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Facebook App-makin’ in Silicon Valley

Tom Foremski captures a group of Facebook application creators in Palo Alto. I’m one of the millions loving the fun apps on Facebook that help tie together different social media tools I’m using. Great stuff! Thanks, Tom.

From the PodTech site:
Video | 13:45 | Posted by Tom Foremski | August 28th, 2007 9:30 am

I spent Saturday afternoon crammed into a room in Palo Alto with a couple of hundred people listening to presentations from young developers creating Facebook apps. The enthusiasm was great and there was a sense of being at the start of something big.

Also on TechOne: RedMonk’s Michael Coté interviews Zane Rockenbaugh from Liquid Labs

Tags: Facebook apps, Coté, Zane Rockenbaugh, Liquid Labs

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Gaming Gets The Reboot

PodTech’s Rio Pesino has been producing some cool reports on gaming for a while now, so it’s GREAT to see his new show hit.  The intro is sweet!  The graphics are slick and the pace is just right.  Nice production and big variety of game-lovers interviewed.  Gaming is not just for boys and girls, grappas are in on the action, too!

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Silicon Valley History — People Doing Things That Change The World

 Even if you’ve read about it, seen photos or event stopped to visit, seeing the HP founders’ garage is inspiring. It’ an icon of for that spark of imagination and innovative spirit that still spreads through the arteries of Silicone Valley.

Watching this made me think how cool it is to have a legacy.  For HP it goes back a while.  They skyrocketed to greatness and managed through tough twists and turns to become one of today’s leading computer companies.

Even short-run start-ups have legacies in Silicon Valley.  While many seem to disappear, their efforts actually are the growth seeds, ideas and drive that drives the innovation collective.   And sure it’s the great breakthroughs and computer applications that blow the mind, but it’s the people, characters past and present, who are the core of the best stories about Silicon Valley.

This is a nicely produced visual story (kudos!) about people and technology inside HP.  The second video is another nicely produced video that looks at a major change to the tiny, ever shrinking transistor — arguable the real engine of possibilities we all think of when we hear two words:  Silicon Valley.

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I just Got a WetPaint Wiki!

Funny thing is that I saw Scoble’s video just hours after setting up my first Wiki on WetPaint. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for my corporate PR team’s social media efforts to show how we’re not dabbling but actually swimming with others using social media.

I’m fist going to set it up as a private site then go from there. I will add videos we produce and distribute, new social media guidelines and courses we’re creating for the company, as well as fun stuff. If it’s done right, we can point our bosses to the site whenever they ask, “what have you done for me lately?”

Last night I also opened a Tumblr account so now I can see which tool will work best for my needs, and which site will grow with my growing needs and interests. It’s open but I’m still gathering my wits for how I’d use it. It’s here.

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Sustainable Strategies: Energy Star* – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 6

Andrew Fanara, Team Leader for the Energy Star Products Group with the EPA, discusses how Energy Star impacts computing platforms from both a client and a data center perspective.

Related stories:
Intel, IntelMooresLaw

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When Talk of IT & Social Media Has an Open Port

Tom Foremski of PodTech and SiliconValleyWatcher posted a timely video about the challenges of getting your company’s IT department to use or implement social media tools.  Timely because Tom will be hosting a similar panel at the Intel Developer Forum, but this panel will feature IT pros, legal experts and bloggers rather than marketing and communications pros — more here.

More people are having these kinds of experiences at work and it’s helping us all learn and actually try new things with some grounded expectations — i.e. getting people to engage and interact rather than clocking the number of hits or downloads.

Before we move to the video, here is a brand new effort by Intel — Open Port, where IT pros and enterprise technology experts/enthusiasts can come and learn, ask questions, vent, meet people and help people understand how to use the latest tech tools for businesses.  At first this will seem heavily voiced by Intel propaganda, but most of the stories, studies and information is about things Intel IT pros are learning as they work inside Intel and with IT shops at other companies.  I hope this helps break down any walls that are keeping IT pros from running as fast as they’d like to use new technologies that help people do what they want, like and need to do in life.  Of course security and risk awareness is important, but these are two issues that IT pros will has out when they gather around together with open minds and share.

Here’s video posted by Tom Foremski.

Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting of the Third Thursday club held at Voce Communications, in Palo Alto. Also on TechOne: Larry Magid’s report on Google Docs and Spreadsheets; and Michael Cote talks with William Hurley about commercial open source.

Tags: Josh Hallett, Alex Kim, Solution Set, social media, Silicon Valley Watcher, Voce Communications, Larry Magid, open source

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Chipleading the Road to WiMAX

BusinessWeek strory online today but dated September 3 leads with an anecdote about Intel exec Sean Maloney and his Andy Grove-inspired revelation that Intel could help speed the spread broadband by using wireless. Sean embodies Intel’s innovative spirit and vision for bringing to life the benefits of Moore’s Law — benefits are better computing performance at lower prices over time.From the title down through the first few paragraphs, this is a fun ride…great writing here from BusinessWeek.


Intel’s role as head WiMAX cheerleader makes sense. WiMAX is similar to Wi-Fi, which was embedded in Intel’s Centrino line of chips, but it offers dramatic improvements. Wi-Fi extends traditional wire-based broadband networks for just a few hundred feet, and Internet access speeds slow to a crawl when lots of people are online in the same area. Meanwhile, high-profile schemes for blanketing whole cities with cheap or free Wi-Fi networks aren’t working out.
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Clipmarks — Will it Help Improve My Blog?

This was one of the first Firefox add-ons that caught my eye a few months ago.  Today I’m pledging to give it a better try than I did when I first downloaded it a few months ago.  My blog is really about things I’m learning and interesting people I find or meet as life moves ahead.

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Inside Intel — in my opinion — there’s a huge variety of people, personalities, paces and tastes, but everyone’s passionately believes they can help Intel become more innovative, relevant and meaningful to people around the world.  There are many pioneers and there are many organizers and their are many supporters.  The pioneers step out and try and they help break new ground.  Organizers make sense of things and create strategies (and processes if possible) for mass adoption — i.e. getting more people to embrace the best of what the pioneers are finding/doing.  Supporters share the fruits of all of this work with the outer edges where clients, friends and family are found.  From there you can look backward to catch a glimpse of what makes up Intel culture.

Intel culture is restless and eager and sometimes bullheaded.  But today there are many engines of change being driven by many new pioneers who are working to grow Intel’s culture from being soley a force of innovation to being a source of innovation that works together with others to help make great things happen for people, businesses and governments wherever they may be.

So what gives with Clipmarks?  I believe it can help people more easily feed their blog with things they find and like during the day.  As we move from pioneers to organizers (or settlers) of social media inside Intel, we’ll soon be encouraging all employees — and their clients, families and friends :) — to participate more with the information they find and the people they meet.  People who aren’t blogging typically say they don’t have the time or interest.  I always say give it a try and let it grow as you go.  You’ll find things like Clipmarks that will jettison you to new levels and new delights, or you’ll try and discover that blogging just isn’t for you.  That’s fine, too, because it’s not just about blogging, it’s about participating, commenting on news, sharing your wisdom and feelings with others.

Heck, tomorrow’s another day.  I’ll start clipmarking today.

Intel Blogfather — Internet Strategiest Bryan Rhoads

Lots of great people hanging (read: drinking) and learning from each other up at Portland’s Internet Strategy Forum Summit in July. I watch from Cali as pals like Josh Bancroft helped organize folks for dinner. And folks like Intel Blogfather Bryan Rhoads was their “tapping pools of knowledge capital.” He is a great guy to learn from — big heart, good experience and great stories. Nice to hear him hook up with our PodTech pals Jeremiah and Scoble. I’ve learned so much from these guys, yet sometimes it feels like it’s just the beginning.

Bryan is Intel’s first Blogfather — they’ll be sequels — who led the first successful Intel blog pilot IT@Intel that later paved the way for a family of Intel blogs like Technology@Intel, Research@Intel and a handful of others. He has coined some of my favorite phrases like “there were pioneers, but now the settlers” are diving into social media. One of my favorites was: “One of my roles is to get out of the way” and let the bloggers do their thing. But one to live by: consensus building helps you get management to “get your back” so you can run and try things.

Watch for much more wisdom and greatness from the Blogfather staring in a new role inside Intel.

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Video — Strike a Chord From Anywhere: Fun Intel TV Ads

I came across this on YouTube this weekend.  I think I first saw this about a year ago and I have talked about it many time ssince.  It was an ad that aired in Latin American countries promoting Intel’s Centrino Mobile Technology (now Duo Processor technology) for laptops.  I wish this played in America, but I guess there are so many reasons why it didn’t.  Heck, maybe it can be “re-purposed” somehow!  Well, I’m thankful that at least we have YouTube!!

Thanks to adavila78 for the video.

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