Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Two podcast recommendations today for the price of one. First, check out ITC's Tim O'Reilly: Takeaway: The Where 2.0 Application.  The description is on location-oriented applications and GPS ubiquity, but its more like earlier talks he gave on... [More]

This ITConversations podcast by Jason Fried describes the experience of 37Signals in building BaseCamp, their web-based Project Management application.  His insights articulated many of my own thinking about building software, along the lines of... [More]

I posted my podcast queue back on August 2nd.  It was a bit shorter than it is today, so I put it in an Excel spreadsheet.   Podcast queue to-listen time went from @20 hours to @26 hours.  Not too bad, actually.  The spreadsh... [More]

It's very rare that I post back-to-back iPod and Dogs, but that's the way of The Pod.  Tim O'Reilly's closing session for the MySQL Conference held in April 2005 is a 5-star offering which prompted a number of thoughts about designing for open source... [More]

The July 24th show of the Gillmor Gang features George Gilder discussing China and how we need to welcome their investment and ownership (like of Unocal), US asset growth, exciting new technologies (from a guy whose portfolio increased--I think it was--32... [More]

I mentioned that catching up on my 120 or so blog feeds while on vacation wasn't an issue, but now I'm faced with my iTunes podcast queue shown below.  I've listened to a couple of hours worth of podcasts since yesterday (one which merits its own ipo... [More]

I don't feature individual podcasts much anymore.  Still great stuff passing through my earplugs while walking the dogs, but few podcasts stand-out enough to require their own post.  This particular podcast from Buzz Bruggeman of ActiveWords cap... [More]

To follow-up on my iPod podcast navigation post I wanted to show the corresponding iTunes podcast navigation scroll list.  Very sweet!  On playing podcasts with navigation support, there's a widget next to the top-center info area which pops-up ... [More]

I was listening to Curry's new PodFinder show in hopes of discovering other podcasts and initially thought the show was a good idea and well done, but it REALLY needed the ability to navigate from show-clip to the next, since I was not interested in most ... [More]

Another huge win for Apple in my opinion, as their updates to iTunes and the iPod software have honestly increased the quality of my life. MP3s downloaded through iTunes (version 4.9 with Podcasting support) are loaded into a new "Podcasts" folder, and i... [More]