The Tech Conference Show - Keith Grenin of Sxip (MP3 5.23 mb 7 minutes 37 seconds)
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Sxip promises a single online identity, much like the failed MS Passort system, but expcept this one will work. Keith Grenin gives the lowdown on why the system is good for webmasters and users.
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The Tech Conference Show - Last FM (MP3 6.83 mb 9 minutes 54 seconds)
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Last.FM is social software, but for your music. It takes the tracks you listen to (eg in iTunes) and collates theseto discover your music tastes, create a personal radio station, and then match you up with people that like what you [...]

The Tech Conference Show - George Dyson (MP3 4.79 mb 6 minutes 55 seconds)
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George Dyson, a Historian of Technology, provided one of the most illuminating talks at ETech. Entitled “Turing’s Cathedral” it looked at the historical work of Leibniz and Von Neumann in bridging the world of logic and machines, taking the lessons [...]

The Tech Conference Show - Josh Nauer, Maya Design (MP3 7.22 mb 10 minutes 28 seconds)
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Maya Desgin is one of the many Skunk Work houses that helps design and prototype applications and devices. In many cases, they get it, do their business, and then leave no trace when the company launches. That’s where [...]

The Tech Conference Show - Werewolf, with Arthur Bergman (MP3 6.98 mb 10 minutes 07 seconds)
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Since FooCamp, one of the underground highlights of any O’Reilly Conference has been the ad-hoc games of Werewolf. This year, the social lynching detective role-playing game was programmed as an evening event. Arthur Bergman (and his Segway) was [...]

The Tech Conference Show - Tim O’Reilly (MP3 14.4 mb 21 minutes 08 seconds)
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Tim O’Reilly, the man behind ETech and O’Reilly Media, Inc, took time out between sessions at San Diego to talk about the difference that ETech has made, both in the industry and to people in everyday life. Beyond that, what [...]

The Tech Conference Show - Bruce Sterling (MP3 6.43 mb 9 minutes 18 seconds)
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Bruce Sterling, visionary author of The Hacker Crackdown, was one of the keynote speakers at ETech, talking about “The Internet of Things.” I caught up to ask him what this was, his views on ubbiquitous computing, and pointing out that [...]

The Tech Conference Show - Kareem Mayan (MP3 6.96 mb 10 minutes 5 seconds)
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After all is done, BarCampLA was a good conference. Kareem Mayan, who I spoke to before I flew out to the USA, was one of the organisers. How did the Conference go?

The Tech Conference Show - Travis Kalanick (MP3 8.3 mb 12 minutes 2 seconds)
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Travis Kalanick demoed RedSwoosh to the BarCampLA crowd - a peer to peer file sharing system that can be implemnted byt he web browser/ But it’s not Bit Torrent (they launched before that P2P app). What makes it so different, [...]

The Tech Conference Show - Amy Raymond (MP3 4.98 mb 7 minutes 12 seconds)
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Amy Raymond is behind Cheapskatin LA, a site that helps people filter the thousands of shows that are onin LA by cost. If it’s free, or under five dollars, then it’ll be on her site.