Archive for October, 2009
Why Ariel Waldman is going to Supervova (from here):
“[Supernova is a] conference about “understanding how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world”. From web privacy to web standards, Supernova is great about booking speakers who not only live and breathe the issues they’re discussing, but actively fight for the progress of them in their daily life. Here’s a few people and talks I’m looking forward to from the current line-up:
Speakers:
• Marko Ahtisaari (Dopplr)
• Kevin Bankston (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Danah Boyd (Microsoft Research)
Talks:
• Social Networks in the Workplace (definitely a talk that’s of personal interest due to my experiences at NASA)
• Updating Copyright Law: A Fair (Use) Fight? (Jason Schultz… Read More
Professor Eric Clemons is no stranger to online controversy. His recent posts on the popular TechCrunch blog have generated hundreds of angry comments when he talked about the failure of online advertising. He was even thrown into a “Steel Cage Death Match” debate on the future of online advertising with SearchEngineLand editor Danny Sullivan. But what Eric and I discussed is a further fleshing out of his March, 2009 post about a Theoretical (and fictional as far as we know) anti-trust case that could be brought against Google.
In our talk, Eric describes how a top provider of services, the mid 1980s American Airlines’ Sabre and United Airlines’ Apollo computerized reservations systems,… Read More
Network Age Briefing: Google App Strategy in the Network Age
Noon EDT / 9am PDT (60min)
Thursday, October 29
Episode player:
Permalink to episode:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Supernova/2009/10/29/Apps-in-the-Network-Age
For this week’s Supernova Network Age briefing, we spoke with Google’s Bradley Horowitz about how business and personal productivity applications are changing in the Network Age. Why types of solutions lend themselves to being either highly networked, or delivered over the network? What types of organizations are embracing web-based applications for their critical infrastructure — and what are the points of resistance?
About Bradley Horowitz: Bradley oversees product management for Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Docs, Blogger and Picasa. Before joining Google, Bradley led Yahoo’s advanced… Read More
My name is Adam Greenfield, and I currently work for Nokia in Helsinki, Finland, as head of design direction for service and user interface design. For the past ten years, I’ve worked in the field of user experience – which is to say, at the intersection between ordinary, everyday people, their perceptions, expectations and desires, and the information-technological artifacts that increasingly populate their lives.
At first, this meant discrete things like Web sites and mobile devices, but as early as 2001 I began to develop an interest in ubiquitous computing: what happens when information-processing power begins to evaporate from these discrete boxes we think of as “computers,” and instead takes up… Read More
By, the way, good-friend-of-Supernova Heather Gold will be holding a workshop on “Unpresenting” on November 30 December 4. Here are the details:
For the first time, comedian Heather Gold (npr, SXSWi veteran, Apple) is teaching her unique interactive performance approach to a limited number of participants in a day-long, hands-on workshop.
You’ll learn the emotional mechanics that let you create quick intimacy. Go from talking TO a large group of people to talking WITH them. You already know how to have a great conversation with one person. Learn how to transform your presentations into conversations.
Participants will structure and lead a conversation and receive critique and guidance from Heather.
Who should come
• Anyone who… Read More
Not surprisingly, employee morale and commitment has worsened during the recession — and in response to company actions to cope with the downturn. A recent survey finds that high-performing employees have been substantially more affected than the rank-and-file.
Lin Grensing-Pophal, Human Resource Executive Online, October 2009
… the creative class: a fast-growing, highly educated, and well-paid segment of the workforce on whose efforts corporate profits and economic growth increasingly depend. Members of the creative class do a wide variety of work in a wide variety of industries—from technology to entertainment, journalism to finance, high-end manufacturing to the arts. They do not consciously think of themselves as a class. Yet they share a… Read More
Energy Policy in the Network Age Briefing
1pm EDT / 10am PDT (60min)
Thursday, October 22
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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Supernova/2009/10/22/Scott-Blake-Harris-on-Energy-Policy-in-the-Network-Age
This week’s Supernova Network Age Briefing featured Scott Blake Harris, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy. We spoke first-hand about topics as far ranging as current “Smart Grid” efforts, how technology is changing our thinking about carbon sequestration and nuclear energy, and how cybersecurity intersects with our country’s energy policy.
About our guest: Scott Blake Harris is the General Counsel of the Department of Energy. He was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in March, and was confirmed by the United States Senate in May, 2009. Mr. Harris has practiced… Read More
A unique lineup of leaders are coming to Supernova this year, because it’s the one forum focused on consequences of the Network Age:
The Wharton School is consistently ranked as the world’s best business school. Find out why, from distinguished faculty such as CIBC Prof. of Entrepreneurship and E-commerce Karl Ulrich, IT strategy pioneer Eric Clemons, machine learning expert Shawndra Hill, and Wharton Interactive Media Initiative co-founder Eric Bradlow.
Wonder what the Obama Administration has in store for the tech industry? Ask top Washington policy-makers like Larry Strickling (Assistant Secretary of Commerce and NTIA Administrator), Alec Ross (State Department Sr. Advisor for Innovation), Paul DeSa (FCC Head of Strategy), Scott Blake… Read More
Just finished a sixty minute, all-questions-on-the-record Q&A with the Google Wave team. Here’s the audio:
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This call was part of our ongoing Network Age Briefing series. Sign up here to be notified about future briefings, or to see the archive.
Also, here’s the full chat transcript that was going on concurrently with the call:
*** (03:55:36):Welcome to the Supernova Chat Room.
gerrywastaken says to (04:01:27):
Hi all
Supernova (Cohost) says to (04:01:55):
Hi Gerry
Supernova (Cohost) says to (04:02:04):
<< Howard Greenstein from Supernova
Supernova (Cohost) says to (04:02:34):
Welcome guests and named chatters
yumyumsesame says to (04:02:58):
Hello
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Is anyone in the… Read More
We’re long past the days when you can pickup the phone and ask the operator to connect you to “Pennsyvania 6-5000″. However, the Internet is starting to feel old in that way – we’re running out of addresses for the Internet Protocol Version 4 – yes, those numbers like 192.168.1.1 that one encounters when setting up a home network. In 700 days there won’t be anymore – so we need to move to IP version 6. This move has analogies in the Digital TV transition and the addition of area codes to the phone network a few years ago.
There are big blocks of these numbers that ISPs like AT&T are… Read More
