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Mitch Kapor: Software tales from Lotus 1-2-3 to 'Second Life'

In this Super Techies interview, software veteran Mitch Kapor talks with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a tech entrepreneur. Kapor discusses his early work at Lotus Development, creating the most ubiquitous business tool of its time; sparring with tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs;...

Tags: Software, Second Life, Mitch Kapor, IBM Corp., Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Professional Development, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Career, Super Techies, Personal Technology

Videos 2008-02-11

Brendan Eich: From Netscape Navigator to Firefox

In a Super Techies interview, Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a programmer in Silicon Valley. Eich discusses his early work at Netscape creating the JavaScript programming language, battling Microsoft in the browser wars, and his current role at Mozilla,...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Communications Corp., Netscape Navigator, Programming Language, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Programming Languages, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Browser, Personal Technology, Super Techies

Videos 2008-01-18

Paul Saffo: Hear from the seer of Silicon Valley

In a Super Techies interview, technology forecaster Paul Saffo talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his philosophy on predicting future technology trends. Saffo discusses how he got started in the forecasting game and his biggest hits and misses. Also, find out which technology he believes will be...

Tags: Forecasting, Saffo, Sales Force Management, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Super Techies, Robots

Videos 2007-12-12

Kim Polese: From Sun to SpikeSource

In a Super Techies interview, Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about her career in Silicon Valley. Polese discusses her early work at Sun Microsystems as the original Java product manager, her success at systems management company Marimba, and her current role overseeing...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Professional Development, Open Source, Career, Software, Super Techies

Videos 2007-12-05

Larry Tesler: From Xerox PARC to Yahoo

In a Super Techies interview, ZDNet Editor-in-chief Dan Farber talks with Larry Tesler, Yahoo's vice president of user experience and design, about the history of human/computer interaction. Tesler also discusses his early work at Xerox PARC and Apple and his current role: redesigning the interface for the Yahoo front door.

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Xerox PARC, PRODUCTIVITY, Super Techies

Videos 2007-07-13

Additional Resources

Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?

I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Desktop Linux, Computer, Super-Casual Web Surfer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Can Linux beat the bloat

I think the whole "bloated" thing is hogwash.There's no such thing.Neither Windows nor Linux are "bloated". Nor is OS/X. You want functionality you have to pay for it. One man's lean and mean is another man's anemic.Functionality simply isn't free.How many lines of code did USB take? How about multi-threading?...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu 9.04, Linux, Ubuntu, OS/X, Linus, bloat, kernel, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Software engineers move over - the era of the media engineer

Software engineers move over - the era of the media engineerI don't see this happeninggood engineers are good engineers; perhaps shoddy media engineers will be washed out of the process more quickly than shoddy programmers so perhaps you'll see this situation influence salary spreads since "bad aesthetics" speak louder...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Development tools, media engineer, Software Engineers, job

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

(The decade's 25 biggest tech flops slideshow)

(The decade's 25 biggest tech flops slideshow)@safesex2002Strange idea of success you appear to have.WrongThe Zune is definitely not a failure. I think there are more users out there than you know. Just because something doesn't have the success of Apple doesn't mean that it's a failure or look at...

Tags: Operating systems, Waht, Microsoft Zune, slideshow, Gizmondo, Apple Inc., LifeDrive, Dreamcast

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

96 new features in iPhone 3.0

96 new features in iPhone 3.0The iPhone's best feature... is definitely the auto-wind-up feature. To see this feature in action, just navigate to any ZDnet infomercial mentioning Apple, and look for posts by 'Non-Zealot', the anti-Apple zealot incarnate. Neat. I hear they're doing an "Apoplexia" upgrade in 3.3, better...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, smart phone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

One more reason to use Windows 7?

One more reason to use Windows 7?They seem to be clutching to the stupidgreyed out desktop picure, that is not user switchable. I'm sure that will turn off a few.If technology were to stop tomorrow.Then I could see people using Windows 7 with no concern. But technology is constantly...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, starter edition, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

DTV delay bill fails in House. It

DTV delay bill fails in House. ItDTV is a redundancy in broadcastIf you shut off analog you will drive the inventors of digital right out of their mind.You're taking the pressure distributed to TV engineers and placing it right of the digital inventor's shoulders.It's just like the time change a...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, digital television

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?Following Steve's PhilosophyAs you so accurately noted, Steve has a knack for whole numbers as we know from his Microsoft Office reign. Office 12 (2007), Office 11 (2003), Office 10 (XP or version 2002), Office 9 (2000) and these were the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista R2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, new name

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed

The top five reasons why Windows Vista failedSimpleDo you really think that MS decided to do that on its own? Would that really make sense for them to make it alot more complicated? MS did not want to do that, their own emails to each other prove that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp., top-five, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld ads

Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld adsTwo old farts pushing an outdated OS, that's a winner...I can't believe Microsoft thought this was a good marketing strategy by bringing one old comedian and one old nerd to brand to an upcoming generation of computer users and buyers. These commercials were...

Tags: Microsoft AD, Microsoft Corp., advertisement, Gates/Seinfeld, Gates/Seinfeld ad, Shift-Del

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?

Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?Obama's childish attack????Kinda like the one where McCain says Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergartners, when in fact, what he wanted was to teach them how to recognize inappropriate touching to protect them from child predators? Ridiculous, childish attack INDEED!Um ridiculous and childishlike...

Tags: INTERNET, RIM BlackBerry, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Holographic storage ships next month!

Even since astronaut Dave Bowman disconnected the HAL 9000's holographic memory in 2001: A Space Odyssey techies have been wondering when we could buy real holographic storage. Now we know: May, 2008. Promising super-high density and excellent media flaw resistance, holographic storage has been an ever-receeding technology...

Tags: Media, Hologram, Laser, Data Density, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Marketing, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Squaring the cloud

Squaring the cloudNobody cares...about the cloud. Individuals will eventually be its only users.I guess the large number of talkbacks indicates just how popular it is.Totally dangerous idea.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/google_spreadsheet_bug/This is what users of google apps can expect. Unsecure data.So who takes the call when the Cloud is down?The ISP? Google? Who is...

Tags: BIOS, Strategy, Processors, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Dan Bricklin: From Visicalc to wikicalc

In this Super Techies interview, software inventor Dan Bricklin shares with CNET News.com's Dan Farber his thoughts on software innovation past and present. Bricklin discusses how he dreamed up the first electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc; developing handwriting applications for the tablet PC; and his current role as the inventor of wikicalc,...

Tags: Software, VisiCalc, Spreadsheet, Bricklin, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Tablets, Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology

Videos 2008-03-27

Marc Benioff: Marketing maverick's journey from Apple to Salesforce

In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET News.com's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, On-demand, Apple Inc., Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Cloud Computing, Sales, Marketing, Personal Technology

Videos 2008-03-27