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More than RoommatesEpisode 118 - Small Things Make a Big Difference in Marriage – (feat. Shaunti Feldhahn and Brian Goi In Part 2 of their interview with Shaunti Feldhahn and Brian Goins, Derek, Gabrielle, and Scott discuss how the little things truly matter in marriage. We discuss the importance of believing the best about our spouse and why we need a combination of quality and quantity time together. Scriptures:1 Peter 3:9Rom 2:4Phil 4:8 Questions to Discuss:What are some small changes you can make in your marriage that could make a big difference?How do you and your spouse do at believing the be...2025-03-0430 minMore than RoommatesEpisode 117 - Changing the Way We Talk About Marriage – (feat. Shaunti Feldhahn and Brian Goins) In Part 1 of a 2-Part interview, Gabrielle, Derek, and Scott interview Shaunti Feldhahn and Brian Goins about the small things that make all the difference in marriage. In Part 1 we discuss the myth that 50% of all marriages end in divorce and why it’s harmful to perpetuate this myth Scriptures:1 Cor 13:13Hebrews 3:131 Cor 7:28 Questions to Discuss:How can you build your sense of hope in your marriage?What would you tell a young couple before they get married? How would you encou...2025-02-2526 min
Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business1032: One of the most famous PR stunts EVER + insights into marketing creativity w/ Daryl McCulloughStep into the world of marketing magic with our special guest, Daryl McCullough, a luminary in the marketing and communications field. From humble beginnings at Albright College to orchestrating global campaigns for giants like Procter & Gamble and Taco Bell, Daryl's journey is a masterclass in communication excellence. In this episode, listeners will uncover the secrets behind his artistry, including the legendary Taco Liberty Bell stunt—a brilliant April Fool's Day campaign that captivated a nation and showcased the unrivaled power of creative marketing.Listeners will gain invaluable insights into effective marketing strategies as Daryl unpacks the importance of...2025-02-0137 min
Secrets of Rockstar CFOsTyler Technologies With Brian MillerTyler Technologies is at the forefront of innovation in the public sector, and its CFO, Brian Miller, is leading the charge. He joins Jack McCullough to discuss the company's growth, its focus on providing innovative software solutions for the public sector, and the importance of cultivating a strong workplace culture. Brian also shares valuable insights about the evolution of the CFO role, the future of technology in government and the market, and how to champion inclusivity and diversity in the corporate world.2025-01-0736 min
Daily DetroitHow Detroit (and Michigan) could grow more startups and tech (ft. Brian McCullough)There has been a lot of talk about growing Detroit, Southeast Michigan and Michigan's economy through startups and technology. But how do you actually do it - not just here, but in a number of cities across the country that aren't Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York City or other existing hubs? I thought I'd get some outside perspective with some experience dealing with Michigan, in Brian McCullough. Not only is he the founder and host of the daily Techmeme Ride Home podcast (among others), he's an enterpreneur, investor, and internet historian. We have a very...2024-11-1927 min
Metacast: Behind the scenes[RERUN] Brian McCullough, the host of Techmeme Ride Home and Internet History PodcastThis is a re-run of our "very second episode" originally published on Jan 11, 2023.--For our second episode (and the very first one with a guest!), we sat down with Brian McCullough, creator of the Internet History Podcast, one of Ilya’s all-time favorite podcasts. Brian’s current podcast is Techmeme Ride Home, a popular daily summary of tech news that has over a million downloads every month. Brian is also an investor running the Ride Home Fund and a resident at TED (check out Brian’s talk).Brian is on Twitter as @brianmcc (https://twi...2023-12-131h 45
Business Books & Co.How the Internet Happened with Brian McCulloughHow the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough is a history of the companies, entrepreneurs, technologists, and financiers who launched the modern online world. Covering the years 1993 to 2008, this sweeping volume helps the reader understand not only who the important players were in fostering online communities, e-commerce, social networks, and connected mobile computing, but also the context from which they emerged. We are pleased to be joined by the author of How the Internet Happened, Brian McCullough.
Show Notes
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough via...2023-07-241h 12
Metacast: Behind the scenes2. The Past and the Present of the Internet with Brian McCulloughFor our second episode (and the very first one with a guest!), we sat down with Brian McCullough, creator of the Internet History Podcast, one of Ilya’s all-time favorite podcasts. Brian’s current podcast is Techmeme Ride Home, a popular daily summary of tech news that has over a million downloads every month. Brian is also an investor running the Ride Home Fund and a resident at TED (check out Brian’s talk).
Brian is on Twitter as @brianmcc (https://twitter.com/brianmcc).
Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/002-brian-mccullough-internet-history
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The Founder's Forge PodcastBrian McCullough on the Stigma of EntrepreneurshipThis week, Owen and Marcus have the incredible privilege of chatting with Brian McCullough, founder, author, and host of one of our favorite podcasts Techmeme Ride Home. We talk about what it’s like to be an entrepreneur, how there’s almost a stigma there, how the entire industry is in a shift, what it means to be a nerd and why it matters, and Brian shares his insight on whether or not now is a good time to start working on your own business, (spoiler alert: it is). Brian is one of the most knowledgeable people in the tech...2022-05-1233 min
The Climate of SportWith guest, Dr Brian McCulloughThis week Claire is joined by Dr Brian McCullough of Texas A&M University and The Sport Ecology Group. Brian is one of leading global academics on sport and sustainability and they discuss everything from the environmental impact of sport organisations, strategies to implement environmental initiatives, and how data can be used to promote behavioural change among sport spectators and participants. Enjoy! #ClimateofSport #SportPositive Support the show2022-03-2538 min
E1 - College ScoopsEpisode 105: The Pros and Cons of Homeschooling with Brian StewartEveryone’s educational path is different. Some may find success on a more traditional path and others may find that the best fit is an alternative option like homeschooling. In this episode, Brian Stewart, founder of BWS Education Consulting, takes the time to share the pros and cons of homeschooling. As a parent who homeschools his children, Brian sheds some light on the process and gives advice to parents who are interested in an alternative to the traditional educational approach to schooling.
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Three Minutes of Meditationfocus on the NOWCo-Hosts:
Brian McCullough and Rylan Flint
Music by:
Nate Lieske
Three minutes of meditation has its first one week turn around in a year. Keep up with your random Wikipedia articles, meta-questions, and the ever-changing lives’ of our two hosts. There’s a more intimate tone to this week’s discussion as Brian and Rylan draw on their personal lives to discuss the past and future of personal lives and humanity in general. The episode also features the first time Rylan asks 2/3 meta middle questions, stay tuned for the wise questions of you...2021-01-1934 minThree Minutes of MeditationA Proposition for President PinesThe is a quote from the episode listen close to find out who says it.
Co-Hosts:
Brian McCullough and Rylan Flint
Music by:
Nate Lieske
Three minutes of meditation returns for season 2! Start your 2021 off right with your favorite podcast. This season still features your two favorite hosts, but with slightly better audio quality courtesy of a new mic. Our hosts have some trouble shaking off the nerves associated with the intense pressure of a second season but soon fall back into the classic tropes of every great TMM...2021-01-1533 min
E1 - College ScoopsEpisode 25: Tips from the Essayists - Cheryl and Brian KlamThe college essay is a daunting task for many seniors in high school with only 650 words to convince an admissions counselor to fall in love with you. How can students make their essays stand out? Hasn’t every topic been written about? What are some ways to help admissions readers root for them as the hero of their college essay?
Cheryl and Brian Klam bring in real-world experience in creative writing to help students tackle the college essay in a new and exciting way.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/college-scoops/support2020-09-0142 min
Climate ChampionsSsn2 Ep 1 - Dr. Brian McCulloughBrian McCullough is the Co-Director of The Sport Ecology Group and an Associate Professor of Sport Management at Texas A&M University. He joins the podcast to share his story of becoming a sport ecologist and discusses his latest research on fan engagement and measuring environmental impact.2020-07-1324 minThree Minutes of Meditation"I want to hear you guys talk about me cause thats always fun"The Title quote is from the episode listen close to find out who says it.
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Co-Hosts:
Brian McCullough and Rylan Flint
Guest Star:
Matt Stas
Music by:
Nate Lieske
Three minutes of meditation returns! After a long absence from the mike Brian and Rylan return to action with our first guest speaker Matt Stas. Matt shares a lot in common with the TMM team being a University of Maryland student and a roommate of the co-hosts. He offers up his intellectual capabilities...2020-05-0736 minThree Minutes of MeditationUnprepared = Unscripted = Max EntertainmentEpisode 5 comes after a two week break where despite the extra time Brian and Rylan managed to continue their streak of minimal prepartion to deliver a normal episode in the sea of corona virus chaos that has changes our society immeasurably. Brian and Rylan come back to the mike in order to faithfully deliver 30 minutes of thought provoking conversation to our listeners favorite organ: the brain.
Wiki Welcome
Harold Peterman (politician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Peterman
2016 Bermudian same-sex union and marriage referendum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_B...2020-03-3031 minThree Minutes of MeditationThe really really big and the really really smallEpisode 4
Music intro and outro by Nate Lieske (boy chef)
Wiki Welcome
William Andrew Charlton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1155
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1155
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Andrew_Charlton
Manuel Seoane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Seoane
Meta Middle:
Will their come a point where humans can’t get fully educated before they die?
What do you think about compartmentalizing yourself into stereotypes?
...2020-03-1034 minThree Minutes of Meditation"Three minutes spent growing your mind can rekindle ambition and clarify a path forward"The title quote is again from our co-host Brian McCullough.
This week Brian and Rylan test their mental concentration by implementing a new show format that limits the time spent on each topic to three minutes. The new format splits the show into three segments the wiki welcome, meta middle, and current conclusion.
Wiki Welcome:
2003 Rugby world cup Statistics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Rugby_World_Cup#Statistics
Andy Scherrer saxophone jazz musician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Scherrer
Wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boa...2020-03-0329 minThree Minutes of Meditation"The best part about conversations is that they're free"The title quote is from one of our very own hosts Brian McCullough.
This weeks discussion takes us on an adventure through time and space as the conversation quickly jumps from the 346th test squadron Wikipedia article to world war 2 and the space force. Avid listeners that make it past the first 5 minutes will be treated to a discussion on Geography, our apartment buildings history with fire, and first person accounts of our summer jobs.
link to Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/346th_Test_Squadron2020-02-2428 minThree Minutes of Meditation"Getting old sucks, but its better than the alternative"Title quote is from mark Twain
Brian and Rylan take to the mike to discuss various topics branching off from our random Wikipedia article on count palatine of Sulzbach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christian,_Count_Palatine_of_Sulzbach
The discussion rumbles on to cover the concept of royalty, and your favorite mode of transportation on campus: bikes, and our favorite sport, the pure sport of running.2020-02-1329 minThree Minutes of MeditationShow IntroWe briefly discuss what the show will be about.2020-01-1701 min
Internet History Podcast201. The History of Audible With Angelika FuellemannAngelika Fuellemann is a designer who worked early on with BookSense.com, then got hired by Audible early on, so this is the early story of Audible. It’s funny… audio, streaming music, podcasts, audiobooks, it seems so obvious now, but it really is funny to look back and think about how off the wall this seamed before the smartphone. You mean books on tape will be a thing?
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Internet History Podcast200. Professional Blogging Pioneer Josh MarshallJosh Marshall is one of the key people who brought blogging into the realm of serious, award winning and respectable journalism. The story of his blog/publication, Talking Points Memo, or TPM is the story of blogging becoming legit and serious, but also the story of modern media over the last 20 years of digital disruption.
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CuriositynessThe History of the Internet | Brian McCulloughHow did the internet as we know it come to be? Brian McCullough documents and shares loads of information about The Internet Era from Netscape, 1995, to the present day. In this episode, we cover the explosion of Netscape, Microsoft's take over, search engines, the Dotcom bubble, and even the future of tech and the internet. This is a fascinating episode non-techies will enjoy! For more internet history visit: http://www.internethistorypodcast.com Get Brian’s book, How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone: https://amzn.to/2XHOe3b For up...2019-07-0159 min
Internet History Podcast199. Is Tech Making Us- Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?Is technology really rotting our brains, destroying our society... or is that what everyone has always worried about with every technological advance, going back to tv, or telephones, or even writing letters? The new book, Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter tries to look at this question from a historical perspective. Is it really different this time? But more importantly... to what degree has technological change impacted how we think of things, and vice-versa.My thanks to the authors, Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt.
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Internet History Podcast198. Inventor of the Hashtag, Chris MessinaWell, as we say in this episode, he’ll always be known as the inventor of the hashtag, but Chris Messina has been central to so many things in tech over the last 20 years or so. Helped Mozilla launch Firefox. Founded BarCamp where so much Web 2.0 goodness happened and was launched. Cofounded the first co-working space in San Francisco. Helped Google try to grok social with Google+. Oh, and that hashtag business.
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Internet History Podcast197. The Internet Bookshop Story With the Tech Business History PodcastI’ve said before I wish I could cover technology history beyond just North America, more… Well, Charles Miller has started a great podcast in Britain called Tech Business History. Charles used to report on the tech business as a BBC documentary producer. In the first series of his podcast, he’s exploring the dot com boom in the UK with some of the people he met when he was filming for the BBC back in 1999. It’s a fantastic show that I’ve fallen in love with, so what I want to do is play you an episode from his s...2019-06-0200 min
Internet History Podcast196. Google, Twitter and More With Karen WickreEveryone knows Karen Wickre, because she’s one of those classic connectors. Once we finally got in touch, I wasn’t surprised to learn we knew about half a dozen of the same people though we had never remotely crossed paths. But Karen knows everyone because she’s popped up Zelig-like in a bunch of interesting places over the course of tech history over the last 30 years or so. Early tech journalism. Planet Out. Early Google employee. Early blogger. Early tweeter. Editorial Director at Twitter. Karen has a great book out that you should read, explaining how to do what s...2019-05-1800 min
Internet History Podcast195. Microsoft CTO Kevin ScottKevin Scott is the current Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. We talk about his entire career, how being an academic seemed to be his path before he transformed the ads system at Google. Then he revolutionized the entire advertising industry at AdMob; is credited by some people by saving LinkedIn from technical rot; and now, today, oversees Microsoft's efforts in AI, VR/AR all the future things. Fantastic conversation.Kevin's podcast is: Behind the Tech
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Internet History Podcast194. The History of the ISP Industry With Sonic's Dane JasperToday we continue my efforts to preserve the history of the ISP industry. Today it feels like the Internet is simply all around us all the time, but there are amazing entrepreneurial stories about how that crucial infrastructure was laid. Today we talk to Sonic founder Dane Jasper, who can not only give us the history of the industry, but the present day as well, as Sonic is still a thriving and important independent ISP.
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Internet History Podcast193. The Home Page Film With Doug Block20 years ago, the acclaimed documentarian Doug Block released a landmark film, Home Page. Doug’s documentary accidentally chronicled the birth of blogging, featuring several people we’ve talked to on this very show, including Justin Hall. But the documentary also captured a moment in time, the web going mainstream, the beginnings of the dotcom bubble, the early days of Wired, Hotwired and Suck and also so many of the things I ask people about on here regularly. How people learned to live online, to begin to port all of modern life over to the digital. Well, Home Page is cele...2019-04-0700 min
Internet History Podcast192. Hulu's Founding and Digital Design With Dan MaccaroneDan Maccarone is a digital design veteran, websites, products, strategy. He's got some amazing stories about the dotcom bubble, about the aftermath, and the rise of Web 2.0. He shares some unique design lessons but also, the story of the birth of Hulu, which I don't think has really been covered anywhere before.
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Podcast Junkies - Storytelling Interviews & Conversations with Podcasters Podcasting Passionately190 Brian McCullough - Reporting the Daily Tech NewsHarry Duran welcomes entrepreneur, author, tech junkie, angel investor, and fellow podcaster, Brian McCullough. Brian is the host of Techmeme Ride Home, a podcast that provides listeners with the latest tech news in 15 – 20-minute bite-sized chunks daily. He is also the founder of Internet History Podcast based off his book, How the Internet Happened. This episode covers a wide array of topics including, the difference between daily and weekly podcasts, the workflow of dynamic ad insertion, and the process of monetizing these ads to build a profitable show. Brian discusses the ever-evolving nature of the Internet, as well as hi...2019-03-151h 01
Internet History Podcast191. Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky Part 2Part two of the WSJ's online adventures intersect with several other stories we've covered on here over the years.
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Software Engineering DailyInternet History (and Future) with Brian McCulloughThe Internet has transformed humanity. The Internet is the result of a long series of innovations from military, academia, business, and the open source community. In his book, How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, Brian McCullough tells the story of the last 25 years of Internet development through the lens of companies like ebay, Amazon, Google, and Apple. Whereas other books have focused on the trajectory of these individual companies, Brian explains how innovations in one company often lead to success in another. Without the lessons from Napster, we might not have Spotify...2019-03-011h 02
Business and PhilosophyInternet History (and Future) with Brian McCullough
The Internet has transformed humanity.
The Internet is the result of a long series of innovations from military, academia, business, and the open source community. In his book, How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, Brian McCullough tells the story of the last 25 years of Internet development through the lens of companies like ebay, Amazon, Google, and Apple.
Whereas other books have focused on the trajectory of these individual companies, Brian explains how innovations in one company often lead to success in another. Without the lessons from Napster, we might not...2019-03-0159 min
Internet History Podcast190. Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich JaroslovskyWe’ve had a couple of people come on here to discuss how the New York Times got online, but the spiritual yin to their yang is the Wall Street Journal and we haven’t done enough to explore their path to embracing the internet. It’s worth doing that because they embraced a different model from basically day one. Almost alone among the web media pioneers, the Journal went the subscription route. So, we’re going to talk to Rich Jaroslovksy, who headed the team that brought the Journal online, to see why they went that route, to learn ab...2019-02-2500 min
Political Economy with Jim PethokoukisBrian McCullough on ‘How the Internet Happened’On this episode, podcaster and serial entrepreneur Brian McCullough discusses the rise of the early internet companies, the dot-com bubble, and whether today's Big Tech companies poses a threat to Silicon Valley's tradition of innovation.
The post Brian McCullough on ‘How the Internet Happened’ appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.2019-02-2135 min
Ambition Today, Startup Stories with Kevin SiskarBrian McCullough How The Internet Happened & What Is Happening Today Approaching two decades later, our guest, Brian McCullough’s company is still going strong. Brian is CEO of ResumeWriters.com which is the longest lasting company for this service, shout out to Brian. Not only is he a successful entrepreneur, he is also the Author of “How The Internet Happened.” In 2016, he became a Ted Talk Resident, and is also known for his podcasts: Internet History Podcast and Techmeme Ride Home, which is a News Aggregator that now gives you a daily dose of tech news. Brian grew up in Florida with no entrepreneurial background as his parent...2019-02-2136 min
Techmeme Ride HomeWed. 02/20 - Galaxy Fold!The foldable phone is here! And some regular new Galaxies too. Other stuff... (I'm late posting today... sorry! In a rush!)
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Apple Plans on Combining iPhone, iPad, Ma...2019-02-2000 min
Internet History Podcast189. A Legal History of the Web Era With Richard ChapoIt’s bothered me for a while that over the 5 years or so of this podcast, we haven’t focused very much on some corners of the history. For example… the legal side? Copyright law? Intellectual property law? How much have we talked about disruption and piracy and filesharing and all that stuff? So, I spoke to Richard Chapo, who has been doing Internet Law since the web went mainstream. We talk about the Napster era, we talk about how much of an influence the adult industry had on digital law, we talk about the state of digital law today...2019-02-1000 minInternet History Podcast188. TheGlobe.com Story With Stephan Paternot Part IIIPart three of our epic conversation with Stephan Paternot. Here's what happens when you've been through the wringer. When you've been to the top of the rollercoaster and also down to the bottom. Here's how you take stock of your life, how you reinvent yourself, re-find you entrepreneurial spirit... I feel like there are so many lessons in these three episodes. Lessons for entrepreneurs today. Lesson for... I dunno. People in the crypto space? My thanks to Stephan Paternot for an insanely great conversation.
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2019-01-2600 minInternet History Podcast187. TheGlobe.com Story with Stephan Paternot Part IIOk, part 2 of the Stephan Paternot mega-episode right now. This is where we get into the meat of it, the good stuff, the whole crazy roller coaster ride of being the hottest startup of the dotcom era. And I was going to make this the last episode, but as I was editing this, I realized that after we get done with this story, Stephan talks a lot about what happens after... what happens after you've been on a crazy ride like this. How you have to reinvent yourself, and your life, and your career. He said so many interesting...2019-01-0600 min
7 Minute Security7MS #342: Interview with Matt McCulloughMatt McCullough (a.k.a. Matty McFly on Slack) joined me in the studio to talk about his wild and crazy path to security. He started literally with no technical experience, but through a lot of hard work, aggressive networking and taking advantage of educational and career opportunities, Matt now rocks a SOC job. Matt and I sat down to talk about a lot of good stuff: How to start an IT career as "the family IT guy" Leveraging a higher education (at places like Lake Superior College to meet people of influence and start...2018-12-271h 45Internet History Podcast186. TheGlobe.com Story with Stephan PaternotI said in the book, I think TheGlobe.com was the quintessential dot-com company. We spoke to one of the cofounders previously, Todd Krizelman. Todd was great, but he was time constrained and he didn’t quite get as personal about the story as I would have hoped. Well, I finally got to talk to the other founder of TheGlobe, Stephan Paternot. And Stephan was… AMAZING. He shared the whole story, the whole wild ride, from a historical angle, from a business angle, from an entrepreneurial angle and also, from a very personal angle. THIS the dot-com era story I’ve...2018-12-2400 min
Internet History Podcast185. Ripple's David SchwartzDavid Schwartz is the Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, the company behind the cryptocurrency XRP. What is it like to start, build and build out a crypto startup? Is it different than the web and internet startups that we’ve covered on this show for years? What is Ripple? How is it unique in the crypto ecosystem? What is it trying to do for the world? All of this… and yes, why is crypto so tribal… and yes… where is the crypto space even at in this moment in time (December 9th, 2018, btw, for posterity).
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Internet History Podcast184. GV's Ken NortonKen Norton is a partner at GV, Alphabets venture capital arm, but before that, he was a product manager at Google, where he led the development of products like Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Mobile Maps. But he was also early at JotSpot which became Google sites, was a product manager at Yahoo, was an early employee at CNET and was CTO of Snap, a company probably none of you have ever heard of but I’ve been dying to talk about for years. No. Not snapchat. The original Snap. The dotcom era snap. So, this is another gr...2018-11-2500 min
Internet History Podcast183. Selling the First Facebook Ads, With Matt BrittonMatt Britton not only sold the first ads to and for Facebook, way back in 2004, he gives us a really insightful and, frankly, unbiased look at what Facebook was like as a company in its very earliest days.
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Internet History PodcastEmergency Podcast AnnouncementEmergency Podcast Announcement Link to Amazon
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Internet History Podcast182. Google's Matt Cutts @mattcuttsI figure most of you should know who Matt Cutts is, but if you don't, let's just leave it at this: he's about to give you the best, most behind-the-scenes oral history of early Google we've gotten so far on this podcast. He was the head of Google's web spam team for nearly 15 years. He's also the current head of the USDS, so if you what to know what YOU can do for your country—if you're in technology and you want to make the government work better—listen to this episode!
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Hidden ForcesBrian McCullough | How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhoneIn Episode 66 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with serial technology entrepreneur and host of the Internet History Podcast, as well as the Techmeme Ride Home, Brian McCullough. Brian is also the author of HOW THE INTERNET HAPPENED, published by Liveright, a subsidiary of W.W. Norton. In 2014 he was the co-founder of a startup human named Penelope, and in 2016 he launched Maxwell into beta. In March of 1989, CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal to develop a distributed information system for the laboratory. “Vague, but exciting,” was the comment that his supervisor, Mike Sendall, wrote on the...2018-10-231h 11
Internet History Podcast181. (Ch. 7.5) The Story of craigslistSUMMARY:The history of Craig Newmark, craigslist and other odds and ends that didn’t make the book!
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Undertaking: The PodcastNathan McCulloughRyan and Brian sit down with Nathan McCullough, licensed Indiana Funeral Director and Funeral Service Consultant with Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions.2018-10-011h 01
Internet History Podcast180. Part 2 With John McCreaSimple enough: Part 2 with John McCrea. More on SGI, more on doing battle with Microsoft in the 90s. And... interesting stuff on VR and the future...
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Internet History Podcast179. On Silicon Graphics with John McCrea (Pt. 1)John McCrea is a Zelig-like personality who pops up in so many of the narratives we've already covered: Apple. Netscape. Doing battle with Microsoft. This is part one, mostly about Silicon Graphics, a company I had been thinking about doing an episode on for a while now, to really rejuvenate that company’s reputation, historically. For reasons that will be obvious when you listen.
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Internet History Podcast178. On Google's 20th Birthday - The History of GoogleOn Google's 20th Birthday (September 4th) a re-cutting and re-airing of my comprehensive history of Google, from it's inception through its IPO. Happy Birthday, Google!
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Internet History Podcast177. NandO.net with Fraser Van AschNando.net was not only a very early experiment in bringing journalism to the web, it was also one of those local ISP's that flowered in the era of the early 1990s. Fraser Von Asch was not only one of the key players at The News & Observer (thus, "NandO") who brought the project to life, he is another person who has straddled the media industry between the print and digital eras and can give us some amazing insights into the transitions therein... or lack thereof.
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Internet History Podcast176. The Epic Fail of Digg V.4 With Will LarsonThis story has gone down in Silicon Valley lore as the ultimate cautionary tale. Digg was the earliest high flying startup in early social media. But then, other startups like Facebook and Twitter started to steal the limelight. So Digg tried to keep up by launching the infamous Digg version 4. And… it’s a disaster. Users hate it. So much so, that many people feel that the reason Reddit is Reddit today is because the Digg community fled their en-masse. Digg Version 4 has become a much cited horror story for when a redesign can be so disruptive it can kill...2018-08-0600 min
Internet History Podcast175. How the Internet Came to Pakistan With Imran HaiderToday, we're going to continue our occasional project of getting oral histories and personal anecdotes about how, exactly, the Internet and the web came to various places around the world. On this episode we're going to look at how the Internet came to—and is still in the process of coming to—Pakistan. Imran Haider is a listener to the show, works in the tech industry, and analyzes the south asian tech scene at his blog, arkito.co. Today, he tells us how the digital revolution came to Pakistan, how it's still in the process of rolling out, what that...2018-07-2200 min
Internet History Podcast174. Bringing the NYTimes and MSNBC Online With Lisa NapoliLisa Napoli got a job straight out of college at CNN in its earliest days, which is a crazy startup story in it’s own right. But then she worked for a time at Delphi, which was an early online service and competitor to AOL and Prodigy that I don’t think we’ve covered much here before. And then she helped bring the NYTimes online with CyberTimes, which, as she said, is forgotten to history even by the New York Times. Then on to MSNBC, a crazy hybrid tech and media startup that I don’t think we’ve discuss...2018-07-0800 min
Internet History Podcast173. Netscape's Rosanne SiinoRosanne Siino has been on my list to talk to from day one of this podcast. As you know, I started by reaching out to Netscape folks and Rosanne was the head of communications for that very first dotcom company. She saw it all, she can give us her take on both the engineering side and the management side, since she was uniquely able to observe both. Rosanne and I were recently on a documentary series currently airing on A&E in the US, The Untold Story of the 90s. So, I reached out, and we recoded this...2018-06-2400 min
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Internet History Podcast172. How Politics Came to the Web With Karl MattsonToday we're going to go back to take a look at early journalism on the web. Karl Mattson helped launched one of the first political news websites, ElectionLine. He helped cover the 1996 election when covering an election on the web was a completely new thing. He then moved to AOL, helped run their news channels and has some amazing historical details about he era, especially the Clinton intern scandal.
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Internet History Podcast171. Claude Shannon, Father of Information TheoryClaude Shannon was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory." In the pantheon of cool people who made the modern information era possible, he’s right up there. Today, we’re going to talk about Shannon’s life with Jimmy Sony and Rob Goodman, authors of a great biography of the man called A Mind At Play, How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age. Especially you software engineers out there, if you don’t know who Claude Shannon was, get educated. You owe your livelihood to this man.Buy the book!
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Internet History Podcast170. The Godfather of Streaming Music, Robert ReidSummary:Robert Reid, the founder of Rhapsody, can be considered the Godfather (founding father?) of the streaming music reality we now live in. But guess what? That's only half of this episode! Because it turns out, Robert is the author of a book that was probably one of the biggest reasons I started doing this podcast. The book was Architects of the Web, 1000 Days that Built the Future of Business. It was one of the first books to come out about the history of the web era. It was published in 1997, I think. I read it...2018-05-1400 min
Internet History Podcast169. Kottke.org's Jason Kottke, @jkottkeJason Kottke, of kottke.org fame, was one of the early bloggers, one of the first bloggers to go pro, and one of the few solo bloggers still going. If you know Kottke.org, then you love it. How could you not? If you’ve never heard of it, you can thank me later. This episode examines what it means to be a publisher on the web for 20 years as well as the discipline required to find cool stuff on the web every single day (almost).
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Internet History Podcast168. The History of Java With Todd SundstedPeople have been yelling at me for years that I’ve not covered more technical aspects of the web’s history, especially things like Java. Specifically Java. The argument can be made that Java helped the web evolve into what it’s become. So, that’s why I was thrilled to sit down with Todd Sundsted, who is a developer who has been working with Java for more than 20 years. Todd walks us through the history of Java and why it is so important to the web’s general evolution.
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Internet History Podcast167. NYTimes Tech Columnist, Farhad Manjoo @fmanjooToday, a man who needs no introduction: New York Times Technology Columnist Farhad Manjoo. This episode was recorded about two months or so ago, so we talk about the book leave Farhad is on that he only recently made public, but of course, we get into his whole career and his unique vantage point and views on the world of tech.
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Internet History Podcast166. Amazon, Hulu and Oculus with Eugene WeiNo joke, this is one of my favorite episodes we've ever done. Eugene Wei was an early employee at Hulu, so we get some details on that company for the first time, and he also worked at Flipboard and Oculus, so we get some important context especially on the future of VR and the like. But the most fascinating stories you'll hear will be about Amazon, where Eugene was the first analyst in the strategic planning department. As you'll hear, Eugene had a unique perspective on Amazon's early strategy and business structure, almost a historically unique perspective... he could...2018-03-1700 min
Internet History Podcast165. Claire L. Evans, Author of Broad Band- The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the InternetClaire Evans is the author of the new book: Broad Band The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. This is the best tech history book I’ve read in a while and you know I read them all. Of special note, considering our 90s-heavy focus on this podcast, the book includes the stories of Word.com, which was a competitor to Feed.com (which we’ve previously covered) and Women.com which was a competitor to Ivillage (which, again, we’ve spoke at length about). But you also get an amazing portair of tech in the 1970s, hyp...2018-03-0400 min
Internet History Podcast164. How the Web Came to Germany, With Thomas GanterPodcast listener Thomas Ganter gives us a first person, anecdotal account of how the web came to Germany in the 1990s.
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Show de Vie PodcastEp 218 - Brian McCullough: Knocked Down But Never OutBrian McCullough is a southern man with southern sensibilities. His love of family and hospitality have injected an infectious vigor into the Dallas cocktail scene. Shaking hands, and smiling widely, Brian has seen Dallas transform into the hospitality haven that we see today. With numerous projects opening, and closing, where is Brian headed next? We talk about Maison Ferrand, fatherhood, failures, love, and of course MONSTER MAGNET. 2018-02-151h 08
Internet History Podcast163. The History of Online Video with JibJab's Gregg SpiridellisGregg Spiridellis has been making things go viral on the web since before the term VIRAL was even a thing. His company, JibJab has been producing web videos since the dialup dotcom era, producing hits you might remember such as Elf Yourself, Nasty Santa and This Land Is Your Land. JibJab has survived the dotcom bust, the coming of broadband, the coming of YouTube, the coming of social media and the mobile internet. What you’ll hear today is absolutely a masterclass in pivoting, in adapting a business model to thrive in every new technology environment and embracing every ne...2018-02-0500 min
Internet History Podcast162. Venrock's David Pakman on Apple's Music Group, N2K, eMusic and Dollar Shave ClubDavid Pakman is a well respected venture capitalist at Venrock, but also a lifelong musician and music fan. Earlier in his career he played a significant role in bringing music to the web. David tells us about cofounding Apple’s Music Group, his role in facilitating the first digital sales of music online at dotcom-era companies N2K and MyPlay, and competing directly against iTunes when he was at eMusic. As a bonus, he gives us some background on the more recent founding story of Dollar Shave Club.
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Internet History Podcast161. Jeff Bussgang on Open Market and early eCommerceIt gets my goat that these days, the history of ecommerce begins and ends with Amazon. There were so many companies and big ideas that got us where we are today, and one of the most important companies was Open Market. Jeff Bussgang is here to tell us the (today) often overlooked story of the earliest days of trying to sell stuff on the web. Today, Jeff is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners.
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Internet History Podcast160. Growing Up With The Web With Desiree Garcia @thedezzieAn exploration of what it was like to come of age in the early web era.
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Internet History Podcast159. The Forgotten Story of PLATO, with Brian DearPlato was an online and interactive learning computer system developed in the 1960s at the University of Illinois. But in the early 1970s, Plato got truly networked, and the users took over. Plato had already pioneered such things as touch screen computing, but the kids introduced and pioneered concepts like forums, message boards, e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, multiplayer games and even emoticons/emojis were pioneered on the Plato system.Buy The Friendly Orange Glow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Internet History Podcast159. The Forgotten Story of PLATO, with Brian DearPlato was an online and interactive learning computer system developed in the 1960s at the University of Illinois. But in the early 1970s, Plato got truly networked, and the users took over. Plato had already pioneered such things as touch screen computing, but the kids introduced and pioneered concepts like forums, message boards, e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, multiplayer games and even emoticons/emojis were pioneered on the Plato system.Buy The Friendly Orange Glow
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Internet History Podcast159. The Forgotten Story of PLATO, with Brian DearPlato was an online and interactive learning computer system developed in the 1960s at the University of Illinois. But in the early 1970s, Plato got truly networked, and the users took over. Plato had already pioneered such things as touch screen computing, but the kids introduced and pioneered concepts like forums, message boards, e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, multiplayer games and even emoticons/emojis were pioneered on the Plato system.Buy The Friendly Orange Glow See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2017-12-111h 08
Internet History Podcast158. Bob Stein of Voyager and The Criterion CollectionBob Stein was the founder of Voyager, publisher of the first consumer CDROM titles, and, far and away the leader of the CDROM industry in the late 1980s and early 90s. Bob was also one of the founders of the Criterion Collection, as well as the publisher of the first electronic books.
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Internet History Podcast157. Rob Malda (@cmdrtaco) on SlashDot and Social MediaYou might know him as Rob Malda, or you might know him as CmdrTaco, but he was the founder of the great geek social website Slashdot. Slashdot recently turned 20 years old, Rob commemorated this in a great Medium post, and so I reached out to him to tell us the story of one of the first great social media websites.
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Internet History Podcast156. Dave Winer on The Open Web, Blogging, Podcasting and MoreDave Winer has been called the godfather of a lot of things. The godfather of blogging. The Godfather of Podcasting. One of the key people involved in the development of RSS. But as you’ll hear in this great and wide-ranging chat, Dave Winer is just a software developer who has never stopped tinkering, never lost his interest in coming up with new tools and new technologies. Dave was kind enough to sit down and go over his whole career, from the very earliest days of the PC era, to the present day.
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Internet History Podcast155. Giphy with Nicole LaPorteSUMMARY:Nicole Laporte has a cover story in Fast Company magazine this month about Giphy, potentially the next big story in online advertising and marketing, as well as… search? Read her profile of Giphy here.
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Internet History Podcast154. Om Malik on Blogging and Web 2.0Om Malik is, of course, a legend. One of the first journalists on the “tech beat” in the 1990s, one of the first bloggers to “turn pro,” one of the driving forces behind the Web 2.0 time period, and one of the most trusted analysts of the technology industry in general, today he is a venture capitalist at True Ventures.
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Internet History Podcast153. The AOL/Time Warner Merger - Crossover with the Acquired PodcastWhat is generally considered the worst merger of all time, and certainly the crescendo event of the dotcom bubble era, today we take a look at the AOL/Time Warner merger, again with the excellent guys at the podcast Acquired.
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Internet History Podcast152. David Shen on Early Yahoo and the Maturation of Online AdvertisingDavid Shen was employee #17 at Yahoo, where he eventually had a hand in, not only the birth of advertising as the primary business model for the web but, eventually, the development of digital ads into their more modern, interactive form. As you'll hear, David recounts the early days of Yahoo, surviving the dotcom bust and taking advertising beyond the simple banner ad.And he recounts all of this in his recently published new book: Takeover! The Inside Story of the Yahoo! Ad Revolution
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Internet History Podcast151. Facebook's First Senior Software Engineer, Karel BalounKarel Baloun was the first senior software engineer hired at Facebook in 2005. This was after the Accel round of funding, when Facebook truly began to staff up and grow up. Baloun was only at Facebook for a year, from 2005 to 2006, but he provides some amazing insights about the company. What was Facebook’s culture like in 2005? What were the key innovations that ultimately let Facebook succeed where others failed? Would Zuckerberg make a good President of the United States? What became of Pokey, the mascot Facebook once considered launching?You can buy Karel’s 2007 book here.
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Internet History Podcast150. More SoundCloud Chat with Buzzfeed's Ryan MacJust as last week’s episode posted, another great piece about SoundCloud was posted on Buzzfeed by the great Ryan Mac. So, in a rare attempt by me to be topical, today’s episode is with Ryan Mac, discussing his article, which fills in some of the details about what Christina and I were speculating on last week.Ryan’s article can be found here.
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Internet History Podcast149. Christina Warren on SoundCloudOur friend Christina Warren is back for another analysis episode. Christina recently posted a tweetstorm about SoundCloud, and its prospects for the future. So she kindly agreed to come on the show, look at the history of SoundCloud as a company, and try to help me figure out why SoundCloud finds itself on the brink of oblivion. You all know Christina from her years at Mashable and most recently, Gizmodo. As you’ll hear toward the end, she’s at Microsoft now, and you can always hear her on the Rocket podcast.The Verge article we refer to c...2017-07-3000 min
Internet History Podcast148. Don Melton on Apple, Safari, WebKit and NetscapeDon Melton is popularly known as the father of the Safari web browser or WebKit. He’s basically a web browser legend. Not only does Don tell us a lot of great stuff about Safari, WebKit, Apple and more, but he was also an early Netscape employee, so we get some more great details about that company, especially in its later stages.
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Internet History Podcast147. The First Text Message With Neil PapworthThe first text message (or, to be accurate, SMS message) was sent on December 3, 1992. It was sent by Neil Papworth, and it said, “Merry Christmas.” This is the story of that first text, recorded for the first time.
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Internet History Podcast146. Mike Slade on Steve Jobs' Return To AppleAs promised, Mike Slade is back to tell stories from the period 1998 through 2004, when he was Special Assistant to Steve Jobs. Background details on the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone and more!
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Internet History Podcast145. Brian Merchant, Author of The One DeviceFinally! A detailed history of the development of the iPhone inside Apple. But not only that, an extensive history of all the technologies that came together to make the iPhone possible. Lithium ion battery technology, touchscreen technology, Gorilla Glass, GPS, digital photography, maps… everything. The author, Brian Merchant, was kind enough to send an advanced copy and, as you’ll hear when I talk to him, I couldn’t have been more excited to read! This is the book I’ve been waiting for for about ten years.Buy your own copy here! See acast.co...2017-06-1859 min
Internet History Podcast145. Brian Merchant, Author of The One DeviceFinally! A detailed history of the development of the iPhone inside Apple. But not only that, an extensive history of all the technologies that came together to make the iPhone possible. Lithium ion battery technology, touchscreen technology, Gorilla Glass, GPS, digital photography, maps… everything. The author, Brian Merchant, was kind enough to send an advanced copy and, as you’ll hear when I talk to him, I couldn’t have been more excited to read! This is the book I’ve been waiting for for about ten years.Buy your own copy here! Hosted on Acast...2017-06-1859 min
Internet History Podcast145. Brian Merchant, Author of The One DeviceFinally! A detailed history of the development of the iPhone inside Apple. But not only that, an extensive history of all the technologies that came together to make the iPhone possible. Lithium ion battery technology, touchscreen technology, Gorilla Glass, GPS, digital photography, maps… everything. The author, Brian Merchant, was kind enough to send an advanced copy and, as you’ll hear when I talk to him, I couldn’t have been more excited to read! This is the book I’ve been waiting for for about ten years.Buy your own copy here!
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