What Was The First Text Message Ever Sent?
What was the first text message ever sent? Who sent it and why? The first text message over SMS was sent by Neil Papworth on …
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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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May 15, 2016 Co-Founder of Tesla, Marc Tarpenning
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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 Almost Had A Mascot Named Pokey
In this week’s episode of the podcast with early Facebook engineer Karel Baloun, we learn that around 2005/2006 Facebook considered launching a company mascot to …
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 …
Ryan Mac on Soundcloud
Summary: Just as last week’s episode posted, another great piece about SoundCloud was posted on Buzzfeed by the great Ryan Mac. So, in a rare …
Christina Warren on SoundCloud
Summary: Our friend Christina Warren is back for another analysis episode. Christina recently posted a tweetstorm about SoundCloud, and its prospects for the future. So …
Don Melton on Apple, Safari, WebKit and Netscape
Summary Don Melton is popularly known as the father of the Safari web browser or WebKit. He’s basically a web browser legend. Not only does …