Tim O’Reilly Visits Inside the Internet Garage
Inside the Internet Garage is back with Eric Hippeau
2:00 – Eric on the beginning of his career and military juntas in Brazil 4:00 – During the 70s In Brazil a telephone costs $2000 5:00 – Meeting Pat McGovern of IDG on Copacabana beach. 9:00 – Eric becomes the CEO of Ziff Davis during the boom of PC industry 11:30 – Aaron: Did you ...
INC@NYU Partners with Codecademy
With every aspect of life – from following news to finding love – now governed by algorithms, learning the fundamentals of coding is essential to developing true digital literacy. In an effort to prepare its students to navigate this digital landscape, NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC), announced today an initiative with ...
Kara and Walt Discuss the Twin Icons of Tech
Last month, a large audience of students, faculty and fans were lucky enough to hear Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher share their stories about their interviews with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at their annual AllThingsD conference. Today, Inside the Internet Garage is proud to premiere a short clip of that talk. Complete with some ...
Jay Walker at Inside the Internet Garage
If you’ve heard about Jay Walker before, you may know him as the notoriously ardent proponent of patent protection, or as the new face of TEDMED, or maybe simply as the founder of online travel service Priceline. You wouldn’t be wrong in any of those characterizations, but as we got a chance to see earlier ...
Inside the Internet Garage Welcomes Legendary Tech Journalists
Pictures from the launch are live! NYU Steinhardt’s new interview series, “Inside the Internet Garage,” featuring personal reflections on the first 20 years of internet history from some of the internet’s leading personalities, will launch on April 24. The series welcomes tech industry innovators, leaders, and visionaries to converse in front of a live studio audience. Tech veterans Kara ...
Tumblr’s David Karp Visits NYU
It’s not every 25-year-old who can boast a company that hosts nearly 50 million blogs and, as of this week, 20 billion posts. For that one 25-year-old who can, the 20-billion-post mark was barely a blip on the radar. “We didn’t even do anything to celebrate,” admits David Karp, founder and CEO of short-form blogging ...
MCC Researcher Cites Benefits of Online Social Platforms
Concerned parents might view online chat rooms and social media platforms as dangerous territory, but social media scholar and youth advocate danah boyd insists the data simply does not support this grim view. In a two-page profile published by the New York Times, boyd tells the reporter that online sites can function as therapeutic channels ...
Helen Nissenbaum Shapes Administration’s Thinking on Privacy
In a sign the Obama Administration was taking consumer privacy seriously, the White House unveiled a blue print yesterday for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” to protect individuals in a networked environment. The document title, “We Can’t Wait,” reflects the sense in Washington that a set of guidelines cannot come soon enough. We spoke with ...