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Eric Frank on Flat World Knowledge

by Jerry Brito on July 5, 2010 • View Comments

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Eric Frank, Co-Founder and President of Flat World Knowledge, the leading publisher of commercial, openly licensed college textbooks, discusses the company and its business model, which he compares to that of Red Hat. In the podcast Frank addresses moral hazards of the traditional college textbook publishing model, the company’s genesis, products and services it offers, how it makes money, and why it appeals to students, professors, and authors.

Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus

by Jerry Brito on June 14, 2010 • View Comments

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Clay Shirky, adjunct professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, discusses his new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Shirky talks about social and economic effects of Internet technologies and interrelated effects of social and technological networks. In this podcast he discusses social production, open source software, Wikipedia, defaults, Facebook, and more.

Gina Trapani and Anil Dash on Expert Labs and ThinkTank

by Jerry Brito on May 31, 2010 • View Comments

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Gina Trapani, blogger, author, software developer, and creator of ThinkTank, and Anil Dash, director of Expert Labs and blogging pioneer, talk about Expert Labs, an organization that seeks to improve government by letting policy makers tap into the collective wisdom of the public, and ThinkTank, an open source tool that the White House is using to crowdsource and sort policy ideas, insights, and recommendations offered through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

Edmund J. Walsh and Andrew J. Tibbetts on the benefits and risks of Open Source software

by Jerry Brito on February 1, 2010 • View Comments

 
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Edmund Walsh and Andrew Tibbetts on the legal risks of incorporating Open Source software into commercial products.

Apple rejected my iPhone app, and I’m glad

by Jerry Brito on September 28, 2009 • View Comments

As a developer, it’s a little frustrating that we now have to find a new icon, resubmit the app, and likely wait another couple weeks for such a small thing. As an iPhone user, though, I’m glad Apple is manning the quality control station.