8/15/06: Podcast Listening Update

• Bret Taylor, Google, Inc., talked about Inside Google Maps. Bret covers the strategy and use of Google Maps richly and well. Good presentation.
• Derek Powazek, Technorati, talked about The New Community. This is an insightful and well delivered presentation. Derek does a good job building the case the Web 1.0 was basicaly about company towns. A company town is characterized by the central control features one might expect. As the web is maturing, people are participating more and the tools on the web are doing the collating and and aggregating to present the broader view. I highly recommend this presentation.
• Dr. C. K. Prahalad, University of Michigan, talked about Emerging Hi-Tech Ecosystems. Dr. Prahalad drives home the point that outsourcing is not just about cost savings. It is also about quality. He builds a solid case that is yet one more sources of evidence that, in Thomas Friedman's words, the world is flat.
• Dr. Glen Elliott, Director of The Children’s Center and Author of "Medicating Young Minds", talked with Dr. Moira Gunn of Tech Nation about prescribing psychiatric drugs to children. This was an informative and well articulated discussion.
• Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, talked with Tim O'Reilly at the Web 2.0 Conference. I always find it interesting to listen to conversations with the "so greats" of the Internet age. This one was not a disappointment. Jeff sounds so nice and insightful all at the same time. Tim and Jeff talk about search and how it is used on Amazon and how it influences the use of Amazon amongst other topics. Very interesting.
• Kaj Arno, VP of Community Relations of MySQL AB, talked about MySQL on Opening Move. This conversation included his thoughts about patents, the GPL 3.0, and licensing in general. He also talked about efforts for use of MySQL in .Net environments. Good presentation.
• Marc Hedlund, O'Reilly Media, talked about Future-Proofing Your Privacy. Marc talked about why it might be important to be aware of how your data is stored on, well, resources like this, blogger. Can you export it? Can you delete it? If you can't, maybe you no longer own it once you put it out there. With Web 2.0 increasing the opportunity for people to put more data out there and for search engines to find and correlate it, we may need a some form of license that still lets people have some control of their information. A very interesting presentation.
• Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, talked about the Participation Revolution. This is a third presentation in this series. Yochai talked about how the participation enabled by the web can show how individuals can out perform organizations on some tasks using peer-to-peer. The business models built upon the passive consumer will continue to find themselves challenged as the consumer becomes more active and engaged with other consumers (listen up Hollywood).