http://www.odeo.com/channels/77856-TalkCrunch SusantaDatta no TalkCrunch is a weekly podcast that discusses new web 2.0 companies, features and news. TalkCrunch is a TechCrunch Network company. TalkCrunch is a weekly podcast that discusses new web 2.0 companies, features and news. TalkCrunch is a TechCrunch Network company. TalkCrunch is a weekly podcast that discusses new web 2.0 companies, features and news. TalkCrunch is a TechCrunch Network company. en 40 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:48:24 -0700 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:48:24 -0700 Technology http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23466652-Erick-Schonfeld-Discusses-MySpace-Music-On-WNYC%E2%80%99s-Soundcheck Listen below as TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld discusses the significance of MySpace Music and free, ad-supported music in general on WYNC’s Soundcheck, a program produced daily by New York Public Radio. Listen below as TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld discusses the significance of MySpace Music and free, ad-supported music in general on WYNC’s Soundcheck, a program produced daily by New York Public Radio. Listen below as TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld discusses the significance of MySpace Music and free, ad-supported music in general on WYNC’s Soundcheck, a program produced daily by New York Public Radio. tag:odeo.com,2008-10-08,23466652 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:48:24 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23140689-Interview-With-Mayor-Cory-Booker-About-Community-Eye Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker talks about Community Eye, the city’s new video surveillance and gunshot detection system being used to fight crime in an eight-square mile area. More details and the transcript at TechCrunch. Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker talks about Community Eye, the city’s new video surveillance and gunshot detection system being used to fight crime in an eight-square mile area. More details and the transcript at TechCrunch. Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker talks about Community Eye, the city’s new video surveillance and gunshot detection system being used to fight crime in an eight-square mile area. More details and the transcript at TechCrunch. tag:odeo.com,2008-08-02,23140689 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:43:11 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23045126-Interview-With-Barney-Pell-and-Ramez-Naam-About-Microsoft%E2%80%99s-Powerset-Acquisition I spoke to Powerset CEO and cofounder Barney Pell and Microsoft Live Search Group Program Manager Ramez Naam today about the Powerser/Microsoft acquisition. Total talk time is around 35 minutes, and the full transcript is at TechCrunch. I spoke to Powerset CEO and cofounder Barney Pell and Microsoft Live Search Group Program Manager Ramez Naam today about the Powerser/Microsoft acquisition. Total talk time is around 35 minutes, and the full transcript is at TechCrunch. I spoke to Powerset CEO and cofounder Barney Pell and Microsoft Live Search Group Program Manager Ramez Naam today about the Powerser/Microsoft acquisition. Total talk time is around 35 minutes, and the full transcript is at TechCrunch. tag:odeo.com,2008-07-02,23045126 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:17:21 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23002322-Skype-4-0-Interview-With-President-Josh-Silverman Skype is getting a major, much-needed upgrade: Skype 4.0. President Josh Silverman calls it the “biggest new release in Skype’s history.” The new software client, which which will be released here in beta tomorrow (for Windows only), takes up the whole screen. Video is front and center. Read more here. Skype is getting a major, much-needed upgrade: Skype 4.0. President Josh Silverman calls it the “biggest new release in Skype’s history.” The new software client, which which will be released here in beta tomorrow (for Windows only), takes up the whole screen. Video is front and center. Read more here. Skype is getting a major, much-needed upgrade: Skype 4.0. President Josh Silverman calls it the “biggest new release in Skype’s history.” The new software client, which which will be released here in beta tomorrow (for Windows only), takes up the whole screen. Video is front and center. Read more here. tag:odeo.com,2008-06-17,23002322 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:16:17 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22538002-Interview-With-Newt-Gingrich-About-Tech-Elections-And-American-Solutions I interviewed former Speaker of the House Newt Gringrich this morning about his goals with American Solutions, which now has a Silicon Valley office. We also spoke about a number of technology issues, and his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election. More on TechCrunch, along with the full transcript of the conversation. Total talk time is just over 30 minutes. I interviewed former Speaker of the House Newt Gringrich this morning about his goals with American Solutions, which now has a Silicon Valley office. We also spoke about a number of technology issues, and his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election. More on TechCrunch, along with the full transcript of the conversation. Total talk time is just over 30 minutes. I interviewed former Speaker of the House Newt Gringrich this morning about his goals with American Solutions, which now has a Silicon Valley office. We also spoke about a number of technology issues, and his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election. More on TechCrunch, along with the full transcript of the conversation. Total talk time is just over 30 minutes. tag:odeo.com,2008-05-23,22538002 Fri, 23 May 2008 11:29:05 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476109-Interview-With-Citi-Analyst-Mark-Mahaney-On-Yahoo-Microsoft-Google Citi’s Internet Analyst Mark Mahaney has been at the center of the Microsoft/Yahoo takeover battle since the beginning. On February 2, a day after the Microsoft bid, Mahaney gave his reasons why he believed the deal had just a 60% chance of happening. Mahaney also estimated (on February 2) that a search advertising outsourcing arrangement with Google could boost Yahoo cash flows by 25% and suggested that the financial markets were underestimating the probability of such a deal (he was right, as we learned two months later). Later Mahaney updated his estimate based on new data and said a Google deal could increase cash flows “more than $1 billion a year,” a 50% gain in cash flow from 2007. Last Friday, in anticipation of the expiration of the Microsoft deadline for Yahoo action on the bid, Mahaney made a new set of predictions: 45% chance of a merger at a price somewhat higher than the initial bid, a 40% chance that Microsoft will go hostile, a 10% chance that Microsoft walks a... Citi’s Internet Analyst Mark Mahaney has been at the center of the Microsoft/Yahoo takeover battle since the beginning. On February 2, a day after the Microsoft bid, Mahaney gave his reasons why he believed the deal had just a 60% chance of happening. Mahaney also estimated (on February 2) that a search advertising outsourcing arrangement with Google could boost Yahoo cash flows by 25% and suggested that the financial markets were underestimating the probability of such a deal (he was right, as we learned two months later). Later Mahaney updated his estimate based on new data and said a Google deal could increase cash flows “more than $1 billion a year,” a 50% gain in cash flow from 2007. Last Friday, in anticipation of the expiration of the Microsoft deadline for Yahoo action on the bid, Mahaney made a new set of predictions: 45% chance of a merger at a price somewhat higher than the initial bid, a 40% chance that Microsoft will go hostile, a 10% chance that Microsoft walks away, and a 5% chance for deal at the original bid to be accepted. That means he thinks a deal in some form is 90% likely, up from his 60% chance on February 2. Given how consistently right Mahaney has been in his analysis, Erick and I reached out to him today to pick his brain on the deal. The podcast is below, and a transcript has been posted on TechCrunch. Key takeaways: Mahaney clearly thinks a Yahoo/Microsoft deal is going to happen, either through a hostile move by Microsoft (40%) or via a negotiated deal (50%). He doesn’t count out the chance for a more permanent Yahoo/Google deal, though. We talk about the various ways Yahoo may be able to get a Google deal past the regulators, particularly via outsourcing only a portion of search ads on a non-exclusive basis. Mahaney maintains his current estimate that Yahoo can increase cash flow in the near term by $1 billion/year by outsourcing search to Google. The most interesting exchange came at the end, when I steered away from what Mahaney thought would happen, and asked him what he would do if he were Microsoft CEO SteveBallmer: walk from the deal, or go for it aggressively. Mahaney didn’t hesitate in his answer: Arrington: So if you’re Steve Ballmer, do you walk from this deal or go after it aggressively? Mahaney: You go after it aggressively. You know what it’s like to see businesses increasingly concentrate on one provider. The longer you wait to attack that provider, the worse your odds. You can’t walk away. There are very few people outside of Microsoft who know the company’s business as well as Mahaney. If he says Microsoft needs Yahoo, I’m not going to disagree. Citi’s Internet Analyst Mark Mahaney has been at the center of the Microsoft/Yahoo takeover battle since the beginning. On February 2, a day after the Microsoft bid, Mahaney gave his reasons why he believed the deal had just a 60% chance of happening. Mahaney also estimated (on February 2) that a search advertising outsourcing arrangement with Google could boost Yahoo cash flows by 25% and suggested that the financial markets were underestimating the probability of such a deal (he was right, as we learned two months later). Later Mahaney updated his estimate based on new data and said a Google deal could increase cash flows “more than $1 billion a year,” a 50% gain in cash flow from 2007. Last Friday, in anticipation of the expiration of the Microsoft deadline for Yahoo action on the bid, Mahaney made a new set of predictions: 45% chance of a merger at a price somewhat higher than the initial bid, a 40% chance that Microsoft will go hostile, a 10% chance that Microsoft walks away, and a 5% chance for deal at the original bid to be accepted. That means he thinks a deal in some form is 90% likely, up from his 60% chance on February 2. Given how consistently right Mahaney has been in his analysis, Erick and I reached out to him today to pick his brain on the deal. The podcast is below, and a transcript has been posted on TechCrunch. Key takeaways: Mahaney clearly thinks a Yahoo/Microsoft deal is going to happen, either through a hostile move by Microsoft (40%) or via a negotiated deal (50%). He doesn’t count out the chance for a more permanent Yahoo/Google deal, though. We talk about the various ways Yahoo may be able to get a Google deal past the regulators, particularly via outsourcing only a portion of search ads on a non-exclusive basis. Mahaney maintains his current estimate that Yahoo can increase cash flow in the near term by $1 billion/year by outsourcing search to Google. The most interesting exchange came at the end, when I steered away from what Mahaney thought would happen, and asked him what he would do if he were Microsoft CEO SteveBallmer: walk from the deal, or go for it aggressively. Mahaney didn’t hesitate in his answer: Arrington: So if you’re Steve Ballmer, do you walk from this deal or go after it aggressively? Mahaney: You go after it aggressively. You know what it’s like to see businesses increasingly concentrate on one provider. The longer you wait to attack that provider, the worse your odds. You can’t walk away. There are very few people outside of Microsoft who know the company’s business as well as Mahaney. If he says Microsoft needs Yahoo, I’m not going to disagree. tag:odeo.com,2008-04-28,22476109 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:49:24 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476110-Carly-Fiorina-On-TalkCrunch As part of our election series, I spoke to Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard and the newly announced Victory Chairman for the Republican National Committee. We’ve spoken with most of the top presidential candidates over the last few months to get their on record position on ten key technology issues (Ron Paul, Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich). On January 29, just prior to Super Tuesday, we made our presidential endorsements based on these interviews and reader voting. Senator McCain is now the definite Republican candidate, and he’s staffing up to try and win the election. Bringing on seasoned business leaders like Fiorina is a good move. The question is, will her technology experience help the campaign cut into the big lead that Barack Obama has both in leveraging technology to spread his message and get donations, as well as defining appropriate policies on tech issues. More at TechCrunch, including a... As part of our election series, I spoke to Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard and the newly announced Victory Chairman for the Republican National Committee. We’ve spoken with most of the top presidential candidates over the last few months to get their on record position on ten key technology issues (Ron Paul, Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich). On January 29, just prior to Super Tuesday, we made our presidential endorsements based on these interviews and reader voting. Senator McCain is now the definite Republican candidate, and he’s staffing up to try and win the election. Bringing on seasoned business leaders like Fiorina is a good move. The question is, will her technology experience help the campaign cut into the big lead that Barack Obama has both in leveraging technology to spread his message and get donations, as well as defining appropriate policies on tech issues. More at TechCrunch, including a transcript of the conversation. As part of our election series, I spoke to Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard and the newly announced Victory Chairman for the Republican National Committee. We’ve spoken with most of the top presidential candidates over the last few months to get their on record position on ten key technology issues (Ron Paul, Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich). On January 29, just prior to Super Tuesday, we made our presidential endorsements based on these interviews and reader voting. Senator McCain is now the definite Republican candidate, and he’s staffing up to try and win the election. Bringing on seasoned business leaders like Fiorina is a good move. The question is, will her technology experience help the campaign cut into the big lead that Barack Obama has both in leveraging technology to spread his message and get donations, as well as defining appropriate policies on tech issues. More at TechCrunch, including a transcript of the conversation. tag:odeo.com,2008-03-17,22476110 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:58:05 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476111-Talk-With-WCBS-Radio%E2%80%99s-Robert-Hawley-On-Our-Tech-President-Endorsements Last week we fit in a long interview with Rob Hawley at the nationally syndicated Dishin Digital about our Tech President endorsements. Other media coverage of the endorsements is here. Two things I like about radio - you have a lot more time to express your ideas v. a quick tv spot, and you don’t have a camera staring at you, making you nervous. More on TechCrunch. Last week we fit in a long interview with Rob Hawley at the nationally syndicated Dishin Digital about our Tech President endorsements. Other media coverage of the endorsements is here. Two things I like about radio - you have a lot more time to express your ideas v. a quick tv spot, and you don’t have a camera staring at you, making you nervous. More on TechCrunch. Last week we fit in a long interview with Rob Hawley at the nationally syndicated Dishin Digital about our Tech President endorsements. Other media coverage of the endorsements is here. Two things I like about radio - you have a lot more time to express your ideas v. a quick tv spot, and you don’t have a camera staring at you, making you nervous. More on TechCrunch. tag:odeo.com,2008-02-04,22476111 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:50:33 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476112-The-TechCrunch-Ron-Paul-Interview We were not able to schedule time with Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican candidate for president in 2008, until after we made our presidential endorsements this morning. No worries, though. Dr. Paul took the user voting portion of the endorsements in a landslide, although we endorsed rival John McCain over him in the editorial portion of the endorsements. We’ll have a transcript up shortly at TechCrunch. We were not able to schedule time with Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican candidate for president in 2008, until after we made our presidential endorsements this morning. No worries, though. Dr. Paul took the user voting portion of the endorsements in a landslide, although we endorsed rival John McCain over him in the editorial portion of the endorsements. We’ll have a transcript up shortly at TechCrunch. We were not able to schedule time with Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican candidate for president in 2008, until after we made our presidential endorsements this morning. No worries, though. Dr. Paul took the user voting portion of the endorsements in a landslide, although we endorsed rival John McCain over him in the editorial portion of the endorsements. We’ll have a transcript up shortly at TechCrunch. tag:odeo.com,2008-01-29,22476112 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:44:10 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476113-Crunchies-On-Alice-97-3-FM-San-Francisco The Crunchies are tonight. Alice 97.3 mentioned it on air today during their morning show, which is no. 1 rated in this market. The event is this evening, see you all there! The Crunchies are tonight. Alice 97.3 mentioned it on air today during their morning show, which is no. 1 rated in this market. The event is this evening, see you all there! The Crunchies are tonight. Alice 97.3 mentioned it on air today during their morning show, which is no. 1 rated in this market. The event is this evening, see you all there! tag:odeo.com,2008-01-18,22476113 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:21:55 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476114-Interview-almost-With-Congressman-Dennis-Kucinich Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was too far behind in the polls to get invited to today’s ABC/Facebook presidential debate - he was cut along with Duncan Hunter and Mike Gravel. Instead, we scheduled time to talk with him about his positions on technical policies, something we’ve already done with Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Mike Gravel. Unfortunately we didn’t get past the niceties before Kucinich abruptly pulled the plug on the interview, said goodbye and hung up. There’s not much content here, but he does briefly address his position on the atomic bomb, the internal combustion engine and NASA, and notes that he’s had a lot of support from the Internet. At the end of the interview he promises to reschedule. Something tells me he won’t be able to do that before he pulls out of the race. After coming in dead last in Iowa and polling “NA” in other states, I have a feeling he may not be arou... Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was too far behind in the polls to get invited to today’s ABC/Facebook presidential debate - he was cut along with Duncan Hunter and Mike Gravel. Instead, we scheduled time to talk with him about his positions on technical policies, something we’ve already done with Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Mike Gravel. Unfortunately we didn’t get past the niceties before Kucinich abruptly pulled the plug on the interview, said goodbye and hung up. There’s not much content here, but he does briefly address his position on the atomic bomb, the internal combustion engine and NASA, and notes that he’s had a lot of support from the Internet. At the end of the interview he promises to reschedule. Something tells me he won’t be able to do that before he pulls out of the race. After coming in dead last in Iowa and polling “NA” in other states, I have a feeling he may not be around for long. More at TechCrunch, including a transcript of the conversation. time: 11:03 size: 2.5 mb Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was too far behind in the polls to get invited to today’s ABC/Facebook presidential debate - he was cut along with Duncan Hunter and Mike Gravel. Instead, we scheduled time to talk with him about his positions on technical policies, something we’ve already done with Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Mike Gravel. Unfortunately we didn’t get past the niceties before Kucinich abruptly pulled the plug on the interview, said goodbye and hung up. There’s not much content here, but he does briefly address his position on the atomic bomb, the internal combustion engine and NASA, and notes that he’s had a lot of support from the Internet. At the end of the interview he promises to reschedule. Something tells me he won’t be able to do that before he pulls out of the race. After coming in dead last in Iowa and polling “NA” in other states, I have a feeling he may not be around for long. More at TechCrunch, including a transcript of the conversation. time: 11:03 size: 2.5 mb tag:odeo.com,2008-01-05,22476114 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:51:54 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476115-Q-A-With-2008-Presidential-Candidate-Mike-Gravel Next up in our series of talks with 2008 presidential candidates is Senator Mike Gravel, a Democrat. In addition to Senator Gravel, you can find podcasts and written Q&As that we have recorded with Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, Governor Romney and Senator McCain here and on TechCrunch. This discussion was much longer than previous talks. We recorded over 40 minutes of back and forth on issues ranging from net neutrality, spectrum issues and the digital divide to more light hearted stuff like the Senator’s preference of Macs over PCs (he’s the first candidate to say so). See TechCrunch for more detail and a full transcript of the podcast. Time: 43:30 Size: 9.95 MB Next up in our series of talks with 2008 presidential candidates is Senator Mike Gravel, a Democrat. In addition to Senator Gravel, you can find podcasts and written Q&As that we have recorded with Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, Governor Romney and Senator McCain here and on TechCrunch. This discussion was much longer than previous talks. We recorded over 40 minutes of back and forth on issues ranging from net neutrality, spectrum issues and the digital divide to more light hearted stuff like the Senator’s preference of Macs over PCs (he’s the first candidate to say so). See TechCrunch for more detail and a full transcript of the podcast. Time: 43:30 Size: 9.95 MB Next up in our series of talks with 2008 presidential candidates is Senator Mike Gravel, a Democrat. In addition to Senator Gravel, you can find podcasts and written Q&As that we have recorded with Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, Governor Romney and Senator McCain here and on TechCrunch. This discussion was much longer than previous talks. We recorded over 40 minutes of back and forth on issues ranging from net neutrality, spectrum issues and the digital divide to more light hearted stuff like the Senator’s preference of Macs over PCs (he’s the first candidate to say so). See TechCrunch for more detail and a full transcript of the podcast. Time: 43:30 Size: 9.95 MB tag:odeo.com,2007-12-08,22476115 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:58:33 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476116-Interview-With-Senator-John-McCain Next in our series of talks with 2008 presidential candidates on their positions on key technology issues is Senator John McCain. McCain made no stipulations on what we talked about before the podcast, and our conversation sort of roamed over a number of important current events and issues. We’ll have the full transcript up on TechCrunch later this morning. We made deep dives on the recent Yahoo/China issue and H-1B visas, in particular. Hear the Mitt Romney Podcast here. Next to be published is a written Q&A with John Edwards. Next in our series of talks with 2008 presidential candidates on their positions on key technology issues is Senator John McCain. McCain made no stipulations on what we talked about before the podcast, and our conversation sort of roamed over a number of important current events and issues. We’ll have the full transcript up on TechCrunch later this morning. We made deep dives on the recent Yahoo/China issue and H-1B visas, in particular. Hear the Mitt Romney Podcast here. Next to be published is a written Q&A with John Edwards. Next in our series of talks with 2008 presidential candidates on their positions on key technology issues is Senator John McCain. McCain made no stipulations on what we talked about before the podcast, and our conversation sort of roamed over a number of important current events and issues. We’ll have the full transcript up on TechCrunch later this morning. We made deep dives on the recent Yahoo/China issue and H-1B visas, in particular. Hear the Mitt Romney Podcast here. Next to be published is a written Q&A with John Edwards. tag:odeo.com,2007-11-12,22476116 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:30:04 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476117-Interview-With-2008-Presidential-Candidate-Mitt-Romney Last week I mentioned that we had scheduled a podcast interview with Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for President in 2008. In our original post we asked the readers to come up with questions that they would like us to ask Governor Romney. The feedback was great, and we put together a list of what people think are the most important technology related questions that they wanted to hear about. But there was no way we would get through all of those questions in the time we had with Governor Romney. So we divided the list up and asked about half of them. The campaign says the will try to make time to do a follow up podcast soon. Meanwhile, we are talking to other presidential candidates as well and we’ll use the same basic questions. When we’ve done a few of these, we’ll be able to compare the candidates on the issues. More details and a transcript are available at TechCrunch. I want to thank Governor Romney and his campaign for making time for this, and ... Last week I mentioned that we had scheduled a podcast interview with Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for President in 2008. In our original post we asked the readers to come up with questions that they would like us to ask Governor Romney. The feedback was great, and we put together a list of what people think are the most important technology related questions that they wanted to hear about. But there was no way we would get through all of those questions in the time we had with Governor Romney. So we divided the list up and asked about half of them. The campaign says the will try to make time to do a follow up podcast soon. Meanwhile, we are talking to other presidential candidates as well and we’ll use the same basic questions. When we’ve done a few of these, we’ll be able to compare the candidates on the issues. More details and a transcript are available at TechCrunch. I want to thank Governor Romney and his campaign for making time for this, and also for being the first candidate to step up and talk to us. Last week I mentioned that we had scheduled a podcast interview with Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for President in 2008. In our original post we asked the readers to come up with questions that they would like us to ask Governor Romney. The feedback was great, and we put together a list of what people think are the most important technology related questions that they wanted to hear about. But there was no way we would get through all of those questions in the time we had with Governor Romney. So we divided the list up and asked about half of them. The campaign says the will try to make time to do a follow up podcast soon. Meanwhile, we are talking to other presidential candidates as well and we’ll use the same basic questions. When we’ve done a few of these, we’ll be able to compare the candidates on the issues. More details and a transcript are available at TechCrunch. I want to thank Governor Romney and his campaign for making time for this, and also for being the first candidate to step up and talk to us. tag:odeo.com,2007-11-01,22476117 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:01:39 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/16601943-Interview-With-Joe-Hewitt-iPhone-God tag:odeo.com,2007-08-23,16601943 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:08:41 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476118-Interview-With-Joe-Hewitt-iPhone-God Nik Cubrilovic and I managed to get the very busy Joe Hewitt on the phone for an interview about the new Facebook iPhone application that he built. Hewitt joined Facebook when the company he co-founded with Blake Ross, Parakey, was acquired in July. Hewitt has become a major contributor to the iPhone development community. He participates regularly on the Google iPhone discussion group and released his own sample framework and code that is now being used in dozens of iPhone web applications. Hewitt talks about his fascination with the iPhone and the development process for the Facebook application. More at TechCrunch. Time: 26:32 min Size: 6.07 MB Nik Cubrilovic and I managed to get the very busy Joe Hewitt on the phone for an interview about the new Facebook iPhone application that he built. Hewitt joined Facebook when the company he co-founded with Blake Ross, Parakey, was acquired in July. Hewitt has become a major contributor to the iPhone development community. He participates regularly on the Google iPhone discussion group and released his own sample framework and code that is now being used in dozens of iPhone web applications. Hewitt talks about his fascination with the iPhone and the development process for the Facebook application. More at TechCrunch. Time: 26:32 min Size: 6.07 MB Nik Cubrilovic and I managed to get the very busy Joe Hewitt on the phone for an interview about the new Facebook iPhone application that he built. Hewitt joined Facebook when the company he co-founded with Blake Ross, Parakey, was acquired in July. Hewitt has become a major contributor to the iPhone development community. He participates regularly on the Google iPhone discussion group and released his own sample framework and code that is now being used in dozens of iPhone web applications. Hewitt talks about his fascination with the iPhone and the development process for the Facebook application. More at TechCrunch. Time: 26:32 min Size: 6.07 MB tag:odeo.com,2007-08-23,22476118 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:08:41 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/14943773-Interview-With-Ooma-Execs-Andrew-Frame-and-Ashton-Kutcher tag:odeo.com,2007-07-19,14943773 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:28:02 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476119-Interview-With-Ooma-Execs-Andrew-Frame-and-Ashton-Kutcher The long awaited “Vonage Killer” Ooma has launched into private beta. The product allows consumers to get “free phone service for life” after purchasing special hardware that you plug normal phones into. We have a much longer article up on TechCrunch describing the service in detail. The Ooma management team, which is very deep, includes actor Ashton Kutcher as the Creative Director. I interviewed Ashton and CEO Andrew Frame yesterday to hear more about the service. Hear the twenty minute podcast below. Update: we’re having some technical issues with the podcast..will be fixed shortly. Use this link until then. The long awaited “Vonage Killer” Ooma has launched into private beta. The product allows consumers to get “free phone service for life” after purchasing special hardware that you plug normal phones into. We have a much longer article up on TechCrunch describing the service in detail. The Ooma management team, which is very deep, includes actor Ashton Kutcher as the Creative Director. I interviewed Ashton and CEO Andrew Frame yesterday to hear more about the service. Hear the twenty minute podcast below. Update: we’re having some technical issues with the podcast..will be fixed shortly. Use this link until then. The long awaited “Vonage Killer” Ooma has launched into private beta. The product allows consumers to get “free phone service for life” after purchasing special hardware that you plug normal phones into. We have a much longer article up on TechCrunch describing the service in detail. The Ooma management team, which is very deep, includes actor Ashton Kutcher as the Creative Director. I interviewed Ashton and CEO Andrew Frame yesterday to hear more about the service. Hear the twenty minute podcast below. Update: we’re having some technical issues with the podcast..will be fixed shortly. Use this link until then. tag:odeo.com,2007-07-18,22476119 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:28:02 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/14942923-A-Talk-With-James-Hong-Co-Founder-of-HotOrNot tag:odeo.com,2007-07-09,14942923 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:00:36 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476120-A-Talk-With-James-Hong-Co-Founder-of-HotOrNot I finally had a chance to record a call with James Hong, the co-founder of HotOrNot, to discuss their new Hotlist product (see TechCrunch coverage on this today for a full overview). In the first part of the interview, Hong talks about the history of the six year old company, which has never taken venture capital and has been profitable from its first months of operation. See our post on TechCrunch from earlier this year where we also cover some of the history of the company. The new Hotlist product allows HotOrNot users to add brands, bands, people, or anything else to their profile to help others quickly figure out what kinds of things they like to spend their money and time on. It not only helps HotOrNot users quickly find other people with similar interests, but it also gives the company an unprecedented amount of information about their user base. That information can be used for super targeted advertising, and spotting of up and coming trends. Time: 39:35 Minutes Size: 9.06 MB I finally had a chance to record a call with James Hong, the co-founder of HotOrNot, to discuss their new Hotlist product (see TechCrunch coverage on this today for a full overview). In the first part of the interview, Hong talks about the history of the six year old company, which has never taken venture capital and has been profitable from its first months of operation. See our post on TechCrunch from earlier this year where we also cover some of the history of the company. The new Hotlist product allows HotOrNot users to add brands, bands, people, or anything else to their profile to help others quickly figure out what kinds of things they like to spend their money and time on. It not only helps HotOrNot users quickly find other people with similar interests, but it also gives the company an unprecedented amount of information about their user base. That information can be used for super targeted advertising, and spotting of up and coming trends. Time: 39:35 Minutes Size: 9.06 MB I finally had a chance to record a call with James Hong, the co-founder of HotOrNot, to discuss their new Hotlist product (see TechCrunch coverage on this today for a full overview). In the first part of the interview, Hong talks about the history of the six year old company, which has never taken venture capital and has been profitable from its first months of operation. See our post on TechCrunch from earlier this year where we also cover some of the history of the company. The new Hotlist product allows HotOrNot users to add brands, bands, people, or anything else to their profile to help others quickly figure out what kinds of things they like to spend their money and time on. It not only helps HotOrNot users quickly find other people with similar interests, but it also gives the company an unprecedented amount of information about their user base. That information can be used for super targeted advertising, and spotting of up and coming trends. Time: 39:35 Minutes Size: 9.06 MB tag:odeo.com,2007-07-09,22476120 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:00:36 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/11360043-Interview-With-Product-Manager-For-Microsoft-Silverlight tag:odeo.com,2007-05-01,11360043 Tue, 01 May 2007 11:07:10 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476121-Interview-With-Product-Manager-For-Microsoft-Silverlight Microsoft made a number of major announcements today around their new Silverlight platform at their annual Mix conference in Las Vegas. Silverlight is a new cross-platform, cross-browser platform for creating rich Internet applications, and competes directly with Adobe Flash (and their related Flex and Apollo platforms). Nik Cubrilovic and I had the opportunity to interview Brian Goldfarb, the product manager for Silverlight this afternoon. Please see our comprehensive overview of Silverlight at TechCrunch. There are more details of the product there. Time: 22:33 Minutes Size: 5.16 MB Microsoft made a number of major announcements today around their new Silverlight platform at their annual Mix conference in Las Vegas. Silverlight is a new cross-platform, cross-browser platform for creating rich Internet applications, and competes directly with Adobe Flash (and their related Flex and Apollo platforms). Nik Cubrilovic and I had the opportunity to interview Brian Goldfarb, the product manager for Silverlight this afternoon. Please see our comprehensive overview of Silverlight at TechCrunch. There are more details of the product there. Time: 22:33 Minutes Size: 5.16 MB Microsoft made a number of major announcements today around their new Silverlight platform at their annual Mix conference in Las Vegas. Silverlight is a new cross-platform, cross-browser platform for creating rich Internet applications, and competes directly with Adobe Flash (and their related Flex and Apollo platforms). Nik Cubrilovic and I had the opportunity to interview Brian Goldfarb, the product manager for Silverlight this afternoon. Please see our comprehensive overview of Silverlight at TechCrunch. There are more details of the product there. Time: 22:33 Minutes Size: 5.16 MB tag:odeo.com,2007-05-01,22476121 Tue, 01 May 2007 04:07:10 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/10524723-Zimbra-Goes-%E2%80%9COffline%E2%80%9D tag:odeo.com,2007-03-26,10524723 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:59:44 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476122-Zimbra-Goes-%E2%80%9COffline%E2%80%9D Zimbra announces Zimbra Desktop, a way to access the Zimbra website and all of your user data when offline. I spoke to Zimbra CEO and Co-founder Satish Dharmaraj this morning about the product, and we also talk extensively about the background of Zimbra in general. The company has 6 million paid users, and is moving towards profitability. We also discuss GrandCentral and Spinvox near the end. Zimbra website Time: 33:51Minutes Size: 7.75 MB Zimbra announces Zimbra Desktop, a way to access the Zimbra website and all of your user data when offline. I spoke to Zimbra CEO and Co-founder Satish Dharmaraj this morning about the product, and we also talk extensively about the background of Zimbra in general. The company has 6 million paid users, and is moving towards profitability. We also discuss GrandCentral and Spinvox near the end. Zimbra website Time: 33:51Minutes Size: 7.75 MB Zimbra announces Zimbra Desktop, a way to access the Zimbra website and all of your user data when offline. I spoke to Zimbra CEO and Co-founder Satish Dharmaraj this morning about the product, and we also talk extensively about the background of Zimbra in general. The company has 6 million paid users, and is moving towards profitability. We also discuss GrandCentral and Spinvox near the end. Zimbra website Time: 33:51Minutes Size: 7.75 MB tag:odeo.com,2007-03-25,22476122 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:59:44 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/5545783-Talk-With-Yahoo-Music-Execs-on-the-Fate-of-DRM tag:odeo.com,2007-01-10,5545783 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:54:09 -0800 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476123-Talk-With-Yahoo-Music-Execs-on-the-Fate-of-DRM About a year ago, Yahoo Music GM David Goldberg stunned attendees of the Music 2.0 conference by urging major labels to abandon DRM and give unrestricted MP3 sales a try. The biggest side effect of DRM, he said, was that it tended to lock users into a single service and a single device - not something that made them happy. A lot has changed in the last year. Physical CD sales continue to drop, and labels seem to be more willing than ever to try anything that might help increase digital music sales and make up at least some of the difference. Suddenly eMusic’s model of selling non-DRM’d music seems to make a lot of sense, and others are experimenting as well. Amazon is rumored to be considering a MP3-only music download store. MySpace sells no-DRM music. Yahoo has experimented with no-DRM downloads. And so on. Even Bill Gates admits DRM is a deeply flawed solution. I spoke to Goldberg and Yahoo Music VP of Product Development Ian Rogers last week about their views on DRM ... About a year ago, Yahoo Music GM David Goldberg stunned attendees of the Music 2.0 conference by urging major labels to abandon DRM and give unrestricted MP3 sales a try. The biggest side effect of DRM, he said, was that it tended to lock users into a single service and a single device - not something that made them happy. A lot has changed in the last year. Physical CD sales continue to drop, and labels seem to be more willing than ever to try anything that might help increase digital music sales and make up at least some of the difference. Suddenly eMusic’s model of selling non-DRM’d music seems to make a lot of sense, and others are experimenting as well. Amazon is rumored to be considering a MP3-only music download store. MySpace sells no-DRM music. Yahoo has experimented with no-DRM downloads. And so on. Even Bill Gates admits DRM is a deeply flawed solution. I spoke to Goldberg and Yahoo Music VP of Product Development Ian Rogers last week about their views on DRM today and going forward. While they won’t say DRM is dead, they do provide valuable insights as music industry insiders on what we can expect in the future. Including, possibly, side by side sales of DRM and non-DRM music, with a discount for customers who can stomach the DRM. We also talk briefly about the proposed music tax in Europe to replace DRM entirely. I’ll be writing more at TechCrunch about my own views on DRM as well. Time: 40:07 Minutes Size: 9.18 MB About a year ago, Yahoo Music GM David Goldberg stunned attendees of the Music 2.0 conference by urging major labels to abandon DRM and give unrestricted MP3 sales a try. The biggest side effect of DRM, he said, was that it tended to lock users into a single service and a single device - not something that made them happy. A lot has changed in the last year. Physical CD sales continue to drop, and labels seem to be more willing than ever to try anything that might help increase digital music sales and make up at least some of the difference. Suddenly eMusic’s model of selling non-DRM’d music seems to make a lot of sense, and others are experimenting as well. Amazon is rumored to be considering a MP3-only music download store. MySpace sells no-DRM music. Yahoo has experimented with no-DRM downloads. And so on. Even Bill Gates admits DRM is a deeply flawed solution. I spoke to Goldberg and Yahoo Music VP of Product Development Ian Rogers last week about their views on DRM today and going forward. While they won’t say DRM is dead, they do provide valuable insights as music industry insiders on what we can expect in the future. Including, possibly, side by side sales of DRM and non-DRM music, with a discount for customers who can stomach the DRM. We also talk briefly about the proposed music tax in Europe to replace DRM entirely. I’ll be writing more at TechCrunch about my own views on DRM as well. Time: 40:07 Minutes Size: 9.18 MB tag:odeo.com,2007-01-10,22476123 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:54:09 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/4075633-Interview-With-Digg-Team-New-Stats-New-Features tag:odeo.com,2006-12-18,4075633 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:50:20 -0800 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476124-Interview-With-Digg-Team-New-Stats-New-Features Digg is launching several new features this morning that signal a strategic shift in the company’s all news focus to date. They’ve added a podcasting content area, enhanced the video area and are signalling that new content areas are coming as well. Among the changes, users will now be able to consume audio and video content directly on Digg. Another key feature addition is the launch of “Top 10 Stories,” which is a quick view of the ten hottest stories on Digg at any given time. See TechCrunch for the full story and screenshots. I spoke to Digg founder Kevin Rose, CEO Jay Adelson and VP Marketing Mike Maser for a few minutes to talk about the changes. We also discussed how Digg acquired the SpikeTheVote domain name, Digg’s current user stats, their upcoming financing and other issues. Time: 38:59 Minutes Size: 8.9 MB Digg is launching several new features this morning that signal a strategic shift in the company’s all news focus to date. They’ve added a podcasting content area, enhanced the video area and are signalling that new content areas are coming as well. Among the changes, users will now be able to consume audio and video content directly on Digg. Another key feature addition is the launch of “Top 10 Stories,” which is a quick view of the ten hottest stories on Digg at any given time. See TechCrunch for the full story and screenshots. I spoke to Digg founder Kevin Rose, CEO Jay Adelson and VP Marketing Mike Maser for a few minutes to talk about the changes. We also discussed how Digg acquired the SpikeTheVote domain name, Digg’s current user stats, their upcoming financing and other issues. Time: 38:59 Minutes Size: 8.9 MB Digg is launching several new features this morning that signal a strategic shift in the company’s all news focus to date. They’ve added a podcasting content area, enhanced the video area and are signalling that new content areas are coming as well. Among the changes, users will now be able to consume audio and video content directly on Digg. Another key feature addition is the launch of “Top 10 Stories,” which is a quick view of the ten hottest stories on Digg at any given time. See TechCrunch for the full story and screenshots. I spoke to Digg founder Kevin Rose, CEO Jay Adelson and VP Marketing Mike Maser for a few minutes to talk about the changes. We also discussed how Digg acquired the SpikeTheVote domain name, Digg’s current user stats, their upcoming financing and other issues. Time: 38:59 Minutes Size: 8.9 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-12-18,22476124 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:50:20 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/4075623-Here-Comes-Adobe-Apollo tag:odeo.com,2006-12-16,4075623 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:20:17 -0800 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476125-Here-Comes-Adobe-Apollo Steve Gillmor and I recently spoke with Adobe senior vice president and chief software architect Kevin Lynch about the upcoming release of the Apollo platform. Apollo, the code name for “a cross-operating system runtime” is a platform that will allow developers to create to desktop applications using existing web development skills such as Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript and Ajax. Web applications can be run online or offline through Apollo, which will also have the traditional benefits of desktop applications - speed, drag and drop functionality from the desktop to the application, and accessing the file system. Apollo is cross-platform, meaning any application developed for it will run on Windows, Mac and Linux machines. And they are promising easy porting of existing web applications to the Apollo platform. Adobe is counting on platforms like Apollo to drive future revenue growth. Look for a developer release in the near future and a full release in 2007. More on TechCr... Steve Gillmor and I recently spoke with Adobe senior vice president and chief software architect Kevin Lynch about the upcoming release of the Apollo platform. Apollo, the code name for “a cross-operating system runtime” is a platform that will allow developers to create to desktop applications using existing web development skills such as Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript and Ajax. Web applications can be run online or offline through Apollo, which will also have the traditional benefits of desktop applications - speed, drag and drop functionality from the desktop to the application, and accessing the file system. Apollo is cross-platform, meaning any application developed for it will run on Windows, Mac and Linux machines. And they are promising easy porting of existing web applications to the Apollo platform. Adobe is counting on platforms like Apollo to drive future revenue growth. Look for a developer release in the near future and a full release in 2007. More on TechCrunch, including screenshots. Time: 37:32 Minutes Size: 8.6 MB Steve Gillmor and I recently spoke with Adobe senior vice president and chief software architect Kevin Lynch about the upcoming release of the Apollo platform. Apollo, the code name for “a cross-operating system runtime” is a platform that will allow developers to create to desktop applications using existing web development skills such as Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript and Ajax. Web applications can be run online or offline through Apollo, which will also have the traditional benefits of desktop applications - speed, drag and drop functionality from the desktop to the application, and accessing the file system. Apollo is cross-platform, meaning any application developed for it will run on Windows, Mac and Linux machines. And they are promising easy porting of existing web applications to the Apollo platform. Adobe is counting on platforms like Apollo to drive future revenue growth. Look for a developer release in the near future and a full release in 2007. More on TechCrunch, including screenshots. Time: 37:32 Minutes Size: 8.6 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-12-16,22476125 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:20:17 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/2693433-Interview-With-Jeff-Bezos tag:odeo.com,2006-11-14,2693433 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:41:41 -0800 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476126-Interview-With-Jeff-Bezos Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been talking about their web services business unit a lot lately. Moments after he left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to speak to him about three of their most recent web service offerings: Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This is a short podcast but you get a glimpse of how important this new business line is to Amazon’s future. The full post is on TechCrunch. Time: 16:57 Minutes Size: 7.8 MB Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been talking about their web services business unit a lot lately. Moments after he left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to speak to him about three of their most recent web service offerings: Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This is a short podcast but you get a glimpse of how important this new business line is to Amazon’s future. The full post is on TechCrunch. Time: 16:57 Minutes Size: 7.8 MB Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been talking about their web services business unit a lot lately. Moments after he left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to speak to him about three of their most recent web service offerings: Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This is a short podcast but you get a glimpse of how important this new business line is to Amazon’s future. The full post is on TechCrunch. Time: 16:57 Minutes Size: 7.8 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-11-14,22476126 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:41:41 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/2285192-Reddit-Acquired-Interview-With-Founders tag:odeo.com,2006-11-01,2285192 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:10:46 -0800 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476127-Reddit-Acquired-Interview-With-Founders Condé Nast announced the acquisition of Reddit, a social news site, this morning for an undisclosed price. Reddit was founded in 2005 and has just four employees. This is a model company for young entrepreneurs looking to create a new startup with limited resources. Marshall Kirkpatrick and I interviewed founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian today just hours after the acquisition was announced. While we couldn’t get them to disclose the acquisition price, they did talk about traffic and fundraising - Reddit is currently attracting around 70,000 unique visitors per day and 700,000 page views, and the company has raised just $100,000 in seed funding, all in the summer of 2005. Time: 24:36 Minutes Size: 5.63MB Condé Nast announced the acquisition of Reddit, a social news site, this morning for an undisclosed price. Reddit was founded in 2005 and has just four employees. This is a model company for young entrepreneurs looking to create a new startup with limited resources. Marshall Kirkpatrick and I interviewed founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian today just hours after the acquisition was announced. While we couldn’t get them to disclose the acquisition price, they did talk about traffic and fundraising - Reddit is currently attracting around 70,000 unique visitors per day and 700,000 page views, and the company has raised just $100,000 in seed funding, all in the summer of 2005. Time: 24:36 Minutes Size: 5.63MB Condé Nast announced the acquisition of Reddit, a social news site, this morning for an undisclosed price. Reddit was founded in 2005 and has just four employees. This is a model company for young entrepreneurs looking to create a new startup with limited resources. Marshall Kirkpatrick and I interviewed founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian today just hours after the acquisition was announced. While we couldn’t get them to disclose the acquisition price, they did talk about traffic and fundraising - Reddit is currently attracting around 70,000 unique visitors per day and 700,000 page views, and the company has raised just $100,000 in seed funding, all in the summer of 2005. Time: 24:36 Minutes Size: 5.63MB tag:odeo.com,2006-10-31,22476127 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:10:46 -0800 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/2222150-Interview-With-Jingle-CEO-and-Venture-Capitalist tag:odeo.com,2006-10-24,2222150 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:16:36 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476128-Interview-With-Jingle-CEO-and-Venture-Capitalist Michael Arrington interviews Jingle Networks CEO George Garrick and investor Josh Kopelman about today’s big financing news as well as the history and future of their free, ad supported 411 service called 1-800-Free-411. Key facts from the discussion: Jingle currently has costs of around $0.25 per call, and revenue of $0.20, although Garrick feels that potential revenue per call will approach $0.50 as the market matures. Garrick and Kopelman also discuss upcoming potential competition from Google and other search players, and how Jingle will compete in that market. The service, which is growing rapidly, now claims 3% of the total U.S. 411 calls, a roughly $8 billion market. Time: 31:39 Minutes Size: 7.24 MB Michael Arrington interviews Jingle Networks CEO George Garrick and investor Josh Kopelman about today’s big financing news as well as the history and future of their free, ad supported 411 service called 1-800-Free-411. Key facts from the discussion: Jingle currently has costs of around $0.25 per call, and revenue of $0.20, although Garrick feels that potential revenue per call will approach $0.50 as the market matures. Garrick and Kopelman also discuss upcoming potential competition from Google and other search players, and how Jingle will compete in that market. The service, which is growing rapidly, now claims 3% of the total U.S. 411 calls, a roughly $8 billion market. Time: 31:39 Minutes Size: 7.24 MB Michael Arrington interviews Jingle Networks CEO George Garrick and investor Josh Kopelman about today’s big financing news as well as the history and future of their free, ad supported 411 service called 1-800-Free-411. Key facts from the discussion: Jingle currently has costs of around $0.25 per call, and revenue of $0.20, although Garrick feels that potential revenue per call will approach $0.50 as the market matures. Garrick and Kopelman also discuss upcoming potential competition from Google and other search players, and how Jingle will compete in that market. The service, which is growing rapidly, now claims 3% of the total U.S. 411 calls, a roughly $8 billion market. Time: 31:39 Minutes Size: 7.24 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-10-23,22476128 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:16:36 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/2180065-MediaTemple-Launches-Grid-Server tag:odeo.com,2006-10-17,2180065 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:00:22 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476129-MediaTemple-Launches-Grid-Server If you are looking for a hosting provider, you need to check out Media Temple’s new Grid Server product that launched this morning. For $20 per month (the same price as most low end shared hosting providers), they are offering a fully scalable hosting product that will grow (or spike) along with your site. See TechCrunch for more details, but there are aspects to this that are superior to shared, virtual dedicated, and even dedicated server hosting. Michael Arrington spoke with Demian Sellfors (CEO), Chris Leah (Director of Technology), Alex Capehart (Director Marketing) and David Feinberg (Product Manager) for 30 minutes yesterday about the new product. The podcast is enclosed. Time: 34:48 Minutes Size: 7.96 MB If you are looking for a hosting provider, you need to check out Media Temple’s new Grid Server product that launched this morning. For $20 per month (the same price as most low end shared hosting providers), they are offering a fully scalable hosting product that will grow (or spike) along with your site. See TechCrunch for more details, but there are aspects to this that are superior to shared, virtual dedicated, and even dedicated server hosting. Michael Arrington spoke with Demian Sellfors (CEO), Chris Leah (Director of Technology), Alex Capehart (Director Marketing) and David Feinberg (Product Manager) for 30 minutes yesterday about the new product. The podcast is enclosed. Time: 34:48 Minutes Size: 7.96 MB If you are looking for a hosting provider, you need to check out Media Temple’s new Grid Server product that launched this morning. For $20 per month (the same price as most low end shared hosting providers), they are offering a fully scalable hosting product that will grow (or spike) along with your site. See TechCrunch for more details, but there are aspects to this that are superior to shared, virtual dedicated, and even dedicated server hosting. Michael Arrington spoke with Demian Sellfors (CEO), Chris Leah (Director of Technology), Alex Capehart (Director Marketing) and David Feinberg (Product Manager) for 30 minutes yesterday about the new product. The podcast is enclosed. Time: 34:48 Minutes Size: 7.96 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-10-17,22476129 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:00:22 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/2120476-Google-YouTube-Acquisition-Media-Conference-Call tag:odeo.com,2006-10-09,2120476 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:23:50 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/2072859-Episode-14-Interview-With-Pageflakes-Founder tag:odeo.com,2006-10-04,2072859 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:47:49 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476130-Episode-14-Interview-With-Pageflakes-Founder Ajax home page Pageflakes, headquartered in Germany, is just settling down after its recently announced venture financing from BenchMark Capital. In the next few days they’ll be launching Pageflakes 2.0, a “significant upgrade to the current offering” CEO and co-founder Christoph Janz tells Michael Arrington. Get the details at TechCrunch, and listen to Michael Arrington’s conversation with Christoph and Pageflakes designer Jeremy Baines here. Topics covered include the state of Pageflakes as well as some hints at the new product. TechCrunch coverage of Pageflakes is here. Time: 33 Minutes Size: 7.5 MB Ajax home page Pageflakes, headquartered in Germany, is just settling down after its recently announced venture financing from BenchMark Capital. In the next few days they’ll be launching Pageflakes 2.0, a “significant upgrade to the current offering” CEO and co-founder Christoph Janz tells Michael Arrington. Get the details at TechCrunch, and listen to Michael Arrington’s conversation with Christoph and Pageflakes designer Jeremy Baines here. Topics covered include the state of Pageflakes as well as some hints at the new product. TechCrunch coverage of Pageflakes is here. Time: 33 Minutes Size: 7.5 MB Ajax home page Pageflakes, headquartered in Germany, is just settling down after its recently announced venture financing from BenchMark Capital. In the next few days they’ll be launching Pageflakes 2.0, a “significant upgrade to the current offering” CEO and co-founder Christoph Janz tells Michael Arrington. Get the details at TechCrunch, and listen to Michael Arrington’s conversation with Christoph and Pageflakes designer Jeremy Baines here. Topics covered include the state of Pageflakes as well as some hints at the new product. TechCrunch coverage of Pageflakes is here. Time: 33 Minutes Size: 7.5 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-10-03,22476130 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:47:49 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/2048356-Episode-13-PayPerPost-Raises-3-million tag:odeo.com,2006-10-02,2048356 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:34:19 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476131-Episode-13-PayPerPost-Raises-3-million See TechCrunch for the details on PayPerPost’s announcement of its $3 million Series A round of financing by Inflexion Partners, Villiage Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Michael Arrington and Rob Hof (Silicon Valley Bureau Chief at Business Week) took a few minutes today to talk to Ted Murphy (founder and CEO of PayPerPost) and Josh Stein (a Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson) about the funding and the controversial nature of PayPerPost’s business. It’s a somewhat heated discussion, but we managed to keep things fairly civilized. See our previous coverage of the company in our post “PayPerPost.com offers to sell your soul.” The company facilitates a marketplace where advertisers can pay bloggers to write about the company’s product. Disclosure of payment is optional. Time: 53 Minutes Size: 24.2 MB See TechCrunch for the details on PayPerPost’s announcement of its $3 million Series A round of financing by Inflexion Partners, Villiage Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Michael Arrington and Rob Hof (Silicon Valley Bureau Chief at Business Week) took a few minutes today to talk to Ted Murphy (founder and CEO of PayPerPost) and Josh Stein (a Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson) about the funding and the controversial nature of PayPerPost’s business. It’s a somewhat heated discussion, but we managed to keep things fairly civilized. See our previous coverage of the company in our post “PayPerPost.com offers to sell your soul.” The company facilitates a marketplace where advertisers can pay bloggers to write about the company’s product. Disclosure of payment is optional. Time: 53 Minutes Size: 24.2 MB See TechCrunch for the details on PayPerPost’s announcement of its $3 million Series A round of financing by Inflexion Partners, Villiage Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Michael Arrington and Rob Hof (Silicon Valley Bureau Chief at Business Week) took a few minutes today to talk to Ted Murphy (founder and CEO of PayPerPost) and Josh Stein (a Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson) about the funding and the controversial nature of PayPerPost’s business. It’s a somewhat heated discussion, but we managed to keep things fairly civilized. See our previous coverage of the company in our post “PayPerPost.com offers to sell your soul.” The company facilitates a marketplace where advertisers can pay bloggers to write about the company’s product. Disclosure of payment is optional. Time: 53 Minutes Size: 24.2 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-10-01,22476131 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:34:19 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1969889-Episode-12-Featuring-Om-Malik-Robert-Scoble-and-Michael-Arrington tag:odeo.com,2006-09-24,1969889 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:40:56 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476132-Episode-12-Featuring-Om-Malik-Robert-Scoble-and-Michael-Arrington Episode 12 of TalkCrunch features Robert Scoble at Scobleizer, Om Malik at Gigaom and Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. They speak for just over an hour about their favorite startups and the hot news this week in tech. Topics covered include the state of VOIP, next week’s Yahoo Hack Day and Robert Scoble’s hot new tv show that’s launching Monday, ScobleShow. Companies mentioned include Digg, Facebook, Myspace, Skype, PicksPal, TechMeme, Jajah, PersonalBee, Scrapblog, Rebtel, Hullo and GrandCentral. Time: 60 minutes Size: 27.7 MB Episode 12 of TalkCrunch features Robert Scoble at Scobleizer, Om Malik at Gigaom and Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. They speak for just over an hour about their favorite startups and the hot news this week in tech. Topics covered include the state of VOIP, next week’s Yahoo Hack Day and Robert Scoble’s hot new tv show that’s launching Monday, ScobleShow. Companies mentioned include Digg, Facebook, Myspace, Skype, PicksPal, TechMeme, Jajah, PersonalBee, Scrapblog, Rebtel, Hullo and GrandCentral. Time: 60 minutes Size: 27.7 MB Episode 12 of TalkCrunch features Robert Scoble at Scobleizer, Om Malik at Gigaom and Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. They speak for just over an hour about their favorite startups and the hot news this week in tech. Topics covered include the state of VOIP, next week’s Yahoo Hack Day and Robert Scoble’s hot new tv show that’s launching Monday, ScobleShow. Companies mentioned include Digg, Facebook, Myspace, Skype, PicksPal, TechMeme, Jajah, PersonalBee, Scrapblog, Rebtel, Hullo and GrandCentral. Time: 60 minutes Size: 27.7 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-09-24,22476132 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:40:56 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1855512-Episode-11-Elliot-Noss-Talks-About-Kiko-Acquisition tag:odeo.com,2006-09-07,1855512 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:34:15 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476133-Episode-11-Elliot-Noss-Talks-About-Kiko-Acquisition Kiko, one of the first online Ajax calendars, gave up in the face of intense competition just a year after funding (by Ycombinator) and launch. The founders put the site up for sale on ebay…and it sold for $258,100. The buyer was a twelve year old Toronto-based Internet company called Tucows. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss wrote about why he purchased Kiko on his blog here. Earlier this evening Michael Arrington got Elliot to speak with him about the transaction, which is attached here. Interesting facts: Tucows isn’t interested in the domain name and may sell it later, and the final price jumped over $100,000 in the final two minutes of bidding. TechCrunch posts on Kiko are here. Time: 19:35 Size: 4.5 MB Kiko, one of the first online Ajax calendars, gave up in the face of intense competition just a year after funding (by Ycombinator) and launch. The founders put the site up for sale on ebay…and it sold for $258,100. The buyer was a twelve year old Toronto-based Internet company called Tucows. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss wrote about why he purchased Kiko on his blog here. Earlier this evening Michael Arrington got Elliot to speak with him about the transaction, which is attached here. Interesting facts: Tucows isn’t interested in the domain name and may sell it later, and the final price jumped over $100,000 in the final two minutes of bidding. TechCrunch posts on Kiko are here. Time: 19:35 Size: 4.5 MB Kiko, one of the first online Ajax calendars, gave up in the face of intense competition just a year after funding (by Ycombinator) and launch. The founders put the site up for sale on ebay…and it sold for $258,100. The buyer was a twelve year old Toronto-based Internet company called Tucows. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss wrote about why he purchased Kiko on his blog here. Earlier this evening Michael Arrington got Elliot to speak with him about the transaction, which is attached here. Interesting facts: Tucows isn’t interested in the domain name and may sell it later, and the final price jumped over $100,000 in the final two minutes of bidding. TechCrunch posts on Kiko are here. Time: 19:35 Size: 4.5 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-09-06,22476133 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:34:15 -0700 no TalkCrunch Uncategorized http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1384000-Episode-10-Digg-3-0-Launches-Interview-With-Founders-Kevin-Rose-Jay-Adelson tag:odeo.com,2006-06-23,1384000 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:00:51 -0700 no TalkCrunch http://www.odeo.com/episodes/22476134-Episode-10-Digg-3-0-Launches-Interview-With-Founders-Kevin-Rose-Jay-Adelson Digg 3.0 is set to launch on Monday, June 26, 2006. Screen shots and a feature overview are available on TechCrunch and Read/Write Web. Here on TalkCrunch, Richard MacManus and Michael Arrington interview Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson on a wide range of topics, including the history of Digg, features included in Digg 3.0, and their thoughts on the new Digg-clone that AOL launched at netscape.com. We also review current Digg stats (now bigger than the New York Times) and growth rates (site traffic is doubling every two months). This is a long podcast, but worth it. Time: 55:20 Size: 25.3 MB Digg 3.0 is set to launch on Monday, June 26, 2006. Screen shots and a feature overview are available on TechCrunch and Read/Write Web. Here on TalkCrunch, Richard MacManus and Michael Arrington interview Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson on a wide range of topics, including the history of Digg, features included in Digg 3.0, and their thoughts on the new Digg-clone that AOL launched at netscape.com. We also review current Digg stats (now bigger than the New York Times) and growth rates (site traffic is doubling every two months). This is a long podcast, but worth it. Time: 55:20 Size: 25.3 MB Digg 3.0 is set to launch on Monday, June 26, 2006. Screen shots and a feature overview are available on TechCrunch and Read/Write Web. Here on TalkCrunch, Richard MacManus and Michael Arrington interview Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson on a wide range of topics, including the history of Digg, features included in Digg 3.0, and their thoughts on the new Digg-clone that AOL launched at netscape.com. We also review current Digg stats (now bigger than the New York Times) and growth rates (site traffic is doubling every two months). This is a long podcast, but worth it. Time: 55:20 Size: 25.3 MB tag:odeo.com,2006-06-22,22476134 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:00:51 -0700 no TalkCrunch Episodes http://www.odeo.com/episodes/1339006-Episode-9-Flock-Launches-An-Interview-with-the-founders tag:odeo.com,2006-06-13,1339006 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:30:25 -0700 no TalkCrunch