Thomas W. Mal­one, found­ing direc­tor of MIT’s Cen­ter for Col­lec­tive Intel­li­gence, talks about his research, the impact of the inter­net on global com­mu­ni­ca­tion and our chang­ing notion of privacy.

Stephen Elop talks about Microsoft’s visions about the future of business.

Google’s Euro­pean direc­tor Steve Rogers is all about open­ness and trans­parency. He just dooesn’t like to com­ment on stuff — you have to understand!

Will Smith may not be the great­est rap­per in the world, but he sure has got some inter­est­ing views to share on suc­cess and ethics.

John Lith­gow and Michael C. Hall talk about the end­ing of sea­son 4 of the tv-series “Dexter”.

Dur­ing our bus-ride to the World Blog­ging Forum I asked Seesmic-founder Loic Le Meur a cou­ple of ques­tions about his com­pa­nies and about the future of Twit­ter. Enjoy the lat­est datadirt video-podcast!

What about all this social media hype? Jour­nal­ism stu­dents from the uni­ver­sity of Utrecht are try­ing to find out — they send a ques­tion­naire to var­i­ous social media experts. Find­ing answers wasn’t too easy by the way.

In Sep­tem­ber 2009, Guy Kawasaki vis­ited Vienna to give a keynote lec­ture about inno­va­tion. I had the chance to inter­view Guy — we talked about his impres­sive biog­ra­phy, his Twit­ter strat­egy (Guy has more than 160k Fol­low­ers) and his cur­rent project all­top. Watch the com­plete inter­view and let me know what you think!

Here’s a short teaser from the inter­view I did with web mar­ket­ing leg­end Guy Kawasaki last week — the full ver­sion will be released next Tuesday.

Today I did an inter­view with Guy Kawasaki for my upcom­ing video pod­cast — it was a very inspir­ing talk. Here’s what Guy had to say about datadirt: lis­ten to him, the man is smart

The last week was as all about Google Wave: will the new Open Source app rev­o­lu­tion­ize the way we com­mu­ni­cate online? Read last week’s break­ing news on datadirt’s weekly round-up of the blogosphere.