NewTeeVee’s Liz Gannes catches up with BitTorrent CEO Doug Walker and talks about the company, Comcast, traffic shaping and other sundry topics. Enjoy the video, and read Liz’s post over on NewTeeVee.
Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire joined me (subbing for Om) and co-host Joyce Kim on the GigaOM Show this week. Hear him talk about Brightcove’s traffic spikes from TMZ, politics, and National Geographic; Yahoo’s Maven Networks acquisition; his company’s decision to drop its own ad sales team; and learning from experience to grow through partners. Download a high-quality version here.
Twenty years ago this month, the HP Deskjet launched, signaling the demise of the dot matrix printer (and its noise). Kids these days just don’t know how easy that have it. The first Deskjet cost $995, weighed 14 pounds and could only pump out two pages per minute. How did we ever make it through?
Well, people like Vyomesh Joshi, executive VP at HP’s imaging and printing division, certainly had a hand in it. Joshi stopped by The GigaOM Show to talk about HP’s Print 2.0 initiative, the company’s role in environmental issues, and the versatile abilities of inkjet technology (3D printing, anyone?). You’ve never seen anyone get so excited about printers before, though I’m still skeptical of Joshi’s claim that pictures printed with an inkjet printer are archival-quality.
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Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and cleantech VC firm Khosla Ventures, is on a mission to foster clean energy technologies. He’s always fun to talk to, but in this week’s episode he gave Joyce and I the inside track on green transportation, biofuels, hybrids and getting the U.S. off its oil addiction. Download the episode here.
Get to know the new CEO of Mozilla, John Lilly, on this week’s GigaOM Show, where I subbed in for Om again. Joyce Kim and I had a nice chat with Lilly — he shares details on the recent executive changeover, the impending release of Firefox 3 (which Lilly claims never crashes on his machine), the formation of a new Mozilla subsidiary for email products, Mozilla’s desire to refrain from going public, and the effect of the potential Microsoft purchase of Yahoo on Firefox. Watch the embed above, or download a high-definition QuickTime version here.
Want to know how online games are going to make money in the post-World of Warcraft era? The GigaOM Show recently sat down with Joshua Hong, co-founder and CEO of K2 Network, the company behind Gamersfirst, a free-to-play game network that boasts some 4 million monthly active users. Om’s smart and gracious co-host, Joyce Kim, invited me on to chat with Hong, who was advocating the free model long before Electronic Arts got into the act.
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Heather Harde, CEO of TechCrunch, stopped by the “The GigaOM Show” this week to chat with co-host Joyce Kim and myself about The Crunchies, working for a blog, and her thoughts on the mergers and acquisitions market.
You can download the episode in Quicktime, Windows Media and Xvid formats.
Want tips on how to move to the Valley, take funding, and flip your startup for $75 million in under two years? Watch this week’s episode of “The GigaOM Show” with StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp. With a little prodding from startup lawyer and co-host Joyce Kim, Camp gets down to the nitty-gritty of stock options and the merits of angel funding. And GigaOM Managing Editor Carolyn Pritchard will be pleased to note that Camp is a fellow Canadian. Happy Boxing Day in advance!
