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I haven’t had time to cover this week’s podcast, but i wanted to post it anyway.  Marty’s coverage here.

(Note: Marty’s coverage of this podcast here.)

Another podcast! Alas, the program remains nameless, and there has been no meaningful feedback. We forged ahead nonetheless, and now we’ve created even more discussion around cloud computing and live video broadcast to the web. Give a listen:

Topics:

• Loren is considering alternatives to Justin.tv for his live video needs. Does anyone know anything about Stickam or Ustream?
• Google FriendConnect: Webmaster’s Godsend, or Evil Empire Play? Facebook certainly doesn’t like it…
• Loren broadcast his entire day yesterday, including home-brewing some beer, playing some old-school video games, a health round of drinking games, and then some chick shenanigans
• Loren also likes to embed a Backnoise channel under his live videos for easy chat support/interaction
• Marty spent a long time trying to get Canadian sports with web hackery, and then discovered via a local blog, The Burgh Report, that Justin.tv is full of people (illegally) rebroadcasting pretty much all sports
• Marty discusses at length his experiences with cloud technologies, particularly Google AppEngine and how badly they have hobbled the excellent Django web development framework for Python
• Lastly, the guys discussed the new GPS, connected, crowd-sourced mapping device, the Dash, and how cool it is that it was built on the open cell network framework, OpenMoko

Now gimme some comments!

Update: Marty has posted his coverage of this podcast here.

Saturday afternoon, Marty and I ground out our first podcast. It is literally me and him chatting over Skype for 45 minutes. Here’s the podcast, the summary is below:

Topics we cover:

• Podcasting software: why are there so many pay walls around letting me record my own audio? Currently we are using Pamela, a Skype plugin that outputs mp3s
• What should our podcast be called? What should it be about? Currently we’re thinking development talk, social web talk, and entrepreneurial talk.
• Should Marty write a podcasting hub on Google AppEngine + Amazon S3?
• “Flawed is the New Professional”
• Loren discusses his experience as an “expert” on web video at the Entrepreneurs Meetup
• CamTwist is amazing, free video broadcast software for the Mac
• Marty and Amy’s Credible Seminar Series

Why the hell did we do this?

Basically, Marty and I talk about a lot of topics via instant message on a daily basis, and it was time to start eating our own dogfood. We figured, if we’re going to have the discussion anyway, why not do it in the easiest way possible (talking instead of typing), and why not record it and give it away (podcasting to the rescue!) Of course, we learned a lot along the way just getting this first one completed.

Primarily, we’re unhappy with the fact that MOST people can’t just decide to start a podcast trivially, the way we did. And, of course, even we had plenty of bumps. A lot of this discussion is about these difficulties, the type of podcasting system we’d like to see, and how it can be really meaningful, socially.

Marty has actually begun work with Google’s AppEngine and Amazon S3, with hopes of getting some kind of podcasting hosting system created that we can use. If that happens, we’ll likely begin to host this podcast on its own domain, and set it up for subscription via your favorite software (iTunes or whatever.) For now, just look for future posts on our respective blogs.

Speaking of future podcasts, we need feedback and support! If you are interested in more podcasts like this, please leave me some comments here. I want to know what you liked and what you didn’t. I want to know what you would name this podcast. I want to know if you want to be a guest host with us in the future.

Thanks for listening!