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Posted: 08/15/06 05:33 am |
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- Bret Taylor, Google, Inc., talked about Inside Google Maps . Bret covers the strategy and use of Google Maps richly and well. Good presentation.
- Derek Powazek, Technorati, talked about The New Community . This is an insightful and well delivered presentation. Derek does a good job building the case the Web 1.0 was basicaly about company towns. A company town is characterized by the central control features one might expect. As the web is maturing, people are participating more and the tools on the web are doing the collating and and aggregating to present the broader view. I highly recommend this presentation.
- Dr. C. K. Prahalad, University of Michigan, talked about Emerging Hi-Tech Ecosystems . Dr. Prahalad drives home the point that outsourcing is not just about cost savings. It is also about quality. He builds a solid case that is yet one more sources of evidence that, in Thomas Friedman's words, the world is flat.
- Dr. Glen Elliott, Director of The Children’s Center and Author of "Medicating Young Minds", talked with Dr. Moira Gunn of Tech Nation about prescribing psychiatric drugs to children . This was an informative and well articulated discussion.
- Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, talked with Tim O'Reilly at the Web 2.0 Conference . I always find it interesting to listen to conversations with the "so greats" of the Internet age. This one was not a disappointment. Jeff sounds so nice and insightful all at the same time. Tim and Jeff talk about search and how it is used on Amazon and how it influences the use of Amazon amongst other topics. Very interesting.
- Kaj Arno, VP of Community Relations of MySQL AB, talked about MySQL on Opening Move . This conversation included his thoughts about patents, the GPL 3.0, and licensing in general. He also talked about efforts for use of MySQL in .Net environments. Good presentation.
- Marc Hedlund, O'Reilly Media, talked about Future-Proofing Your Privacy . Marc talked about why it might be important to be aware of how your data is stored on, well, resources like this, blogger. Can you export it? Can you delete it? If you can't, maybe you no longer own it once you put it out there. With Web 2.0 increasing the opportunity for people to put more data out there and for search engines to find and correlate it, we may need a some form of license that still lets people have some control of their information. A very interesting presentation.
- Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, talked about the Participation Revolution . This is a third presentation in this series. Yochai talked about how the participation enabled by the web can show how individuals can out perform organizations on some tasks using peer-to-peer. The business models built upon the passive consumer will continue to find themselves challenged as the consumer becomes more active and engaged with other consumers (listen up Hollywood).
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Posted: 08/06/06 05:02 pm |
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- Alex Lightman, CEO of Charmed Technology, talked about Globalization to the Edge . This was a very upbeat presentation that highlighted why reading Thomas Friedman's latest book (which I am reading right now coincidentally), The World is Flat. He also talked about what IPv6 is so cool. Good presentation.
- Bart Decrem, Flock, talked about the Participation Revolution . Most particularly, he talked about Flock . As a podcast, this one was a bit difficult as Bart was describing things he was showing which doesn't translate well to listening for obvious reasons. However, he provided enough verbal content to keep you interested and make you want to go check it out. Flock is a browser with social networking built in. Sounds quite cool and I will be checking it out. Blogger, del.icio.us, all together in your browser. Sounds cool.
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Posted: 07/31/06 09:27 pm |
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Firefox 1.5.0.5 Crashed 3 Times (and counting)!! So, I am trying this again. Arghhhhhhhhhhhh....
- David Helvarg and Jim Toomey talked with Dr. Moira Gunn on Tech Nation about thier book 50 Ways to Save the Ocean . You may recognize Jim Toomey as the creator of Sherman's Lagoon. This discussion was informative and entertaining. I bet the book is too. I recommend this one highly. Recycle. Use less plastic. If you use plastic, know where it goes when you are done.
- Dr. Katrina Firlik, Author of Another Day in the Frontal Lobe , talked to Dr. Moira Gunn on Tech Nation. Dr. Firlik is a neurosurgeon. She talked about the texture of the brain and the kind of things she gets involved in as a surgeon. The most interesting story was about a construction working with a nail in his skull. Good listening.
- Jason Matusow, Director of Shared Source at Microsoft Corporation, talked about Sharing the Love (sharing source and open source). Jason's viewpoint was very interesting and he seemed very much on top of his subject. He talked at length at the properties of successful shared source projects both internal and external. Very insightful and a very good presentation.
- Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, talked about the Participation Revolution . It seemed to me that the majority of this presentation was about the $100 laptop. I have heard several naysayers in some of these podcasts. But, clearly Nicholas believes the effort will go forward and that it will bring value. It would be interesting to find the time to line up these naysaying podcasts and the non-naysaying podcats and listen to them more like a traditional pro-con list.
- Paul Everitt, Zope Europe Association, talked about the Lisbon Agenda and Open Source . This informative presentation made several interesting points. Most noteworthy was the assertion that much open source starts in Europe and is adopted by the US (as in the US takes it over). He also pointed out that one of open source's heroes, Linus Torvald, now lives in the US.
- Robert Beardsley, President and CEO of Kereos, talked with Dr. Moira Gunn on Tech Nation. The subjects focused on biological research including nano-tech and stem cells. Robert noted that many of the big diseases of the day will be treatable or curable in the not so distant future. However, it will be years.
- Spencer Wells, Population Geneticist and a member of The New Explorers, talked about how we can trace human migrations via DNA . Very interesting indeed. He credited a lower sea level and migration from Africa, through India, to Austrailia for the Austrailian's aboringine's appearance in Austrailia. He also noted that the DNA record demonstrates that human males tend to recreate via obtaining alpha male status and then hogging the females. TMI, perhaps.
- Mark Cuban, Michael Powell, Evan Williams, and Reed Hastings participated in a panel discussion about The Future of Entertainment . This was a spirited and informative discussion and predated the video iPod as was obvious by some of the discussion. If you are interested in how entertainment and content will be managed in the future, give this one a listen.
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Posted: 07/29/06 06:56 pm |
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- Beth Noveck, Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School, talked about Peer to Patent: Collective Intelligence for our Intellectual Property System . She reviewed some of the basic problems with the way patents are evaluated and used these days. All informative and insightful to me. I found her hypothesis that with technology we can resolve the issues like never before. I suspect the is and always has been more related to the humans involved in the process. Nonetheless, I thought her idea of introducing peer processes to the evaluation of patent applications was very cool. Well worth listening to.
- David Brin, author-physicist, talked about Evaluating Horizons . He built a great case for why our society needs to be more transparent. If for no other reason, than to point our errors quickly thanks to the rapid and broad sharing of information. I agree with him and also agree that our current administration and that of many other countries are working directly against this kind of transparency. Great presentation.
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