- -: Is Twitter Revolutionizing the Web? - Tim O'Reilly
April 8, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/02/Tim_OReilly_Talks_Web_20 Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, argues that microblogging service Twitter is changing real-time information search in a way that will revolutionize the web. O'Reilly goes on to discuss the impact web search en...
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- -: Phone Computing a 'Fundamental Shift' - Vic Gundotra
April 21, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/03/A_Conversation_with_Vic_Gundotra Vic Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google, discusses why he left Microsoft to join Google. He explains how his daughter's simple question caused him to rethink the future of computing. ----- Vic Gundrota, Vice President...
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- -: Will Google's Book Scan Project Transform Academia?
May 11, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/28/Great_Issues_Forum_Power_of_Education James J. Duderstadt discusses the University of Michigan's participation in Google's Book Scan project. Dunderstadt argues that academics are starting to realize that knowledge "should be given away to the world a...
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- -: Steve Ballmer: Microsoft 'Like a Startup' in Search
May 20, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/06/Steve_Ballmer_Opportunities_in_Difficult_Times Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discusses his company's plans for developing its search engine services. Ballmer describes Microsoft's position as 'like a startup' compared to that of market leader Google. -...
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- -: Unexpected Dangers of Twitter - Nicole Wong
May 28, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/04/Corporate_Responsibility_and_Complicity Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel at Google, examines the challenges associated with rapidly adapting to new communication mediums like Twitter. She explains that society no longer has enough time to figure ou...
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- -: The User-Generated, Real-Time Web - Steve Jurvetson
June 5, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/20/The_Churchill_Clubs_Top_Ten_Tech_Trends Steve Jurvetson, of venture capital group Draper Fisher Jurvetson, says that user-generated content is more important than centralized media. Jurvetson also sees the rising popularity of real-time search (a la T...
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- -: SETI@home: Discover ET Using Your Home Computer
June 17, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/Dan_Werthimer_Presents_SETIhome Dan Werthimer describes the role of the SETI@home project in the search for extraterrestrials. He explains how data from the world's largest telescope is being analyzed by millions of networked computers around the worl...
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- -: Creative Ideas to Contact Aliens - SETI's Dan Werthimer
June 18, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/Dan_Werthimer_Presents_SETIhome Dan Werthimer, chief scientist at SETI@home, discusses a number of unfunded plans throughout the ages drafted by notable scientists to contact extraterrestrials. "The first funded SETI project was to send pornography in...
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- -: P.J. O'Rourke: Fight Teen Drunk Driving With... Drugs?
June 30, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/09/PJ_ORourke_Driving_Like_Crazy Political satirist P.J. O'Rourke offers an original solution to teenage drunk driving - drug legalization. ----- If scathing, uproarious, and insightful political satire were not enough, for more than 30 years P. J. ORo...
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- -: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin on Bing and Yahoo
October 28, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/22/A_Conversation_with_Googles_Sergey_Brin Google co-founder Sergy Brin gives his take on other search engines, including Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo. "Bing has reminded us...that search is a very competitive market," Brin says, adding that it's a "shame"...
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