




Quakr is building an on-line virtual world from user contributed photographs and metadata. Developer Peter Arbuthnott shares the inspirations for this project, and leads a whirlwind tour of its most compelling features. Given the converging advances in camera and geolocation technologies, and the interest people have in sharing their geo-coded photos on line, a fascinating 3D mashup is beginning to emerge.
3/16/2010 | Download File (21.24 MB) - right click to download
Jonathan Ellis discusses Cassandra, an open source distributed database management system, used by Facebook and other sites. An Apache Software Foundation top-level project, it is designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. Jonathan reviews the project, explaining details about the system as well as the importance of scalability in database design and the differences between distributed and relational databases.
3/15/2010 | Download File (7.19 MB) - right click to download
Digital broadcasting networks are being developed worldwide to deliver high-bandwidth, real-time content to and from mobile platforms. Francois Lefebvre describes the tension between telco- and broadcast-driven services; telcos tend to promote subscription based services while broadcasters try to extend their free-to-air model. The good news is that breakthrough, open applications are emerging that can deliver reliable and innovative mobile broadcast networks.
3/14/2010 | Download File (9.72 MB) - right click to download
Digg.com, one of the most successful social media websites, has over 40 million users, amounting to about 20,000 submissions a day, but young CEO Jay Adelson wants more. In this candid conversation with Brady Forrest "serial entrepreneurs" Adelson and his Partner Kevin Rose share with us where Digg fits into the "huge volume of stuff", as Adelson puts it, on the World Wide Web, and their plans for its future.
3/13/2010 | Download File (12.17 MB) - right click to download
Join best-selling author Steven Berlin Johnson as he discusses the changing face of online journalism, one in which citizen journalists and bloggers are news gatherers and information curators. Both journalists and techies alike are providing new ways to share and consume content, and creating rich relations between consumers and providers of information. Members of this new media are also required to wear many hats, from local news reporter to database administrator.
3/12/2010 | Download File (28.33 MB) - right click to download
Joel and Jeff discuss the pursuit of venture capital, why Joel is ending his blog, and the hidden power of Google's web spider.
3/11/2010 | Download File (13.00 MB) - right click to download
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Peter Hessler, to discuss the new car culture that has emerged in China, as 90 million new drivers take to the streets each day.
3/9/2010 | Download File (28.76 MB) - right click to download
Author David Siegel discusses his book Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business, in which he reviews the concepts for a future version of the web. He defines the idea of the semantic web and how Pull is a model for it. Siegel reviews how businesses in the future can take advantage of the improvements in the use of data and why the improvements will assist in commercial success.
3/8/2010 | Download File (7.00 MB) - right click to download
The Government is no longer a secluded center of power that rules the citizenry. Government agencies now try to actively connect with the public and interact with them. Allan Holmes, Executive Editor at Government Executive, talks about how some of the well-made government websites are not only successful at what they set out to do, but top the internet charts for traffic and user engagement.
3/5/2010 | Download File (12.22 MB) - right click to download
Dr. Moria Gunn tracks down author and unlikely environmentalist, Brenda Peterson, who takes her through her book of memoirs, I Want To Be Left Behind.
3/4/2010 | Download File (11.85 MB) - right click to download
Dr. Moria Gunn learns about the uses for chemical genomics from Dr. Greg Roth, Director of Medicinal Chemistry from the Burnham Institute for Medical Research. She then sits down with GeoVax Labs Senior VP, Dr. Harriet Robinson, where they study HIV and AIDS vaccines.