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Available Episodes (64)
By making motion, position and acceleration available to game design, Nintendo's Wii promises to change the gaming landscape in beneficial ways. The old race is for more polygons, greater...
What technologies do you find fun? We started with TV-enhancing goodies like DVRs and Slingbox, then headed to mobile apps with GPS and mapping. With a few wistful glances at old fun...
As Linux makes inroads into corporate IT, more companies are willing to pay for enterprise-grade support. Though Red Hat hasn't been that clever at taking advantage of business opportunities,...
Cranium, Cirque de Soleil and others innovate by pushing the edge between brilliance and nuttiness. Polly LaBarre, co-author of Mavericks at Work, talks about strategic advocacy, power...
Tellme's CEO Mike McCue joins us to describe the future of a voice platform. Accompanied by an accidental Vivaldi soundtrack (someone's hold music), he talked about the ways functionality...
Around Labor Day, some 40,000 people came together in the middle of an inhospitable desert to create a temporary city -- in which you can't buy or sell anything. Learning how gift economies...
Microsoft and Google are building data centers large enough to hold just about everything. Who can follow? Has Google established enough beneficial feedback that it is impossible to...
TBD
You can buy real estate in Second Life, as well as dance moves for your avatar, nice outfits and much much more. While we're busy palavering about the potential long-term social impacts,...
After Esme Vos reported that muni wireless remains a US phenomenon, we focused mostly on civil discourse in the large, catalyzed at first by Howard Greenstein's question, "Are we really...
Although companies are still running "perkshops," many are learning that they need to nurture the informal networks and workshops in which their employees actually learn stuff. These...
Formal learning is like a bus on a route: it follows its sequence of stops, with little chance for variability. Informal learning is more like a bike ride: you can stop for detours,...
Mary Hodder took us quickly in a great direction by describing how people are now making their own ads and how-to videos, then asking whether the ad model is being flipped on its head...
Over light (accidental) hold music, our four guests described audio, gaming, grassroots and streaming forms of advertisement, naming just about every medium imaginable. Big companies...
The players in net neutrality keep jockeying for position. Carriers want their investments paid for. Citizens want the Net to stay Net-like, not head toward cable TV. And legislation...
Bob Frankston and Bruce Kushnick have different, radical and interesting perspectives on net neutrality. Frankston's frustration is how we buy into the givens of our situation, instead...
In Google's various database and search enhancements, Al Chang sees smart ways the company is motivating data owners to dump their data into Google's engine in structured ways, rather...
Nathan Brookwood of Insight64.com keeps a close eye on computer makers, and he sees a rebirth at Sun. Solaris, now open source, has the widest distribution of enterprise-class Unixes....
Working on his book Everything Is Miscellaneous, Cluetrain co-author David Weinberger is investigating how we "lump and split" things. This quest has taken him into the nature of knowledge,...
Our guest couldn't make the call (first time in 86 calls!), so after a little chaos we tucked into Dell's new use of AMD chips, Johnson & Johnson's not participating in TV's "upfront"...
Added excitement on this call, as we used a shared workspace tool called Vyew during the call, which began with the dire note that by the time people find Dave Gray's company XPlane...
Why all the Microsoft announcements this week? Did they all converge on when Vista was due out? Are they compensating for the earnings drain from investing in major Web-service-hosting...
Will we look back on Web 2.0 the way we look back on WAP? Probably not, because the benefits of 2.0 architectures have already affected the software and services market, as they have...
In five years, the investment climate for solar cells has gone from zero to sixty. Nanosolar makes nano-thin photovoltaic films that are of average efficiency but radically lower cost....
Web 2.0 architectures have helped release the collective intelligence of peer production on the Net, as seen in mashups and other creative offers. But 2.0 isn't just about tools and...
With Judith Meskill and Debi Jones, we started with what MySpace has done right, such as keeping the service from looking too professional and having a hands-off approach. But we gradually...
Although Boot Camp won't run the Mac OS and Windows concurrently (yet), it seems to open some opportunities that Apple won't pursue aggressively, but should help it nonetheless. Now...
You can now make search engines and webmail systems your cellphone's home page. That's a step up. Location awareness isn't here yet, partly because cell carriers want to sell us location...
With visual language experts such as Bob Horn and Dave Gray, we explore examples of effective visualization, from the GUI and Web browser to things like Stella, the American Profile...
With Dave Burstein and Esme Vos, we compare European carrier dynamics (telco, cellular and cable) with the US. The US comes up a bit short. In the US, incumbents have largely neutralized...
With flat-panel expert Barry Young, we address the different flat-panel markets, emerging device uses and the industry dynamics. Plenty of consolidation going on across the industry....
With Martin Geddes and David Isenberg, we talk about the threats the Net faces from companies whose business models the Net disrupts. Unfortunately, there is little agreement about
With Timothy Prickett-Morgan and Carl Johnson, we talk about measures shifting from raw MIPS or FLOPs to performance per watt and side-effects such as heat dissipation. The A/C costs...
With Al Chang, we discuss the major ecosystem that has emerged around selling and moving attention around the Net. The costs of parking domains and even hosting services are so low
With Howard Greenstein and Steve Crandall, we describe the morass that is our remote-control basket. Who can set these things up? Why aren't these things designed for Users? Worse,
Backpack, Basecamp and other Web 2.0-ish apps attract users because, as Jason
Fried puts it, his company tries to build "half a product, not a half-assed
product." They key is avoiding...
The 10 rules that Kevin Kelly wrote about back in 1998 not only hold up well,
they seem to have become more important. From "embrace the swarm" to
"opportunities before efficiencies,"...
Emotions play a crucial role in our engagement with games. The electronic games
market is still in the early rock band phase: developers are still playing the
same three chords over...
Blogging is now a worldwide phenomenon, prodding governments and affecting
news organizations everywhere. Linking those bloggers and giving them some
visibility strengthens the blogosphere...
With great hardware design, integrated software design and crisp, helpful
stores, Apple has hit a sweet spot that nobody else in the computer and
consumer electronics markets is serving....
Of the companies building WiFi networks such as Boingo, The Cloud and
Cometa, most are building their own infrastructure or linking together
smaller networks' own physical networks....
Who will produce the most effective enhancements to our transportation systems:
automakers, governments or the unruly masses? Right now, GM, BMW and others are
exploring in-car intelligence,...
Energy, social ventures and disaster preparedness all came up in our call,
but the resonant themes were the key role of social dynamics and the increasing
decentralization going on...
If you don't have operators on duty to take your call, if you don't print on paper
and move it around and if you keep costs really low, it turns out you can produce
some pretty sophisticated...
With China on its way to 400 million cellphones and the rest of the world
afire with mobiles and texting, maybe PCs and laptops won't be so dominant,
after all. Trip Hawkins describes...
With Windows Vista due in the next year, what's to love? The primary
beneficiaries seem to be media conglomerates, because Vista bakes strong
DRM deep into the hardware and software....
Is Google close to tapping out the adworthy markets and overloading
its visitors with ads, or is it just uncovering a new market dynamic,
in which Google can build things that others...
There are many reasons why major IM players such as AOL might want to
avoid opening up their systems, from security concerns to the belief
that maybe they'll end up dominating the...
Openness is transforming industries.
VoIP nixes long-distance revenues, but creates opportunities for global
service. Craigslist kicks classifieds around, but increases local commerce.
Open...
Since Yakima County, WA, started a
wireless network for public safety four years ago, many US municipalities
have started to build their own networks. These efforts are local;
generalizing...
Municipal wireless access is coming to a boil. The technology, legal and
governmental issues are complicated enough, yet how all of these are framed
is also crucial, as VisiCalc inventor...
Skype watcher Stuart Henshall brings us many good reasons why Skype + eBay
is an interesting proposition, from markets that have more conversations to
security, scalability, trust...
Sascha Meinrath reports on his many bumps against FEMA in trying to help bring technology support to Katrina victims. As we hear other interesting updates about data entry and virtual...
From 9/11 to Katrina, people have been using the Internet to coordinate rescue and relief operations, creating everything from missing persons sites to housing offers, volunteer matching...
"Web 2.0" services and applications are light, easily mixed, collaborative and tightly focused on useful tasks. Ajax is one of their enabling technologies. In this call, we discuss
What would a productivity and collaboration platform look like if we stepped away from Outlook, the Office suite and other things we use today? If we looked at the gestures we use to...
Mary Hodder has been urging search engines and blog-search sites such as Technorati to rethink the way they track blogs. By tracking measures that reflect conversation and relationships,...
From one perspective, mommyblogs are the modern family album. They chronicle, day to day, events and insights to treasure (or bemoan) years later. From another, they're just a tiny
Ten days after BlogHer, four of its instigators lead a
discussion about what made the conference special, from the way they
organized it (what's a do-ocracy?) to the dynamics of respect...
IDEO's CTO Rickson Sun joins us to discuss how observation,
carefully done, leads to innovation. We all share insights about what works:
focus groups, storytelling, no storytelling
From Make magazine to amateur astronomy, DIY is everywhere. The
sharing that fuels it is old: it's called "elmering" in amateur radio. But
the feeling of power it offers is spreading...
How do today's kids use online games? What do they like about them? Why and when do they switch? We talked about these and other behaviors associated with virtual game environments,...