| Peter Maass - Crude World:The Violent Twilight of Oil |
11/5/2009 |  Download File (12.89 MB) |
Peter Maass speaks with Moira about his book on the global state of oil, and how technology plays a role. Oil is central to our world, but what role does it play in violent conflicts and the divide between rich and poor?
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| Martin Geddes - Where's the Money in Voice 2.0? |
| 11/4/2009 | Download File (7.87 MB) |
There is big money to be made in the telecommunications industry by optimizing how businesses connect, interact and complete transactions with their customers. In his keynote address at the Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) 2009, industry futurist Martin Geddes shares his thoughts on how a complete transformation of the prevailing business model is needed in the telecom industry and how companies could take advantage of a new model.
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| Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - Palm Apps |
| 11/3/2009 | Download File (22.16 MB) |
Ben and Dion join Scott and Phil to discuss their move from Mozilla to Palm. They review how Palm uses web technologies to build Palm Pre apps. They also assess developer programs and talk about Palm's to present examples of good ones.
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| Mark Surman - Where Next for Openness? |
| 11/2/2009 | Download File (7.87 MB) |
The web - vast, open, participatory, independent - is an unprecedented human construction. But could forces already be at work to rob it of its very essence? In this presentation from the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention Mark Surman discusses how this marvelous, open, self-governing resource - taken for granted by so many - may not stand the test of time.
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| Po Bronson - NurtureShock |
| 10/31/2009 | Download File (17.84 MB) |
Po Bronson talks with Moira about what science has learned about parenting. Co-author of NutureShock, which asserts that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring because key twists in the science have been overlooked.
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| Marco Barulli - JavaScript Improvements |
| 10/30/2009 | Download File (20.45 MB) |
Clipperz is an online password manager that knows nothing about you or your data, and transmits no secrets over the wire. How? In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Clipperz co-founder Marco Barulli explains that recent improvements in JavaScript engines have enabled a new generation of zero-knowledge web applications.
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| Episode 72 - StackOverflow |
| 10/29/2009 | Download File (35.83 MB) |
Joel and Jeff sit down with Jon Skeet, software engineer at Google London, and the first Stack Overflow user to achieve a reputation of 100,000.
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| Sramana Mitra - Entrepreneurship |
| 10/27/2009 | Download File (21.41 MB) |
Sramana Mitra believes in the importance of entrepreneurship to the world economy. As a writer and entrepreneur, she assists others in learning how to build an organization. She joins Phil and Scott to discuss her strategies. In addition to presenting her thoughts on entrepreneurship, she also offers useful details about how to create jobs, how to find money to fund company creation and some of the factors important for success.
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