Archive for October, 2006

Kim Cameron podcast

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on October 27, 2006
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Episode 48 of the PodLeaders show - 42 mins 15 secs

My guest on the show this week is Kim Cameron. Kim is Microsoft’s Identity Chief and as such is responsible for developing CardSpace - Microsoft’s successor to the much reviled Passport. Kim elucidated the Seven Laws of Identity and is developing CardSpace to conform to those laws. If he manages this, he will have changed fundamentally how Microsoft deals with people.

Kim is also responsible for Microsoft recently releasing 35 pieces of IP and promising to never charge for them.

Here are the questions I asked Kim and the times I asked them:

Kim, I introduced you as Microsoft’s Identity Chief, what is your official title in Microsoft? - 0:35

What does the Chief Architect of Identity do in Microsoft? - 01:02

Why is it necessary to have identity products in software? - 01:29

How do I know who I am dealing with on the internet? How is that problem being solved? - 03:56

And you as Microsoft’s Identity Architect are coming up with a way to resolve this called CardSpace… - 07:08

You were saying CardSpace is to be platform independent, I run a Mac, will it run on the Mac? - 15:26

You mentioned a couple of companies, are the offerings from these companies going to interoperate or are we going to have another version of the VHS/BetaMax wars? - 17:45

Audience questions
Rob Burke

Perhaps more than any of the other Vista-era technologies, in order to really catch on, CardSpace requires broad cross-platform adoption. Kim personally is doing a lot to showcase the use of CardSpace’s open standards. What does the broader effort to engage with other platforms and communities look like, and how is CardSpace being received? - 21:10

CardSpace uses an intuitive wallet-and-credit-card metaphor. One of the features of a wallet is that it’s portable – I several pieces of identity with me at all times. I tend to move between computers a lot. What provisions are there in CardSpace for helping me keep mobile (in a secure way)? - 25:07

What happens if your laptop containing your InfoCards gets lost and/or stolen? - 28:00


Dennis Howlett

What’s cooking on the identity managemnt front at MSFT? We’ve been hearing about this on and off for a while - we need progress if we’re not to be weighed down byt having to remember so many usernames and passwords for the servics we consume. - 30:35


My questions again:

Will there be a lot of re-engineering of web apps required to roll out these technologies? - 34:03

And finally you mentioned that this is the first version what can we expect in the next versions and when will they be released? - 39:58

Download the entire interview here
(19.3mb mp3)

Doug Kaye podcast

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on October 20, 2006
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Episode 47 of the PodLeaders show - 29 mins 06 secs

My guest on the show this week is veteran podcaster Doug Kaye. Doug is the founder and CEO of The Conversations Network and CTO of GigaVox Media.

Doug has been podcasting since before the term was invented!

Here are the questions I asked Doug and the times I asked them:

What is your background in tech and how did you get into podcasting? - 0:50

How did you go from books to podcasts? - 01:48

And the Conversations Network, how did that come about? - 02:25

What is the Conversations Network? - 03:16

The ability to listen to presentations is fantastic, I think. Is that also the feedback of other listeners to Itconversations? - 05:23

How do you work with the event organisers and get them to allow you to publish their content on your site? - 06:25

Do you pay the event organisers for the content, do they pay you for publishing it, how does that work? - 07:23

How does the process work, do you approach event organisers to ask for the content, do they approach you or is it a mix? - 08:09

Recently Gigavox Media came out with a product called the Levelator - can you talk a bit about that? - 09:20

What has the feedback been like for it? - 11:43

Audience:

Bernie Goldbach
Where do you think most of your listeners are when they hear IT Conversations? Are they underway? Connected to desktops? Cleaning up the house? Plugged into a home stereo? In the bathroom? - 13:17

Keith Bohanna
What have been your most successful attempts to encourage listener/subscriber interation? And the least?! (ie voting/rating) - 16:20

Recently Apple has started taking cases against people using the term ‘pod’ in their products - how do you see this affecting podcasts? - 19:30

Microsoft’s Zune and Media Player doesn’t support RSS, does this surprise you? - 21:53

With the recent Google/YouTube acquisition and the rise and rise of video, do you see video overtaking podcasts? - 23:35

And finally, where do you see all this going? - 26:37

Download the entire interview here
(13.3mb mp3)

Any questions for Kim Cameron?

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tom
on October 18, 2006
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Kim Cameron is Microsoft’s Identity Chief and as such is responsible for developing InfoCard - Microsoft’s successor to the much reviled Passport. Kim elucidated the Seven Laws of Identity and is developing InfoCard to conform to those laws. If he manages this, he will have changed fundamentally how Microsoft deals with people.

Kim is also responsible for Microsoft recently releasing 35 pieces of IP and promising to never charge for them.

I will be interviewing Kim this coming Tuesday (Oct 24th) for a podcast - if you have any questions you’d like me to ask Kim, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Dan Bricklin podcast

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on October 13, 2006
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Episode 46 of the PodLeaders show - 46 mins 02 secs

My guest on the show this week is Dan Bricklin. Dan Bricklin is the inventor of the spreadsheet. Dan, along with Bob Frankston released the world’s first spreadsheet, called VisiCalc in 1979.

Dan has worked on many projects since and recently has started work on wikiCalc - an open source, online spreadsheet application.

Here are the questions I asked Dan and the times I asked them:

Dan, can you give us a bit of background about yourself, how did you get into computers first day? - 0:51

And that was where you got the inspiration for VisiCalc? - 02:59

Visicalc was written for the Apple II platform, wasn’t it? - 04:07

This was before IBM came out with the PC, wasn’t it? - 05:16

Do you have any idea how many lines of code you are talking roughly - 06:21

How did Microsoft come to dominate the spreadsheet market then? - 07:11

Having created the world’s first electronic spreadsheet, you were unable to patent it because of the patent laws of the day… - 11:57

Audience questions:

Lar Veale
MS Excel (and most other MS products) has an excess of features that very few people will actually use, ever. Does he see the success of online spreadsheets being in some way dependent on going back to the basics and focusing on the core features - simple things like entering numbers and performing calculations on them? - 15:55

Also, as he is involved in wikiCalc, would be interested to hear what he makes of Google Spreadsheets - 22:44

A big difference between wikiCalc and Google Spreadsheets, Zoho and similar offerings is that you can download and host wikiCalc yourself… - 24:34

Eoghan McCabe

Do you think VisiCalc would be granted a patent if it was invented today? - 26:58

Dennis Howlett

On the topic of patents, ask him to outline how they won in Texas and what his experience was like as an expert witness. I gather it took up a considerable amount of his time last year - 27:58

My questions once more:

What have you been doing between VisiCalc and wikiCalc, you mentioned 9 patents? - 33:15

Can you tell us why you decided to go open source with wikiCalc? - 36:24

And you are launching wikiCalc 1.0 later this month - what is next on your roadmap? - 43:05

Download the entire interview here
(21.1mb mp3)

Any questions for Doug Kaye?

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tom
on October 11, 2006
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I’ll be interviewing Doug Kaye of The Conversations Network and GigaVox Media this afternoon.

Doug has been podcasting since before the term was invented!

As always, if you have any questions you’d like me to put to Doug, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Sam Sethi podcast

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tom
on October 6, 2006
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Episode 45 of the PodLeaders show - 36 mins 31 secs

My guest on the show this week is Sam Sethi. Sam is an entrepreneur, technologist (entrepologist) and consultant. Sam has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years for companies like Microsoft (strategy director in MSN UK ), Netscape, Gateway Computers and CMGi, in a variety of senior technical and marketing roles. Most recently Sam has been charged with setting up TechCrunch UK.

Here are the questions I asked Sam and the times I asked them:

Can you give us a bit of background on how you got into the tech business? - 00:51

And how did you break out of that into Netscape, Gateway and your present consultancy role? - 01:54

But Netscape took off for a while and brought us the Internet… - 02:39

You have been director of strategy for MSN, what is MSN and what is its strategy? - 03:56

How does Microsoft’s new Live.com brand differentiate itself from MSN? - 05:15

So we will see Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. made available through a browser? - 06:15

And what is to stop me from logging on and telling them that I am a 99 year old woman from Abu Dhabi? - 08:33

Back in the bubble of 1999, it was all about getting eyeballs to your site. The current strategy is very similar today. How do the two differ? - 09:26

Is microsoft’s Adcentre now available outside the US? - 11:54

When you say the MSN one is best, is that because it is more profile specific? - 13:35

When are these Web 2.0 applications going to become mainstream? - 14:37

Audience questions:

Jeremiah Owyang:

1) future of microformats, what will happen, what will the adoption rate be, if any? - 16:18

2) There are so many startups (and the barriers to entry are low) how many per focus area will we have? Will there be a shakeout like in 2000? - 22:34

3) If you had to invest your money in one tech company, and can’t touch it for 10 years, which one would it be? (can’t choose his own company, or one he’s partnered with) - 25:34

Conor O’Neill:

Sam had mentioned microformats a few times on Vecosys and dropped some hints about business ideas in that space. Is he in a position to talk more about the areas he is looking at? If not, does he have any general thoughts on them from a business perspective? - 27:02

My questions once more:

Interesting, can you talk about Liquid List’s business model? - 30:27

Any idea of a timeline for launch? - 32:37

And finally, how did the UK Techcrunch come about? - 33:07

Download the entire interview here
(16.7mb mp3)

UPDATE - there appears to have been an issue with the file that the Flash player was using and it was playing the audio too fast. I have replaced that file and hopefully this one works better!

Any questions for Dan Bricklin?

Published
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tom
on October 6, 2006
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Dan Bricklin is the inventor of the spreadsheet. Dan, along with Bob Frankston released the world’s first spreadsheet, called VisiCalc in 1979.

Dan has worked on many projects since and recently has started work on wikiCalc - an open source, online spreadsheet application.

I’m interviewing Dan this coming Tuesday afternoon (10th Oct 2006). We will be talking about VisiCalc, his new application WikiCalc and anything else that may arise in the questions!

As always, if you have questions you’d like me to put to him, feel free to leave them in the comments and I’ll put them to him.