Topic: The Internet and the World Wide Web
"I wish I could've predicted more," says the father of the Internet, Vint Cerf. He didn't think about the worries parents would face ten or fifteen years later of their children seeing pornography, or becoming prey to Internet predators. He didn't think of the thousands of companies who would try to make money by sending unwanted e-mails, or the hackers who would illegally share movies, music and software. Larry Magid speaks to Vint Cerf about these issues and new developments in the Internet Protocol, IPv6. [Larry's World audio from IT Conversations]
First came the blogosphere, then the podosphere, and now, the eventsphere is coming! Brian Dear is building it at EVDB, the Events and Venues Database. The founder and CEO of EVDB, Brian sat down during Always On 2005: The Innovation Summit at Stanford, to speak with Scott Mace. Learn how to publish events on the EVDB service, how to subscribe to EVDB searches, and more about "simple event sharing." [Opening Move audio from IT Conversations]
"It looks a lot larger on the outside than it is on the inside," describes Michael Weiss, CEO of StreamCast, parent company of Morpheus. He's talking about the US Supreme Court. But what got him there? After all, Morpheus is only a regular company looking to make money through engaging in this new medium called "File Sharing/P2P". Why is he in a batt;e against the entertainment industry? Larry Magid speaks to him about file-sharing, piracy, and the distribution mechanism of P2P. [Larry's World audio from IT Conversations]
Adam Curry is founder of BoKu Communications, the parent company of PodShow.com, that is aligning various podcast-related services, websites, podcasts and directories to commercialize podcasting. He discusses his early days in radio and at MTV in the '80s. He talks about leaving all of his broadcast radio shows to pursue his passion for the early Internet. Adam goes into detail about his early work with the websites webcasting, blogging, audioblogging and his inspiration that helped birth and fuel the fast growth of podcasting. He also discusses some of the current podcasting issues. [Web Talk audio from IT Conversations]
Just how do you go about ensuring that future colonists on Mars can get hold of the books they've
ordered online? After all, when space research makes a break-through and space colonization becomes a
reality, Amazon.com would like to be the preferred way to order retail products anywhere in the
universe. Amazon.com's CTO Werner Vogels takes this lighthearted problem of interplanetary distribution
as the starting point for his talk on the issues facing the builders of scalable and robust distributed
systems. [ETech 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
In this keynote presentation entitled "In Search of Intelligence," Scott Kriens, Chairman and CEO of Juniper Networks, talks about the challenges and opportunities surrounding networking today. How can we improve the user experience by optimizing the infrastructure between applications and users? Can we reduce the latency and increase the throughput of the network while ensuring high availability? Scott argues that the network should act as a resource and a source of intelligence to optimize the behavior and the performance of applications. [Software 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
We are moving into a new world where everything is interconnected, where the
internet is the platform and where software is a service. Welcome to the new
paradigm that is Web 2.0. Tim O'Reilly uses the MySQL User Conference to present
another verse of his popular O'Reilly's Radar talk. Find out what the alpha
geeks have been up to and why the future belongs to data. [MySQL Users Conference audio from IT Conversations]
Everyday people are participating in media and it's the internet that has made it all happen. From the early days of amazon.com encouraging readers to post reviews to today's world of podcasts and blogs, personal publishing has become mainstream. This panel discussion from Supernova 2005 features the folks behind the applications that let us all create our own media. [Supernova 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
Does intelligence reside at the edge or in the core of the network? Are smart
devices connecting to dumb networks or dumb devices to intelligent networks?
The truth is that in the 21st century the edge and the core are converging and
providing a new set of challenges, opportunities and revenue models.
Hossein Eslambolchi, President of AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services,
describes the IP evolution and the wireless, on-demand, collaborative network of
the not to distant future. [Supernova 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
Isn't radio an old, dying medium? What's it doing in a conference on emerging technologies? Matt Biddulph, Paul Hammond, Tom Coates, and Matt Webb show us how radio is a reemerging technology experiencing a resurgence in popularity and relevance. They explore how radio can be improved by introducing feedback mechanisms and by ultimately making it a more social medium. Using principles of social software, the BBC becomes more of a peer than a broadcaster. [ETech 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
