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25,349 | brett | 2007-05-30T07:40:44 | Microsoft Announces Surface Computer | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/29/microsoft-announces-surface-computer/ | 15 | 15 | [
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25,357 | szczupak | 2007-05-30T08:18:21 | 11 golden tips to cut costs when launching a startup. | null | http://www.businesshackers.com/2007/05/28/11-golden-tips-to-cut-costs-when-launching-a-startup/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,360 | kul | 2007-05-30T08:52:58 | Oxford to Silicon Valley, part 3 | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6701815.stm | 13 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,370 | sharpshoot | 2007-05-30T11:17:33 | CBS acquires last.fm for $280m | http://mashable.com/2007/05/30/cbs-lastfm/ | 13 | 11 | [
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25,381 | sharpshoot | 2007-05-30T12:27:31 | Q & A with Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike.com - the no 1: Facebook platform app | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/29/qa-with-ilikes-ali-partovi-on-facebook/#more-14939 | 11 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,383 | jkush | 2007-05-30T12:39:59 | How To Get Rich Programming | null | http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000872.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,391 | dpapathanasiou | 2007-05-30T13:33:57 | Motorola VP talks about wikis and blogs and why they are so important [podcast] | null | http://danbricklin.com/podcast.html#danbcast-2007-03-20-21-48-40 | 1 | 1 | [
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25,402 | vegashacker | 2007-05-30T14:07:24 | TechStars founder reports on program's first week | null | http://techstarsblog.com/2007/05/29/a-great-first-week/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,410 | sharpshoot | 2007-05-30T14:43:44 | Techstars mentor critical of business models' of Techstars companies | null | http://www.intuitive.com/blog/memo_to_entrepreneurs_advertising_not_strong_business.html | 6 | 10 | [
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25,415 | danw | 2007-05-30T14:47:38 | Music site Last.fm bought by CBS | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6701863.stm | 2 | 1 | [
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25,421 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-30T15:06:04 | Social networking meets social change | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/30/MNGHPQ3PST1.DTL&type=tech | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,423 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-30T15:07:43 | Not So Down In The Valley (Success Clogs Silicon Valley) | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/30/BUGPIQ3EBJ1.DTL&type=tech | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,429 | andre | 2007-05-30T15:29:53 | How to Learn Any (Technical, Programming, Other) Subject in 7 Days | null | http://okdork.com/2007/05/30/how-to-learn-any-subject-in-7-days/ | 8 | 5 | [
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25,431 | mazen | 2007-05-30T15:35:56 | NexTag Sold for $1B? | null | http://www.comparisonengines.com/2007/05/29/nextag-sold-for-1b/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,445 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-30T16:43:11 | Alphabet changes color of communication | null | http://news.com.com/Alphabet+changes+color+of+communication/2100-1025_3-6187358.html?tag=nefd.lede | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,447 | brett | 2007-05-30T16:44:15 | VentureBeat - LiveScribe lets the paper do the talking, and thinking | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/29/livescribe-lets-the-paper-do-the-talking-and-thinking/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,448 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-30T16:44:49 | The case against Twitter | null | http://news.com.com/The+case+against+Twitter/2010-1038_3-6187291.html?tag=nefd.lede | 4 | 1 | [
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25,453 | brlewis | 2007-05-30T17:02:22 | Signs it's time to change your startup's direction | null | http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/1535/How-Many-Lightbulbs-Does-It-Take-To-Change-A-Startup.aspx | 10 | 0 | null | null | null | no_title | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T09:31:30 | null | train |
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25,458 | jslogan | 2007-05-30T17:14:02 | Reason to believe closes sales opportunities | null | http://www.jslogan.com/reason-to-believe-closes-sales-opportunities/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,459 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-30T17:33:45 | YC's Xobni: Lessons learned in the last 14 months | null | http://www.xobni.com/blog/2007/05/29/and-then-there-were-four/ | 32 | 28 | [
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25,460 | ivar | 2007-05-30T17:39:19 | The Art of 'Ware (Sun Tzu reinterpreted for software) | null | http://and-still-i-persist.com/?page_id=239 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,476 | jamiequint | 2007-05-30T18:36:00 | DUPE - Sam Odio is way too fast for me :P | null | http://www.xobni.com/blog/ | 3 | 0 | [
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25,488 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-30T19:15:38 | Google Maps Show Faces on Streets | null | http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=museum&near=San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&ie=UTF8&view=map&ll=37.795975,-122.411039&spn=0.001102,0.00339&t=h&z=19&om=1&layer=c&cbll=37.795452,-122.41116&cbp=1,339.764730637206,0.575088529841333,3 | 4 | 1 | [
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25,492 | brett | 2007-05-30T19:38:11 | Venture Law Lines: Why VCs take meetings | null | http://venturelaw.blogspot.com/2007/05/why-vcs-take-meetings.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Venture Law Lines: Why VCs take meetings | null | null |
I'm preparing for Rick Segal's workshop at MESH later this week, which is an overview of "How to Pitch to a VC." For me, you can't get the pitch right until you understand why you are pitching to a VC. You should never take a meeting with a VC until you've determined whether there is a likely fit between the two of you. Where is the VC in its fund cycle - is it at the beginning of a new fund? Is it about to start raising its next fund? Is this VC raising a fund now, and having difficulty? The answers impact your ability to build an investment syndicate (who wants to co-invest with a lame duck fund?), and suggest how you need to adjust your pitch to fit the circumstances. If the VC is a generalist (most in Canada are), you may want to adjust your pitch so it focuses more on how the current opportunity is an extension of other industries in which they have had success - for example, pitching enterprise 2.0 as an inevitable extension of current enterprise applications, rather than as a business model discontinuity.If your VC is focused on your sector, you need to understand where it has already invested in the value chain, and whether your business overlaps with those plays. This VC is not looking for a missionary investment, but for a company that creates real barriers to entry. No "first mover advantage" slide here (in fact, keep that phrase out of all your pitches, please).The people who do their homework and approach VCs as potential partners are the ones who have consistently better success. Still, many of you take shortcuts, and assume that if a VC agrees to meet with you, it means something. They must know you're a good fit for them, or they wouldn't take the time. Right?Not so much. Here is a partial list of the other reasons I took meetings when I was a VC:1. As a reason for getting to know the company's current investors.2. As a favor for the advisor the startup had hired.3. To listen to a new view on the addressable market for a business in which we had already invested.4. To maintain the market perception that my fund was actively seeking new investments.5. Because the CFO was rumored to look like Bruno Gerussi.6. It was right after lunch.7. There were still 45 minutes until lunch.8. Lunch was being provided.Many of these meetings resulted in longer term relationships, even if our interest was not in making an investment. Good business development? Yes. But a useful part of your search for near term money? Probably not.My two cents.
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25,497 | dpapathanasiou | 2007-05-30T20:45:19 | First and Long: Bill Hambrecht & Mark Cuban take on the NFL | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/sports/playmagazine/0603play-business.html | 1 | 1 | [
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25,515 | dawie | 2007-05-30T22:11:22 | Apple now valued at over $100 billion | null | http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/05/30/apple_now_valued_at_over_100_billion.html | 2 | 1 | [
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25,527 | inklesspen | 2007-05-30T23:38:02 | Another tool in the "offline webapps" set: Google Gears | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/30/google-gears-lets-developers-take-apps-offline/ | 4 | 3 | [
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25,530 | brett | 2007-05-30T23:47:00 | VentureBeat - Q&A with Evan Williams: Twitter raising venture capital | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/30/qa-with-evan-williams-twitter-raising-venture-capital/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,534 | bootload | 2007-05-30T23:53:41 | Evolution of Coms: Email to Twitter & Beyond | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evolution_of_communication.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,535 | bootload | 2007-05-30T23:54:38 | MS Surface: Hits The Ground Running | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_surface.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,536 | abstractbill | 2007-05-30T23:54:45 | Google acquires Panoramio | null | http://www.panoramio.com/blog/google-agrees-to-acquire-panoramio/ | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,537 | bootload | 2007-05-30T23:55:25 | Google releases open source toolkit for offline web apps. | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/google_releases.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,538 | bootload | 2007-05-31T00:01:45 | Big Media Snapping Up Web 2.0 Startups | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/big_media_snaps_up_web20_startups.php | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,544 | juwo | 2007-05-31T00:17:30 | internet memorials | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6700743.stm | 2 | 6 | [
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25,546 | keith_erskine | 2007-05-31T00:20:16 | Ignite Boston - all the cool kids will be there! | null | http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/ignite_boston.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,549 | danw | 2007-05-31T00:31:28 | Apple Should Do a Foleo (But On Steroids) | null | http://fourstarters.com/2007/05/30/apple-should-do-a-foleo-but-on-steroids/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
25,551 | nickb | 2007-05-31T00:54:09 | Google to release Google Gears on Thursday - take applications beyond the web and challenge Microsoft on desktop | null | http://www.ft.com/cms/s/51c32f3c-0efc-11dc-b444-000b5df10621.html | 6 | 12 | [
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The internet company is launching Google Gears, an open-source technology for creating offline web applications.
A key differentiator of Microsoft applications is that they can be used without an internet connection. They are launched from the computer’s hard drive and files created can be stored and accessed on that drive.
Google Gears will enable its own applications to have the same capabilities. Google Reader, a news reader, will be offline-enabled from today and other applications
would be expected to follow.
“With Google Gears, we’re tackling a key limitation of the browser in order to make it a stronger platform for deploying all types of applications,” said Eric Schmidt, Google chief executive.
Google says Gears will work with all main browsers on all main platforms – Windows, Mac and Linux. But while it says the Firefox and Opera browsers welcome Gears, it made no mention of Microsoft or its Internet Explorer web browser.
Of additional concern to Microsoft will be Google’s decision to “open source” its technology. Google hopes Gears will move the industry towards a single standard for offline capabilities, potentially enabling thousands of applications to compete with Microsoft software.
“Microsoft is either going to have to support this or do something like it,” says David Mitchell Smith, analyst with the Gartner research firm.
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25,555 | brett | 2007-05-31T01:29:45 | Programming: How to build a Firefox extension - Lifehacker | null | http://www.lifehacker.com/software/programming/how-to-build-a-firefox-extension-264490.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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25,558 | nickb | 2007-05-31T01:41:18 | Steve Jobs live from D 2007 (video highlights + transcript) | null | http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/30/steve-jobs-live-from-d-2007/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | missing_parsing | Steve Jobs live from D 2007 | 2007-05-30T19:17:00.000Z | Ryan Block | Steve Jobs is up here in just a few, everybody. It looks like we can probably prepare ourselves for an update on the iTunes shift to no-DRM, the status of the iPhone, and whatever else is on El Jobso's mind. It's all on Mossberg, so hopefully he'll drill down deep to the topics we hold near and dear. Stay close, you'll know when it gets underway! (Note: Walt's questions are in bold.)UPDATE: D has posted video highlights of Steve's and Walt's talk, our original liveblog follows after the jump.12:17pm - Here we go! Ladies and gentleman, Steve Jobs!Thanks for the joint session with Gates... let me ask you an odd question, you've changed the name of Apple, so what business is Apple?We're in two busineses today, we'll be very shortly in three business and a hobby. One is our Mac business, second is our music business, third business is the phone business, handsets. And the hobby is Apple TV. The reason I call it a hobby is a lot of people have tried and failed to make it a business. It's a business that's hundreds of thousands of units per year but it hasn't crested to be millions of units per year, but I think if we improve things we can crack that.12:20pm - You have something to show related to Apple TV today... in your first couple of appearances I asked you -- you got good reviews on the Macs, bu tthe needle on the share didn't move.We all use Macs at Apple, we love the mac. We think we make the best notebooks in the world, we think we make the best computers in the world. We've always been a little ahead, I can see a time where notebooks are 80-90% of what we sell. We continue to improve our OS -- we had a big release that we didn't get too much credit for... the OS X product line to Intel. It was very seameless for the customers. The growth that we've seen since the Intel transition has been about 3x the market growth rate.12:22pm - ... And your market share is what?If you measure it worldwide it's like 3%. If you measure it in the US it's like 5-6%... if you look at US notebook sales it's like 12%. If you look at US retail we have double-digit market share... but we can't really calculate the consumer market share.12:23pm - Funny question: this is your gradual exit out of the computer business with the name change?No. If you come to WWDC we're rolling out our new version of OSX -- massive investments in desktops. You'll love it.12:24pm - Are you planning some big new iPod model post-iPhone?So a while means since last September? [awkward silence] This is a fast moving business.[Some really awkward banter!] Ok. Ok. Sorry I wasn't taking your feelings into account. We're working on the best iPods that we've ever worked on... and they're AWESOME.12:25pm - Ok! Moving right along... what phone are you carrying?[ flashes the iPhone, puts it back away] Best iPod we've ever made, best phone we've ever made!When are you planning to ship? Like the last day of June? It will be available in volume?Late June... I hope not! I hope so!Do you expect to sell most of these through your stores? Cingular?We'll be selling these through our stores Cingular which is now the new AT&T... laughter... 12:26pm - You're a lot nicer about cellphone carriers than you were last time I saw you.Cingular bent and broke a lot of rules, this was an all new deal for them... Apple apparently has a lot of respect for Cingular's trust on Apple. "Cingular invested in us, and likewise we took a gamble on them. I will never forget that."12:27pm - Why do you think they did it?They did it for two reasons: first is because music on phones hasn't been successful so far, they wanted to do something good with music on phones. The second reason is more profound: they have spent and are spending a fortune to build these 3G networks, and so far there ain't a lot to do with them. People haven't voted with their pocketbooks to sign up for video on their phones. These phones aren't capable of taking advantage of it. Youv'e used the internet on your phone, it's terrible! You get the baby internet, or the mobile internet -- people want the REAL internet on their phone. We are going to deliver that. We're going to take advantage of some of these investments in bandwidth.12:28pm - Your goals that you set for sales for the iPhone are not gigantic -- but in a billion unit market that's 1%. They didn't sign the deal for a high volume product.A billion units is a worldwide number... people have forgotten more than we know about this market.12:29pm - Any features on the iphone you haven't announced you'd like to share?Uh, nope! [Laughter]12:30pm - You put out a press release this morning about iTunes without DRM... is it only EMI?It's only EMI right now but there are zillions of independants that want to jump on. We worked really hard not to add complexity. The first time you buy an iTunes Plus song it asks if you only want to buy it where it's available? So wherever it's available you get those. We're also offering people a special offer to upgrade every song they own to iTunes Plus for $0.30 per song or 30% of the album price.[Chatting about the DRM-free business model going forward, and the open letter.]12:32pm - A lot of your rivals were lobbying labels for a long time... there are these issues of lock-in. Were you just getting ahead of the train that was already moving?If you look at the total number of iPods and total number of songs sold on iTunes, it's less than 25 per iPod. They're clearly not getting the majority of their songs from iTunes, so this notion we have a lock-in is ridiculous. You can get MP3s from anywhere, they rip their CDs, and get their music from... other ways. The way we've always felt, we have the best music player people will buy iPods. If we have the best music store people will buy music. We felt that we have a great solution -- 12:33pm - This part of your business is the iPod. Not the --There's three pieces. The iPod, iTunes -- the jukebox -- on the Mac and PC. And there's the online store in the cloud. 12:34pm - But the iPod is the biggest part. Most of what I pay goes to the label... do you jeopardize that when DRM goes away?Again, if people are getting the vast majority of their music not from the store I think that's because the iPod is the best music player.12:35pm - Is the iPhone a wireless iPod? Or a phone that has an iPod in it?It's three things: the best iPod we've ever made. An incredibly great cellphone -- we've really revolutionized how to use a cellphone. If it was nothing but a cellphone it'd be really successful. Third thing is it's the internet in your pocket for the first time. If it was any of those three it'd be successful. If it was just the internet in your pocket it'd sell better than the Sony Mylo...12:36pm - How much debate was there -- do you even have any debate at Apple?There's lots. [Laughter] If you want to hire and keep bright people you can't tell them what to do... very often. Once a year, maybe twice, you have a silver bullet now and then, but basically you don't do that. At Apple it's about ideas, and we argue about ideas constantly.12:37pm - So how much argument was there about not having a keyboard on the iPhone?None. None.So you had no one in Cupertino that thought that was a good idea?Yeah. [Laughter]12:38pm - Why?A few reasons. Once you actually use this magical display there's no going back. We actually think we have a better keyboard. It takes a few days of getting used to, but I bet you dinner that after a few days of using it you'll be convinced. It takes a week -- you have to learn how to trust it. When you learn how to trust it, you'll fly. And we can use that physical space for other things where you don't need a keyboard -- we can add new applications... it provides incredible flexibility and you don't take up half the space of this thing with a phsyical keyboard.12:39pm - How much time do you have before people copy the physical form-factor? Was there a cost to announcing early?If you zoom out and you say why does the iPod exist? Why is Apple successful in this business? What's the answer? Because the Japanese CE companies who were the preeiminent hardware makers just couldn't do software as well it needed to be done. If you look at the iPod, it's a software product -- in beautiful hardware. Software wrapped in a beautiful package. The Japanese CE companies couldn't make the leap to create that kind of software. And that's why Apple enjoys the success it does with the iPod.If you look at handsets it looks very similar. The handset makers have their hardware down, but haven't been able to make the leap to software. Like Microsoft's PlaysForSure -- licensable, it's of a certain cailber... but our software is at least 5 years ahead of anything we've seen. We've spent years working on this. We started with an OS we've been working on for well over a decade...12:42pm - But the iPhone doesn't REALLY have the whole OS X operating system on there...The answer is: yes it does! The entire Mac OS is gigs, a lot is data. Take out the data -- every desktop pattern, sound sample -- if you look at Safari it's not that big. It's REAL Safari, REAL OS X. We put a different user interface on it to work with a multi-touch screen... it's an amazing amount of software.12:43pm - On the technical side... could a Mac OS X app run on an iPhone?We don't think that's a good idea. We don't have a mouse, we don't have pull-down menus... we have a very different user interface on the phone. [Ha! Nice non-answer!] 12:44pm - The Holy Grail -- one is a great pocket device... one is connecting content to your TV... why do you describe it [Apple TV] as a hobby? When I tested it it was very easy to set up, why isn't it dead simple to imagine people buying that in large numbers?Coming from the PC market you first think about getting content from your PC to your livingroom. I'm not sure that's really what most consumers want. It's great to show photos, play your music, but we tend to think of that as the entree -- that's the peas on the side.I brought something to show you.12:46pm - [Demo time! He's working with an Apple TV][Going through the interface -- talking about streaming.] One of the things we stream directly is movie trailers -- here's a little moving coming out at the end of June, it's called Ratatouille.12:48pm - Works fine off cable modem -- works even better on 100mbit fiber optic networks I hear people have. You can buy movies off iTunes as well. It's pretty good quality -- we arent selling high def... at this point. But I think in the future that might change!12:49pm - We're going to sell our 100 millionth TV show this year.. it's fun. [Talking more about how Apple TV works.]12:51pm - But this is all peas? This isn't the main entree?12:52pm - We'll see over time, but I'm not so sure it is... we'll see. So what we're going to do today is introduce something really cool. People want to buy a lot of video... wouldn't it be great if you could see YouTube on your Apple TV... it's available as a free software upgrade available in a few weeks. Normally I wouldn't announce it early, but hey, it's D.12:55pm - [Watching some YouTube video]12:56pm - Did you ever think you'd associate the Apple brand with this?You know, it's funny, since we got this working we've been watching a TON of this stuff.12:58pm - Does that mean Leopard is being delayed again?? [laughter]I'm nervous up here, I hit the wrong keys...Yeah Steve, because you're REALLY BAD at stage presentations. [Laughter][Showing the human slingshot video.] "It's like the Darwin Awards." [People are laughing already.]Only at D, YouTube on a hundred inch screen. I don't know what the res is of this video setup... but I imagine you have a bigscreen TV... YouTube clips don't even look great on a smail window on your laptop...The biggest thing that limits the quality is the source YT gets... you get what you get, like you I'm a stickler for quality. But this stuff is so fun to watch. 1:00pm - I'm telling you, Leopard delayed again! Why not let the Apple TV go anywhere to get video?That's a good idea! Let's do it! No... these ideas will percolate up, we'll have a collection of ideas of what we can do with this stuff. I think a normal web browser is not necessarily what people want in their living room.1:02pm - So even with the human slingshot and quick-change -- that's not going to take Apple TV from a hobby to a real business?I use the word hobby because it's provocative, but the iPod started this way. The iPod started off feeling a lot like this.But you're committed? Totally.But it's a set-top box... No, we've wanted to do this for a few years. But we thought of this as a set-top box replacement. The minute you have an STB you have gnarly issues, CableCARD, OCAP... that just isn't something we would choose to do ourselves. We couldn't see a go-to-market strategy that makes sense. But wait, there are a lot more DVD players than STBs, we just want to be a new DVD player for the internet age. And that's what we can be. So our model for the Apple TV is like a DVD player for the internet.So when you bring an ATV and iPhone home, all you need is iTunes software. You don't need to go into the windows control panel... they have their method. You just take care of that in iTunes. [wow, fluffy Walt!] So the question: how many copies of iTunes are out there?Several times as many copies of iTunes out there. 300m or more.1:05pm - Almost all are on Windows computers?Statistically yes.Statistically? In reality? In this dimension? So that makes you an enormous Windows software developer.It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell!1:06pm - There's that Steve Jobs humility. Does the scale surprise you? This piece of software is on all these Windows computers... The scale of all these things surprises me. I never thought we'd ship 100m iPods. No, never.1:07pm - Do you think video on portable devices is a success? A big deal, people want it? When you were here before you didn't think anyone would want it...I was definitely more skeptical than customers. What happened was, with the iPod video they proved us wrong. We talk to our customers a lot, do a lot of research. Video has been the number one or two reason people have bought that product... people watch a lot of video on those iPods. The screens are small, but they're $249. Video is here to stay, and its use will grow.1:08pm - You don't have a video service for the iPhone...Sure we do... it's iTunes. Not over the air. People have tried it with music and it's failed. Part of the reason that it's failed is the phone isn't the best place for discovering music or browsing catalogues. Then there's the cost of wireless vs. terrestrial internet. Then you get it on your phone you have to sync it back to your PC... we've got 100m iPods we've sold that people know how to sync, they know how to buy music on iTunes.1:09pm - So you have no plans to put any version of the iTunes store on the iPhone itself despite the fact that you have a big screen and non-baby OS?We certainly have nothing to announce today.[Q&A time]Q: I read you still personally pick up the phone and recruit people...Our business, all we are is our ideas, all we are is our people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning. I've always felt and feel even more strongly that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.Q: [From Blake from Sling!] Two parter: can you comment on the 2.5G nature of the iPhone?Interesting thing, it automatically switches to WiFi automatically -- I'm in this industry, we were the first to ship a laptop with WiFi, shipped the first G, first N routers... [nope!] If you choose to join a network it remembers that. But if you're in a place and you want to join a WiFi network you haven't joined before it prompts you. But it's EVERYWHERE. There's like 10x more WiFi out there than I ever thought there was. WiFi is faster than any 3G, and EDGE is very fast too.Q: Apple doesn't really advertise on the internet... 95% of the people who'd see your ad are using the inferior product. Seems to be a good opportunity. I can say that our Mac vs PC campaign we advertise online quite a bit... but not on those porn sites.Q: All indications appear that the iPhone is closed, we'd love to develop apps...This is an important tradeoff between security and openness. We want both. We're working through a way... we'll find a way to let 3rd parties write apps and still preserve security on the iPhone. But until we find that way we can't compromise the security of the phone. I've used 3rd party apps... the more you add, the more your phone crashes. No one's perfect, and we'd sure like our phone not to crash once a day. If you can just be a little more patient with us I think everyone can get what they want.Q on iPhone battery life.When you're talking about a portable device it's all about power, it's all about battery life. We've been fighting that fight for a long time with our notebooks. We were able to bring all our experience to the phone -- you've hit a key theme of portables.Q about Steve's cancer -- "How are you now?"I'm still vertical! laughter. I'm feeling great, thanks.Q: Apple DRM is AAC -- transcoding, ripping, burning, etc. -- why not make Apple's DRM-free music MP3? [Applause]Let me point out a few things. All the MP3s you guys sell will play fine on iPods. We chose AAC because it's a much better encoder. We don't own it. Anyone can license it, the majority of players out there can play it, and most of the big players out there play AAC. [Umm, no, not actually true!] We're not trying to keep anyone out, we're just trying to use a superior audio technology. You can encode all your stuff in AAC as well, it'd be really easy...Q: Do you want to get into the video capture space?We do build video cameras into most of our computers now... MacBooks are pretty tiny. We're not planning on getting into the camcorder market.Q: Do you read the Fake Steve Jobs blog? No, the real question that's meaningful to me... you're obsessed with entertainment, but is that irrelevant? What REALLY changes the world moving forward?I have read a few of the FSJ things recently, but I thought it was pretty funny! (questioner: I don't write it.) I am interested in storytelling, I got involved with Pixar, I'm the one of the cheerleaders at Disney and I love a lot of the stuff they do, so I love storytelling. but what we do at Apple is try to make tools for people, tools to enjoy and create, whether it's Macs or phones or iPods. 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The other day I realized that I'd been podcasting for over four years over at MetaFilter. It's a casual thing I and two other moderators do about once a month, but in that time I've amassed a great deal of knowledge mostly through trial and error. I've shared lots of these tips to friends before so I thought it might be handy to write down everything I've learned about podcasting and put it all in one place.
The Kevin Pollak Chat Show goes 2hrs+, and goes very deep into each interviewee's life.
Time for podcasting
Time commitment is the first stumbling block of podcasting. Podcasting is a special thing in that to me it feels perfectly natural to go on way longer than a typical radio or TV interview, and I am drawn to podcasts that are in the one to two hour range because the host and guests can cover a significant amount of ground and go very deep in interviews about a subject.
Chances are that you are busy doing other things so you'll need to make time for recording and more importantly, editing your podcast. I've found that most 2-3 person podcasts can easily go 60-90 minutes naturally if you are good friends and used to talking to one another. Anything less than 30 minutes of recording feels too short to me and I've often ended podcast interviews as a guest wondering if we had enough time to explain or go deep enough into anything.
I typically carve out two hours to do my podcast and I usually have to warn my two other hosts about 3 days in advance via email and once we coordinate schedules, we all show up at the agreed upon time ready to record. Editing is more important and I've found in my experience that there is an inverse relationship between length of podcast and hours of editing. My first couple podcast episodes were tight 20 minute long affairs. I was recording for about 45-60min at first so the editing was brutal, taking out lots of material, trimming conversations of all tangents, then I would spend hours cutting out ums, ahs, and pauses. My first 20min episode took about eight to ten hours to edit and nearly sapped all my motivation to ever do another podcast.
When Leo Laporte hits "record" it's all business and everything gets uploaded as the show. Efficient!
At some point in the last four years I was once a guest on a Leo Laporte TWiT-world show. The guy is an old radio pro and basically when he says go, the show is on, and everything that gets recorded soon goes online. I really envied the efficient, live style of his shows and after that I urged my other hosts to keep our meta-commentary to a minimum (we used to often say "I know you'll cut this but..." and talk for five minutes). At this point, we record for about 90 to 105 minutes and typically shows are around 80-90min long edited. Editing only takes me about two hours per show these days, both because the hosts and I all stay on topic and editing is streamlined to a single pass where I just cut out pauses and anything obvious, add music, and finalize it with podcast file info.
I would stress to anyone planning a podcast to give yourself enough time to get deep into the subject matter with your hosts and any possible guests and to also try and keep it as all-business as possible to minimize your editing time. Editing is the hardest part and a total time sink, but if you do your best upfront, you can minimize the toil of editing.
Format
I listen to a lot of podcasts and the most typical format is 2 or 3 hosts and sometimes one guest. I've never subscribed to a single-person podcast before because I've yet to find a single-person-talking podcast that is interesting enough to stick with. I've tried a few but one person talking is usually pretty boring after a while. Two or three people chattering to each other is the most common format but it's possible to take it too far. The other day I heard a six person podcast that was an utter nightmare. Everyone talked over each other and when it came time to make small quips and jokes you had to wait for five people to make a wise crack. Stick to 2-3 people on your show.
Interviews are an obvious fit for podcasts and even if you have a good established show about a topic with a couple of hosts, bringing in the occasional guest is always a nice change. A pure interview show also works, though I'd say the 80 or so years of radio interview history may fight against you in terms of finding something new to do with an interview format. Still, if you can book a steady stream of guests and you're ok with scheduling time around your guests (they are after all, being on your show for free) then regular interviews can be great.
Keep calm and carry on podcasting
Before we dive into hardware and software and the nitty gritty details of recordings, it's important to think about your mood or your presence or whatever you want to call how you feel before you hit the record button. Remember to relax, even though you might be nervous at first. You're just a person sitting in a room in front of a computer talking, so try to avoid thinking about how famous your guest is or how anxious you are about not knowing what to say and be as relaxed as possible when you start. It's ok to do several takes if you're recording an introduction. On the flip side, it's good to relax but you don't want to come off as low-energy in the recording because that can quickly bore listeners. Try to let your enthusiasm for whatever subject the podcast is about come through. Podcasting is like any acquired skill: practice makes perfect, and now that I've done sixty shows and probably well over 100 hours of recording I'm completely calm when we start but it took 5-10 shows before that became the norm.
Equipment
I know a lot of podcast hosts were former musicians and can talk for hours about microphone selection, positioning, and use, but I've tried some high end equipment as well as low-end stuff and my advice to anyone new to podcasting would be to stick with what is most simple and simply works. I would highly recommend a USB headset headphone/mic combo and I would say you should expect to pay about $30-50 for a decent headset. They are available on Amazon (here's a search) and at office stores these days and I've personally had great experiences with whatever Logitech is selling for about forty bucks.
Again, you can spend hundreds of dollars on microphones, splitters, A/V switch boxes and more, but in all honesty when recordings get mixed, edited, and compressed down to a mp3 in the end, a forty dollar headset sounds just fine.
If you're doing interviews with remote guests, buying an extra USB headset is a good idea as well. I know some shows will ship out a $40 USB headset/mic to guests a few days in advance to ensure they get a decent enough recording.
Software
I use nothing but Macs, so this will be Mac-centric, but I typically record podcasts remotely through Skype, while each person in the podcast records locally using Call Recorder, a companion recorder app for Skype. In the radio business I hear this is called a "double-ender" but basically you record your conversations locally, then put the locally recorded voices back together in your audio editing app and the effect is close to sounding like you were in the same room together (you don't end up using the recorded remote skype sides of the conversation so voice quality doesn't really matter).
You start off installing Skype and Call Recorder (I set my Call Recorder settings to record in AAC at a quality setting of high), and every time you launch Skype a record window will automatically pop up. Now, it's not totally important for all your hosts to coordinate the exact moment when you start recording (just make sure everyone is recording before you start the show), but it's super important for the person hosting the Skype chat/call to keep everyone recording until they kill the call at the end. This creates a nice end point that you can later match up all the audio files to in your editor.
So you hit record on Call Recorder, run your show in Skype then have the host kill the call so everyone ends at the exact same moment. At this point, every person that recorded the show will have the show sitting in the default "Saved Calls" directory. You should also have a directory on your Mac called "Movie Tools" that installs with Call Recorder. You'll want to drag your recorded call over the app called "Split Movie Tracks" (or Split Sides of a Conversation). You'll get two tracks as a result, with the same file name as the original but with track 1 and track 2 appended to them. You'll just be using track 1. If you are doing the final editing, have your hosts/guests FTP their own split track 1 files to you (everyone usually uploads to their blog's web server in my case). Then you download the files and now you have everyone's raw locally recorded full-fidelity recordings.
I use Garageband for audio editing because it's pretty simple to use. Note there are some reported iChat/Garageband features specific to recording live podcasts but I've had Garageband crash on me multiple times while recording a podcast conversation, essentially losing hours of work in the process so I would never suggest anyone try recording live in Garageband.
Killing reverb in Garageband is step one.
You'll want to first set up your tracks in Garageband. I have two male hosts and one female host so I add new tracks to match. I immediately go into advanced audio properties (audio/edit on the right side panel) to set Master Reverb to 0. I don't know why Garageband insists on adding a crappy-sounding echo to every podcast voice but I kill it immediately. Next, I make sure I have one track for audio jingles (we have a theme song and sometimes toss in music or sound clips) and the main podcast track is for album art.
Setting up tracks at the start of the show in Garageband.
Once tracks are set up, I take each person's track 1 recording and drag it over the appropriate track. I line up the ends of the tracks to the same moment, since I made sure to close the call and cut everyone's recording at the same time. I add theme music at the top, then cut the beginning of the sound recordings to the point where we started the show.
Cutting across all three hosts' tracks in Garageband.
The specific steps are: move the play head to the right spot, highlight your voice tracks, hit command-t to cut across all three, then select the three tracks to the left and delete by hitting command-x to cut, Select your three remaining tracks together and slide them into the start of the podcast just after your theme song.
Sometimes, it can take Garageband a while to analye and show the audio spectrum for all your tracks, and there are times when I've first important tracks, saved the podcast in Garageband, and then left it open while I went to lunch only to return after to see nice peaks and waves in every track. This helps visually with editing, as you can learn to spot dead sound areas or high spots of clipping.
Garageband is pretty easy to edit audio in, but when you're dealing with a podcast, make sure any cuts you make are selected across all your tracks at once (in other words, if you want to cut out a 10 second pause where no one said anything, make sure you cut ten seconds from all tracks, not just one). Since you have multiple tracks covering a long time period it's important to move all your voice tracks together when editing so they never get out of sync with one another. Every time I mention "editing" when talking about a podcast, I just mean doing this over and over again, hundreds of times.
Try to conduct all your editing from start to finish, as adding a song to the beginning when all editing is complete is actually kind of difficult, requiring you to move possibly up to hundreds of track edits to make room for the song.
I go through and edit usually in just one pass though it might take you a few passes on your first show. You'll want to remove any pause that lasts more than a couple seconds, if there is a sneeze or lip smack that sounds annoying, you can highlight a single track and cut just those bits. When you are done, make sure the sound levels sound good and even across all your hosts and music tracks. This can be difficult and requires some trial and error. Lots of podcasts come out sounding too quiet but it is easy enough to solve (be sure to select a track and adjust the entire track's volume individually).
Updating a podcast track's info in iTunes before uploading.
I finish a track by using the Share menu to send the podcast to iTunes. This takes a few minutes to compress, convert, and import to iTunes. Once in iTunes, I've found that Garageband typically strips all my podcast info from the track so I have to Get Info on the track and provide the correct info. In the Info tab, set the genre to podcast and make sure the title and artists reflect your podcast. In the Options tab, check the box marked Remember Playback Position and you might want to tweak the volume up from None if it sounds quiet. On the lyrics tab I usually pop in my Podcast site URL, and on the Artwork tab I drag in a 300x300 podcast logo I've saved in GIF format (JPEG and PNG work too).
If you continue to have audio issues with the final file (like everyone is too quiet or one speaker is much louder than the rest) then you might want to try running your output mp3 file through the free program Levelator. It does a pretty amazing and fantastic job bringing everyone's levels up to match. The final file will sound a bit more compressed but your audience will appreciate being able to hear everyone for the loss in dynamic range.
Making show notes in TextMate to upload to the Podcast blog.
Since my podcast is a recap of a website and we're talking about other sites and online things we found on the podcast, I produce notes for each show with every URL mentioned so listeners at a computer can follow along and click on stuff as we are discussing them. This isn't quite a transcript, but it is nice, especially if you are watching a video on a podcast and talking about it and need a way for the listener to be able to watch that video too. I've heard there are resources out there that will do full text transcriptions at about $1/minute but I find the show notes are a pretty good substitute. Also, if you get really efficient at editing, doing up the HTML for your notes post on your podcast show blog is a good way to pass the time and have something that adds to the show at the same time.
Podcast Hosting
Now, chances are you have a blog somewhere and you might want to go to the trouble of doing a podcast-specific blog that downloads from your site, but I've found the more simple approach is to use a cheap podcast service that does all the hosting and podcast feed-making for you. Liberated Syndication (libsyn) is dead simple to use, and starts at just $5/month for a 50Mb podcasting plan. Soon after I started podcasting I moved up to their 250 plan for $15/month but keep in mind the 50Mb and 250Mb are meant to be your "active" file storage earmarks. The "active" window is the sum storage of your shows for the past month. You can have four years of archives like I do totalling many hundreds of Mb, but they only charge you for what is active, not in your archive. Additionally, they don't seem to monitor bandwidth, so if you have a popular show, you won't be docked for thousands of downloads. For five to fifteen bucks a month, it's a super reliable and easy to use service. I upload my files to Libsyn (via FTP, which they support), then I make a new podcast episode in their publishing platform. The libsyn publisher makes a nice podcast blog and podcast feed, but I use libsyn as background plumbing.
The next thing you'll want to do is create a new feed at Feedburner. Plop in your libsyn podcast feed, make sure you tell Feedburner it's a podcast feed and give it a handy easy to read name. You'll use your Feedburner feed to display on your blog as well as to apply to be included in iTunes' podcast listings (Open iTunes, go to the iTunes Store, select Podcasts, then look for the Submit a new Podcast option in the side menu). Sticking with a Feedburner feed means you can move your podcast to other systems someday if libsyn doesn't fit your needs.
Finally, you'll probably want a blog to post all your shows to. It helps to get a good domain and simply map the domain to whatever blog software you prefer. You can promote the podcast with links to it in iTunes and provide a link to your feedburner feed. Typically I make a new post for each episode of the show and I embed a player (libsyn provides an embeded player for each episode or the entire show's archives).
That's about it! Anyone can go from zero to podcasting for less than $100 and you'll definitely get better with practice, so jump in and give it a try. I've found that after a year of semi-regular recordings I not only got better at recording, editing, and talking in a relaxed way, it also helped my public speaking and definitely helped me be relaxed when doing radio and other podcast interviews.
Disclaimer in case it matters: I don't make any sort of kick back off any recommendation above, I honestly like libysn's hosting, logitech's headphones, and all the software mentioned.
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25,758 | myoung8 | 2007-05-31T23:14:19 | TechCrunch: Get Smart, Play Lumosity (and take a fun IQ test) | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/31/get-smart-play-lumosity/ | 1 | 1 | [
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In developing Lumosity, Lumos Labs worked closely with leading neuroscientists from Stanford and UCSF to design and experimentally test the program. In a randomized, controlled study, the exercises were shown to have statistically significant effects in improving memory and attention.
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