Topic: Business
Moira talks to Dr. Alan Solinger, Vice President for Clinical Immunology of Xoma Corporation about the company's new approach for treating Type II diabetes.
Moira speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about the role that corporations have started to play in every aspect of our lives.
Moira interviews Dr. Malcome Devine of Performance Plants, a Canadian firm that is tinkering with plants to make them more robust.
For those who thought Microsoft had become a sleeping giant resting on the laurels of its popular Office franchise, Stephen Elop has news for you. In this frank discussion with Tim O'Reilly, Elop discusses Microsoft's intention to embrace interoperability and apply the results to its business model.
"Code against the eBay and PayPal APIs; make money," is Mark Carges' message to developers. About eight years ago eBay realized that there was a huge business potential in providing an economic opportunity for developers to leverage their API. Today, there are 85,000 developers that code against the eBay developer API and make money; some of them make lots of it. Last year alone, the sellers on eBay sold $60 billion worth of goods worldwide, and developers who provided real value to these sellers made a cut.
Like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff, the banking, real estate, and other major industries in the U.S. are realizing too late that their inability to take into account changing demographics has caused the economy to suffer. In this program, Ed Fontana shows the need to look ahead and examine processes for ways to improve agility, and how focus on a specific interval of interest can improve mobile experience.
Mike Dunn, a veteran technologist in the media industry, recently attended and spoke at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. In this episode he and host Jon Udell review the highlights of the conference and discuss some emerging practical uses of semantic tools and techniques.
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, attending networking events, and cold calling, and waiting for the phone to ring. The key to successful consulting is marketing, not selling.
Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor Dara O'Rourke, founder of GoodGuide.com. He tells us what it takes to understand the impact of everything we use, requiring the tracking of the global supply chain.
In the conversation with Tim O'Reilly at the 2008 O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Monty Widenius and Brian Aker discuss the integration of MySQL into Sun Microsystems. Some of the biggest surprises have come from watching the ways that MySQL's open source culture has spread throughout Sun's workforce, and into their projects.
