After his presentation at SDForum's Third Ruby conference this afternoon, I talked with Anant Jhingran (pictured) about his role as CTO of IBM's Information Management division. Our conversation also touched upon the fact that he's using a silver Macbook...

After a brief passage amongst the cool and chichi-esque advertising/marketing crowd (I might get to like that!) at ad:tech, I'm back to the root of what Silicon Valley is known best for: hardcore technology! And believe me, it'll be...

Again, listening at eMarketer CEO, Geoff Ramsey, who's session was probably the best one at this year's show, marketers must deliver advertising that online video viewers want to see. The focus should be on relevancy and impact/entertaining... forget Pre-rolls....

For eMarketer CEO and co-founder, Geoff Ramsey, here are the main reasons why marketers and advertisers should be excited about online videos: - Greater measurability, target-ability and share-ability; - You can do a better job in story telling; -...

Is this the beginning of the end for the TV industry? U.S. consumers are watching less TV these days. And my guesstimate is that this is true around the world as well where broadband Internet is ubiquitous. According to...

After the super-geeky MySQL conference, I've now joined the crowd of "huppies" here at San Francisco's Moscone convention centre for ad:tech. Now I know what marketing is all about: flashy, cool and just plain beautiful! No, I'm not talking...

At the MySQL conference, I talked with Marten Mickos (pictured, photo by James Duncan Davidson), the newly appointed VP of the Database Group at Sun. This group is comprised of the former 400+ MySQL employees plus the 60 or...

At the MySQL conference today I had a chance to chat with Sun Microsystems' CEO, Jonathan Schwartz (pictured in the centre, photo by James Duncan Davidson). We covered several topics including the MySQL integration, the subject du jour, free/open...