Startups shouldn’t only think about the federal government when thorny legislation like SOPA and PIPA arises. Engine Advocacy’s Mike McGeary sat down to share his thoughts on what startup founders should be thinking now to prepare for when they do encounter Washington D.C. Read More »
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Do you put yourself in your customers’ shoes? Not literally, of course, but are you able to step our of your hectic workday and really imagine what it’s like for someone to use your product? MindSnacks CEO, Jesse Pickard believes empathy is an important and overlooked … Read More »
In his new book, The Digital Workplace, author Paul Miller doesn’t take a dogmatic approach to web working by hailing the death of the traditional office. Rather, he sees a more symbiotic relationship between the physical and digital work spaces. Read More »
How many apps on your phone do you use on a daily basis? Moving your product from a novelty to a habit is tricky, but Localmind CEO, Lenny Rachitsky thinks he’s found a way to make it happen and open up in this video interview. Read More »
When serial-entrepreneur-turned-college-professor Steve Blank talks entrepreneurship, people listen. His new book, The Startup Owner’s Manual is bound for CEO bookshelves everywhere. Blank talked with us about the current and future state of entrepreneurship, the myth of Steve Jobs, and more. Read More »
Sahil Lavingia has a gift for building what people want. His resume reveals work with Pinterest, Turntable.fm, and now he’s founded Gumroad, a startup empowering people to sell anything to anyone. He sat down to share his thoughts on a wide range of topics. … Read More »
There’s no shortage of places that will recommend a new gadget. But how do you manage all the gadgets you get? ItemBase, a new startup out of Berlin, wants to help. Read More »
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In his quest to map the connections in the brain, MIT professor Sebastian Seung is turning citizen science into a game. In this video, he talks about his project, Eyewire, and how prior experience with coloring books is all you need to play. Read More »
Finding a recipe is easy. Cooking it can be tough. Startup YumvY hopes to change that with a GPS-style step-by-step Web app that takes those of us who haven’t been to culinary school through the process of getting dinner on the table. Read More »
In this video Q&A, Daniel Raffel shares how he assembled the right team to build and launch Snapguide, a mobile app. He also shared what he learned working for famous chef, Thomas Keller. It is must see TV for startup founders. Read More »
Want to release your inner creative genius? Check out this video chat with Jonah Lehrer, author of the book Imagine: How Creativity Works, and learn how to generate insights and foster a more creative workforce. Read More »
VIDEO: Jetpac and Dipity founder, Derek Dukes sat down on camera for the first episode of our new video show “See Founders Run.” Dukes shares how he runs product cycles in his company and how to tell when iterations become pivots. Read More »
The holidays are just about here. And for many of you, that will probably mean there is a shiny new tablet computer waiting to be unwrapped. What better way to enjoy your new (or even old) tablet, than firing it up to do some reading over … Read More »
Will the future of work be filled with robots powered by remote humans? Will there even be a “place” to work, or will that shift online, too? Elance CEO, Fabio Rosati gives us some big thoughts on where the workplace is headed. Read More »
Dr. Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm will sit down for an interview with Om this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. PT, and you can watch the whole thing live, right here. Read More »
Steve Jobs was the ultimate showman. With the news of Jobs’ resignation from Apple, we’ve collected of some of his best presentations, caught on video for the ages for us to appreciate (and learn from). Read More »
Because GigaOM Pro is a fresh approach to market research, the concept of all-you-can-eat technology insight is new to some people. To introduce the idea of our network and analysts, we’re launching a series of short video ads to illustrate the different features of the service. Read More »
We’ve created a series of video ads to walk users through our subscription research service, GigaOM Pro; to visually represent how the service disrupts traditional research; and to show how big our expert network is. And we did it all with paper cutouts and bouncy music. Read More »
Redpoint Ventures’ Satish Dharmaraj was an investor in Cloud.com, which just got bought by Citrix. We thought now would be a great time to bring back an in-depth chat we had with Dharmaraj where he discussed the future of cloud computing. Read More »
Should you buy an Internet-enabled TV? Before you get all app-happy on the big screen, read this cautionary tale of a so-called smart TV from Vizio crashing, crashing and crashing some more. Read More »
Stars from across the tech world smiled for our video cameras in 2010. From Jay Leno to Max Levchin to a father finally winning at Xbox, here are ten of our favorites. Read More »
GigaOM TV rock-tobered this month, delivering a bevy of videos that will engage, entertain and quite possibly inspire. From business insights and optimal work habits, to cutting-edge inventions, see what you may have missed. Read More »
All the streams from the social web have created a flood of information. With this influx of life and data streams comes the desire to stay on top of it all. But this is a bad idea, according to Clifford Nass whom Om interviewed on the … Read More »
Summer may officially be over, but to say good-bye to the first round of our BBQ&A video series, we invited Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo to show us how to grill up some delicious eggplant and bulgogi beef, a traditional Korean barbecue dish. Read More »
Just in time for the Labor Day weekend, we bring you the second installment of our web TV series BBQ&A. In this episode, oDesk CEO Gary Swart turned up the heat with a homemade feast fit for a Silicon Valley king. Read More »
Mika Salmi has literally been starting businesses since he was a kid. He’s learned a lot from his time as an entrepreneur and investor and sat down with us to share some of his expertise. Read More »
Dave Pell might be best known for chronicling tech’s ups and downs through his Davenetics newsletter. But he’s also an entrepreneur and has angel-funded more than 30 companies. He shares his insights on investing and startups in this video interview. Read More »
Just in time for the Fourth, Auditude CRO Mike Gaffney shows us his recipe for homemade BBQ sauce and grills up chicken on the bone and three magic words: cheese, filled, sausage. Join us for some summer fun on our new GigaOM TV series BBQ&A. Read More »
Launching its public beta today, Togetherville is tackling the tough job of creating a safe social network for kids by involving parents (without losing any of the fun). CEO Mandeep S. Dhillon explains how his company will do it in this video interview and demo. Read More »
Anyone looking to start a business should listen to Naval Ravikant. He’s been both entrepreneur and angel investor and has loads of wisdom for people wondering what to look for in a business partner or how to get a meeting with a VC. Read More »
By Chris Albrecht
May. 6, 2010, 1:30pm PT
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GameHouse, the casual games division of RealNetworks, has announced plans to push further into the social space with its Fusion platform and Facebook app. Craig Robinson, VP of product management at Real’s games division, then talked with us about how Real envisions the future of gaming. Read More »
Threadsy, a universal social inbox, opened up to the public today. Check out our exclusive video chat with CEO Rob Goldman about what the company does and the state of social communications in general. Read More »
PopCap Games has a hit streak even Pixar might envy. But can the company keep up and get social in Facebook era? We find out in this video interview with Co-Founder John Vechey and CEO David Roberts. Read More »
By Chris Albrecht
Apr. 15, 2010, 2:30pm PT
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Jeremy Liew, a managing director with Lightspeed Venture Partners, is a big believer in virtual goods. Liew recently stopped by GigaOM HQ for a quick chat about the explosive growth of that market and where it’s headed. Read More »
Gamers in North America and Europe are now “largely comfortable” with purchasing digital content such as virtual currency and in-game goods, according to new research. We sat down with the CEO of game aggregator Kongregate to learn how virtual goods are impacting his business. Read More »
While some cities have their mayors braving freezing lakes and shark tanks to prove their desire for Google fiber — not Alameda, Calif. But although I may have wanted my town to sizzle to sway Google, I have instead learned to appreciate the steak. Read More »
Could more exposure to Baywatch be a good thing for people of developing countries? Well, Baywatch, might be a bad example, but during his presentation at the National Association of Television Programming Executives Conference in Las Vegas this week, World Bank Sr. Economist Charles Kenny … Read More »
Today is my last day with NewTeeVee/GigaOM. How’s that for not burying the lede? As corny as it sounds, I can’t stop thinking about The Matrix as my time here winds down. More than two years ago, I quit a rather lucrative job working with short-form filmmakers to join … Read More »
We received word this morning that YouTube has decided to end its short-lived video downloads beta program. David Rodriguez of StuffWeLike.com posted a video explaining the move yesterday along with an excerpt from the email he received from YouTube. The email from YouTube stated: “We want to thank … Read More »
If you thought the movie 2012 was disaster porn, just wait for the entertainment apocalypse that Redbox’s dollar-a-night movie rentals will bring about. That, in a nutshell, is the bottom line of a new report (PDF, hat tip to Video Business) … Read More »
Whoo! Roll Tide! Alabama walloped Florida 32 – 13 in the SEC Championship game over the weekend, delivering with it big gains in viewership on both old and newteevee. According to CBSSports.com, 91,401 unique users consumed more than 144,236 total hours of live video from the … Read More »
We’ll leave it to other blogs to spill more ink on the colorful history of the new JooJoo tablet (formerly known as the CrunchPad). The phrase “HD video” is what caught our eye. From our pal Kevin Tofel: The operating system is Unix-based and the device … Read More »
While 99 percent of video is watched on a TV in the U.S., in the third quarter DVR use and online video grew 21.1 percent and 34.9 percent respectively, year-over-year, according to the latest Nielsen A2/M2 Three Screen Report. Americans spent 129 hours … Read More »
OK, for realsies this time you guys, Sony has finally figured all this digital stuff out. Sony CEO Howard Stringer told a gathering of reporters as much yesterday when he touted his company’s new strategic initiative, the Sony Online Service (which bears the unfortunate distress acronym … Read More »
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