PodLeaders - Thought Leaders podcast

My guest on today’s show was Chris Messina - Chris is Director of Experience and Open Source Ambassador for Flock - Flock is a free, open source web browser - with elements of Web 2.0 built into the browser (i.e. it has a blog editor, a Flickr uploader and a Del.icio.us tagger built-in).

Chris is a committed open source advocate and has strong opinions on open source, DRM, and how the web should be used which he is not afraid to express.

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

Chris, who is Chris Messina and what is it that you do? - 0:53
“Director of Experience and Open Source Ambassador”? - 2:02
What sets Flock apart from every other browser? - 5:03
Is Flock a Web 2.0 app? - 7:11
What is Web 2.0? - 8:56
How many are using Flock? - 14:27

Salim Ismail:
1) Does Flock have businesses as a target or are they focused on the general consumer? - 16:50
2) Will they private label their browser? - 20:18
3) Will some of the features get integrated back into the Mozilla codebase or will it stay as an extension? - 22:15
4) What’s the business model??! - 24:19
5) Finally, does he prefer Guinness or Murphy’s? - 26:36

JP Dubois:
1) What is the timeline for a 1.0 release? - 27:17
2) His views on “Web as Platform” and the ability to integrate API’s like your Blog, Flickr and del.icio.us. - 28:53
3) What’s up with this postcard thing? because I want a flock t-shirt : ) - 32:21

Anthony:
Do we really need another web browser?
Who is Flock targetting for its user base? - 33:34

Keith:
I would love to switch to Flock - but cannot find solid reasons for doing so. I use del.icio.us, I blog on two platforms and I collaborate a lot online - and the majority
of what I want from a browser I get from Firefox and the extensions that I need.
So there does not appear to be enough in it for me to relearn elements of
my browser use (and vocab) in the way that I perceive I would have to for Flock.
Also I would say that it appears to be static at present against a dynamic Firefox build timetable that is augmented by regular extensions updates and releases. - 35:41

Tara:
I’d ask him how his French fluency is coming along…
Sense of direction … - 39:07

There was a bit of a kerfuffle at the end of last December about one of your posts - I met Matt Mullenweg of WordPress in Paris last year and… - 39:44

Is there any Web 2.0 application you can’t live without? - 42:15

Are you Mac based or PC based? - 44:05

Do you have a favourite gadget? - 44:10

Finally, Do you unplug from technology often , to recharge yourself do you have any non-tech hobbies? - 46:20

Download the interview here (11.5mb mp3).