Two months ago we were hanging out with Liz Gannes at the Under the Radar party and joked that she should become GigaLiz (Om had just left Business 2.0 to start his own venture GigaOm). Just got the email yesterday that Liz took our joke to heart and decided to leave Red Herring and join GigaOm. Wow! We were only joking!!! But, WOW, what a great idea. We are excited for Liz and expect even greater things from GigaOm now. [via myself]

Alex did a great job of talking about PodServe and all the Big in Japan apps today at the Under the Radar event held at the Microsoft HQ in Silicon Valley. We got some kind words from Mssrs. Arrington & Clavier and had lots of good conversations with companies interested in hearing more after the presentation.

The best feedback so far is that PodServe was a ‘Best in Show’ winner after all the audience votes were tallied tonight. Not only did we ‘win’ the love of the crowd at our panel on podcasting, but PodServe was one of the top vote getters among all the apps demo’d today. Said one respondent: “I’d buy that.” Now that’s what we like to hear. Thanks, Debbie Landa and all IBD Network team for inviting us out to present. We also did an interview with Irina Slutsky, which I’ll link to once posted.

Rock on, Big in Japan team.

Very cool of Debbie Landa to invite us to show off PodServe at the Under the Radar event in Mountain View tomorrow. Alexander & I will be talking about how we ended up working on all the Big in Japan apps to support our work here at Weblogs Work, how PodServe has become popular with corporate clients who want customizable podcast tools for internal communications and other uses, and how PodServe’s telephony integration makes it super simple for anyone to create and publish new audio. Mike Arrington, Jeff Clavier and Zander Lurie will be giving us some input, so we’ll report back about what they have to say.