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May 31, 2007
Ed Kohler The Technology Evangelist team is sending a crew out to San Diego, CA this coming week to cover Telepresence World. This is the place to be for all things telepresence. For those of you not familiar with the concept of...






Benjamin J. Higginbotham Ed continues his journey thru video 101 by learning a little bit about microphones and if the built in microphone on his camera is good enough.... Continue reading "Ed Learns Video 101 - Episode 2" »






Benjamin J. Higginbotham We're trying something different and embedding the UStream.tv feed of the Podcast right on the homepage. Let us know what you think in comments. Topics include 1-year ago on TE, Palm announcing the Foleo, Microsoft unveild the surface computer, 10...






May 30, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham We're back after Memorial Day break. Ed Kohler joins us via Gizmo to talk about Apple blocking MySpace.com in their retail stores.Make sure to join us every Sunday through Thursday live at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 7:00pm PDT (that's -0600... Continue reading "Wednesday 05/30/2007 Podcast" »






Jeremy Clifford Clarke is the chief technology officer from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is as the mayor calls him the chief innovation officer for the city. He works on finding new technology for the city and helping figure out what... Continue reading "Killer App Expo - Clifford Clarke, City of Fort Wayne" »






Ed Kohler Google announced the launch of a new way to customize your Google Maps at Where 2.0 called Mapplets. Mapplets allow you to personalize your Google Maps experience by overlaying data that is of interest to you. That could be anything...






May 29, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) works with communities to try to help them with their connectivity goals. They were at the Killer App Expo showing off some of the services they have and the communities they have helped.... Continue reading "Killer App Expo - Gary Evans, HBC" »






Ed Kohler The city of Minneapolis is in the process of rolling out a city-wide WiFi-based Internet service that will provide wireless access from anywhere in the city starting at $20/month. During the bidding phase, which was eventually won by a local...






Benjamin J. Higginbotham Apple has banned MySpace.com in their retail stores and this has created an interesting debate here at TechnologyEvangelist.com.  While Ed Kohler is in the 'this is a good thing' camp, I tend to think this is a bad thing. Blocking...






May 28, 2007
Ed Kohler Let's say I just talked my parents into buying a new Mac. This would probably occur after stopping by their house to help them with a problem with their current computer where I'd suggest to them that it's not worth...






May 27, 2007
Ed Kohler Twitter's web platform is easy to communicate with and includes a powerful API that allows for the creation of applications that take the platform in directions well beyond sending 140 character or less shout-outs to friends. For example, a one...






May 26, 2007
Ed Kohler David Dalka raised an interesting point about Facebook's apparent policy change to open up public profiles for search engine indexing: Facebook Spamming Your Identity To Drive Their Traffic The other day I was highly surprised to learn that my Facebook...






May 25, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Ken Tysell works on AT&T's three screen products. He talks about what their plans are for upgrading bandwidth to the home and ideas for bringing phone, television, and broadband applications together.... Continue reading "Killer App Expo - Ken Tysell, AT&T" »






Ed Kohler While many sites work just fine on a mobile device without creating a mobile version, there are some where a mobile version works much better than surfing to the original site. My favorites are listed below. You should be able...






Benjamin J. Higginbotham It's Freestyle Friday, the best kind of Friday around. Please note that we will be taking an extended break over memorial day weekend and will return with Web 2.0 Wednesday live on Tuesday night.Make sure to join us every Sunday... Continue reading "Freestyle Friday Podcast - 05/25/2007" »






May 24, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Special guest Robert X. Cringely joins us for Search Thursday. The rise and fall of Excite.comMake sure to join us every Sunday through Thursday live at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 7:00pm PDT (that's -0600 GMT for those around the world)... Continue reading "Search Thursday Podcast - 05/24/2007" »