You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com  iTunes, and Callisto.fm: http://j.mp/6TOXJU This episode is brought to you by Blue Microphones http://bluemic.com Thanks Blue!
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From The Techstars Bunker in Downtown Boulder, Colorado! Dave bought a Kindle DX so he can help visitors at his website ( http://askdavetaylor.com ). It's great in the sun and includes 3G to download books. It's a great one trick pony. It does books well, but Dave is still waiting for the iPad.
That's a wrap. You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com iTunes, and Callisto.fm: http://j.mp/6TOXJU This episode is really brought to you by Blue Microphones http://bluemic.com Thanks Blue!(download)
From The Techstars Bunker in Downtown Boulder, Colorado! Dave bought a Kindle DX so he can help visitors at his website ( http://askdavetaylor.com ). It's great in the sun and includes 3G to download books. It's a great one trick pony. It does books well, but Dave is still waiting for the iPad.
That's a wrap. You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com iTunes, and Callisto.fm: http://j.mp/6TOXJU This episode is really brought to you by Blue Microphones http://bluemic.com Thanks Blue!
Boulder Open Podcast, Episode 8: The Dave at CES Edition. Several trends have emerged. 3D Television, E-Book readers and more. Amazon was the best selling device at Amazon over Christmas. Amazon sold more electronic books than paper books. Every vendor that's showing off 3D TV has specialized glasses. Boo. Once there's a standard, this will make more sense. Dave says it'll actually take root when you don't have to wear glasses at all. Technicolor is making that happen (but only for a private audience right now). It only works in 7inch screens or less. comcast has upgraded to DOCSIS 3 - which makes Michael's download speed 35Mbps. CES is for the industry, not the public. Product buyers, and their teams are the focus of the show. Dave met a guy from Radio Shack and reminds us that they're actually a retail powerhouse. ZigBee is a standard for monitoring your home power use. The device fits between the device and the outlet allowing you to see how much every outlet consumes. You can remotely turn off appliances, and even tell it to turn off certain appliances within a time window. Studies show that people that monitor their electrical usage have lower bills. Imagine if everyone then watched their consumption. It comes down to paying attention, doesn't it? Dave's Smart Grid Test isn't really all that smart. It shuts your air conditioner off for a hour during high demand times. Granular controls like this will change everything. It's a much bigger industry this year over last. TVs - imagine a Best Buy TV wall on steroids. It's as big as a city block with 250 screens wide. It's mindnumbingly amazing. Dave's uploaded photos of the whole thing. ( See http://j.mp/d0ZpW9 for pictures ) . The friends he brought had a tough time with the enormity. iPhoto hasn't been upgraded to match the new permissions within Facebook.
That's a wrap. You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com, iTunes, and http://callisto.fmBoulder Open Podcast Episode 7: The Twitter API is taking over the world. Other services (Wordpress and Tumblr) are duplicating the Twitter API on their services to allow their users to post to their services using standard Twitter clients. It only takes one simple change in the app. Posts are mapped to their respective counterparts on the services. Dave likes the idea of a common/standard API (he's reminded of he quote: "Standards are great, everyone should have one.") He's concerned about the same content appearing on every service, and this might just make that easier. Wordpress and Tumblr content isn't the same as the live stream-of-consciousness content that's posted to Twitter. Dave thinks this will contribute to the normalization of these services from the user's perspective. Michael says that the developers can save time by not having to write their own apps if there's a standard API. Seesmic Desktop will already post to several services, as will many other desktop clients. The Wordpress blog post on the subject was authored by Matt Mullenweg. This could be the start of blogs with hundreds and hundreds of teeny tiny posts. Anything we can do to make less work for iPhone developers (gives us a better chance of finding an idle one!) is good.
Big things in 2010: Of course Apple and the rumored iSlate (or whatever). Google has over 300 services and products... keep an eye on Google Voice. And the blurring of the lines between Apple, iPhone, and Kindle. Apple's tablet will supersede the Kindle for lots in Apple land. Dave thinks the OS will be something other than what we currently know. Michael thinks it'll be Mac OS X Touch for the record. The price point is a challenge for the Kindle once the iSlate appears. That's a wrap. You can find Dave at http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at http://boulderopenpodcast.com, iTunes, and http://callisto.fm
