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Udi Manber A Supernova 2007 Spotlight

Aron Pruiett — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:13:52 +0000

Udi Manber is Vice President of Engineering at Google. During his Spotlight session for Supernova 2007 he spoke of the challenges of search as well as the progress. What direction is search taking us and is search the center of the internet experience are questions that Manber is an authority on.

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Intel Chief Strategist Chris Thomas: Generational Shift Speeds Development

editor — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:26:16 +0000

Chris Thomas, chief strategist at Intel, recognizes that a new generation of users is pushing the pace of change in the marketplace — even developing products they want themselves. Thomas predicts that community innovation will intersect with development best practices to bring a rapid adoption of new tools and technologies, all leading to a baseline goal: smoother, simpler and more transparent user interfaces. PodTech’s John Furrier spoke with Thomas at Supernova 2006.

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Supernova 2006: Craigslist Founder Embraces Values, Eschews Heavy Marketing

editor — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:48:53 +0000

Ask Craig Newmark why he hasn’t made multi-millions off of Craigslist and he’ll look at you as if it’s an odd question. Try asking him why Craigslist is such a great site to avoid being bombarded by ads. There, that’s better. PodTech’s Jason Lopez walked up to Newmark during Supernova 2006 and recorded this podcast.

Supernova 2006: Blogosphere and Blog Readers Not the Same

editor — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:54:18 +0000

Six Apart founder Mena Trott says the blogosphere is probably smaller than most people think. She defines it as the space inhabited by people who are “the pundits” trying to get a lot of readers. The blogging universe is much larger comprised of anyone who uses blogging tools. Jason Lopez of PodTech caught up with her after she participated in the Supernova session Power to the People.

Supernova 2006: Soul Searching on Second Life: Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab

editor — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:57 +0000

Philip Rosedale, Founder and CEO of Linden Lab, developers of Second Life says that the immersive experience is circumventing some traditional ways of accessing search. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Supernova 2006 in San Francisco.

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Supernova 2006: New Models for Video Distribution: Jeremy Allaire, Founder, Brightcove

editor — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:55:42 +0000

Jeremy Allaire, CEO and Founder of Brightcove, speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about the shifting paradigm of video distribution in the age of broadband access. Brightcove helps video content providers, both independent and industry level, with publishing and distribution.

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Supernova 2006: The Wiki Man: Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia

editor — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:08:13 +0000

At Supernova Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about Wikia.com, online communities, and the new definition of community in online social networks.

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Supernova 2006: Saul Klein, VP of Marketing, Skype: New Ideas for Voice Communication

editor — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:34:12 +0000

Saul Klein, VP of Marketing for Skype talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Supernova about the new areas Skype users are taking the voice communication software, both on an individual and enterprise level.

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Supernova 2006: Conference June 22-23, San Francisco

editor — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:45:36 +0000

PodTech.net and Supernova focuses on the technology-driven transformation of computing, communications, digital media, and business. Now in its fifth year, Supernova brings together leading industry influencers to make business connections, explore emerging technologies, and discover innovative new ideas and companies.

Speakers include: Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems), Michael Copps (FCC), Werner Vogels (Amazon.com), Craig Newmark (CraigsList.org), David Sifry (Technorati), Kim Polese (SpikeSource), Linda Sanford (IBM), Jeff Belk (Qualcomm), Linda Sanford (IBM), John Garstka (US Dept. of Defense), Saul Klein (Skype), Usama Fayyad (Yahoo!), Lili Cheng (Microsoft), Jeremy Allaire (Brightcove)

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Supernova 2005: John Patrick - Internet Technologist

Admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:51:11 +0000

John Patrick: IBM technologist and retired VP of Internet Technology- John is a accomplished writer, consultant, and industry technologist. John Patrick - Founder and President of Attitude LLC; Author of book “Net Attitude”

Host: John Furrier, Founder of PodTech.net

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John is a great guy, industry veteran, and technologist who always has a “Fresh Voice” on technology and new technical revolutions. John has spent 38 years working at IBM and was their VP of Internet Technology when the Internet hit the scene. John is a accomplished writer, consultant, and industry technologist. John has a unique view on the next generation Internet. John is the classic “been there and done that” technologist and executive. He’s one of those people who witnessed and participated in the development of the web. Must listen to for anyone interested in the newest trends in technology and the tech business.

Download and Listen to John Patrick’s InfoTalk on the Next Generation Internet

Sound bites:

Most interesting time has been the past 15 years… one thing that’s clear through all the key industry building technology and business cycles many of the things that people are skeptical about (blogging, podcasting, ..etc) mirrors what the state of the industry in 1995. some people would argue that blogging is mainstream but it really isn’t yet…same with wifi and voip…..

Impact to marketing - blogging and podcasting basically kills the notion and effectiveness of the corporate “Email Newsletter”

More great stuff – listen to the podcast …

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Supernova 2005: Multiplayer online game developer Linden Lab Second Life

Admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:45:23 +0000

Multiplayer online game developer Linden Lab Second Life. Doug Soo Linden Lab Programmer who helped with the design of the game Second Life.

Host: John Furrier, Founder of PodTech.net

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This is a cool game that has a built in open source development model into the action. That’s right players can develop apps and products inside the game. Second Life’s dynamic nature in my opinion will shape the future of gaming and the future of work and possibly education. This is the model of the future.

Correction from Douglas Soo….He says “I’m one of the developers, but not specifically the designer, I assisted in design of Second Life, like most of the other developers, but Philip (the CEO of Linden Lab) is the founder and driver of most of its ideas and core concepts. I guess I never got around to explaining it in the podcast, but currently Second Life is 18 and over only, because some the content created by our residents is more mature and not appropriate for children. We are currently working on making Second Life available for 13-17 year olds as well - I believe that given the requirements of COPA it would be difficult or impossible for us to make it available to younger children, unfortunately.”

Thanks for the update

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Supernova 2005: Where Blogs are Going with Six Apart Andrew Anker

Admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:40:33 +0000

Where Blogs are Going with Six Apart executive Andrew Anker – Executive Vice President Six Apart

Host: John Furrier, Founder of PodTech.net

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Andrew is a great guy and hits some great points on where the blogs are going… It’s must listen …

Sound bites:

Question: Where is the blog world going? Andrew: It’s going everywhere ..a great year for the industry. Cover story on Business Week article recently made the statement “Blogs will matter and change your business.”. What we’ve seen is that we’re going past just blogging …200 m people soon to be blogging…it’s about a mass approach…broadly horizontal use cases…six apart is doing anything we can to enable blogging…

Blogging is becoming the personal publishing platform but more than that …at it core is communications… not about low end content mgt it’s really about closed loop of communications – it’s a conversation… the blog post is not as a statement but the start of a conversation between tools like comments and trackbacks that tease out the interraltionship between blogs you get a sense of a much larger dialog. Traditional media have only been about a one way dialog.

Marketing with blogs: Watch out for the “Bullshit Screen”
With blogs marketers need to learn about honesty… you get called out in the blog world between the back and forth there is a ‘bullshit screen’…it very hard to create a standard party line with blogs.. You can’t fake it in the blog world. The critical thing is that you have to get in early and participate and can’t jump in too late… there isn’t a handbook and you need to learn what blogging means for your company.

SixApart products: Typepad – conversation for the masses; LiveJournal - conversation for small groups

Wild Prediction: Believes that everyone will have a blog account just like people have email accounts today.

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Supernova 2005: AJAX with Jesse James Garrett on AJAX

Admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:40:20 +0000

Jesse James Garrett – Founder Adaptive Path and Coined the term AJAX

Host: John Furrier, Founder of PodTech.net

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Being an ex-programmer myself I love this InfoTalk. Jesse is famous for coining the term AJAX. AJAX’s popularity among developers is growing like crazy - a new kind of interaction model. AJAX is a great way to use maturing technologies in a solid framework to make web enable application. Look no further than Google where the word has it is using AJAX religiously for app development (i.e. gmail).

Great stuff Jesse. Jesse’s site is at www.AdaptivePath.com

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Supernova 2005 Jeremy Allaire on The New New Media

Admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:40:01 +0000

Entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire – Founder and President BrightCove on New Media. This is a must listen to for anyone interested in the “New new media” industry. Jeremy is someone who is real PRO who has been involved in the evolution of the Web from Day1.

Host: John Furrier, Founder PodTech.net

Jeremy knows where this evolution is going.

Download and Listen to Jeremy Allaire’s InfoTalk on New New Media

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Sound bites:

BrightCove – A startup founded by Jeremy over a year ago – platform and service for the distribution of television over the internet.

Traditional programming and set of new publishers will shift the nature our experience of television – things like commoditization of storage and networks, devices, and an Internet that now works is the basis of this ‘shift’.

What’s shifting with video is the blowing apart of the scarcity constraints. Traditionally it was controlled by the path to the user and proprietary technology. Now we have ‘open pipes’, open with respect to devices, open formats (software), and now open publishing.

Now you effectively have an unlimited capacity for video and audo. Video will mirror text. It’s about a ‘recorded life’ – soccer games, family, ..etc

The notion of programs, programmers, and program guide as we know it will be radically different in 10 years.

prediction on the big trend: open publishing…millions of publishing…news ways of monetization …new economics….user choice….. challenge: make easy and straightforward for the user

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Supernova 2005: Dark Blogs with Suw Charman

Admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:35:54 +0000

New Dark Blogs with Suw Charman – Star blogger and Corante Contributor

Host: John Furrier, Founder of PodTech.net

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This is great new stuff from Suw! Suw and I talk about her recent research “Dark Blogs”. Actual research with customer use case data. The “Dark Blogs” – blogs that are behind the firewall or where users from the outside can’t see – also know as private blogs.

With Dark Blogs it’s not about popularity but about communicating information not about traffic. Core purpose of blogging allow people to communicate and converse around topics. Suw agrees with Mena from SixApart that in most cases small blogs are more important than big massive broadcast blogs.

Great discussion on why blogs are important for companies. Must listen for CIOs or IT managers looking at blogs for their enterprises.

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Supernova 2005: Microsoft Blogger Robert Scoble

Admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:35:03 +0000

Where is the blog market going? The impact? with Robert Scoble, Distinguished Microsoft Blogger interviewed from Supernova 2005

Host: John Furrier, Founder PodTech.net

Blogging is like a redwood tree in the forest…trees are different podcasting blogs, the mapping is the root system….It’s about the conversation..it’s about building things and sharing things and it’s about getting customers to tell me what’s works..

{abrupt interruption: Marc Canter enters the room…Mark Canter says ..yo yo yo… keep these podcasts short, concise, articulate and fully indexed)

Right now it feels like 1989…if you wanted to share yourself in 1989 you had to buy multiple programs (very disparate) then Bill Gates came out with office ..Tools like AudioBlog.com .. etc… podcast shows need services - one stop shop

Things will get easier by the big players…packaging it up and making it turnkey.. the aggregators will go through a renaissance…What happens when half the family is blogging? Too many steps to visit everyone. You’ll see a better aggregator come along.

Top things happening: Portable devices…blogs and podcasting on cell phones..Nokia: will ship over 40 million mp3 players this year in phones. The future: Mapping ..Google lays down the first warning shot… wait til you can take a picture of a sushi restaurant and leave a location on a map?

{interruption by Marc Canter.. banging on the door …Marc has way to many whiskeys?)

Blogs are efficient but podcasting adds more to blogs..Podcasting allows you to know someone more.. and take them to a new place that you can’t do with text (blogs) … podcasting allows you to listen in your car and places where you don’t normally read.

Big RSS announcement from Microsoft at Gnomedex ?

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Supernova 2005: NextPage Execs on Document Chaos

Admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:05:51 +0000

Guest(s); Cydni Tetro and Tom Ngo of NextPage.com

Host: John Furrier, Founder of PodTech.net

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I had a great chat with the two leading executives of NextPage Cydni the VP of Marketing and Tom the CTO. I am a skeptic on enterprise software given the world is moving away from traditional software, but I’m impressed with the NextPage story. Complexity of documents only will grow. These guys seem to have the right model in terms of reducing the hassles of users and increasing the productivity for users. The key seems to be the deployment scenario for enterprises. This is must listen for IT Managers and CIOs.

Most large enterprise pour good money after bad into software based document management issues. NextPage is a service for the document chaos problem that only gets worse in the “real time web”. This is very informative in order to understand a old and growing problem in document complexity in the new world of managed services.

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