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Where does Microsoft's Windows get frustrating? Well, start with the boot time. It often can take too long, but worse than that, did you know that lots of things boot up and take memory and cause you problems? Soluto has a very unique answer to these frustrations and here Tomer Dvir, CEO and Co-founder, and Rose Adler, Chief Production Officer, show us this ground-breaking technology that will make your Windows machines run much better. This is part of our trip to Israel, where we visit Soluto...
The help desk is now part of everyone's job, especially at service-oriented companies like Rackspace and Zappos. But how do you turn every employee into a fanatical support-crazed customer helper? Zendesk's CEO and Founder, Mikkel Svane, tells us why his software is loved by tons of the world's best companies (we use it at Rackspace too!)
Second Life is a virtual world that got very hyped about four years ago. It was on the cover of famous magazines, was shown on CNN and many other TV programs, and then seemed to disappear. But lately we've been hearing it still is seeing tons of growth so we wanted to meet Mark Kingdon, CEO, and see what was up. What's up is they just released a new viewer and have been steadily working on improving their service and making it easier to approach to more people. See the new viewer and hear what...
eremiah Owyang and Ray Wong are two of the best analysts in the tech industry. The two former Forrester Research Inc. analysts recently joined the Altimeter Group founded by Charlene Li, who also was an analyst at Forrester before going out on her own this summer. Jeremiah focuses on social media in his role as customer strategist while Ray's expertise is in enterprise strategy and cloud computing at the social media strategy consulting group. Between the two of them they see more companies th...
Jeremiah Owyang and Ray Wong are two of the best analysts in the tech industry. The two former Forrester Research Inc. analysts recently joined the Altimeter Group founded by Charlene Li, who also was an analyst at Forrester before going out on her own this summer. Jeremiah focuses on social media in his role as customer strategist while Ray's expertise is in enterprise strategy and cloud computing at the social media strategy consulting group. Between the two of them they see more companies t...
Patrick Chanezon, a developer advocate at Google, travels the world studying what developers are doing with the latest Web technologies. We interviewed Chanezon in the real Building 43, the main building at Google'sheadquarters in Mountain View, Calif., about HTML5 and other bleeding-edge technologies. HTML5 is the next major revision for hypertext markup language. While work on HTML5 began in 2004 and is not expected to be "completed" for many years, adoption of parts of it into browsers bega...
This video offers a quick demonstration of some of Socialtext's toolkit, including the new wiki-spreadsheet SocialCalc. Ross Mayfield, Socialtext's chairman, president and co-founder, handles the tour the leads off with an overview of SocialCalc, an enterprise social software application designed for "distributed teams" of people. Links relevant to this video include:Socialtext Web site -- http://www.socialtext.com
The YourVersion real-time discovery engine was one of two dark-horse People's Choice Award winners picked from the chaotic DemoPit in a vote by the 1,500 people attending the TechCrunch50 2009 September conference in San Francisco. The boot-strapped program more than two years in development is an aggregating software that lets the user enter general interest terms to search for in blogs, multimedia, news, Twitter and other social media sites, Dan Olsen, YourVersion CEO and founder, says in th...
LeVar Burton is pretty darn close to being a real-life superhero. He encouraged millions of children to ask what Burton calls the great "what if" questions by inspiring their love for reading during his years of involvement with the television show, Reading Rainbow, which ran for 26 years on PBS. After Gene Roddenberry offered him the role of Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1986, Burton went on to direct episodes for each of the various Star Trek series in production. He h...
Dr.Drew Pinsky is a doctor board-certified in addiction medicine, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Keck USC School of Medicine and is host of the long-running radio and television advice series "LOVELINE." The doctor keeps track of his different roles and responsibilities using today's technology, including Twitter where he has more than 1.5 million followers.That busy life and background made him a great selection to participate in a recent conference panel called "Twitter...