Copyright Infringement Continues To Pay: $4 million For Crunchyroll
San Francisco based Crunchyroll, a sort of YouTube for anime and other mostly Asian video content, raised a $4 million round of financing led by Venrock Associates, with partner David Siminoff joining the board of directors. The company, which launched in the summer of 2006, was founded […]
Is TV the New TV?
What would your response be to this scenario: you’re watching television and you forget that it’s being distributed to you on the Internet. Who won? TV or the Web? James McQuivey covers television and media technologies for Forrester Research. He spoke with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the current state of affairs […]
Episode 27 - Kiko
This week Chris and I chatted with Richard White of Kiko / SlimTimer fame. We had some great conversations about keeping focus on your project(s). We are also changing our podcast name! Stay tuned for more details on that.
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Second Brain
Collect, organize and share all […]
Public Speaking 101: Turn off your microphone before a loo stop
F5: How to control highly variable CDN costs
Peak traffic can overload servers and cause bandwidth congestion, leaving web sites unavailable to users. Commercial Content Delivery Networks (CDN) improve performance, but costs are unpredictable, highly variable, and wreak havoc on budgets. In this podcast, Joe Hicks, […]
United States 2.0
During the debate my friend Lance Knobel wrote a post wondering if perhaps Hillary Clinton was conceding the nomination to Barack Obama.
By the end of the debate, I too thought that’s what had happened.
Maybe we can see our way to something wonderful, instead of a continued struggle. She gets to […]
Microsoft=Success; Google Docs=Fail?
I’m usually on the lookout for new shiny objects. New ways of doing things that turn out to be better than the old way. A post on ReadWriteWeb demonstrates why Google’s online word processor and spreadsheets aren’t as good as Microsoft’s stuff. Richard MacManus said it brought about one of the funniest quotes […]
Episode 4 - Kevin Rose
We forego the pre-interview chat and go straight into the interview, since we talked for so long!
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blueEnergy: Focused on Sustainable Development
San Francisco-based blueEnergy provides sustainable energy services to isolated communities in Nicaragua. Mathias Craig, executive director and chairman of the board of the nonprofit corporation, was […]
A Tolstoy Moment
Lausanne: Tolstoy wrote, in Anna Karenina, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same is true of product companies, in a way. When things are ‘happy’, the natural lines of force seem…
Getting Paid. Getting Paid Enough. Getting Paid Again.
Quick: Vertical Blogging
Start a blog devoted to […]
Episode 19 - David Heinemeier Hansson
We talk with DHH about rails, bookwriting, and 37signals.
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Slickspeed Adds Dojo
The MooTools folks have added Dojo 1.0.2 to the set of tests on their Slickspeed. It is actually quite cool of them to put up this test and compare other frameworks.
I just ran it on […]
Episode 11 - John Green
UPDATE: The audio volume has been tweaked and the file has been switched, please list to the new file linked below.
We chat with John Green of Savvica, creator of Nuvvo, the eLearning system.
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Time Magazine’s Person of the Year: You and Web 2.0
Despite being considered so ten […]