Topic: The Internet and the World Wide Web
Bill Gross, Founder, Chairman & CEO of Idealab introduces a new search company,
snap, at Web 2.0. (IT Conversations audio from the Web 2.0 Conference)
(IT Conversations audio from the Web 2.0 Conference) John Batelle and Tim O'Reilly's opening welcome. How big is the Internet today, and how does it compare to the late 1990s? What are the major trends in business innovation, commerce, technical infrastructure, finance? In this opening session your conference hosts walk you through reams of data to give an overview of the state of the Internet industry, circa late 2004.
IT Conversations audio from Pop!Tech 2004 (Happiness): Ze Frank
Craig Cline leads the Mobile Blogging session at Bloggercon III. Audio from IT Conversations.
The Gillmor Gang on IT Conversations: The Gang's guest this week is eBay technology evangelist, Jeff McManus. The company's web-services APIs process one billion requests per month. (That's an average of nearly 2,500 per second!) Hear how 11,000 developers are helping 430,000 people in the U.S. alone make a full- or part-time living via eBay, why the eBay trust system works, and how they're starting to use RSS.
The four presenters in the session on Connected Politics get together for Q&A moderated by John Sculley: Andrew Rasiej, Adrian Wooldridge and Joe Trippi. [The last of four IT Conversations audio recordings from the Pop!Tech 2004 session on Connected Politics.]
The extended Gang dives deep into podcasting this week with Dave Winer, Adam Curry and three of the four members of the Firesign Theatre: David Ossman, Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman. Adam and Dave give the history (all eight weeks of it) and the raison d'etre of podcasting, and Steve suggests it's similar to the early days of pirate radio. Is podcasting just a flash in the pan, or a major challenge to big-business radio? Will the impact be similar to that of blogs or something altogether different? What are the implications of Howard Stern moving to satellite, and will legislation like the INDUCE Act inhibit freedom of speech in the exploding podcasting phenomenon? By the end of the show, the Firesign guests not only get it, they're guzzling the Cool-Aid.
Here's a twist: IT Conversations host and producer, Doug Kaye, is interviewed by Rob Greenlee for
WebTalk Radio. Rob asks Doug about the birth of IT Conversations, web-audio business models, and what multimedia content formats work best. They discuss related topics such as the impact of Podcasting on IT Conversations, traditional broadcast radio and satellite radio, and whether audio streaming will flourish or die. This time it's Doug who has to answer the questions.
Memory Lane with Halley Suitt: Halley interviews Francois Schiettecatte, the CTO of Feedster, the RSS search database, on all things search. They discuss Google's ability to eclipse Yahoo's search market, search engines and apps which dominated the Net going back in time including AltaVista, Lycos, InfoSeek and Webcrawler among others. They talk about Feedster's partnership with The Washington Post and other unique features of Feedster.
Doug Kaye interviews Adam Curry: His first gig was on a Dutch in-hospital radio station, then as John Holden a motorcycle-riding African-American pirate-radio DJ. Most of us met Adam as an early MTV host, but he actually got his start as a budding geek. In this interview with IT Conversations' host Doug Kaye, you'll hear a very personal side of Adam's life: how he discovered the Internet and the web, registering the mtv.com domain, then being sued over it. He founded OnRamp, an early web-development company that grew through M&A to a $230 million public company. Adam has started many other ventures, not all successful. He's been to Iraq and even produced a reality-TV show about his own family. Doug and Adam also discuss audio on the 'net. Here's your chance to hear the Behind the Mic side of the creator of iPodder and one of podcastings leading evangelists.
