Amory Lovins - Energy Efficiency in Buildings - Part 2

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Well-designed buildings not only conserve energy and reduce costs but also create conditions for better health and wellness. Amory Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, uses several examples to show how the right mix of materials, resources, and expertise can create structures that celebrate living. From MAP.

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Amory Lovins - Energy Efficient Design For Buildings - Part 1

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Buildings represent an ideal opportunity for reducing energy through clever design. Amory Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, explores the many possibilities that building design offers us to "think outside of the box" in order to save energy. He illustrates his talk with numerous examples of effective design. He also highlights a few cases where smart energy design actually costs less to build, not more! From MAP.

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Ned Gulley - Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators

Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Ned Gulley is a software designer at The Mathworks and the architect of the company's semi-annual MATLAB programming contest. Since 1999 he's watched contestants exhibit a unique blend of competition and cooperation. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Gulley why winning solutions are woven from the contributions of ten or more players.

Guy Kawasaki - The Art of Innovation

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Guy Kawasaki has a long history working in technology, both in established companies and as an entrepreneur. He worked for Apple at the time of the development of the Macintosh and later returned as an Apple Fellow. In this keynote speech, he gives what he believes are the important stages towards successful innovation. He presents the steps in both a humorous and intelligent way, showing what companies must do to be successful.

David Link - Technometria: Technology Appliances

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:00:00 CDT
If you ask the average person for an example of an appliance, he or she would mention a toaster. However, David Link, CEO of ScienceLogic, would give you a completely different example. He joins Phil and Ben to discuss technology appliances. In addition to defining them, he talks about how they are developed and why enterprises find them particularly useful. The group also assess how appliances can be used in a virtual environment, as well as the importance of technology monitoring.

David Bankston - Issues with Software as Service for Social Networking

Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Social networking can transform communication and build powerful connections, but getting it right in the enterprise takes a special touch. David Bankston shares his experience as a technologist and entrepreneur in this lively discussion of ways in which software-as-service and social media can help businesses manage customer feedback and build brands and communities on line.

Vince Poscente - Tech Nation

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Vince Poscente about speed in a More-Faster-Now Technology World.

Dr. Gerard David and Dr. Paul Fisher - BioTech Nation

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Gerard David, the CEO of Catapult Genetics, who talks about genetics testing in the cattle industry, and Australia's Dr. Paul Fisher talks about mitochondrial diseases and the research he is undertaking to meet the challenge.

15 Years of Viagra - Bio-Issue of the Week

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
On the Bio-Issue of the Week - unbelievably - David Ewing Duncan celebrates the 15th anniversary of Viagra.

Jeff Bonforte - Anger Drives Innovation

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Jeff Bonforte was scheduled to talk about the future of VoIP. However, instead of a description of what he calls Telephone 3.0, he delivers an entertaining and typically forthright argument in favor of anger and its power to drive innovation. Bonforte challenges the nerds and dorks of the IT industry to spend less time enjoying problems and to ignite the passion that comes with anger as a way to stimulate innovative ideas and drive the uptake of new technology.

Bradley Horowitz - Technometria

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Many of the large technology companies are well known for purchasing new, innovative products developed by smaller companies. As part of his work at Yahoo, Bradley Horowitz leads in-house teams trying to advance new ideas from within. He joins Phil and Scott to talk about Yahoo's development plans and how the company hopes to grow the next Flickr internally. He also talks about Yahoo's Hack Yahoo program, where developers are given the opportunity to take ideas from idea to prototype in a very short period.

Bdale Garbee - Citizenship: Open Source Community Rewards and Responsibilities

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
The many software development communities that have surfaced over the years have started to see an increasing relevance of social issues around them. They are not just engineering activities but full-fledged social communities. In this talk, Bdale Garbee, the Linux CTO at HP, draws a parallel between real world social communities and open source software development communities revealing similarities in the evolution of both, the issues they're concerned with, from financial viability to gender issues, and the roles and responsibilities of their participants.

Beth Kanter - Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, Beth Kanter describes the strategies she uses to teach digital immigrants in non-profit organizations how to use Web 2.0 strategies to communicate and collaborate more effectively.

Kevin Maney - Tech Nation

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with former USA Today technology columnist Kevin Maney, about his new gig at Conde Nast Portfolio.com, music collaboration over the internet, and the constant trade-offs we make when it comes to choosing between technologies.

Dr. Clive James - BioTech Nation

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the chair of ISAAA's board of directors, Dr. Clive James, about biotech agriculture. He confirms that the United States grows more biotech crops than any other nation.

Bio-Issue of the Week - Bio-Issue of the Week

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
On this week's Bio-Issue, David Ewing Duncan considers the fact that not all scientific studies carry the same weight, despite following all the appropriate guidelines.

Jared Smith - Technometria: Open Source Telephony

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
For many years, only very large businesses could afford to create and deploy innovative voice applications, such as looking up account balances or tying voice applications into their existing business applications. Now, with Asterisk and other open-source applications, the field is wide open for businesses of all different sizes. Jared Smith, Community Relations Manager of Digium, the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform, joins Phil and Scott to discuss the present and future of open source telephony.

Dave Gynn - Enterprise Open Source Directory

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Optaros started an internal list of open source projects that become the Enterprise Open Source Directory, a growing online community still under the editorial guidance of Optaros. The EOSD includes case studies, grouping of software by categories, and Optaros' trend rating showing which open source projects are stable, up-and-comers or fading glories. Gynn explains why the directory includes open source software whose license does not match the Open Software Initiative's definition of open source, as well as commercial versions of open source software.

Update from The Conversations Network - September 16, 2007

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
This brief program is an update from The Conversations Network's Executive Director, Doug Kaye. Topics include the status of the re-integration of IT Conversations into The Conversations Network, a pitch for new volunteers, a new version of The Levelator, and The Conversations Network's plans for the Podcast and New Media Expo.

Joshua Spanogle - Tech Nation

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Joshua Spanogle, author of a number of medical thrillers, and student at the Standford Medical School, about the bio-ethics of cosmetic surgery.

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