I interviewed Fergus Burns, CEO of Nooked - Nooked are one of the main RSS software companies (and they are Irish!) so I had to interview Fergus to talk to him about where RSS is now and where he see it going in the next year. Fergus shared his vast knowledge of RSS and described his view of the near-term future of RSS and the web in general.
Here are the questions I asked Fergus during the interview and the times at which I asked them:
Who is Fergus Burns and what is it that Nooked do? - 1:11
What you are talking about sounds quite like what FeedBurner does - is what you do the same as them or have I missed something? - 3:24
Do you do anything in the RSS reader space? - 6:58
How long will it be before Joe Public knows about or starts using RSS? - 10:23
Microsoft recently announced an extension of RSS called SSE, where do you see that going, do Nooked have plans to develop for it? - 16:02
How do you see the new Openness of API’s and MS Office’s file formats changing how business is done? - 19:07
Where does OPML fit in to Nooked, blogs, RSS and RSS consumption? - 23:46
2005 was the big year for RSS, do you think 2006 will be the big year for OPML? - 28:09
What else do you see coming down the line in 2006? - 31:37
What are your favourite gadgets? - 35:53
I have an iPod as well - but I never listen to music on it - I’m always listening to podcasts!… - 38:22
Are you a Mac or PC person? - 39:51
I didn’t publish this podcast as a structured blog post as I have done with the last two podcasts because I want this podcast to publish when I am away on holidays in Spain. There is the facility in WordPress to post-date posts so they have an embargo on them and publish at the date set. However this WordPress functionality is not supported by the WordPress Structured Blogging plug-in. 
Download the interview here (9.8mb mp3).
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