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CastRoller Podcast 35: Updates all Around Us

Welcome to the thirty fifth episode of the CastRoller podcast for August 31st 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com.

CastRoller News

• New short url, cst.im
• The 10000th podcast added to CastRoller CNET Tech Review
• Working on huge update to the site. Persistent player across all pages. Screenshot

Top Podcasts

• The Moth Podcast
• CNN News Update
• The Pilotcast
• remix.nin.com
• GeekBeat.tv

News

• HootSuite Goes Fremium
• BlackBerry Podcasting App
• Chrome now Syncs Extensions
• Android Voice Actions and Chrome to Phone
  • Apple Event Sept 1st Predictions
• Samsung Galaxy Tab may be interesting, Event Sept 2
• Arcade Fire The Wilderness Downtown

Picks of the Week

• Will’s pick is Reinvigorate
• Bill’s pick is cnect’d, request to be added to the CastRoller group

Events

• UnLab move in day Sept 1st before GDLDN
• London Geek Dinner on September 1st at Gigs Grillhouse
• GameCamp Planning Day – Sept 2nd 5:30 – Crabby Joes Downtown
• PodCamp Montreal Sept 11 & 12
• PhotoCamp London Sept 11
• Open Data Hackathon Sept. 25th, UnLab
• PodCamp Boston Sept 25 & 26

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CastRoller Podcast 34: Global

Welcome to the thirty fourth episode of the CastRoller podcast for August 10th 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com.

CastRoller News

• Working on Major Updates – Internationalization – Player works across page loads
• Coming real soon: Fix to show correct information when switching episodes

Top Podcasts

• The Moth Podcast
• CNN News Update
• Nydrederne – video podcast
• Machinima Top series
• remix.nin.com

News

• iOS 4 Released
• iPhone 4 in Canada! Neither of us got one
• Jailbreakme.com on ALL iDevices
• Frash on the iPhone, Open source Flash on iOS.
• Rdio launches in Canada
• Google Verizon Net Neutrality talks

Picks of the Week

• Will’s pick is Hootsuite
• Bill’s pick is Magic Trackpad

Events

• London Geek Dinner on September 1st at Gigs Grillhouse
• PodCamp Montreal Sept 11 & 12
• Open Data Hackathon
• GameCamp Date TBA

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CastRoller Podcast 33 – HTML5

CastRoller Podcast 33

Welcome to the thirty third episode of the CastRoller podcast for June 13th 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com.

CastRoller News

• Working on HTML5 playback to support OS devices

Top Podcasts

• The Moth
• CNN News Update
• RSR Le Son du jour
• Vinyl Cafe
• GeekBeat.tv

News

• Can upload 4K video to YouTube
• YouTube make an HTML5 version, also added m.youtube.com to play videos on mobile devices directly on the web.
• Wordpress.com allows you to Post by Telephone
• UnLondon has officially launched. Watch the intro video and help form what UnLondon will be on the wiki.

Picks of the Week

• Will’s pick is Angry Birds
• Bill’s pick is 1st Video from Vericorder

Events

• London Geek Dinner on August 4th at Gigs Grillhouse
• PodCamp Montreal Sept 11 & 12

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CastRoller Podcast 32 – Podcasters Across Borders 2010

Welcome to the thirty second episode of the CastRoller podcast for June 22nd 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This episode wasn’t recorded live, but was recorded while Bill and Will drove home from Podcasters Across Borders 2010.

In this episode, we talk about the highlights of PAB, and each answer the question, “If I was the king of the world, for PAB I would:”

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CastRoller Podcast 31: Audio and Streaming on the Go

Welcome to the thirty first episode of the CastRoller podcast for June 1st 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com.

CastRoller News

• Trying out LongTail Adsolution

Top Podcasts

• The Moth Podcast
• RSR – Le Son du jour
• Machinima Top Series
• GeekBrief.TV
• TEDTalks

News

• Camera that lets you stream directly to uStream no PC required
• USB Flash drive with built in audio recorder
• Wordpress for Blackberry lets you record and post audio

Picks of the Week

• Will’s pick is Loadstorm
• Bill’s pick is Chrome

Events

• London Geek Dinner on June 2nd at a new location, Gigs Grillhouse
• Podcasters Across Borders 2010 June 18-20 in Ottawa

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CastRoller Podcast 30

Welcome to the thirtieth episode of the CastRoller podcast for May 18th 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com.

CastRoller News

• Working on a New “Secret” site

Top Podcasts

• The Moth Podcast
• GameTrailers.com – XBox 360 Spotlight
• Machinima Top Series
• Best of YouTube
• GeekBrief.TV

News

• PodNova is no more
• Tom Merrit has left Buzz Out Loudstarting a new show Tech News Today
• UnLondon and The UnLab

PodCamp London

• Had a blast at PCLO10

Picks of the Week

• Will’s pick is FxCop
• Bill’s pick is Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (iPhone App, Book, etc)

Events

• London Geek Dinner on June 2nd at a new location Vote here for the new space
• Podcasters Across Borders 2010 June 18-20 in Ottawa

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CastRoller Podcast 29: Social Mobile

Welcome to the twenty ninth episode of the CastRoller podcast for May 4th 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com.

CastRoller News

• Launched Like with Facebook Social Plugins
• Now showing # of plays on Episode page
• Basic version of API Launched
• CastRoller is now in the top 32 000 websites, receiving over 100 000 unique visitors a month.

Top Podcasts

• The Moth Podcast
• LOST Podcast: The (Enhanced Transmission)
• Larry King Podcast
• GameTrailers.com – XBox 360 Spotlight
• RSR – Le Son du jour – Couleur3

News

• Twitter’s @anywhere launched
• Twitter for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android
• iPhone API agreement blocking Flash and perhaps MonoTouch.

Picks of the Week

• Will’s pick is Beginning iPhone 3 Development
• Bill’s pick is iFixit iPhone Screen Replacement

Events

• London Geek Dinner on May 5th at Chaucer’s Pub in London
• PodCamp London (2) 2010 – May 8th – http://podcamplondon.com
• Podcasters Across Borders 2010 June 18-20 in Ottawa

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No Podcast This Week

Scheduling conflicts are keeping us from recording the CastRoller podcast this week. We will return to our regular night next week on Monday May 3 at 7:30 EDT. The recording will be released the day after.

Liking it All

Today Facebook announced their new Social Plugins that make it easy for people to “Like” items across the web. We saw this as a great feature for CastRoller, lots of people are already sharing content from CastRoller to Facebook, so why not make it even easier?

So today, we added Facebook “Like” buttons to episode pages and to Podcast pages on CastRoller. Clicking these buttons will instantly share to your Facebook profile what you are Liking. This is a great, quick way to share content with your friends who may not already be using CastRoller.

We also added the Friend’s Activity widget to the logged in homepage so if you have Facebook friends liking content on CastRoller, you will see it there.

Finally, as a quick and nice thing to see, we now display the total number of Plays that each episode has received on CastRoller.

CastRoller Podcast 28 – More Mobile

Welcome to the twenty eighth episode of the CastRoller podcast for April 13th 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com.

CastRoller News

• CastRoller is now the #4 Startup in Kitchener-Waterloo
• Top Podcasts

News

• Bill got a Nexus One
• Microsoft announced the Kin phone.
• Played with an iPad
• Amazon is opening a warehouse in Canada
• Bill was on the On The Log Podcast

Picks of the Week

• Bill’s pick is BeyondPod
• Will’s pick is Pingdom

Events

• London Geek Dinner on May 5th at Chaucer’s Pub in London
• PodCamp London (2) 2010 – May 8th – http://podcamplondon.com
• Podcasters Across Borders 2010 June 18-20 in Ottawa early registration open now

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