Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
IT Conversations: 'technation'
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Stefano Mazzocchi - Freebase
Much of the webs implicit connectedness is never made explicit because we refer to the same things in many different ways. In this conversation, Metawebs Stefano Mazzocchi explains to host Jon Udell how Freebase reconciles web namespaces to expose useful connections.
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Kathy Reichs - 209 Bones
Moira interviews Kathy Reichs, forensic anthropologist and author of the popular Bones detective series.
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Matt Drance - Cocoa Programming
Matt Drance of Bookhouse Software discusses Cocoa, Apples 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 soft …
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Christopher Allen - iPhone in Action: Web Development or SDK?
There are two distinct ways to develop applications for Apples 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 …
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Episode 68 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss outsourced DNS, virtual machine "appliances", and programmers as library users versus library writers.
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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.
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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 loadin …
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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 s …
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John Carter - Fire Your Boss and Start Consulting
There are many ways to go about consulting, but how do you do it, and how do you do it successfully? Engineer and consultant John Carter says most consulting companies fail because they can not attract the clients who need their services. Failed strategies include calling on their former associates, …
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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 enables writers, editors, and proofreaders to work on long-form texts that …
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Episode 67 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss the ethics of Craigslist, the pitfalls of customer-installable software, and caching for anonymous web users.
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Chris Mooney - Unscientific America
Moira interviews Chris Mooney, co-author of Unscientific America, in which he and Sheril Kirshenbaum plead for scientific literacy. The book lays the groundwork for reintegrating science into the public discourse.
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Russ McGuire - Cutting the Cord on Big Bell Dogma
For over 100 years, telecom has been ruled with a monopolist mentality. Russ McGuire, VP of Strategy at Sprint, calls this the Big Bell Dogma and tells how mobile communications break the monopoly and will free us from the past.
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Ellen Miller - A Conversation with Ellen Miller
Tim OReillys advice: pay attention to the disruptive forces of Ellen Miller and the Sunlight Foundation. Why? Because, as Executive Director Miller explains in this Web 2.0 Expo keynote, the Sunlight Foundation is using the internet to create greater transparency and openness, and in turn greater ac …
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Kingsley Idehen - RDFa and Structured Data
Kingsley Idehen thinks the semantic web should make us masters of our own search indexes. Structured data, in other words, is the new SEO (search engine optimization). In this conversation with host Jon Udell, youll learn how a web-friendly format called RDFa, along with business-friendly vocabulari …
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Brian Arthur - The Nature of Technology
Moira speaks with Brian Arthur, author of The Nature of Technology. The former Stanford professor discusses his theory of technologys origins and evolution.
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Episode 66 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss reverse proxies, the pitfalls of self-support communities, and designing for engagement.
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Anup Murarka - The Open Screen Project
Imagine a world in which a single runtime application dynamically publishes your content and services to the mobile, desktop and TV screens. In this eComm 2009 presentation Anup Murarka, Director of Technical Marketing for Mobile and Devices at Adobe, tells developers this dream is becoming a realit …
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Ian Forrester - BBC Backstage
BBC Backstage is the umbrella term for an evolving set of feeds and APIs that the BBC has been offering since 2005. Ian Forrester updates Jon Udell on what progress has been made, and what obstacles remain, as the BBC navigates toward its digital future.
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Eddy Littler - Large Molecules
Moira interviews Dr. Eddy Littler, CEO of DomaineX about the process involved in dissecting large, complex molecules.
Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
