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Facebook App-makin’ in Silicon Valley

Tom Foremski captures a group of Facebook application creators in Palo Alto. I’m one of the millions loving the fun apps on Facebook that help tie together different social media tools I’m using. Great stuff! Thanks, Tom.

From the PodTech site:
Video | 13:45 | Posted by Tom Foremski | August 28th, 2007 9:30 am

I spent Saturday afternoon crammed into a room in Palo Alto with a couple of hundred people listening to presentations from young developers creating Facebook apps. The enthusiasm was great and there was a sense of being at the start of something big.

Also on TechOne: RedMonk’s Michael Coté interviews Zane Rockenbaugh from Liquid Labs

Tags: Facebook apps, Coté, Zane Rockenbaugh, Liquid Labs

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Sustainable Strategies: Energy Star* - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 6

Andrew Fanara, Team Leader for the Energy Star Products Group with the EPA, discusses how Energy Star impacts computing platforms from both a client and a data center perspective.

Related stories:
Intel, IntelMooresLaw

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When Talk of IT & Social Media Has an Open Port

Tom Foremski of PodTech and SiliconValleyWatcher posted a timely video about the challenges of getting your company’s IT department to use or implement social media tools.  Timely because Tom will be hosting a similar panel at the Intel Developer Forum, but this panel will feature IT pros, legal experts and bloggers rather than marketing and communications pros — more here.

More people are having these kinds of experiences at work and it’s helping us all learn and actually try new things with some grounded expectations — i.e. getting people to engage and interact rather than clocking the number of hits or downloads.

Before we move to the video, here is a brand new effort by Intel — Open Port, where IT pros and enterprise technology experts/enthusiasts can come and learn, ask questions, vent, meet people and help people understand how to use the latest tech tools for businesses.  At first this will seem heavily voiced by Intel propaganda, but most of the stories, studies and information is about things Intel IT pros are learning as they work inside Intel and with IT shops at other companies.  I hope this helps break down any walls that are keeping IT pros from running as fast as they’d like to use new technologies that help people do what they want, like and need to do in life.  Of course security and risk awareness is important, but these are two issues that IT pros will has out when they gather around together with open minds and share.

Here’s video posted by Tom Foremski.

Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting of the Third Thursday club held at Voce Communications, in Palo Alto. Also on TechOne: Larry Magid’s report on Google Docs and Spreadsheets; and Michael Cote talks with William Hurley about commercial open source.

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Chipleading the Road to WiMAX

BusinessWeek strory online today but dated September 3 leads with an anecdote about Intel exec Sean Maloney and his Andy Grove-inspired revelation that Intel could help speed the spread broadband by using wireless. Sean embodies Intel’s innovative spirit and vision for bringing to life the benefits of Moore’s Law — benefits are better computing performance at lower prices over time.From the title down through the first few paragraphs, this is a fun ride…great writing here from BusinessWeek.

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Intel’s role as head WiMAX cheerleader makes sense. WiMAX is similar to Wi-Fi, which was embedded in Intel’s Centrino line of chips, but it offers dramatic improvements. Wi-Fi extends traditional wire-based broadband networks for just a few hundred feet, and Internet access speeds slow to a crawl when lots of people are online in the same area. Meanwhile, high-profile schemes for blanketing whole cities with cheap or free Wi-Fi networks aren’t working out.

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Video Inside Intel’s Integrated Graphics Lab

My Intel buddy Nick visited the Folsom lab to actually see what all of the buzz was about. People who game or go heavy on graphics and video tend to pooh=pooh integrated graphics — shhh…I’m one of them. But integrated graphics are advancing — nearly everything steps to Moore’s Law at Intel, or steps up to good competition. Here’s Nick’s blog post with some comments from integrated graphics dissers and believers.

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Video Inside Intel’s Integrated Graphics Lab

My Intel buddy Nick visited the Folsom lab to actually see what all of the buzz was about. People who game or go heavy on graphics and video tend to pooh=pooh integrated graphics — shhh…I’m one of them. But integrated graphics are advancing — nearly everything steps to Moore’s Law at Intel, or steps up to good competition. Here’s Nick’s blog post with some comments from integrated graphics dissers and believers.

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PCI Express 2.0 Speeds Innovation - Intel Chip Chat # 4

David Fair explains how PCI Express Gen 2 increases speed, device interoperability and bandwidth. He also provides insight into the Geneseo proposal that Intel and IBM gave to PCI-SIG.

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Intel Chip Chat — Climate Savers Computing Initiative

We watched the introduction of the computing industry org “Climate Savers Computing” a few months ago at Google headquarters. Now Intel’s Lorie Wigle share more insight into Intel’s leadership role in rallying others in the industry to design energy efficiency into every new device.  This is the third episode of Intel Chip Chat.
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Intel Chip Chat — Climate Savers Computing Initiative

We watched the introduction of the computing industry org “Climate Savers Computing” a few months ago at Google headquarters. Now Intel’s Lorie Wigle share more insight into Intel’s leadership role in rallying others in the industry to design energy efficiency into every new device.  This is the third episode of Intel Chip Chat.
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Intel Chip Chat — Architecting Next-Gen 45nm

I first got to work with Intel’s Stephen Fischer after he agreed to do an on-camera interview about the making of Penryn — Intel’s next generation of transistor technology measuring 45nm — in January of 2007. He was proud, humbled and shared a first-had story about how he and his team were the first to test a Penryn chip in Sacramento, California one late evening into the morning. Champaign all around! OK, sparkling cyder it was.

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