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Pingar: turning unstructured data into knowledge
Large enterprises, and even smaller organizations in a document intensive industry, often have millions of documents stored on their servers. Finding any sort of meaningful relationship among the documents or gleaning any value from them can seem impossible....
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Swayable: rate anything on the web
Before starting Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg created FaceMash, which allowed Harvard students to rate the photos of other students. FaceMash was preceded by sites such as RateMyFace, AmIHot.com and perhaps most famously, Hot or Not. Today, Swayable is taking...
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Inside the big brains behind Prismatic (best noise filtered news app)
I love Prismatic. Why? Because I trained it to bring me tech news and that's exactly what it brings. Very filtered, fast, and awesome news. But Prismatic is just getting started so I sat down with two co-founders, Bradford Cross, CEO, Aria Haghighi, CTO,...
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SRI (home of Siri) shows us augmented reality binoculars
How good can something like Google Glass become? Here is part of our tour of SRI, the famous Silicon Valley research lab that brought us the Internet, mouse, Nuance, HDTV, Siri, robotic surgeries, and much more. In this video you'll see binoculars that...
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Photowalk with Thomas Hawk - Photography Tips & Advice
http://www.silberstudios.tv We're photowalking with photographer Thomas Hawk on today's Marc Silber Show Advancing Your Photography. Thomas is a San Francisco Bay Area-based photographer and his goal in life is simple—to photograph and publish a huge...
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NewMe accelerator and three of its best startups
NewMe Accelerator helps women and minorities get businesses started, San Francisco style. They move a bunch of entrepreneurs to San Francisco, where they get mentorship, meet with investors and press, and get their companies started. Here Angela Barton,...
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SRI shows the state of the art of face detection
As a part of our tour through SRI, the famous research lab in Silicon Valley that brought us the Internet, the Mouse, and SIRI, among other things, we wanted to see the latest in face detection and what it might be used for (better speaker training, for...
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PluralSight announces acquisition of TrainSignal for $23.6 million
Here Aaron Skonnard, founder of Pluralsight, a white hot training company, announced the acquisition of TrainSignal for $23.6 million. I talk to Aaron about that and also about the online training space. Pluralsight helps people learn to program in a...
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Marketo CEO gets ready for IPO by discussing contextual marketing
Phil Fernandez, CEO, of Marketo (marketing automation company) yesterday announced the company was going to IPO to raise money to take it to the next level. But this interview isn't about that. It's about where marketing is going in the future. We talk...
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James In A Mess
(My first 2011 movie) James thinks Toby and Henrietta are old and shabby, thus calling them dirty objects. Toby soon looses patience and asks James why he is painted red. James proudly announces that red is the only worthy colour for a spendid engine,...
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A look at the next stage in mobile with Moves and ReelyActive
Moves is an app that watches what you do. It works in the background. Tracks you during the day. It's sort of like a health monitor that you might wear, like a FitBit, Nike FuelBand, etc. But it does a lot more than those do. So, we took a walk to discover...
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Photoshop CS5 update
The proliferation of devices beyond the desktop or laptop is changing virtually everything in the computing world, and software applications that have been around for years, like Adobe's Photoshop, are having to change right along with it. "There's a...
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iPad Garageband - Guitar Jam Improvisation
Click here http://tiny.cc/37bh1w for Free Guitar Lesson This is me creating a jam track with apple's Garageband app for the ipad and then shredding a guitar solo over it! I am sorry about the bad video quality, but i could not find a way to record ipad's...
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CubeSat's at SRI (small satellites are dramatically lowering the cost of experiments in space)
We visited famous research lab, SRI International, which is where SIRI, Nuance, HDTV, the Mouse, and many other things started their lives. Here we see how SRI is launching Cube Sats. Learn more here: http://www.sri.com/research-development/earth-space#top...
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America's most important startup?
*America's most important startup?* This is a really long video. More than an hour. Why is it so long? Because Techshop could be the most important startup to United States' manufacturing industry. Here we spend an hour with CEO Mark Hatch. What is Techshop?...
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Numecent will change how you get applications from the cloud
Business Insider wrote they were blown away by this startup. http://www.businessinsider.com/were-blown-away-this-startup-could-literally-change-the-entire-software-industry-2012-3 I can't disagree. This startup, Numecent, has some pretty mind-blowing...
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Northface's founder compares starting a company now vs. 1970s
http://www.obscuradigital.com/ is one of the most innovative companies around. It builds digital experiences for a variety of companies. If you were at Facebook's latest F8 you saw it work when you walked in on a huge data wall. Here I meet with a group...
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The better Siri: Sherpa
Here I get a look at the latest personal assistant, Sherpa, which is an app for Android. Take a look at it, from the founder's eye and comparison to Siri. I've been using it for a while now and it is, indeed, better than Siri for a whole range of tasks....
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PARC Innovation Tour, Part I: Circuit board printing out of an inkjet printer!
PARC is the Palo Alto Research Center which is one of the world's most famous R&D labs (ethernet, object oriented printing, guis, and much more were invented here). In this five-part tour you'll see what these smart people are working on now. Steve Jobs,...
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Dysonics has a way to make headphones a lot better
How are low-cost sensors and compute changing our world? Listen to Dysonics which came up with a way to make headphones better. Keep the band in one place, for instance. The effect is stunning, I wish you all could hear what it sounds like. Take a look...
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ConnectGOP aims to disrupt Democrats (and NationBuilder) in 2016
John Gotts, CEO of http://connectgop.com, has something interesting cooking with a social media system that hooks together Republicans. Generally I don't get involved with politics, especially Republican ones, but I've been tracking Gotts for years (the...
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Rocket Lawyer
Most of us will require the expertise of a lawyer at some point in our lives, and traditionally that expertise has been relatively expensive to obtain. Rocket Lawyer is changing that by providing affordable access to legal assistance over the Internet....
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Hello Doctor helps you keep track of your medical records on your iPad
Why do you need Hello Doctor? Well, if you have a complex medical case, you'll need to keep track of tons of different test results, along with details from lots of specialists. Guess what? The medical system won't do that for you! Here you hear about...
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Tapingo: awesome way for college students to order food and drinks
It starts with context: what drink do you usually get on the way to class? Is it an iced latte? Fine, your mobile phone can order it for you as soon as you leave your dorm. How? Tapingo keeps track of your context. It's morning, for instance, and you've...
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Minority Report arrives with Oblong (Part I) -- Mind blowing computer/human interface
This is cool stuff. John Underkoffler, chief scientist, Oblong Industries, was the tech advice behind the film "Minority Report" and then he built his own company to make that science fiction real. Here he shows me his latest work which is, indeed, mind...