Episode 40 of the PodLeaders show - 5 mins 08 secs
My guest on the show this week was supposed to be Jeteye’s CEO David Hayden but David didn’t show up for the interview. I sat on the conference call line, patiently listening to the hold music, expecting him to arrive for over 17 minutes (I’m a little slow to catch on to these things!) but no-show. I emailed my contact, nothing. I called her, nothing. I re-checked my email and sure enough the time and numbers were correct.
Now, if something had come up, I’m not a hard guy to get hold of. All my contact details are in the sidebar on the right and my blog is readily found in a Google search.
Now I did a bit of research for this podcast including trying (and failing) to set up an account at Jeteye so in order that that research doesn’t go entirely to waste here is a recording of the questions I had prepared for David and the hold music I listened to.
David can you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself - what’s your background? How did you get to be CEO of Jeteye? - 01:05
Now what exactly is Jeteye? Why would I want to use it? What kind of problems does it solve? - 01:27
I tried to sign up for an account earlier but failed ‘cos I couldn’t read the CAPTCHA on the sign-up form. Are there any plans to do away with the CAPTCHA (you already do an email verification system)? - 01:45
I persisted but after successfully verifying my account following the email, I tried to login and was given a sign in failed error. I followed the procedure for lost passwords and it told me it was going to email me my password. That was about an hour ago and still no email. Is there any chance you might do a bit of work on your login procedures David? - 02:13
You have several competitors in this space - Google Notebook, Yahoo MyWeb, Microsoft all have offerings - how does Jeteye differentiate itself? - 03:26
You announced back in June a partnership with Yahoo! Talk to me a little about that. How did that come about? What it means for Jeteye and so on? - 03:57
And finally, how do you see this space developing? - 04:19
Download the entire interview here
(16.59mb mp3)
Best podcast of 2006
He really changed his tune when you mentioned a partnership with Yahoo! talk, eh?
Hahaha. Riveting stuff.
Damien’s right. This most definitely gets a nomination to the PodCast awards (whatever they’re called these days).
nice
I have had this happen twice and did not think of doing this, absolutley brilliant! Jeteye who?
I listened to your podcast while parsing data from an old, antiquated database. I laughed through the whole thing, now my coworkers think I need medication…thank you for taking your 17 minutes of pain and turning it into a little bit of joy for the rest of us.
Tom, you’re my hero. I liked the answer to where the space was developing into: mellow… mellow… upbeat!
A truly memorable interview that I’m sure will generate a lot of “buzz” about he & his site. Also, very succinct.
Love & Peace.
That is one extremely articulate CEO!
haha … very funny Tom!
I know never to mess with you
Ouch……. thats awesome.
Good thing you didn’t think of that idea when I was thailand and got hit by that thunderstorm!
BTW…… if you can’t read a captcha that PROBABLY means you’re a robot!
Thanks for the kind words everyone.
Kevin, I thought I could read the CAPTCHA and I entered what I thought I saw only to be told by the system that I had got it wrong. If I wasn’t trying to research the interview, there’s a strong chance that I would have clicked off to another site at that point.
As I said, Jeteye already have an email verification system. The combination is unnecessary and will cause them to lose potential members/users.
Another idea would be for us to provide our OWN answers to your questions… ha.
RE the captcha…… these are generally better to deploy when you need them…… I haven’t noticed anyone generating fake Tailrank accounts yet.. maybe those are famous last words though!!
Kevin
Brilliant Tom. I think you have discovered the first alternative for years to “no comment” . . unfortunately it is about as effective.
Freakin..funtabluous !! :)-
But is the music podsafe?
Tom,
So many thanks for that. Truly genius and inspirational. I’m still wiping the tears out of my eyes.
Thanks to all those whose comments completed the picture. Freakin’ hysterical. Sorry I’ve got nothing to add.
Again, Tom, thanks.
Just a quick follow-up,
I have had an email exchange with David and the first thing he said was
We have re-scheduled the interview.
Good on you Dave for taking it in the spirit in which it was intended.
Tom, truly funny and smart of you to do this, and all in fair play
— of course, my apologies for missing the appointed hour, but I do tend to be a little long-winded in my answers anway, and this podcast succinctly made one of my main points about Internet communications, which is: too much noise out there, too little signal — you increased the signal by orders of magnitude this time — look forward to chatting with you in a couple weeks. David
Tom, first question next time should be “So, what’s your favourite type of hold music?”.