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March 30, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Sun Microsystems Project Blackbox made a tour stop at the University of St. Thomas' Minneapolis campus earlier this week, and Technology Evangelist was there to cover it. Project Blackbox is a portable data center built in a standard sized shipping... Continue reading "Sun Microsystems Project Blackbox" »






Ed Kohler Least Dangerous Game kicks off tomorrow in Minneapolis. What's that? Sounds dangerous, eh? Least Dangerous Game is a Twitter-based scavenger hunt where a Twitter users hides somewhere in town, then send out hints via Twitter leading people to his or...






March 29, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham What trip to the Video on the Net conference would be complete without a discussion with the Founder of VON, Jeff Pulver. Jeff talked to Ed about the some of the big announcements made at VON. Click To Play... Continue reading "Video on the Net - Jeff Pulver, pulver.com" »






Ed Kohler Jeremy Toeman from LIVEdigitally is living the jury duty lifestyle, and has filed the following report on the WiFi status in the jury waiting room: Doing time… (on jury duty) - The good part is, the summons waiting room has...






Ed Kohler Yahoo's getting crushed by Google in search right now, but maybe they're on to something with the interface they're testing over at livesearch.alltheweb.com. The site offers real-time updates to search results as you type, so searches become more relevant as...






March 28, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Joshua Kinberg, the founder and CEO of FireAnt, was at the Video on the Net conference showing off their latest upgrade. He talked to Ed about that and the differences between FireAnt and their competitors. Click To Play... Continue reading "Video on the Net - Joshua Kinberg, FireAnt" »






Ed Kohler Outside.in, as I've written about before, is a local news aggregation site where content from local news sites and blogs are organized by city, neighborhood, and / or zip code to build a create a unique collection of news from...






March 27, 2007
Ed Kohler One of the latest trends in user generated video content to hit the scenes at last week's Video on the Net Conference was user generated testimonials. The idea being that video is hard to beat when it comes to generating...






March 26, 2007
Robert X. Cringely VoIP service company Vonage last week suffered another setback in its patent litigation with Verizon Communications when a judge entered a permanent injunction against Vonage using disputed call-handling technology.  Vonage said it had a work-around for the Verizon technology...






March 25, 2007
Robert X. Cringely The great challenge of video on the web is how to make it fair for everyone.  Viewers want content that is cheap or free yet retains high production values.  Producers, networks, and movie studios want to be rewarded by ALL...






March 24, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham NeoKast was one of the more talked about technologies at the Video on the Net conference. Frank Huebbers, their Lead web engineer talked about some of the changes that have already happened in the two weeks since we talked...






March 23, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham We at Technology Evangelist have been using MoveDigital's services for awhile now for our video and podcast distribution. Ed was able to talk to the President of MoveDigital and get into what makes MoveDigital different from other companies that do... Continue reading "Video on the Net - Mark Smith, MoveDigital" »






Robert X. Cringely Video is great, but the world really still runs on paper, right?  The inventor of the inkjet printer was a guy named Stephen Sears, whom I knew half a lifetime ago in California.  Steve Sears worked at IBM and enjoyed...






Ed Kohler While it's very common to have WiFi available at hotels these days, this is the first time I've seen laptop rental as well. At $15 per day, it's approximately the same price as a simple WiFi connection at some hotels:...






March 22, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham It was the final day of the Video on the Net conference and Ed Kohler gave us a quick rundown while running to catch his flight. We talk FireAnt vs iTunes and Democracy as well as Magnify.net and how they... Continue reading "Podcast - The final day of the VON conference" »






March 21, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Ed Kohler's coverage of the Video on the Net conference continues with todays Podcast. We chat about the trouble with video on the net today, chapters in video, streaming live video via NeoKast and other cool blogging conversations on the... Continue reading "Podcast - VON Conference talks videocasting and blogging" »