[Left to Right: ur hipster Noah Glass, prankster Biz Stone, personal publishing provocateur Evan Williams]
Odeo was an early entrant in the podcasting market that has grown and changed so much in the past year. We talked with Biz Stone and Evan Williams about Odeo’s focus, the new features they are rolling out and where podcasting might be going.
Check out Odeo and Odeo Studio, and follow the story on their blog.
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Alexander & I gave Tantek & Ryan an update on the hResume stuff we’d been working on, and while we were there we recorded a discussion about hResume and the success of Microformats in general. We’re just about ready to offer a WordPress plugin for hResume and an hResume generator. I also heard today that work has started on an MT plugin as well.
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Dan Saffer, senior interaction designer at Adaptive Path, has a new book coming out called Designing for Interaction. We met up at the AP offices when I was in town last and had a great chat about what makes for great interaction design, how you allow for (encourage?) hackability, and much more. The book was an excellent introduction for me (the non-designer software dabbler) into the current thinking about user experience & interaction.
For more, check out Dan’s blog, the AP blog, and the interviews Dan has conducted for the book. Dan & I will also be doing a panel with Kit Seeborg & Jeremiah Owyang this month at WebVisions 2006.
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Josh Hallett is throwing an unconference in his neck of the woods –check out his announcement about BlogOrlando. A day of sessions & hanging out, a geek dinner & some time for goofying off.
A bit of ruckus over this quasi trolling post harshing on the ‘efficiency’ of podcasting. It’s not super ‘efficient’ for me to spend time talking to just one person about things that don’t require action items, you know, like my wife or my kids, or my coworkers who just might want to share something going on. Or my customers who might have some roundabout observation. You get my drift. I said some time ago that podcasting was going to bring it hard for those who wanted more personalized connections. My human-ness with voice, faces, nonverbal.
As for efficiency, I’d challenge anyone to pack more in than does the daily video bomblet courtesy of Ze Frank. Sportsracers, knowledge today is rapido y fabuloso.
Bonus:Â Eric tells us a story that ends with snarky zombies.
Peter Davis has a great point when he notes that he can review 50 blogs in the same time he can listen to the average podcast. He has a great point and one worth reading in full here. But for me Alex has a more topical explaination of how podcasts can offer businesses a method for timeshifting important audio content.
For most companies conference calls are a fact of life. Many of us sit in our office on several conference calls per week at peek work hours. We could be connecting with partners and associates, but instead we are forced to listen to boring calls that often have nothing to do with us. Podcasting offers a great way for businesses to allow their workers to timeshift conference call information. Imagine being able to listen to a weekly conference call on the way home from work or being able to fast forward through parts not on topic to your function? What if you could then use your cell phone to insert your own thoughts into a feed? Alex details these features in his post titled, “Scoble is right, podcasting is inefficient!”
Podcasting is a great tool that can be used to save time or to waste time – its all in the application!
Toni Schneider is announcing the launch of the Automattic Support Network for enterprise-grade support of WordPress and WordPress MU.
Says Toni:
WordPress is already used to power blogs and sites by several well known large companies, places like the New York Times, CNET, and About.com. In talking to other large corporate users over the past few months, I’ve received the same request over and over: if we could pay you to provide us with enterprise level support for WordPress, we’re ready to deploy it in a big way. We’ve responded by creating the Support Network. It’s loosely modelled after similar offerings from companies like MySQL and Red Hat who provide support subscriptions for open source software.
WordPress is our primary platform, and we’ve been talking with Matt & Toni about serving as one of their recommended professional service providers for integration, development, marketing support and other types of professional services that are adjuncts to the core platform support Automattic will focus on. We are also moving ahead on integrating white-label versions of some of the Big in Japan apps (PodServe, primarily), which we think are an ideal complement to extensible platforms like WordPress.
Check out what the Support Network has to offer.
Update:Â Marshall weighs in at TechCrunch.
(While gloating over the Argentina win.)
Who needs a study? Here’s what you do:
- Read good blogs.
- Blog.
- Rinse, repeat.
Hope Barcamp SF has a vid cast going tomorrow. I caught the tail snippet of Doc‘s closing session of Bloggercon today, and it was fun to watch the video & the irc backchannel. Next best thing to sitting in the audience glancing up occasionally from my Mac. Bloggercon is also running tomorrow, and Barcamp SF through Sunday.
