Archive for April 2009
Show #23: Productivity microblog startup Blellow.
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In show #23 Bob and Pat talk with Mandi Leman (CEO) and Veronica Jorden (Communications Manager) of Blellow – a microblog community for self-employed, stay-at-home freelancers, developers and professionals. Blellow combines Twitter-like functionality with groups, both paid and free projects and a job board to create an online community.
Bob suggests you box your work – timebox that is. And Pat talks about Microsoft’s Windows 7 Release candidate.
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Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast:
- TimeBoxed for the Mac.
- TimeBox for Windows.
- TimeBox for Linux 5.7.6
- Blellow
- Windows 7 Release Candidate coming soon.
- New features of IE 8.
Show #22: Crowdsourced bug detection with uTest.
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In show #22 Bob and Pat talk to Matt Johnston, VP of Marketing & Community for uTest. uTest has nearly 16,000 testers in 153 countries who get paid for finding bugs in online, desktop and mobile software, and can make pretty nice money doing so.
Bob has a bit of advice – test the “usability” of your web site marketing message for a pittance and Pat talks about Microsoft’s free Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs for software developers and vendors.
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Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast:
Show #21: The art and science of Screencasts.
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In show #21 Bob and Pat interview Ian Ozsvald, founder of ProCasts on the art and science, mystery and drama of creating great screeencasts for your startup’s product or web site. Ian generously shares his expertise about how to target your screencast, techniques that make a huge difference, a range of free and non-free tools, ways to improve your video communication abilities and more. If you want to know how to create a screencasts that shines, this is the show for you!
Bob has a bit of advice – get out and meet up with your fellow startups. And Pat talks about Microsoft’s new Web Platform.
Download Show #21 here: StartupSuccess021.mp3 Or if you prefer, Subscribe to the podcast in Apple iTunes.
Please review it on iTunes: we want your feedback!
Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast:
- MeetUp. Especially http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/.
- Procasts.
- Screencasts – what would you like to know?
- Audacity, Win/Mac/Lin, free, great audio recorder+editor, useful to record audio and to clean-up recorded audio: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- GoldWave, Win, audio editor (Pat’s suggestion): http://www.goldwave.com/
- Sizer, Windows, free, lets you set position and size of windows for consistent recordings: http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html
- MouseZoom, Windows, free, tells you the mouse’s co-ords, useful to lining up inbetween pauses in recording: http://www.neuber.com/free/mousezoom/index.html
- ShowMeDo: riendly open-source tutorial community, over 1000 screencasts, friendly place to learn and practice.
- SubTitle Workshop, Windows, free, helps you create subtitles for your video: http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw
- TechSmith’s screencast.com is a clean hosting location for finished videos: http://screencast.com/
- Techsmith.com – Camtasia Studio, Jing and more..
- Blog series on Learning to Screencast, will become an eBook once the 9-part series is finished: http://blog.procasts.co.uk/2009/03/why-screencast-if-a-picture-is-worth-a-1000-words/
- The second entry of the series links to all the major screencasting tools including CamTasia, CamStudio (free), ScreenFlow, Jing (free), ScreenToaster (free): http://blog.procasts.co.uk/2009/03/choosing-your-screencast-software/
- Reference blog entry linking to all the interviews with screencasters that I know of, useful for background reading: http://blog.procasts.co.uk/2009/01/screencaster-interviews-and-articles/
- Community screencasting site run by John Basille, not mentioned in interview but a useful resource: http://scrast.net/
- Microsoft Web Platform.
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