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Olivia Ma at ONA

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:52:00 GMT

In this 9-minute video interview conducted at the annual conference of the Online News Association, Olivia Ma, news manager for YouTube's news and politics team, talks about YouTube's astounding growth, the birth of the YouTube Reporters Center, and how it's become a video platform for hundreds of US senators and congresspersons.

By jdlasica

Tags : Congress, Senate, US, center, citizen, journalism, media, reporters, youtube

Netvibes: The widget factory

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:47:02 GMT

Here's a recent interview I did with Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini in the company's San Francisco offices. Widgets (little pieces of code that bring in real-time data) are becoming increasingly important in the Web 2.0 world -- to individuals, companies and organizations -- and Netvibes has been an early pioneer in the field. Netvibes provides 175,000 widgets and personalized start pages to 2.5 million active users. The interview was conducted with a Nokia N96 cell phone, and the quality is surprisingly good.

By jdlasica

Tags : 2.0, netvibes, web, widgets

Intel's chairman on corporate social responsibility

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:06:09 GMT

Perhaps the highlight of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for me was the sitdown we had with Intel chairman and former CEO Craig Barrett. At CES the next day, Barrett gave a keynote in which he announced a wide-ranging new initiative by Intel to support the philanthropic micro-lending efforts of Kiva.org and the nonprofit charity SavetheChildren.org all across the globe. In the wake of the global financial crisis, Intel has been steadily reaching out across the U.S. border to advance education and literacy around the world. Barrett mentions the Intel Teach program to put technology in the classroom, which is especially popular overseas. He also discusses the larger role that technology companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM (and Google, though he doesnt name them) are playing in the evolving field of corporate social responsibility. Two quick quotes from Barrett: }Technology is not the answer. Technology is one of the tools you can use. The really important thing in education is that you have good teachers." Without quality teachers, all the technology in the world wont help. He told a story about schoolchildren in a rural village in India whose highlight of the week comes on Tuesdays, when a bus carrying a mobile computer station arrives. Its had a significant impact on reducing truancy and dropout rates in rural India. "When you see that, you say, Wow." A week after we met with Barrett, he announced that he will step down in May after 35 years with the company, 7 of them as the CEO and almost 4 as chair.

By jdlasica

Tags : causes, corporate, responsibility, social

Occupation 101: Hebron

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:55:00 GMT

As an independent journalist, I was given a personal tour of Hebron by Mikhael Manekin, co-founder of Breaking the Silence, a remarkable human rights group made up of former Israeli soldiers who participated in the occupation. This exclusive footage succinctly tells the story of what Palestinians face in their daily lives under Israeli occupation - conditions that are helping to fuel the conflict in Gaza.

By jdlasica

Tags : bank, east, gaza, hebron, israel, middle, occupation, palestinians, west

Von Iva makes splash in Jim Carrey film

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:21:00 GMT

Here's a 5 1/2-minute video interview with Kelly Harris, the drummer in the San Francisco band Von Iva. Von Iva made a big splash this weekend as the threesome was featured in the new Jim Carrey movie "Yes Man." Kelly talks about the songs they wrote for the film as well as the band's plans to tour.

By jdlasica

The JibJab guys

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:10:03 GMT

A 4-minute interview with the founders of the hugely popular animation site JibJab, Gregg and Evan Spiridellis. They offer business tips for anyone starting a Web-based business.

By jdlasica

Samasource

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:36:02 GMT

A 4-minute interview with the founder of Samasource, a San Francisco startup that enables companies to connect with small and mid-size outsource firms in the developing world. Makes you reconsider what you thought you knew about outsourcing.

By jdlasica

Social causes on campus

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:41:53 GMT

Aden Van Noppen of Brown University discusses an effort, supported by the Acumen Fund, to involve college students in social causes. Interview conducted at the Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco.

By jdlasica

A taste of TechCrunch50

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:02:02 GMT

Meghan Asha, founder of NonSociety.com, gives a 4-minute review of TechCrunch50, the second annual technology conference put on by Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis. Meghan discusses the startups that made the biggest impression on her, and she discusses her personality-driven tech-glam site NonSociety.com.

By jdlasica

Tags : citizenjournalism, conferences, interview, meghanasha, nonsociety, tc50, tech, techcrunch, techcrunch50, technology

Michael Arrington on TechCrunch50

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:23:06 GMT

At lunchtime during day 1 of TechCrunch50 I caught up with Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch and co-founder of the tech conference, now in its second year. The gathering drew 1,800 people to the San Francisco Design Concourse on Sept. 8-10, 2008.

By jdlasica

Tags : tc50, techcrunch, techcrunch50

The state of online privacy

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:41:04 GMT

A 7-minute video interview with Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, about the state of online privacy and the challenges citizens face today with regard to both the government and corporations. Conducted at the Aspen Institute in August 2008.

By jdlasica

Tags : citizenjournalism, epic, interview, liberties, privacy, rights

ZeroFootprint

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:38:00 GMT

A 4 1/2-minute video interview with Deborah Kaplan, executive director of Zerofootprint.net, an organization devoted to help organizations, cities and individuals recognize their carbon footprint and take specific measures to help reduce climate change. Conducted at the Stanford Summit in July 2008.

By jdlasica

Tags : climatechange, environment, globalwarming, green