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May 14, 2007: The Fauxharmonic Orchestra is a Mac With Enough MIDI Files To Enable The Computer To Function As An Orchestra.

Guest: Paul H. Smith, Founder, Fauxharmonic Orchestra

   



May 11, 2007: The story of how Hewlett-Packard pioneered the electronics industry in Silicon Valley.

Guest: Michael S. Malone, Author, Bill & Dave: How Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard Built H-P.

   



May 9, 2007: Getting a cell phone that works indoors.

Guest: Tom Evslin, Founder, Fractals of Change

   



May 7, 2007: How to set-up your own Wiki at no charge.

Guest: Ben Elowitz, Founder and CEO, Wetpaint.com

   



May 4, 2007: (Part 2 of 2) Microsoft SharePoint Collaboration Software.

Guest: Peter O'Kelly, Research Director, The Burton Group

   



May 2, 2007: (Part 1 of 2) Microsoft SharePoint Collaboration Software

Guest: Peter O'Kelly, Research Director, The Burton Group

   



April 30, 2007: Why software-as-a-service is gaining popularity.

Guest: Jeff Kaplan, Founder, THINK Strategies

   



April 27, 2007: Collaborative selling.

Guest: Steve Marx, Center for Sales Strategy, CEO

   



April 25, 2007: Part 2 of 2 - Seeking Universal Online Collaboration.

Guest: Shankar Iyer, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, WebEx Communications

   



April 23, 2007: Part 1 of 2 - Seeking Universal Online Collaboration

Guest: Shankar Iyer, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, WebEx Communications

   



April 20, 2007: Experiencing Web 2.0 and Software-as-a-Service.

Guest: Jonathan Sposato, CEO, PicNik

   



April 19, 2007: Adobe and Microsoft Cross Swords for control of Web 2.0.

Guest: Greg DeMicillie, Senior Analyst, Directions-On-Microsoft

   



April 16, 2007: How to podcast anything you can capture on your computer screen.

Guest: Troy Stein, Product Manager, Camtasia, Tech Smith

   



April 13, 2007: A court decision on ripping DVDs to a hard drive.

Guest: Jim Burger, Partner, Dow, Lohnes

   



April 11, 2007: How to Video Podcast a Power Point Presentation.

Guest: Troy Stein, Product Manager, Camtasia, Tech Smith

   



April 9, 2007: How to Video Podcast a WebEx Meeting.

Guest: Troy Stein, Product Manager, Camtasia, Tech Smith

   



April 6, 2007: Demonstration of the Mash-Up concept involving TV stations around the World.

Guest: Phil Leigh, Senior Analyst, Inside Digital Media

   



April 4, 2007: Unbiased news coverage of the Duke Lacrosse athletes involved in rape accusations has largely been limited to bloggers.

Guest: Jason Trumpbour, Co-Founder, Friends of Duke Univeristy

   



April 2, 2007: Using lasers as the light source in rear-projection televisions.

Guest: Colin Seaton, Director of Business Development, Coherent

   



March 30, 2007: Why did Cisco buy WebEx?

Guest: Steve Borsch, Founder, Connecting The Dots

   



March 28, 2007: A test of Fair Use Copyright Exemption involving YouTube and the NFL.

Guest: Wendy Seltzer, Fellow, Berkman Center at Harvard University

   



March 26, 2007: Court outlaws Cablevision DVR service.

Guest: Jim Burger, Partner, Dow, Lohnes

   



March 23, 2007: Analysis of a court decision awarding patent royalties to Alcatel via Bell Labs.

Guest: Jim Griffin, Founder, OneHouse, LLC.

   



March 21, 2007: A market analyst looks at the Video Conferencing market.

Guest: Andrew Davis, Managing Director, Wainhouse Research

   



March 19, 2007: Record Labels to get higher royalties for Internet Radio.

Guest: Jon Potter, Executive Director, Digital Media Association

   



March 16, 2007: (Part 2 of 2) Unraveling consumer confusion about HD-TV.

Guest: Bruce Leichtman, Founder, Leichtman Research Group

   



March 14, 2007: (Part 1 of 2) Unraveling consumer confusion about HD-TV.

Guest: Bruce Leichtman, Founder, Leichtman Research Group

   



March 12, 2007: Hear what the author of the best-selling book WIKINOMICIS has to say about the impact of wikis.

Guest: Don Tapscott, Author, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaborations Changes Everything

   



March 9, 2007: Is YouTube Underestimating The Value of Professionally Produced Video?

Guest: Paul Vigna, Editor - Writer for Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal

   



March 7, 2007: (Part 2 of 2) Internet Security for Web 2.0 Applications.

Guest: Kailash Ambwani, CEO, FaceTime Communications

   



March 5, 2007: (Part 1 of 2) Internet Security for Web 2.0 Applications.

Guest: Kailash Ambwani, CEO, FaceTime Communications

   



March 2, 2007: Is Viacom going to get the best of YouTube?

Guest: Rich Hanley, Professor of Interactive Communications, Quinnipiac University

   



February 28, 2007: Someday you will be able to talk to the entertainment system in your car.

Guest: Craig Palmer, CEO, Gracenote

   



February 26, 2007: The graphical user interface is okay, but it will be better when we can talk to our computers.

Guest: Dr. Bill Meisel, Founder, TMA Associates

   



February 22, 2007: Famster is a family-friendly version of MySpace.

Guest: Kristin Criss (and others), Vice President, Operations, Famster

   



February 21, 2007: An independent research analyst evaluates the iPhone.

Guest: Avi Greengart, Market Research Analyst, Current Analysis

   



February 20, 2007: YouTube recently licensed vintage television programs from this company.

Guest: Mitch Koulouris, CEO, Digital Music Group

   



February 9, 2007: Dead white males rock.

Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Kantor, Author, Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

   



February 8, 2007: (Part 2 of 2) Ten predictions for the Electronic Conferencing market in 2007.

Guest: Elliot Gold, Founder, TeleSpan

   



February 7, 2007: Ten predictions for the Electronic Conferencing market in 2007.

Guest: Elliot Gold, Founder, TeleSpan

   



February 6, 2007: Jason has written a book about how to promote your podcast and he can teach us a lot about podcasting in general.

Guest: Jason Van Orden, Author, Promoting Your Podcast

   



February 5, 2007: Do the securities laws after the dot-com bust make it too hard to do IPOs in the United States?

Guest: Adam Lashinsky, Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine

   



February 2, 2007: Getting podcasts delivered to your cell phone while you are one the move.

Guest: Rob Greenlee, Senior Marketing Manager, Melodeo

   



February 1, 2007: Our own analysis of Power Line LANs versus WiFi LANs.

Guest: Philip Leigh, Senior Analyst, Inside Digital Media

   



January 31, 2007: (Part 4 of 4) Using the Electrical Power Lines in Your House for a LAN.

Guest: Andy Melder, Senior Vice President, Intellon

   



January 30, 2007: Since Vista will require us to re-learn our computer systems anyway, it might be a good time for Apple to license its OS to PC companies.

Guest: Tom Evslin, Founder, Fractals of Change

   



January 29, 2007: (Part 3 of 4) Using the Electrical Power Lines in Your House for a LAN.

Guest: Andy Melder, Senior Vice President, Intellon

   



January 26, 2003: (Part 2 of 4) Using the Electrical Wires in Your Home For a LAN.

Guest: Andy Melder, Senior Vice President, Intellon

   



January 25, 2007: The iPhone is a prototype of the George Gilder teleputer.

Guest: Philip Leigh, Founder, Inside Digital Media

   



January 24, 2007: Using the electrical wiring in your home for a LAN.

Guest: Andy Melder, Senior Vice President, Intellon

   



January 23, 2007: An indirect YouTube beneficiary. (Part 3 of 3)

Guest: Stan Woodward, CEO, Reflect Systems

   



January 22, 2007: (Part 2 of 3) By providing corporate webcasting services, Reflect Systems is an indirect beneficiary of YouTube popularity.

Guest: Stan Woodward, CEO, Reflect Systems

   



January 19, 2007: This company makes heads-up electronic displays, even for the iPod video.

Guest: Kip Kokinakis, CEO, Micro Optical Corporation

   



January 18, 2007: This provider of Corporate Webcasting Services is indirectly benefiting from the YouTube phenomenon.

Guest: Stan Woodward, CEO, Reflect Systems

   



January 17, 2007: Successful start-ups generally do not have big business plans.

Guest: Dr. Benson Honig, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Wilfrid Laurier School of Business & Economics

   



January 15, 2007: This is the 3rd part of a 3 part series on the future of electronic displays.

Guest: Chris Chinnock, CEO, Insight Media Research

   



January 12, 2007: Part 2 of a 3 part look at what is ahead for electronic display technologies.

Guest: Chris Chinnock, CEO, Insight Media Research

   



January 10, 2007: The major record labels are starting to make free podcasts available.

Guest: Jeff Daniel, CEO, Rock River Music

   



January 8, 2007: Part 1 of a 3 part look at the future of electronic display technologies.

Guest: Chris Chinnock, CEO, Insight Media Research

   



January 5, 2007: Trent is an ordinary college student who got a Microsoft Zune portable music player for Christmas.

Guest: Trent Anonymous, College Student, Univeristy of Florida

   



January 3, 2007: A veteran Internet Industry observer comments on MySpace and YouTube.

Guest: Matt Ragas, Editor, The Value Raider Report

   



December 27, 2006: Diane is a typical consumer. She bought a Mac a year ago and shows us why she likes it for digital photography.

Guest: Diane, A Typical Consumer, Inside Digital Media

   



December 22, 2006: The Future of Computer Graphics

Guest: Dr. Jon Peddie, Founder, Jon Peddie Research

   



December 20, 2006: How USC Stevens will foster entrepreneurship and technology transfer.

Guest: Krisztina Holly, Executive Director, University of Southern California Stevens Institute

   



December 18, 2006: A Yankee Group analyst talks about the future of Entertainment Media on cell phones.

Guest: Linda Barrabee, Program Manager, Yankee Group

   



December 15, 2006: How one of the co-producers of Talking Tech makes video podcasts for USA Today.

Guest: Jefferson Graham, Technology Reporter, USA Today

   



December 13, 2006: Quality audio equipment for podcasting.

Guest: Joe Klinger, CEO, J.K Audio

   



December 11, 2006: Using GPS enabled cell phones to track your workforce.

Guest: Sanjay Shirole, CEO, Xora

   



December 8, 2006: A market research analyst discusses the future of User Generated Video.

Guest: Paul Palumbo, Founder, AccuStream Research

   



December 6, 2006: How small business can market over the Internet.

Guest: Lynnette Chandler, Founder, Tech Based Marketing

   



December 1, 2006: After using a PC for 25 years, this technically savvy consumer buys a Mac

Guest: Tim, Computer Consumer, Technically Experienced

   



November 29, 2006: MIT and Wharton are working together on a Wiki.

Guest: Barry Libert, CEO, Shared Insights

   



November 27, 2006: Telco equipment to provide super-broadband services to the home.

Guest: Frank Galuppo, CEO, Amedia Networks

   



November 20, 2006: Why Internet stock quotations fees are going up.

Guest: Markham Erickson, Executive Director, NetCoalition

   



November 17, 2006: Choosing the MBA or the Masters in Financial Engineering.

Guest: Dr. Linda Kreitzman, Executive Director of the Masters in Financial Engineering Program, University of California at Berkeley

   



November 15, 2006: Here is what one Google executive thinks about Internet video.

Guest: Gokul Rajaram, Product Management Director - AdSense, Google

   



November 3, 2006: Brightcove is making allot of progress in B2B Internet video and now moves into the consumer market.

Guest: Adam Berrey, Vice President, Marketing, Brightcove

   



November 1, 2006: Fabricating III-V lasers on silicon substrate.

Guest: John Bowers, Director - Optical Switching Technology Center, University of California at Santa Barbara

   



October 30, 2006: Talent Zoo is an executive search firm for the advertising industry. We talk about the impact of new media.

Guest: Amy Hoover, Executive Vice President, Talent Zoo

   



October 27, 2006: Intel and UCSB announced a breakthrough enabling semiconductor laster to be embedded on silicon.

Guest: Mario Paniccia, Director of the Photonics Technology Lab, Intel Corporation

   



October 25, 2006: This company obtains the digital rights to recordings and then sells them to iTunes and others.

Guest: Mitch Koulouris, CEO, Digital Music Group

   



October 23, 2006: This animation demonstrates how you may use avatars to attend business meetings.

Guest: Second Life, Demonstration of Avatar Business Meeting, Linden Labs

   



October 20, 2006: WIPO treaty provisions that could be damaging to the Digital Media industry.

Guest: Jim Burger, Copyright Attorney, Dow - Lohnes

   



October 18, 2006: The future of the Blogshpere.

Guest: Brad Hill, Executive Editor, WebLogs

   



October 16, 2006: WebEx is opening their Media Tone platform to Third Party Developers.

Guest: David Knight, Vice President, WebEx

   



October 13, 2006: Parks Associates recently completed a survey and study of the Digital Media habits of consumers.

Guest: John Barrett, Director of Research, Parks Associates

   



October 11, 2006: As computers and the Internet get ever more capable, we are going to them work collaboratively regardless of physical location.

Guest: , Managing Director, David Coleman

   



October 9, 2006: PodZinger enables you to search the words within audio and video files to find what you want.

Guest: Alex Laats, CEO, PodZinger

   



October 6, 2006: A Burton Group Analyst provides his analysis of the Web Conferencing Market.

Guest: Mike Gotta, Market Research Analyst, The Burton Group

   



October 4, 2006: Every six months Symantec releases a report on the state of Internet security.

Guest: Dean Turner, Executive Editor Symantec Security Report, Symantec

   



October 2, 2006: Naxos is a classical music record label that will produce 20% of its revenues online this year and uses MP3.

Guest: Jim Sturgeon, Naxos - North America, CEO

   



September 29, 2006: eMusic avoids DRMs and is second only to iTunes in digital downloads.

Guest: David Pakman, eMusic, CEO

   



September 27, 2006: RealNetworks will work closely with SanDisk and others to provide an integrated iTunes/iPod-like experience.

Guest: Dan Sheeran, Sr. Vice President, Music, Real Networks

   



September 25, 2006: The author of hackoff.com also shares his views on Network Neutrality.

Guest: Tom Evslin, Author, hackoff.com

   



September 22, 2006: Michael is one of the most insightful people we know on Digital Media.

Guest: Michael Robertson, CEO, MP3Tunes.com

   



September 20, 2006: A simple way to sell your own music and audio files from your website.

Guest: Gene Goldsmith, Co-Founder, MySongStore.com

   



September 18, 2006: Podtech is a well funded venture that plans to become a leader in podcasting.

Guest: John Furrier, CEO, Podtech

   



September 15, 2006: SpiralFrog will offer music downloads for free as an advertising-supported website.

Guest: Robin Cook, CEO, SpiralFrog

   



September 13, 2006: How to get your RSS feeds in your email.

Guest: Phil Hollows, Founder, Feedblitz

   



September 11, 2006: Nike footwear and Apple iPod team up.

Guest: Rob Pegoraro, Technology Columnist, The Washington Post

   



September 7, 2006: Maven will partners with CBS to provide College Sports TV for the Internet.

Guest: Smantha Stone, Director of Product Marketing, Maven Networks

   



September 6, 2006: Tzero designs chips for moving Digital Media around the home.

Guest: Dan Karr, Senior Vice President, Tzero

   



September 5, 2006: Benny does podcasts for the San Francisco Chronicle and interviews me about Apple Computer.

Guest: Benny Evangelista, Podcaster, San Francisco Chronicle

   



September 1, 2006: The second part of a two part interview of me about the future of recorded music.

Guest: Ron Pritchard, Host, Michigan Talk Radio Network

   



August 30, 2006: The first part of a two part interview of me about the future of recorded music.

Guest: Ron Pritchard, Host, Michigan Talk Radio Network

   



August 28, 2006: A website that lets you post and edit videos online.

Guest: Mark Moore, Founder, One True Media

   



August 25, 2006: AMD has a plan for chips that focus on Digital Media.

Guest: Aaron Feen, Director of Consumer Marketing, Advanced Micro Devices

   



August 23, 2006: AOL plans to become a video portal.

Guest: Fred McIntyre, Vice President, AOL Video, AOL

   



August 21, 2006: A MySpace for music lovers.

Guest: David Hyman, CEO, MOG

   



August 18, 2006: Vidavee has one of the best tools that I am familiar with for managing Internet video.

Guest: Mark Brenner, Vidavee, CEO

   



August 17, 2006: Like YouTube except that publishers can manage their content themselves.

Guest: Ken Lipscomb, Founder, DAVE - TV

   



August 14, 2006: How to turn any webpage you like into a RSS feed.

Guest: Ron Pruett, Managing Partner, Boston Associates

   



August 11, 2006: How the record labels can promote music without broadcast radio.

Guest: Ben Rotholtz, General Manager, Real Networks - Rhapsody

   



August 9, 2006: How RSS feeds can make money.

Guest: Bill Flitter, Co-Founder, Pheedo

   



August 7, 2006: The future use of video by newspapers.

Guest: Will Richmond, Founder, Broadband Directions

   



August 4, 2006: The economics of podcasting.

Guest: Larry Gerbrandt, Senior Vice President, Nielsen Entertainment Media

   



August 3, 2006: A broadband video portal with random access to video files.

Guest: Mark Pascarella, President, Gotuit Media

   



July 31, 2006: Software that enables set-top boxes to access the Internet.

Guest: Jeff Lawrence, CEO, Media Mall

   



July 28, 2006: H-P is starting to sell televisions that hook-into the Internet.

Guest: Jan-Luc Blakborn, Director of Entertainment Media, Hewlett-Packard

   



July 26, 2006: Protection from viruses by automatically setting up virtual sessions as you browse the Web.

Guest: Bernard Harguindeguy, CEO, Green Border

   



July 24, 2006: Video VoIP phone calls and watching your home television from hotel rooms via the Net.

Guest: Peter Csathy, CEO, SightSpeed

   



July 21, 2006: A forecast of home networking.

Guest: Haryy Wang, Analyst, Parks Associates

   



July 19, 2006: Speculation that Microsoft may introduce a product to compete with the iPod.

Guest: Steve Lang, Founder, MadMaxMedia.com

   



July 17, 2006: The MusicNet View of Digital Music

Guest: Ted Casey, Senior Vice President, MusicNet

   



July 14, 2006: This guy uses Digital Media tools to record, transcribe, and write your memoirs.

Guest: P. J. Cherrin, Founder, Memoir Press

   



July 12, 2006: The Future of Web Conferencing.

Guest: Mike Gotta, Principal Analyst, The Burton Group

   



July 10, 2006: Congressional Legislation Provides For Mandatory Music Licensing

Guest: Jon Potter, Executive Director, Digital Media Association

   



July 7, 2006: Avistar integrates its desktop video into Lotus Sametime.

Guest: Jason Rhee, Manager of Business Development, Avistar

   



July 5, 2006: The Future of Web Conferencing and Unified Messaging.

Guest: Irwin Lazar, Senior Analyst, The Burton Group

   



June 30, 2006: How to watch TV programs that are on your home computer while you are traveling.

Guest: Mike Machado, CEO, Sage TV

   



June 28, 2006: Our guest today is Ted Cohen who for the past six years has been a high level executive with EMI Records where he has been a leading proponent of digital music.

Guest: Ted Cohen, Co-Founder, TAG Strategic

   



June 26, 2006: Why Adobe Flash is gaining share in the streaming media market.

Guest: Paul Palumbo, Director, AccuStream Research

   



June 23, 2006: The future of downloadable movies.

Guest: Ben Fritz, Technology Reporter, Variety

   



June 21, 2006: How to SIMULTANEOUSLY run the Apple OS and Windows on your Mac.

Guest: Ben Rudolph, Director of Marketing, Paralles, Inc.

   



June 19, 2006: How a local NBC affiliate is dealing with the challenges and opportunities of TiVo and the Internet.

Guest: Diane Kniowiski, President, WOOD-TV Grand Rapids, Michigan

   



June 16, 2006: A media buyer looks at the future of television.

Guest: Brad Adgate, Senior Vice President, Horizon Media

   



June 14, 2006: The CEO of the RIAA shares his views on the future of the Record Label business.

Guest: Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO, RIAA