I have written about Riya here several times recently and it seems that it will be a very cool application.
I am one of the lucky ones selected to be an alpha tested of Riya but unfortunately that doesn’t do much for me because I am Mac based and the uploader for Riya is Windows only (for now, I am assured by Tara Hunt - Riya’s top evangelist). Fine, I can handle the delay - it is annoying but you come to expect it.
However, what really stuck in my throat was when I received an email from Riya this morning saying:
If you have the digital photoset and time for this testing, we will thank you by either a digital camera or if you prefer, a cash payment as follows:
1000-2000 pictures: $120
2000-3000 pictures: $150
3000+ pictures: $200
That’s great - except for the fact that as a Mac user I can’t participate in this offer - this offer is being made exclusively to Windows testers - Mac testers are being excluded by virtue of the fact that there is no Mac uploader and so no way for them to upload our 1000+ pics.
Shame on you Riya.
The podcast series I have been doing on this site have proven far more popular than I could have predicted, so I am moving them off to a site of their own - PodLeaders.com.
If you are a fan of the podcasts, note that all future podcasts will be published on that site, not here.
The site is still a work in progress. If you have any comments, or suggestions for the site, I’d love to hear them.
Thanks, Tom.
As promised, here is the second interview with Salim Ismail - Salim is chairman & co-founder of PubSub and he very kindly agreed to come back on the show to follow-up on some of the things we talked about in the last podcast - if you haven’t listened to the first interview I did with Salim, I would strongly advise you to listen to that podcast before listening to this one.
In this podcast Salim outlines his thesis that businesses will move away from being data and report driven towards an event driven model - using a publish and subscribe event server and event aware client software. It makes for absolutely compelling listening.
The audio on this podcast was quite poor at my end - there was a horrible echo so I had to delete and re-record many of my questions.
Here are the questions i asked and the times in the interview at which I asked them:
What kinds of content will be and should be structured in structured blogging? - 1:30
What other kinds of applications do you see for structured blogging [apart from book reviews]? - 4:49
Is structured blogging going to be primarily a commercial tool? - 8:35
When you talk about Event Management, do you mean the Financial Controller being alerted whenever an invoice goes over 30 days, for example? - 16:07
Will you need a smart RSS reader to receive this data? - 21:33
Currently there is no event management server software available, is this all in the realm of speculation? - 23:17
If a company wanted to roll this out tomorrow, what would they need to do? - 27:24
I can’t go down to my local software store and ask for an Event Server and 5 client access licences though… - 28:37
So are PubSub offering their event routing engine for sale to companies? - 31:49
Will Ebay and Craigslist come along and aggregate the content of structured blogs? - 35:33
Download the interview here 8.5mb mp3.
I will be interviewing Matt Mullenweg of founder of WordPress and WordPress.com on Monday. If you have any questions you’d like me to ask Matt, feel free to email them to me (tom@tomrafteryit.net) or leave them here in the comments.
Well, the post I made last night about the Yahoo! < -> Del.icio.us rumours was confirmed this evening when Del.icio.us made the announcement of the takeover on its blog and Yahoo! posted the news also.
All day today I was doubting my source ‘cos no-one else picked up the story but, no, it came good. It is a great feeling to scoop a story like this by about 24 hours ahead of everyone else on the Internet.
Michael Arrington and others are following up on the story now.
The real question is who does Yahoo! have in its sights next? Who would it make sense for them to acquire now that they have bought Flickr and Del.icio.us? If only there were some application which tied these two together… a browser even… pity I can’t think of any 
Does anyone have any contact details for Vint Cerf? Vint is one of the pioneers of the Internet -he played a key role in leading the development of the TCP/IP protocols and in September, Google announced that it hired Cerf as “Chief Internet Evangelist”
I’d love to do an interview with him - I realise it might be difficult to interview him as he has a hearing impairment but he has done podcast interviews previously.
If anyone knows how i could get in touch with him - please email me directly at tom@tomrafteryit.net.
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