In the final installment of this morning's Sphereorama, here is a podcast interview with Tony Conrad, CEO of the new blog search service. I talked with Tony a few weeks ago when I was visiting Southpark and getting my Web dev on. We talk, of course, about why they felt compelled to build a new blog search service, the features included in today's release, and the new culture of sharing powering most of the Web ventures we are excited about.
You can check out the full Weblogs Worknotes set of casts, listen to the MP3 (~16 MB) or subscribe to the feed.
Technorati Tags: sphere, tony+conrad, weblogs+work, Weblogs+Worknotes
(Photo by the ever present Scott Beale)
The latest addition to the Weblogs Worknotes podcast is a chat with Lane Becker, one of the founding members of Adaptive Path. Lane is heading up a new line of business at AP, where the user experience gurus will offer their services to start-ups in exchange for equity. Other topics include how AP helped Princess Cruise Lines rethink their entire consumer booking process, how technology companies can improve their product development processes and why South Park, SF is, once again, the hip hop happening spot for all things Web.
Dig it.
Play the podcast at the Weblogs Worknotes page using the Flash player. Download it here (~65 MB mp3). Or subscribe to the feed for Weblogs Worknotes.
Technorati Tags: adaptive path, lane becker, podcast, south park, user experience, web development, Weblogs Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
David Parmet is dipping his toe into the podcasting world with his new podcast called Podcasting Begins at Home. He is using PodServe to host the podcast, check it out here. David is a New York public relations professional who works with clients like eSnips, PubSub, BackBeat Media and English Cut. David is speaking at the Syndicate conference in New York with our own Brian Oberkirch, Mike Manuel and Joel Richman.
We just posted an interview with Jeff Clavier to Weblogs Worknotes, in which he reveals for the first time his involvement in the ruffalicious community site Dogster. Full recap of our discussion on the new startup environment, how & when to take money and more of Jeff's current company picks later this weekend, but, for now, you can check out his Dogster news 18:20 into the conversation. 
Listen to the podcast here. (12 MB mp3)
Full disclosure: Dogster is huge in the Oberkirch household. Olivia is a hardcore Dogster user and we have taken copious amounts of swag from Ted & Co. To whom, we can heartily say about this new from Jeff: woof, woof.
Technorati Tags: dogster, jeff clavier, Weblogs+Work
Mike Arrington has launched a TalkCrunch, a companion podcast series for his white-hot Web 2.0 review blog, TechCrunch. He's using PodServe, one of our Big in Japan tools, to host it. His plan is to have on the founders of the companies he is covering each week. I think VC David Hornik is also going to be on very soon, as well. The first show features Ethan Stock of Zvents and Narendra Rocherolle of 30 Boxes talking about competition from Google's new calendar app. Nik Cubrilovic (who's been helping Mike write TechCrunch lately with some kick ass commentary) and Edgeio partner Keith Teare join in as well. TalkCrunch will be a great complement to the daily coverage Mike's team is pumping out. (We're ready to be on the show whenever you're ready, Mike.) Read Mike's post on the new podcast series.
Technorati Tags: biginjapan, mike arrington, podcast, podserve, talkcrunch, techcrunch
As I uploaded the podcast interview from yesterday, I showed Mike PodServe, the first of our Big in Japan tools we put out for folks to start playing around with. Big in Japan is an integrated set of tools for prosumer bloggers & podcasters. We’ll make it easier for you to create & manage multiple feeds, get stats, etc. We’ll be showing off some of Big in Japan this weekend at Barcamp Austin & SXSW. Mike is thinking about doing some podcasting for TechCrunch, so he played with the app a bit and reviewed it today on his site. PodServe makes it simple for you to create, list, host and manage a podcast feed. Just upload your mp3, and PodServe walks you through the steps of creating a podcast, listing it in Odeo, iTunes, iPodder, etc. We also have special features like social podcasts and public podcasts, which Mike focused on in his review:
Second, PodServe also allows “social podcasts”. A channel can be created that allows a number of podcasters to submit files, and all will be included in the feed. The third notable feature is really interesting. Users can create full public podcast channels that anyone can add their content to. Two great examples are Brian’s Naked Conversations Discussion (podcasts discussing Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s new book) and Alexander Muse’s Elevator Pitch Podcast, which is a podcast that any company can use to submit an elevator pitch. I’m considering using the service to create something similar to the Elevator Pitch Podcast for use by TechCrunch readers.
You can read more about Big in Japan on Alex Muse’s blog. Alex is the brain behind Big in Japan, and he’s done some really great work on it. Rodrigo Franco is the lead developer. Scott Ryan has helped immensely. Dan Cederholm did the design work. Merlin Mann contributed some really great ideas that we can’t wait to implement as the project develops.
Technorati Tags: alex+muse, barcampaustin, biginjapan, dan+cederholm, merlinmann, mikearrington, podserve, rodrigo+franco, scott+ryan, simplebits, techcrunch
We talk with Mike Arrington about TechCrunch & Edgeio, as part of the Weblogs Worknotes podcast series.
Technorati Tags: edgeio, mikearrington, podcast, techcrunch
What a crazy day. Busy, busy, so it took me a while to post up this podcast interview we did at New Communications Forum this morning. A roundtable discussion of PR & social media with:
and later
I’ll try to index the conversation & questions later this weekend. For more on the New Communications Forum, track the conversation and check out the flickr photos.
Grab the feed for Weblogs Worknotes.
Technorati Tags: david parmet, evelyn rodriguez, jeremy+pepper, josh hallett, mike manuel, newcomm forum, phil gomes, pr2.0, shel israel
Blake Burris (of CocoaRadio fame) did a podcast interview with us at Barcamp Dallas. We talk about why we think it’s important to do things like Barcamp, what Weblogs Work is about, and where we might take all this from here.
Listen to the podcast. (4.5 MB mp3)
Technorati Tags: barcamp, barcampdallas, blake burris, brian oberkirch, cocoaradio, Weblogs Work
Odeo’s Noah Glass & Tim Roberts handle the blog thang with perfect aplomb. Right after we stuck a ’send us an odeo’ button on our Like It Matters blog, Noah & Biz Stone zapped us an odeo saying ‘cool, thanks for playing.’ Tim & I have since exchanged notes (via their new feature) about how to improve it, questions about RSS, etc. A few quick moments on their part translate to a great experience with the company on our part. So:
Technorati Tags: blog+monitoring, blogs, noah+glass, odeo, tim+roberts
Alex asked me to reblog his post on PodServer here. So here goes:
This afternoon we had a Big in Japan meeting and the guys presented several new features, a couple of which were interesting enough to share. So I have explained PodServer here. So if you need to catch up do so. For the rest of you, here goes:
Feature One: PodServer makes it easy to create, store and share your podcast by simply uploading an mp3. Each time you create a new ’show’ you upload it to your podcast and it becomes available to anyone subscribed to your feed. The relationship is simple - 1 person per podcast. What if the relationship model could be broken wide open? That is exactly what the Big in Japan guys have done.
Imagine that you are a member of the Book of the Month Club. Now you and the rest of the club can get together once a month to review your thoughts of the book, but what if you could time-shift the meeting? Each of you could record your thoughts in an mp3 and upload it to the Book of the Month Club Podcast (i.e. anyone in the club could upload their mp3) and the podcast would be a combination of all of your thoughts. This could work for public debate on topics (maybe not as well), but for limited groups it might be interesting. Thoughts?
Feature Two: FrankenFeed for podcasts. Imagine that you are a fan of three different VC podcasts and you want to share them with your friends. You could send all three RSS feeds (in their long URL glory) to your friends or you could use FrankenFeed to combine them into a single VC Podcast Feed. As you found new VC podcasts you want your friends to listen to you could simply add them to the original VC Podcast Feed without bothering your friends - they would just get the new content in the original feed. Neat, huh?
PodServer is written with Ruby on Rails and features touches of Ajax. Today it is deliverying ‘alpha’ podcasts and should be launched (in beta) as part of the Big in Japan toolbox next month.
Your dishwasher has its own podcast, check it out here.
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