Jeff Bussgang on Open Market and Early eCommerce
Summary: It gets my goat that these days, the history of ecommerce begins and ends with Amazon. There were so many companies and big ideas …
Posts in category Podcast
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September 4, 2016 Mike Slade on 80s Microsoft, NeXT, Starwave and Steve Jobs’ Return to Apple
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August 8, 2016 Joel Johnson on Gawker and the Rise of Professional Blogging
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July 31, 2016 Inventor of the First Digital Camera, Steven Sasson
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June 12, 2016 Hunter Walk Talks Second Life, Google Adsense and YouTube
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May 22, 2016 Larry Kramer, Founder of MarketWatch.com
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The Forgotten Story of PLATO, with Brian Dear
Summary: Plato was an online and interactive learning computer system developed in the 1960s at the University of Illinois. But in the early 1970s, Plato …
Bob Stein of Voyager and The Criterion Collection
Summary: Bob Stein was the founder of Voyager, publisher of the first consumer CDROM titles, and, far and away the leader of the CDROM industry …
Rob Malda (@cmdrtaco) on SlashDot and Social Media
Summary: You might know him as Rob Malda, or you might know him as CmdrTaco, but he was the founder of the great geek social …
Dave Winer on The Open Web, Blogging, Podcasting and More
Summary: Dave Winer has been called the godfather of a lot of things. The godfather of blogging. The Godfather of Podcasting. One of the key …
Giphy with Nicole LaPorte
Summary: Nicole Laporte has a cover story in Fast Company magazine this month about Giphy, potentially the next big story in online advertising and marketing, …
Om Malik on Blogging and Web2.0
Summary: Om Malik is, of course, a legend. One of the first journalists on the “tech beat” in the 1990s, one of the first bloggers to …
The Story of the AOL/Time Warner Merger
Summary: What is generally considered the worst merger of all time, and certainly the crescendo event of the dotcom bubble era, today we take a …
David Shen on Early Yahoo and the Maturation of Online Advertising
Summary: David Shen was employee #17 at Yahoo, where he eventually had a hand in, not only the birth of advertising as the primary business …
Facebook’s First Senior Software Engineer, Karel Baloun
Summary: Karel Baloun was the first senior software engineer hired at Facebook in 2005. This was after the Accel round of funding, when Facebook truly …