Rich Levin's PC TALK Podcasts

Gleb Budman

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:58:00 -0400

Gleb Budman is CEO of the Backblaze cloud backup service, where you can get truly unlimited backup storage for a meager $5 a month. We discuss Backblaze's recent "Drive Life Study," which went viral, as well as the cloud storage landscape, and the Backblaze service specifically.

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John Biggs

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 20:36:00 -0500

John Biggs is east coast technology editor for TechCrunch. He's crowdfunding a new novel, Mytro, which is about a secret underground railroad that can take you anywhere on Earth, in just a few minutes. It's the first entry in a forthcoming trilogy. I talk to John about his background, his work at TechCrunch, the book, the crowdfunding model, and his advice for aspiring digital novelists.

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Stephen Key

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:15:00 -0400

Stephen Key, author of One Simple Idea, published by McGraw-Hill. The book is a guide for startups and entrepreneurs who have an invention that they want to bring to market. Key holds more than thirteen patents, and has seen his products sold in Wal-Mart, 7-Eleven, Disney Stores, and theme parks worldwide. Some of his products have been endorsed by basketball star Michael Jordan and Jeopardy host Alex Trebek.

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Jeffrey J. Fox

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:38:00 -0400

Jeffrey J. Fox is the co-author of The Transformative CEO, published by McGraw-Hill. Fox has penned twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller How to Become CEO and Audie Award winner Rain. Fox is a graduate of Harvard Business School, and runs Fox and Company, in Chester, Conn.

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Nick Bilton

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:00:00 -0400

Nick Bilton is a New York Times technology and business columnist and lead blogger for The New York Times Bits Blog. His background spans design, journalism, hardware hacking, data visualization, and photojournalism. Bilton is currently working on his second book, The Twitter Story, published by Penguin/Portfolio. The book will chronicle the story of Twitter, from its inception to today, along with the business, societal, and human implications of the company. His first book, titled I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works, was published by Random House, and explored the effects today’s changing culture is having on our brains -- looking at key research taking place in neuroscience and memory labs around the world.

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Lance Ulanoff

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:35:00 -0500

Lance Ulanoff is the former Editor-in-Chief of PCMag.com. A graduate of Hofstra University, Lance has history with the PCMag brand that spans nearly two decades, having worked there in the early 90s and returning in 2000 to relaunch PCMag.com. In 2007 he was named Editor-in-Chief. During his tenure, Lance guided the brand to a 100% digital existence. His column on PCMag.com earned him a Bronze award from the ASBPE. Lance served host of PCMag's weekly podcast, PCMag Radio, and makes frequent appearances on national, international, and local news programs including Fox News, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, NY1, CNN HLN, BBC, New York's Eyewitness News, News Channel 4, and WCBS. He has also offered commentary on National Public Radio and has been interviewed by newspapers and radio stations around the country.

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Dan Bricklin

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:21:00 -0500

Dan Bricklin is the co-creator of VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet. In addition to the spreadsheet, Bricklin helped develop one of the first word processing systems in the mid-1970's, programmed the most popular prototyping tool of the MS-DOS world, helped introduce the world to the capabilities of electronic ink on pen computers, brought new types of easy website authoring to regular people, and continues his work with electronic ink on the Apple iPad. Bricklin's products have been catalysts with major impacts on the growth of the computer industry. Bricklin is also the author of Bricklin on Technology, published by Wiley. In the book, the inventor, entrepreneur, and longtime blogger explores a diverse collection of subjects, from the personal conversations of commuters heading home to those of warriors guiding missiles; from music to gesture recognition on the Apple iPhone; from the American Revolution to today's political conventions; from nuclear power plants to simple tools used by millions; Bricklin discusses technology at the human level.

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Erick Schonfeld

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:45:00 -0500

Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the executive producer of DEMO. He is also a partner at bMuse, a product incubator in New York City. Schonfeld is the former Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving media property. After founder Michael Arrington left in 2011, Schonfeld became Editor-in-Chief. Prior to TechCrunch, he was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, where he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, The Next Net. He also launched an online video series with CNN/Money and hosted regular panels and conferences of industry luminaries. Schonfeld started his career at Fortune magazine in 1993. In 1999, he won the prize for best information technology submission at London’s Business Journalist of the Year Awards, and in 2001 he won the prize for best space submission at the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in Paris. In 1996 and 1997, Schonfeld was recognized in the TJFR Business News Reporter’s list of the best and brightest financial journalists under the age of 30. He appears regularly on CNBC, CNN, and NY1, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Schonfeld graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1993.

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Robert Child

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:42:00 -0400

Robert Child is the producer, director, and writer of Silent Wings. The film documents and dramatizes the story of 6,000 Americans who piloted unarmed cargo gliders deep into enemy territory during World War II. Before turning to filmmaking, he spent 15 years in New York directing some of the most widely viewed programs on network and cable television, including Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Emeril Live, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2005 he started producing a series historical films including Silent Wings, Lincoln and Lee, The Wereth Eleven, and others. Child is the winner of over 25 writing and directing awards. His film Silent Wings debuted on Capitol Hill on the day of its release in 2007, and became the catalyst for New York Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy's House-sponsored Joint Resolution honoring America's WWII glider pilots. Hal Holbrook narrated Silent Wings, which also featured Walter Cronkite and Andy Rooney.

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Robert Scoble

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:24:00 -0500

Rich Levin interviews the King of all Bloggers, Robert Scoble, on the release of his new book, Naked Conversations. More than any other individual, Scoble is responsible for kick-starting the blogging revolution, which continues unabated. Hear what he has to say about the past, present, and future of blogging in this classic interview.

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Simon Phipps

RBLevin@RBLevin.net (Rich Levin) — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:38:00 -0500

Simon Phipps is an independent consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source to businesses and governments worldwide. He is also President of the Open Source Initiative, the non-profit organisation that advocates for open source software, builds bridges between open source communities, and maintains the canonical list of open source licenses. His writing is featured in InfoWorld, Computerworld, O’Reilly Radar, and other publications. He is a Director of the UK’s Open Rights Group, and is on the advisory board of Open Source for America.

Phipps was involved at a strategic level in some of the world’s leading technology companies. In addition to senior leadership positions, he has worked in hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer, and systems analyst, as well as running a software publishing company. He worked with OSI standards in the 80s, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the 90s, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM. He was a founding Director of the Open Mobile Alliance.

In mid-2000 Phipps joined Sun Microsystems, where he helped pioneer Sun’s employee blogging, social media, and community engagement programs. In 2005, he was appointed Chief Open Source Officer, coordinating Sun’s extensive participation in Free and Open Source software communities until he left in 2010. In that role he oversaw the conversion to free software of the full Java platform, the Solaris UNIX operating system, the SPARC architecture, and the rest of Sun’s broad software portfolio, all under OSI-approved free licenses.

He holds a degree in electronic engineering, and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society.

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