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Published: February 25th, 2010

The Non-Disclosure Agreement. Metzger deals with startups - and a lot of them ask for signed NDAs. It makes doing business extremely difficult - they may have a client in the same business. The chances of Metzger taking an idea are zero. Michael says he launched Callisto.fm at Podcamp Boulder 2009 as an idea. A developer stepped up and offered to build it. If there were an NDA, that wouldn't have happened. What would happen to someone that stole that idea? The community is too small. That won't happen in San Francisco, people are more likely to steal idea due to the size of the space. Investors like teams, not ideas in general. Two companies Boulder Open Coffee Club asked for NDAs before they'd share ideas. No one did it. Startups face difficulty - do they share excitement with open betas, or do they keep it locked down until the last minute to fanfare? All agree that the former is better. CNET was recently in trouble for bypassing a press embargo with a hacked code. They were prepared to pan the idea, but ended up giving it a good review. The publisher issued a DMCA takedown. Bad PR move. Apple reveals their hand when they issue a takedown request, most people usually comply. You can give away details without revealing the entire idea. Doyle's clients is launching a new beer brand. Let's go make one too! It's Miller-Coors - interesting. If you don't have at least 5 competitors, your idea is probably not worth a crap. Competition is great for startups. Amazon took what was already in place and made it really easy. iPad will be the same kind of thing. A better version of what's out there already. Apple makes their money on mystery and hype. If they announced everything a year in advance, there'd be no surprise, a lot less hype, and revenue. Should the same apply to startups? Apple does have a great record of super innovative products. Michael organized an iPad launch party: Tabletpalooza. Dell couldn't get away with it. It takes a remarkable product for stealth mode companies to work. They might have the next Segway. Things that don't get feedback may not be commercially viable. Is Apple paying attention to the comments on the iPad? Changing the iPad based on that feedback? We all think the feedback is far more valuable than the NDA. Does Doyle still think the Conan Obrien deal was a plant? Umm, no. But this sets the stage for the next coup. Imagine organizing the big voices to accomplish goals. That's a wrap. Find us in the regular places, specifically Callisto.fm and iTunes!

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Published: February 12th, 2010

Dave's first thought? Yawn. What's the big differentiator? It's just another place to manage. Doyle doesn't want his communications world in a single window. Michael will follow it to see what happens.AT&T has an unflattering article in Business Week. Pundits say bloggers don't matter, but when the story reaches Business Week, it matters. Does the story in general matter to someone that really wants an exclusive phone (iPhone)?Google is doing gigabit internet in select cities. The infrastructure for the rest of the internet needs to be capable of delivering content at that speed. Netflix buffers on 50Mbps connections, why? Dave thinks the government should implement the infrastructure.Thanks to Blue Rhino, and more importantly Blue Microphones ( http://bluemic.com ).

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Published: February 2nd, 2010

First show of the new year. China and Google are no longer friends. CES banter, Doyle and Dave were there. 125,000 people, 3000 vendor exhibits. The show felt better. Doyle went for the parties. EBooks were big. 3DTV was big. Home electricity monitoring systems were big. Monitoring electricity usage causes drops in usage. Electricity bills were high in Colorado! There are still many standards and even iPhone apps for real-time reporting. 3DTV: Way too early - the dorky first gen. Not just glasses, but *their* glasses. Polarized vs. Non-polarized? Sports might be big, ESPN will have a 3D channel. 2010 predictions. Michael: A big fat year for Apple. iSlate will be a game changer. A leaked rumor names a genre (iSlate). Does Apple count replacement iPhone units against sales? If so, there were like 9 phones sold. Doyle says his Kindle is horrible for anything other than reading words. Dave - transition from keyboards to no keyboards. The convertible tablet PC was cool. Multi-touch gestures were hot at CES. Doyle's prediction: Twitter will have an exit of some kind and will become a feature. Bing? Facebook? Google? Who knows? Apple starts shipping the Magic Mouse with all Macs. Dave - 2010 will mark the beginning of the end of netbooks. More focused devices will eat their market. Is the netbook for the consumer, not the producer? Imagine these smart devices with much bigger screens (DROID, Nexus One, iPhone). Doyle's laptop is 500GB, but with a cloud based device, storage is irrelevant. Energy storage is a huge industry. There has to be a better way. Wireless power in Starbucks would be great. We'd choose places based on power. RCA was showing battery tech that gets power via WIFI. (WHAT? That's VOODOO!). If there's enough power to work, not charge, the world would be great! Power is a big problem. Doyle gives NBC credit, he thinks it was a trial balloon. Way too much credit Doyle. Conan has the Twittershphere behind him. Michael thinks Conan should go the way of Adam Carolla - direct to internet content. None of us watch late night TV regularly anyway, so time segment doesn't matter.

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Published: January 27th, 2010

For Doyle, the jury is out. He's interested in what the infrastructure and ecosystem will look like. Michael: The device is not for pros, but instead for consumers, literally his mother. She asked about it with no prompting from Michael. iPad runs all iPhone apps, including Skype. Dave: Completely blown away by the device and wants one now. Other handset makers were trying to stuff a desktop OS into a handheld. Subnotebook/netbooks are gone with 18 months as a category. iPhone OS 4 is rumored to support multitasking. What does iPad mean for Hulu and suchlike services. Screen dimensions aren't HD dimensions (16:9). Publishers are giddy about the device. It'll be a great guide "book." What will the Kindle app look like? How well will it work? Dave is a futurist at heart. iPad has attachments (SD card, USB). Who is the target market for this? Will the attachment keyboard suck? It has Bluetooth. Doyle thinks he might divide mobile and desktop operations again (iPad for mobile/email, and iMac for the desktop). Will the iPad, Amazon has even more incentive to make the Kindle app better for iPhone OS. Will more professional apps find their ways to the iPad because the screen is larger? Get one, you'll get all the girls.

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Published: January 26th, 2010

The Dave At Ces Edition by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 08 The Dave at CES Edition.mp3 (11484 KB) Boulder Open Podcast, Episode 8: The Dave at CES Edition. Several trends have emerged. 3D Television, E-Book readers and more. Amazon was the best selling device at Amazon over Christmas. Amazon sold more electronic books than paper books. Every vendor that's showing off 3D TV has specialized glasses. Boo. Once there's a standard, this will make more sense. Dave says it'll actually take root when you don't have to wear glasses at all. Technicolor is making that happen (but only for a private audience right now). It only works in 7inch screens or less. comcast has upgraded to DOCSIS 3 - which makes Michael's download speed 35Mbps. CES is for the industry, not the public. Product buyers, and their teams are the focus of the show. Dave met a guy from Radio Shack and reminds us that they're actually a retail powerhouse. ZigBee is a standard for monitoring your home power use. The device fits between the device and the outlet allowing you to see how much every outlet consumes. You can remotely turn off appliances, and even tell it to turn off certain appliances within a time window. Studies show that people that monitor their electrical usage have lower bills. Imagine if everyone then watched their consumption. It comes down to paying attention, doesn't it? Dave's Smart Grid Test isn't really all that smart. It shuts your air conditioner off for a hour during high demand times. Granular controls like this will change everything. It's a much bigger industry this year over last. TVs - imagine a Best Buy TV wall on steroids. It's as big as a city block with 250 screens wide. It's mindnumbingly amazing. Dave's uploaded photos of the whole thing. ( See http://j.mp/d0ZpW9 for pictures ) . The friends he brought had a tough time with the enormity. iPhoto hasn't been upgraded to match the new permissions within Facebook. That's a wrap. You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com, iTunes, and http://callisto.fm Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: January 26th, 2010

The All Jiggles Episode by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 11 The All Jiggles Episode.mp3 (10571 KB) Number 11 on the top free apps for the iPhone is "Boob Party" and the number 22 app is "Tasty Pasties 18+ Amateurs." Should those apps be listed in the apps list? Apple's policy on this type of content has changed, but Michael thinks it should be in a "Red Light" district with special permissions required. Kids get to see this stuff without asking for it. There are parental controls but that won't filter the lists (this is now verified, the apps still show up in the lists). They also appear in the top paid lists. Michael is OK with content filters, Apple created the store, they should be able to totally control the content/apps. Would you want your mom to encounter this content in the app store? Foursquare. Dave checked in to a hotel and was awarded the "Douchebag" badge. He reported it in the Get Satisfaction support site for Foursquare. Great discussion ensued. They need to make sure that the service is attractive to every age group. Dave thinks the term is potentially offensive. Back to content - let's keep the adult material in a separate part of the store. For clarification, Michael isn't opposed to the content being in the store, it just shouldn't be as easily available. What are your thoughts? That's a wrap. You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com, iTunes, and Callisto.fm: http://j.mp/6TOXJU Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: January 19th, 2010

Location Based Games by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 10 Location Based Games.mp3 (12031 KB) Geolocation related games. Foursquare, Brightkite, Gowalla, Yelp - lots of options. Facebook for mobile getting in to the action soon? Checking in to locations for fun, profit, and status. Dave uses Foursquare, Michael steers clear from the location based gaming (but uses Brightkite on occasion). Michael likes the technology, but dislikes the cross stream pollution ( Foursquare > Twitter > Facebook, Etc. ). It all comes back to filtering darn it. Twitter? Hello! Ultimately, it's the discretion of the user to post to other services. Updates should be set to a certain radius. Gowalla sells ads to Incase so that if you check in at an Apple Store you see a larger selection of cases than Apple carries. This is really cool Scifi. Check in at a restaurant in Foursquare, and get an offer for a bar down the street. Brightkite seems old school. LOL. Dave never used Brightkite. Foursquare is better because of the point system for him - he's a competitor. The first week or two with Foursquare is fun because you get a crap ton of points because you're a newbie. There are some security issues. Check in at the airport, and people know you're not at home. Dave never checks in at the bank, the school, and usually never checks in when the kids are with him. Dave has no pictures of his kids online - he wants to protect their privacy. There's a desktop app called Foursquarex that brings the game to the desktop (Mac OS X, 10.6 only). It uses Google Maps to show the location of your friends. When shouldn't you check in on these things? On a date? What if you both check in? They all have security settings... just set the prefs and forget about it? What if McDonalds tracks your checkins and gives you free drinks? Would you be able to see checkins at McDonalds.com? PlayFoursquare.com shows checkins from users. The technology is amazing - Michael is enamored with real-time data. What do we do with all of this data? Decide for yourself how to use these services. What are the implications? Does this stuff work with Second Life. That'd be swell. That's a wrap. You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com, iTunes, and http://callisto.fm Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: January 19th, 2010

John loves motorcycles. Some big announcement is coming on the 27th, but it's not just for iWork 10. There are no Microsoft rumor sites. Why? Will Apple introduce iSlate? iPhone OS 4? Will the iPhone have controls on the back? It'd make butt calling easier anyway. Will iWork be touch-enabled? What's the point? Doyle really appreciated the sharing options introduced in iWork 09. Metzger uses both iWork and Office for compatibility. iWork's licensing is great - the family packs are cheap. John can't use Pages - continues to use Word. Formatting problems create issues for a PR firm, so reliability is king. OpenOffice and Google Docs have their own issues. Google Docs allows uploads for any kind of file (G-Drive). MobileMe is sorely neglected - it's a crown jewel, but Apple seems to ignore it. The iSlate would be a second machine for Dave - it'd be nice to be able to use it as a second display. Doyle thinks it'll have to be more than a color Kindle. Will it be a giant iPhone without cell service? Dave finally fixed his iPhone battery issues by disabling Google Calendar syncing. If you're having problems with battery, try the same! iPhone Apps: Dave likes CardStar. It doesn't with King Soopers (a local grocery stores), but seems to work everywhere else. Doyle likes Tripit. He pays for the premium service - the service takes reservation confirmation emails and organizes your trip. It didn't work for Dave (the iPhone app never synced). Doyle's one gripe is that he doesn't need the trips once he's finished. Location based sharing requires diligence. A danger is letting people know that you're out of town. John likes the Weather app, Stocks, and uses his iPhone to read NYT, etc. The small screen isn't a problem at all for him. He's still so enamored by the fact that he can, that he does. Michael listens to books, no reading. Michael likes GroceryIQ for grocery list management. It's $.99 and lets he and his wife share the list in real-time. It groups the items in sections to make shopping easier.$.99 is always worth the risk. The gap between those willing to pay $.99 vs. free is amazing. Apple sold 99.4% of all mobile based apps last year. Doyle would be happy to pay the Denver Post for a good app to read news. We've been paying for content for hundreds of years. We're willing to pay for good content. People pay for music now without thinking about it. Doyle has no problem throwing down for a single he learns about via Shazam. Dave tried to get rid of books on cassette but the store wouldn't take them! Radio on the iPhone - streaming radio seems to be a problem for John. It's a bandwidth issue. Michael uses Pandora in the car via bluetooth. The quality will degrade based on bandwidth, but rarely drops out. Gooveshark will have an iPhone app soon. Slacker radio is another option. That's a wrap!

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Published: January 13th, 2010

Google And China by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 09 Google and China.mp3 (8906 KB) We've noticed. We talk a lot about Google, Apple, Amazon, and Twitter. While we're fans of startups, it seems that those few companies dominate the news in the Boulder tech bubble. Google is leaving China: "We're not censoring content, we're out." The Secretary of State is awaiting word from China on this issue. Google was prepared to accept the conditions, but apparently that's changed. How much of the stuff that happened was more than we all deal with on a daily basis? The Chinese people aren't seeing the whole issue. China is a bit more democratic that we think. Pockets have lots of freedom. What does Bing mean in Chinese? It's hard to separate politics from technology. Haiti - people are overboard on this and penalizing people for their level of participation in Haiti. Boulder is a "blue" city. Colorado Springs is "red." It means there are medical Marijuana dispensaries on every corner in Boulder. LOL. That's a wrap. You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com, iTunes, and http://callisto.fm Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: December 30th, 2009

The Twitter Api Is Taking Over The World by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 07 The Twitter API is taking over the world.mp3 (9228 KB) Boulder Open Podcast Episode 7: The Twitter API is taking over the world. Other services (Wordpress and Tumblr) are duplicating the Twitter API on their services to allow their users to post to their services using standard Twitter clients. It only takes one simple change in the app. Posts are mapped to their respective counterparts on the services. Dave likes the idea of a common/standard API (he's reminded of he quote: "Standards are great, everyone should have one.") He's concerned about the same content appearing on every service, and this might just make that easier. Wordpress and Tumblr content isn't the same as the live stream-of-consciousness content that's posted to Twitter. Dave thinks this will contribute to the normalization of these services from the user's perspective. Michael says that the developers can save time by not having to write their own apps if there's a standard API. Seesmic Desktop will already post to several services, as will many other desktop clients. The Wordpress blog post on the subject was authored by Matt Mullenweg. This could be the start of blogs with hundreds and hundreds of teeny tiny posts. Anything we can do to make less work for iPhone developers (gives us a better chance of finding an idle one!) is good. Big things in 2010: Of course Apple and the rumored iSlate (or whatever). Google has over 300 services and products... keep an eye on Google Voice. And the blurring of the lines between Apple, iPhone, and Kindle. Apple's tablet will supersede the Kindle for lots in Apple land. Dave thinks the OS will be something other than what we currently know. Michael thinks it'll be Mac OS X Touch for the record. The price point is a challenge for the Kindle once the iSlate appears. That's a wrap. You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com, iTunes, and http://callisto.fm Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: December 27th, 2009

Getting People On Board (Aka The 7 Second Lamar Edit) by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 06 Getting people on board (AKA The 7 Second Lamar Edit) 1.mp3 (17572 KB) Boulder Open Podcast Episode 6: Getting people on board (AKA The 7 Second Lamar Edit). Social media - is it good for people that aren't already plugged in? Which tools are best? Not Tweetie vs. Tweetdeck, but more Facebook vs. LinkedIn vs. Twitter vs. Blogging, or a Podcast. What does Michael suggest for his mom? When she was looking for a job, he suggested LinkedIn because resumes are passe - no one really uses them anymore. Her concern was more about people finding her that she didn't want to talk to - the same with Facebook. His advice, just don't accept friendship requests from those people. It can't be an age thing, plenty of people 60+ are on these networks and love being there. Dave's answer? Connect with the people you want to, and pass on the others. It can be a tricky situation - it may lead to awkwardness in meatspace social situations. Friendships are accepted in some cases that wouldn't normally be, but one can just hide their updates from the news feed (in Facebook).There are benefits, but long time friendships (people from the past) may not be a compelling enough reason - maybe a better angle is being able to keep up with other family member happenings. Videos, Tweets, etc. Michael's relationship with his parents isn't one of constant contact, but far more casual - once a month or so via phone. His dad is everywhere (not as participatory as some, but he's there). His dad was one of the six people that bought a Droid too (it's a joke dad, I know you love it!). Not everyone needs these networks of course, but they can certainly be fun. Facebook is the premier social network. You can find some great stuff in the pages and groups. There was a special on the local CBS affiliate - a guy posted a toy drive on his Facebook page and it increased toy donations significantly. Topic two: Which tool is right for you? Dave's a blogger, and tweets, etc. Which is better? Dave dislikes people that feed tweets to Facebook. Now Michael knows why Dave doesn't see his updates in Facebook. Each network has update frequency expectations (no rules of course, just expectations). For LinkedIn, it would be weird if people updated every 2 hours. It would be odd to not update that frequently on Twitter. |-) Seeing the same updates in Twitter and Facebook isn't OK with Dave. Where's the line? If "I" wanted to follow you on Twitter I would, so don't send your Twitter updates to Facebook. Michael has his Twitter connected to Facebook, and *never* updates Facebook specifically. The Twitter Facebook updater doesn't include @replies. There's one app that filters the Tweet and looks for #fb and only populates Facebook with that one. Better filters FTW! Dave thinks the filtering possibilities in the news feed have taken a step backwards. Michael thinks it's fine. Twitter is for short form blogging? Has Twitter replaced blogging for many? Dave says the shorter the message, the harder it is to have a meaningful conversation. Broadcast media (30 years ago) had lots of investigative journalism. Today, stories are a minute or two (and they are all about things blowing up and people dying). The same thing is happening with Twitter. Dave prefers the long form review of a movie for example though there are people that really shouldn't elaborate too much. Pick the conversations that suit you and use that medium. Is regular blogging too much of a pain for the n00b? There are lots of great blogging platforms that make long form blogging relatively easy to set up. Five minutes later you have a platform! Speaking of screwing around.. is Lamar's project up? :) How much time are you going to invest in the conversation? In the beginning, there is none... it takes time to build any kind of audience. Follow people that are interesting to you as a start.

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Published: December 19th, 2009

Three InSight, Episode 6. Google's URL Shortener. Do we really have to talk about Google? Yes. URL shorteners have good/bad side. Curious about monetization. Bit.ly Pro now exists because of Google's service. Bit.ly offers the best tracking. Google wants to be able to index shortened URLs, and this is a great way to enable it. Shorteners are becoming a risky proposition, don't click stuff if you don't know the source. Hackers are preying on our trust with shorteners. Will goo.gl links show up in Google Analytics? Analytics and Adsense are paired nicely. Metzger Associates is using Bit.ly in press releases - intentionally. These days the URL/domain isn't so important because everything is being shortened. Big scary URLs are now simple. Dave uses the public library to reserve books and uses Google search to get there so he doesn't have to remember the actual URL. No singing for the holidays in the podcast, that's a promise.Google's Nexus One - which came first, Nexus One or Nexus Six? Duh :) Palm is coming back with Pre and Pixi - is the dawn of renewed competition on the horizon? Apple started the app abstraction process with the mobile providers - and now Google is taking it one step further with an unlocked phone that works on either GSM network. The price may be reduced if you allow ads on the service. There's plenty of competition in the industry. Hardware should be carrier agnostic. We all want the carrier to simply provide pipes. Oh, MobileMe rocks. Doyle's ISP argument - what if you had to turn in your PC, or get a new one every time you switched ISPs at home? That's the way the mobile world works right now. Comcast buys BNC Universal, is that another step down the path of paid content? If you're a Comcast subscriber, will NBC content get higher priority? Java promised write once run anywhere. People are working on the same for iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android. Once that becomes easy the apps will proliferate. Tablets are on the way - just a matter of time. Amazon has Kindle, Barnes and Noble has the Nook. It's just a matter of time before the Crunchpad (joojoo) and the Apple tablet appear. Netbooks are hot right now but will ultimately vanish. Tablets may just cause their demise. Apple's purchase of Lala could mean that we get to take our iTunes libraries to any device, not just Apple endorsed devices. Stream Lala on the iPhone if you can't fit the whole library on your phone. Devices will become just receivers for content. Dave has a G4 media server... G4? Really? :) The next generation of content will be serverless. Dave suggests that ten of thousands of copies of The Dark Knight might be easily replaced with single digital streams. But what if the server crashes? More data is lost because of user error, that is the case with professionals (Danger! excluded).Facebook privacy settings. New privacy changes are a nightmare. Yes! Michael got a prompt in Facebook, set some things, and clicked OK. Doyle thinks it's silly… much ado about nothing. Dave's view is that Facebook promised privacy. This dialog and these changes violate that trust. (note: "Everyone" was default only if you hadn't changed the settings previously. If you had, they did their best to match what your modified settings were). Managing these settings isn't for the novice - which arguably is the Facebook population, and weren't well described. Confusion is the cause and result of all of this. They're trying to make it a better place with more control, but may have botched this one in their communication. Google doesn't care about your stuff. Big Brother is watching! (LOL, that's a joke). There are 100 million users and Facebook might be their first experience with social media. Doyle thinks they're over-reacting. Michael thinks the problem is that Facebook assumed a higher level of intelligence in the average American than they should have. But at least they're trying. Doyle suggests that Facebook, when they make a substantive change, should provide videos for each level of user. That way everyone understands. One popup for 350 million people isn't an effective means of communications. Dave suggests that his daughter's content is, and should remain, private. His daughter would have just clicked OK. Everything would then have been public instead of friends only which was the agreement he and his daughter made. Kids in 1840 weren't taught to look both ways before crossing the street. If you're parenting the same way now, you're in for a load of trouble. Dave is sophisticated enough to know how to make that change. We've got to evolve our parenting style to match the technology our kids play with.Facebook ties to Twitter. Dave wants content filters. Wants to be able filter Facebook by removing the #fb tag. Dave's insistent that people separate their feeds and not cross post. Let's hope this doesn't cause a DOS with Twitter (bi-directional syncing!). Doyle could podcast with himself. We all have friends on both networks that aren't on the other. Social media is facing an oligopoly. Michael only follows people he's met IRL on Twitter but has 780 followers. Facebook is IRL only. Tweetdeck is kind of solving this problem with checkboxes (so is Seesmic). Different networks have different expectations. Twitter can support dozens of updates per hour from someone, where that's not OK on Facebook. LinkedIn now supports Twitter sync…but why? That's just not OK. It's business focused and people's private tweets don't belong there. They way a guy talks in a locker room is different from the way a guy talks at Thanksgiving dinner. Doyle is proof (based on the studio audience). Do men and women talk differently in a locker room? Yes! Doyle is censoring himself because we asked him to? Props to B-Side, they're done at the end of the year. We're looking for a new home for the podcast. We're open to wealthy potential sponsors too. Happy Holidays!Reach the hosts: Doyle Albee: http://doylealbee.com, Michael Sitarzewski: http://friendmichael.com and Dave Taylor: http://davetayloronline.comThanks for listening!

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Published: December 14th, 2009

Boulder Open Podcast Episode 5: Subzero (Oh, And Google!) by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 05 Boulder Open Podcast Episode 5_ Subzero (Oh, and Google!).mp3 (18044 KB) Boulder Open Podcast Episode 5: Subzero (Oh, and Google!) Google is a popular topic. Google Chrome is finally released for the Mac. Yet another browser to test against as developers. Chrome renders the same as webkit (Safari) so how much do we really need to test? Chrome OS isn't going after Windows or Mac, it's about Netbooks and set-top devices. Linux is running the Boxee device. The network is the computer (so said Scott McNealy of Sun back in the day) - oh so far ahead of it's time. Sun will soon become a part of Oracle. Chrome is a decent browser. Michael uses IE8 on Windows. Chrome on the Mac doesn't have extensions today so it's fast. Dave says GMail is slower than it used to be. (brief GMail speed test). What's the point? Do we need another browser? There is plenty of innovation in Chrome. Each page is a process, each plugin is too. Harder to crash. Apple implemented some of the same features that were in Chrome. Dave spends about 50% of his time in the browser, Michael is about 80%. Michael uses Mail.app instead of web based email. Competition breeds evolution. Chrome is more of a competitor to Firefox since it is the only other major browser that runs on all other systems. Chrome should present files in the browser in a sexy way, instead it looks like NCSA Mosaic. Google Chrome OS boots from a dongle which makes it really easy to play with. Would you trust that source? We really protect our Google account names like we used to our bank accounts. Archived email contains receipts and reminders - lots of private data if someone gets into your email. Lots of personal stuff. Michael purges the Trash and Junk folders and stores all of his email on his me.com account - even from other email accounts. Don't rely on the cloud separately. How does Michael back up email if it's all in the cloud? Mail.app keeps a local cached copy of the email stored on the server. Then Michael's email is backed up by TimeMachine. Three copies. Google offline is no longer in the labs. Google is killing Gears because of HTML 5 specs. A company is selling an external keypad for GMail commands (that's just silly, really). Apple went through great pains to make HTML 5 work in Safari (webkit) - it was ahead of it's time. Google was right to use it instead of Firefox. IE8 is nice, Safari 4 is rock solid. Michael tests HyperSites in 14 browsers (Mac, Linux, and Windows). Michael's media center runs Windows 7. Dave's HP laptop doesn't do full screen Hulu well at all. Michael thinks it's the on-board video card or the driver itself. Background processes might be to blame too. The MacBook Pro screams with Hulu. Dave wants a Mac Mini sized media center - Michael's is too big. Boxee released hardware - they worked with D-Link. Boxee doesn't do Hulu but gets around it by integrating Firefox which Hulu allows. There's no spoofing going on so it's all good. Michael and his wife Heather spent about four hours tooling around the new Boxee content. See http://boxee.tv for more. They were announced last year at CES, so this time will be a huge return for them. Boxee was going to embed their software into other devices. Boxee is the perfect software for a TV directly or a Blu-ray player. TVs will have built-in WIFI, etc. expect more at CES. Built-in wireless HDMI over WIFI sounds cool. Dave mentions a standard for up to three yards (ultra-wideband?) he saw at CES. WIFI is going to be too crowded with all of these devices and it'll be reflected with dropped frame rates. Thanks to Townsend & Townsend ( http://townsend.com ) for the space for this show! For more, see http://boulderopenpodcast.com Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: December 14th, 2009

Boulder Open Podcast Episode 4: We Need Filters! by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 04 Boulder Open Podcast Episode 4_ We need filters!.mp3 (5344 KB) Episode 4: We need filters! Surprisingly spammy stuff is coming from otherwise reputable people on Twitter. World AIDS Day excluded, the MacBook Pro contest is nothing more than free advertising for the company offering the device. The people screaming about ads in their stream are the same ones trying to win the MacBook. So much of Social Media is binary - on or off. Facebook is making it harder to not follow app updates. Dave liked the idea that he could have his own filter on his stream. He's OK with people trying to win a MacBook, but doesn't want to hear about people drinking Martinis. Michael occasionally puts tags into his tweet stream such as -MacBook to signal the people that he'd like those words to disappear from his stream. Atebits (the makers of Tweetie for Mac (and iPhone) will be releasing filters! How much control over the filters will we have? -"MacBook Pro Giveaway" like Google? Dave's on board. Michael wil be happy when he can -Foursquare -"Mayor of" and -"Ousted" or humorously anything within three tweets of a Foursquare tweet. Don't forget to check out the other podcast we do at http://threeinsight.com with Doyle Albee from Metzger Associates. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: December 14th, 2009

Episode 6, Byos: Hyperlocal News With Kit Seeborg by Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 06 Episode 6, BYOS_ Hyperlocal news with Kit Seeborg.mp3 (7889 KB) Episode 6, BYOS: Hyperlocal news with Kit Seeborg. Kit Seeborg discusses her entry (with Misty and Shawn Montano) for the Knight News Challenge. You can find Kit at http://twitter.com/zsazsa and more on the News Challenge at http://www.newschallenge.org/ Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: November 28th, 2009

Boulder Open Podcast Episode 3 Monetizing The Stream by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous 03 Boulder Open Podcast Episode 3 Monetizing the stream.mp3 (16556 KB) Advertising and/in social media. Monetizing the "social stream." Dave signed up for Ad.ly, and sent a tweet offering the link to his followers. The link he sent was an affiliate link. A few cried foul, and one unfollowed him. No ads have gone out as of yet. Maybe a lot of flitter about nothing? A small subset says "eek" and unfollows when things like this happen. It'll be no more than one tweet in the stream every two days. Sounds un-intrusive given the number of tweets Dave sends out. Michael views Twitter as a personal conversation. Scenario to prove a point: A group of friends are hanging out at a bar, and one stands up and spouts out an a (completely out of context) "Have you heard about the new blah blah blah?" Dave sees that as awkward too, but throws out another scenario or two. No one knows what the ads are going to look like. Maybe it'll contextual, gives a Clooney movie reference. Ad.Ly asked Dave to categorize his tweets, he said only "Film" and as long as ads are centered around cinema it'll be ok. Dave suggests that the friend mentioned above could share the revenue with the table... but that's not the case. It gets fuzzy, and the less you tweet the less annoying it'll be. There's a clear delineation between commercial flavored twitter account, and a personal account. Ads in the commercial flavor might be more acceptable. How does all of this affect those of us that link our twitter accounts to all of our other accounts? Facebook, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, MySpace (lol.). What are you trying to accomplish with you social media participation? Dave notes his followers are interested in how he's using SM, and how he's making money. That subset is interested in the ads, from the statistical standpoint. Twitter clients need filtering. If ads were tagged with [adv] then we could filter them out. Problem solved. Tweetie? You listening? Following is black and white right now, and filtering gives us some grey area to play in. Dave follows very few based on his follower count. As does Michael. It's about 3 to 1 for Michael Event hashtags can get annoying, but filters again would fix that issue too. Magpie, Dave signed up for that, no one noticed (except that one guy again). Michael unfollowed plenty of people because his twitter stream was just crammed with people jumping on the Magpie bandwagon. Total insanity. Facebook is doing a great job with ads. They're using and self control, and the user is benefitting. Don't over saturate. Examine the user's twitter stream for relevant ad quantities, say a minimum is 5% of the tweets, and a max of twice a day? Neat idea. People that are 100% in to monetizing the stream aren't people Michael is going to follow anyway. Content needs to be about more than your product of service, then you'll get friends and followers. We have 2 listeners, right? This one is relevant baby! That's a wrap. For more on Dave Taylor, find him at http://davetayloronline.com and for more on Michael, check out http://friendmichael.com Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: November 25th, 2009

Chrome OS is getting closer. The hunt for your mom's desktop? The bigger story is that 5 years ago your OS was Windows or Mac OS. Today there's a huge variety in operating systems. Chrome aims to appeal to the light user. Android is an OS that works on a phone, but might appear in tablets sooner rather than later. Will Doyle move to Android? No he's tied to the Apple ecosystem. If you're new to smart phones, it's a good option, but nowhere near as polished as iPhone. It's like Mac OS X vs Linux. They're mostly the same, but the experience belongs to Apple. Someone from Microsoft said they took some ideas from OS X. OS feature borrowing makes the industry better. Google's trajectory has been to be the OS, with a network front end with the ability to move to another computer without hassle. Most Google apps have offline support, so an internet connection is required.Facebook worms show up every now and then and people send emails asking you not to click on links. URL shorteners lead us to trust. Learn to look both ways before you cross the internet. Trust no one, especially if it just looks wrong. Don't enter your user name and password promiscuously. A Doyle rant occurs. It's like the AOLification of the internet, but in social media. The internet with training wheels. Let's lower the wheels. The virus and the worm have been focused on the desktop, now they're moving to the cloud. What's the point of these attacks? Are these genuine/real hackers doing this stuff just for fun? If the URL you just logged in to isn't the right page, change your password on the real site immediately. Job's big bag of hurt comment. On to Doyle's AT&T rant. iPhone rant. As a system/network administrator, if you do unsupported things, unsupported things will happen. Why do people jailbreak? To use the iPhone on another carrier? What if Apple forced you to use Earthlink or you can't get on the internet. The mobile industry is different of course. Lots of people jailbreak to run apps that Apple won't let in to the App Store. Doyle's argument is bogus. Carrier lock isn't unique to Apple and AT&T (the DROID is only Verizon and CDMA, eek). There must be business reasons for the US lock. Doyle likes to dislike AT&T. There is complete freedom in Europe (really?). Doyle would rather pay more for his hardware to ensure carrier freedom. Channels have moved away from movie lock to original content locks. Doyle likes the integration with his technology ecosystem. (Someone, please gawd, let Doyle have choice. Thanks.) We're all having problems with our connectivity. We're complaining because we have no choice. Who can we fire over this? No one. The whole system is fubar. AT&T has seen a 5000% increase in network traffic. Doyle thinks they (AT&T and Apple) should have see this coming and planned for it. AT&T still calls Doyle trying to sell business service. AT&T has invested 62 million in San Francisco over the last few months. Michael doesn't have data problems, and doesn't care that he's paying for 3G. Most of the stuff I do on the phone works fine with EDGE (Twitter/Facebook, etc.) A GPRS icon appeared in the status bar at the top of the screen. It's a small circle. GPRS > EDGE > 3G. Michael rarely uses the phone as a phone. It's like buying a Ferrari with a 65mph limiter. Apple has new ads poking fun at CDMA 3G for not being able to use voice and data simultaneously. Apple doesn't mention that you have the same limitation with the EDGE network. LOL? What gives? AT&T and Verizon are fighting each other, is that best for the consumer? Why won't AT&T just fess up and tell people it's improving. Steal Verizon's marketing thunder. Boulder is hilly, it's difficult. AT&T won't come clean on the problems.Quick Picks: Doyle picks 1password. Makes it easy to have and store super secure passwords across the desktop and iPhone. http://agilesoftware.com Dave pick the Leatherman tools, the Swiss Army knives of your toolbox. There are tech specific devices too. http://leatherman.com. Michael picks http://bfadds.net - a consolidation of upcoming black friday specials, including scans."Big bag of hurt" is a wrap. Thanks B-Side!

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Published: November 25th, 2009

Admob purchased by Google. First spotting of Admob by Doyle was in the Wall Street Journal iPhone app. Dave is using Admob in his iPhone app. Google is doing right by acquiring for innovation. Microsoft built an empire on that practice, it works for a while. Writely is Google Docs. Writely from Colorado? Mobile is becoming more important in everything we do. It's critical to marketers.The DROID is a best of class device on Verizon. T-Mobile has the G2, and Sprint the Pre. The DROID is not an iPhone, but the iPhone needs the competition to be a better device. It sold over 100,000 units on the first weekend. It'll at least put pressure on AT&T. There are now options. Ari Newman switched to the DROID and has loved it so far. Competition creates a market. If you don't have competition then you don't have a market. Pressure begets innovation. Jason Mendelson says (at #BOCC ) that he doesn't want to invest in a new piece of fruit. He wants to see competitors in the space. Turn by turn is great on DROID, not available on the iPhone from Google. Competitors are $99 on the iPhone, though Google will release a free one if Apple will approve it. The interface isn't great on the DROID. Michael's son picked up the iPhone's interface at 3 with no help. Apple overtakes Nokia as the most profitable handset maker. David Pogue coins the phrase "App Phone." A phone that accepts apps via download. Dave thinks the consumer doesn't want to have to think about apps. Smart is fine. The handset market is mimicking the desktop space, except Apple is in the lead. Doyle claims the Mac is based on Linux (it's a based on BSD). Goldie Katsu says DROID is a geek's phone at Boulder Open Coffee. Studio audience laughs. Audience attendance is up 1000%.Michael geeks out on the amount of Javascript that's included in the major sites. There's only one namespace in Javascript, which means that every developer has access to everyone else's variables and functions. Possibilities include grabbing form values intended for another site. Namespace may not be the best term. You can't redefine a function name for example. Javascript is not a very secure language, but it's prevalent. It's relevant to us because of the Boulder tech community. HTML5 doesn't fix this problem, since they're two different entities. HTML5 replace some of the functionality of Javascript. HTML5 is more a threat to Adobe with the media tags, etc. Apple saw this coming? Apple has no social media presence, which is generally a worst-practice. Maybe they're not present because the fan base covers Apple enough. There are 6000ish blog posts on Apple every day. Maybe that's why they're successful. Apple's not selling Pepsi (or sugar water). John Scully wrote the preface to one of Dave's books. The Diesel (Michael Spindler) - where is he? Business week had an all black cover with the text "The death of an American icon" and Wired did a crown of thorns and the word "Pray."Black Friday is coming. Year by year more and more Black Friday sales are leaking. Ads just show up on people's blogs. Sales might not be as effective as they used to be. Michael says Black Friday sales should be in person sales only. It would take some business from online sales (though most have online presences anyway). Buying big things online make the reviews a goldmine. Is the review system a replacement for the people in the stores. Do you really trust the person at Best Buy (nothing personal)? Do they tell you what you want to hear or are they giving you what's on sale with the best spiff? Are we elite here? Or do most people get stiffed by sales people? Remember EDTV (Enhanced Definition Television)? nothing more than 480P. Yawn. But grandma bought it up.Retail is evolving to be simple showrooms. Buy now and it arrives in the mail soon. What's next? 3D showrooms? The rise and immediate fall of Cyber-monday was due to dialup and people waiting until Monday to shop on broadband. The battle is now between brick and mortar vs. online sales. Wake up Friday AM, get an email from Target, click, buy, done. So happy it's that easy. Shoppers are not purchasers. We all agree that we're purchasers and don't enjoy the shopping process. We all hang out at the Apple Store because it's fun. We see our peers, and it may have replaced the corner bar and are greeted by the employees. Cheers for the Apple Fanboy. Microsoft store? LOL. It's close... imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. They did a great job! It's a WRAP.Thanks to the studio audience and The B Side Lounge in Boulder, Colorado.

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Published: November 25th, 2009

Thanks to Best Western in Kwanah, Texas for lending Michael their business center for a half an hour.Verizon DROID commercial launches focused on the flaws in the iPhone. For all of the things iPhone doesn't do, DROID does. The ad starts out like an Apple ad, but deteriorates in a scifi like coolness. Will it live up to Verizon's claims? We both like the approach, but you probably have to be a geek to get it. The "There's a map for that" ads are better. It's more about the network than the device in most cases. The worst part of the iPhone is AT&T in the US. Any network provider would have suffered the same network fate. Beware Verizon should you get the iPhone. DROID and Pre are similar in focusing on what the iPhone doesn't do, and should be focusing on what their benefits are. Where's the Pre now? How many Twitter apps? 30? Michael has half of them installed.Dave recounts his Blogworld Expo experience. It was a great event, they did a great job. It's about hanging in the hallways and after parties. Criticism 1: When going to a party, it shouldn't be in a club with the volume cranked to 12. It was impossible to communicate. Criticism 2: last year the closing speaker was Mark Cuban. He was witty, and was a take no prisoners kind of guy. This year it was Kevin Pollack. He was crude, and unexpected - video clips shown with 700 people, should have been more PG, not X. Leo Laporte was on Adam Carolla's podcast suggesting that "new media" is the media. Is Blogworld the mainstream now since "new media" is the media? Sharlene Lee said she was going to the Web 2.0 conference on Facebook. Aren't we on to the next thing? Move on, new media is the media. The 140 conference had a breathtaking list of speakers. CES will have an iPod and iPhone section. Over all it was like going to home coming. There were really cool people, most of which Dave knew, but he met plenty of new people. Business was being done, Dave has a few new opportunities because of it. He had fun hanging out with friends.State of the blogosphere from Technorati. The survey tries to get a sense of where new media and blogging are. Survey was comprised of 3000 bloggers and found that 10% were self employed 10% were corporate, and the majority were doing it to serve attract clients and share their expertise. 60% were 18 to 44, but what were the other 40%? AARP bracket maybe? They have an average of four blogs. Aliza Sherman was on Blipcasts and maintains six blogs. 73% agree that blogs are being taken more seriously, the inverse is also interesting. 60% agree that most people will get news from blogs in the next 5 years. Wordpress can have static pages and it turns a blog in to a website. The number one use of Twitter is to promote their blog or promote their business. Not present was giving to the community or creating a dialog. Top reasons: market business, share links, understand topics and interact with readers. We haven't seen the questions, but it's not about engagement, it's about promotion for the respondents. Depending on the surveyed it might make sense. What is a blog? Does Twitter count? Posterous? Can you clarify what a blog is? Dave suggests is a set of tools to accomplish goals, a content management system, presenting data in a temporal (typically newest to oldest).Balloon boy hoax. Silver balloon with a six year old inside? It felt like someone was gaming the system to Dave from the start. Michael tweeted that when the balloon lands it'd be promoting a balloon festival. It was a scary thought for a father of a 5yr old. It wasn't really possible, but logic was lost on the prospect. The father should be prosecuted legally. He was simply looking for publicity and will make money even if he's fined heavily. He caused $300k in expenses. He'll probably be on SNL, Letterman, and get a book deal. Mission accomplished and there's no way to take it back, unfortunately.It's been an interesting week. Focus on new media, old media is adapting nicely. They're coming around. It's only going to get better from here. CES has been more and more about new media and web based services. It's a wrap.

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Published: November 18th, 2009

Boulder - Open - Podcast E2 by Dave Taylor And Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous Boulder-Open-Podcast _e2.mp3 (24690 KB) Google Andrioid, on the Verizon DROID. iPhone beginning to lose luster with Dave. iCal issues mostly to blame, but the network still stinks. Boulder is full of people ready to jump ship. AT&T sues Verizon, kind of legit says Michael. DROID has fewer apps, the ecosystem is what drives the iPhone these days. A good platform only needs great apps in the major categories. Android feels like Linux to Michael, hardware is cool, but the OS isn't great. Dave's reviewing a Sansa MP3 player, the Sansa has some neat features - Slot Radio for example... $30 for 1,000 songs based on a category. Hard rock not so much, the 80's music is more Dave's style. Very meaningful to have competition in all areas - MP3, phone, etc. - we're happy that people are trying. Apple appealed to geeky unix users (the prosumer?) and that helped Apple sell to the majority. Verizon/Google/Motorola/etc might be doing the same? Google turn by turn is free on Android - and would release it on iPhone if Apple would allow it. iWork is competition for Google Docs and Microsoft Office online. Windows 7 is an effort to become more competitve. Hoping iPhone 4 will drive competition further. iPhone scheduler needs tweaking (LOL!). iPhone comparisons are subjective. Not everyone has the same experience. It's a "perfect" device for Michael since he doesn't use the phone features that much. Apple needs to "Snow Leapord" the iPhone OS. A restore has taken all day for Dave... a new cable fixed it. Droid sells 100,000 units the first weekend. All you need these days is 10% market, look at Apple, BMW, etc. Apple kills it in the $1,500 laptop market. The DeLL Adamo is on the way, for $2,200. Brief BSG detour (sorry). AT&T's best is iPhone, Verizon has Eris and DROID, Sprint has the Palm Pre, T-Mobile has the G2. Dave had a review unit for the G1. Told them he needed screen capture - they told him to "root" it. Total break down, no coverage. Let people take a screen shot to document things. Dave's daughter has 100 screen shots from Cooking Mama for example. Success with the DROID isn't really important, that it exists is the key. Waiting for Ari's input on the DROID. The dead spot on the hill "doesn't exist." Boulder Valley is the Bermuda Triangle for AT&T. Wrap. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: November 5th, 2009

Boulder - Open - Podcast E1 by Michael Sitarzewski And Dave Taylor   Download now or listen on posterous Boulder-Open-Podcast_e1.mp3 (22839 KB) This show was recorded live at the Colorado Inventor's Showcase - we were both judges. Michael likes the re-architecting of the city by using the space above the freeways combined with environmentally friendly buildings. The reinvention of the IV stand in hospitals. Pioneers take the arrows, settlers settle the country - products evolve, it's a part of the process. Twitter products come and go because on incremental improvement by competitors. Are there entrepreneurial types other than the serial entrepreneur? HyperSites (Michael's team) won best software in 2005 at the Colorado Inventors Showcase. Societal improvement is/should be a human characteristic. Google Wave hasn't taken over our lives as the hype would have led us to believe. Target practice has been reinvented - an air gun target can be used indoors, and provides feedback on how far off your were. The Microsoft Store is a sweet retail store, and pretty much a copy of the Apple Store. Apple's done a great job at rethinking retail - Microsoft is OK to borrow from Apple's success. Microsoft is selling PCs with no crapware - only Microsoft software. The Apple store is attractive because of the people that work there. Onecare, and other services make a trip worth a visit. CompUSA died because people would rather beat themselves with a stick than buy from underpaid employees with no people skills. Walmart's inventory of music is anemic, compared to Amazon or Apple. Dave has seen lots of movies and is going to see another tonight. We're in the Cable Center - underwritten by the Cable industry for the University of Denver. Their televisions are thick and out of date - the content isn't in HD oddly, audio is out of sync. OLED TVs are coming, in larger/affordable sizes. Could we create a less dense (i.e, affordable) material for window based displays? Could we have OLED based hidden video panels in a laptop screen that pull out? 16 yr. old (later found out that he has a reinvention of windshield wipers using steam) at the show. His family is an inventor family. Thanks! And... wrap. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: October 31st, 2009

Blipcasts Episode 5 by Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous Blipcasts_Episode_5.mp3 (7816 KB) Episode 5, BYOS: Finding a job quickly, with John S. Wren. John tells us the story of how he used "the phone" to make quick work of finding a job. Listen in for the rest of the story. You can find John at http://johnwren.com and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/johnswren Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: October 31st, 2009

Blipcasts Episode 4 by Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous Blipcasts_Episode_4.mp3 (8284 KB) Episode 4, BYOS: Judy Martin on Finding Serenity in Business, and in the Workplace. Judy gives us tips on finding serenity in our daily lives. For more information, visit Judy at http://judymartinspeaks.com or follow Judy on Twitter: http://twitter.com/judymartin8 Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: October 31st, 2009

Blipcasts Episode 3 by Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous Blipcasts_Episode_3.mp3 (18694 KB) Episode 3, BYOS: Preparing for an interview with a creative agency - with Kevin Menzie, CEO of Slice of Lime - a leading creative agency in Boulder, Colorado. For more on Slice of Lime, visit http://sliceoflime.com or follow Kevin on Twitter: http://twitter.com/kmenzie Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Published: October 18th, 2009

Blipcasts Episode 2A by Michael Sitarzewski   Download now or listen on posterous Blipcasts_Episode_2a.mp3 (8367 KB) Episode 2: "#bwe09" A conversation with Aliza Sherman ( alizasherman ) about Blogworld Expo 2009, or #bwe09 . This episode is a TRENDS, or Twitter Trends episode where I discuss a current Twitter trend with someone in the know. Permalink | Leave a comment  »