End of Year Checkin With iTunes
On yesterdays ep. I thanked you for keeping us high in the iTunes lists. But I realized I hadn’t actually checked on that in a …
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October 26, 2014 On The 20th Anniversary, An Oral History of the Web’s First Banner Ads
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October 20, 2014 Chapter 5, Supplemental 8 – Wired Magazine Founding Editor John Battelle
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October 13, 2014 Analysis Episode 2 – Talking Early Online Services With Chris Higgins
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October 6, 2014 Chapter 5, Supplemental 7 – Joe McCambley Discusses Advertising and the First Banner Ads
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September 29, 2014 Chapter 5, Supplemental 6 – An Interview With Owen Thomas About Hotwired and Suck
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Chapter 4, Supplemental 8 – Excite Co-Founder Ryan McIntyre
Summary: Ryan McIntyre, along with his fellow Stanford classmates (Graham Spencer, Joe Kraus, Mark Van Haren, Ben Lutch and Martin Reinfried) was one of the …
The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, Co-Founder of Akamai Technologies
Summary: On HBO, the show Silicon Valley is about a young kid who comes up with a billion-dollar algorithm and attempts to build a company …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 8 – Danny Sullivan Talks Search Engine History and the Future of Search
Summary: Danny Sullivan is generally acknowledged as THE expert on the search industry (www.searchengineland.com). Danny first got his start coving search all the way back in …
Did Al Gore Really Invent The Internet?
The Truth About Al Gore Inventing The Internet As you know, often on this podcast, I run across issues or tidbits from the past that …
The Real Reason Excite Turned Down Buying Google For $750,000 In 1999
It’s an infamous story of Internet history as well as business lore, but in 1999, the search engine Excite.com—then running number two to the reigning champion …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 7 – Excite CEO George Bell
Summary: George Bell was the CEO of Excite.com, took that pioneering search engine public, and became the CEO of Excite@Home when he oversaw that major …
Leader of the Internet Explorer Project, Ben Slivka
Summary: I was absolutely thrilled that Ben Slivka agreed to come on the podcast with us. Obviously, we’ve had plenty of oral histories relating to …
Chapter 5, Supplemental 9 – CNET Founder Halsey Minor
Summary: Halsey Minor is an absolutely legend when it comes to the online era. Along with names like Jerry Yang, Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar and others, …
On The 20th Anniversary, An Oral History of the Web’s First Banner Ads
This Is The’s World’s First Banner Ad: This is almost the exact size, almost the exact resolution, exact ad. Of course, it’s not *technically* the …