| Larry Downes - The Laws of Disruption |
11/19/2009 |  Download File (16.26 MB) |
In The Laws of Disruption, Larry Downes, author of the best-selling Unleashing the Killer App, provides an invaluable guide for these confusing times, exploring nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life.
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| Episode 74 - StackOverflow |
| 11/18/2009 | Download File (29.54 MB) |
Joel and Jeff sit down with Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates backstage at the Business of Software 2009 conference.
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| Gunnar Hellekson - Open Source Principles and the Federal Government |
| 11/17/2009 | Download File (7.43 MB) |
The Obama administration is trying to create a new model where governmental openness is the norm, and collaboration between the open source community and the federal government may be a key to its success. Gunnar Hellekson says that by encouraging the government to adopt open source practices, the open source community can help the government do its job better, to everyone's benefit.
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| Richard Whitt - Tinkering without Tampering: Wrestling with Convergence and Communications Policy |
| 11/16/2009 | Download File (11.06 MB) |
What are the key pieces policy makers must understand about the intersection of technology trends and digital economics to create broadband policies that make sense? What are the best roles of regulators, users, and industry in creating a rich environment for the powerful convergence of media and communications? Richard Whitt, Senior Policy Director at Google, provides a new framework for building better broadband policy in this Emerging Communications Conference 2009 presentation.
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| Gavin Bell - Social Web Applications |
| 11/13/2009 | Download File (22.51 MB) |
Gavin Bell's new book, Building Social Web Applications, synthesizes a wealth of practical knowledge gleaned from his own long career as a web developer and from interviews with fellow practitioners. In this conversation he reviews the key principles and patterns that define what we today call the social web but will soon simply refer to as the web.
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| Ted Morgan - How Consumers are Really Using Location |
| 11/12/2009 | Download File (8.06 MB) |
In this Where 2.0 talk Ted Morgan, co-founder of Skyhook Wireless, has three things to say about the explosion of location based applications: the breadth of apps now available is excitingly diverse (and he has examples to prove it), fascinating usage patterns are emerging (and he has the data and analysis to demonstrate it), and web developers interested in adding location into their websites should know about Skyhook's new service Loki.
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| Carmine Gallo - Great Public Communications Skills |
| 11/10/2009 | Download File (27.43 MB) |
Communications coach Carmine Gallo discusses his new book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, in which he shows how people can improve their public speaking skills. He first presents an overview on why he chose Steve Jobs as a subject and continues with specific pointers and methods that anyone can use to communicate to groups.
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| Lance Armstrong - A Conversation with Lance Armstrong |
| 11/9/2009 | Download File (20.50 MB) |
Seven time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong and serial entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt have at least one thing in common: they both believe in social connections in social media. Rosenblatt interviews Armstrong at the 2008 O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference about how they connected, how useful and positive social media can be and how it can be spread across everything, including health and wellness issues.
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