September 19th, 2007
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August 11th, 2007
Raj Jaswa, Director TiECon Silicon Valley - I spoke with Raj about his impressions of how TiECon 2006 went, his views on what entrepreneurial changes we are about to see. The popularity of blogs and generation of Web 2.0 media. He also elaborated on the Entrepreneur’s Bazar, organized at TiECon 2006 SIlicon Valley.
Listen to the conversation with Raj.
As usual, I had my camera with me, and took a couple of hundred pictures. Here you can see TiECon in action.
TiECon Pictures - Day 1
TiECon Pictures - Day 2
Update 1:
Here are more photo albums for TiECon
TiECon Banquet Pictures: An evening full of fun and entertainment - set 1
TiECon Banquet Pictures: An evening full of fun and entertainment - set 2
Update 2:
TiECon Dance Performance Pictures
Resources:
Kamla Bhatt has also posted an interesting conversation with Raj Jaswa and what he plans to next. You can listen to it here. Thanks for bringing all the great podcasts from India Kamla. Keep up the good work.
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November 8th, 2006
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October 21st, 2006
Blip.tv co-founder, Charles Hope, talks about the beginnings of Blip.tv, how it all came about. With all the traction they have gotten with Blip.tv, what they look forward to and where they see themselves going. Charles defined what Blip.tv is and how they are different from Yahoo! and Google Video sites. Launched over a year ago, Blip.tv has risen to a position of immense value to video producers all around the globe. They remain free to upload for the general public. Broadcast channels such as CNN are using Blip.tv technology for their own usage.
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Vic
( Hot From Silicon Valley ):
I am with Charles Hope who is the co-founder of Blip.tv. Blip.tv is
making waves in the video circles, challenging the big guns like
YouTube, Yahoo! Video and Google Video. Charles welcome to the
podcast.
Charles
( Blip.tv ):
Thank you.
Vic
( Hot From Silicon Valley ): So,
Charles every startup has a story. Blip.tv is getting a lot of
traction in the blogosphere. So talk about how Blip.tv got started.
Charles
( Blip.tv ):
Well.. let’s see, five of us or I should say four of us that’s me,
Mike, Justin and Jared, were on our weekends working on a piece of
software which was a knowledge management application, and we came
across video blogging in the spring of 2005. We were really impressed
by the power of..you know…the potential power of the format and we
also realized that this was the potential application for so it took
us about a week to customize it a little bit further…
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September 29th, 2006
Zing has made a product called the Sirius: Stiletto 100, which is a connected device allowing you to get Sirius channels and when you find interesting music or content, you can zing it and save it as a bookmark to buy or visit again later. You can also connect to the interent. Anything you hear, you can replay and record (which it does automatically for you to rewind, replay and so on). it also allows to program recording times and so on. Launching the product just this week, it has automatic updates so one never has to bother with downloading updates and maintaining the software. We can only expect better things from them in the coming future.
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September 29th, 2006
PhotoCrank lets you add captions to your pics taken by your mobile phone. Making it easier to personalize the pictures, adding text, captions, and sending it to friends instantly. For an established mobile phone market and billions of phones world-wide - with camera phone and internet capability, this is absolutely the "in" technology, that surely all chatters and friends will enjoy.
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September 29th, 2006
W5 Networks are in the process of replacing paper price tags in supermarkets and stores to electronic shelf labels. This in essence means instantaneous price updates and changes made to all products store-wide as it goes on sale, or is part of a promotion. There’s an LED that displays the price, and the central control makes sure all prices are accurate and up-to-date. Again very 21st Century, and should be there in every store soon enough.
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September 29th, 2006
Violet have a product called the Nabaztag, which is a wireless rabbit that is always connected via wifi to the internet. It will search for information and get it to you as you go about your day without being on a PC. It can read the news, play music, recieve messages. Now they have made it capable of hearing instructions, it can stream audio sources, set times for when you want it to do certain things. Amazingly enough it can smell, it’s a well connected pet if you like. They will keep improving and adding features, and soon will have other products like Nabaztag to be the next cyber pet for everyone who wnats one!
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September 29th, 2006
Mvox have created a product, called the Mvox Duo, which is basically a single gadget replacement for a wired headset, bluetooth headset, handsfree car kit, conference phone, speaker phone. The thing about the Duo is, it provides for one touch dialing, you can talk to it and the same goes for receiving a call. Quite an innovative idea. Feels very much 21st century - oh wait! - it is the 21st century! It contains your address book, that you never need to punch even speed dial for. Interactive and one click simplicity.
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September 29th, 2006
Moixa Energy is all about making it easier for the consumer to have a replacement for chargers and batteries that is universal in nature, therefore inter-operable. This is the future of energy, portable energy that is, energy for portable devices. They call it the USB Cell. It’s a regular battery which has USB connector, that you can connect to your laptop and charge. Quite an innovative idea and they have had a great online response already.
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September 29th, 2006
Lirix allows updateable advertisements to be added to downloadable music, in the process allowing the music to be free for the consumer. The ads are added between tracks of music, and the goal is to get piracy down. They call the process On-Device-Dynamic-Ad-Insertion.
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September 29th, 2006
Paul Jacobs, the CEO of QualCOMM talks about the innovation in our mobile lifestyles and topics like - mobile video on demand, in this speech at DEMOFall. From where mobility started, and what it meant then to what it has become now and where we are headed. Paul compared the features we will expect these devices to have and globally where these technologies stand at the present time. An interesting talk about mobile technology and faster responding networks, for the new forms of media that people expect to now have available at their mobile devices. These devices need to be accommodating to all the various features people want combined to one - the digital camera, MP3 player, phone, web-enabled, GPS- enabled and so on.
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September 28th, 2006
John Patrick moderated a panel discussing the Future of Mobile at the DEMOFall 2006 event. The panelists included Tom Jacobs from Sun, Joe Ziskin, VP for IBM, and Juergen Urbanski, GM at Fon. Tom has been with Sun for over 20 years. Norgan is an expert on mobile with a focus on WiFi and VOIP. Joe is experienced with telecommunications and is the VP for Global Telecommunications for IBM. John Patrick was VP of Internet technology at IBM for over 3 decades.
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September 27th, 2006
eSnips lets you share content online
- regardless of the kind content type. There are number of different sites where we are uploading and sharing content today, and each site has it’s own social network.
eSnips targets mainstream users that would be frustrated with too
many places to share their content. You can upload any type of file to
eSnips and create as many separate sharing environments that you want.
You can even sell some of the content you put into the system.
There are close to 1 Million users and about 3 Million visitors per month.
eSnips uses a folder metaphor that allows you to organize your
content. Folders can be shared publicly or kept private, and are tagged to make them
discoverable. eSnips automatically suggests other folders that might be
interesting based on the content in your folder.
eSnips is free and you get 1GB of storage. So check it out.
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September 27th, 2006
“Personalized discovery tag that learns what you want and delivers it when you want it”
The product is a plugin that you install for the browser. I had a
brief demonstration on how the system works and it is interesting. The
process starts by defining some areas of interest. Behind the scenes,
the application goes out and searches its index.
As you use the application, you are able to give items a Thumbs Up
or Thumbs Down. Based on your feedback the system adjusts
automatically and refines its search technique to bring you
increasingly relevent content.
It returns News & Blogs, Websites, Books sorted out into an
accordion interface. There is also a social component to the
application. Users can share their finds with their contacts - it
seems to be based on Skype. From there, you are able to see what your
group of friends thinks as well.
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September 27th, 2006
They want to help us make real connections with real people. They’re combining a local event guide with social networking.
I had a chance to see a demo up close before the presentation and it is an impressive solution to a real problem. HeyLetsGo allows you to find not just interesting events but also to learn more about who’s going and what you might expect.
They have a BuzzLevel measure (patent pending) that is like Page
Rank for events. The range of events is very broad and covers much more
than tech events. One nice feature is that I can see what my friends
are planning on doing - a pivot I find missing from something like
Upcoming.
The site also can recommend people that have a lot in common with
you and potentially help you find new places and people to hang out
with.
Another nice feature is real-time integration that enables you to
report back on an event WHILE it’s happening. That’s having your finger
on the pulse of an event.
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September 27th, 2006
Cuts is a really interesting system that enables you to edit the
video you have in a truly innovative way. In essence, Cuts allows you
add in some metadata to your own media files that handles skipping,
muting and commenting on the media as it plays throughout various
points in the playback.
This is entirely legal since you are required to have the media on your own machine. They’ve built a community around this and are growing really fast.
Recently, their competitor ‘JumpCut.com’ got acquired by Yahoo!.
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September 27th, 2006
“People want to create like pros”
iBloks allows you to remix your own media. The system has an
interesting 3D interface that allows you to animate and paint onto a
moving palette. iBloks has a unique integration with Windows Vista.
iBloks lets you publish to cell phone, video ipod, PSP, and the web.
They make money by letting people buy digital content and mods from
them. They sell from 99 cents to $9.99. “We’re moving from
user-generated content to community-generated content”.
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September 27th, 2006
“NanoLearning is a marketplace for small chunks of learning created by people like you and me”.
NanoLearning provides a platform for everyone to create their own
courseware that leverages the hidden expertise they possess. The tool
allows you to attach audio and video to accompany any slide. They also
provide a variety of methods for you to easily design in interactivity.
There are even modules that seem more like games than tests.
The site is live now and welcoming users. A Developer’s Kit is in
the works that will allow developers to extend and enhance the
interactivity modules.
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September 27th, 2006
SiteKreator really makes the process of designing your own web site
simple as ‘123′. Before our eyes, he is putting together a site for
the California Center for Aesthetic Dentistry.
There are a number of interesting shortcuts and applets like a File
Manager, Slide Show Manager, and Forums/Blog. In addition, there is the
ability to design custom forms.
A newsletter tool helps small businesses recruit customers.
Pricing starts at just $15 a month.
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