Topic: The Internet and the World Wide Web
Is Mozilla the most remixed application platform of all? It may be, given the number of third-party extensions available for Firefox and Thunderbird. In this High Order Bits presentation from O'Reilly's Emerging Technology 2005 conference, Brendan Eich of the Mozilla Foundation details the APIs Mozilla offers for extensibility and application remixing. [ETech audio from IT Conversations]
Even a scrappy little startup company can benefit by taking the risk of exposing its APIs to the remix culture and a loyal development community. Stewart Butterfield, President and Founder of Ludicorp, discusses not only his company's collaboration platform for photos, Flickr, but also an overview of the business decisions, goals, and architecture required in the design, implementation, and management of the Flickr API. [ETech audio from IT Conversations]
Jerry Yang, 10 Years In - Has Yahoo! gotten its mojo back? As Yahoo! celebrated its 10-year anniversary earlier this year, many people seem to think so. Jerry Yang, co-founder and board member of Yahoo!, talks about Yahoo!'s past and future with John Battelle in the closing session of the 2004 Web 2.0 conference. [Web 2.0 Conference audio from IT Conversations]
Are unlimited copying, anonymity and unreliability limitations of the Internet or features? Promoters of copyfight, e-voting, spamfighting and trusted computing all will answer that they are obviously bugs. Cory Doctrow presents an alternative view of the Internet as a complex system with parasitic and often beneficial elements. He argues that, despite what some would have us believe, the Internet is not broken and that efforts to make it better highlight how business interests, lobbyists and technologists who don't understand can do more harm than good. [ETech 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
J2EE, .Net, who needs em? Apparently not Amazon, Google, Yahoo or Sabre. Peter Yared, who headed up the Liberty Alliance project at Sun, took notice, left Sun and founded ActiveGrid, a company dedicated to building Web applications upon LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl), XML, Javascript and DHTML. As for grids, Yared maintains there are really three types: computational, utility (on-demand) and transaction grids (an example of which is ActiveGrid). He explains what makes a transaction grid different than using conventional load balancing software. How does ActiveGrid stack up against Microsoft's forthcoming Indigo? Why did ActiveGrid choose the Apache open source license for its base technology?
Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., and O'Reilly Media CTO, Rael Dornfest, expand on the theme of the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, 'Remix', by exploring the very latest trends in technology during their presentation titled The O'Reilly Radar: News From the Future. In a tag team fashion, O'Reilly and Dornfest describe what they're noticing through an analytical device derived from Christopher Alexander's book "A Pattern Language: Towns, Building, Construction" called pattern descriptions of business models where both a problem and a solution are presented in relation to a given context.
As CEO of Homestead, Justin Kitch has seen more than his share of ugly web sites. Speaking with host Larry Magid, Kitch shares his expertise on designing and presenting information on the web, pointing out that most sites on the web are fairly ugly. People tend to over design their own sites, says Kitch or hire professionals who overuse technology to justify what they're charging the client.
Rob Greenlee, host of Web Talk, speaks with Dave Van Dyke, President of
Bridge Ratings (BridgeRatings.com), about his company's recent radio market
research study on the changes occurring to radio broadcasting. The study reveals the mainstream media misunderstanding and hype around the growth of Internet radio, satellite radio, Podcasting and Mobile phone streaming. The discussion also centers on how these changes will impact existing terrestrial radio broadcasters, Internet webcasters and podcasters over the next 5 years. [Web Talk audio on IT Conversations]
What is remixing? Is there a difference between hacking and remixing? Why is either concept important? In his keynote address at the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Rael Dorfest, CTO of O'Reilly Media, answers these questions through an examination of the potential impact that the "remix culture" can have on business, innovation, the Internet, and the customer interaction.
Craig's List president/CEO, Jim Buckmaster, and founder Craig Newmark discuss "Nerd Values -- doing well by doing good -- or the benefits of sticking with Web 0.0 principles in a Web 2.0 world." [Web 2.0 Confrence audio from IT Conversations]
