Converge with Casey Newton Podcast
1) Function with Anil Dash: Should Twitter have an edit button?
Here's a bonus episode of Function with Anil Dash, another podcast from Vox Media that we think you'll enjoy.The episode explores whether Twitter needs an edit button by taking a closer look at this p...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Eoghan McCabe chats about bots
The hype cycle for bots exploded in 2016 as developers poured time and money into the dream of personal digital assistants. Facebook and Microsoft announced major investments into conversational user ...Show More
3) Pandora’s Roger Lynch makes us a playlist
Breaking down music into its component parts helped Pandora build personalized music playlists years before services like Spotify even existed. Could taking a similar approach with podcasts help the s...Show More
4) Taggart Matthiesen takes us for a ride
Should ride-sharing companies build a “quiet mode”? “We have thought about it,” Taggart Matthiesen, head of product for autonomous driving for Lyft, told me. “I think it’s interesting. At some point, ...Show More
5) The Human Utility’s Tiffani Ashley Bell on how small nonprofits are stepping up
Tiffani Ashley Bell is the founder of the Human Utility, a nonprofit organization working to restore water service to people who are unable to pay their bills. The organization, which was founded in 2...Show More
The Human Utility’s Tiffani Ashley Bell on how small nonprofits are stepping up
44:49 | Jul 18th, 2018
6) Dream Machine’s Alexia Bonatsos makes a surprisingly good case for an Airbnb for horses
Alexia Bonatsos has watched countless startups come and go. First as the editor in chief of TechCrunch, and now in her current role as the founder of venture capital firm Dream Machine, Bontasos’ job ...Show More
7) Front’s Mathilde Collin on why email is making a comeback
It’s been four years now since Slack arrived to kill email — and yet, email persists. While the group chat app has plenty of ardent fans and continues to grow quickly, it also draws criticism for its ...Show More
8) Mike Maples Jr's midas touch
It hasn’t even been four years since Amazon bought Twitch.tv, the live-streaming platform that has become the primary destination for broadcasting the playing of video games. Since then, the service h...Show More
9) Maran Nelson scares us about AI
Clara Labs cofounder and CEO Maran Nelson tells us there is real reason to be worried about AI — and not for the reasons that science fiction has trained us to expect. Clara’s approach to AI is innoc...Show More
10) Pocket's Nate Weiner saves our content
Pocket founder and CEO Nate Weiner tells us why he sold his company to Mozilla — and how he’s working to build a better version of Facebook’s News Feed into the Firefox browser. By analyzing the artic...Show More