Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
IT Conversations: 'technation'
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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.
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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?
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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 …
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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 Palms to present examples of good ones.
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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 OReilly Media Open Source Convention Mark Surman discusses how this marvelous, open, self-governing resource - t …
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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 societys strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring because key twists in the science have been overlooked.
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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-kno …
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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.
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Luke Hohmann - Translating In-Person "Innovation Games" to On-Line Tools
Luke Hohmann thinks teams should engage more productively and creatively in the product design and development process. His career commitment to agile methods complements his latest professional focus: Innovation Games, originally designed as in-person, goal-directed, serious games. Now, Luke is tr …
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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 offer …
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Lance Hill - Health 2.0
Theres 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.
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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 …
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Ray Anderson - Confessions of a Radical Industrialist
Moira speaks with Ray Anderson, the founder and chair of the worlds 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.
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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.
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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.
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Sean Quinlan - Storage at Scale
Googles 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 thats distributed across millions of machines around the world.
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Chris DiBona - Your Work in Open Source, the Numbers
Everyone knows Google crawls websites - but did you know they also crawl your source code? Googles Open Source Programs manager Chris DiBona provides a quick but insightful look into the state of open source code on the Internet.
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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.
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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 Dont".
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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.
Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
