TechZing

Justin and Jason are on the road to Microconf 2011 in Las Vegas. This is part one of two episodes, part two will be released this coming weekend and is a recording of the trip back.

Justin and Jason interview Erica Douglas, founder of Whoosh Traffic, about how she built and sold her web hosting business for $1.1 million at the of age 26, why and how SEO works despite what you may have heard to the contrary and what her rules are for success in business.

Justin and Jason discuss how Justin has managed to get out of debt so quickly, Jason's Appignite generated issue reporter - Complainer, how Justin and Jason are teaming up to do AnyFu and some ideas on how the site might work, how Justin optimized Pluggio using APC byte caching, overriding include_once and increasing MySQL's buffer pool, Justin's idea on how to grow the show, how disappointed they are that the TV show The Event has been canceled, why Jason is jealous of Colby's big summer, an update on Pluggio's numbers and the integration with Totango, Jason's idea for how Justin could increase Pluggio's traffic, Jason's idea for starting a non-profit to fight patent trolling, the new version of Uber's God View and working with the Google Maps API, the speed and flexibility of JSONP and why ordering posts chronologically devalues them.

Justin and Jason interview Guy Nirpaz, CEO and co-founder of Totango, an analytics SAAS offering that provides a deeper understanding of customer interactions. They discuss how they validated the idea and got started, how they provide value and where they're headed in the future.

The impending Rapture and post Rapture looting, Bitcoin and it's economic implications, Teamviewer and why the native OSX VNC server is so slow, getting useful feedback from listeners, Justin's premature optimization and an update on his outsourcing experiment, the status of the Appignite beta, why points are no longer displayed for comments Hacker News why Jason thinks that they also shouldn't be displayed for news items, the latest Pluggio numbers, Justin's upcoming talk at MicroConf, the confirmation of Einstein's theory of gravity, Jason's idea for doing a show segment called Gotcha that will cover cognitive biases, logical fallacies and social dilemmas, how little sleep you can get away with, how to increase your cognitive potential and five unexpected downsides of high intelligence.

Entrepreneur, investor and writer, James Altucher, is back for more and this time to talk about why you shouldn't go to college, own a house, buy stocks or follow the news. He also talks about his new book, How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive, and how it's easier now than ever to be the master of your own destiny as long as you're willing to own it.

Justin and Jason discuss Pluggio's scalability challenges, password hashing problems in PHP and whether Appignite can generate itself, the danger of working on more than one problem at a time, Justin's outrageous idea of erecting a pay-wall window for the podcast, how Justin is making a tech love connection, comparing Walmart to Microsoft, the power of commitment, an update on Jason's TV show idea, Justin's new apartment and Jason's upcoming trip to Scandinavia, an update on Justin's outsourcing experiment, what Justin is doing for Pluggio in terms of marketing, how to detect when a customer is about to drop their account, the cancellation of Stargate Universe, solving the memory leaks in the new Uber dispatch system and whether it's hard to bootstrap a startup that makes $1,000 per month.

Justin and Jason discuss Rob Walling's upcoming MicroConf, what Justin has learned from his outsourcing experiment, an update on Pluggio and it's revenue growth, why Justin uses Nozbe and how it's made him more productive, the kickoff of the Appignite beta test and how Jason plans on conducting it, how Neville fell of the TZ bandwagon and some ideas on how to get back him back on, methods of implementing full text search in MySQL, Jason's strategy for getting Jerry Pournelle and Elon Musk on the show, how Justin formatted his blog to work on mobile phones, Jason's latest idea for a TV show and where Jason and Justin rank on Google.

Justin and Jason speak with Keith Posehn, founder of Zorz, a performance marketing firm based out of San Diego, about how and why affiliate marketing can work for startups, his criteria for selecting clients and why he's taken on Pluggio and why he's launching a portfolio of startups through his mobile/social app think-tank AppZorz.

Justin and Jason discuss some of the issues surrounding the UFO topic, Justin's experiment in outsourcing development work for Pluggio, Rob Walling's upcoming bootstrapping conference - MicroConf, alpha-testing Appignite and the challenge of generating an API and AJAX functionality, how Justin and Jason both got themselves into debt and how they're getting themselves out, the impressive quality of the low budget science fiction movie Monsters, an update on Jason's experiment on applying extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to his six-year old son, a better methodology for teaching mathematics, an update on Pluggio's revenue growth and why Jason is impressed with Elon Musk.