DLD 2014
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Video | 01m | |
Ten years young! We are delighted to welcome you in Munich for DLD14 - the world's smartest gathering of thinkers, creators & builders, from around the… | ||
| Opening & Welcome | Steffi Czerny, Hubert Burda, Paul-Bernhard Kallen | 13m |
Ten-year anniversary conference with 150 speakers, roughly 1,000 attendees and seven product launches; program traces mottos from "all you need is data" to… | ||
| Opening Keynote | Alexander Dobrindt | 09m |
A network alliance for digital Germany is announced to pool industry, telecoms, academia and local government resources, with the goal of building a nationwide… | ||
| European Competitiveness | T.Hoettges, L.Schüler, P.Vesterbacka, P.B.Kallen, D.Brady | 51m |
Europe shows 900% data growth like other regions while telecom revenues drop about 10% yearly, leaving carriers underinvested at roughly $130 per person vs… | ||
| Highlights - European Competitiveness | Hoettges, Schüler, P.Vesterbacka, P.B.Kallen, Brady | 03m |
Europe shows shrinking by 10% revenues while the US grows 35% and Asia 38%, population 510 million across 28 countries faces more than 200 carriers so scale is… | ||
| European Success Story | Ijad Madisch, Esther Dyson | 17m |
ResearchGate claims three million members and says 60% of scientists worldwide use the site, built as a social network to share negative results and raw… | ||
| The Young China | Kathy Xiaosi Gong | 15m |
China’s post-1978 cohort is born after 1978 and grows up amid 35 years of rapid change: average GDP surge, world’s second-largest economy by 2011, low economic… | ||
| Annotate My Brand | Jean-Claude Biver, Angela Missoni, Mahbod Moghadam, Massimo Redaelli | 40m |
A new Fashion Genius extension lets users annotate photos and garment parts on Rap Genius, tapping a 35 million monthly-visitor community and verified brand… | ||
| Highlights - Annotate My Brand | Jean-Claude Biver, Angela Missoni, M.Moghadam, M.Redaelli | 03m |
Argues that the digital revolution is primarily communication and even a small artisan producing five thousand kilo of the best cheese should use social media… | ||
| Media and the Performative Turn | Sasha Waltz, Peter Weibel | 12m |
Performance titled Stammbaum (Family Tree) pairs choreography with real-time media: camera-based motion tracking drives projection mapping and spatialized… | ||
| Seas of Change | Joe Schoendorf | 11m |
Claim that computing has jumped into the “second half of the chessboard,” enabling machines that can make almost anything and replace many jobs; cites 5… | ||
| News from CES | Greg Harper | 11m |
Four days at CES produces 3,200 exhibits and roughly 20,000 product launches and surfaces concrete shifts: wearables proliferate from wrist to dog collars and… | ||
| The Customer Journey of the Digital Audi Customer | Markus Siebrecht, Greg Harper | 22m |
Dealership visits fall from about 4.5 to less than twice; buyers typically make their first showroom visit only in the two weeks before purchase. Audi runs a… | ||
| Social Traffic | Noam Bardin, Jessica Lessin | 18m |
Waze describes being acquired by Google while remaining an independent unit that keeps its own product, marketing and sales; it runs a crowdsourced real-time… | ||
| A Short Course in Cyber Security | Rod Beckstrom | 16m |
Anything networked can be hacked, and with 5–10 billion devices now, soon trillions the surface of attack multiplies; the useful model is three mads: mutual… | ||
| A Frank Conversation on Privacy | Frank Rieger, Jeff Jarvis | 21m |
Argues that mass metadata collection and data retention produce no measurable security benefit and that governments and big companies are currently neither… | ||
| Highlights - A Frank Conversation on Privacy | Franck Rieger, Jeff Jarvis | 02m |
Argues that privacy as a human right is the practical tool citizens use to defend against states and corporations, cites startups that deprioritize user… | ||
| Aenne Burda Award Ceremony | Cherie Blair, Maria Furtwängler-Burda, Viviane Reding | 21m |
Announces that gender gaps persist despite gains in health and education — education and health reach over 90% parity, while economic participation sits at… | ||
| On Information: An Edge Conversation | John Brockman, Anton Zeilinger, Svante Pääbo | 46m |
Claims that modern human cognition and sociality diverge from Neandertals based on whole genome comparisons and ancient DNA recovery, reporting 30,000… | ||
| Customers In Context: The Great Chain of Selling | Tania Yuki, Alex Willcock, H.Lerman, M.Gavet, Spencer Reiss | 29m |
Explains who controls customer data with concrete examples: a cloud service updating 250,000 locations across Google, Facebook, Foursquare and Bing in real… | ||
| Learn Chinese in 10 Minutes | ShaoLan Hsueh | 12m |
Claims that people can read many characters quickly by converting radicals into pictorial mnemonics and stroke‑order animations, built a working product called… | ||
| Domesticating Apps | James Whittaker, David Kirkpatrick | 18m |
Argues that apps and the web should be pulled into the places people already use, not hunted for in stores or browsers; cites 90% of apps downloaded fewer than… | ||
| Seeing the Unseeable: Welcome to the House of Data | Shyam Shankar, Esther Dyson | 18m |
Palantir claims to make disparate datasets usable by automating integration, preserving data provenance, and enforcing policy-level access controls so humans… | ||
| Update on China | Yat Siu, Bessie Lee, Fritz Demopoulos, Thomas Crampton | 28m |
China produces top test scores—Shanghai tops PISA—but schooling emphasizes rote skills over creative thinking, so startups find talent hard to scale: hiring… | ||
| World in Transition - Intro | Albert Wenger | 15m |
Argues the digital shift rivals agriculture and industrialization, citing 26 million horses in the US in 1915 reduced to 3 million by 1960 as a model of job… | ||
| Local Rules! | Jeremy Stoppelman, Nicholas Carlson | 16m |
Yelp claims 120 million monthly visitors across 24 countries and traces growth from a 2004 launch to a 2005 relaunch that sparked local review adoption… | ||
| Explaining PRISM | Michael Fertik | 14m |
PRISM is presented as a bucket for US surveillance methods including telecom and internet-company access, with a startling claim of seven years of Verizon… | ||
| Mobile Payments: The Evolutionary Revolution | Markus Braun, Ben Rooney | 19m |
Company runs full payment stack and issues prepaid/debit cards, and claims a live NFC top‑up for Singapore’s EasyLink transit card as a working deployment… | ||
| Spread Content, News and Ideas | Nick D'Aloisio, David Kirkpatrick | 21m |
A mobile news product called Yahoo News Digest delivers a finite set of top stories twice a day digests, currently about eight items, each built from… | ||
| World in Transition | Zachary Bogue, Anthony Gooch, Albert Wenger, Ludwig Siegele | 42m |
An interactive Better Life Index maps 11 well‑being dimensions (health, education, work‑life balance, life satisfaction) across 36 countries and records 3.2… | ||
| Predictive Computing: A.I. Gets Real | G.John, M.Saxena, B.Medlock, W.Vogels, S.Patterson | 45m |
Panelists describe concrete deployments: Amazon uses machine learning across retail for demand forecasting and recommendations, Rocket Fuel’s system evaluates… | ||
| Internet of Things - The Next Wave | Joachim Walewski, Paul Gerhardt, Jason Rosenthal | 46m |
A camera records not just color and brightness but light field depth data and offloads heavy processing to cloud services to enable refocus, pan and… | ||
| News from Codecademy | Zachary Sims | 13m |
Codecademy starts as an online coding platform and expands into broader digital skills, offering bite-sized interactive lessons, an open content marketplace… | ||
| What Will Matter for Media Tech in 2014 | Michael Wolf | 18m |
Predicts four concrete shifts: 50 Shades started as fan fiction and fan creators now drive hits (90 million copies, 52 languages); user-made game videos pull… | ||
| What's Up WhatsApp? | Jan Koum, David Rowan | 17m |
Growth hits 430 million active users (from 350M to 400M to ~430M in weeks), tiny team of ~50 people with 25 engineers and ~20 support staff, and the system… | ||
| Leaving the Nest | Tony Fadell, Laurie Segall | 21m |
Nest sells to Google for $3.2 billion after two years on the US market with the Learning Thermostat and Nest Protect smoke alarm, and is now expanding into the… | ||
| Mobile for Good: Wikipedia Zero and Beyond | Jimmy Wales, David Kirkpatrick | 23m |
Wikipedia now hosts 30 million articles across 285 languages and reaches about 500 million people theoretically via carrier deals, but real usage depends on… | ||
| Common Themes among Successful Data-Driven Startups | Max Levchin | 20m |
An incubator (HVF) tests data startup archetypes and finds winners: simple aggregators lose on margin while enrichment platforms achieve lock‑in via network… | ||
| Future of Journalism | Rebecca Blumenstein, Jakob Augstein, Cyndi Stivers, Jochen Wegner | 31m |
Panelists argue concrete shifts: a paid model with an ugly paywall supports about 2 million circulation and funds longform scoops; a small progressive weekly… | ||
| Two Mobile Transformers | Martin Varsavsky, Cory Ondrejka | 21m |
Facebook abandons an HTML5 bet and rewrote native apps, moving from three iOS engineers out of 600 to a distributed mobile-first org over two years; a… | ||
| A New Way to Meaningful Content | Eli Pariser, Jochen Wegner | 23m |
Claims rapid growth with 80–90 million uniques in November, built an optimization platform for headline and engagement testing, and trains curators over… | ||
| Bitcoin: Bubble or Boom? | Jeremy Allaire, Barry Silbert, Olaf Acker | 26m |
Explains Bitcoin as an open-source public ledger using public-key cryptography, with about 1.2 quadrillion units live of a 2.1 quadrillion cap, current price… | ||
| News in a Platform World | David Spitz, Scott Lamb, David Arabov, Brian Morrissey | 41m |
Three publisher experiments and one platform maker map how social reshapes distribution: BuzzFeed reports ~75% social traffic, scales with listicles and… | ||
| How Things Handle Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 21m |
Classifies systems by how they respond to randomness and gives a practical test: measure whether harm accelerates with shocks — accelerating harm means… | ||
| Customers Included | Mark Hurst | 10m |
A water playground called PlayPump receives $16 million in high-profile funding but proves 6x slower than a traditional hand pump (3:07 vs 0:28), installations… | ||
| Online Video Challenges, Trends and Solutions | Rob Glaser | 11m |
Forecasts massive video growth to three quarters of internet traffic and documents a split between professional and personal video collapsing as consumer… | ||
| Mission 31 | Fabien Cousteau, PlantAFish | 16m |
Live expedition to the Aquarius habitat places six people nine by forty feet, 17 km offshore at 20 m depth for 31 days, saturating divers to permit 70–80 m… | ||
| Digital Storytelling: Surfing the Video Explosion | Stefan Schulz, Shahrzad Rafati, Henry Blodget, Jimmy Maymann, Jamal Edwards | 49m |
Business Insider reports about 40 million uniques a month and fast video growth after abandoning TV-style interviews for short native formats; HuffPost Live… | ||
| On Creating Tech | David Karp, Georg Petschnigg, Felix Salmon | 26m |
A hands-on conversation about tools and outcomes: a tablet sketching product called the Paper app (Apple’s App of the Year) plus a $59 Pencil stylus, built to… | ||
| On Mindfulness - A Conversation | Paulo Coelho, Arianna Huffington | 27m |
Conversation details the founding of The Huffington Post as a hybrid platform for journalism plus user contributions, recounts a 2007 collapse from exhaustion… | ||
| Programming Matters across Domains and Scale | Carlos Olguin | 15m |
Live simulations apply two local rules — permanent red‑green pairs and same‑color attraction — producing lamellar patterns that become micelles when red… | ||
| Against Solutionism | Evgeny Morozov | 21m |
Argues that solutionism — treating apps and sensors as fixes for political problems — shifts responsibility from collective regulation to individuals using… | ||
| Time's Role in the Tragedy of the Commons | Jennifer Jacquet | 10m |
A lab experiment with six students, €40 each, ten rounds and donation choices of 0/2/4 EUR tests time’s effect on cooperation: reaching a €120 threshold nets… | ||
| Pictures of the Future | Hans-Ulrich Obrist, John Brockman, Jason Wishnow | 34m |
Begins by documenting the shift from proscenium cinema to an 100-degree visual field, curating avant-garde evenings that mix film, performance and projection… | ||
| Serious Play: Gaming Businesses | Matt Wolf, Dustin Beck, Keith Boesky | 31m |
League of Legends draws 32 million viewers for its world finals, Twitch shows 12 billion player‑minutes and 45 million unique viewers monthly, and Riot builds… | ||
| Focus Digital Star Award Ceremony | Jörg Quoos, Britta Weddeling | 23m |
Three winners and what they actually built: SAP HANA is an in‑memory database platform that reprograms analytics and transactions to run on main memory for… | ||
| Game On: The Art & Science of Fun | Julie Uhrmann, Bing Gordon | 20m |
OUYA launches from a $8M Kickstarter to shipping in about seven months, attracting 31,000 registered developers and about 600 games (100 exclusives) while… | ||
| Mobile Disruption | Dave Liu, Troy Young, Mark Read, Michael Wolf, Stefan Winners | 42m |
Mobile internet usage passes desktop in 2014 and yet mobile ad spend is only ~15% of digital, producing a roughly 24x mismatch between time spent and dollars… | ||
| Ryan Trecartin in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist | Ryan Trecartin, Hans-Ulrich Obrist | 28m |
Early work uses iMovie then After Effects for an off‑label, frame‑by‑frame editing pace; first full script appears in a multi‑linear piece made 2008–2011, and… | ||
| How to Train Your Mind and Your Heart | Tania Singer | 01h 10m |
Claims that short compassion training shifts brain and behavior: one-week loving‑kindness exercises move people from an empathy/pain network to an affiliative… | ||
| Highlights - Customers in Context: The Great Chain | Tania Yuki, Alex Willcock, Howard Lerman, Maelle Gavet, Spencer Reiss | 02m |
Claims that users control commerce as identity and data flow knit product development through long‑term use, arguing social data buys precision but not trust… | ||
| Highlights - Internet of Things: The Next Wave | J.Walewski, P.Gerhardt, J.Rosenthal, D.Liu | 03m |
Claims that IoT is converging onto the phone after Google’s Nest buy, enabled by Chinese supply chain scale, cheap cloud services and a new class of embedded… | ||
| Highlights - News in a Platform World | David Spitz, Scott Lamb, David Arabov, B.Morrissey | 02m |
Company treats the social Web as our front page, pushing distribution through social channels rather than SEO and keywords. Content mix is explicit: half… | ||
| Highlights - Mobile Payment: The Evolutionary Revolution | Markus Braun, B.Rooney | 01m |
Claims that mobile payments must combine risk management, payment processing and full bank workflows to work and predict 80% of transactions on mobile within… | ||
| Highlights - Predictive Computing: A.I. Gets Real | G.John, M.Saxena, B.Medlock, W.Vogels | 03m |
Argues that machine learning models now turn past data into reliable future predictions, enabled by cloud+mobile providing essentially unlimited compute… | ||
| Highlights - World in Transition | Zachary Bogue, Anthony Gooch, Albert Wenger, L.Siegele | 02m |
Claims a stealth graph database outperforms the NSA’s platform by orders of magnitude, specifically “thousands of times” faster at deep compute for business… | ||
| Ninja Innovation | Greg Harper, Gary Shapiro | 21m |
CES claims 160,000 attendees with 3,100 exhibitors and highlights clusters — wearables, OLED/UltraHD, MEMS sensors collapsing cost, and 30 companies showing 3D… | ||
| Robots | Limor Schweitzer, Sergei Lupashin, Rafael Mizrahi | 40m |
Hands-on maker projects tie constraint to creativity: an 8,000-person Garage Geeks community builds playful hardware (LED guitars, soap-spitting doves… | ||
| Digital Art | Rafael Rozendaal | 14m |
Browser functions as a canvas and websites become artworks on permanent domain names accessible worldwide; pieces range from nosquitodobis (a black page where… | ||
| Up! | Hosain Rahman | 08m |
Jawbone claims UP achieves 24-hour engagement with users wearing the device only to charge weekly and reports 81% retention over 90 days and ~20 opens per week… | ||
| HVB Women Mentorship Program | Anne Gfrerer | 05m |
Two years after a DLD kickoff, HVB runs a half-year mentoring program that pairs six female founders with senior women from the bank’s women’s council… | ||
| App & Shop | Cyriac Roeding, Spencer Reiss | 28m |
Mobile shopping app proves walk‑in detection by embedding inaudible ultrasound codes at ~21 kHz and combining that with Bluetooth Low Energy beacons to solve… | ||
| The Humin Revolution | Ankur Jain | 11m |
Announces a new phone app called Human that replaces alphabetical contact lists with a context‑aware people layer, demoing adding a contact (saves where/when… | ||
| The Beat Goes On | Fabrice Sergent, Lyor Cohen, Tim Renner | 34m |
Claims concrete growth and tools: Bandsintown: 9M members, 20% discover artists they’d never heard, Tone Media: 55M monthly reach, 24% of US 18–34. Reports… | ||
| New Ways on Fundraising | Raffael Johnen, Philipp Moehring, Slava Rubin, Simon Levene | 55m |
Panelists map three models with numbers: marketplace equity, peer-to-peer lending and rewards crowdfunding. Claims: AngelList routes about $120M into ~500… | ||
| Highlights - Bitcoin: Bubble or Boom? | Jeremy Allaire, Barry Silbert, Olaf Acker | 03m |
Bitcoin is a cryptographically verifiable public ledger replicated over a peer-to-peer network that proves ownership of units and routes transactions… | ||
| Highlights - Leaving the Nest | Tony Fadell, Laurie Segall | 02m |
Company sells to Google for $3.2 billion after pursuing a vision to change the home at global scale, positioned as hardware software and services that tailor… | ||
| Highlights - What's Up WhatsApp? | Jan Koum, David Rowan | 02m |
WhatsApp claims a privacy-first, ad-free messaging utility that keeps no advertiser in conversations and deliberately collects as little user data as possible… | ||
| Highlights - From Museums to Playstations | Thomas Alt, Sophia George, M.Hollein, G.Czöppan | 02m |
Museums should avoid cramming every shiny tool into galleries and instead pursue a twofold path: real spaces enhanced for genuine visitor dialogue and… | ||
| From Museums to Playstations | Thomas Alt, Sophia George, Max Hollein, Gabi Czöppan | 23m |
Museum experiments with MATAIO augmented reality at the Bavarian National Museum superimpose original contexts onto sculptures and work reliably to explain… | ||
| Bitcoin: Money sans Frontieres | P.Šurda, R.Andragnes, M.Avedisian, J.Gevers, A.Koenig | 01h 06m |
Claims that Bitcoin slashes cross‑border costs and speeds remittances are backed with specifics: $550B sent yearly, average fees ~8.9% (12–13% in parts of… | ||
| Wearables Gone Wild | Sonny Vu, Kamil Adamczyk, Amol Sarva, Yonatan Wexler, Arik Hesseldahl | 49m |
Hands-on demos and concrete claims: a clipped vision module that reads text and recognizes products and ships to first customers tomorrow; a metal activity… | ||
| Trends from Emerging Markets | Bright Simons, Nathan Eagle | 30m |
A startup builds an airtime‑payments platform that integrates with 237 mobile operators across 102 countries to push micro‑payments as low as 10¢ to 3.48… | ||
| What's Next after Cloud Meets Big Data | Jean Paul Schmetz, Werner Vogels, Florian Leibert, JP Rangaswami, Aditya Agarwal | 38m |
Claims public cloud wins today—public cloud is the winner—with Amazon, Google and Microsoft supplying normalized APIs and 5× more compute than the next 14… | ||
| Omni-Channel Retail Strategy | Chris Kyvetos, Ulric Jerome, Paula Reed, Imran Amed | 35m |
Stores run as showrooms with no inventory in-store: customers try items, place orders in-store or via app and get delivery from centralized stock (example: 3–5… | ||
| Toward a Transparent Society | John Perry Barlow | 24m |
Argues that personal privacy is already mostly lost while government secrecy remains intact, enabling institutions to hoard whole communications feeds (PRISM… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Steffi Czerny | 02m |
DLD 2014 ends now after 48 hours of sessions that combine information and entertainment, surface new business models, and produce tangible outcomes: new… | ||
| More Is More: Mindset of Abundance | Naveen Jain, Claudia Gonzalez | 20m |
Argues that scarcity is a mindset and gives concrete pivots: electrolysis made aluminium common, $25 tablets could replace tutors, and adaptive, gamified… | ||
| Pre-sets and Post-sets: Poetics and Projections | Hans-Ulrich Obrist | 01h 15m |
Company demo shows a spatial-story tool with 36 million users and 200 employees, claiming better memory via landmark-style layouts and real growth metrics; a… | ||
| From Stasi to NSA | Anke Domscheit-Berg, Jeff Jarvis | 19m |
A former East German activist recounts Stasi tactics used to blackmail recruitment, documents how innocuous facts were weaponized, and links that playbook to… | ||
| Campus Lecture | Jan Koum, Stefan Winners | 01h 01m |
Service launches in 2009, adds messaging then multimedia and grows virally to roughly 430 million active users, with about 500 million photos daily cited and a… | ||
| Highlights - Wearables Gone Wild | Sonny Vu, Kamil Adamczyk, A.Sarva, Y.Wexler, A.Hesseldahl | 02m |
A head-mounted wearable for people with low vision delivers a demo where the user immediately beats game high scores, and a sleep and biometrics platform from… | ||
| Highlights - New Ways on Fundraising | R.Johnen, Philipp Moehring, Slava Rubin, S.Levene | 02m |
Claims that internet tools let individuals allocate capital directly to founders, reducing startup time spent fundraising and widening investor access beyond… | ||
| Highlights - From Stasi to NSA | Anke Domscheit-Berg, Jeff Jarvis | 03m |
A former Stasi recruit recounts concrete methods: they opened my letters, hired me as an informal spy and coerced cooperation by blackmailing me with trivial… | ||
| Highlights - Next after Cloud Meets Big Data | Jean Paul Schmetz, Werner Vogels, Florian Leibert, JP Rangaswami, Aditya Agarwal | 04m |
Claims that cloud adoption is driven by simplicity and convenience more than raw cost, with provisioning reduced to an API like create computer that lets teams… | ||
| Highlights - Omni-Channel Retail Strategy | Chris Kyvetos, Ulric Jerome, Paula Reed, I.Amed | 02m |
Built physical stores that are actually physical stores run on an online platform, with inventory and availability managed by the e commerce backend and… | ||
| Interview with ShaoLan Hsueh | ShaoLan Hsueh | 03m |
Describes a concrete method that uses software to decompose thousands of characters and prioritize core building blocks so learners can recombine a few… | ||
| Interview with Yat Siu | Yat Siu | 02m |
Argues that common fears about China are overblown and that foreign brands often succeed there, citing Apple, Samsung and luxury car brands as clear market… | ||
| Interview with Stefan Schulz | Stefan Schulz | 02m |
Launched service is now embedded in the market and actively competing rather than just informing, claiming to become the number one video service in Europe… | ||
| Interview with Shira Miasnik | Shira Miasnik | 02m |
A project photographs every attendee, prints the portraits and posts them around the venue with short taglines so people who are shy see a face twice and get a… | ||
| Interview with Rodolfo Andragnes | Rodolfo Andragnes | 03m |
Argentina serves as a case study for bitcoin as a hedge against monetary collapse, citing over 200% monthly inflation and about 30% daily inflation as drivers… | ||
| Interview with Rod Beckstrom | Rod Beckstrom | 04m |
Two simple models: Beckstrom's law of cyber security — anything connected can be hacked and everything is becoming connected so everything is vulnerable — and… | ||
| Interview with Rafael Rozendaal | Rafael Rozendaal | 03m |
Writes short haiku like "everything you see is in the past" and frames them as distilled ideas, experiments with lenticular paintings and LED projection for a… | ||
| Interview with Peter Weibel | Peter Weibel | 05m |
An interview with media artist and curator Peter Weibel discussing his perspectives on digital culture, art and mediation. The conversation covers Weibel’s… | ||
| Interview with Paul Gerhardt | Paul Gerhardt | 03m |
Builds and ships an electronic door lock controllable from anywhere, argues internet connectivity must change product behavior not just add features, and uses… | ||
| Interview with Nick D'Aloisio | Nick D'Aloisio | 01m |
Product launched at CES a week and a half ago and wins positive user response, described as an evolution of earlier work built into Yahoo with roots in Summly… | ||
| Interview with Michael Fertik | Michael Fertik | 04m |
Founder of reputation.com explains PRISM mechanics, claims the company protects privacy and reputation and operates in over 100 countries with 1.6 million… | ||
| Interview with Mark Hurst | Mark Hurst | 02m |
Creative Good, founded 1997 in New York, is a consulting firm that studies real users to improve products and services: teams observe customers interacting… | ||
| Interview with Margaux Avedisian | Margaux Avedisian | 02m |
Claims Bitcoin cuts remittance time from days to near instant and slashes fees for unbanked migrant workers, describes early hands-on work with mining and… | ||
| Interview with Mahbod Moghadam | Mahbod Moghadam | 06m |
Genius describes itself as an annotation platform that now ranks 80th biggest site in the U.S. and claims rapid growth aiming to surpass Twitter, with brands… | ||
| Interview with Limor Schweitzer | Limor Schweitzer | 02m |
A new humanoid called Frankie is a proof-of-concept skeleton that is completely 3D printed, demonstrating that a full humanoid platform can be built with… | ||
| Interview with Jessica Lessin | Jessica Lessin | 04m |
Launched in December as a paid, subscription technology news site, the Information publishes a few in-depth stories a day, staffed by former Wall Street… | ||
| Interview with Jeff Pulver | Jeff Pulver | 06m |
Loses 55 kilos since mid‑2012 by first building muscle (5‑minute workouts to 90‑minute sessions) then cutting wheat and sugar, reports new energy, fewer… | ||
| Interview with Hila Oren | Hila Oren | 02m |
Tel Aviv positions itself as a global startup hub with 700 startups per capita, a culture of doers willing to risk failure, and an active effort to attract… | ||
| Interview with Evgeny Morozov | Evgeny Morozov | 04m |
Argues that major platforms like Facebook shapes infrastructure and advertising logic dictate what technical work matters, shows attempts to escape that by… | ||
| Interview with Eli Pariser | Eli Pariser | 04m |
Upworthy builds a tightly curated site that publishes curated, high-share videos and graphics with heavy factchecking and an explicit mission to drive action… | ||
| Interview with Alexander Dobrindt | Alexander Dobrindt | 05m |
An interview with German politician Alexander Dobrindt about digital policy and innovation at the DLD 2014 conference. It discusses challenges around… | ||
| Interview with Daria Batukhtina | Daria Batukhtina | 05m |
Runs a blog covering technology and supports entrepreneurs through territorial programs funded by government, corporate and private investors, working with… | ||
| Interview with Daniel Fox | Daniel Fox | 02m |
Argues that ubiquitous devices like the iPhone and laptop are indispensable yet corrosive to real life and urges concrete limits rather than vague optimism… | ||
| Interview with Claudia Gonzalez | Claudia Gonzalez | 04m |
Argues that technology plus support and funding and public awareness unlocks real-world change, citing a Global Fund replenishment of about $12 billion and new… | ||
| Interview with Ben Medlock | Ben Medlock | 03m |
Explains SwiftKey as a product and company that replaces thumb-typing frustration with an SwiftKey keyboard that uses an AI language model to predict words and… | ||
| Interview with Ankur Jain | Ankur Jain | 01m |
A startup launches human as a phone-centered social product that claims to reduce phone isolation by pushing tech into the background and restoring real-world… | ||
| Interview with Amol Sarva | Amol Sarva | 02m |
A discussion-management app called notable app organizes discussions prevents threads from growing forever by letting users restructure conversations instead… | ||
| Interview with Alex Willcock | Alex Willcock | 05m |
Claims that an emotional layer can be added to digital profiles, using personality models like the Big Five to infer motivations behind actions, and exposes… | ||
| Interview with Albert Wenger | Albert Wenger | 02m |
Argues that concrete policy moves are already fragmenting the web: net neutrality erosion lets some sites load faster and makes it harder for new startups to… | ||
| Interview with Zachary Sims | Zachary Sims | 02m |
Codeacademy builds an interactive, open learning platform that teaches practical programming skills—Ruby, Python, JavaScript, HTML—and lets universities… | ||
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