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:

1. Apple could team up with someone and provide an alternate to Flash
2. The market could just write a version  of Flash and hook it in
3. 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!

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

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???

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…

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!

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…

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE

0:25 Bowen is a great modality
0:49 So what is “Bowen Therapy?” A massage, talking?

0:59 Its simple non invasive moves

2:11 Taps into the autonomic nervous system

3:37 What is Bowen Therapy good for?
3:44 Inflamation, subluxation, misalignment in the body, headaches, migranes

4:39 What is it not good for?
4:58 Cancer, lymphatic drainage

6:06 You must drink plenty of water to flush out the toxins

6:32 This sounds a lot like Chinese medicine, Bowen sounds “Aussie”

6:36 (sorry about the dog…)
6:41 Discovered by an Australian “Tom Bowen”

7:38 What was it that attracted you to Bowen?

8:18 You’ve got one of the best modality!
8:32 What makes a good modality?
8:42 Its very fast and effective

9:12 It sounds like the sort of treatment you’d go when you don’t know what other treatments will work

10:51 What makes a good Bowen Therapist?

12:20 Where does someone learn to become a Bowen Therapist?
13:08 Bow Tech

14:43 And how do we find you?
14:47 Glebe Healing Center or phone +61 2 9566-1222

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE

First… Feedback from Show #001 How can drugs affect childbirth?

Interview with Dr Michael Epstein, Chiropractor
01:19 What is Chiropractic?
01:32 Orthodontist for the spine…
01:35 An Orthodontist can non surgically remodel teeth
01:42 Chiropractic has the technology to do this for the spine
01:44 The only difference between fixing a spinal alignment and teeth, is that when you realign the spine, not only does the spine function better, so does the Central Nervous System

01:31 Yeah, but don’t you just crunch bones…?
01:59 Spinal Manipulation has been around for thousands of years
02:07 Chiropractors have turned this into a science
02:16 It has been shown that it is the most effective treatment for some of the most common problem that affect human beings
02:21 Chronic spinal pain, accute spinal pain and headaches!

02:51 The proper term for the “pop” or “crunch” is cavitation
03:25 Michael explains the science behind ‘cavitation’
03:50 What about the old wives tale “don’t crack your knuckles, you’ll get arthritis”?

04:51 Are there side affects?
07:52 None apart from soreness (similar to going to the gym)
08:20 “Statistically, there’s a much greater chance of you injuring yourself driving to my office than you are from being adjusted”

09:23 Christian asks “when do you get better?”
10:11 Information about “Relief care” and “Corrective care”

13:07 “Ever since I’ve been seeing my Chiropractor, I’ve never had a cold…”

16:14 If the twig is bent, so goes the tree…

18:14 Where did you do your training?

20:01 Understanding Chiropractic procedures: idealspine.com
20:28 The Chiropractic Association of Australia

Listen here

In our first show we learn about Doulas! Who they are and why would you want one? We speak with Becks Armstrong, a qualified acupuncturist and Doula. She tells us the ins and outs and how pregancy and child birth can benefit with the help of a Doula

SHOW NOTES

0:18 Becks, what’s a Doula?
0:24 A Doula is a support person for labour
0:34 Helps naturalise a very unfamiliar situation

0:46 What’s the difference between a Doula and a mid-wife or obstetrician?

0:49 A Doula is a non medical support person
1:21 (Ignorant male) How does this differ say from a woman with her mother there?

3:12 Are you there the whole time during the labour?

3:39 As soon as they need me or as soon as I can hear in their voice they aren’t coping well, I’m there for every single breath!

4:05 What’s the longest labour you’ve been involved with?
4:12 25 hrs in the company of the woman!!!

4:44 Becks specialises in acupuncture, Women’s Health, pregnancy and child birth

5:19 Are there birth junkies???

6:04 Midwives are under staffed which is why Doula’s are becoming more popular
6:10 Doulas are employed privately
6:29 One midwife can service 3 women in labour
6:36 The benefit of having a Doula is the continuity of care

7:56 Becks “You’re not there to do the midwife’s job, you’re the just to support”

9:36 What’s the worst thing that you’ve heard?
9:47 The father that said “its absolutely fashionable to have a Cesarean, I have to go back to work”

11:07 Drugs and birth?
11:27 Pethadine

14:48 What about acupuncture as a pain base treatment?

18:26 What made you choose this as a career?

19:29 Are these clients from your private acupuncture practice or do they call you on the day of the birth?

22:18 Dial’a’Doula

23:27 How do you charge? Hourly? Call out rate?

30:56 How do you find a Doula? Beck’s webpage