Episode Eight – The Metaverse and You Build It You Run It

Ian and Ash talk about Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot towards the Metaverse and discuss what the industry catch-phrase “You build it, you run it” means in real life.

Show Notes

Links

• Bugs in our Pockets: The risks of client-side scanning
• What A Lot of Things on Amazon Alexa
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Metaverse and How We'll Build It Together, at Facebook Connect 2021
• An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse, by Stratechery
• A $10 Million Investment In SecondLife from IBM is the Latest Push to Build V-Business from November 2006
• IBM CEO Sam Palmisano in Second Life, by Ian in November 2016
• Ready Player One, movie trailer
• The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find It, and Who Will Build It, by Matthew Ball
• Who Runs It, on the different options for production support by Steve Smith
• What is You Build You Run It, from Equal Experts
• Enterprise DevOps: Why You Should Run What You Build, by Stephen Orban of AWS
• (Paid content) Influencing empowered teams to the things that matter to you, by Sarah Wells of Financial Times

Creators & Guests

Host

Ash Winter

Tester but not a quality engineer. Talks about testability.

Host

Ian Smith

Happiest when making stuff or making people laugh. Tech, and Design Thinking. Since 2019, freelancer and FRSA.

What is What A Lot Of Things?

Ash and Ian talk about interesting Things from the tech industry that are on their minds.