Jay Adelson, CEO at Digg, Inc., Chairman, Founder at Revision3 Corporation, Founder and former CTO of Equinix, Inc.
Happy Holiday of choice from The Plan8 Podcast. That is right people its that time where people of their chosen judeo-christian creed celebrates the modified form of the pagan festival for the winter solstice. But that all aside I have quite the special guest for you all today. He started out a boy raised in the Motor City. But shortly after college he developed; during the first Dot Com, the company that made the “inter” part of Internet actually mean interconnection. That man is Jay Adelson.
Founding Equinix, the company that provided a neutral point of interconnection for the segmented networks of the titan level powered networks of AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, and other by gone big player ISPs of the early 90s. Jay Is also the CEO of one of the most popular social filtered news aggregating sites, Digg.com. That’s dee eye double gee, dot com. Also he is co-founder and is Chairman for the ever growing and popular podcast network, Revision3.
Again when I say he is a special guest, that is in all ways an understatement. His influence on the very fabric of how the internet is currently ran today has made it possible to have the internet we have today and as cheap of a price as it is now. His current ventures of Digg and Revision3 with respective TechTV alum co-founders Kevin Rose and David Prager are changing the landscape of how media is viewed on the internet now.
But listeners of my podcast know my modus operandi. For all my interviews I try to help my listeners discover what makes that special guest tick. What got them to do what they have done or are doing. So as usual I take Jay back on memory lane to discover his roots, particularly talking about:
- Jay’s childhood in Detroit
- Jay’s hobbies growing up
- What Jay’s parents were like
- Jay’s first major jobs
- Jay’s years shortly after graduating Boston University with a degree in Broadcast & Film with a minor focus in computer science.
- Jay’s passion for technology
- Jay’s views on the essence of democratic access to information
- Jay’s roller coaster adventures in startups and Silicon Valley
- Jay’s roll as a Father in the new digital world and how his children will grow up in it
- And much more …
I hope you all enjoy this because I know I did. And let it be known, Jay’s Wikipedia page is gonna need an major update after this comes out.
Today’s music is:
Digging In The Diamond Mines by D!4m0nD k!D of the 8bit Collective
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Guest Co-Host
Blogger / Tech Journalist: Mark Milian of The Los Angeles Times
Show Notes:
1.) Nvidia introduces new official 3D HD Blu-Ray Spec. [Link]
2.) Google adds real time web results to search. [Link]
3.) Samsung teases new Linux mobile phone OS, Bada. [Link]
4.) Apple responds to Nokia patent infringement lawsuits with counter patent infringement lawsuits. [Link]
5.) L33t Palin Email h4×0r has new defense in trial, he had spyware. [Link]
6.) YouTube releases Vevo, a Hulu for music videos. [Link]
YouTube 1080p demo, The Muppets cover Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”. [Link]
7.) The failure of privacy with the new Facebook. [Link]
Mark Zuckerburg’s Private Moments open to the public with new Facebook privacy settings. [Link]
Facebook the Movie, Hollywood thinks Johns Hopkins in Baltimore,MD is Harvard in Cambridge,MA. [Link]
AMAZON LINK: Pirate of Silicon Valley
8.) Boxee shows off the new Boxee Beta preview. [Link]
Boxee Shows off … D-link Boxee set top …. hexahedron? [Link]
AMAZON LINK: 16 GB Transcend SDHC Class 6 flash memory card
9.) UCLA engineered bacteria eat carbon dioxide, sh*t fuel, kicks ass, and takes names. [Link]
10.) AT&T blames customers for network issues, threatens metered by the megabyte data costs. [Link]
U.S. Consumers are estimated to consumer 36 Gigabytes worth of data a day now. [Link]
11.) TRON2: Legacy first peak images of new TRON suits. [Link]
TRON2 soundtrack to be scored by Daft Punk, first demo of what it might sound like from 2009 San Diego Comic Con [Link]
Co-Host:
Blogger / Tech Journalist: Mark Milian of The Los Angeles Times
Today’s music is:
“Watch My Chopz” By Monster! Monster! of the 8bit Collective
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Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews .com
Show Notes:
1.) Google Starts the Google Public DNS. [Link]
Metaspoloits’s HD Moore take on the security of Google Public DNS. [Link]
BustedT Google Skynet Tee. [Link]
2.) FCC talking about spectrum re-allocation for the looming “spectrum crisis”…which could include mobile data sharing the 6MHz block with broadcast TV. [Link]
3.) Comcast Buys NBC universal, planning to control 51% of the company. [Link]
Engadget fears Hulu will be bug crushed now. [Link]
Alex Baldwin belive’s his 30’s Rock show’s Character GE Executive Jack Donaghy would hide in his office and not come out till Former GE Head Jack Welch told him to. [Link]
AMAZON: “30 Rock” Dvd Box set
4.) Motorola LaJolla a new e blackberry pearl flip of Android phones [Link]
5.) Sony Playstation turns 15, the evolution from home entertainment system to home entertainment computer and back. [Link]
6.) Google Visual search coming to an android phone near you soon! [Link]
7.) Machines figure out how to make their own Maths, wired article on the Cornell Computational Synthesis Labs Project called Eureqa, a software project that can find the connections between large data sets and then make the formulas it self using robotic learning. [Link]
8.) Apple Purchases music streaming service LALA media. [Link]
9.) Paypal mistakes it’s own emails as phishing attacks. [Link]
10.) Physics book sales rise as Tiger woods crash&burn affair comes to light. [Link]
AMAZON: “Get a Grip On Physics” by John Gribbin
11.) I got 99 problems, but a breach ain’t one, Geordi La Forge meme now a real song. [Link]
Co-Host:
Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews .com
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