The It's a Monkey Podcast is a regular podcast covering all issues relating to the tech economy. It is brought to you by the co-founders of the technology company 89n, Kevin Garber & James Peter. We provide a round-up of the weekly tech economy related news and interview experts on topics relating to technology and how it affects our lives.

10 May 2013

Episode 19 - News: Syria's Internet Shuts Down; Ori Allon Launches Urban Compass; Interview & Discussion about Google Glass

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26 Apr 2013

Episode 18 - News: Twitter #music; Apple Share Price Crashes; Interview with Alan Peters of InMobi

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12 Apr 2013

Episode 17 - News: Shodan - A Scary Search Engine; Twitter Buys We Are Hunted; Interview with Alan Safahi CEO of ZipZap

This week in the news:

We Interview:
  • Alan Safahi - CEO of ZipZap - We talk to Alan about Bitcoin.
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29 Mar 2013

Episode 16 - News: PyCon Conference Drama, Google Reader to Close; Interview with Adam Pisoni Co-founder of Yammer

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15 Mar 2013

Episode 15 - News: The Latest from the South By Southwest Conference; Interview with Hursh Agrawal Co-founder of Branch

This week in the news round-up we cover the latest from the South By Southwest Conference:
  • Elon Musk talks about SpaceX - How SpaceX Saved the Dragon Spacecraft from Certain Doom.
  • Leap motion's virtual controller lets you control the space in front of your computer.
  • 3d printing of old-school records.

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01 Mar 2013

Episode 14 - News: Groupon Fires CEO; Yahoo! CEO Bans Staff Telecommuting; Interview with Trevor Long of SBS Australia

This week in the news round-up we cover:

We Interview:
  • Trevor Long - Manager of Technology, Strategy and Innovation at SBS Australia - Social Media and the Future of Television
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15 Feb 2013

Episode 13 - News: Marissa Mayer Dissatisfied with Yahoo!/Microsoft Search Deal; Interview with Burck Smith CEO of StraighterLine

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01 Feb 2013

Episode 12 - News: Crunchies Awards, Facebook Numbers ; Interview with Ann Handley from MarketingProfs re Twitter's Vine

This week in the news round-up we cover:
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18 Jan 2013

Episode 11 - News: Facebook Takes Search Social With Graph Search; Interview with Evernote Founder/CEO Phil Libin

This week in the news round-up we cover:
We Interview:
  • Phil Libin CEO of Evernote: In this 30 minute interview Phil gives us a terrific insight into the product development process at Evernote. Phil also talks about his personal work ethic and why he feels he has to list Evernote in the next few years. 

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21 Dec 2012

Episode 10 - News: Twitter Releases Download Tweet Archive Feature; Interview with Best Selling Author Professor Clive Hamilton

This week in the news round-up we cover:

We Interview:
  • Professor Clive Hamilton - Public intellectual, Professor of Public Ethics and best selling author of books such as Growth Fetish and Affluenza - steady state economics, climate change, limits of the centrality of growth and innovation and much more!

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07 Dec 2012

Episode 9 - News: Instagram (sort of) Breaks up with Twitter; Data on State of the Internet, Interviews: Global Twitter Heartbeat, Smart Pills

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23 Nov 2012

Episode 8 - News: Spotify New Discovery Features; Google Transparency Data Released, Interviews: Health Affects of Extending Periods of Sitting, Nieman Marcus Ecommerce Initiatives

This week in the news round-up we cover:

We interview:
  • Dr Emma Wilmot  - Clinical Research Fellow in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Leicester General Hospital
  • John Koryl - President Nieman Marcus Direct
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08 Nov 2012

Episode 7 - News: Top 50 US Websites; Twitter To Add Photo Filters; Windows 8, Interviews: CrowdSourcing; Latest in Stem Cells

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24 Oct 2012

Episode 6 - UN Report "The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes" Released; LinkedIn Changes; Research: Graduates Who Prefer Twitter Are Smarter

This week in the news round-up we cover:
  • Amazon's cloud services outage.
  • United Nations releases a report "The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes".

We interview:
  • Donna Serdula: LinkedIn expert from LinkedIn Makeover - new changes at LinkedIn and LinkedIn best practises.
  • Cherie Curtis: Head Psychologist at OneTest  - results of new research indicates that graduates who prefer Twitter over other social media networks have a higher average cognitive ability than their peers.   
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02 Oct 2012

Episode 5 - Instagram Mobile Use Tops Twitter; Facebook Timeline Bug Confusion; What's It Like to Work At Twitter?

This week in the news round-up we cover:
We interview:
  • Sheena Medina - Freelance Social Media Strategist & Previous Community Manager at Fast Company Magazine - about all things Social Media.
  • Adam Schuck - Engineering Manager (Discovery) at Twitter  - about what it is like to work for Twitter and what can we expect from Twitter over the next few months.
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12 Sep 2012

Episode 4 - TechCrunch Disrupt - Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerburg & Palantir

This week we cover:
 Interview with Ari Gesher @alephbass Senior Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies. Kevin talks with Ari at the conference about big data and how Palantir is producing real world solutions to big data challenges.

Interview with http://www.sfciti.com/
Connecting San Francisco to startups.

Interview with http://klooff.com/
A social network for pet lovers.

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31 Aug 2012

Episode 3 - Dr Jay Ritter - Tech IPOs and Facebook Share Price

This week in news:
  • Twitter removes "via" from the web client..
  • Stanford Creates Vice Provost For Online Learning To "Fundamentally Reshape Education"
  • Google+ launches vanity urls

Interview with Professor Jay Ritter - Cordell Professor of Finance - University of Florida Tech IPOs and the Facebook share price

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24 Aug 2012

Episode 2 - Iain McDonald & AJ Kohn

This week in news:

Interview with Iain McDonald - Co-Founder & Executive Creative - Director Amnesia Razorfish 
Social media and brands - case studies and state of play. 
@eunmac

Interview with AJ Kohn - Owner, Blind Five Year Old 
Google+ : Ghost town or content and SEO opportunity? 
@ajkohn
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16 Aug 2012

Episode 1 - App.net, Medium, Steve Faktor & Dr Larry Rosen

This week in news
  • Twitter founders launch new publishing platform named Medium.
  • Klout upgrades, downgrades Bieber.
  • App.net exceeds funding goal - will they compliment or replace twitter?
  • Looking back across 10 years in internet time - what has changed.

Interview with Steve Faktor @ideafaktory
Opportunities and risks around building your business on an existing technology platform like Twitter. 

Interview with Dr Larry Rosen @DrLarryRosen
Our relationship with technology - is it dysfunctional?
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