The Conversation’s Episodes (Page 2)
Episode 21: Indy Mac
Published on June 23rd, 2010 (2010-06-23 17:30:00 -0400)
Dan Benjamin is joined by Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba and Dave Nanian of Shirt Pocket to talk about being independent Mac developers. Topics include the state of developing for the Mac, iOS development, offices vs. virtual teams, and more.
Episode 20: Visual Thinking
Published on June 17th, 2010 (2010-06-17 06:37:00 -0400)
Dan Benjamin talks with Sunni Brown, Dave Gray, and Mike Rohde about visual thinking, note-taking, and the "doodle revolution."
Episode 19: UFOs, Bigfoot, Ghosts, and Milk
Published on June 16th, 2010 (2010-06-16 16:33:00 -0400)
Dan Benjamin talks about UFOs, Bigfoot, ghosts, and conspiracy theories with skeptic Maggie McFee and Jason Seifer.
Episode 18: WWDC 2010 - The Funhouse
Published on June 9th, 2010 (2010-06-09 15:13:00 -0400)
Dan Benjamin is joined by Dan Moren and David Nanian to discuss WWDC, iOS, the iPhone 4, Safari 5, and more.
Episode 17: Smoke Monsters All The Way Down
Published on May 24th, 2010 (2010-05-24 16:45:00 -0400)
In this special episode, Dan Benjamin bids farewell to LOST with special guests Jason Snell of Macworld, Derek Powazek of Fray, and Ryan Irelan of Happy Cog West. LOST spoilers ahead! Don't listen unless you've seen the finale.
Episode 16: iValve
Published on May 19th, 2010 (2010-05-19 14:00:00 -0400)
Dan Benjamin talks with Gabe Newell and Jason Mitchell of Valve and John Siracusa of Ars Technica about Steam for the Mac, and how Valve is approaching developing games for the Mac community in this especially geeky episode.
Episode 15: Scratching The Itch
Published on May 12th, 2010 (2010-05-12 17:40:00 -0400)
Dan Benjamin talks with Matt Tanase (co-founder of Slicehost and now DevStructure), Troy Davis (co-founder of Sevenscale and Cloudvox), and Garrett Dimon (creator of Sifter) about starting, growing, and selling startups.
Episode 14: h.what?
Published on May 6th, 2010 (2010-05-06 17:24:00 -0400)
Dan Benjamin is joined by Christina Warren of Mashable and Nilay Patel of Engadget to to discuss the differences between consumers, creators and distributors, the patent minefield that exists in all codecs (but might be unknown in Ogg), the realities of the licensing structure, what VP8 means, and how it all really affects end-users.
Episode 13: Is It Done Yet?
Published on April 28th, 2010 (2010-04-28 17:15:00 -0400)
When is an application or design actually done? Dan Benjamin talks with Cameron Moll, Faruk Ates, and Garrett Dimon about design and the software development process, how new devices and platforms change the process, and more.
Episode 12: The Gizmodo/iPhone Thing
Published on April 21st, 2010 (2010-04-21 16:10:00 -0400)
Dan Benjamin talks with Andy Ihnatko and John Gruber about the acquisition of a pre-release Apple iPhone by Gizmodo.
