Creating With Code

Despite a lack of comments from the peanut gallery, Loren and I have created another podcast. You can download it here (~11.4MB) or listen below:

We did this podcast with a little less preparation, so the topics wander a little bit more. Some things you can expect to hear:

• Justin.tv is great, but it may not be the be-all for live web video broadcasting because of the way it prevents you from embedding “episodes” and live chat in your own pages. Given alternatives like Ustream and Stickam, and thanks to the power of embeddable apps, like Backnoise, will it matter what Justin.tv does and doesn’t support?
• Features aside, content on Justin.tv is crazy! Loren and friends spent Saturday broadcasting themselves brewing beer, playing games, and getting rowdy all on Loren’s “come watch” page where their friends could play along via chat provided by Backnoise. Also, Marty missed the first game of the Pens vs. Red Wings game, but apparently could have caught it from Justin.tv!
• Google announced FriendConnect, with exciting demos and no other documentation to speak of. Is it vaporware? Is it evil?
• I talk in way too much detail about my experiences playing with the Google App Engine and its (lack of) support for the excellent Python web framework Django. Long story short: it’s great if you’re willing to write a bunch of infrastructure yourself, but lousy for banging out a weekend project.
• Also, there’s this new thing called the Dash, an always-connected GPS unit built on the OpenMoko Linux-based cell phone platform. They did a media blitz this week and Loren met them at startupriot just before it happened.

Please have a listen and give us some feedback! What’s interesting? What’s not? What would you like to hear us talk about? Or tell us we’re wrong about? Leave comment here or on Loren’s post for this entry.