On Silicon Graphics with John McCrea (Pt. 1)
Summary: John McCrea is a Zelig-like personality who pops up in so many of the narratives we’ve already covered: Apple. Netscape. Doing battle with Microsoft. …
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October 29, 2017 Dave Winer on The Open Web, Blogging, Podcasting and More
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October 1, 2017 Om Malik on Blogging and Web2.0
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August 13, 2017 Facebook’s First Senior Software Engineer, Karel Baloun
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May 29, 2017 Neil Hunt on Netflix and the Story of Netflix Streaming
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April 16, 2017 The Napster Story with Jordan Ritter
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The Epic Fail of Digg V.4 With Will Larson
Summary: This story has gone down in Silicon Valley lore as the ultimate cautionary tale. Digg was the earliest high flying startup in early social …
Bringing the NYTimes and MSNBC Online With Lisa Napoli
Summary: Lisa Napoli got a job straight out of college at CNN in its earliest days, which is a crazy startup story in it’s own …
Netscape’s Rosanne Siino
Summary: Rosanne Siino has been on my list to talk to from day one of this podcast. As you know, I started by reaching out …
How Politics Came To The Web With Karl Mattson
Today we’re going to go back to take a look at early journalism on the web. Karl Mattson helped launched one of the first political …
Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory
Summary: Claude Shannon was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as “the father of information theory.” In the pantheon of cool people who made …
The Godfather of Streaming Music, Robert Reid
Summary: Robert Reid, the founder of Rhapsody, can be considered the Godfather (founding father?) of the streaming music reality we now live in. But guess what? …
Kottke.org’s Jason Kottke, @jkottke
Summary: Jason Kottke, of kottke.org fame, was one of the early bloggers, one of the first bloggers to go pro, and one of the few …
The History of Java with Todd Sundsted
Summary: People have been yelling at me for years that I’ve not covered more technical aspects of the web’s history, especially things like Java. Specifically …
NYTimes Technology Columnist Farhad Manjoo
Summary: Today, a man who needs no introduction: New York Times Technology Columnist Farhad Manjoo. This episode was recorded about two months or so ago, …