Bob Stein of Voyager and The Criterion Collection
Summary: Bob Stein was the founder of Voyager, publisher of the first consumer CDROM titles, and, far and away the leader of the CDROM industry …
Posts in category Interview
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August 8, 2016 Joel Johnson on Gawker and the Rise of Professional Blogging
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July 31, 2016 Inventor of the First Digital Camera, Steven Sasson
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June 12, 2016 Hunter Walk Talks Second Life, Google Adsense and YouTube
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May 22, 2016 Larry Kramer, Founder of MarketWatch.com
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May 15, 2016 Co-Founder of Tesla, Marc Tarpenning
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Rob Malda (@cmdrtaco) on SlashDot and Social Media
Summary: You might know him as Rob Malda, or you might know him as CmdrTaco, but he was the founder of the great geek social …
Dave Winer on The Open Web, Blogging, Podcasting and More
Summary: Dave Winer has been called the godfather of a lot of things. The godfather of blogging. The Godfather of Podcasting. One of the key …
Giphy with Nicole LaPorte
Summary: Nicole Laporte has a cover story in Fast Company magazine this month about Giphy, potentially the next big story in online advertising and marketing, …
Om Malik on Blogging and Web2.0
Summary: Om Malik is, of course, a legend. One of the first journalists on the “tech beat” in the 1990s, one of the first bloggers to …
The Story of the AOL/Time Warner Merger
Summary: What is generally considered the worst merger of all time, and certainly the crescendo event of the dotcom bubble era, today we take a …
David Shen on Early Yahoo and the Maturation of Online Advertising
Summary: David Shen was employee #17 at Yahoo, where he eventually had a hand in, not only the birth of advertising as the primary business …
Facebook’s First Senior Software Engineer, Karel Baloun
Summary: Karel Baloun was the first senior software engineer hired at Facebook in 2005. This was after the Accel round of funding, when Facebook truly …
Don Melton on Apple, Safari, WebKit and Netscape
Summary Don Melton is popularly known as the father of the Safari web browser or WebKit. He’s basically a web browser legend. Not only does …
The First Text Message With Neil Papworth
Summary The first text message (or, to be accurate, SMS message) was sent on December 3, 1992. It was sent by Neil Papworth, and it …