350 Third: Recent Episodes
Scott Barstow, Anders Brownworth
350 Third is a bi-weekly talk show discussing the impact of the Internet on business. Hosted by Scott Barstow and Anders Brownworth.
Anders and Scott talk Twitter's most recent takeover offers and who we'd like (or not like) to see buy our favorite platform, and how ludicrous it is that 350 million users is considered a failure. Would Twitter go public if they were to make the decision in today's market? We discuss. We also go deep on the age of networks that we're currently living in, and what's good and bad about the nature of the closed networks that we all participate in.
Anders and Scott talk about this show, how it's put together, and the decision to have or not have sponsors. It might sound like so much navel-gazing, but we cover some pretty interesting ground along the way.
In our first episode in a while, Anders and Scott talk about Scott's recent experience getting Gig internet service from AT&T, and we dig deep into the DAO contract fiasco and it's impact on Ethereum.
Anders talks in depth about the Mike Hearn bombshell in the Bitcoin community, and we talk about the emergence of smart contracts and Ethereum as "the next big thing".
Anders and Scott discuss the recent announcement by the FAA regarding the registration of drones, and Walmart's jumping into the drone delivery fray with Amazon.
Anders and Scott talk in depth about the return of Jack Dorsey to Twitter, and about why Twitter is struggling while Facebook can seemingly do no wrong. They also talk about the similarities between Evernote and Twitter, and how each company might adjust in the future.
Scott and Anders discuss the latest release from 3D Robotics, a short film series called Life After Gravity, which is shot in its entirety using quadcopters and GoPros. What's a hardware company doing creating content? We talk about it in depth. Listen in.
Scott and Anders welcome Richard Newton, best-selling author of Stop Talking, Start Doing, The Little Book of Thinking Big, and The End of Nice. We talk about the publishing industry, the impact of better and faster automation on career, and how companies and even countries will have to adapt to a new cycle of work and learning.
Scott interviews Anders about the Blockchain class he is teaching at the MIT Media Lab. Scott and Anders also discuss reactions to the recent Apple event where they introduced the iPad Pro.
Anders and Scott discuss the changes over the last 10-15 years in enterprise computing, along with the reasons for the shift away from company-centric to person-centric computing at work.
Picking up where the last show left off, Anders and Scott talk about Jerry Seinfeld's brilliant series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and it's availability only on the internet. We also talk about Tribe Tyler, an up and coming show only on YouTube, and dabble a bit in what Periscope will mean for live sports.
In this episode, Anders and Scott talk about traditional TV (one of our favorite topics), and a deep love of Halt and Catch Fire, a brilliant series on AMC and Netflix.
Anders and Scott talk about the up and coming search engine, DuckDuckGo. The name needs work, but are they a force to be reckoned with? Listen in and find out!
In continuing the theme of the last show, Anders and Scott discuss Scott’s current role as part-time CTO of a few startups, and how much time and energy are wasted early on in startups trying to find the elusive "technical co-founder".
Scott and Anders discuss the current shortage of software developers, the economic impact of that shortage, and how the development of applications will change over the next few years.
Scott and Anders talk about The Interview, disruption of internet services by sovereign nations, and how a city in Portugal is pointing us to the future of interconnectedness. There's a lot of talk about a magic bus as well.
Scott and Anders talk about pseudonymity, credentials, privacy and security in this jam-packed episode. What if you could have as many identities as you want, and they were all verifiable by a trusted source? And what if you could prove that you have the right to do something, like drink alcohol or vote, without the other party having to know who you are? Are privacy and security mutually exclusive or can they co-exist?
Scott and Anders take a break from technology and talk about the new Star Wars 7 trailer, TV shows, comedy and recommendation engines in this Christmas episode.
In this episode, Scott and Anders talk about a subject near and dear to everyone's heart: How to safely store, organize and display photos taken across all devices. While we have solved the problem of making photography affordable and easy for everyone, we still don't have great products for the rest of the story. What might that solution look like? Tune in, listen in and share your comments with us!
In this episode, Scott and Anders discuss the history of credit card payments, how credit card data is stored, why breaches occur, and what to look for in the coming months and years as better systems start to emerge.
It costs absurd amounts of money to transfer money or communicate across international borders for no good reason. In this episode, Scott and Anders talk about what’s broken and why, and discuss what the future might look like as the barriers come down.
Bitcoin is great, but it's still riding on a network that's controlled by large institutions. What would it look like to have a truly decentralized network? Scott and Anders discuss how it might work in this latest episode.
What if you had the chance to redefine something as fundamental as transportation? Scott and Anders discuss the self driving car and what it could mean to society.
Scott moves from the iPhone to Android and Anders argues Google isn't eavesdropping even though your phone is always listening!
Brian Dally joins us for a discussion of his Groundfloor.us, the real estate microlending marketplace. We discuss how the Internet is "blowing up" investment strategies in the real estate industry.
Peer to peer package delivery via a smartphone app? Scott and Anders discuss a reputation based package delivery system and theorize about the coming world where micro scaling gives rise to ephemeral computing.
Amazon Prime prices have increased - has a master plan been enacted, or is this just the economic reality of inflation? Join Scott and Anders for a discussion about it and a dive into Money Laundering!
An emerging high production value news source, Vice News, covers the situation in the Ukraine demonstrating a hint at journalism's future and the biggest bid ever for users with Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp demonstrating that people will pay for a service.
Charlie Shrem's arrest and MtGox shutting down BTC transfers have caused movements in the price of bitcoin. And Scott visits Tony Hsieh's Downtown project in Las Vegas.
Could the business of live radio reincarnate on the Internet? Join Scott and Anders as they discuss the possible rebirth of a bygone era.
Anders and Scott welcome Victor Saad, the founder of The Experience Institute and The Leap Year Project, to talk about the coming transformation in education.
Horace Dediu joins us for a discussion about the history of the space industry and its more recent commercial direction. We touch on the history of governmental and private investments in space as well as possible asymmetric strategies for the future including a railgun and the ever elusive space elevator. Does the commercial exploitation of space fit within a timescale business is able to accept?
We catch up with Scott on the other side of the world in his Indonesian safehouse. Scott talks about the VC landscape and promise and peril in the Republic of Indonesia.
What would life be like if 3D printing were a commonplace as bubblejet and laser printers are today? Scott and Anders discuss how your world might change in the next 5 to 10 years.
Stan Phelps, founder of 9 Inch Marketing, author of What's Your Green Goldfish and What's Your Purple Goldfish joins us on the show to talk about how the Internet is changing marketing, how TV marketing will evolve and argue with Anders about Amazon.
Scott and Anders discuss 802.11u, which is also known as HotSpot 2.0, Passpoint or Interworking. It allows a WiFi device to automatically associate with access points through shared credentials rather than having to have separate accounts for each network.
If there is a post PC era, there have to be apps for every job that don't require or presume a PC. What does that app ecosystem look like? Scott and Anders discuss the Post PC Ecosystem.
Continuing their discussion of the post-PC ecosystem, Scott and Anders interview Farshad Nayeri, founder of Pixxa, the company that develops the Perspective iPad app. Perspective addresses both content creation and content consumption making it truely a post-PC ecosystem contender.
Scott and Anders talk about privacy with Google services and the implications of Bitcoin.
Node.js package growth has been going at a staggering clip lately. Scott and Anders discuss Node.js entering an inflection point of sorts and trade war stories of Node.js in production.
In this episode, Anders and Scott study the computer fossils they have lying around their houses. From 300 baud modems to gender benders to print servers to token ring networks, they talk about the evolution of technology in the last 15 or so years.
Is cable TV with all the package deals going the way of the dodo? Scott and Anders discuss what a post-cable TV world will be like and the trends pushing us in that direction.
In this, the 50th episode, Scott and Anders celebrate by discussing Mario Puzo's The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II. No tech here, just mob movies!
Scott and Anders talk Shark Tank, Dell, Amazon, TxtWe and SwitchCoder in a thrill-packed snowpocalypse show!
Scott and Anders discuss disruption in education with new for-credit online courses at San Jose State and degrees without classtime at the University of Wisconsin.
Scott and Anders discuss creating content, CES keynotes and Apple competing against nonconsumption. The Bridges to Cross blog is at a new URL: http://bridgestocross.anders.com/
Scott and Anders discuss the launch of SwitchCoder, a cloud hosted VoIP application platform.
On the 11th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Scott and Anders discuss cyber terrorism.
For all the time spent creating it and all the money spent on it, does technology actually make our collective lives better? Scott and Anders discuss delivering on the promise using the examples of the iPhone, Salesforce.com and Gmail keyboard shortcuts.
We all know who they are - those standout technology people that seem to effortlessly do the work of 10. They are undeniably valuable to an organization but they can't be easily quantified. What do you do with them to get the most you can out of them? Scott and Anders discuss what to do with great talent.
The Olympics have made the topic of content delay in the Internet age stick out like a sore thumb. Scott and Anders discuss the "Internetification" of the broadcast TV industry.
Expanding from the browser to the server and mobile ecosystems, Javascript seems poised to take over the world. Join Scott and Anders as they discuss the most popular language on the planet.
Scott and Anders discuss personal identity curation, the art and reasons behind sculpting an online identity. Why do you spend time creating an online personality? What do you get out of it? Is the sense of celebrity the prevailing motivation for most people?
Scott and Anders discuss the book "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon and James Allworth. Turning the lens from his popular business books toward the planning our lives, Clay Christensen and his fellow authors dissect the decision making processes that impact us in the most fundamental ways.
Anders and Scott discuss Mark Sears' CloudFactory.com, decentralized workers and starting a business in another country.
Anders and Scott discuss the impact of large corporations on innovation and competition with The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu as the backdrop.
This time on 350 Third, Scott and Anders look back over the past 20 years and highlight pivotal technologies in the consumer space that shape our lives today. The obvious contenders get passing mention while more obscure devices such as the empeg and the Slingbox take the limelight. Listen up, old-timers!
Scott and Anders discuss the evils in technology. From CAPCHA to green screen terminals, it's all on the table in our most passionate episode yet - and there is no shortage of startup ideas either!
Scott and Anders discuss Susan Cain's recent TED talk on introversion and how society rewards extroverts.
Scott and Anders discuss the user interface concepts Bret Victor puts forward in his "Inventing on Principle" talk at CUSEC 2012.
What will the educational landscape look like after the Internet is done with it? Scott and Anders discuss education 2.0 and decentralized identity.
What makes the difference between life and death for a company dealing with disruptive technologies? Scott and Anders discuss Canon, Sony, Kodak, Rimm and Apple.
In this episode, Scott and Anders review last week's CES show, talk about Steve Ballmer's strange keynote and discuss the future of movies.
Scott and Anders discuss the new republic wireless country code andthe challenges of preserving the archive of our bits for the longterm
Scott and Anders once again discuss why the desk phone is dead. Building on the UI discussion, they also talk about the unbelievable user interface design behind the recently released Path social network mobile application. The Steve Jobs biography makes an appearance as well as the "design by designers vs. design by the numbers" debate.
Anders and Scott discuss republic wireless, the WiFi / CDMA hybrid cell carrier bragging a $19/month no contract plan.
Anders and Scott discuss how radio is ripe for change as internet service in cars becomes ubiquitous.
Is cellular data more important to you than voice service? Join Scott and Anders as they discuss mobile technology and the all important rise of HTML5.
In this week's episode, Anders and Scott mourn the passing of Steve Jobs, talk about the Kindle Fire, and explore a hedge fund based on Twitter.
Has increased connectedness made us more polarized? Scott and Anders discuss life in the age of extremes.
Scott and Anders discuss technology in disaster situations. What's your backup strategy?
With a hurricane on the way, Scott and Anders discuss alternative energy and the end of the world.
Scott and Anders discuss the skyrocketing value of Apple, Netflix, Optimizing Surgery, a new Drone Corridor and Microsoft's retail ambitions. However, we couldn't be more excited about Amazon's tablet supposedly arriving in October. Our stroll down Amnesia Lane is with the movie Aliens - not Alien, mind you...
Anders and Scott discuss Square, Google Plus, tablet rental, the Obama tweet-fest and Chris Sacca. Grosse Pointe Blank is this week's stroll down Amnesia Lane.
Scott and Anders debate the Google anti-trust silliness, the boom and bust cycle, Groupon's future, public markets for private companies, MS Office 365.
Anders and Scott discuss the end of voicemail, Skype upgrade hell, the Age of Remix and stroll down Amnesia Lane with a look back at Dead Poets Society.
The rise of texting amidst the decline of SMS, Twitter's big win and how do old programmers keep up? Scott and Anders talk technology and Detrich Bonhoeffer.
Are software patents on balance a good or a bad thing? Are cellphones this generation's cigerette? And would you give a pile of money to a teenager to start businesses in lieu of going to college? Scott and Anders talk about these things and "Dumb and Dumber" in this week's episode.
Scott and Anders talk Google Wallet, Near Field Communication, GetAround.com and the Mac Defender "virus" in this week's rewind. Android marketshare seems to have leveled off according to a recent Nielsen blog post and the world of drones show unbelievable commercial promise. And on amnesia lane, Scott and Anders take on the 1990 movie "The Hunt for Red October".
What if your car told you everything? In this episode, Anders and Scott talk about what the ideal car operating system might have. From the news, they discuss Bitcoin and Linked In, and in this week's trip down Amnesia Lane they discuss the music of U2.
Would you rent your car to a complete stranger? RelayRides.com and GetAround.com are betting you will. Find out what kind of computer hardware Scott and Anders use and of course talk about the movie Wall Street.
What is TV now-a-days? What is it's future? Scott and Anders talk displays, iPads, TiVo, Comcast, GoogleTV, AppleTV, NetFlix and of course Indiana Jones.
In this episode, Anders and Scott talk about location privacy, the Microsoft Store, food companies in the United States and of course Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
This week we talk about location and how it relates to privacy, the Cisco Flip fiasco, tracking items on the net network and getting inspiration from business books.