On the Pod with Hobart Swan

In our 23rd interview for “On the Pod” we talk to Hobart Swan, Manger of External Affairs at Mindjet who are the publishers of the best mind mapping software available (well..according to Cam and I it is)…MindManager.

We talk with him about the start of MindJet and how he got involved with them, why Michael Jetter wrote a mind mapping application when he discovered he had leukemia, why do people use mindmapping software and what are the benefits with using mindmaps, how does he use mind maps in his day-to-day life, changing peoples perception of mind mapping software, using RSS in MindManager, Tabpet PC’s and paper notebooks, his thoughts on blogging in the corporate sphere and a host of other interesting stuff.

Download the MP3…subscribe to the RSS feed…listen to it telepathically…grab it which ever way you can 🙂

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

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, JotSpot

JotSpot 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 Corporation

Jigsaw is an online business contact marketplace where people can buy, sell and trade business contact information.

15:28 Karl & Heidi, Pluck

A free tool for managing all of your regular online activities

18:47 Philip Nelson, Senior Director of Video Marketing, NewTek

The 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, LiveVault

LiveVault 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, Teleo

Teleo provides Internet telephony applications that bridge the gap between your computer desktop and regular telephones and cell phones.

29:57 Robin Hopper, President, iUpload

The 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 Engine

Use Impact Engine to create & distribute agency quality multimedia presentations, track hot leads and send personalized e-marketing campaigns.

33:52 David Beckham, PhotoLeap

Photoleap 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 & Chief Evangelist, Mediabolic

Mediabolic® 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, Intelledox

Intelledox is a scalable enterprise application that facilitates the creation and management of the simplest to most complex documents.

50:57 David Monteith, Managing Director, Sonaptic

The 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 Networks

Orb 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, SigNav

The 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 Networks

Jambo 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

This podcast is sponsored by Brisbane Pergolas.

DEMO@15 Special Edition Show

On the Pod with Michael Pusateri

In this “On the Pod” episode we talk with Michael Pusateri, VP of Engineering at the Disney Channel.

I saw Michael at the 2004 O’Reilly’s eTech conference when he presented a great session on how the Disney Channel started using blogs, Wiki’s and RSS in his department close to two years ago. This is a great interview and it stil amazes me that an organisation as large as Disney was using this sort of technology that long ago in a real world situation.

We also touch on a few other areas that Michael has a personal interest in like MMORPG’s, Geocaching and Dr Pepper cans.

As usual…this is another “On the Pod” you don’t want to miss if you are trying to get blogs, wiki’s and RSS into your organisation.

On the Pod with Michael Geoghegan

We thought we would look inward into the world of podcasting for our next guest..and we came up with Michael Geoghegan.

Michael is the man behind Reel Reviews…one of the most popular podcasts out in the wild and is all about the main passion of its host…movies.

We chat to Michael about his love for films, how he got into podcasting, the 900 DVD’s in his basement, how he structures his podcasts, Orson Wells, Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, The Searchers, Ford-Kurosawa-Leoni-Tarantino, Chopper, De Nero, Sleep Away Camp, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Show Girls and what he thinks of Cam’s top 10.

Check out the interview…check out Reel Reviews…and then switch of your computer for a while and go and watch a movie… 😉

On the Pod with Des Paroz

Time to get a few more Australians on the show….so we got in touch with Des and said..”Des..how about it??”…and he gave us the thumbs up.

Des Paroz has been working over at Acer Compters for nearly seven years.Whats he do?? Well…he looks after all of their e-commerce activities and IT Operations at the moment but has been involved in all sorts of things during his time at Acer. Check out his bio page for the details.

We talk about Media Centers and are they a central device or a peripheral device, how he got into computers and marketing from doing economics at university, his time at NCR in Japan, Australia and the US, his work with web based travel systems and Galileo, his thoughts on blogs, how they deal with channel partners at ACER, the NOFOLLOW tag, the ACER model of business and how it differs from the Dell model, what are ACER’s goals in Australia, his thoughts on TabletPC’s, podcasting and finally we briefly touch on scuba diving…yep…we cover a lot… 🙂

Thnx for your time Des…

On the Pod with Darren Barefoot

I have had to skip a couple of shows to get this interview out that we did with Canadian blogger, Darren Barefoot, due to the fact that we touch on Northern Voice conference during the interview, and the conference is on this week 🙂

Darren does a heap of stuff…he works for Capulet Communications during the day, he started up Inside Blogging with Jeremy Wright, he was the other blogger that auctioned himself at eBay and importantly and he is one of the organisers of Northern Voice which is Canada’s first blogging conference that is being held in Vancouver on the 19th of February this year.

During this interview, we touch on Northern Voice and blogging conferences in general, gatherings of geeks, Nooked, RSS and the “process” at Inside Blogging.

Apologies for the quality in this one, but sometime Skype connections just don’t cut it 🙁

Darren’s one of the good guys out in the blogosphere so subscribe to our feed or just download the mp3…especially if you are heading up to the Conference.