I have acquired a fancy microphone to match Loren’s, and we have created another podcast. We started with a list of topics to talk about this time, though of course we used those items more as suggestions than as guidelines. Here are some things we talked about this week along with a bundle of links to keep you busy:
- Cheap beer seems to follow us around for some reason, but we drink it anyway.
- Google’s I/O Conference happened this week, and many interesting (though not life-changing) announcements were made, including
- A new Google Earth API/Plugin which integrates with their existing Maps API and brings all of those KML files and third-party 3D models and data to the web.
- Google AppEngine went ahead and let everyone in from the waitlist, announced new pricing competitive with Amazon’s EC2, and a new Memcache API which should allow for faster (and cheaper!) performance. There doesn’t seem to be any improvement to ease of development, however.
- Adobe has announced 3D hardware support in Flash 10, but it’s Windows-only at the moment. For a “universal” platform like Flash, what will come of this feature and other Flash 3D engines like Papervision3D?
- Loren has finally upgraded many of his projects to Rails 2.0, encountering a few challenges
- I’ve been exploring lots of Rails deployment options (such as Nginx, Mongrel, and Thin) but I’m most excited about using the new Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails) plugin for Apache. Dreamhost seems pretty excited, too.
- Loren has upgraded his video-on-the-web service from Justin.TV to Stickam, and has been working on new ways of bringing video to his investment club, Ben Hur Investments. Look for them, soon!
- Embedding and remixing are becoming new themes for text, audio, and video on the web. We talk about several services their impacts including RSS, Yahoo! Pipes, and Twitter, and discuss how Loren is using these tools to create a new service to track the Atlanta web entrepreneur community. We also talk a bit about Twitter’s recent service “brownouts”, and what they might mean for the community.
We’re still sticking with an under-the-radar, links-on-blogs format for sharing this podcast, so you may download this week’s episode here, or listen below:
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