Topic: Social Networks and Networking
Broadband in the USA is considered to be anything above 200 kb/sec. In Japan and South Korea broadband is defined as 100 mb/sec and above. This Ecomm presentation by Benjamin Joffe discusses striking differences between the Western world's current technological capability and Asia's. From content infrastructure, to business models, to social networking, Joffe explores what can be learned from the Pacific rim's innovations.
Join best-selling author Steven Berlin Johnson as he discusses the changing face of online journalism, one in which citizen journalists and bloggers are news gatherers and information curators. Both journalists and techies alike are providing new ways to share and consume content, and creating rich relations between consumers and providers of information. Members of this new media are also required to wear many hats, from local news reporter to database administrator.
What makes an application platform a lasting success? Vint Cerf, the co-inventor of TCP/IP, Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, and Tim Sparapani, Facebook' Director of Public Policy, talk about their experience building international, highly adopted platforms in a discussion moderated by John Markoff.
Congressman John Culberson R-TX is TWL - Tweeting While Legislating. Espousing the power of the "fun" of "town meetings and tea parties," he's committed to bringing the real-time, blow-by-blow of Congressional deliberations to his subscribers. This moderated speech and discussion with Tim O'Reilly draws a loose analogy between technological innovation and government, asking: Are transparency and open access always compatible with deliberative process or innovative development?
Dr.Moira Gunn catches up with internet pioneer and author, Jaron Lanier to discuss his new book, You Are Not a Gadget...a Manifesto, where he discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design.
At the 2009 eComm, Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer of Frog Design, talks about a new phase in design exemplified by the likes of Wii and the Android open OS. We currently live in two worlds, the real and the virtual, mediated by 'white boxes' less and less limited by functional distinction. Rolston ponders what we want to do next, what we'll be able to do next, and how the interface device, if there is one, will look and feel.
In this end-of-year discussion, Jesse Stay and Tyler Whitaker discuss a number of tech topics with Phil and Scott. In addition, to reviewing some recent books and reviewing some computer geek Christmas lists, they also talk about some of the recent software developments surrounding Twitter and Facebook and how each continue to grow in popularity.
You've heard about the real-time communication and collaboration tool Google Wave, but did you know that wave is actually a technology, not a product? In this audio lecture from the Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) 2009, David Wang, one of the lead architects of Google Wave, tells us how any organization can be its own wave provider. Wang discusses an open federation protocol.
Google Wave is early in its introduction and testing phase. In this presentation from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Stephanie Hannon, along with Lars Rasmussen, leads this highly interactive demo and Q&A session, giving attendees a look at Wave's features, profile, and direction.
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.
