TechZing

Justin ans Jason discuss Steve Perlman’s impossible wireless tech known as DIDO and the technology of WiTricity, why Pluggio's growth has suddenly stalled out, logging slow queries using MySQL's Slow Query Log and monitoring your site using SiteUptime, Jason and Curtis's upcoming post on Uber's Node.js based dispatching system, the designer they've hired to create AnyFu's brand identity and UI and...

Justin and Jason discuss the suspension of Justin's 600 calorie per day diet and whether his plan to move to Ireland is such a s good idea, the process of finding a designer for AnyFu and the progress on the site mockups, the incredible rise in the value of Bitcoins and whether Bitcoins will ever really go mainstream and threaten the dollar, how the Japanese character set cracked Pluggio and made...

Justin and Jason discuss the death of Justin's father, Udi's blog post about Appignite, Uber's technological origins and the new Node.js based dispatch server, rapid UI design using mockups, the core problems that AnyFu needs to solve, using Showcase Lane to get feedback on UI design, a La Critique of The Birdy, an update on Pluggio's growth, whether it's better to use dashes or underscores in SEO...

Justin and Jason discuss the progress they've made so far on AnyFu, why Jason thinks Sweden smells like ice cream and his idea for yet another TV series, life lessons from the very wealthy and preschool's huge payoff, an update on Justin's outsourcing effort, Jason's idea for compiling compiling CoffeeScript to PHP, Justin's micro-depression about Pluggio and an update on the numbers, ideas on pic...

Justin and Jason discuss Pluggio's numbers and the results of a Pluggio product-market fit survey, Jason's recent trip to Scandinavia, how Justin is upscaling his outsourcing, making Appignite command-line accessible, why AnyFu is worth pursuing and the summer show schedule.

Justin and Jason discuss the events of Microconf 2011 during the drive back home to Los Angeles. This is part two of two episodes.

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...

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...

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 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 imple...

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...

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...

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 s...

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...

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,...

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.