welcome Robert X. Cringely to the team! To celebrate this grand occasion we had a short conversation with Bob to get a glimpse into his brain. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/40970/Technology_Evangelist_Welcomes_Robert_X_Cringely.mp3&song_title=Technology Evangelist Welcomes Robert X. Cringely"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/40970/Technology_Evangelist_Welcomes_Robert_X_Cringely.mp3&song_title=Technology Evangelist Welcomes... Continue reading "Podcast - Technology Evangelist Welcomes Robert X. Cringely" »






Ed Kohler One thing that's really annoying about buying a cell phone these days is figuring out whether it's compatible with your wireless provider. For example, Apple has fired up the masses with new iPhone, but it's only going to be available...