This is part two in a series of blog posts and interviews about Microsoft BizSpark companies that will be presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Here is an interview with John Bracken, CEO and Co-Founder of Speek , one of the easiest teleconferencing apps...

Some of you have probably seen our growing interview series, Startuplandia , where we interview founders, VC investors, and developers in Silicon Valley and the world. We focus on the decisions and the thinking that goes into building up killer products...

If you have not seen the work done by the folks at NodeXL , you need to check out how they piece together the fragmented ongoing conversations on the social web and put together very strong graphical images of those conversations. Like this one here....

Great interview with John Borthwick of Betaworks, who describes the "unusual" structure of Betaworks and where the idea came from. It's an evolutionary idea of capital and economies. Essentially, Betaworks is an all-in-one, in-house assembly line for...

Prateek Gupta went out with his TechCrunch Disrupt team to Times Square and found an unsuspecting vendor to try their BitCoin app on. Here is the resulting video of Pay With Bits, which got them named in a TechCrunch article last night . Having been...