The Tech Conference Show – MusicIP and MusicBrainz (MP3 12.9 mb 18 minutes 51 seconds) LISTEN HERE Music IP is a lovely piece of technology that analyses your music collection accoustically, and can then recommend new music that sounds the same as your favourites, which launched at SXSW. Another part of the equation is the [...]

The Tech Conference Show – A Tagging Conversation (MP3 6.7 mb 9 minutes 44 seconds) LISTEN HERE One of the great things about the web is when you’re at a large event like SXSW, or ETech, is that everyone is using tags on their blog posts and pictures to help you find them. BUt where [...]

The Tech Conference Show – Dr Jim Bower, Whyville (MP3 11.1 mb 16 minutes 16 seconds) LISTEN HERE Whyville is an amazing social network site. Behind it is Dr Jim Bower, and he explains to me why an educational site for children can keep it’s viewers there longer than amazon, encourage the children to understand [...]

The Tech Conference Show – Brody Brazell (MP3 6.2 mb 9 minutes 01 seconds) LISTEN HERE One of the most exciting panels for me at SXSW Interactive was that on Serious Games for Learning. Brody Brazell was the moderator for the panel, and he has some amazing views on where technology is going, especially focused [...]

The Tech Conference Show – Steel Reign, Battlebots (MP3 5.91 mb 8 minutes 37 seconds) LISTEN HERE Fans of UK TV’s Spaced will realise just how weird the idea of running some Robot Wars / Battlebots in an undisclosed car park at BarCampAustin, which ran alongside SXSW Interactive. Steel Reign is one of the leading [...]

The Tech Conference Show – Tim O’Brien, Mix06 Preview (MP3 6.37 mb 16 minutes 43 seconds) LISTEN HERE Las Vegas sees the first Mix06 conference, and while there’s a lot of talk about it on the web, what’s it really about? I caught up on Skype with Tim O’Brien to find out more about this [...]

The Tech Conference Show – Rob Greenlee, Melodeo (MP3 6.37 mb 9 minutes 13 seconds) LISTEN HERE A lot of companies are working on ways to leverage the mobile phone to be the ltimate personal computer, for both communication, and media consumption. Rob Greenlee is behind Melodeo’s podcast client and server for mobile phones. Taking [...]

The Tech Conference Show – Batteldecks! (MP3 4.63 mb 6 minutes 41 seconds) LISTEN HERE The first panel I walked into at SXSW was the first Battledecks – where five hand picked contestants had to make a compelling and keynote worthy technology presentation, without having seen their PowerPoint. Think improvisational buzzword comedy taken to the [...]

The Tech Conference Show – Ian Pilling, Mapquest (MP3 8mb 11minutes) LISTEN HERE Ian Pilling, product manager of Mapquest about their product as well as their just released OpenApi iniative and contest.

The Tech Conference Show – Doc Searls (MP3 18 mb 26 minutes) LISTEN HERE Doc Searls is not only co-author of the Cluetrain manifesto, he also has a big interest in technology – and a background in advertising. Listen to his reflections at the end of Etech about Attention economy versus Intention economy, how much [...]