Topic: The Internet and the World Wide Web
When Terry Semel joined Yahoo! much of the technology and internet business segment derided the "moron from Hollywood." Four years later, the technology industry is a completely different market, and Yahoo! is one of the corporations at its center. Terry Semel talks with Tim O'Reilly about Yahoo's successes and its future. From the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference.
With the rise of blogs and social networking sites, people are putting more and more personal information online, and kids are no exception. In this conversation with Larry Magid, John Shehan of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children describes the dangers facing kids on the internet. Shehan explains the common ways kids make themselves vulnerable online and offers tips to help them stay safer.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Brewster Kahle, the founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive. They're not just archiving web pages -- there's now books, movies and 3,000 Grateful Dead concerts.
Imagine a one-stop shop where you can use one consistent interface to arrange any service--airline reservations, shipping packages, appliance repair--through any supplier. Amazon.com lets us buy almost any product, but where can we go to order services? Rearden Commerce's Mark Orttung says he has built such a "Services on Demand" application, and it has been called the killer app of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
How will the future of the internet be and how will it change our lives? Many technologists have expressed their thoughts on this topics since the birth of the internet. Janna Anderson speaks about Imagining The Internet - a project which documents the predictions various people have made about the internet.
The dominant force in the industry for more than twenty years is finally facing stern competition. In this conversation, Microsoft key players Ray Ozzie, Yusuf Mehdi, and Gary Flake discuss the changing technology landscape and the challenges their company face. The talk covers their plans to adapt to Web 2.0, the optimism surrounding their current efforts in the area of search, and the development of new economic models to monetize their core assets like Office.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Tiffany Schlain, the founder of The Webby Awards. She'll lay out their current selection for the top ten momentous points in Web history, and they'll look at emergent trends in 2006. [Tech Nation audio from IT Connversations]
The Internet is truly becoming an open network with the rise of amateur content and open source software. In this talk, Joi Ito takes us through the growth of the internet as an open network in layers to the point where the killer app is now user generated content. Earlier, it was the little guys around the edges of the internet who created the open standards which made the web work, and today it is those same people who fuel it with their creativity. Joi also shares with us his observations of the remix culture seen on the net. [Accelerating Change audio from IT Conversations]
Thanks to the internet, people have access to maps like never before: you just point and click. The data contained within the maps, however, can be much harder to acquire. This panel discussion, moderated by Simon St. Laurent of O'Reilly Media, brings together five leaders from diverse sources to talk about the challenges inherent in the collection of mapping data.
[Where 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
Voice over IP is a technology which is changing the way people view telephony, and Skype is a major player in this paradigm shift. The host of Larry's World, Larry Magid, speaks with Saul Klein, the Vice President of Marketing for Skype. The talk about changing the playing field for telecoms, Skype's new video capabilities and what is upcoming for Skype and its partners. [Larry's world audio from IT Conversations]
