overture

Continuing our discussion from Ep.114, we will now focus on some of the more widely known forms of the Baroque period (1600-1750 CE). We will discuss the church and chamber sonatas, the French overture, the dance suites and the fugue, just to name a few.

The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 145 features Arya Firoozmand, Co-Founder at Overture Law, located in Los Angeles, California.  During Arya’s undergrad at UC Irvine he spent time with influential and impactful people that co-founded companies with him.  Arya shares with us that he attended law school because it opened up opportunities that no other secondary degree could.  After law school and a couple of other ventures, Arya shares that he co-founded Overture – with a mission to empower independent attorneys to expand the reach of their practices and better serve their clients; a true attorney platform with a purpose.

Description
Ever wondered how the Operatic Overture came into existence? Take a minute to get the scoop!

Fun Fact
The roots of the opera Overture begin with the first surviving opera, Peri’s L’Euridice in the year 1600. Peri included an instrumental “ritornello” at the beginning of the opera. This planted the seeds for what would eventually become the full-blown overture.

About Steven
Steven is a Canadian composer living in Toronto. He creates a range of works, with an emphasis on the short-form genre—his muse being to offer the listener both the darker and more satiric shades of human existence. If you're interested, please check out his website for more.

A Note To Music Students et al.
All recordings and sheet music are available on my site. I encourage you to take a look and play through some. Give me a shout if you have any questions.

Got a topic? Pop me off an email at: TCMMPodcast@Gmail.com 

Bruce Janacek joins us for show 500.

Mail Bag:

An all Bruce and Dan show this week.

The Rest of the Show:

1) Overture - Center For The Arts.

2) Madison Symphony Orchestra.

3) Update on Bruce's book.

4) Bruce is at his wit's end with Trump.

5) George W. Bush.

6) Barack Hussein Obama II.

7) "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" (Howard Beale)

8) If you can't take the time to educate yourself.... DON"T VOTE!

9) Paul Davis Ryan Jr.

10) The world is not black and white.

11) Midterm elections.

12) Let the SOB go.

J. H. Williams III and Wendy Wright-Williams stop by to discuss the upcoming Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology from Image, Promethea, process, Batwoman, Sandman: Overture, magick, Alan Moore, Greg Rucka, Echolands, Neil Gaiman, diversity, the collective unconscious, and a whole mess more!

They say the early bird gets the worm, so we kick off the Grunt Free Press Spook-a-Thon a few weeks early with a horror themed episode. Although there were horror games last week, too. And there might not be any next week... Scratch that. It's just a normal episode.

Topics - Fuck System Shock, Where did you learn to fly?, control mastery, playablility, Whatevertown, humping walls, like Prey only bad, horror theme?, Penumbra: Overture, Frictional Games, Lovecraftian, manual control, physics, demon dogs, levels!, where the goo is, graboids, The Land of Pain, lost in the woods, random goofy Cthulhu, normie Earth dimension, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, FPS lives, refunds.

Music - The Misfits - She, Pantera - Domination/Hollow, Iron and Wine - Sick of You

Episode 33: Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)    Ben & David dive deep into the early days of internet search, with the help of the best in the internet history business: Brian McCullough from the Internet History Podcast! We are huge fans of IHP at Acquired, so this was a real treat to collaborate with Brian and the great work he does over there. In this episode we cover the story of how a small incubator in Southern California spawned perhaps the greatest tech business model of all-time, Yahoo!’s fumbling of that golden opportunity, and Google’s recovery of that fumble to cross into the end zone of tech history behind the biggest moat ever constructed on the internet.  

Sponsors:
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• Overture’s origins as part of the Idealab incubator run by famed early internet entrepreneur Bill Gross
• Invention of the paid search business model… initially by returning ADS ONLY in response to search queries
• The eventual marrying of Overture’s paid search (ads) with organic search results via syndication on other properties like Yahoo!
• Revenue from Overture’s ad partnership saving Yahoo!’s business after the internet bubble burst 
• Yahoo!’s eventual acquisition of Overture for $1.4B in 2003 
• But… the really interesting story here: Overture’s 'inspiration' of Google’s business model and the creation of "the greatest advertising machine in the history of the world"
• The original (pre-Overture) Google business model: selling a box! 
• Google’s differentiation vs Overture: focusing on the long tail, ad quality scores, and an advertiser-friendly auction structure
• Google’s first major search syndication victory over Overture: AOL
• Yahoo!’s failed attempt to buy Google for $3B in 2002, leading it to settle for acquiring Overture instead the following year
• “Project Panama” at Yahoo!, and its impact on the tech and internet history
• Overture's (and later Yahoo!’s) lawsuit against Google for stealing the paid search business model— "the O.G. version of Snapchat and Instagram”
• Paul Graham’s take on "What Happened to Yahoo?”
• Perhaps the most important technology to come out of this whole episode: Hadoop
• The power of incentive alignment in marketplaces— and creating the widest and deepest moats on the internet

  The Carve Out: 

• Ben: The famous University of Washington's “Love Lab” Dr. John Gottman: “The Secret to Love is Just Kindness”
• David: Berlin
• Brian: The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s