The fourth episode of TalkCrunch is a discussion with executives of four of my favorite online feed readers: NewsGator, Attensa, Rojo and Feedlounge.

I brought on Frank Gruber as a co-host, who wrote a comparison post of nine online readers last week on TechCrunch. The conversation focuses on feature comparisions, issues around slowdown as all of these companies are seeing massive growth, and upcoming products in the pipeline.

I did my best to create controversy, even calling “bullshit” on a statement by Chris Alden that the online guys aren’t trying to beat eachother up, but rather grow the RSS market together. We also discussed Feedlounge’s prospects as the only non-free online feed reader on the market.

Guests:

Greg Reinacker, Founder and CTO, NewsGator
Eric Hayes, Founder and VP, Attensa
Chris Alden, Founder and CEO, Rojo
Alex King, Founder, Feedlounge

Running time: 57.00m
Download Size: 26.1MB

 

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The third episode of TalkCrunch is all about Amazon’s game changing new S3 Grid Storage web service that I wrote about on TechCrunch last week when it launched. Co hosted with Keith Teare and Nik Cubrilovic, we bring on two guests from the Amazon Web Services group: Adam Selipsky (VP of Product Management and Developer Relations for Amazon Web Services) and Dave Barth (Product Manager for S3).

In the first segment Adam gives us a high level view of all of Amazon’s web services. In the second segment, David gets into detail on the new grid storage service itself, including an in depth review of features.

Keith and I also try, without success, to talk Nik into building his new online storage company Omnidrive on top of S3. It’s a lively conversation, to say the least.

Other companies mentioned include PayPal, Jigsaw, Plaxo, Yahoo, Google and Riya.

Running time: 51:25m
Download Size: 23.5MB

 

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