Category: Podcasting

  • EXCLUSIVE – Evoca launches in Ireland!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Evoca is podcasting made simple. So simple, even my parents could do it! What is Evoca? Evoca is a site which allows you to record and upload audio to the Internet. Think Flickr for sound. How do you record and upload the audio? Well, there are several options. You can: Record the audio yourself and…

  • Hold music interviewed and podcast!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I had a podcast interview lined up for today with David Hayden of Jeteye. He didn’t show, so I spent 17 minutes listening to the hold music on the conference call. I had taken time to prepare for the interview and made room in my schedule today when he postponed last week hours before the…

  • Any questions for Thomas Hawk?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Thomas Hawk is an investment advisor in a non technology related field but it is not for that that he is known. Tom is far better known as a digital media and technology enthusiast – specifically, Tom is extremely well known for the photographs he uploads to Flickr. Tom posts several photos a day, all…

  • Podcasting partnership

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    Tom Raftery
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    Ed Byrne sent me a mail a few days ago to let me know about an rft (request for tender) on the Irish Government’s procurement website etenders.ie. Ed sent it to me because the rft is for a Podcasting Pilot for the East border region and Ed is aware of my significant involvement in Podcasting.…

  • Any questions for DL Byron?

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    Tom Raftery
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    D.L. Byron is an inventor, author, the Principal of Textura Design, now he is evangelizing Standards-based design. An entrepreneur and an inventor, he also consults with clients, co-founded the Blog Business Summit, and publishes a network of successful blogs, including Boeing’s (one of the first business blogs). I’m interviewing D.L. over Skype this week (day…

  • Congratulations Robert

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    Tom Raftery
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    Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s most prominent blogger is leaving Microsoft to join John Furrier’s PodTech.net. Robert himself has said that I love Microsoft and Microsoft did not lose me — at least as a supporter and friend. I am not throwing away my Tablet PC or my Xbox or my other Microsoft stuff So his departure…

  • Almost interactive podcasts on Waxxi

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    Tom Raftery
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    I tried to join in on Waxxi’s interactive podcast of a discussion with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel today. I signed up to join in the podcast very early on (long before Mike Arrington blogged about Waxxi). I received my email with instructions on the number to dial and I dialled the number at the…

  • Why doesn't PodZinger provide transcriptions back to the podcasters?

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    Tom Raftery
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    PodZinger is a search engine for (audio and video) podcasts. It listens to the audio content of podcasts, transcribes the content and makes it searchable. This is quite a useful service because transcribing podcasts manually would take waaaay too long. I published an interview I conducted with Alex Laats, president of PodZinger, yesterday on the…