iPod, Flash & Scoble??
I read this morning Rober Scoble’s post regarding the iPod and Flash. A quick summary:
On a week when Microsoft landed a big deal to put Silverlight on Nokia phones, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, tells Adobe that there won’t be Flash on the iPhone.
I remember reading that an iPod will never have pictures. That an iPod will never have video and I remember how long it took for Apple to get on the whole Podcast band wagon.
I agree with Socble that this is an opportunity for Silverlight etc. but if I was Adobe I wouldn’t be slashing my wrists just yet.
I see there are three ways this could go:
- Apple could team up with someone and provide an alternate to Flash
- The market could just write a version of Flash and hook it in
- Apple could just do nothing
It is very unlikely that option 3 will happen. So it’s either 1) or 2).
Apple didn’t embrace Podcasts, the market went forth anyway. Option 2) is a possibility. Google has a big investment in Flash (YouTube etc). Commercially, there is a lot of potential for Google and Adobe to combine and come up with something.
Apple teaming up with someone else??? The “someone else” would really have to change the way they work. Microsoft? Its possible… My bet is still with the 2nd one.
We’ll see!
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Hothouse & Peer to Peer Lending
Hothouse have put up a podcast on Peer to Peer lending. It is an interview with Linda Smith, Simon van Wyk (founder of HotHouse) and Charis Palmer (editor of Online Banking Review)
DISCLOSURE: I am a Project Manager with a competitor to Hothouse – IT Easy. A client of ours is developing a Peer to Peer Lending product.
Its a funny sort of thing to listen to. I’m not sure who their audience is. Everytime I have mentioned Peer to Peer lending, I have to explain just what it is.
They also talk about “wasabi”. What is that???
From what I can figure out, Linda Smith is the journalist who put this together. It just appears to me like something that was slapped together at the last moment.
After a quick look around I found Charis Palmer did a post on the podcast as well.She even got Wesabi right!
Now I could sit back from the cheap seats and have a rant and say this is why I no longer listen to radio, Cameron Reily talks about this all the time and blah blah blah blah.
But seriously, I’d really like to know. What’s the thought here? Linda seriously, why not put a little more effort in? Who is your audience?
Rock on!
Christian
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What Teens Want
Just listened to this on ITConversations.
Its brilliant! Here’s the opening blurb:
More than a quarter of internet users are aged between their early teens and their mid twenties. This group spends a third more time online than the next most active age group. With this in mind, Safa Rashtchy – Managing Director at Piper Jaffray – puts five teens on stage at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference and asks them searching questions about their digital habits.
I found it very insightful on what people want (Instant Messenger), what they will put up with (Paying for mobile ringtones) and what they don’t want (ads in Instant Messenger).
Fast forward to 23:51 and tell me if you feel old???
Cameron, are you paying any attention to this???
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Apple claims “Podcast Ready” and “myPodder” infringe on their trademark…
From Wired.com:
Apple Computer has slapped Podcast Ready with a “cease and desist” letter, claiming that the terms “Podcast Ready” and “myPodder” infringe Apple’s trademarks, and that they cause confusion among consumers. The company has been cracking down on use of the word “pod” by all sorts of parties, even though its trademark is for the word “iPod.”
Funny eh? This won’t last long…
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TPN becoming elitist?
I came across this link. Seems like Cameron is getting fussy on who he takes on…
A while ago he posted his 2006 goals. 500 channels of kickass, ball-busting content on TPN??? How’s that going to happen?
See here’s the weird thing. The whole Podcast thing is meant to be a conversation. If hosts are signing up and dropping off what does that say???
Also, when I had an audience of the size he’s talking about, TPN would have been the last place I’d go to. Why? Well, if you know how to put a show together, what does TPN offer you? Not much…
The whole reason I gave up on The Alt Health Podcast was that it was too hard. We had the shows, we had the business plan but executing was just a nightmare!
So, if I was running TPN, here’s what I’d do:
1. Listen to your hosts. How come they signed up? Why did they drop off? What podcasts are they listening to?
2. G’Day World, The Movie Show etc. must be fun, but really… Is that going to build the TPN brand?
3. Make it easier. How long does it take from when a TPN host says “I’d like to do a show” until they get a WordPress login to post it?
Cameron, take a listen to how easy it is to put up a show on IT Conversations.
THAT’S easy!
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How do you podcast???
I was talking with Jade Barclay about the whole podcast thing – how, why, where etc.
Its not something you could summarise in one post, but there are others who have talked about it.
I listened to Chris MacDonald, Michael Geoghegan, Jennifer Jones recently. Brilliant! One question though, where was TPN?
Chris MacDonald made a really interesting point about monitising podcasts. Maybe the Napoleon podcast should try it…
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