An interview with Mark Shuttleworth

Simon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:13:57 +0000

Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS is a major release of the operating system Mark Shuttleworth and his company Canonical first released in 2004. In this interview with Simon Dingle Shuttleworth discusses the significance of the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, competitor operating systems, the move to cloud services, open source advocacy and how it has changed in recent years, application distribution, social networking, smartphones and other topics.

Shuttleworth is a South African philanthropist and internet entrepreneur who started the company Thawte in 1995 and went on to sell it to Verisign at the turn of the century in a US$575 million deal. He then became the second ever self-funded civilian astronaut traveling to the international space station as a member of the Soyuz TM-34/TM-33 missions. Upon his return to earth Mark formed the Shuttleworth Foundation and Canonical.

Simon Dingle recently authored a chapter on Mark Shuttleworth for the book South Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs. The publication will be available in September 2010.

Use the audio player above to stream the interview or click here to download the mp3 file.

Discussing Google Wave with Lars Rasmussen

Simon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:36:43 +0000

With the preview of Google Wave underway there are a lot of questions being asked about the platform, especially surrounding when it will be made available to the public, what new features Google is working on and whether or not more invites are going to be issued for early testers.

I discussed Wave with Lars Rasmussen, a member of Google’s technical team who is based in Sydney where he developed the product with his brother Jens. The audio is available for streaming or download in this post.

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An interview with Mark Shuttleworth

Discussing Google Wave with Lars Rasmussen