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The Tech Conference Show #2 - ETech 2005 Part 2

Ewan Spence — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:23:16 +0000

Ewan Spence and Crow continue their Podcast review of Etech with some full recordings of seminars. First up is Danny O’Brien and Merlin Manns‘ “Life Hacks Live” talk.

From The ETech 2005 Program
Based on the research into the secret habits of “overprolific alpha geeks,” last year’s popular Life Hacks talk predicted a new software field: the spread of the time and info management “power tools” hackers have learnt to build for themselves to a wider audience, who are increasingly struggling to handle the information overload that geeks have fought with for years.

Join Danny O’Brien and the smash hit blog “43 Folder”’s Merlin Mann to see just how those predictions have come true on the Mac, Linux, and Windows platforms.

We’ll take a whistle-stop tour through an amazing year in this exploding field: tracking apps that merge the geek’s command-line power with GUI ease-of-use; the expansion of RSS and wiki techniques into frontline organizing apps; the spread of search and script automation onto the desktop; how plain text files are the new rock and roll.

But there’s more: with live cameo appearances of alpha geeks (and their desktops), Mann and O’Brien will demo live some more of the secret tricks that have yet to reach a wider audience, and the applications and gadgets that even the super-organized are only now getting to play with. And, once again, the duo will pinpoint the market opportunities that exist for the toolmaker who wants to reach a growing new audience for their software.

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The Tech Conference Show #002:: O’Reilly’s ETech 2005 - Part 2
11th April 2005 (01hr 03min 29sec): MP3 - 21.9MB

ETech 2005 - Part 1

Ewan Spence — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:57:03 +0000

Ewan Spence and Crow (photo from Etech 2004) flew back from O’Reilly’s Emerging technology Conference on Monday, and since then have been putting together the various interviews, soundbites and observations from Etech. So if you were there, here’s what you missed. And if you didn’t make it, then here’s your big chance to find out what the chatrooms and Flickr posts were all about.

This is the first of four shows that will be coming from ETech 2005, we have recordings of some of the key sessions (not the keynotes - but those seminars that everyone is talking about) to follow up this week and next week. You can check back here, but if you’ve got a Podcasting or RSS Client that can handle file attachments, this is the feed.

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The Tech Conference Show: O’Reilly’s ETech 2005 - Part 1:
24th March 2005 (55min 38sec): MP3 - 19.1MB

00:00 Network Intro

01:20 Intro by Ewan Spence and “Crow”

02:35 Tim O’Reilly

Emerging Technologies Conference web site

09:15 Cory Doctorow

EFF

Cory’s site

17:05 Robert Kaye

MusicBrainz

25:25 Manuel Keissling

Attention Screen logs

28:43 Phillip Torrone

Make Magazine

Make Blog

35:50 James Larsson

48:11 Mike Rowehl

Mobile Monday

52:50 Rael Dornfest

54:35 Ewan and Crow wrap up part 1

G’day World “On the Pod DEMO@15 Special Edition”

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:42:55 +0000

G’day World DEMO@15 Special Edition - Originally launched on 1st March 2005 (1hr 09min 32sec): mp3 (24MB)

Time
00:00	Sponsor advertisement: Frank Arrigo and show intro
02:40	Buzz Bruggeman, CEO, Activewords says G’Day
03:13	David Geller, CEO, WhatCounts Inc.BlogUnit provides a cost-effective, rack-ready appliance that is tuned to network security requirements and can be up-and-running in 15 minutes. Corporate bloggers find an easy-to-use and fully-featured platform to author, manage, measure, deliver, and syndicate this powerful new form of communication.
07:47	Buzz Bruggeman, Robert Scoble, Andy Ruff and Shel Israel say G’Day
09:27	Joe Kraus, CEO, JotSpotJotSpot makes simple web applications simple to build by combining wikis and web applications in an easy-to-use hosted service for workgroups.
12:57	Garth Moulton, Co-Founder, Jigsaw Data CorporationJigsaw is an online business contact marketplace where people can buy, sell and trade business contact information.
15:28	Karl and Heidi, PluckA free tool for managing all of your regular online activities
18:47	Philip Nelson, Senior Director of Video Marketing, NewTekThe TriCaster replaces several pieces of video-production gear, including a video switcher and the transcoder needed to convert standard video output for Webcasting
22:42	Scott Jarr, VP, Product Marketing, LiveVaultLiveVault InSync is the disk-based online backup and recovery service that delivers fast, easy, 100% reliable backup, offsite protection and recovery—eliminating the risks and failures inherent to tape backup.
26:34	Peter Sisson, CEO, TeleoTeleo provides Internet telephony applications that bridge the gap between your computer desktop and regular telephones and cell phones.
29:57	Robin Hopper, President, iUploadThe latest release of iUpload’s Application Suite brings tight integration between blogs and content management, allowing you to take full advantage of the blog phenomenon at a corporate level to connect and stay connected with employees, customers, partners or other key constituencies.
32:51	Neil Greer, CEO, Impact EngineUse Impact Engine to create and distribute agency quality multimedia presentations, track hot leads and send personalized e-marketing campaigns.
33:52	David Beckham, PhotoLeapPhotoleap enables the sending of an unlimited number of high resolution digital photographs to anyone with an email address in the same manner in which you send them an email, but without any of the traditional limits of email.
36:56	Richard Bullwinkle, Senior Director of Product Marketing and Chief Evangelist, MediabolicMediabolic® develops products and services to revolutionize how consumers enjoy digital entertainment in the home.
41:12	Chris Matters, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s commercial manager, discussing Digital Monkey’s product “In The Chair”In the Chair gives budding musicians and music lovers the thrill of playing in a virtual Symphony Orchestra. In the Chair provides users with a first person audiovisual perspective allowing them to see and hear from their chosen seat in the orchestra. By plugging a microphone into a computer, the software’s artificial intelligence engine provides realtime feedback on their performance and encouragement to correct their mistakes.
47:15	Phillip Williamson, CEO, IntelledoxIntelledox is a scalable enterprise application that facilitates the creation and management of the simplest to most complex documents.
50:57	David Monteith, Managing Director, SonapticThe Sonaptic 3D Audio Engine is the culmination of over 12 years of research and development by the company’s founders. Using patented methods and with a background in the music and games industries, Sonaptic’s team have developed the world’s leading 3D Positional Audio technology, capable of faithful reproduction of multi-channel audio - even when sound paths pass through 3D space around the listener.
53:24	Joe Harris, Vice President of Marketing, Orb NetworksOrb gives you secure access to the digital media on your home PC through a simple web interface. Orb streams your content safely to virtually any internet-connected device.
57:32	John Riedl, Executive Chairman, SigNavThe SigNav product range provides all the tools that you need to evaluate, develop and design embeddeded GPS solutions at the PCB, equipment, subsystem and system level.
01:01:24	Jim Young, co-founder and co-CEO, Jambo NetworksJambo Networks is the first company to design technology to let you see these invisible opportunities, letting people who share something in common to directly find each other and network face-to-face, when they want to.
01:08:20	Sponsor advertisement: Frank Arrigo and outtro