Topic: Business
More Than Just A Game panelists discuss the broader implications of games for business and other domains. Business and government organizations use advanced gaming technology to provide value through the preparation of tools, training of personnel, and modeling of complex scenarios to better understand situational dynamics and probable outcomes. Theoretically, the experience and knowledge gained through simulated environments translates into higher skill levels, advanced situational knowledge, and improved preparedness that result in better outcomes in the real world.
Businesses are eager to use online conferencing, but have been unable to do so at acceptable price points. Dimdim, the world's free web meeting software, is aimed at filling the web conferencing gap that exists today. Listen to Prakash Khot and DD Ganguly as they discuss how Dimdim is driving adoption and leveraging open source technologies to make web conferencing simple.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with career entrepreneur and author Mark Thompson, who is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford Business School. Thompson talks about some 200 people he spoke to who have either built organizations or launched crusades - personal success built for a lifetime.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Jim Hudson, the director of the Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. Hudson explains how they plan to make Alabama a mecca of biotech.
In conversation with John Battelle, legendary technologist Pierre Omidyar explains the philosophy and business plan underlying his new network for investment in for-profit ventures which foster economic, social, and political self-empowerment. Applying lessons learned from his founding of eBay, this new investment strategy is based on the belief that people are basically good, and that connecting them with the right tools can build trust and opportunity.
Bottom up content development and user generated submissions have triggered an intriguing pop-phenomenon. Anyone can be a video programmer and upload their creative effort for the entire world to see. But this initial growth stage in the Internet as a platform for video may only prove to be a precursor of what is to come. There are a mixture of relevant legal, technical and business issues that loom ahead, most significantly Hollywood's desire to protect its content at all costs.
A business starts by writing a business plan and raising capital. Greg Gianforte, CEO, President, and Founder of RightNow Technologies, provides an alternative to lighting a fire and hoping a business emerges before all the money is gone - "bootstrapping" a company. Gianforte presentes unique, practical and pragmatic strategies and tactics to start and grow an open source organization.
Online social collaboration continues to grow in popularity as companies develop tools to greater facilitate its use. Socialtext was the first company to build around the wiki and its CEO Ross Mayfield joins Phil Windley, Matt Asay, and Scott C. Lemon in a review of technology news. Starting with a followup of last week's Oracle/Red Hat discussion, the group moves to such topics as the announcement of SocialPoint, Socialtext's integration with Microsoft's Sharepoint. Other topics include issues such as email reduction and Google's acquisition of JotSpot.
Web technologies in various stages of adoption are having tremendous impact on the way we all communicate and collaborate online. Ryan Freitas of Adaptive Path provides an overview of how online collaboration has evolved because of tools such as wikis, syndication, and blogs. He looks at the impact on how teams work together to use these tools both internally and externally.
It is ironic that Steve Lucas, Vice President of Integration at Business Objects, in trying to discuss Business Intelligence, has to admit that he has no idea what the term means. However, with a light-hearted approach, he describes the sequence of events that led Steve and his company to identify the core issues central to it. This discovery allowed him to see the strategic importance of MySQL as an example.
