This week’s show is “All About South by Southwest (SXSW)” with our Minnov8 Gang member, Phil Wilson, direct from the Podcast Pavilion in Austin, TX.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins & Phil Wilson from SXSW.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 30:45 — 17.8MB)

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More

Show notes:

+ Woody Allen’s movie “Sleeper” and his most important futuristic vision, the “Orgasmatron”
+ Zappos
+ iPhone AT&T problem
+ A post about a fabulous javascript app showing near real-time Twitter stuff from SXSW
+ Phil is at SXSW on behalf of Localtone Systems and his startup, LocaltoneRadio.

Three of the Gang were at the Unsummit (the fourth, Graeme Thickins, is still out in California after doing DEMO ’09…check out his phenomenal coverage of DEMO in his audio interviews here).

Unsummit is an unconference held Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the fabulous facility for meetings housed within the Minneapolis Central Library in downtown Minneapolis. One of us (Steve Borsch) was on the “Unpanel” session with Unsummit organizers Don Ball and Meg Canada, kickstarting a discussion on, “How can we use creativity + collaboration to beat the economic downturn.” Introduction of the panel done by Mykl Roventine, co-organizer of the Unsummit.

This week’s Gang podcast is a recording of that panel.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 37:15 — 21.3MB)

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More

 

Video. It’s the hot thing but most users seem to be seeing it as just another data type to be delivered for free and at low cost. Once most of us master deploying on-demand video on our personal or company website, blog or even with screencasts for training purposes, the inevitable next thing many of us do is to explore delivering live, streaming events.

The latter is a very different animal and the technical challenges, costs of bandwidth and ensuring your audience has a great experience isn’t for the faint of heart or dabbler. Our guest, TJ Kudalis, Senior Video Engineer from Internet Broadcasting Systems (IBS), is a guy involved in video delivery on the internet since its infancy, and is someone whose been in the trenches with his IBS team to deliver content after the 9/11 tragedies, to the 70+ local TV stations IBS supports, as the content feed for NBC’s Olympic coverage in 2006, and is someone who knows what’s possible, what the costs are like for bandwidth and, most importantly, has a solid handle on the trends in software, hardware and peer-to-peer video delivery.

B: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week).

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 36:09 — 24.8MB)

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More

LinBks mentioned during the show and are others you’ll find enlightening:

• StreamingMediaBlog: News about the “business behind the technology of online video”
• Contentinople: A news site for the digital delivery industry
• Videonuze: Broadband video news
• NewTeeVee: Blog magazine about internet TV
• LostRemote: A multi-author blog written by people within traditional media but focused on, “…local TV and the battle for the Web.”
• Ripcode: Video transcoding appliance
• Mogulus: Is a hosted web (Flex) application to create LIVE, scheduled and on-demand internet television to broadcast anywhere on the web through a single player widget.
• uStream: “…is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size.”
• Oprah webcast: at the time (early 2008) was the largest webcast yet at 500,000 viewers.
• Obama Inauguration sets new records for internet video delivery
• For more on content delivery networks (CDNs) — and links to many of those providers as well as peer-to-peer technologies like the mentioned Octoshape — view this Wikipedia page.

 On this week’s show, the Gang talks with Paul DeBettignies, a Minnesota tech recruiter, about the state of job search, lots of tips and advice on networking, and about being in-the-game in social networking and why it’s so important in this tough economy.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Paul’s a job coach, mentor, and one of the most AWESOME social and physical networkers we’ve ever met! This guy is EVERYWHERE online: His blog; his brand new BeYourOwnHeadhunter blog (The idea behind the site is to have content on job search, webinars on the same with networking topics like creating/using LinkedIn, and a book for later this spring with information that because of time do not make it into a one hour presentation); LinkedIn profile; Social Media Breakfast; RecruitingBlogs, a social network he started as well as MinnesotaRecruiters; Twitter; and has given speeches and is in articles all over the place…amazing.

By the way, if you’re looking for a speaker on job search, networking or LinkedIn —  or are seeking a relationship-based recruiter to help with either IT placements or advice on employer branding, use of social media, etc. —  email Paul directly.

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:06:43 — 38.3MB)

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More

Links mentioned during the podcast:

• Twin Cities Business Monthly list of companies: http://www.tcbmag.com/factfinder/index.aspx
• Craigslist Minneapolis Jobs postings
• No matter what, make certain you have a LinkedIn profile
• Graeme mentioned Doug Berg’s Job2Web (and we should mention HotGigs, a great local site that matches consultants and contractors to gigs, whether project-related, part-time, or temp-to-hire, etc)
• Emurse, the online resume site
• DiSO Project
• Paul mentioned JibberJobber.