Episode 12 of TalkCrunch features Robert Scoble at Scobleizer, Om Malik at Gigaom and Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. They speak for just over an hour about their favorite startups and the hot news this week in tech. Topics covered include the state of VOIP, next week’s Yahoo Hack Day and Robert Scoble’s hot new tv show that’s launching Monday, ScobleShow.
Companies mentioned include Digg, Facebook, Myspace, Skype, PicksPal, TechMeme, Jajah, PersonalBee, Scrapblog, Rebtel, Hullo and GrandCentral.
Time: 60 minutes
Size: 27.7 MB
The ScobleShow trailer seems to be have some encoding issues I think. My QuickTime (the iTunes7 companion) complained about buffer overrun.
Can you guys please fix this or is it my QuickTime (the new one) having issues?
I know when you 3 get together…you all rock!!! Looking forward to see the video.
TIA.
There’s another version of the Trailer over on Blip.TV: Http://minimalist.com/docs/ExplorerBreadcrumbs/
Crud, sorry. Pasted in wrong URL. The right one is here: http://blip.tv/file/76869
Askar, are you using QuickTime 7.1.3 then? If so, then issues are still being identified with this version. Can you search on a unique text string in the dialog text you see? I tried on your phrase “buffer overrun” but most of the top hits were about the security fixes:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22quicktime+7.1.3%22+%22buffer+overrun%22
MacFixIt is collecting issues, and they discuss iTunes transfer difficulties with some internet connections, but the symptoms seem different from what you describe:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060922070217742
Great show. I really wish you would do these more often. Why not?
Interesting show.
I think you’re wrong about “Widgets”, and I assume you’re mostly talking about WordPress widgets. Do we really need the equivalent of Windows 3.1 for a blog’s sidebar? Generally speaking, geeks will delve into code and non-geeks will go with the default themes. Maybe (the afterthought) Wordpress.com needed “widgets” to make that site a little more attractive to the few pseudo-geeks that can’t see the benefit of a cpanel-like hosting account.
I was hoping that you would talk more about the algorithms behind Digg and Techmeme. That’s the frontier–algorithm vs. algorithm. With so much traffic at stake, you know that the “voting” system will evolve to be very sophisticated. Ask yourself: How will these algorithms interact? How do we react to algorithm changes? Once Digg mobs adapt to the changes, what will be Digg’s next move? Algorithms will change without notice, like the P.K. Dick randomizing suit in A Scanner Darkly. And the prize? Traffic, lots of traffic. The best algorithms will be the pride and joy of news aggregators.
“Weird” was a good way to describe Digg. And I agree with Om that it’s mostly for geeks and nerds at this point. I think the real issue is that non-geeks don’t understand why they should “vote” on news, submit news, etc. No offense, but even Gen-X is too old to “get it”. I would guess that most Digg’ers are in the 12-22 y/o age range. I’m 31 and Techmeme feels more my speed. But your continued interest in Digg has me interested in TalkCrunch’s Digg-gang hazing ritual.
Looks like your podcast’s rss feed points to the mov file of your video, not the mp3 file of your actual podcast, for the current show. Good luck, looking forward to listening.
The enclosure in the RSS feed seems to only be the ScobleShow video ad.
There is no MP3 audio for episode 12 in the feed.
Good to hear you watch the Daily Show Michael! I hope you stay on to watch Colbert Report too!
In regards to breaking news, it’s a shame you use a Mac or you could use Touchstone for that. But Marshall already gives me enough hate about our lack of mac version so please don’t join in.
Oh – Manual Trackback – sorry the show frustrated me.
http://www.touchstonelive.com/blog/2006/09/missing-point-on-talkcruch.html
Just curious – What podcast flash player are you using to listen to cast on your post?
I don’t understand how Om can say that Skype is a braindead user experience expecially compared to Vonage. I don’t know what his experience with Skype is but connectiing headphones,headesets, microphones adjusting volume control and installing sofware on your computer is not a brain-dead user experience for making phone calls.
Plugging a regular phone into a box that plugs into your broadband is far simpler and is much closer to a normal phone experience.
That was a great audiocast!
Mike
It was interesting to hear all of your thoughts about the future of (small) newspapers. I do not have a newspaper subscription either.
- What do you think about the future of the newspaper business as a whole?
- Will newspapers die and news will just be put online?
- Whatabout possible business models? How will the industry get money out of that?
- Will the quality of articles suffer?
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Ansgar