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Sonia Arrison - 100 Plus Dr. Moira Gunn learns how the coming age of longevity will change everything, from careers and relationships to family and faith from 100 Plus author, Sonia Arrison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ananda Charkarbarty - Next Generation Bacteria Drugs Dr. Moira Gunn catches up talks about next generation drugs and smart bacteria with University of Illinois professor, Ananda Charkarbarty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #19 - The Stack Exchange Podcast Everyone's back in their home towns this week (Sorry for the audio quality last week. It was Joel's fault [actually, it was TechCrunch's fault]). And joining Jeff & Joel this week is John Sheenhan, Developer Evangelist for Twilio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susan Lyne, Tony Hsieh - Managing Hypergrowth Imagine completing two rounds of interviews, beginning your job orientation then being offered a choice by your new employer: feel free to continue with training or take $3000 to quit. According to Tony Hsieh, this is one of many ways to keep a company's culture intact as it manages hypergrowth. He and Susan Lyne, Chair of the Gilt Groupe, share their strategies for maintaining customer-centered excellence as e-commerce proliferates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Rosenbaum - Curation: Beyond The Buzzword Curation is the key to information overload. Qualitatively sorting and choosing information is something Steve Rosenbaum believes that book publishers are uniquely positioned to provide in the future of publishing. To illustrate his case, Rosenbaum shares his experience creating a video project of September 11, 2001. For him, creating a documentary and a book, Rosenbaum presents curation as a bridge between technological and human perspectives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laurie R King - Sherlock Holmes the Science Pioneer Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Laurie R King about how Sherlock Holmes stories engaged the 19th century science community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin D'Mour - Stem Cells and Natural Insulin Dr. Moria Gunn sits down with the Director of Stem Cell Biology at Viacyte, Kevin D'Mour, where they are experimenting with the natural creation of insulin using stem cells. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #18 - The Stack Exchange Podcast No guest this week as Joel calls in to the show live from the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in San Francisco since he's there launching Trello for Fog Creek Software (also why his audio isn't quite as good as usual, it's pretty loud there). There's still a full hour of Jeff & Joel goodness though so make sure to check it out! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin Pons - Telephony is Dying, are Telco's? "Telephony is dying and voip is not much better off". Where are telecommunication companies to look to next? Colin Pons, Senior Architect at KPN, thinks it's in enterprise applications, social networking services and mobile devices. The future of mobile is bright. The future of the internet is mobile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Frank - Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) As stated in its draft from the core working group, "the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), a specialized web transfer protocol for use with constrained networks and nodes for machine-to-machine applications such as smart energy and building automation". As one of its developers, Brian Frank is uniquely qualified to describe its uses. He presents a detailed, technical review of its development, as well as his other software development work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victor Kuo - Parallel Wireless Radio Communication Architecture Victor Kuo talks about how he has developed radio communication that can handle many transmitters sending at the same time. He has focused on the crosstalk problem, which was a major obstacle to using radios for module to module communication. Parallel wireless radio communication architecture will be a very powerful tool because it can handle the communication in a range of distances from global communication to near distance. This method can also could be used to communicate when the modu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sandra Aamodt - The Young Mind Dr. Moira Gunn talks about your child's brain with author and former editor-in-chief for Nature Neuroscience, Sandra Aamodt, from her new book, Welcome to Your Child's Brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Benoit Dubuis - Start-ups, Big Pharma and Universities around Lake Geneva Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the global road map between the BioAlps in Switzerland and China's big new biotech initiative with BioAlps President, Benoit Dubuis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #17 - The Stack Exchange Podcast Jeff & Joel are back with guests this week - joining them are Kyle Brandt and George Beech, our very own sysadmins/ops guys/[insert your own term here] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dennis Crowley and Robert Scoble - The Laser-Focus of Foursquare Foursquare is a social networking website that has learned how to "make every check-in count for the user." It uses the social graph to build relationships between users, locations, and the people they meet. Crowley and Scoble talk about Foursquare, its new API, what it is and isn't, where it's going, and how it's different from other location-aware services such as Color or Facebook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Lorica - U.S. iTunes Appstore: Lessons from The First 30 Months People like free, especially when it comes to apps. Ben Lorica, a Senior Analyst at O'Reilly Media, Inc., summarizes the popularity and economic trends of apps for both iPhones and iPads. He also presents statistics on how long apps stay popular, what makes them popular, and why price might not be a major factor after all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Graeber - The History of Debt Dr. Moira Gunn learns about this history of Debt from London University anthropologist and author, David Graeber, from the pages of his new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stan Skafidas - Nano Electronics and Macular Degeneration Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the advances in combating Macular Degeneration using Nano Electronics from Professor and Program Leader at Bionic Vision Australia, Stan Skafidas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #16 - The Stack Exchange Podcast So it's been a couple weeks since our last podcast, but Jeff & Joel are back and ready to catch up on everything they missed. There's no guest this week, just 60+ minutes of that Jeff & Joel banter that (we hope) you've grown to love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reed Hastings, Peter Chernin - Content as a Point of Control The global television system is a half-trillion dollar business, leading Peter Chernin to say the cable business is "one of the great business models of all time." It is not surprising then that traditional television companies are nervous about new technologies, such as Netflix and Google TV, looking to secure content rights. Television companies must sharpen their game to maintain their 50 to 90 percent profit margins in the forthcoming digital age. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cullen Jennings - The Next Wave of Communications Applications The over-the-top audio and video services occupy a major part of Unified Communications landscape today. Cullen Jennings, Distinguished Engineer, Office of CTO at Cisco speaks during the recently held eComm conference about the major trends that may affect the VoIP industry in the future. Cullen analyses the major hardware and software expenses incurred in offering these services and how the increasing cost of wideband codecs are vital considerations in the decisions that the voice service ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed Humes - Force of Nature Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with Pulitzer prize-winning author, Ed Humes, to talk about his new book, Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of WalMarts Green Revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Orin Levine - Efforts to Eradicate Pneumonia and Meningitis Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the movement to vaccinate the children of the World against pneumonia and meningitis from the Director of the Johns-Hopkins International Vaccine Access Center, Orin Levine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Widenius - State of MariaDB The latest version of MariaDB is much faster and has microsecond-measuring analytics to prove it. Michael Widenius, "Monty" of Monty Program AB, reports on the development schedule of MariaDB, in which the team is drastically improving performance times, while maintaining drop-in compatibility with MySQL. At the end of this talk, Widenius outlines the feature wishlist of MariaDB 5.6. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marty Abbott, Michael Fisher - Scalability Rules The concept of scalability has been around as long as the need to deal with ever-expanding systems has. Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher, authors of the book Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites, discuss the problems with how technology experts have to deal with expansion as more organizations increase their web presence. Having written an earlier book (The Art of Scalability), they are uniquely qualified to give practical advice to IT professionals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Donovan - Mobile Networks from an AT&T Perspective The ever changing mobile devices landscape throws up enormous challenges and opportunities alike for carriers like AT&T. In this conversation with O'Reilly Media's Tim O'Reilly, John Donovon, the Chief Technology Officer of AT&T discusses the evolution of mobile networks in these challenging times. From net neutrality to congestion management and mobile wallets to NFC (Near Field Communication), they discuss the interesting days ahead for mobile network operators acr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patrick Meier - May the Crowd Be With You: Mapping in Disaster Response Crisis Mapping in a new era of collaboration is described by Patrick Meier, the Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi. He shares the latest developments in Crisis Mapping for disaster response and illustrates applications of Where 2.0 technologies in humanitarian response and human rights. Citing various initiatives across the world, he explains how the advent of crowdsourced, geo-referenced information in social media has helped coordinate relief operations and protests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keith Devlin - Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution Dr. Moira Gunn goes back in time to 16th century Italy and finds out why we don't use Roman numerals any more from The Man of Numbers: Fibonaccis Arithmetic Revolution author, Keith Devlin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Zhang - Cystic Fibrosis Research Dr. Moira Gunn talks with 2011 International BIO Gene-ius Challenge participant, Michael Zhang, a high school student who discovered a new result for people with cystic fibrosis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Geddes - Multi Sided Markets and Cloud Computing Telecom companies need to move from being merely infrastructure companies to having add-on services on top of their infrastructure to survive. Martin Geddes, Head of Strategy at BT, looks at the container industry's history for insights into where the future for telecommunications will be. The money in the container industry was not in the infrastructure but in the service of moving objects from A to B, efficiently and profitably. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Edwards - Confessions of a Google Employee Dr. Moira Gunn hears about life as Google employee from author and former Director of Consumer Marketing and Brand Management, Doug Edwards, as outlined in his new book, I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Micheal Werner and Morrin Ruffin - Advocating for Regenerative Medicine Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the Washington, D.C. non-profit, whose mission it is to educate key policy makers on regenerative medicine and to advocate for favorable public policies from Alliance for Regenerative Medicine's co-founder Micheal Werner and Managing Director, Morrin Ruffin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #15 - The Stack Exchange Podcast Joining Jeff and Joel this week is Michael Natkin, from our Cooking.SE site. Michael is especially interesting because he is a computer programmer, but he doesn't answer questions at Stack Overflow, only on the Cooking site (he's our first guest to do so!) - he also writes over at Herbivoracious (which he started back in 2007). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Park - Platforms, Markets & Bytes - the Economic Landscape of the 6th Paradigm Everything is becoming a digital good. Sean Park, founder of Nauiokas Park LLP, discusses this idea and others, such as cyclical business cycles and horizontal business structures, in the context of the current events in international financial industries. Touching on both the far past and future, Sean Park analyzes current trends, markets, and business practices with particular attention to investment and business infrastructure while presenting his idea of a sixth economic paradigm. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evan Williams - How Twitter Fits In Twitter co-founder Evan Williams describes the revenue model for their newly launched Promoted suite of products. Hear Williams' views about the Twitter fire hose as well as integration and data sharing with Facebook. Addressed also are commercial viability and safety for third party developers who invest in developing products with the Twitter API. Williams also answers interviewer John Battelle's questions about finance, stock, and other compelling issues concerning the Twitte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Kelly - BETTER THAN FREE: How Value Is Generated in a Free Copy World Everyone knows that books have been a cornerstone in our society for millenia. But according to Kevin Kelly, we're moving away from them at a rapid pace. Through a mix of powerful trends, Kelly takes a look into the future. What he finds are more tough questions. He predicts a questionable future for producers everywhere. He also offers a few ideas that may drive the market to services in what Kelly calls our new vizuality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean Buonomano - Brain Bugs Dr. Moria Gunn talks with neurobiologist, Dean Buonomano, about brains and how they work from the pages of his new book, Brain Bugs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gunther Winkler - Asia-Pacifc Biotech Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Biogen Idec Senior Vice President, Gunther Winkler about the Asia-Pacifc Biotech landscape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #14 - The Stack Exchange Podcast Miguel De Icaza joins Jeff & Joel this week to discuss everything from Miguel's many projects to identity on the internet to playdates for toddlers. Miguel is a force in the software world, having initiated and contributed to all kinds of products over the years - he's also well known for being one of the most productive programmers out there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juan González Gómez - Robotic Side-Winders Coming to a 3-D Printer Near You Rotating, rolling, turning, moving forward and moving backward are all impressive gates for modular snake robots, but Per Sjöborg says the striking side-winding motion can only be described as beautiful. These complex patterns of locomotion emerge from simple fluctuations in oscillation. Beyond aesthetics and practical applications, one of the most striking features of Juan González Gómez's work is his commitment to the free and open-source development model. He believes that the mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Cole - Big and Small Data at @Twitter Twitter filters billions of messages, and uses quite a few systems and tools to make that data flow. Jeremy Cole, founder of Proven Scaling, discusses the MySQL software used by Twitter, as well as many challenges Twitter faces with massive data storage. He also presents technical facts, figures, and solutions that the site uses to run smoothly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gerd Leonhard - Telemedia Futures In a world of media fragmentation, how can a big telemedia company keep its edge? By bundling deals with content providers, aimed at targeted markets. Gerd Leonhard says "curation" is the name of the game. Previously, big broadcasters and communicationss companies were the only game in town. It's now time for a new telemedia to care about content, branding, and audience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reid Hoffman - Speculations on Web 3.0 Everyone on the web is participating in a great "data exhaust." Therefore, good internet companies do not ambush their users, Reid Hoffman says. Known as the most connected person in Silicon Valley, and a newly-made billionaire since the May IPO of LinkedIn, Hoffman predicts what Web 3.0 will be like. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Cohen - Speech Technology at Google Dr. Moira Gunn learns about Google search engine feature that allows you to speak your search terms, along with other speech technology from the Manager of Speech Technology at Google, Mike Cohen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Abbate and Yali Friedman - Worldview on Biotech Dr. Moira Gunn looks at Scientific American's Worldview on biotech with Publishing Director, Jeremy Abbate and Editor of the Worldview Scorecard, Yali Friedman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #13 - The Stack Exchange Podcast Jeff & Joel are joined this week by Jin Yang - our resident web/graphic designer here at Stack (the distinction between the two becomes a discussion point). Once we get the proper picture of Jin in the chatroom, he relates everything from his background in design to how he ended up at Stack Exchange and our philosiphy behind design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack Dangermond - Living Maps �" Collective Geographic Information Maps tell stories: track Japan after the tsunami or the Gulf oil spill through time. Jack Dangermond, the president of Esri, talks about and demonstrates ArcGIS.com's new cloud-based GIS computing and intelligent web maps. These two innovations are allowing end users to create their own maps using GIS software online with any device. The Esri cloud will store and share map creations online in real-time, integrating geospatial science and technology into our everyday lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed Boyajian, Bruce Momjian - The State of the Elephant Elephants have long memories and, as far as PostgreSQL is concerned, are no longer slow or lumbering. EnterpriseDB's Ed Boyajian and Bruce Momjian discuss the many improvements, benefits and features in PostgreSQL, as well as its success as a commercial database. Alternatively focusing on the business and technical components of the database, Boyajian and Momjian present the new and improving PostgreSQL. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biotechnology Panel - A Global Understanding of BioTechnology Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the global state of biotechnology from the biotech panel at the annual international BIO conference in Washington DC. This years panel featured BIO President Jim Greenwood, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, Carnegie-Mellon University Thorne Professor of Entrepreneurship, Art Boni and Senior Fellow of Healthcare Management at University of Pennsylvania, Steve Sammut. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #12 - The Stack Exchange Podcast This week, Jeff and Joel are joined by Patrick McKenzie - StackOverflow contributor, internet commentator and SEO expert (especially when it comes to driving traffic for bingo cards). After a few early tech issues we jump right into things, with tons of discussion covering everything from creating bingo cards to optimizing question formats. Also - how much does upvoting someone's first question make them more likely to come back? Tune in to find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone - Stop Putting the Front-end Last A lot of R&D still puts the front-end last. But considering the user experience throughout product development pays handsomely, say Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone. One study shows design-led businesses outpacing the FTSE 100 by 100 pct. Crumlish and Malone provide cases for Twitter, Dropbox, Hipmunk, and Etsy, outlining how good UX pays, at the 2011 Web 2.0 Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julia Grace - Location is Dead! Long Live Location! Our "flat" world is also hyper-local. Location is becoming simultaneously more and less relevant. Julia Grace discusses why we buy some things from across the globe and others at our corner shop. Could our experience at the stores could be improved by using all the data that we generate every day paying with credit cards, checking in at Foursquare or using customer-linked cards? Could super-computers be used to sort through all the data we are generating and personalize our shopp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Justin Shaffer - Facebook Invites Developers to Open Graph API Last year at F8, a conference for developers in social media, Facebook announced Open Graph, a platform that enabled people to connect to objects and URI's on the Web. This year, Justin Shaffer briefs the Where 2.0 audience about how Facebook plans to enhance user experience by leveraging location and temporal data access in its new product "Facebook Places." Shaffer expounds on the technical differences in the way that "events" and "places" are handled by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reto Brun, Gerd Pluschke and Alex Filz - BioTech News Update Dr. Moira Gunn talks with two of the lead scientists from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, where she learns that there are 250 million people in the world, all suffering from malaria. Then it's off to talk about the unusual humanitarian effort at DSM Nutritional Products with Communications officer, Alex Filz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary Meeker - Internet Trends "Incumbents, Attackers, and Disruptors" are accelerating mobile Internet development. The ability to gain market share through innovation and motivating shoppers will sort winners from losers in the smartphone market, according to Mary Meeker. Currently, mobile Internet adoption is accelerating because of the demands of modern life, while angles such as flash sales and virtual goods are opportunities still not fully exploited. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wei-Min Shen - Early Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics A flash at 3 AM inspired Wei-Min Shen and Peter Will to use life-like hormones to control robot transformations. Years later, Wei-Min Shen is still learning new advantages of such a novel life-science approach to robotic control. In this interview, Per Sjöborg asks Wei-Min Shen how he defines three-degrees of freedom for his reconfigurable robots, how far Shen's blue-sky dreams reach and how to achieve his practical goals. In this fun exchange, Sjöborg explores the nitty-gritty probl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roland Germann, Lord Alec Broers and Robert Vamosi - Nanotechnology and Gadget Security Dr. Moira Gunn gets up to speed on advances in nanotechnology with Roland Germann from IBM's Nanotechnology Center Operations and Lord Alec Broers, Chairman, Diamond Light Source, while author Robert Vamosi looks at gadget security. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rolston - Beyond the Handset: Evolving from Mobile Devices to the Ubiquitous Digital Life Technology is changing: not only is it faster, more universal, and more integral to all facets of life, but each piece of technology is evolving to be quick, universal and integral by becoming multi-functional and interactive. Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer of frog design, gives a glimpse into the future of changing technology, predicting that present radical changes, such as touch screens and interaction like that featured in the Wii, will continue to grow and allow people to transmi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tomas Ulin - State of the Dolphin Giving a quick history of MySQL, Tomas Ulin and Duleepa Wijayawardhana explain the changes the system has seen in the editions from MySQL 5.1 to the present MySQL 5.6. Tomas Ulin, Vice President of the MySQL Engineering team, also discusses the current state of affairs for MySQL, recently acquired by Oracle. In terms of past development and current changes, Ulin also predicts future uses of new features being created in MySQL. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Margaret Atwood - The Publishing Pie: An Author's View Author Margaret Atwood, creator of fictional dystopias, speaks on the plight of the author in the face of changes to the publishing industry today. She takes it down to first principles, in a partly historic, partly autobiographical way, how the "publishing pie" is divided. She warns the publishing industry against eliminating the author's piece of the pie in their mad rush to an electronic publishing future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lisa See - The Great Leap Backward Dr. Moira Gunn talks with New York Times best-selling author, Lisa See, about her new book, Dreams of Joy, and where she looks at the impact of questionable science in China during the Great Leap Forward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Randy Schatzman and Mark Litton - Wasting Disease as a Treatment for Cancer Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Randy Schatzman and Mark Litton from Alder Biopharmceuticals about they procedure for treating wasting disease as a part of cancer treatment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morten Hjerde - The Phone Paradigm Shift As many mobile phone companies have discovered, users have changed how their view their device, moving from a general communications tool to something that now has become a major part of their everyday life. Morten Hjerde, formerly of Vodaphone, discusses how mobile operators are learning how users value their devices and how this value has changed over the past decade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Preston-Werner - Collaboration is Evolving Tom Preston-Werner presents GitHub as a site that breaks through barriers that slow collaboration and sharing code. Describing it as a mechanism to prevent wasting time, he notes multiple uses of the site, including file sharing, project creation, and code development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scoble and Dennis Crowley - The Future of Location Technology The future is not just in social media's connection to people but in discovery: the virtual exploration of physical spaces. This is what Dennis Crowley, founder of Foursquare, believes is the future of location applications. The check-in provides more than just the ability to see "who" is around but to see "what" is around. Dennis believes the combination of rewards, badges, tips and discovery make Foursquare successful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keith Rockwell and Antony Taubman - Life and Times of the World Trade Organization Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the history, the challenges and the issues of getting medicine to people versus the legal guarantees of drugs patents with World Trade Organization representatives, Keith Rockwell and Antony Taubman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Usman Haque - Pachube Pachube is an on-line database service provider that allows developers to connect sensor data to the Web and to build their own applications on it. Its creator, Usman Haque, discusses it, reviewing what Pachube is, how it can be used, and examples of its value as a way to manage data. He argues that services like Pachube can take advantage of open data to discover and share information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elspeth Rountree, Kenyatta Cheese, Jamie Wilkinson, Patrick Davison, Mike Rugnetta - Know Your Meme The Know Your Meme team gives this fast-tempo and seamless presentation of Know Your Meme as an important node of internet culture and folklore. Comparing themselves to American musicologist and folklorist John Lomax, they delineate the issues of internet meme-recording: even where you might think there's too much information, you still don't have any guarantee that it will be there forever. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baron Schwartz - Building on Strengths, Learning from Differences Open source databases face a variety of challenges as the technological world continues to change. Baron Schwartz, Chief Performance Architect at Percona, observes that database developers must understand the contexts of database usage within the central challenge of increased data. He notes that open source databases are far behind both -- the technological curve and market demand, but that current inefficiencies can be solved by innovation and cooperation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Richtel - Tickling the Brain Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Pulitzer Prize winning author and New York Times journalist, Matt Richtel about his new thriller, Devil's Plaything, where he marries an exquisite nightmare with true science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Laikind - Non Profit Research and Not For Profit Biotech Dr. Moira Gunn chats with Senior Vice President of Business Development at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Paul Laikind, about how non-profit research works with not-for-profit biotech. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly, Dave Girouard, Randi Levin - Cloud Computing Services: Finding a Solution for Over Budget, Understaffed Agencies How can cloud email and calendaring not only save $5 million but improve communication between staff? The City of Los Angeles CTO, Randi Levin, has embraced the next generation of IT services simultaneously cutting costs and enabling staff to access emails and calendars via web, mobile and desktop. Joined by Dave Girouard, President of Google Enterprise, Levin and Girouard answer questions posed by Tim O'Reilly about the unique challenges and opportunities of using 'the cloud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Solove - Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security Nearly every day the news media carries stories about how much information the government compiles about the average citizen. As Daniel J. Solove writes in his new book Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security, many people say, "If you've got nothing to hide, you shouldn't worry about government surveillance." However, Solove argues that it should not be necessary to choose security over privacy. He discusses the history of privacy law and reviews ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nick Pudar - The Future of Automotive Connectivity Nick Pudar has an audacious vision of a convergent future where automotive components are able to upload metadata to the cloud to enable software to extrapolate information about a user's intent, and intervene on their behalf. His company OnStar is clearly pushing the envelope in the space of automotive connectivity beyond infotainment and into the areas of destination and intent management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Kurzweil - A Conversation with Ray Kurzweil and Tim O'Reilly Ray Kurzweil has spent most of his life imagining what the future might be like, and then inventing it. In this keynote from 2010, Kurzweil shares his vision of the future with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. The interview begins with a discussion about the Blio, the future of digital publishing, and finally the Singularity. This interview precedes the September 2010 release of the Blio, a TTS-enabled, full-color, web-enabled eReader. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pete Kruckenberg - Apache/Perl vs. node.js As part of his work for the Utah Education Network, Pete Kruckenberg originally began a project using Apache and Perl. A few months into the process, his group chose to switch to node.js to complete the project. He speaks about why the change was made, including both the postive aspects, as well as some of the downsides of the new architecture. His technical discussion presents a useful example of a typical software project and how changes are sometimes made in the middle of the work. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Pearson - It's Not All About the Benjamins Anymore Dr. Moira Gunn talks with WCG CTO and Media Officer, Bob Pearson, about how buying online has changed from E-Commerce to Pre-Commerce. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Duncan - When Family Circumstances Matter Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the new science of longevity from Columnist and Author, David Duncan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Olson - The Next Decade in Data Management There are several problems in current database systems, primarily analytics, data capture, and storage. These are not future problems, argues Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, but current struggles within both MySQL and the 'NoSQL' data systems that must be overcome before the industry can have clearly superior software. Mike Olson presents these problems within the context of MySQL's development and the industry's opportunities in the future market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amy Jo Kim - Beyond Gamification: 7 Core Concepts to Create Compelling Products "Cutting through the hype," game designer and social architecture expert Amy Jo Kim breaks down the process of creating games. She presents 'gamification' and game design with target audiences in mind. The underlying goal, she stresses, is to know your audience and meet it's desires in terms of technology, fun, and trends. Whether your are a game designer or game player, you'll enjoy learning core principles of game design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chih-Han Yu - Modules and Artificial Intelligence Modular self-healing self-directing robots that can work together independently to achieve tasks... This sounds like something out of a Science Fiction film. Per Sjoborg talks with Dr. Chih-Han Yu of the Computer Science department at Harvard University about ground-breaking work inspired by biology. Dr. Yu discusses his work with mechanical locomotion and artificial intelligence, the future of robotics research, and experimental methods of building robots that can cope with uncertainty. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Gomez - Storyworlds: The New Transmedia Business Paradigm What is a Transmedia Producer? Although this new role was recently recognized by the Producer's Guild of America, many people are unaware of it. Jeff Gomez explains how a Transmedia Production works, weaving in examples from Avatar and other projects, he introduces the audience to a new creative phenomenon in our culture. Transmedia story telling is the process of conveying storylines to a mass audience through the artful, well-planned use of multiple media platforms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Norbert Riedel - Hospitals of the Future Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Baxter International Chief Scientific Officer, Norbert Riedel, about what hospitals will look like in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ken Goldberg - Opinion Space Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the emergence and power behind opinion space with craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media at UC Berkeley, Ken Goldberg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lisa Katayama - How The Earthquake Can Jump Start Innovation In Japan With memories of the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami fresh in our minds, we hear Lisa Katayama deftly present her prediction that the 2011 earthquake will trigger a wave of innovation and reinvention. Katayama explores how the island of Japan and concerned people around the world used the Internet to cope and communicate in the aftermath. Pointing to signs of reinvention that are already noticeable, Lisa proudly declares Japan's willpower to overcome this crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ismail Elshareef - Mitigating Advertising Impact on Page Performance At Edmonds, the car-shopping site, "ads are our bread and butter," says Ismail Elshareef, Director of Front-end Engineering. But they needed more speed. Elshareef set a goal to have load events firing in 1.5 seconds, while maintaining the same number of ad impressions and ad events on the page. The Edmonds team worked through multiple solutions for minimizing the load latency of ads, and optimized an ad loader they plan to share as open source. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Jackson - Robot seeking Drugs Dr. Moira Gunn meets Dr. Michael Jackson, Vice President for Drug Discovery and Development at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and learns about how massive robots are taking the drudge work out of looking for new drugs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Levy - How Google Shapes our Lives Dr. Moira Gunn dives into the world of Google, learning how it is changing the world around us from the pages of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, works and Shapes Our Lives, from Wired Senior Writer, Stephen Levy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Fetterman - Bridging the Desktop and Mobile Web Divide Through the Social Graph Dave Fetterman calls it a "match made in absolute heaven." The best social content is in the mobile world where things are actually happening. Social networks and mobile media are not just for users anymore, but are becoming channels for developers as well. Hear what is enabling this perfect storm of "mobile content" that is driving the way people interact with the web and each other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Johnson - Haiti: CrisisMapping the Earthquake After the earthquake in Haiti, a community of crisis mappers immediately began crowdsourcing open street maps in a way that has changed disaster response forever. Using an open source stack and simple collaboration tools to annotate image sets, usable maps were quickly put in the hands of rescue workers, allowing an unprecedented rapid response that saved lives. Many lessons, technical and operational, are shared on how to build and sustain momentum for rapid, meaningful data sharing that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Misha Angrist - Humans Being Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Duke University professor and author, Misha Angrist, about her new book, Here is a Human Being, where she dives into comprehensible explanations of the DNA of being human. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michio Kaku - Physics of the Future Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Science Channel host and author, Michio Kaku, about his new book, Physics of the Future: How Science will shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Ralph - Display Ads and Page Performance Are you experiencing slow load times on ad-supported pages? The optimization of display ad content is pretty well worked out, so frustrating delays are more likely to be the result of numerous HTTP requests related to two things: the complicated real-time ad-serving market and the tracking attached to ads in a market where advertisers are anxious to know ad effectiveness. But if viewers give up on waiting, that's all moot. Tony Ralph of Yahoo Ad Operations analyzes ads, identifies poin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jennifer Lynn Aaker - Creating Infectious Action Imagine what it would be like to find out that your best friend had cancer; what would you do? In this keynote presentation about social media and social action, Jennifer Lynn Aker shares a touching story of what a small group of people did when they found out that their friends were dying, and how that changed the fate of leukemia patients from South Asia. Jennifer explains how the group achieved incredible results in a short time and shares the four keys to creating infectious action. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Kaldor - Once-a-Week Human Growth Hormone Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Ambrx CEO, Dr. Steve Kaldor, about once-a-week human growth hormone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Duncan Watts - Everything is Obvious Dr. Moira Gunn talks with sociologist and network science pioneer Duncan Watts about his new book, Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer, where he suggests that common sense and history can mislead us into believing that we understand more about the world of human behavior than we do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Micah Sifry - Open Government One of the great aspects of 21st century technology is the ability to use and keep track of public information. Unfortunately, many government agencies choose not to take advantage of the ways to communicate with the public. Micah Sifry returns to Technometria to discuss the status of open government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aladdin Nassar - Worldwide Inventory of Last-mile Bandwidths & Network Latencies How much does a 1-second transaction cost you? This is exactly what Aladdin Nassar, one of three performance engineers for Windows Live Hotmail, is trying to find out. Hear how they measure and track 1.3 billion accounts at Microsoft, to improve the performance of Windows Live Hotmail, end to end. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Rosenbaum - Future of Content Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Steve Rosenbaum about how the data aggregator's new role on the Internet from the pages of his new book, Curation Nation: Why the Future of Content is Context. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Osama Bedier - Inflection Point: Mobility Transforms E-Commerce Commerce enters a new phase which brings back "local and personal", Google's Osama Bedier explains. But the innovation won't come without its challenges. These trends require payments to become completely digital, inventories to move to the cloud and platforms that determine user identity to become interoperable. After hurdling these barriers, technology can bring commerce back to the intimacy of 50 years ago. Sellers hope to see the return of traditional consumer loya ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deborah Estrin - Telling Traces Deborah Estrin talks about GIS tracing of individual activity, it's fascinating usefulness, and potential privacy drawbacks. She assesses how combining tools such as location trace and environmental data with a wellness focus can inform public policy and personal decision making. According to Estrin experience sampling can yield data points which help patients to adjust and cope with medications. On the other hand, these living records can be intimate traces almost impossible to erase. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Bobe - Personal Genomes Project Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the Personal Genomes Project at Harvard Medical School and "Do It Yourself" Biotech from the Director of Community, Jason Bobe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Stevenson - What's Next? Dr. Moira Gunn looks into the future with author and comedian, Mark Stevenson, through the pages of his new book, An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer 'What's Next? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zoltan Nagy - Flexible Self-assembling robotic gastric surgeons, small enough to swallow, will requires advances in magnetic connectors to become a reality. Zoltan Nagy researches tiny magnetic connectors. His goal is to create self-reconfiguring modular robotics (SRCMR) which are robust enough for surgery within the human body. Zoltan outlines his plans for future research. Learn how he communicates with these tiny robots as they perform delicate surgery in working prototypes of the human stomach. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philip Tellis - Latency: Why You Should Worry and What You Can Do About It Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon speeding down the motorway, filled with magnetic tapes full of data. Those tapes hold a large amount of data, but the station wagon is hardly traveling at the speed of light; and adding more station wagons isn't going to make them go any faster. This quick talk by Philip Tellis describes how to measure latency and what to do about it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Linh Hoang - Life Technologies Dr. Moira Gunn talks with the Director of Personalized Medicine for Life Technologies, Linh Hoang, about personalized medicine, and what that means for a breast cancer study with just 14 select women. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Poulsen - Kingpin Dr. Moira Gunn talks about cybercrime with Wired editor and author, Kevin Poulsen, about his new book Kingpin, How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julius Genachowski - Julius Genachowski's FCC Net Neutrality Order John Heilemann talks with FCC chair Julius Genachowski about the FCC's policy-making positions and challenges for the 21st century; including spectrum reapportionment, net neutrality, keeping up with the spectrum requirements of mobile broadband, global competitiveness, and "keeping the pipes open for innovators and consumer choice." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack Dangermond - Moving People with Pixels Consumer mapping on the web and traditional back-office geographic information systems (GIS) are becoming less distinct. Both are more accessible, standards-based, and flexible. Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, speaks about the creation of a publicly accessible GIS mapping system, ArcGIS.com, a web platform that works with maps from various authoritative sources and provides the public with useful tools to add and use their own crowdsourced, volunteered geographic information (VGI). ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Chew and Chris Stern - BioTech Panel Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Paul Chew, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer for the US division of Sanofi-Aventis, touching on the latest from Diabetes to triple-negative breast cancer. She then talks with Chris Stern, CEO of Oxygen Biotherapeutics about their innovative oxygen carriers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mehrdad Baghai - Individual Action into Collective Power Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and Managing Director for Alchemy Growth Partners, Mehrdad Baghai, about his new book, As One: Individual Action, Collective Power. Published in Feburary 2011, this book is already being heralded as the key to unleashing lost productivity, hidden potential in people, and the inspiring power of purpose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Balsillie - Reject the Appification of the Web The market is beginning to fight being "hijaaked" by proprietary SDKs to develop mobile content and experiences. Blackberry maker, Jim Balsillie, shares his predictions for the rapidly-changing mobile market. Balsillie thinks the days of proprietary SDKs are as doomed as proprietary DRMs for music. He calls on the audience to reject the "appification" of the web, saying, "you shouldn't need a YouTube App to go to YouTube on a mobile device." Balsillie also ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert McNally - HIV Vaccines Dr. Moira Gunn learns about two vaccines: the first intended for prevention and the second, for people already infected with HIV, from Geovax President and CEO, Robert McNally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seth Mnookin - Panic Virus Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and investigative journalist, Seth Mnookin about the "bad science" which improperly suggested a link between vaccinations and autism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lindsey Simon - Faster, Safer, More Consistent Browsers "Store em if you got em!" That's the way Lindsey Simon of Google describes the crowd sourced Browserscope project for profiling web browsers. Take thousands of browser tests, store them in the cloud, and share them through various visualizations. Browserscope aims to track the performance of browsers as they become faster, safer, and more consistent for both users and developers. This talk explains and demonstrates how. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Stoppelman - Community First: Yelp's Unconventional Approach to Local Information "Users beget content, which begets more users." That's how Jeremy Stoppelman, Co-Founder of Yelp, explains how he adds a million reviews every few months, more than 10 million in total in a massive base of local information. Sought after by investors and partners for their ability to curate and moderate local content, Yelp is a heavy user of mechanical turk to ensure content is valuable. As Stoppleman puts it "we're trying to get consumers to the best local busines ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Burrus - Flash Foresight Dr. Moira Gunn talks with respected trends forecaster, Daniel Burrus about his new book, Flash Foresight, where he introduces the concept of harnessing ones sixth sense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When IT Succeeds and Fail in Government - Gov 2.0 From rebuilding communities in Detroit around technological and artistic innovation to improving legal services, each of these speakers share their experiences and insights as to why groups succeed - and sometimes fail - in their attempts to adopt the latest information technology developments and apply them to the greater public good. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Greene - The Hidden Reality Dr. Moira gun dives into the theoretical physics with Professor Brian Greene from the pages of his new book, The Hidden Reality … Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. In it, he takes readers through theories of multiple universes, of the continual birth of universes, starting long before our own. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ramy Habeeb - 1,001 Arabian Rights Ramy Habeeb of Kotobarabia hopes to generate interest in the Arab publishing industry, an emerging market. He believes it is incipient and thus ripe for new entrants. While he believes it will mature, it needs improvements in the areas of distribution, censorship and preservation. He discusses how e-publishing can be one of the most valuable tools in its development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Zorn - JSMeter Currently popular JavaScript benchmarking programs may report misleading results, potentially wasting developers' time. Ben Zorn, a research engineer from Microsoft, shows case-by-case examples of misleading results revealed by his work with co-authors Ben Livshits and Paruj Ratanaworabhan. Ben Zorn compares performance of real web sites to the artificial sites employed by optimization tools SunSpider and V8. He also shows how to avoid the pitfalls of solving "problems" tha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guy Kawasaki - Enchanting Technologies Dr. Moira Gunn tracks down author, Guy Kawasaki, to talk about his new book Enchantment: Changing the Hearts, Minds and Actions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joan Lau - The Future of Computers Dr. Moria Gunn looks to the future of computers and biotechnology, with Anaris President and CEO, Joan Lau. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey A. Sorenson, Clay Johnson - Apps for the Army and The Sunlight Foundation Contest Winners In these two Gov 2.0 presentations, Jeffrey A. Sorenson and Clay Johnson, respectively, showcase the inventive winning entries and motivations behind "Apps for the Army" and The Sunlight Foundation's "Design for America" competitions. Through utilizing the potential and input of the wider community, both initiatives aim to encourage new ideas, and ultimately better practices, for government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Trevethick, Kaliya Hamlin, Drummond Reed - Personal Data Ecosystem (PDE) Given that amount of digital data available about people and businesses, users are discovering that they have no way to control and correct information about themselves. The Personal Data Ecosystem is a project meant to help create ways for better digital management. Three members of the PDE community, Paul Trevethick, Kaliya Hamlin, and Drummond Reed discuss the status of their activities, emphasizing some of the technical aspects of how to assist businesses and individuals manage their di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Rachman - The Internet Age of Journalism Dr. Moira Gunn talks about journalism and the internet with author and former Former Associated Press correspondent, Tom Rachman. Rachman's debut book, The Imperfectionists, begins as a celebration of the original 24/7 news cycle with focused on the personal lives of various news reporters, executives, copy editors, and a reader. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marcus Westin and Martin Hunt - Building Fast Webapps, Fast How does a 3rd party Web application developer make the app run fast on the host site? And how can it do so without breaking other things on the site? How can an app load lots of features and functionality, while avoiding blocking the rest of the page from loading and giving the user a negative perception? Enter on stage the Meebo bar, now on over 6,000 websites, as a way to make 3rd party apps and local content live peaceably together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris DiBona - Your Work in Open Source: 3 Years of Incremental Change Google has crawled over 3 Billion lines of computer code, revealing some surprising trends. "The way people code is very interesting," says Chris DiBona, Google's open source programs manager. He shares insights from the "Google Code" project, and closes by identifying "the most important coder in the world, who will be shaping computer science for decades to come." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Maritz, Marc Benioff, Andy Jassy - Point of Control: The Cloud Is the cloud infrastructure becoming the "new hardware?" What are the issues around points of control, and who will end up being the custodian of our information? What does the "global operating system infrastructure" look like? Hear informed perspectives on these timely questions in this candid exchange of ideas among leaders from VMWare, Inc., salesforce.com, and Amazon Web Services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cheryl Ainoa - Innovation at Scale Catching spammers is like playing Whack-A-Mole, says Cheryl Ainoa, SVP of Global Services Engineering at Yahoo, and on the massive scale of email traffic that Yahoo handles around the clock, globally, there's always a trick. In this brief presentation, she discussed using Hadoop to reduce daily spam rate for Taiwan from 20M to 5M, and reconfiguring the YCPI handshake protocol to cut data request time by two orders of magnitude. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sherry Turkle - Alone Together Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and MIT Professor, Sherry Turkle, about her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other. In it, she talks about how peoples relationships with their devices is effective their human relationships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthony Antolino - Content, Community, Commerce eReaders are big. And so is social media. How about an eReader platform with a social component. Copia is an eReading platform, a book store and a means to connect to people with similar reading tastes. You can choose the books you want to read, and discuss them with others on Copia. It's like a book club without the real-life commitment. In this presentation, Anthony Antolino explains this new foray into online social marketing from DMC, the company that popularized the digital watch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Pike - Public Static Void If you remember programming in C, you'll remember that it felt like music, or wine, or philosophy. Programming languages back then were laconic; they said all in just a few words. Today's mainstream programming languages, in contrast, are heavy, intricate and verbose. How did we get here and what comes next? Rob Pike, the co-creator of the Go programming language and a Distinguished Engineer at Google, thinks the solution is a language that gives us the best from both worlds. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sherry Turkle - Alone Together Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and MIT Professor, Sherry Turkle, about her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other. In it, she talks about how peoples relationships with their devices is effective their human relationships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kyle Gilpin - Electropermanent Magnets Kyle Gilpin talks about his work with electropermanent magnets, which make excellent connectors for modular robots as they are strong, small, solid state, consume power only when connecting or disconnecting, and they can also handle communication and power transfer. Kyle also discusses how he used electropermanent magnets to build a 12 mm cube robot pebble. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Norlin - Technology Conferences Conferences are very important to professionals, particularly in the technology industry, where developing new ideas and services often begin as part of brainstorming. Eric Norlin discusses his work in running conferences, including Defrag, Gluecon, and Blur. He also reviews the issues related to user interfaces, the main subject of Blur. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robin Li - Chinese Web Search Entrepreneurship For the Chinese search engine, Baidu, Google's withdrawal from mainland China was described as "a great gift from Eric Schmidt." Baidu's Search exploded following Google's exit from China. This interview reveals how that came about. Baidu's Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Robin Li, shares what he did to turn his company into the world's third largest independent search engine, one that answers more queries in China than any other search ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parag Khanna - How to Run the World Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Parag Khanna, to discuss the idea of mega-diplomacy from the pages of his new book, How to Run the World … Charting a Course to the Next Rennaissance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Kaye - A Witness to a Domestic Revolt In a departure from the typical technology interviews and presentations, Doug Kaye reviews the recent trip to Egypt that started just before the country's demonstrations commenced. He tells the story of how he and his wife dealt with the events and what he learned from talking to Egyptian citizens. He also discusses the importance of technology to the population, as well as what he thinks might happen as events continue to unfold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ariel Emanuel - Monetizing Celebrity Social Networks Digital distribution is here to stay, and Hollywood knows it. While studios experiment with new distribution models, talent agencies are capitalizing on a new world where content is king. In this interview, Ari Emanuel, Co-CEO of one of the largest talent agencies in the world, talks about representing the current generation of entertainment talent, and the connection between content creators, the influencers who promote content, and distribution through social networks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Johnson - Moving Fast Facebook is faster, and now comes the hard part. With many millions of users worldwide, and a constantly changing interface, Facebook's engineering team must continually strive to optimize their software to handle billions of page views per day. Robert Johnson shares many tips and lessons learned as he explains how his engineering team keeps pace with the demands for social networking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amir Levine and Racher Heller - The New Science of Adult Attachment Dr, Moira Gunn chats with Amir Levine and Racher Heller, co-authors of "Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love." In the book the authors explore the biology behind our relationship needs, teach readers how to identify their own and loved ones attachment styles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frances Pinter - Rethinking The Role and Funding of Academic Book Publishing Contrary to digital media, monographs are becoming financially nonviable to produce and maintain. Frances Pinter, Publisher at Bloomsbury Academic, argues that the only way to rescue monographs is to publish them under a Creative Commons license, provide open access, and charge customers for print-on-demand services. Will this be a sustainable business model? Pinter takes a critical position on several alternative strategies and plays devil's advocate on her own proposal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alec Ross - Global Engagement Starts at Home Technology-fueled bottom up change is coming to 21st century diplomacy and statecraft. In this Gov 2.0 presentation, Alec Ross speaks about the State Department's commitment to a revamped technology initiative that makes diplomacy more citizen-centered. The new initiative seeks to empower everyone through Internet freedom, innovative ideas and a policy framework that does not replace diplomacy but prioritizes using technology to facilitate exchange and understanding. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Recordon - Today's LAMP Stack Facebook's David Recordon discusses the history and evolution of the LAMP stack, and how this simple idea is central to the way that open source-backed web sites are built today. By now, the open source community offers a huge number of software choices for solving a wide variety of scaling challenges; David covers just a few of the ways that Facebook chooses the right tool for the right challenge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don Tapscott - MacroWikinomics Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author, Don Tapscott, about his new book, MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. In it, he and his co-writer, Anthony Williams, illustrate how mass collaboration is changing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Doerr and Fred Wilson - Point of Control: Finance "The Great VC Smackdown" Are we in the middle of a bubble or boom? That's the key question in this "Great VC Smackdown." This frothy time, they agree, is an unusual and exciting one. They agree that only great companies should go public today. Then, dispensing with equanimity, the fireworks begin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sonal Shah - Participation and Innovation in America In this Gov 2.0 presentation, Sonal Shah, head of Social Innovation and Civic Participation for the United States Government, discusses the role of technology in improving the country. From education to healthcare, Shah highlights opportunities for social innovation, and references current and future projects that both have, and will, improve communities across the nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Imad Mouline - Performance Testing: Putting Cloud Customers Back in the Driver's Seat Cloud computing offers immediate and wide-ranging advantages to businesses. However, with the potential benefits of utilizing the cloud come parallel concerns including performance. Studies conducted by Gomez Inc. found out that even a slight improvement in performance of an application can impact business and customer behavior. Imad Mouline, technology chief at Gomez, claims that a performance improvement of two seconds decreases page abandonment by customers by as much as eight percent. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jill Tarter - Open SETIQuest Announcing the creation of setiQuest, Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute makes an appeal for aid from the open source developer community. Tarter invites the open source community to check out the SETICloud stack, and highlights advances in fifty years of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. "We all have a common origin in stardust," Tarter says. Intelligent life leaves its imprint in this dust, as well. The key to finding it, Tarter says, is "sticking around long eno ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Morrow - Time is Money Constant performance improvement is essential to converting page views to sales and Shopzilla has the numbers to prove it. After analyzing the impact of site performance slowdowns, they committed to improving their customer's experience and their bottom line. They succeeded. Through the changes, they proved that while constant attention to performance is not free, it pays in page views and conversions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly - Government as a Platform for Greatness The government is not a vending machine for services. In this Gov 2.0 presentation Tim O'Reilly discusses how the government can be a development platform for greatness by taking advantage of web 2.0 features ranging from cloud computing and social media to mobile platforms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark L. DeMulder - The Digital National Map of the United States of America Digital topographic maps are just one example of the new geospatial information accessible to you (and your software via API's). Mark L. DeMulder reports on The National Map of the United States, a collaborative effort to deliver downloadable data and maps, products and services. The geographic information includes "orthoimagery (aerial photographs), elevation, geographic names, hydrography, boundaries, transportation, structures, and land cover." Other types of information c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Campbell - Mobile Sensing The Mobile Sensing Group at Dartmouth College is helping lead the way in turning the everyday mobile phone into an open global mobile sensing platform for personal, social-nets and societal-scale sensing. Led by faculty member Andrew Campbell, the group is working to be involved in new ways to use mobile devices. He gives an overview of the work, starting with such challenges as privacy, and discusses how the group uses Jigsaw. He also gives some examples of possible applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Schmidt - Google's Chrome OS Announced by Eric Schmidt "Tap and pay" enabling cell phones to replace credit cards -- just one of the innovations Eric Schmidt sees coming soon. As mobile and internet markets grow at exponential rates, Google is building applications that will re-shape how we use that technology. Google CEO Eric Schmidt sits down with web pioneers Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit 2010 to discuss Google's new Chrome OS, Google TV, mobile technology, talent acquisition, privacy, security and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Josh Williams - Moving People with Pixels Opposite Google, Facebook and Twitter, there is Gowalla--a location-based service that sits on top of its bigger, more established internet cousins. Gowalla's proposition, using collectible virtual goods and digital souvenirs, helps the relatively young location-based social networking service carve a unique name. In this Where 2.0 episode, CEO and co-founder Josh Williams talks about the beginnings of his company. Gowalla encourages its users to travel and explore the world...outsi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Antonio Dimasio - The Conscious Brain Dr. Moira Gunn talks with USC professor and author, Antonio Dimasio, about the connection between mind and body and how they related to consciousness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Sigler - Who Needs You, Big Publishing? From podcast to hardcover bestseller. Scott Sigler surprised the publishing world in 2007 when his book, Ancestor, released by small publisher Dragon Moon Press, appeared on the Amazon bestseller list. It was already available on line as a free serialized podcast, where it had gained 10,000 fans. In fact, all of his work is available free, but fans still buy. In this talk, he chronicles the publishing of his fourth book, The Rookie, a sci-fi football story, and the possibilities for authors ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Rauser - Creating Cultural Change Cultural change is often the only solution. Technologists naturally turn to technological solutions to the problems they encounter at work. But many of our most difficult problems in the workplace are cultural, so truly effective solutions require changing the way we think. John Rauser, engineer and data miner at Amazon.com, offers three examples of how changing culture provided lasting, effective, and creative solutions to common workplace struggles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Zuckerberg - A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg "Move fast, be bold and take risks" is what Mark Zuckerberg tries to hammer home every day. A series of news-making revelations about Facebook's strategies broke at this talk. Facebook is going to build platforms to offer access to it's 500 million users. CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, and John Batelle of Federated Media Publishing and answered frank and challenging questions. The result was a cascade of new strategic decision ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baron Schwartz - Enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB How do enterprise-level MySQL installations avoid spikes, pile-ups, and freeze-ups during peak operations? Crash-proof solutions are not beyond the capabilities of open-source database software, Baron Schwartz explains. He outlines Percona's enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB. They include XtraDB, a high-performance storage engine based on InnoDB, and Xtrabackup, a hot backup solution. Schwartz explains why each feature is needed to keep a scalable high-performance site up and running at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bryan Sivak - Government of the District of Columbia There's a lot of talk about the use of open source in government, but oftentimes during procurement, the idea isn't taken seriously. Bryan Sivak, Chief Technical Officer of the District of Columbia, celebrates a 20% Linux data center, the Design for Democracy competitions, and the introduction of secure online absentee voting. He also makes frank observations on why open source is not yet viable in some government applications, and talks about the future announcement of "Code ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Journalism Panel - 100 Words Dr. Moira Gunn joins a panel discussion with members of the Purdue Science Journalism Laureates Program, reading and talking about this year's 100 Words. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Martin - Twenty-Five Zeros You have have an opportunity to transform everything about the way we think about programming. This "big picture" talk starts with the Earth; it's losing mass at a rate of 1.5 grams per second due to the energy the Internet demands. This is in spite of the fact that programming languages fundamental to the modern Internet remain essentially the same as they were in the 1960's, says Robert Martin. Martin's energetic lecture questions the basic assumptions involved in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jamillah Knowles and Chris Vallance - Wikileaks So Far and a Little Light Mathematics Jamillah Knowles and Chris Vallance tease out the strands of the Wikileaks story so far and chat with experts on the real meaning of cyberwar and the future of leaked documents. Oh - and there's a great song about maths too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Adams - In the Belly of the Whale Twitter, a game-changing Internet icon, rolled out initially as an internal service for Odeo employees and was introduced to the public in July 2006. Four years later, the service enjoys 190 million visitors monthly with about 15 million active users sending 750 "tweets" per second. In this Velocity presentation, Twitter operations engineer, John Adams takes you inside the day-to-day functions of one of the 10 most visited websites worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Morgan - Growth of Location 8000 location-based applications around the world and this number will more than double by the end of the year, Ted Morgan claims. The incorporation of location-based features accelerates growth in the mobile space. Ted Morgan started Skyhook, an innovator in location-based services, which helps app developers expand the mobile experience of their users. Morgan talks about the growing reliance of the public on location-based services and how app developers can leverage this phenomenon. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Justin Huff&Tim Wilfong - Removing the Human SPOF Picnik's original operations staff person, Justin Huff, and second hire, Tim Wilfong tell the story of how the company removed a SPOF, a single point of failure, by hiring Tim. They list some good rules of thumb for this operational transition, and are frank about the flexibility, honesty and lack of ego needed by both people for this type of change to succeed. Picnik was acquired by Google just months after Tim's hire. This talk offers interesting anecdotes about managing rapid g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bradley C. Kuszmaul - How TokuDB Fractal Tree Databases Work Metrics have to be state of the art to measure performance on SSDs, solid state drives. In this short yet technical talk, Dr. Bradley Kuszmaul from Tokutech and MIT discusses his own experiences. Comparing InnoDB to his own team's TokuDB he discusses why the fractal based model is faster at dealing with insertions. Going through the thought process involved in speeding up database design, Dr. Kuszmaul discusses using simplified models for speeding up the bandwidth of read/write process ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Papows - The Impact of Faulty Software Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and former Lotus Development President, Jeff Papows, about the three forces which create software glitches, how they are effecting society at large, and how we can fix them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Kelly - What Technology Wants Dr. Moira Gunn talks with former Wired magazine Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Kelly, about his new book, What Technology Wants, and his theory that technology is undergoing its own evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stormy Peters - Is Your Data Free? Stormy Peters of the GNOME Foundation makes a call for the development of free, open-source web services in which complete data rights are maintained by the user. Noting cases of data lock-outs, or re-use of user data by service providers, she calls for close examination of user agreements. In this short and earthy appeal, Peters says "Don't give away your future choices with the choices you make today." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ylian Saint-Hilaire - MeshCentral MeshCentral, a remote monitoring and management web site, allows a user to connect with home or office devices from anywhere in the world. It requires a special management agent on computers, but once installed, the computers will show up in the My Devices section of the MeshCentral web site allowing a user to monitor them, power them on and off and take control of them. Developer Ylian Saint-Hilaire of Intel discusses the project, now in its alpha phase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joshua Bixby - Performance Impact Website performance is second only to security in user expectations, claims Joshua Bixby, president of Strangeloop Networks. He suggests that web page rendering must be kept under two seconds to retain user loyalty. Website acceleration directly impacts a company's business metrics and KPIs. Bixby presents his team's latest findings about the relationship between web performance and business benefits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jean Paoli - Open Cloud, Open Data To enable a free flow of data across platforms, operating systems and languages, Jean Paoli and his team, the Interoperability Strategy team at Microsoft, are working tirelessly. Paoli asks "What is an open cloud?" He contends that it's a cloud where data moves easily in and out, where programmers can work with the languages they choose. A truly open cloud will unleash the imaginations of developers to use the cloud's new data sets and computing power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carmine Gallo - The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs Apple's Steve Jobs has a reputation for innovation, particularly Apple's company slogan of "Think Different". Carmine Gallo wrote a book that reviewed Jobs' presentation secrets and now details his innovation secrets. Gallo discusses his book, including the seven points of innovation followed by Steve Jobs. Gallo also talks about the thought process that led to this follow-up to his previous successful book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Derek Sivers - Coming Back to Rails Musician and CD Baby founder Derek Sivers had already built his popular music selling website using his own cobbled-together PHP framework when he realized he needed to do something different. His quirky code was not able to scale as the site grew and Rails was the solution. In his 2010 Railsconf keynote, Sivers describes the journey he took and his own thought processes in deciding to use Rails as a framework for this award-winning project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walter Scott - Seconds to Anywhere DigitalGlobe fills the need for fast and accurate geospatial information, which has become ubiquitous in today's always-on environment. Walter Scott demonstrates the latest innovations in satellite imaging technology and web solutions. New developments set the pace for a revolution in GPS and GIS-based lifestyles. DigitalGlobe has over a billion square kilometers of imagery in their archive--close to collecting the land surface of the planet seven times over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Shafer - Change Management: A Scientific Classification Are you Cowboysaurus rex? Or Signaturus maximus? Find yourself in this taxonomy of change management practices. Learn the pros and cons of each classification and how well they fare as developers and operations try to work together to create value for their organization. Andrew Shafer, Engineering Lead at Cloud Scaling, says well-meaning managers throw problems into the "meat cloud."; they throw bodies at their problem. Others employ the FSOP method: "flying by the seat of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Kaplan - Monsoon Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author, Robert Kaplan, about the Indian Ocean and his new book Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. Looking at everything from the history to the regions geopolitics, Kaplan gets us up to speed on affairs of the region. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rasenick - The Science of Depression Dr. Moira Gunn talks with distinguished University of Illinois professor, Mark Rasenick, about the science of depression. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Lemon, Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith - The State of the Web 2010 The web continues to evolve as new devices appear and new standards are adopted. The iPhone and other mobile devices are now in the mix of places where people go to connect with each other. Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith call from Belgium where they were attending the Devoxx 2010 conference. They talk with Phil and Scott about internet protocols and social networking and how these are affected by the many different ways people and companies are interacting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathy Sierra - Creating Passionate Citizens Kathy Sierra examines how to create passionate citizens by inviting people to understand the dynamics of passion. Drawing on an interest in the brain and artificial intelligence, developed during her days as a game developer (Virgin, Amblin', MGM), Sierra explains what is necessary to instill and excite passion. From the perspective of an engineer she applies the formula and provides a solution to develop not only the product of passion but a passionate end user as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Rubenstein - Managing Many Robots One of the big challenges in Self Re-Configuring Modular Robotics is to handle the large number of robots that are involved. Controlling thousands of robots is hard, and doing so reliably and efficiently is even harder. Michael Rubenstein talks about building, managing and controlling 1024 robots. He talks about the many challenges the sheer number of robots leads to and how you can handle them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Micheal Krasny - Finding God Dr. Moira Gunn talks with prominent public radio host, author and agnostic, Micheal Krasny, about the contents of his new book, Spiritual Envy … An Agnostic's Quest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dennis Crowley - Adventures in Mobile Social 2.0: Twelve Months of foursquare On foursquare's first birthday, 200 people in a Chicago bar called founder Dennis Crowley via Skype to sing. They all earned their swarm patches that night. In a year, 750,000 users signed up, made 22 million check-ins, and convinced 1400 venues to offer foursquare specials. Mom-and-pop venues have had their very first peek at their own marketing analytics through foursquare. People use it to find the biggest party in town. Here, Dennis Crowley talks about the foursquare phenomenon, on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website danah boyd - Transparency Is Not Enough Data transparency is not enough; danah boyd powerfully argues that the character of data depends on its interpretation and states her case for data literacy. If people are ignorant about how data is generated, selected and interpreted, power accrues to those who can 'spin' the data to support their opinions and biases. Using the example of publicly available sex offender data, released under Megan's Law, boyd shows that understanding the complexity of data is just as importan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ken Goldberg - Opinion Space Dr. Moira Gunn talks with craigslist Distinguished Professor in New Media & Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. Ken Goldberg. They talk about Opinion Space, an experimental website of the US State Department. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lenny Rachitsky - The Upside of Downtime "Everything fails all the time", says Amazon Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels. This is especially true in today's technologically complex world where more and more components are built in to a system. Lenny Rachitsky outlines the process in turning downtimes into an opportunity to build trust and loyalty amongst a company's publics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slava Akhmechet, Michael Glukhovsky - RethinkDB Computer software and hardware have greatly advanced over the last 30 years, but database architectures haven't changed in response. Slava Akhmechet and Michael Glukhovsky of RethinkDB are creating a whole new style of database to take advantage of new developments like fast solid state hard drives and new research on file systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Fenwick - The World's Worst Inventions Paul Fenwick takes us through a humorous journey of bad inventions from bygone eras. They are cautionary tales with a plea for inventors not to screw up. He talks about asthma cigarettes, cocaine toothache drops for children, the Tempest prognosticator, and blood fueled devices. In the world of bad inventions, toys take center stage, with Cabbage Patch Doll "snack-time kid" which grinds its plastic food into dust along with other unintended food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nanotech Panel - Constructing Things from the Bottom Up Dr. Moira Gunn engages in a panel discussion on all things Nanotech with four of the world leading experts: Professor Patrick Maxwell, Head of Division of Medicine at University College, London, Professor Tony Cass, Research Director at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Professor Gabriel Aeppli, Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Dr. David Sarphie, CEO at Bio-Nano Consulting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Halbherr - Bringing Social and Local Together We have phones that take pictures, connect to the Internet, and play music. Now, Nokia is creating a line of smart phones with navigation programs for both drivers and pedestrians. Michael Halbherr focuses on describing the special features of the navigation programs, as well as how Nokia plans to continue developing media and social communication functions for their products and widening their global market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neal Ford - Creativity and Constraint Computer code is not yet art, but it could be. Neal Ford discusses aesthetics, constraints, creativity, and why the Ruby on Rails community is closer to art than other programming communities. He implores developers to create and define their own tastes, rather than merely consume what others have created. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kasper Stoy - Self-Reconfigurable Robots Self-reconfigurable robots are constructed of robotic modules that can be connected in many different ways. Kasper Stoy discusses his work in their development. He reviews how they are different from traditional robots, including why they are easier to keep working. He talks about how these robots can change shape, depending on the task needed. He also gives examples of tasks that can take advantage of this design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stoyan Stefanov - Psychology of Performance The human perception of web response time can be manipulated, says Yahoo! engineer Stoyan Stefanov. He talks about the subjective experience of time as experienced by Internet users. This understanding can help developers who are trying to "make the page feel faster, although it isn't." Some techniques and tricks for web developers can minimize frustration and enhance the browsing experience for end users. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Bryson - History of Private Life Dr. Moira Gunn chats with author, Bill Bryson about his new book, At Home: A Short History of Private Life. In it, he examines how common household items have transformed the way people lived, and how houses have evolved around certain items. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reed Mideke - Hacking Canon Cameras The Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK) loads into a Canon camera and enhances the firmware, giving the photographer more functions. One of its developers, Reed Mideke, discusses the project. He reviews the background of CHDK and talks about some of the options added by it. He also details some of the programming steps necessary to control Canon cameras. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Othman Laraki - Geostreams Twitter's new Director of Geolocation shows how automatically geo-tagging tweets creates self-generating groups that act in the real-world. Twitter geotaggers help responders with fires in Southern California, earthquakes in China, and elections in Iran. At the where2.0 conference in San Jose, Othman Laraki offers Twitter API developers 'frictionless' ways to express and consume this new class of geodata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susan Casey - Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean Dr. Moira Gunn talks about rogue waves and the science that goes into finding them with author, Susan Casey. In her new book, The Wave … In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean, Casey 'imparts awe in her rogue-wave connection of commerce, science, and sport'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ananda Chakabarty - Cancer treating bacteria Dr. Moira Gunn talks with scientist Ananda Chakabarty, who holds the first US Life Science Patent on a bacteria treatment for Cancer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly - Thinking Hard About the Future Don't just think about the cloud. Think about where it is taking us. Online collaboration is the first wave of a movement transforming how people network. A healthy commons is the real value of open source, making collaboration easier. This collaboration has assisted response to several recent calamities around the world. Tim O'Reilly believes we will need the communication open source allows in order to overcome a wide array of future challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adrian Holovaty, Carol Dumaine, Scott Heiferman, Peter Corbett, Michael Tiemann - RAPID FIRE: Setting the Stage Open government data is being used to increase civic participation in a variety of ways. This series of Rapid Fire talks from the Gov 2.0 Summit shows how companies can transform government data for customers, how online tools can help citizens organize themselves, and how openness in software can provide huge returns on investment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kaj Arnö - State of the MySQL Community MySQL has had a turbulent couple of years after it was acquired by Sun and Sun was acquired by Oracle. Kaj Arnö, VP of Community Relations at MySQL reviews what has changed so far and what the future holds as MySQL integrates into Oracle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Sutton - Good Boss, Bad Boss Dr. Moira Gunn talks up with Management Science and Engineering professor, Bob Sutton about his new book, Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst. In it, he reveals how the best bosses take diverse and intertwined steps to create effective and humane workplaces, and offers tips on taking control, getting and giving credit appropriately, taking responsibility, staying in tune with employees, and squelching your potential inner jerk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Rodell - Baker's Yeast: A Treatment of Hepatitis C? Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with Tim Rodell, President and CEO of GlobeImmune, which is working on a way to boost treatment for Hepatitis C using Baker's Yeast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clara Shih - The Facebook Era Social networking has quickly gone from new technology to cultural movement. The diminishing cost of connecting through Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn expands and enhances those weak-tie relationships on the outer edges of our social circles most of all. Clara Shih of Hearsay Labs explains Facebook era psychology and the new norms and expectations it creates. It will shape our relationships with fans, followers, and customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Lindsay - WebHooks WebHooks are meant to do something. The concept of a WebHook is simple. It is an HTTP callback: an HTTP POST that occurs when something happens; a simple event-notification via HTTP POST. Developer Jeff Lindsay talks about what a WebHook is and how it works as a programming API. He also discusses some of the current uses of the concept. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yehuda Katz - Getting Involved in the Community There is no "in crowd" in the Ruby development community, so you shouldn't be worried about being excluded. Yehuda Katz of EngineYard shares stories of several important contributors to Ruby and Rails who started out knowing nothing, but through hard work and persistence created value for the whole community. Katz: just find something that looks impossible and do it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Tabor - Blind Descent Dr. Moira Gunn talks with PBS host and author, James Tabor, about deep cave exploration from the pages of his new book, Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Hayes and Mike Malone - No Size Fits All Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with the co-authors of No Size Fits All, from Mass Marketing to Mass Hand Selling, Tom Hayes and Mike Malone. In their new book, Hayes and Malone take an entirely new approach to marketing, embracing small, trust-based online groups as powerful vehicles for creating customers and gathering invaluable feedback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Ledwidge and John Gilmer - New Life for an Old Drug Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Mark Ledwidge and John Gilmer, from Solvotrin Therapeutics, about how their finding new uses for Aspirin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Udell - The elmcity project The elmcity project "collects online calendar events for geographic or topical communities." Meant to demonstrate the capabilities of Microsoft's Azure platform, it presents an opportunity for individuals to become curators for events. Jon Udell discusses the web service and how it demonstrates how we are sources for public data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joshua Bixby - The Mobile Web: The Next Frontier Joshua Bixby connects web site speed and performance with return on investment, as measured by increases in the size of orders and the number of conversions. He reports that his company demonstrated a 6% increase in order size and a 9% increase in conversions with improvements in the performance of mobile web pages. He believes that the same type of data should be collected for mobile users to help developers make informed decisions when allocating limited resources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Ries - The Lean Startup: Innovation Through Experimentation Lean Startup movement concepts have entered the zeitgeist, says Eric Ries. His IT-sector "mid-term report card" shows an industry under pressure, but he says successful entrepreneurs have a superior process: the Lean Startup process. They Pivot through a Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop. Lean Startup techniques such as Innovation Through Experimentation, can be applied to any company, industry, or start-up. Startups grow through validated learning, through a series of Pivots. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cliff Nass - Technology:The Operating System to the Soul Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Stanford University professor and author, Cliff Nass, about his new book, The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, and his theory that links people's interactions with computers and their social and professional life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Papows - Glitch: The Impact of Faulty Software Software glitches cost businesses a great deal of money. While some may seem mere inconveniences, others can cause major problems for both organizations and consumers. Jeff Papows discusses his new book, in which he talks about why glitches happen as well as how issues can be avoided in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Arrington and Tim O'Reilly - Location and Points of Control Mike Arrington and Tim O'Reilly engage in a spirited exchange. O'Reilly argues that companies competing against Google, Apple or Facebook should strike out into new territories. Quoting Sun Tzu, O'Reilly admires PayPal for carving out a new niche, while he gives Apple's iPhone group kudos for outflanking competitors. Arrington worries about a potential privacy disaster at Facebook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Cook - A Day in the Life of Facebook Operations Facebook is one of the largest websites in the world, and it takes a lot to keep it running. Tom Cook of Systems Engineering at Facebook discusses the scale of the hardware required, the software, the IT stack, and best practices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Fayer - Day to Day Quantum Theory Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with Stanford University professor and author, Michael Fayer to learn how Quantum Theory relates to everyday life, from the pages of his new book, Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carlos Paya - Innovative Approaches to Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Elan Pharmaceuticals President, Carlos Paya about the latest in innovative approaches to treating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dion Almaer, Scott Lemon, Ben Galbraith - Cross Platform Apps and Browsers Companies are working to develop apps software that take advantage of the growing number of hardware platforms. In addition to smartphones, browser developers are using the cloud to distribute programs. The group discusses these projects, as well as how new versions of browsers are coming that will be of even greater use with applications. They review how cross platform development is an important part of new software as well as Web 2.0 capabilities must also be included. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June Cohen - TED's Transition from Conference to Platform June Cohen of TED media takes us through TED's evolution from a conference, to a media company, and to a platform for spreading ideas. June shows us the kinds of challenges TED had to embrace and the obstacles they had to overcome. The risky business of radically open models, which June believes in, has led to fascinating unintended consequences. She shows us how smart scaling and innovative projects has allowed TED's dynamic growth to become a global team of professional voluntee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Vein and Tim O'Reilly - City Data An open API for all government functions would be a transformative achievement, and Tim O'Reilly and Chris Vein have been working to make it a reality. In this free-flowing Q and A format, Chris Vein shares his experience as CIO for San Fransisco, building IT as a platform for the 21st century city. Vein and O'Reilly discuss their front line experiences in government data with an audience of location-based developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary Roach, Max Bezold and Twman Clements - The Strange Science of Space Travel Dr. Moira Gunn explores the quirky science behind preparing a space crew for a mission with Mary Roach, author of 'Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void' and meets two space entrepreneurs, who have experiments flying on the International Space Station. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simon Wardley - Situation Normal, Everything Must Change In this presentation, Leading Edge researcher Simon Wardley explores hypotheses about change, reflecting on cloud computing and organizational shape. Considering how companies deal with the consequences and emerging patterns of change, Wardley asserts that the cloud increases innovation and productivity which yields commodity. He describes how commoditization erodes value, therefore requiring more innovation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Feathers - Do You Think You Write Good Code? Michael Feathers asks his audience whether clean code is good code. Looking at examples from business and academic research his talk seeks to address the problem of legacy code in software development. Taking some lessons from engineering he suggests some ways to make code better and cheaper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean Halstead - Real-World Social Networking for Gov 2.0 Dean Halstead of the Microsoft SharePoint Product Design Team talks about social networking within government organizations in this Gov 2.0 presentation. He describes how SharePoint's out-of-the-box Gov 2.0 kit meets many social networking objectives within the operational constraints of government organizations. Halstead provides several examples of successful government social networking solutions, and a view of future SharePoint capabilities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly - O'Reilly Radar Tim O'Reilly discusses the impact of the advancements made in Web technologies on the future. His speech highlights the impact of mobile devices on application requirements, the need for real time processing, and the essential role people play in Web applications. In describing the important function that Web operations play in future applications, he suggests opportunities for operational personnel to contribute to the Web community for the greater good of all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Spencer - The Future of Interactive Marketing on the Web Steve Spence looks at where interactive marketing is headed by looking at patterns happening now. Steve reviews the three emerging principles: on demand, online, and cross device. He looks at the 4Rs that are empowering both the masses and the marketers. He explores the meaning of viral and instant gratification in the evolution of the way people think. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Resig - jQuery and jQuery Mobile John Resig, creator of jQuery, discusses it's purpose and development as well as the upcoming jQuery Mobile. As jQuery is meant to help cross-platform JavaScript software development from one browser to another, jQuery Mobile will help serve the same purpose among multiple mobile devices. John reviews many of the technical details of both, including how he decided to work on the projects in the first place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Buchheit - A Conversation with Paul Buchheit Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail and founder of FriendFeed, which was recently acquired by Facebook, talks with Sarah Milstein about Facebook as a platform, openness online, how he evaluates companies he invests in and why anyone can be important online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Rogers, Susan Leal - Running Out of Water Dr. Moria Gunn talks with co-authors Peter Rogers and Susan Leal about the state of the worlds water supply from the pages of their new book, Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gary Cupit - Teaching an Old Drug New Tricks Dr. Moria Gunn chats with the CEO for Somnus Therapeutics, Gary Cupit, on a new use for an old drug which is helping the weary sleep better. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brewster Kahle - A Future for Books: BookServer Brewster Kahle offers a tour of present and proposed uses for the open architecture BookServer ecosystem. This project is part of Kahle's quest to provide universal access to all knowledge. As digital librarian and co-founder of the acclaimed Internet Archive, Kahle works for worldwide, distributed publishing environments because he sees them as essential to a rich and democratic digital future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Skip Prichard - Are Ebooks Dead? Skip Prichard's discussion of the future of the publishing industry uses a jar of jam, an NFL running back, and a jazz musician to offer lessons for the publishing industry. He discusses how the lines between print and electronic publishing have blurred and this has huge ramifications for the publishing industry. In handling this increased pressure, Skip explores three suggestions for publishers: simplify, connect, and conquer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vik Chaudhary - From Browsers to Mobile Devices Vic Chaudhary introduces MITE 2.0, currently available in beta, which offers expanded capability to test web page presentation for thousands of different client devices in real time anywhere in the world from your desktop. The software is useful for developers, QA and test professionals, and web operations personnel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Blackledge - Social Media and Medicine Dr. Moria Gunn talks with Dr. Aaron Blackledge, Medical Director for Care Practice, who's medical practice is driven thru social media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carl Malamud - "By the People..." Carl Malamud, president of Public.Resource.Org, describes observations which indicate how the internet wave, created in the private sector, has triggered success and could be extremely beneficial in the public sector in the future. He suggests that access to information and public documents may lead to more efficient government, more economic activity and better democracy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Hamilton - Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services talks about some of the innovations emerging in data center infrastructure and how the scale of the Web and the competition are pushing technology forward. Speed equals money and he describes how advances in power efficiency, server loading, and temperature management practice can speed up websites and make more more money for their owners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urs Hölzle - Speed Matters Speed should be feature #1 on any website. Urs Holzle of Google lists some of the ways that individual websites and the Internet as a whole could be sped up. Google's effort range from advancing browser technology to hosting fast versions of public resources like DNS. They have also studied how websites could be sped up by updating key protocols like TCP. Every website could be sped up by 30-200% without changing any application code. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicholas Carr - What the Internet is doing to our Brains Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Nicholas Carr, to discuss the weird, new, artificial world in which we now live, through the pages of his new book, The Shallows: What is the Internet Doing to Our Brains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Bobe - Our Need for Genomes Dr. Moira Gunn talks with the Director of Community for Harvard Medical School, Jason Bobe, about the Personal Genomes Project and"Do It Yourself" Biotech. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sheeri K. Cabral - Time Zones and MySQL Describing the codes used throughout MySQL and explaining their limitations, Sheeri K. Cabral -- founder of the MySQL user group in Boston, Massachusetts -- discusses the use of time zones by that data system. The majority of her lecture is technical, but her concepts are easy to follow and she offers a variety of methods to recording precise times and mending the system's failure to hold time zones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Huh - Becoming One with Internet Culture Ben Huh of the website I Can Has Cheezburger, speaks about the Internet as a global trend that allows people to share what they have on their minds. People use the Internet every day and never stop to think that this can be called a "cultural action". What would happen if absolutely everyone could be given a computer? How would the world and human culture change in this case? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website William Patry - Law Is Not a Business Solution William Patry has been working with copyright law for 25 years and has a number of observations on this continuously evolving challenge. He says we lose respect for the legal system when we use it to solve business problems. Exploring regulatory capitalism as a tool to shield and protect incumbents and the status quo from competition, he says copyright law doesn't create economic value. Paley sees instead a big need for managerial imagination. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Ridley - How Prosperity Evolves Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with science journalist and author, Matt Ridley, to talk about his new book, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves' and explain why he believes it is probable that humanity will be better off in the next century than it is today, and so will the ecology of our planet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Gillmor - The Client-side Revolution: What's Next Steve Gillmor muses about the present and possible futures like a"blind man at the toes of an elephant". He makes insightful comments on the death of RSS, the next wave of value, and the need for gestures. Steve explores harnessing Social Cloud Dynamics, the challenges of collaboration and the iPad, in the context in which these changes are happening. He also comments on the trouble with current business models as he shows how affinity groups will become powerful economic engines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Fleishman - WiFi Holes, iPhone Jailbreaking, and DMCA Technology reporter Glenn Fleishman discusses a number of current networking and mobile issues. Beginning with an examination of a newly found hole in the 802.11 standard, he also discusses WiFi security issues and how both enterprises and the personal users are dealing with them. Glenn also reviews such topics as location data, the now legal ability to jailbreak the iPhone, and his objections to the DMCA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Widenius - MariaDB Beginning with a bit of history, Michael Widenius, co-founder and CTO of MySQL AB, gives a lecture on MySQL, MariaDB, and the purpose of his company. The topics branch to include developments and improvements in the MariaDB, as well as the general direction of the company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carleen Hawn, James Heywood - Rapid Fire: Healthcare These rapid fire talks feature two innovations in healthcare. Founder Carleen Hawn discusses some of the stories from Healthspottr, a website that showcases innovative patient technologies from around the world. Also PatientsLikeMe co-founder James Heywood explains how the platform creates communities around medical conditions, and puts patients in control of their data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Kurzweil - The Future is Near Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the future with inventor, author, filmmaker and futurist, Ray Kurzweil. He tells us what science and technology have in store over the next 10, 20, 30 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Duncan - Flawed Science Dr. Moria Gunn talks with columnist and author David Ewing Duncan about what happens and who suffers when a prestigious journal publishes flawed science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Kelly - How the body manages CO2 Dr. Moira Gunn talks about CO2 with President and CEO, Glenn Kelly,how the human body manages CO2, and how his cleantech company, CO2 Solutions, copies it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Wilkins - Cometd and Push Technology Greg Wilkins, CTO of Webtide, the main developers of Jetty, discusses the ins and outs of so-called "long polling" or "server push" techniques and the technologies and projects that make them practical. Greg talks about the CometD project, websockets, and some of the problems these technologies solve. Just like AJAX before it, server push will open up new opportunities to create richer Web applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blaise Agüera y Arcas - The Map as an Information Ecology Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Architect of Bing Maps, discusses its structure and "information ecology," of content, users, and apps. By extracting the semantic content of 2D images and mapping them in 3D, Bing Maps continually improves a rich infrastructure of surface data about the world on which apps and services can ride. When it began allowing users to bind sets of images, Bing Maps found myriad partners to infill data, extrapolated to 3D, about tourist sites around the world. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lili Cheng - Making Social More Fun Lili Cheng and her team at Microsoft's Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Lab take the challenge of making social networking more engaging while increasing productivity. Cheng, in this recording from the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (May, 2010), demonstrates the various social networking tools developed at the Fuse Lab designed to create a worthwhile social experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spencer Wells - The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Cornell professor and author, Spencer Wells, discussing the contents of his new book 'Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization' where he voices misgivings about the breakthrough to farming 10,000 years ago, spurred by climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Climaco - Determining the severity of scoliosis Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Axial Biotech President, John Climaco, about a new test for pre-determining the severity of the back condition scoliosis, which mostly affects young girls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Aker - A Guide to No-SQL Brian Aker, an open-source hacker and former Director of Architecture at MySQL AB, gives an analysis of No-SQL -- a class of non-relational data stores. Adding humor and a blunt comparison of the pros and cons of these data stores, he explains the basics of the No-SQL system and its applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Collingridge - Enhancing the Ebook Describing the past, present and future of his business, Enhanced Editions, Peter Collingridge uses this platform to explain deeper issues as well: ebooks as a whole, publishing, and technology's effect on reading. He also discusses the specifics of his business and market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Turner, Robert Greenberg, Mikel Maron, Dave Warner - RAPID FIRE: Location, Location, Location In this series of short talks from the Gov 2.0 Summit, four pioneers of open geospatial data share their experiences in encouraging collaboration through data sharing. From Virtual Alabama to "Beer for Data" in Afghanistan, it's an eye-opening look at the doors which can be unlocked by open data in government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly - State of the Internet Operating System In this talk from the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly describes the state of the internet operating system. As more services and data move from computers onto the internet, there are new opportunities to create value as well as new risks for lock-in. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook: which has the right strategy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Udell - Architectures of Context Beginning with a short history of his understanding the Internet, Jon Udell of Microsoft, and host of the Conversations Network's Interviews with Innovators, presents a lecture on the history of the Internet as a whole. This history is also framed within the context of context, and how cyberspace is shaping the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Callaghan - MySQL at Facebook In this talk from the 2010 MySQL Conference, Mark Callaghan of Facebook describes some of the uses Facebook makes of MySQLK and the challenges Facebook's database team has in their large-scale deployment of MySQL. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jono Bacon - The Engines Of Community Creating and growing a community is an art, but there are known best practices. Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, lists some of the best ways to build a community, the mechanics of making a community work, and the difference between an evangelist and a community manager. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Aker - State of Drizzle Beginning the lecture with a description of Drizzle, Brian Aker, an open-source hacker and former Director of Architecture at MySQL AB, continues on to fully discuss the merits of this open source database management system (DBMS). Also central to this lecture are the three key success points of Drizzle and what its creators plan to do in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matthew Ericson - Red State, Blue State: Election Maps at The New York Times Journalists tell stories. In this Where 2.0 presentation, Matthew Ericson talks about how the New York Time's team of designers, cartographers, and developers worked as journalists to create interactive maps and charts that told stories about the 2008 presidential election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Drummond - A Conversational Approach to Search Do you set up feeds and alerts, and jigger social sites as headline aggregators? How do you get news on your favorite topics and find out about things you didn't know you wanted to know? And how do you stay informed without showing your hand? Mark Drummond, CEO of Wowd, offers 'a discovery tool for the real-time web.' It dynamically ranks listings. Alert information stays on your machine, while its indexing happens in the cloud, promising the freshest, most relevant results. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arianna Huffington - Publishing is Dead; Long Live Publishing! Publishing is the main topic at hand in this lecture by Arianna Huffington, with subjects running from her online news source, the Huffington Post, to the emergence of writing as the new form of entertainment. Snippets of personal history, stories and ideas are also featured in this presentation, surrounding her central topic of the importance of self-expression. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Vito - Everything That's Old is New Again Software is reorganizing the world, according to Joe Vito in this presentation from the 2010 Kynetx Impact Conference on how technology and apps are changing the relationship between businesses and consumers. With a bit of social commentary and a few anecdotes, he explains how companies should keep up with changes in efficiency, demand, and customer preferences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Ries - Lean Startups: Doing More with Less Eric Ries talks about the elements that allow startups to succeed, what causes them to fail, and how entrepreneurial management can effect the outcome. The idea of pivot, reasons why lean startups are better at it, and how pivot can be built upon by startup managers are discussed briefly, but in depth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sebastian Stadil - Cloud Computing and Business Sebastian Stadil discusses how Scalr assists businesses in expanding their use of cloud computing. In addition to his appearance at Gluecon he reviews both technological and economic aspects of what business have to consider. He reviews some of the more difficult aspects of cloud computing and details his company's business model as a very small organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Simons - The Invisible Gorilla Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and professor, Dan Simons, about his new book, The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, where he and his partner, Christopher Chabris, explore the limits of human perception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Callaghan - A Future The future is at hand in this lecture by Mark Callaghan, the leader of Facebook's MySQL engineering team. He discusses MySQL, the host company of the conference, and considers future trends, forks, and ideas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Lightstone - Making it Big in Software Sam Lightstone, author of the the book, Making it Big in Software, discusses the process of moving up from initial education through eventual job success. He talks about the importance of the mentoring process for apprentice software engineers, as well as how crucial innovation is to success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Podesta and James Fallows - Diplomacy 2.0: Social Media, Diplomacy, and Co-Creation of Dialogue John Podesta and James Fallows discuss Gov 2.0 communication challenges for presidential candidates and administrations, and how messaging strategies and tactics affect international perceptions of America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sheena Iyengar - Human Decision Making Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the science behind the decision making process, with noted author, Dr. Sheena Iyengar, from the pages of her new book, The Art of Choosing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Berners-Lee - Tim O'Reilly in Conversation with Tim Berners-Lee In this interview from the 2009 Web 2.0 conference, Tim O'Reilly talks with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. Berners-Lee talks about his expectations for the Web when he created it, his thoughts on how it has changed with growth and his concerns for its future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Jupp - Data Driven Measurement of Education Practices Brad Jupp, a veteran teacher, administrator and union leader in the Denver school system, discusses how the Department of Education means to use data collection to propel schools from 'school district 1.0' to 'school district 1.2'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BIO 2010 Conference Panel - The BIO 2010 Conference in Chicago On this week's Tech Nation the focus is on the recent International Biotech Conference, BIO 2010 from Chicago. We'll hear from Bob Klein, the BioHumanitarian of the Year, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who was named BioGovernor of the Year, Wisconsin Governor Jim Boyle, and BIO's president, Jim Greenwood. David Ewing Duncan also reviews what he picked up trolling the hallways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adam Denton - Race Across America and Technology Adam Denton discusses his participation in the Race Across America, one of the most respected and longest running annual endurance events holding legendary stature the world over. Riding as part of the Sharp4Prostate team, Adam will use a number of technologies to assist in the race. He talks with Phil about both the physical preparation as well as the likely use of GPS, the web, and social media to assist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Burton Richter - Climate Change and Energy Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and Nobel Laureate, Dr. Burton Richter, about the science behind the earths rapid warming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly - Open Source Internet According to Tim O'Reilly, of O'Reilly Media, the Internet is full of information and is capable of using that information to make connections and trends. The real question, as Tim points out, is whether this information will be open sourced, or owned by companies such as Google and Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Fagan - Cro-Magnon Dr. Moria Gunn chats with anthropologist, Brian Fagan, about his research into Neaderthals and how they relate to modern humans, from the pages of his new book, Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Caterina Fake - Start Your Business Now Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, tells us why she thinks that a climate of economic gloom such as the current one is the best time to start your own business, why simplifying a design and taking things away from it adds more power, and what her most recent New York based Web 2.0 venture, named Hunch, is all about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clay Johnson - Apps for America II Clay Johnson, Director of Sunlight Labs, reviews several entries from the 'Apps for America II' development contest which make exclusive use of the Data.gov knowledgebase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gilad Lotan - Building Bridges Across Languages and Cultures Gilad Lotan is a world citizen who contributes to Global Voices Online and explores means to visualize the ebb and flow of conversations and memes online. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he explains why and how he surveys the Hebrew blogosphere for readers of English, and discusses his work with Microsoft FUSE Labs where he analyzes how influence moves through communication networks, specifically Twitter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susan Krieger - Traveling Blind Dr. Moira Gunn chats with author, Susan Krieger, about her new book, Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side, where she introduces readers to the world of true human-animal interaction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clay Shirky - Technology Insight In this Gov 2.0 presentation Clay Shirky explains why an L.A. Times wikitorial effort went wrong and compares it with the continuing success of Apps For Democracy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthony Fassero - Wild Style City: Breaking the Clean Reality of the Virtual World Anthony Fassero talks about Wild Style City, a whimsical demo of 3D street-level imaging technology. As CEO of earthmine, Fassero focuses on developing accurate digital representation of environments which facilitate better human interaction. In this Where 2.0 Conference presentation, Fassero discusses some of the potential of 3D street-level imagery using Wild Style City as a fun example. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Sherman, Ward Cunningham - Geo Social Networking Dr. Moria Gunn visits with Mark Sherman, CEO of ZoomAtlas, and Wiki inventor, Ward Cunningham, to talk about the latest social networking trend, geo-social networking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesse Stay - What's New in Social Networking? Social networking expert Jesse Stay joins Phil and Scott to discuss recent changes and issues with Facebook and other networking sites. In addition to reviewing recent Facebook announcements, he also talks about data retrieval, as well as related privacy issues. He also assesses how political candidates are using social networking, as well as the current relevance of Twitter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Linda Stone - Ancient Breathing Techniques for Modern Information Workers Linda Stone coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" and has long been concerned about the psychological effects of computers and networked information systems. Now she's exploring the physiological effects too. In this conversation with Jon Udell, she explains what "email apnea" is, and discusses why and how we should learn to regulate our breathing when we work online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Prochnik - In Pursuit of Silence Dr. Moira Gunn visits with author, George Prochnik, to talk about his new book, In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, where he examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Duncan - 10th Birthday of Decoding the Human Genome Dr. Moira Gunn celebrates the 10th birthday of decoding the human genome with author and journalist, David Ewing Duncan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dion Almaer, Scott Lemon, Ben Galbraith - iPads and Tablets The group discusses tablet-style computers, including the Entourage eDGe, comparing them with the newly released iPad. They also review various apps, as well as the App Store concept. In addition, they assess some recent JavaScript changes and issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website danah boyd - Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media The term "Web 2.0" refers to the changes in the structure and composition of the Internet as it moves toward greater accessibility and participation. In this speech to the Web 2.0 conference, danah boyd, who has spent her professional career researching the Web's development, gives her analysis of where the Internet is headed and how to help it get there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 87 - Stack Overflow - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with our new community coordinator, Robert Cartaino, to discuss the future of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange 2.0. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Skibiski - Decoding the Urban DNA and Harnessing the Power of Social Intelligence Greg Skibiski explains CitySense, a mobile app for the Blackberry and the iPhone that predicts movement over time by mapping observed behavioral similarities rather than just geography. In this presentation from the Where 2.0 Conference, Skibiski discusses how location data using SMS from carriers and various other sources is used to gain market insights and understand real world activity in aggregate, anonymously. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Hagel - Small Moves equal Big Changes Dr. Moira Gunn interviews author and Director of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, John Hagel, about his new book, The Power of Pull, which the Harvard Business Review calls an exhilarating read as the authors sublimely reinvent the world of enterprise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevlin Henney - Things Every Programmer Should Know Kevlin Henney, editor/author of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, discusses the book and the programming process. He talks about how he compiled the essays for the book and lists some of the items he found most surprising and thought provoking. He also assesses the issues related to programmer training, including some of the things not taught in school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herbert Van de Sompel - The Web's Missing Dimension: Time Herbert Van de Sompel is a digital librarian who wonders why the web has no memory, and wants to do something about that. In this conversation he tells host Jon Udell about the Memento project, a proposed protocol that browsers can use to scroll through historical versions of web resources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Conover - How Roads are Changing Our World Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author, Ted Conover, about the importance of roads in the evolution of human history, from the ancient Romans and Incas to modern day Israel and Palestine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Craig Mundie - The Killer App of Gov2.0 Join Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer for Microsoft, as he talks about the future of IT in government. With continued advances in microprocessing and radio connectivity over the next five to ten years, IT will soon be capable of providing novel solutions to government problems. From energy conservation initiatives to expanding highspeed wireless in remote locations, Mundie discusses how governments can address the twin problems of accountability and improved outcomes. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Troy - Mobile Devices and Social Media for Crowdsourced Citizen Journalism The 2009 presidential election was the most closely monitored election in US history, thanks in part to the efforts of tech entrepreneurs like David Troy. Troy speaks at the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference about how he and his teams were able to create the Twitter Vote Report, which allowed people to report on poll conditions, and the Inauguration Report '09, a first hand documentation of people's experiences at the 2009 presidential election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Danny Sullivan - Tricky Issues With Local Search If you were pestered with a dozen or more phone calls a day from people in your locality asking what was on your menu for the day, or inquiring about the delivery of their order, and you were definitely not the local Thai Kitchen but just an innocent guy or gal, what would you do? Well, you'd listen to Danny Sullivan in this program. Danny discusses why local search is such a difficult task, and what some of the major obstacles are to implementing it correctly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Hancock - PowerPivot, OData, and the Democratization of Business Intelligence PowerPivot, a new add-in for Excel, can absorb and analyze vast quantities of data. And it can ingest that data from sources that support that Atom-based OData protocol. John Hancock, who led the charge to create PowerPivot, tells host Jon Udell how it works, why it supports OData, and what this will mean not only for corporate business intelligence but also for the analysis of open public data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Goetz - The Decision Tree Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan talk personalized medicine with Wired magazine Executive Editor, Thomas Goetz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shankar Vedantam - The Hidden Brain Dr. Moira Gunn chats with author and science journalist, Shankar Vedantam about his new book, The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives, touching on how the brain functions automatically during times of heightened emotion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David "Lefty" Schlesinger - Criticality and Nuance of Governance for Mobile Handset OS In this presentation from eComm 2009, LiMo's Open Source Committee Chairman, David "Lefty" Schlesinger discusses the meaning of governance, and the advantage of LiMo's approach over those of Google and Apple for their Android and iPhone application development platforms, before opening the floor to questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panel: Lena Trudeau, David Wennergren, Michele Weslander Quaid, Alan Cohn - Strategies for Success: Driving Openness, Participation, and Collaboration in a Bureaucratic World Developing software solutions for the defence and intelligence industries is not normally open to public discussion. In this exciting talk Lena Trudeau interviews experts from Homeland Security, the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on how their organizations manage and embrace the latest web technologies. Find out how Dungeons and Dragons inspired the Intelligence community and what Twitter has to do with the Department of Defense. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Shenk - The Genius in All of Us Dr. Moria Gunn talks with author, David Shenk, about his book, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong, reviewed by the New York Times Book Review as 'a deeply interesting and important book.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alex "Sandy" Pentland - Reality Mining for Companies, or, How Social Networks Network Best Join Alex "Sandy" Pentland as he talks about the indoor spaces of the city and the answers that can be gleaned from human movements within the interiors of buildings. From the movement of bees to the layout of boardroom locations, software can be used to predict and prevent communication failures. Tracking organizational and social behavior through data analysis has the potential to improve and perhaps even change the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Rosenberg - Scott Rosenberg on Say Everything, Dreaming in Code, and MediaBugs In this episode Scott Rosenberg discusses two of his books. Say Everything (2009) is a history of blogging, and Dreaming in Code (2006) is an inside account of the Chandler project. He also talks about his latest project, MediaBugs, a Knight Foundation-funded effort to crowd-source the correction of errors in newspapers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Henry Petroski - The Essential Engineer Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Duke University professor, Henry Petroski, about his new book, The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems, where he explores science and engineering and how they must work together to address our world's most pressing issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 86 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Anton Geraschenko of Math Overflow to discuss the unique qualities of a community of expert mathematicians, how to capture a sphere in a knot, and the importance of off-site backups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Benjamin Joffe - Asia's Best of Breed - Learning from the World's Largest and Most Advanced Mobile Markets Broadband in the USA is considered to be anything above 200 kb/sec. In Japan and South Korea broadband is defined as 100 mb/sec and above. This Ecomm presentation by Benjamin Joffe discusses striking differences between the Western world's current technological capability and Asia's. From content infrastructure, to business models, to social networking, Joffe explores what can be learned from the Pacific rim's innovations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vivek Kundra - A Conversation with Federal Government CIO Vivek Kundra Join Ellen Millar as she talks with Vivek Kundra, the 'rockstar of government data', about the data transparency initiatives currently occurring within the Federal Government. From data.gov to booking a campsite online, Kundra is the mastermind behind much of the more promising initiatives, however he faces the challenge of balancing privacy concerns with providing reliable and useful services at a reasonable cost to taxpayers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shane Harris - A Nation Under Surveillance Dr. Moria Gunn tracks down Intelligence and Homeland Security correspondent, Shane Harris, to review information technology and surveillance in America today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Doyle - Food Safety Dr. Moira Gunn discusses food safety with Mike Doyle, Director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia. They dive into the challenge, prefaced by the statistic that 15% of our food is imported from other countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Brogan - The Serendipity Engine "The opportunity to innovate starts with doing something that hasn't been done yet", Chris Brogan presses in this lively, sardonic speech about ten minutes in length, in which the blogger and President of New Marketing Labs, a social media agency, advises businesses and individuals alike on how to utilize to the best capacity the web's power to connect them to their communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Ellis - The Cassandra Project Jonathan Ellis discusses Cassandra, an open source distributed database management system, used by Facebook and other sites. An Apache Software Foundation top-level project, it is designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. Jonathan reviews the project, explaining details about the system as well as the importance of scalability in database design and the differences betwee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Francois Lefebvre - Mobile Digital Broadcasting: An Infrastructure for One-to-Many Converged Services Digital broadcasting networks are being developed worldwide to deliver high-bandwidth, real-time content to and from mobile platforms. Francois Lefebvre describes the tension between telco- and broadcast-driven services; telcos tend to promote subscription based services while broadcasters try to extend their free-to-air model. The good news is that breakthrough, open applications are emerging that can deliver reliable and innovative mobile broadcast networks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Adelson - A Conversation with Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose Digg.com, one of the most successful social media websites, has over 40 million users, amounting to about 20,000 submissions a day, but young CEO Jay Adelson wants more. In this candid conversation with Brady Forrest"serial entrepreneurs" Adelson and his Partner Kevin Rose share with us where Digg fits into the"huge volume of stuff", as Adelson puts it, on the World Wide Web, and their plans for its future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panel: Steven Berlin Johnson, Monica Guzman, Hal Roberts - "Citizen Gain": The New, New Journalism and Governance Join best-selling author Steven Berlin Johnson as he discusses the changing face of online journalism, one in which citizen journalists and bloggers are news gatherers and information curators. Both journalists and techies alike are providing new ways to share and consume content, and creating rich relations between consumers and providers of information. Members of this new media are also required to wear many hats, from local news reporter to database administrator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 85 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the pursuit of venture capital, why Joel is ending his blog, and the hidden power of Google's web spider. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Hessler - Chinese Car Culture Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Peter Hessler, to discuss the new car culture that has emerged in China, as 90 million new drivers take to the streets each day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Siegel - The Semantic Web Author David Siegel discusses his book Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business, in which he reviews the concepts for a future version of the web. He defines the idea of the semantic web and how Pull is a model for it. Siegel reviews how businesses in the future can take advantage of the improvements in the use of data and why the improvements will assist in commercial success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Allan Holmes - .Gov Websites That Work The Government is no longer a secluded center of power that rules the citizenry. Government agencies now try to actively connect with the public and interact with them. Allan Holmes, Executive Editor at Government Executive, talks about how some of the well-made government websites are not only successful at what they set out to do, but top the internet charts for traffic and user engagement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brenda Peterson - Leaving Theology Behind Dr. Moria Gunn tracks down author and unlikely environmentalist, Brenda Peterson, who takes her through her book of memoirs, I Want To Be Left Behind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Roth, Harriet Robinson - Chemical Genomics and HIV Vaccines Dr. Moria Gunn learns about the uses for chemical genomics from Dr. Greg Roth, Director of Medicinal Chemistry from the Burnham Institute for Medical Research. She then sits down with GeoVax Labs Senior VP, Dr. Harriet Robinson, where they study HIV and AIDS vaccines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Henri Asseily - .Tel Domain Henri Asseily, CTO of Telnic discusses the company's work as the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for .tel, a new sponsored Top Level Domain awarded on May 30th 2006 by ICANN. He reviews the background of .tel's establishment, the company's business model, and technical details of the TLD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Spurgeon - Maps in Space Mapping space and the heavens is harder than anything found on Earth. Chris Spurgeon introduces us to the measurement tools for tracking the moving objects as they march across the sky. From major celestial objects as close as our Moon to the far out reaches of Jupiter and beyond. The science of space mapping is challenging but endlessly interesting for those curious enough to investigate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Duncan Wilson - Networked Architecture Networks of people, information, things, and energy are coming together in ways that redefine the practice of architecture. Duncan Wilson, an engineer with the global consulting firm Arup, joins host Jon Udell to discuss variety of projects that illustrate the new synthesis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grant McCraken - Corporate Culture in 21st Century Business Dr. Moira Gunn analyzes the changing face of corporate culture with Grant McCraken, author of Chief Culture Officer, where he combines a mastery of marketing, culture, anthropology, and modern business practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Petersen - Beyond Aesthetics Thomas Petersen discusses his experience in designing for startups and established companies. In addition to discussing the problem with the ever increasing amount of data available on the Internet, he also reviews designing principles, listing steps of good practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andreas Constantinou - Eight Centers of Gravity: The New Rules of Mobile How is open-source closed? Andreas Constantinou talks about the relative openness of the "eight centers of gravity" in the mobile industry, and says it's not the licensing, which concerns source control, but the governance, which concerns the product, that developers must watch out for. He explains the mobile phone industry shift and loosely outlines the governance structures of the LiMo, Symbian, and Android foundations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Frank, Jon Williams - A New Model for Textbook Publishing Flat World Knowledge is pioneering a new way to create and distribute textbooks. The model combines open licensing, online access, and print-on-demand. In this week's episode, host Jon Udell discusses the model with co-founder Eric Frank and CTO Jon Williams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 84 - StackOverflow Joel sits down with the Stack Exchange team, who are working on the hosted version of Stack Overflow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Roam - Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author and CEO, Dan Roam, to learn how he is teaching people to solve complex problems using simple pictures, from the pages of his new book, Unfolding the Napkin, the Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Nagy - Calculating Environmental Impact Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Executive Vice President, Thomas Nagy about the positive environmental impacts which occur when manufactures choose to engineer more natural products. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panel: John Markoff, Vinton Cerf, Jack Dorsey, Tim Sparapani - Creating an Effective Platform What makes an application platform a lasting success? Vint Cerf, the co-inventor of TCP/IP, Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, and Tim Sparapani, Facebook' Director of Public Policy, talk about their experience building international, highly adopted platforms in a discussion moderated by John Markoff. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Rifkin - The Nature of Being Human Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author, Jeremy Rifkin, about his research on economics, technology, progress and sustainability, published in his new book, The Empathic Civilization - The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 83 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the promise and peril of Email (both social and technical), Google Buzz, and the value of training material. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Roberts - John Battelle talks to Brian Roberts As the release of smart phones and tablet PCs fill technology reports Brian Roberts reminds us that cable TV is still a part of most people's lifestyle. Talking about the development of On Demand television and an impending application store for your TV, the idea of technological convergence between computer and TV seems ever closer. John Battelle challenges Roberts to answer questions on the future of cable in an online video world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 82 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Mac developer Daniel Jalkut to discuss Mac development and the new iPad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Lemon, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer - iPad Thoughts Recorded the day after Apple's announced the iPad, the group discusses the new device, based on their initial impressions. They applaud certain visual and usage aspects, but also talk about why they were disappointed with it. They also assess the iPad's value as a book reader, particularly in comparison to Amazon's Kindle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Calabrese - The Myth of Spectrum Scarcity: Opportunistic Access to the Airwaves Michael Calabrese argues that the FCC's apportioning of the airwave spectrum gives a false impression of scarcity. The government's spectrum apportioning doesn't take into account the capabilities and accuracy of today's digital radio equipment, carving unnecessarily wide detours around both federal and commercial properties, and ignoring low-power opportunities. The recent DTV shift freed 18 channels, netting $2B at auction. More can be done to optimize spectrum use. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 81 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the value of Deep Blue, the Five Whys process, and whether programmers should blog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Salman Khan - YouTube Teaching as Guerrilla Public Service Sal Khan's response to the crisis in education is Khanacademy.org, a site that lists a vast and growing collection of his YouTube video lessons in math, physics, chemistry, biology, and economics. In this conversation he discusses his teaching philosophy and methods with host Jon Udell, and explains why he abandoned a career in financial services to become a new kind of teacher. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh - The Science of Human Goodness Dr. Moira Gunn talks with UC Berkeley Psychology Professor, Dacher Keltner and the editor of Greater Good magazine, Jason Marsh, about how humans are naturally programmed to be good and what separates those who are from those who are not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Culberson - Congress and Social Media Congressman John Culberson R-TX is TWL - Tweeting While Legislating. Espousing the power of the "fun" of "town meetings and tea parties," he's committed to bringing the real-time, blow-by-blow of Congressional deliberations to his subscribers. This moderated speech and discussion with Tim O'Reilly draws a loose analogy between technological innovation and government, asking: Are transparency and open access always compatible with deliberative process or innovat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ricky Yuen - The Race to the "Next Big Thing" in Mobile Phones Ricky Yuen of Qualcomm catalogs some of the OEM sensors currently or soon available in cell phones. He explains how they are being used, from enabling new UI such as in the Nintendo Wii, to improved navigation. He argues that they can be employed separately and together to improve handset applications ranging from games, to lifestyle, to life-saving. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jaron Lanier - You Are Not a Gadget Dr.Moira Gunn catches up with internet pioneer and author, Jaron Lanier to discuss his new book, You Are Not a Gadget...a Manifesto, where he discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 80 - Stack Overflow - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss GitHub, the value of formal code documentation, and how to decide what features belong in the next version of your software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Templeton - Suing AT&T for a Trillion Dollars While the President Tries to Stop You Brad Templeton, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks about privacy issues, his company's wiretapping suit against AT&T, the history of anti-surveillance laws and judicial structure in the US, what it knows about current surveillance, the state of the suit today, and why privacy issues matter for the innovation of telephony. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Dear - PLATO Turns 50 This year marks the 50th anniversary of PLATO, the pioneering educational courseware system that was also, for certain lucky individuals at certain universities, a preview of an online culture -- one that many others would not encounter for decades to come. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, PLATO historian Brian Dear recalls what it was like to experience an early distribution of a future that was, and in some ways still remains, unevenly distributed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Zemlin - What's the Deal with Linux on the Desktop? Everyone uses Linux: if they use Google, trade on-line, or use ATMs. Linux is the most ubiquitous OS in everything from cell phones to TVs, precisely because, Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation argues, it is free. As convergence between connectivity and device happens, network carriers and device-makers scramble to control a new service-based distribution. Zemlin urges continued protection and support of open-source through the filing of'defensive publications' with the USPTO, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mitch Ratcliffe - Booksahead.com Tech journalist Mitch Ratcliffe discusses the future of books, reading, and publishing. He talks about how Booksahead.com is a platform to discuss authors and publishing, as well as news about the industry. Calling from the 2010 CES he also reviews new mobile devices, including E-Book readers and tablet computers, as well as the Sophie Project, open source software for writing and reading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Rolston - A White Box. A Vision of Our Evolving Mobile World. At the 2009 eComm, Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer of Frog Design, talks about a new phase in design exemplified by the likes of Wii and the Android open OS. We currently live in two worlds, the real and the virtual, mediated by 'white boxes' less and less limited by functional distinction. Rolston ponders what we want to do next, what we'll be able to do next, and how the interface device, if there is one, will look and feel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 79 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss open sourcing Markdown, the necessity of barriers on the open internet, and the importance of design in the software process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Wilson - Software Carpentry For many years, Greg Wilson has taught a course called Software Carpentry: to scientists, to university students, and to working programmers. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he discusses the digital and mental tools in the software carpenter's kit, and he reflects on how the course might be taught differently in an era of agile development and ubiquitous connectivity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Baller - U.S. Broadband Strategy The FCC is scheduled to deliver a national broadband strategy to Congress in February 2010. Scott Mace and attorney Jim Baller discuss the FCC strategy, early-round stimulus funding, the role of municipalities, and success stories such as Bristol, Virginia's fiber-to-the-home service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simon Wardley - Cloud Computing: Why IT Matters Although the definition of cloud computing can seem somewhat cloudy, it's a good thing to understand for business. Canonical's Simon Wardley argues with humor that "the cloud" represents a natural marketing-cycle progression for IT; from innovation, to product, to service utility. Given the constant pressure toward commoditization, business must keep up, and consider offering cloud services. He introduces Eucalyptus, a tool to build, experiment, and test-deploy virtual e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cullen Jennings - How Your ISP Plans to "Help" You, and Break the Internet In his densely informative presentation, Cullen Jennings, Cisco's Distinguished Engineer talks about Network Address Translations (NATs), how they work, what's going on and more importantly, why we should care. Jennings looks at if and when we're really going to run out of IP addresses, how ISPs are using this to avoid the network neutrality push, and the disturbing implications ISP 'Carrier Grade NATs' have for application developers and end users alike. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Day - iCalendar Files Doug Day is the author of an open source library for reading and writing iCalendar files. He has also created an online validator for the venerable -- but still underutilized -- calendar format. In this conversation, Doug Day and host Jon Udell discuss why and how the validator can help bootstrap a pub/sub calendar ecosystem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Schwartz - In Pursuit of the Gene Dr. Moira Gunn sits down to talk science with writer, James Schwartz about his new book,In Pursuit of the Game:From Darwin to DNA,digging into the world of science and the personalities behind it. From Darwin's belief in pangenesis to explain the inheritance of physical variations to Hermann Muller's Nobel Prize winning work on X-rays and genetic mutation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Hey - Enabling Scientific Research with Open Tools and Services Tony Hey, head of Microsoft External Research, talks about how open access and open tools help build bridges between academia, industry and government to advance computer science, education and scientific research. Modern science increasingly relies on computation to collect, process, and analyze complex data - the challenge is to seamlessly integrate these into standard scientific methodologies and processes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aneesh Chopra - From the Digital Commonwealth to the Digital Nation The Barack Obama administration ushered in a new model of cooperation between citizens and their government. In this audio interview from the Gov 2.0 Summit, O'Reilly Media founder, Tim O'Reilly, speaks with America's first Federal Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, about using technology to build a digital commonwealth and a digital nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maura Corbett - The First Technology Administration With the arrival of the Obama administration, a new attitude of openness and transparency of the Internet and other technologies is being espoused. In an overview of this new change of position, Maura Corbett outlines the government's desire to establish a non-discrimination policy and thus keep the Internet open and protected. In the second half of the program Corbett takes questions about this policy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 78 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with the developers of LitmusApp and DocType to discuss ASCII vs. pixels, the power of Amazon EC2, and the unglamorous but critically important topic of backup. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesse Stay, Tyler Whitaker - Social Network APIs and Tech Books In this end-of-year discussion, Jesse Stay and Tyler Whitaker discuss a number of tech topics with Phil and Scott. In addition, to reviewing some recent books and reviewing some computer geek Christmas lists, they also talk about some of the recent software developments surrounding Twitter and Facebook and how each continue to grow in popularity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clay Johnson - Apps for America Every year, the United States government spends a huge amount of money on its web projects. At somewhere on the order of tens of millions of dollars per project, the majority of this money goes to few select software vendors. It would be nice, though, if some of it were to come to the open source community. Clay Johnson of Sunlight Labs tells us what we can do as open source developers to grab a piece of the action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Howard Eglowstein - Freewatt Howard Eglowstein, a principal engineer with Climate Energy, LLC -- and former BYTE colleague of host Jon Udell -- has always worked at the intersection of hardware and software hacking. In this conversation he discusses freewatt, a micro-CHP (combined heat and power) system. He also reflects on the eclipse and renewal of interest in the hybrid skillset celebrated by the "maker" movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Graeme Gibson - The Bedside Book of Beasts Dr. Moria Gunn talks with author, Graeme Gibson about his new book, The Bedside Book of Beasts, in a fascinating discussion on survival, mortality and natures chain of life through the lives of beasts, both real and mythical. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 77 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss how to (accidentally) destroy your software business, Google's new DNS and page speed rankings, and why the most productive employees aren't paid 10 times as much. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Wang - Wave Federation: Building An Open Network You've heard about the real-time communication and collaboration tool Google Wave, but did you know that wave is actually a technology, not a product? In this audio lecture from the Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) 2009, David Wang, one of the lead architects of Google Wave, tells us how any organization can be its own wave provider. Wang discusses an open federation protocol. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Randall Julian - Modern Information Management Randy Julian founded Indigo BioSystems in order to bring a modern style of information management -- flexible schemas, linked data -- to the business of drug discovery. In this conversation he explains to host Jon Udell that it's not enough to represent experimental data in standard ways. We also need to describe the experimental design that provides the context for that data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly - The War for the Web Is the web entering a dark time of struggle and strife? Tim O'Reilly reflects on the astonishing power of the early internet as an open platform, and worries that escalating competition between large companies may drive it towards a battle ground of locked down services and proprietary data. This atmosphere of "mutually assured destruction" is not inevitable. Tim thinks web 2.0 companies will ultimately succeed if they stick to their core strengths, stay open, and embrace t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Purdue University Science Journalism Laureates - Science Journalism Laureates - Science Journalism in the age of Twitter On this weeks TechNation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the Purdue University Science Journalism Laureates Program Panel about the reality of science journalism in the age of Twitter Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Purdue University Science Journalism Laureates - Science Journalism Laureates - Science Journalism in the age of Twitter On this weeks TechNation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the Purdue University Science Journalism Laureates Program Panel about the reality of science journalism in the age of Twitter Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Kaneda - jQTouch David Kaneda discusses JQTouch, a jQuery plugin for mobile web development, optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. He reviews the background of the project as well as why he chose this way to create the plugin. He also talks about his work with the WebKit browsing engine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kirrily Robert - Standing Out in the Crowd What's it like to be a woman in an open source project that's 99% men? What's it like to be a woman in a project that's 75% women? Kirrily Robert has worked on both kinds of projects. She talks about the differences and what one can learn from majority-female open source communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 76 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the Stack Overflow Careers philosophy, online community growth patterns, and how to tell if you're Sid Meier or not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Workman - Heart of Dryness Dr.Moira Gunn catches up with author, James Workman to talk about his book, Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushman Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought and what many feel has become the primary resource battleground of the twenty-first century: the supply of water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Karl Schroeder - The Rewilding: A Metaphor According to science fiction author Karl Schroeder, it is sometimes possible to get things done more efficiently by relinquishing the traditional methods of control. Open source, democracy, government 2.0, and the invisible hand of the free market are mechanisms that demonstrate of the success of this phenomenon of handing control to a self-willed entity. He calls this principle "rewilding", and tells how this metaphor relates to open source software and other contemporary technol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephanie Hannon - Why Should You Care About Google Wave? Google Wave is early in its introduction and testing phase. In this presentation from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Stephanie Hannon, along with Lars Rasmussen, leads this highly interactive demo and Q&A session, giving attendees a look at Wave's features, profile, and direction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Ewing Duncan - Evolution of Overconfidence Dr.Moira Gunn speaks with author and columnist, David Ewing Duncan and gets the scientific scoop on what he calls, the evolution of overconfidence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ken Auletta - Googled:The End of the World as We Know It Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with New Yorker Magazine columnist, Ken Auletta about his views on technology and pop culture in his book, Googled:The End of the World as We Know It. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 75 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with sysadmin extraordinaire Tom Limoncelli of Everything Sysadmin to discuss IPV6, dumb things for System Administrators to check, and the sysadmin community as reflected in Server Fault. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panel, Moderator: Brough Turner - Spectrum 2.0 - What's Really Happening? With new commons-based approaches to radio spectrum regulation like Wi-Fi, UltraWideBand and TV White Spaces battling against the interests of broadcasters and the mobile phone industry, what is likely to occur over the next two to five years and beyond? At the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference (eComm), a diverse panel of industry experts explore the technical, commercial and political issues involved in the spectrum policy debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Hepp - Using GoodReleations In this conversation with Martin Hepp, host Jon Udell explores GoodRelations, the e-commerce ontology that was also discussed in an earlier interview with Kingsley Idehen. When annotated using GoodRelations, pages describing products and services can be found and compared far more effectively than is possible on today's web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry Downes - The Laws of Disruption In The Laws of Disruption, Larry Downes, author of the best-selling Unleashing the Killer App, provides an invaluable guide for these confusing times, exploring nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 74 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates backstage at the Business of Software 2009 conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gunnar Hellekson - Open Source Principles and the Federal Government The Obama administration is trying to create a new model where governmental openness is the norm, and collaboration between the open source community and the federal government may be a key to its success. Gunnar Hellekson says that by encouraging the government to adopt open source practices, the open source community can help the government do its job better, to everyone's benefit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Whitt - Tinkering without Tampering: Wrestling with Convergence and Communications Policy What are the key pieces policy makers must understand about the intersection of technology trends and digital economics to create broadband policies that make sense? What are the best roles of regulators, users, and industry in creating a rich environment for the powerful convergence of media and communications? Richard Whitt, Senior Policy Director at Google, provides a new framework for building better broadband policy in this Emerging Communications Conference 2009 presentation. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gavin Bell - Social Web Applications Gavin Bell's new book, Building Social Web Applications, synthesizes a wealth of practical knowledge gleaned from his own long career as a web developer and from interviews with fellow practitioners. In this conversation he reviews the key principles and patterns that define what we today call the social web but will soon simply refer to as the web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Morgan - How Consumers are Really Using Location In this Where 2.0 talk Ted Morgan, co-founder of Skyhook Wireless, has three things to say about the explosion of location based applications: the breadth of apps now available is excitingly diverse (and he has examples to prove it), fascinating usage patterns are emerging (and he has the data and analysis to demonstrate it), and web developers interested in adding location into their websites should know about Skyhook's new service Loki. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carmine Gallo - Great Public Communications Skills Communications coach Carmine Gallo discusses his new book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, in which he shows how people can improve their public speaking skills. He first presents an overview on why he chose Steve Jobs as a subject and continues with specific pointers and methods that anyone can use to communicate to groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lance Armstrong - A Conversation with Lance Armstrong Seven time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong and serial entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt have at least one thing in common: they both believe in social connections in social media. Rosenblatt interviews Armstrong at the 2008 O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference about how they connected, how useful and positive social media can be and how it can be spread across everything, including health and wellness issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 73 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the meaning of "professionalism" online, the divide between ad-subsidized and pay business models, and the five things everyone should hate about their favorite programming language. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Maass - Crude World:The Violent Twilight of Oil Peter Maass speaks with Moira about his book on the global state of oil, and how technology plays a role. Oil is central to our world, but what role does it play in violent conflicts and the divide between rich and poor? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Geddes - Where's the Money in Voice 2.0? There is big money to be made in the telecommunications industry by optimizing how businesses connect, interact and complete transactions with their customers. In his keynote address at the Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) 2009, industry futurist Martin Geddes shares his thoughts on how a complete transformation of the prevailing business model is needed in the telecom industry and how companies could take advantage of a new model. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - Palm Apps Ben and Dion join Scott and Phil to discuss their move from Mozilla to Palm. They review how Palm uses web technologies to build Palm Pre apps. They also assess developer programs and talk about Palm's to present examples of good ones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Surman - Where Next for Openness? The web - vast, open, participatory, independent - is an unprecedented human construction. But could forces already be at work to rob it of its very essence? In this presentation from the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention Mark Surman discusses how this marvelous, open, self-governing resource - taken for granted by so many - may not stand the test of time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Po Bronson - NurtureShock Po Bronson talks with Moira about what science has learned about parenting. Co-author of NutureShock, which asserts that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marco Barulli - JavaScript Improvements Clipperz is an online password manager that knows nothing about you or your data, and transmits no secrets over the wire. How? In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Clipperz co-founder Marco Barulli explains that recent improvements in JavaScript engines have enabled a new generation of zero-knowledge web applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 72 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Jon Skeet, software engineer at Google London, and the first Stack Overflow user to achieve a reputation of 100,000. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sramana Mitra - Entrepreneurship Sramana Mitra believes in the importance of entrepreneurship to the world economy. As a writer and entrepreneur, she assists others in learning how to build an organization. She joins Phil and Scott to discuss her strategies. In addition to presenting her thoughts on entrepreneurship, she also offers useful details about how to create jobs, how to find money to fund company creation and some of the factors important for success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lance Hill - Health 2.0 There's a revolution in the way doctors and medical researchers share information outside of annual conferences. At Health 2.0, Scott speaks with Lance Hill, whose company, Within3, announced the first year-round forum for a medical society, the 11,000-member American College of Gastroenterology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perry Evans - Will the Promise of Location Based Ad Models Ever Get Off the Ground? Perry Evans, CEO of Local Matters, discusses the differences between the daydream of LBS advertising and the reality in this Where 2.0 presentation. If 'more precision is better', then highly targeted geographic advertising that location based services (LBS) and applications allow should mean greater returns for small businesses and application developers. Yet very few local advertising ecosystems have emerged, and Evans, with over 10 years experience in developing LBS application ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Anderson - Confessions of a Radical Industrialist Moira speaks with Ray Anderson, the founder and chair of the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet. He discusses his book, "Confessions of a Radical Industrialist", and talks about his personal epiphany around the environmental impact of carpet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peggy Willcocks - The Parkinsons Pipeline Project Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Peggy Willcocks, a Parkinsons patient and advocate, about The Parkinsons Pipeline Project and helps those who wish to volunteer for scientific studies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 71 - StackOverflow A collection of clips recorded at the San Francisco DevDays conference including Joel Spolsky, Mark Harrison, Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman and Rory Blythe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Quinlan - Storage at Scale Google's web scale problems are too large to rely on physical hardware. In this talk from the 2008 Velocity Conference, Sean Quinlan of Google describes their software-based approach to reliably retrieving data that's distributed across millions of machines around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris DiBona - Your Work in Open Source, the Numbers Everyone knows Google crawls websites - but did you know they also crawl your source code? Google's Open Source Programs manager Chris DiBona provides a quick but insightful look into the state of open source code on the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Shanks - ArcGIS and the Web: Better Sharing of Geographic Information Rob Shanks discusses web based GIS technology and the features available in Arc GIS online. Showcasing the free databases and webkits available within the online community for publishing and sharing data this short talk gives a small preview on the future of GIS within the cloud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Maney - Trade-Off Moira speaks with Kevin Maney about the trade-off we make when we buy products. Are the products hip, cool, or high-quality? Or is cheap and easy more important? This is the subject of his book "Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 70 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss DevDays, the diversity of Stack Exchange sites, the debut of CVs and careers on Stack Overflow, and the viability of WiFi at tech conferences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dirk Hohndel - Intel and Open Source: Netbooks Built for portability, netbooks may represent the first computers conceived from the outset with Linux in mind. Intel's Dirk Hohndel describes the firm's strategic vision for Open Source using the netbook OS Moblin as an example. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Debow - How to Get Honest Feedback How can you solicit honest feedback from friends and business associates? Rypple co-founder Daniel Debow says that his company's new service is the answer. It's quick, it's easy, and it's anonymous. It's true that online anonymity can often lead to trouble online. But Daniel Debow tells host Jon Udell that when used appropriately it can be a key enabler of interpersonal feedback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Papadopoulos - Citizen Engineer Moira speaks with Greg Papadopoulos, co-author of Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. The book focuses on two topics that are becoming vitally important in the day-to-day work of engineers: eco engineering and intellectual property (IP). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eve Maler - User-Managed Access (UMA) Eve Maler discusses her work on User-Managed Access (UMA). In addition to discussing the concept of UMA, she gives examples of its use, as well as her work with the User Managed Access Working Group at the Kantara Initiative and how UMA relates to Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM), part of the U.S. Government's work in overseeing the government-wide activities related to Cybersecurity and Identity Management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Florent Stroppa - Creating New Opportunities from Android Openness Mobile application developers usually groan at having to support yet another operating system, so in this eComm 2009 talk why does Voxmobili's Director of Product Management, Florent Stroppa, applaud the arrival of Android? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victoria Stodden - Reproducibility of Computational Science If you're a writer, a musician, or an artist, you can use Creative Commons licenses to share your digital works. But how can scientists license their work for sharing? In this conversation, Victoria Stodden -- a fellow with Science Commons -- explains to host Jon Udell why scientific output is different and how Science Commons aims to help scientists share it freely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell - Total Recall Moira talks with Gorden Bell and Jim Gemmell about what it means to digitally record everything in our lives. The authors of Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything discuss how new technologies allow average people to record their entire lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Bill Cheliak - Environmental Effects on Genetics Moira speaks with Dr. Bill Cheliak, Vice President for Business Development, Neurodyn about how the environment can affect genetics and contribute to disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 69 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Peter Seibel to discuss his new book Coders At Work, the effect of listening to music while coding, and the future of programming books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Lawrence - Fiddler Microsoft's Eric Lawrence describes Fiddler, his free Web Debugging tool that enables capture, replay, and modification of HTTP and HTTPS traffic from virtually any application. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Lopp - A Brief History of Software In this OSCON presentation Michael Lopp, author of the blog Rands in Repose, takes a trip down memory lane to 1992, and brings a few lessons in software development back to the future. He discusses the well intentioned 'forces of evil' that can make us stray from the path of tight coding, and how, in software development, the small decisions are just as important as the bigger ones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stefano Mazzocchi - Freebase Much of the web's implicit connectedness is never made explicit because we refer to the same things in many different ways. In this conversation, Metaweb's Stefano Mazzocchi explains to host Jon Udell how Freebase reconciles web namespaces to expose useful connections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathy Reichs - 209 Bones Moira interviews Kathy Reichs, forensic anthropologist and author of the popular Bones detective series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Drance - Cocoa Programming Matt Drance of Bookhouse Software discusses Cocoa, Apple's name for the collection of frameworks, APIs, and accompanying runtimes that make up the development layer of Mac OS X and also used for iPhone Apps. He reviews the process of developing for the iPhone, including some of the mistakes that software writers make. He also reviews the issues related to the recent Snow Leopard upgrade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christopher Allen - iPhone in Action: Web Development or SDK? There are two distinct ways to develop applications for Apple's iPhone, the top tech gadget of the year, with either web apps or native programs using the iPhone SDK. In this talk from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Christopher Allen of iPhoneWebDev.com encourages developers to consider the choice a continuum and pick the right tool to create each individual program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 68 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss outsourced DNS, virtual machine "appliances", and programmers as library users versus library writers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Littman, Marc Hershon - I Hate People Moira interviews Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon about their book I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job. In it they have selected and analyzed the ten most troublesome types of people likely to appear in the workplace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Goldsmith - AOL Pagetest Improving performance is impossible without good measurements, especially on a complex platform like the Web. In this presentation from 2008 Velocity Conference, Eric Goldsmith of AOL demonstrates their browser plug-in AOL Pagetest, which gathers and displays data about web requests and page loading. It's an open source project for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that combines the strengths of several other monitoring tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Geraci - DIY City: An Operating System for Cities From tracking flu outbreaks to traffic updates a tremendous amount of information available within a city is open to exploitation by savvy citizens. Adapting the decentralized chaotic morass of the Internet to the modern city John Geraci discusses adapting rich data about the city through the open source website DIYcity for citizens and city planners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hugh McGuire - BookOven Inspired by the success of LibriVox, a project in which collaborators record free audiobooks, Hugh McGuire has embarked on a commercial project: BookOven. In this conversation he tells host Jon Udell about how the new venture enab