Internet History Podcast
A History Of The Internet Era From Netscape To The iPad. A fully interactive history project outlining the people and technologies that made the Internet Era possible. Includes interviews with those involved.
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83. Founder of Travelocity, Terry Jones
Summary: Terry Jones was the founder and CEO of Travelocity. ...
Summary: Terry Jones was the founder and CEO of Travelocity. Perhaps the primary pioneer in the online travel space, Terry explains the unique challenges Travelocity faced when dealing with the airline industry, fending off competition from the...
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82. (Ch. 7.4) eBay Wins the Auction Wars
Summary: Part 2 of eBay’s founding story. How, why and ...
Summary: Part 2 of eBay’s founding story. How, why and when eBay became the undisputed king of the online auction space. Bibliography: The Perfect Store: Inside eBay The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side...
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81. Founder of WebCal and "Turbo Yahoo" Bruce Spector
Summary: Bruce Spector is another early web entrepreneur whose company ...
Summary: Bruce Spector is another early web entrepreneur whose company would be acquired during the dotcom era. In this case, the company was WebCal and the acquirer was Yahoo. Bruce later went on to spearhead Yahoo's acquisitions during...
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80. Founder of CBS Sportsline Mike Levy
Summary: There was a time, early on in the web ...
Summary: There was a time, early on in the web era, where things were very much wide open. An entrepreneur could survey the scene and say, "No one has done a great sports site yet. Why don't I build one?" Mike Levy did just that, taking on...
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79. Glenn Fleishman @GlennF Returns!
Summary: Glenn Fleishman is back to talk more about Amazon's ...
Summary: Glenn Fleishman is back to talk more about Amazon's founding mythologies, the recent controversies surrounding Amazon's work culture, and the effect the web revolution has had on publishing and journalism, but from the point of view of a...
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78. Yahoo's Master Brand Builder, Karen Edwards
Summary: Most people agree that Yahoo the king of the ...
Summary: Most people agree that Yahoo the king of the dot-com-era search sites on the strength of its zany, friendly, ubiquitous brand. The woman responsible for building that brand was Karen Edwards. Karen recounts becoming the first...
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77. Narendra Rocherolle @narendra of Webshots and 30 Boxes
Summary: How did we get from a place where people ...
Summary: How did we get from a place where people were completely skeptical of living their personal lives online to the "share everything" society we live in now? Well, companies like Webshots got us here. Webshots was the...
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76. Steve Goldberg of Microsoft and the IAB
Summary: Steve Goldberg was the first hire for Microsoft's Advertising ...
Summary: Steve Goldberg was the first hire for Microsoft's Advertising division. He was present at the launch of such projects as MSNBC, Slate, Expedia and MSN, the portal. Steve goes into fascinating detail about Microsoft's...
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75. The Development of Consumer Broadband with Intel's Avram Miller
Summary: Avram Miller was the co-founder of Intel Capital, and ...
Summary: Avram Miller was the co-founder of Intel Capital, and during the 90s, racked up some of the greatest venture fund successes of all time, backing such companies as Broadcast.com, Geocities, CNET and more. Crucially, for our...
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74. Developer of Winamp, Justin Frankel
Summary: A conversation with Justin Frankel, creator of the Winamp ...
Summary: A conversation with Justin Frankel, creator of the Winamp application, which was arguably the software package responsible for popularizing the MP3.
