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We were lucky to be able to sit down with Jeffrey Litvack and Jonathan Malek from the Associated Press, one of the most respected and oldest suppliers of news

content in the industry.  Jeffrey and Jonathan discuss how the rapidly changing news industry is requiring the AP to dramatically change...

We grabbed a coffee and sat down with Steve Kurtz and Brett Coffman from USA Today digital to discuss the challenges they are facing in news distribution industry and how critical it is for them to have USA Today content across as many digital form factors as possible.  Learn how the nation’s...

We sat down with Chris Dixon and Shaun Gerhing from Comcast’s CIM(Comcast Interactive Media Group) to discuss how they are rapidly evolving Comcast members viewing experiences across four screens with new technology.  Part of their new member retainment and value add thinking involves a new Silverlight...

MySpace just released a MapReduce framework for .NET called Qizmt as an open source project.  MapReduce is a software framework "to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers" ^Wikipedia. 
I interviewed Mikhael Berlyant, Executive Director...

MySpace has done some pretty amazing things with the Robotic Developer Studio.  When they found out it contained a very powerful component, the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR), the architects built it into the architecture of MySpace, the largest .NET site in the world. ...

At the South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a contest, Circus Mashimus to encourage people to create mashup applications using their customers' web services.  I learned about it a week before and decided to create an entry...

Last week I visited JamBase.com, a San Francisco-based website that is all about finding and going to live music performances.  I met Andy and his colleauges at the Bandwidth Conference this summer and after hearing about their new API, I just had to try doing a mashup with it using Popfly - ...

Michael Scherotter joins his colleauge Joe Hofstader,  a telecommunications sector architect evangelist, for another discussion on Communications as a Service (CaaS), this time going deeper into the conceptual architecture of CaaS.  In the previous interview, Joe explained...

Michael Scherotter interviews his colleague Joe Hofstader, an architect evangelist within the telecommunications sector to learn about Communications as a Service (CaaS) a architecture for building multi-tennant telecommunications application.
In a follow-up interview, Joe explains the...

Publishing an API (Application Programming Interface) is an essential part to becoming part of Web 2.0.  Recently at the Web 2.0 expo, Michael Scherotter caught up with the Photobucket.com team who has just released a new API for their site. In this interview Michael talks with...