Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble works at PodTech as Vice president of media development. His Scobleizer blog covers and comments on tech news, Podcasting and whatever else comes to his mind. His is one of the most popular bloggers on the Web. A prolific reader and poster, Scoble now consumes more than 1200 RSS feeds daily.Prior to PodTech, Robert was the lead blogger at Microsoft. During his tenure there, Fast Company magazine once wrote that he "may well be one of the most powerful people in Redmond." When he left to work for PodTech, it made the Wall Street Journal.
Scoble's book Naked Conversations, which he co-wrote with expert corporate communicator Shel Holtz, is ranked #1,255 on Amazon.com.
Robert lives in Silicon Valley with his wife Maryam and his son.
Photo via Robert Scales' Flickr.
Fred Walti
Fred brings ten years of Internet entrepreneurship to Snap.com, having founded Full Moon Interactive, an Internet architect, and LAI, Inc., a consulting company focusing on the entertainment, and financial services sectors. Fred built FMI from start-up to $25 million in annual sales with 14 consecutive quarters of profitability. Fred also started one of the first interactive divisions of a global advertising agency in 1995. Prior to his experience in "new media," Fred spent 15 years with global communications companies in various executive capacities working with clients including Apple, P&G, Pepsi, Gillette, US West, and others. Fred is a graduate of NYU's Gallatin School. Mary Hodder
Mary Hodder is an information architect and interaction designer for several web service companies with social media sites. She works with companies in open source, photo sharing and blog aggregation, was at Technorati, and recently completed a survey of the current state of research and development in academia in the area of New Media for the American Press Institute. She is a blogger at Napsterization and an original author at bIPlog, which was the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy. Betsy Aoki
Betsy Aoki is Microsoft�s former "blog queen", the program manager responsible for evolving Microsoft�s first employee blogging sites. Quoted in Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's book on blogging, Naked Conversations, she has spoken internationally about the progressiveness of Microsoft�s corporate blogging efforts and the goodness of blogging in general.
Aoki currently drives community development for Live QnA, a newly-launched question and answer service that is part of Live Search. In addition to her own blog, she runs the Live Search Blog and Live QnA Blog.
An award-winning MFA poet and former Seattle Times columnist, Aoki is also known for having founded the Seattle chapter of Webgrrls, the first Seattle chapter of Linuxchix, and being the first Web pm hire for seattletimes.com. Also, she was the first to fill out the Wikipedia stub on making your own bath fizzies or "bath bombs." That�s got to count for something in terms of making the world a better place.
Doc Searls
Searls is the Senior Editor for Linux Journal and co-author of the bestseller, "The Cluetrain Manifesto." Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and Founder of pulver.com, and one of the true pioneers of the VoIP industry and a leader in the emerging TV on the Net industry. Leveraging well over a decade of hands-on experience in Internet/IP communications and innovation, Mr. Pulver is a globally renowned thought leader, author and entrepreneur. His blog is well read within the IP Communications Industry and in high-tech communities around the world. He is the publisher of The Pulver Report and VON Magazine and creator of the industry standard Voice on the Net (VON) events, where all sectors of IP communications come together to discuss, debate, and advance the industry. Additionally, Mr. Pulver is the founder of pulvermedia, FWD, the VON Coalition, Network2, Vivox and is the co-founder of Abbey Corps and VoIP provider, Vonage.
Buzz Bruggeman
Buzz Bruggeman is a founder and CEO of ActiveWords, Inc. and is responsible for all marketing, evangelizing and business development for the company. Prior to founding ActiveWords, Buzz practiced law for 30 years and specialized in real estate and development work. He has an extensive background in litigation.
Because of Buzz�s advocacy of blogs as marketing tools for his business, most of the sales of ActiveWords is related to blog reviews. Thanks in large part to his Blog-centric marketing philosophy, ActiveWords was recently named the 3rd Best Software Product of the year by Jupitermedia�s Eric Grevstad, following behind OpenOffice and Microsoft 2003. Buzz and was awarded a "demoGod" award at Demo 2004 and has spoken at various industry events including Blogon and Internet Planet.
Steve Broback
Steve Broback is the founder of the Blog Business Summit. He is also co-founder and current partner at Avondale Media. Broback also co-founded Thunder Lizard Productions, (a technology event production company) in 1991, which became a subsidiary of Fawcette Technical Publications in 2000.
At Thunder Lizard, Broback orchestrated some of the most successful technology events of the last 10 years focusing on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Macromedia DreamWeaver. He also produced TLP’s Web Design World, Macromedia Web World, and other events with attendees numbering in the tens of thousands.
Jacob Ludington
Jake Ludington has been immersed in digital media since his days of coding simple Sprite graphics on the Commodore 64 platform. Many of his early experiments involved making primitive renditions of his favorite Marvel comic book characters (although some imagination was required in order to recognize the characters represented).
For over 5 years, Jake has been helping people find useful imaging, video, and audio solutions. A reasonably comprehensive list of Jake's writing can be found by searching Google for Jake Ludington. Jake continues in the tradition of providing users with useful digital media focused content in his Digital Lifestyle publication, which is available for free subscription here.
Jake can be heard every Thursday as part of The Chris Pirillo Show. And less frequently produces his own podcast interviewing movie directors for Hollywood Reviews.
Dave Taylor
Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written eighteen business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs, this one focused on business and industry analysis, the eponymously named Ask Dave Taylor devoted to tech and business Q&A and Attachment Parenting Blogdiscussing topics of interest to parents.
Dave is a highly-rated speaker, sought after workshop facilitator and frequent radio guest.
Jeremy Pepper
Jeremy Pepper is a Public Relations specialist and blogger with Weber Shandwick Worldwide. His past public relations campaigns have won the IPRA/United Nations Grand Award for outstanding achievement, the IPRA Golden Award and two Silver Anvil Awards of Excellence.
Andru Edwards
Andru Edwards is the CEO of Gear Live Media, a weblog publishing company which contains some of the most popular technology and pop culture blogs on the Web, including it's flagship blog, Gear Live. Through his passion for both writing and the subject matter, Andru took his blogs from a part-time hobby to a full-time successful company. Andru and his blogs have been quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, KOMO 4 News, Q13 News, KING5, and NPR, among others.
The company has also jumped into the podcasting and videocasting space, most recently with their technology show, The Bleeding Edge, and upcoming movie review show, FilmCrunch (site launch soon.)
Gear Live Media is also the host of the biannual Seattle Mind Camp event - a self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab which brings together the areas most creative, passionate, and smartest people.
Jeff Sandquist
Jeff Sandquist is a Director of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft. Jeff leads the teams who create Channel 9 and 10 that combine video blogging, wikis, RSS, and comments to bring Microsoft and its customers closer together through transparency and dialogue.
Channel 9 was inspired by United Airline�s in-flight audio channel of the same name in which passengers can listen in to hear pilots and Air Traffic Control guiding flights in real-time. Jeff and team launched Channel 9 as a rogue effort inside Microsoft on April 5, 2004 without use of traditional advertising or media to promote it. To date over 5 million developers and enthusiasts visit the Channel 9 and 10 video blog sites each month making them the most popular corporate video blogs on the planet.
Jeff has been at Microsoft for over ten years partnering with customers worldwide helping them succeed on Microsoft platforms such as Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET, and the upcoming release of Windows Vista.
Doug Felteau
Doug Felteau is Chief Gizmateer of Gizmos for Geeks.
Besides creating powerpoints full of IT metrics, InfoSec proposals and budgets in the moonlight, Doug enjoys long walks to the datacenter to fix various system, network and security issues that arise. After a long days work, he enjoys settling down with a laptop and a quick connection for the occasional penetration test or security audit.
His favorite animals are happy-go-lucky and pudgy penguins and foxes with fur full of fire. Currently seeking help for a mad gadget habit.
Andrew McCaskey
Andy McCaskey produces the SlashDot Review, which is a pod cast summary of news and happenings on SlashDot.com.
Dennis Rice
Dennis has been involved in the computer industry for over 20 years. For 17 years he was the IT Director for an international nonprofit organization, where he traveled to many countries around the world designing, installing and supporting LAN, WAN, and email networks on a global scale. His favorite spot on earth is in the Serengetti plains of Africa, at a tent camp called Qichwa Tembo. Ask him sometime about being lost on the plains of Africa!
In 2002, he formed a systems engineering company, pursued Microsoft certifications, and began working with small and medium sized businesses on technology needs as a consultant. He currently holds certifications as a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), and as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE). He specializes in Microsoft Small Business Server systems, and enjoys contributing to the success of small businesses.
Tom LeVine
Tom LeVine is the CEO of Pop! Tech. He has more than 30 years of experience organizing, funding, managing, advising, growing and investing in new technology-related ventures. After graduating from the University of Vermont, Tom began a series of business pursuits that led him to managing and working closely with members of a network of angel investors for five years. He then held various executive positions prior to becoming CEO of a wireless venture capital portfolio company and several related information technology ventures, incubated over an 11-year period.
Tom moved with his family in 1999 to Maine, where he continued to work with companies in Boston, New York, California, Australia and Europe. During that period, he was also a volunteer for Pop!Tech for seven years, including three years as president, before becoming the first CEO of Pop!Tech Institute in 2006. Tom is also a board member of the State of Maine�s venture capital fund, The Small Enterprise Growth Fund.
Rob Bushway
Rob has been active in the Tablet PC space since December 2002, joining the wildly popular TabletPCBuzz.com when there were only a couple of hundred members. His natural thirst for news and knowledge, combined with strong technical skills has made him a very respected and trusted news source, as well as a general contributor to the online community.
In April of 2004, Rob was given the MVP award for Tablet PC for his volunteer work on TabletPCBuzz.com, and has been annually reawarded for his continuing work in the Tablet PC community in general. In 2004, Rob was awarded the Agilix AllStar designation from for his contributions to the GoBinder and PlanPlus tablet PC applications. He was also awarded the TabletPCBuzz.com 2004 Member of the Year award by the members of TabletPCBuzz.com for his contributions to the community.
Warner Crocker
Warner is a Tablet PC enthusiast, a theatre producer, director, and playwright, who combines his love of Tablet PCs with his work in the live theatre. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of Wayside Theatre in Middletown, VA, now in his 8th season there. He first became involved with Tablet PCs in 2003 and became an active contributor on Tablet PC Buzz, where he has also served as a News Editor. In 2004 he started blogging on Life On the Wicked Stage on MSN Spaces and later moved that part of his life to TypePad with Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 2 where he ruminates, postulates, rants and raves about Tablet PCs, computing and the Internet in general, as well as his life at Wayside Theatre, and the occasional emu sighting. Prior to his life in Middletown and his life with Tablet PCs he spent 20 years in Chicago working in the professional theatre, producing and directing plays for numerous theatres there including The Absolute Theatre Company and Plan B Productions, both of which he founded. His productions have been awarded numerous awards including many Golden Chiquitas. (Dont ask.) He has also written and directed plays in Russia for the Musical Theatres of Omsk and Yekaterinburg.
In 2005 he was recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Tablet PCs, an honor that he is still thrilled to have received.
Matt Faulkner
Matt is not new at all to the tablet PC arena. He has been involved in other community sites for quite a while now. Matt supports a number of Tablet PC�s in his job as a GIS Specialist at an environmental engineering company in Indiana. He loves keeping up to date on what is going on in this arena, so he�s a natural to GBM with that passion! Matt is married with a daughter who is a little over a year old, and lives in the Indianapolis area. He has a BA in GIS, plus background working with his father�s business setting up LAN and WAN systems for small businesses. He's been interested in Tablet PC's and the inking experience since they first came out, and purchased his first "personal" tablet when the M4 came out because it had a graphics card with memory capable of being used in his daily work.
Graeme Thickins
Graeme is the founder of GT&A Strategic Marketing, Minneapolis, a marketing strategy, branding, content development, and startup advisory consultancy. Over 25+ years, he's helped more than 100 technology firms launch, grow, and prosper -- many of them from the initial concept stage. Graeme has also served in key interim-executive roles, including for the launch of BestBuy.com as interim Director of Content, and as interim Director of Marketing for an IT services firm, since acquired. In 2004, he was recruited as VP Marketing to client Intradyn Inc., an early-stage firm that markets backup and archiving appliances, and has helped secure and develop relationships with Sony, Imation, and Mirapoint. In addition to his marketing consulting and content development business, Graeme's reports on technology conferences have been read widely via such sites as Conferenza.com and other media outlets, and he has also written extensively for publication (www.graemethickins.com). He has a large national network of leaders and influentials in the technology and investment communities.
Graeme has an alternate base of operation in Southern California, where he writes and blogs "from the beach" whenever he can. Between surf sessions.
Chris Leckness
Chris Leckness has been a gadget freak for as long as he can remember. Starting off with a Handmedown Commodore Vic-20, he was an early adopter of the personal computer world.
Chris was an Electronics Technician in the US Navy for almost 10 years. During his time in the US Navy, Chris always enjoyed making websites as a hobby. Building a site for anything he was into at the time.
After giving up on the Palm OS in 2002, Chris bought a Dell Axim X5 and decided to build a site to share his findings as he learned. The site was called, "Aximsite"! Since December 2002, Aximsite.com has helped thousands of users to purchase Axims and Chris and his users provided tips and support to many more.
Today Aximsite.com has evolved into a large site with 120,000+ members and often times hosts 600-700 users at any given time. Aximsite has become a resource not only for Axim owners, but for any PocketPC user. Future plans include expansion into other devices as well as smartphones and Tablets.
Teresa Valdez Klein
Teresa Valdez Klein is the editorial lead for the Blog Business Summit and their network of blogs. She graduated from Pomona College in 2005 with a B.A. in Psychology. While at Pomona, she studied creative nonfiction writing with New York Times editorial board writer Verlyn Klinkenborg.
After graduation, Teresa dabbled in the world of public relations before deciding to become a hardcore geek by working for Steve Broback. Since joining Broback's crew in September of 2005, she has been quoted in the New York Times and Business Week, and her work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company Magazine. She thinks that's pretty impressive for a 23 year-old punk kid.
Teresa has been live in the blogosphere since 2003 with her blog TeresaCentric, where she writes about politics, religion, sex and other inflammatory topics. She lives in Kirkland with her fianc�, Andy.
Todd Cochrane
Geek News Central is edited primarily by Todd Cochrane, who is the award winning Author of "Podcasting The Do It Yourself Guide". Geek News Central is a subsidiary of his company Podcast Connect, with this website launching in May 2002 with the goal of creating a high quality tech and informational site for people of all ages and backgrounds. In addition to Todd a small number of volunteer editors contribute content to the site. The idea of launching this site has it origins from what was in wanting to share information and opinions in a community fashion.
The goal continues to be posting quality links and information along with personal commentary on sites that interest us and hopefully those visiting the site. As you can see from our content we want you to be exposed to new ideas and technologies by publicizing new and innovative software or pieces of information that effect your daily connected lives.
Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan is passionate about new media and social media. He blogs at www.chrisbrogan.com, as well as producing a video blog called Small Boxes. He also maintains the Network2 blog for Video on the Net, a conference about the impact of broadband internet on the future of TV, Broadcasting and Film. His other role is with Network2, your guide to the best of Internet TV. Chris joined visionary entrepreneur Jeff Pulver’s company in October 2006.
Timothy Stay
Tim Stay is one of the co-founders of Know More Media, one of the leading business blog networks. Know More Media has more than 70 blogs about various aspects of business which are written by business experts. This is not the first online publishing venture for Tim Stay. Tim Stay began his first online business back in 1994 and together with his current partner, Hal Halladay, built and sold FreeServers.com to About.com in 1999. FreeServers was a free webhosting service that had over 1 million users self-publishing their own content.
Stay has an MBA from the Marriott School of Management and a Masters of International Studies in Third World Economic Development from the Kennedy Center. His undergraduate degree was in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University.
Besides being the Chief Innovation Officer for Know More Media, Tim is one of the founders and is on the board of Unitus, a non-profit organization that fights poverty through innovative microfinance solutions.
Kip Meacham
Meacham is an international technology marketer, product strategist, standards-body hack and public relations survivor. Long Zheng
Is a student at Monash University and is in his second-year of a Business Commerce and Multimedia Systems double degree. He is majoring in Marketing Communications and Multimedia Systems Enterprise. He also works at a software development firm in Sydney, as well as on other "obscure projects with friends."
Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble
Maryam Scoble is one of our conference editorial advisors as well as programming director at PodTech.net. Previously, she was a Webcast producer for MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network). She has spoken about the emotional life of blogs at blogging conferences such as Northern Voice in Canada and BlogHer in Silicon Valley. She has also been working in the event industry since 1995. She worked for Fawcette Technical Publications from 1999-2002 and planned the content of industry conferences such as VSLive!, SQL2TheMax, and Web Design World.
Maryam finished her undergraduate studies at U.C. Berkeley and has an M.A. in English Literature from Mills College, California. Maryam' s husband, Robert Scoble, is none other than the Scobleizer and a strong presence in the tech blogging community, so Maryam spends her free time blogging about living, loving, and working with geeks as well as life, love, and everything else.
Matthew Muchiri
Matthew is currently studying towards a CS degree at the University of Kansas. In addition to Gizmo Diary, he writes for TechieDiva.
Brian Solis
Brian Solis is principal of FutureWorks PR, an award-winning PR and Social Media agency founded in 1999. Solis blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, and regularly contributes to many industry magazines. He is also frequently quoted in articles relating to technology trends and Marketing/PR strategies.
Stefan Constantinescu
Constantinescu is currently a student at the University of North Texas attempting to gain a Bachelors degree in Biology. Having lived in quite a few parts of America, and in a house hold deeply rooted in Romanian culture, people often claim that his view of the world is vastly different than the norm. James Stout
Is owner of Bay Area Gadgets and past headquarters resource for Best Buy, Good Guys, and CompUSA.
Esther Mira
Esther Mira is an up-and-coming actress in Los Angeles, CA. She just completed filming a dark thriller entitled "The Stolen Moments of September" where she played the lead role of September Washington.
In 2005, Esther graduated from Scripps College where she majored in Gender Studies and Fine Arts. She had the incredible opportunity of apprenticing with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England while she was at Scripps.
Esther has been acting and performing for most of her life. The summer after she graduated from college, she spent four months in Kerala, India dancing Kuchipudi (a classical form of Indian dance) with the Regatta Cultural Institute and School.
As an actress who plans on having a long career, Esther feels it is important to develop a more personal relationship with her fans so she is in the process of creating her very own blog. She hopes that through her blog she can share her experiences on set and at auditions and maybe, just maybe write a story or two about the adventures of The Furious Mr. Sushi and Sir. Carlton (her crazy toy Pomeranians).
Raanan Bar-Cohen
Bar-Cohen is director of product strategy at Dow Jones Online.
Jason Fields
Jason is the Interaction Design Lead for the User Experience Group at Snap.com. He will be writing on articles focused on UI and Design matters. He works closely with product managers; user experience researchers and market analysts; and development engineers to develop our interface and/or feature set ideas from rough concepts to realized solutions. He has been involved in the technology and design portion of the internet for more than 11 years, blogging on pop culture and design since 2004 and is an early-early adopter of gadgetry and mobile phone tech.
Drew Crouch
Drew Crouch is a contributing editor to Ask Dave Taylor.
Amit Gupta
Amit fancies himself an entrepreneur. He is founder of The Daily Jolt, an online college community on 100 campuses. He also helped create a non-profit called ChangeThis with Seth Godin and brought the technology un-conference BarCamp to NYC. He's consulted for companies such as Pearson, Apple, and Creative Good. He's co-author of The Big Moo, a WSJ best-seller, with Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki, Tom Peters, and others. His latest project is Photojojo. If you like photography, you will like Photojojo.
Chuck Eglinton
Chuck is a contributing editor to Ask Dave Taylor.
Harry Skevington
Harry Skevington has been involved with computers since 1981. He has taught, written for, and provided support to, computer users since 1985. Information that will help consumers with buying decisions is more important than ever due to the current convergence of computers and other consumer products .
Harry attends CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas on assignment as a working press writer each year to find and write about emerging technology that seems to fit the needs of his readers.
Laura Moncur
Laura has been collecting quotations and writing features for The Quotations Page since 1997. She also writes daily at Starling Fitness and at her personal weblog.
Michael Moncur
Michael is the author of many technology books, most recently focusing on Web technologies like DHTML and MySQL. He runs a number of sites including The Quotations Page, the Web’s oldest and most popular famous quotations site, which has been online since 1994. Visit his information page for more details.
Matthew Strebe
CTO of Connetic, an outsourced IT services company headquartered in San Diego. He also writes content for www.slashnot.com, and is the author of a number of technical books on Windows, Computer security, and the business of IT consulting.
Dave Coustan
Coustan has been an EarthLink employee since October of 2005 and his "main reason for being is Earthling," the Earthlink corporate blog. His main professional interest is content -- of all kinds, in all media, and for all kinds of people. Some of the places he's been a part of are: HowStuffWorks, Stuffo(co-creator), New England Research Institutes, TheTruth.com, giantheads(co-founder), tiny envelope(founder), and a few advertising and interactive agencies.
Maarten Sundman
Maarten writes for Hardwaregeeks.com. Their stated aim is to "strive to make every visitor as comfortable" whether they are "first time computer user[s or] the geekiest of the geeks." Their site boasts sixteen thousand regular members and well over two million unique monthly visits.
Khalid Hosein
Khalid writes for Gizmos for Geeks Formed in 2004 just as blogging started to become hot, Gizmos for Geeks was the brainchild of a couple of systems administrators who thought that a site which integrated a number of newsy features would be a worthy experiment. If you explore the Gizmos for Geeks site (GfG for short), you will find blog-like articles on current and breaking topics in the world of technology, cool/unique/useful/luxury gadgets, straight-up news, reviews of practically anything we can get our hands on, lots of coupons & deals, user forums for our talkative readers, links to shopping and other gadget sites and promotional contests. Whew! That's a lot of stuff for a little website that hopes to one day become as big as its bigger brothers that typically only cover 1 or 2 of those areas.
Jeevan Padiyar
Jeevan Padiyar is a podcast enthusiast with business operations experience.
Paul Mooney
Paul is the owner of Microsoft Registered Partner Intune.Networks. Paul entered the technology industry in Ireland in 1994, where he worked for the original Irish ISP Ireland On-Line. Paul began working as a partner with Microsoft in 1998 as a system builder. He enjoys blogging and has had his current site since March 2004.
John Chow
In 1999, John started a little technology site called The TechZone. That site has risen to become one of the largest hardware tech sites on the net. Currently the site has over 10,000 pages and gets over 200,000 page views per day.
Besides taking care of the day to day business at The Tech Zone, John can be seen riding his bike around Vancouver, working out at Fitness World or climbing Grouse Mountain.
Leah Cheng
Contributor, chipchick.com. Leah, a New Yorker, is always on the lookout for pink-colored gadgets. If it has a cat on it, all the better. To fund this habit, she works at an advertising agency. She also enjoys making crafty goods and eating more bacon than any one person really should.
Alisande Heriyanto
Natalie Mayslich
Assistant Editor, ChipChick. Natalie, a New Yorker both by birth and heart, currently attends The Cooper Union where she is pursuing a degree in Engineering. Not the stereotypical engineer, Natalie enjoys shopping for designer clothes just as much as she does designer gadgets.
Nick Gray
Nick Gray is the Marketing Director at Flight Display Systems. His work has been featured in USA Today and in The Washington Post. He is an avid user of Vimeo, the video sharing website that was created by his college roommates. Nick keeps a personal home page at www.nickgray.net.
David Gray
David Gray is the Founder and President of Flight Display Systems . The Atlanta-based company manufactures entertainment equipment for business and commercial aircraft.
Bob Buskirk
The owner of ThinkComputers, but also runs some other websites. Currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA. You can usually find him sitting at his computer desk working on something site related. He enjoys traveling for computer related events such as E3 and CES.
Brian Benz
Benz is a systems architect, software developer, author and speaker living in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. He also dabbles in travel journalism and photography. He works for IBM and authors Software Soapbox.
John Obeto
Obeto is Managing Partner & Chief Technology Officer of an SMB Consultancy based in Marina Del Rey.
Greg Hinzmann
Greg Hinzmann helps companies sell more stuff by creating products and building brands that resonate with consumers. As a designer with an MBA, Greg is in a unique position to help companies use design to solve strategic problems, identify new market opportunities and drive growth. His designs for companies such as HP, Dell, IBM and others have garnered over a dozen awards. His most recent work for Neosonik is being introduced at CES.
Greg writes a blog about design, innovation and business.
Tim Ferriss
At age 29, Tim Ferriss has been interviewed and featured by media worldwide, including New York Times, LA Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Muscle & Fitness, and MTV. He is a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for world change and ideal lifestyle design. Tim has been profiled in The Success Principles, the New York Times bestseller written by Jack Canfield, and is a main character in the upcoming feature-length documentary As Seen on TV, produced by Emmy Award winner Dan Partland
Matthew Stotts
Stotts is a passionate technology evangelist and an experienced communicator in niche and vertical markets with extensive experience launching products, creating brand awareness in social and new media environments and communicating with user communities. Matthew takes a hands-on approach, often taking on internal roles and partnering with executives and their teams to help companies build and execute public communications programs that resonate with customers and persuade decision makers and influencers. Matthew has been in the communications field for 10 years and has developed and executed marketing communications and public relations programs for both Fortune 500 companies and first-round start-ups.
Gregg Plummer
Plummer is President, founder of Amplio Audio.
Ed Falk
Ed Falk is 30-year vetran of the computer industry as well as a long-time spam-fighter and has been blogging about spam since before it was called blogging. He currently writes The Spam Diaries.
Greg Clayman
As Senior Vice President of the MTV Networks Mobile Media Group, Clayman
is the architect behind the wireless initiatives for MTV Networks'
diverse brands, including CMT, COMEDY CENTRAL, Nickelodeon, Logo, Spike,
Tempo, VH1 and all MTV channels (MTV, MTV2, mtvU, MTV World and MTV
Tres.)
Clayman is a relatively new blogger and is just happy to be here...
Paul Colligan
Paul Colligan is CEO of Colligan.com Inc. and manages several popular Internet properties that include The eMedia Marketplace, Podcast Tools, The My Podcast Center Podcast Directory, Automate Sales, FrontPage World, and Premium Podcasting. His Passion: The Business of Podcasting and eMedia.
Paul produces a number of Podcasts that include (but are not limited to) Marketing Online Live, Podcast Tools Weekly Update, Paul's Profitable Podcasting Podcast, and Big Seminar Live. He is also the author of many books on the Internet and co-author of The Business Podcasting Bible with Alex Mandossian.
Rakesh Agrawal
Rakesh is the founder of SnapStream Media, maker of the Beyond TV PC DVR software. Under Rakesh's leadership, SnapStream's products have been showcased by Microsoft's Bill Gates, and Intel's Paul Otellini and Craig Barrett and received awards such as PC Magazine's "Product of the Year 2004".Prior to founding SnapStream, Rakesh was Vice President of Sales at Piping Technology & Products, a 400-person Houston-based engineering and manufacturing company. Rakesh received degrees in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at Houston's Rice University.
