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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63. TheGlobe Co-Founder Todd Krizelman
Summary: One of the biggest names of the dot-com era ...
Summary: One of the biggest names of the dot-com era was TheGlobe.com. It had one of the most successful and storied IPO's of it's day, and it was lead by two early-twenties co-founders, long before that sort of thing was common. Todd Krizelman...
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62. iVillage Co-Founder Nancy Evans
Summary: Nancy Evans and Candice Carpenter founded iVillage in the ...
Summary: Nancy Evans and Candice Carpenter founded iVillage in the mid 1990s. iVillage was one of the first community-focused sites on the early web, and grew to be one of the biggest of its ilk. Not only was iVillage a site and a company...
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61. (Ch 7.2) Amazon's Dominance of eCommerce
Summary: It’s part two of our Amazon founding story. How ...
Summary: It’s part two of our Amazon founding story. How did Amazon come to completely dominate e-commerce? How did Jeff Bezos’ “Get Big Fast” strategy evolve? How and why did Amazon become the quintessential “dot...
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60. Early eBay Executive (And Future California Governor?) Steve Westly
Summary: If you are a Californian, then you might know ...
Summary: If you are a Californian, then you might know Steve Westly's name very well. After all, in the mid 2000s, Westly was elected Controller of California, essentially the Chief Financial officer of the state, and he also ran for Governor in...
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59. Early Amazon Engineer and Co-Developer of the Recommendation Engine, Greg Linden
Summary: As you know, we’ve been trying to cover from ...
Summary: As you know, we’ve been trying to cover from every angle, the innovations that ecommerce sites in general, and Amazon.com specifically, brought to the world. That is why I was thrilled to get to speak with Greg Linden, who was one of...
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58. Robert Levitan of iVillage and Flooz
Summary: Robert Levitan has been involved in many pioneering tech ...
Summary: Robert Levitan has been involved in many pioneering tech companies. The two that I wanted to focus on were iVillage, one of the early web community sites, one of the very first sites to engage with women as a segment of the online audience,...
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57. (I Lied) The Special Requests Episode
I lied about there not being a show this week. ...
I lied about there not being a show this week. Except, it's not a show. It's more of a state-of-the-podcast address, celebrating (belatedly) our one year anniversary. http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/donate/
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56. Infoseek Founder (and Inventor of the Optical Mouse) Steve Kirsch
Summary: Steve Kirsch is one of the most fascinating entrepreneurs ...
Summary: Steve Kirsch is one of the most fascinating entrepreneurs we’ve been lucky enough to speak to on this show. Going back to the 1980s, he was the inventor of the optical mouse. Back in the days of desktop software suites, he brought...
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55. The Watershed Year of 1995 with W. Joseph Campbell
Summary: W. Joseph Campbell is a Professor in the School ...
Summary: W. Joseph Campbell is a Professor in the School of Communication at American University. He is the author of six nonfiction books, including Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. Just...
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54. CDNow CEO Michael Krupit
Summary: Michael Krupit first joined CDNow as the Chief Technology ...
Summary: Michael Krupit first joined CDNow as the Chief Technology officer. He soon took over COO duties, and eventually rose to become CEO of the entire CDNow operation. Mike gives us the background on the early days of another early...
