Topic: Social Networks and Networking
Jeff & Joel are joined by Steve Karantza, better know as Shirlock Homes, our #1 user on the DIY Stack Exchange. Steve is also our first non-programmer oriented guest on the podcast!
The future is not just in social media's connection to people but in "discovery:" the virtual exploration of physical spaces. This is what Dennis Crowley, founder of Foursquare, believes is the future of location applications. The check-in provides more than just the ability to see "who" is around but to see "what" is around. Dennis believes the combination of rewards, badges, tips and discovery are what make Foursquare successful.
This week, Jeff and Joel are joined by Greg Wilson, an author, developer, and former university professor, who is also an expert on open source software development. Once make it through the jokes and get his mic sounding great, we can jump in and explore all kinds of interesting topics from favorite Canadian airlines to Microsoft data studies.
The Know Your Meme team gives this fast-tempo and seamless presentation of Know Your Meme as an important node of internet culture and folklore. Comparing themselves to American musicologist and folklorist John Lomax, they delineate the issues of internet meme-recording: even where you might think there's too much information, you still don't have any guarantee that it will be there forever.
This week, Jeff and Joel are joined live "in studio" by Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper and formerly the lead developer at Tumblr.
It's our first test of a live podcast! In case you missed it, we streamed this week's podcast live during the taping. It's something we're playing with and may continue to do in the future if it is popular. You can tune in to the live tapings Tuesdays @ 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific -- check Joel and Jeff's Twitter feeds for the location.
Modular self-healing self-directing robots that can work together independently to achieve tasks... This sounds like something out of a Science Fiction film. Per Sjoborg talks with Dr. Chih-Han Yu of the Computer Science department at Harvard University about ground-breaking work inspired by biology. Dr. Yu discusses his work with mechanical locomotion and artificial intelligence, the future of robotics research, and experimental methods of building robots that can cope with uncertainty.
Dave Fetterman calls it a "match made in absolute heaven." The best social content is in the mobile world where things are actually happening. Social networks and mobile media are not just for users anymore, but are becoming channels for developers as well. Hear what is enabling this perfect storm of "mobile content" that is driving the way people interact with the web and each other.
This week, the Stack Exchange podcast travels to England, where Jeff and Joel are joined by Stack Overflow legend Jon Skeet (and son!) along with Marc Gravell.
Jeff and Joel are joined this week by Scott Hanselmen - developer and commenter extraordinaire. Their wide ranging conversation covers everything from the MIX11 conference to the varying quality of salads at Jack in the Bpx - check it out!
