TechZing

Jason interviews Leslie Kean, investigative journalist and author of UFOs: Pilots, Generals and Public Officials Go on the Record, about her ten year effort to collect, validate and present the most credible evidence of the UFO phenomenon.

Justin and Jason discuss how Jason's son was recently diagnosed with meningitis, the consistent growth of Pluggio and why Justin is still depressed about it, the possibility and practicality of using Appignite to build a portfolio of web applications, Jason's ideas on how to get started as a freelancer, the surprising effectiveness of SEO slugs and various ways to implement them, Jason's idea for hosting a "startupathon" on StartupGuild, John C. Dvorak's new X3 podcast, StartupGuild's mirror image FounderList, the IMF bombshell that China will overtake the US in terms of real GDP by 2016 and Jason's observation that all startups (by definition) suffer from NIH.

Justin and Jason interview Ruben Gamez, solo founder of Bidsketch, about the mistakes he made and the lessons he learned on his path to building a successful bootstrapped web application.

Justin and Jason discuss StartupGuild's early growth and some ideas for it's future, how Anonymous is targeting Sony executives and whether Jason should start a podcast on government corruption, genetic screening and designer babies, the cost of context switching when juggling multiple client projects, the types of problems for which Node.js is best suited, the stupidity of blaming the Microsoft stack for MySpace's demise, what's driving Pluggio's recent growth trend and ideas on how to goose it even more, dynamically adjusting equity allocations in bootstrapped startups and an update on Jason's experiment with applying extrinsic motivation.

Justin and Jason interview Lucas Carlson, about how a hacker news post turned into $1.8 million funding for PHP Fog.

Justin and Jason discuss the surprising success of StartupGuild and the software that's powering it, why Jason is begrudgingly making the move to jQuery and why Justin hates REST, why Jason uses an HSA for his family's health plan and Justin's idea for offering a group health plan through StartupGuild, how the US is using socketpuppet software as a propaganda mechanism, how Justin is using jQuery Mobile for his new secret project, and whether or not TechZing is a "bootstrapping" show.

Justin and Jason interview founder and former CEO of DoubleClick, Kevin O'Connor, about how he's applying the lessons he learned as an engineer, entrepreneur and investor to his latest venture FindTheBest.

Justin and Jason discuss StartupGuild and what Justin will need to do to make it work, the difference between game theory and game mechanics, Jason's case study of applying extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to his six-year old son, how to increase your luck surface area via email, whether Google can reclaim any of it's startup vitality with Larry Page as the CEO, the challenges of the super rich, Jason's proposal for a startup word stop list, what's up with Appignite and the latest Pluggio growth stats and upcoming guests Leslie Kean and Kevin O'Connor.

Justin and Jason speak with Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe - a web and mobile productivity application, about how he was able to bootstrap a "scratch your own itch" side project into a successful startup that employs a dozen people and services tens of thousands of paying customers.

Justin and Jason discuss Justin's blockbuster post about Entreporn, his prediction for the disintermediation of startup investment capital, an idea for how to synthesize microlending and angel investing into something called "microinvesting", Pluggio's resultant growth from funnel optimization, Justin's desire to facilitate startup masterminding on a large scale, the movie Limitless and predicting outcomes via game theory, the book Prisoner's Dilemma, and the possible discovery of Atlantis.