Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
IT Conversations: 'technation'
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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.
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Episode 74 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff sit down with Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates backstage at the Business of Software 2009 conference.
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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 o …
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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 c …
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Gavin Bell - Social Web Applications
Gavin Bells 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 so …
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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 a …
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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 …
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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 OReilly Web 2.0 Conference about how they connected …
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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 …
Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
