Archive for February, 2006

Simon McDermott podcast

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tom
on February 24, 2006
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Simon McDermott podcast

Artist: Tom Raftery - PodLeaders.com

Duration: 22′50

Created: Fri, 24 Feb 2006

Location: Cork, Ireland

Category: Speech

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


Episode 23 of the PodLeaders show

I had a really bad podcasting week this week - two interviews I had planned didn’t come off - one was entirely my fault!

Fortunately Simon McDermott, Sales & Marketing Director of Attentio agreed to do an interview at extremely short notice (phew!, thanks again Simon!).

Attentio are a Brussels-based company who specialise in PR tracking for European companies using online software they have developed in-house.

As usual, here are the questions I asked Simon and the times in the interview at which I asked them:

Can you give us a rundown on who Simon McDermott is, what your background is and from there talk about Attentio - 0:37

You lived in the UK, Amsterdam, and Brussels - did that necessitate you learning Dutch and Walloon? - 3:17

What do Attentio do? - 4:52

The tracking that you do - do you have your own software which does that, or how does that work? - 5:37

Is it all online stuff you track, or do you also track print, radio tv, etc.? - 6:34

Blogs are a reasonably new phenomenon - on the European scene, how are they perceived by corporate Europe? - 7:35

You mention people tracking their products, do you get many tracking their competitors names? - 9:37

Is there an awareness and an appetite for company blogs in Europe? - 11:04

Two questions - are the European co.’s aware of podcasts and are you tracking podcasts? - 14:10

The whole Intelliseek and Buzzmetrics merger of a few months back, how do you see that changing the landscape? - 16:52

Does Attentio work as a consultancy or is there an online tool people can use? - 20:17

Download the interview here (10.5mb mp3).

Tags: attentio, pr, iabc, blogs, blog_tracking, podcast, intelliseek, buzzmetrics, simon_mcdermott, tom_raftery, podleaders

Drummond Reed podcast

Published
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tom
on February 16, 2006
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Drummond Reed podcast

Artist: podleaders.com

Duration: 44′57

Created: Thu, 16 Feb 2006

Location: Cork, Ireland

Category: Speech

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Producer: Tom Raftery

Episode 22 of the PodLeaders show.

My guest on the show today is Founder and CTO of Cordance, Drummond Reed.

Drummond works in the fields of privacy and digital identity - he is a member of the P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) Working Group at the W3C. He is also a founding board member of the International Security, Trust, and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA, www.istpa.org), where he continues to serve on the board.

He led the development of the XNS (Extensible Name Service) specifications and in 2000 contributed to the establishment of the XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG), where he was one of five founding directors. He is co-chair of the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) Technical Committee with Gabe Wachob, Chief Systems Architect, Visa International. After the publication of the XRI 1.0 specifications in January 2004, Drummond became co-chair of the the XDI (XRI Data Interchange) Technical Committee with Geoffrey Strongin, Platform Security Architect of AMD.

Despite all those achievements, Drummond is a fascinating, down-to-earth interviewee! We talked mostly about the emerging area of digital identity (about which I knew very little before the interview!) and Drummond explained it so well and so enthusiastically that even I understood it and wanted to go out to get one straight away!

As always, here are the questions I asked Drummond and the times in the interview at which I asked them:

Drummond, first of all can you tell the listeners who is Drummond Reed, what is your background and what is it that you do now? - 0:52

Can you talk to us a bit more about digital identity, what it is and why it is needed? - 3:09

This sounds a little analogous to Microsoft’s passport - is it similar to that except more open? - 6:35

If Microsoft are getting involved with InfoCard, where is the information being stored? - 11:28

Is it possible to have as many cards as you want with as many identities as you want? - 14:28

If I want to generate one or more InfoCards for myself - can I do that now? - 16:06

Are we going to have another vhs - betamax issue of competing standards all over again? - 17:39

Are web apps out there going to have to be re-written to support the infoCards infrastructure? - 19:56

Are Apple on-board with this? - 22:07

InfoCard is going to be one of these things which needs a Tipping Point - will the release of Vista be that Tipping point? - 22:59

It sounds like a compelling technology - where do Cordance fit in to this? - 25:23

Why do I want an i-name? - 26:51

How do I get an i-name? - 32:11

Will there be issues around if two people have the same name or if two companies have the same name - how do they get their own i-names? - 35:07

Finally, how does all this fit in with your carpentry? - 41:52

Drummond’s business card (if you listen to the podcast, you’ll see why this is here!):
Drummond Reed's business card

Download the interview here (20.58mb mp3).

Tags: xri, xdi, i-name, cordance, drummondreed. drummond_reed, tomraftery, tom_raftery, podleaders, vista, infocard, identity, digital_identity, digitalidentity, Digital_Identity, privacy, Identity_Management, Microsoft, Microsoft_passport, oasis, xns, xnsorg, istpa

Heather Green podcast

Published
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tom
on February 13, 2006
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Heather Greene podcast

Artist: PodLeaders.com

Duration: 24′01

Created: Mon, 13 Feb 2006

Location: Cork, Ireland

Category: Speech

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

PodLeaders.com episode 21

Today’s guest on the show is BusinessWeek’s Heather Green - Heather, along with Stephen baker, writes Blogspotting - the businessWeek blog about blogs! More recently, Heather has been hosting the BusinessWeek podcast on The Business of Podcasting.

With a background of reporting on both blogging and podcasting, I thought Heather would make for an interesting guest on the show and I wasn’t disappointed.

Here are the questions I asked Heather and the times in the interview at which I asked them:

Can you give our listeners some background on who you are and how you got to be BusinessWeek’s blogger and podcaster on ‘The Business of Podcasting‘? - 0:40

How long have you been doing the Business of Podcasting blog now? - 2:13

How do you see the maturation of the business models around podcasting taking place? - 3:09

You have been doing blogging and podcasting on the BusinessWeek site, will you do Video Blogging any time soon? - 5:18

How are you going about tracking numbers on your podcast? - 7:53

Have you heard of the services provided by SONR? - 8:42

Do you think video will overtake podcasting? - 11:13

I assume a lot of the money will go towards the music genre of podcasting, which of the genres do you see as emerging as the biggest and most lucrative? - 14:29

What do you make of the Blogher conference (http://www.blogher.org/) and do you think women need to be encouraged to blog and podcast more? - 16:15

Do you think there should be special programs to bring women into tech? - 17:21

Do you think there is a higher uptake of Podcasting amongst women than in the ‘normal’ tech sphere? - 19:08

What kind of hardware do you guys use? - 19:57

Do you know what you will be using for the video blogging? - 21:03

You have been doing tech stuff for some time now, do you break out of tech, do you have other hobbies? - 22:27

Download the interview here (11mb mp3).

Just a quick snippet to claim my Odeo channel -
My Odeo Channel (odeo/8069764e8f824008)

Tags: podcast, podcasting, software, podcaststats, businessweek, blogspotting

Thomas Vander Wal podcast

Published
by
tom
on February 9, 2006
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Thomas Vander Wal podcast

Artist: PodLeaders.com

Duration: 44′33

Created: Thu, 09 Feb 2006

Location: Cork, Ireland

Category: Speech

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

My guest on today’s show was information architect Thomas Vander Wal. Thomas was the originator of the term folksonomy and we had a fascinating discussion about folksonomic toolsets, personal and business cases for using tagging and what Thomas calls the ‘Come to me Web’.

Here are the questions I asked Thomas and the times in the interview at which I asked them:

Thomas, first off can you tell the listeners who is Thomas Van Der Wal, what is your background and what is it that you do now? - 35:32

What was it that attracted you to information architecture in the first place? - 3:06

You mentioned that you are currently involved in product development - is that something you can talk about right now? - 4:46

Can you give us a brief intro to tagging? - 5:32

What is a Folksonomy then? - 7:21

What is a typical Folksonomic toolset? - 11:00

Can businesses use this kind of technology? - 13:17

Do you want to talk a little more about the product development you are involved in? - 16:11

You wrote recently about the ‘Come to me Web’ - what is that? - 18:22

Do you see the advent of structured blogging as a tool to push forward the ‘come to me web’? - 23:39

How do you see tagging becoming more mainstream? - 30:11

Where do you see the biggest change in the Internet in the last 12-24 months? - 35:01

Where do you see this headed in the next 12-24 months? - 39:58

Have you any time frame for when the product development you mentioned earlier will be released? - 42:42

Download the interview here (20.4mb mp3).

This is the first mp3 I have encoded at 64 bit - all previous podcasts have been encoded at 32 bit. I’d be interested to hear from listeners whether they noticed any difference in the sound quality.

Tags: folksonomy, research, metadata, wikipedia, thomasvanderwal, tagging, tags, information_architecture, come_to_me_web, tomraftery, podleaders, tom_raftery

Martin Versavsky podcast

Published
by
tom
on February 6, 2006
in Podcasting
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Martin Versavsky podcast

Artist: PodLeaders.com

Duration: 4′16

Created: Mon, 06 Feb 2006

Location: Cork, Ireland

Category: Speech

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Martin Varsavsky is the founder and CEO of FON (as well as being the founder of highly successful companies such as Viatel, Jazztel and Ya.com). FON is a community of people who share WiFi. If you sign up with FON you share your WiFi broadband access at home/work and you get free access to other FON points wherever they exist.

FON announced last night that it has just raised €18 million from Google, Skype, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital. This puts FON in a very enviable position - they have partnerships with some of the biggest names in the business, they have money and they have a cool mission (WiFi Internet Access Everywhere).

Unfortunately Martin had 80 (I think he said 80) newspaper interviews waiting to talk to him after me so this was the shortest interview I have done to date!

Here are the questions I asked Martin and the times in the interview at which I asked them:

Martin, can you tell me what was the announcement you made yesterday? - 0:38

There have been several efforts to do something like this previously - how is Fon different from these previous efforts? - 1:05

You are going to have an issue with ISPs, I imagine, whose Terms of Service regularly disallow sharing of wifi networks. How are you going to get around this? - 2:32

As you can see, I didn’t quite get around to all the questions I had prepared - nor did I get to ask the questions submitted by readers of my blog - sorry guys :-( - hopefully next time.

Download the interview here (2mb mp3)

Tags: fon, Jazztel, Martin_Varsavsky, podcasting, Viatel, wifi