The CastRoller Blog

CastRoller Jackets

We are going to be ordering a few CastRoller Jackets for our team, it will have the CastRoller logo embroidered in white on the left chest.

If you would like to get a jacket of your own, please send an e-mail to will@castroller.com, they are $50 each and come in Men’s – Small to 3XL and Women’s – XS to 2XL (size chart).

We hope to get the jackets in time for PodCamp Toronto, so please send me your order by the end of the day, Thur, Feb 4.

CastRoller Persona for FireFox

Will asked me to put together some CastRoller Personas for FireFox; so I made two.

The first is the familiar green bubbles you’ll see across a variety of our products and collateral.

The second is a toned down blue version for those who feel the green is a little too much for daily use.

Hope you enjoy them, feel free to let me know your thoughts.

CastRoller Podcast 24: Almost There

Welcome to the twenty fourth episode of the CastRoller podcast for Jan 26th 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com

CastRoller News

• Very soon will be launching the new version of the site. Working hard to get it out soon
• CastRoller Gelaskins, ask us for the files if you want to order your own

Tech News

• Apple event Jan 27. Very excited to see whatever Apple is announcing
• Dual Camera video camera. Looks neat, probably silly

Picks of the Week

• Bill’s pick is Foursquare
• Will’s pick is Instapaper

Events

• London Geek Dinner on Feb 4 at Chaucer’s Pub in London
• KW Social Media Meetup on Feb 17 at Coffee Culture Kitchener
• Podcamp Toronto 2010 on Feb 20 & 21 – CastRoller is a sponsor!

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New CastRoller Channel Page

New CastRoller Channel Page
Originally uploaded by Will Spaetzel

We are nearing completion of the new design for CastRoller. Along with the design are a number of new features and ways to use the site. Here is a preview of how the main page for Channels will look real soon.

PodCamp Toronto 2010

Coming up in just over a month is one of the biggest events in podcasting, PodCamp Toronto 2010. It takes place Feb 20 & 21, 2010 at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto. It always is an excellent event, and all of the CastRoller team will be attendance.

Here is the description from the PodCamp site:

PodCamp Toronto 2010 is a FREE “unconference” bringing together professionals and hobbyists from Toronto and the surrounding area to explore the cutting edge of new and social media. If you are an online content creator – hobbyist and professionals – who are building communities online in a variety of ways, then PodCamp Toronto 2010 is for you. Share ideas, discuss theories and learn lessons from an audience of experts. Network, network, network. All are welcome. Join us!

This year, we are also proud to announce that CastRoller is a silver sponsor for PodCamp Toronto. We’re glad to help out such a great event.

Be sure to check out the podcasts from PodCamp attendees in the PodCamp Toronto 2010 CastRoller Channel.

CastRoller Podcast 23: Tablets Abound!

Welcome to the twenty third episode of the CastRoller podcast for Jan 5th 2010 featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com

CastRoller News

• Work is coming along nicely for the new design, should be able to launch something soon. Tried to get a preview up for the live stream, will put up screenshots and a preview up soon.

Tech News

• Google event on Jan 5
• Apple Tablet Rumours abound! display supplier selected, All things D says 27th
• Firefox 3.6 pushed into 2010, more work on 4.0 and it looks SWEET! The Weave feature looks awesome!
• $199 Tablet

Picks of the Week

• Bill’s pick is Qik App on the iPhone. Now official no jailbreak required!
• Will’s pick is Evernote great for keeping track of everything I need to remember, complete with iPhone and Blackberry apps

Events

• London Geek Dinner on Jan 6 at Chaucer’s Pub in London
• KW Social Media Meetup on Jan 20 at Symposium

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No Podcast this Week

Will is spending the week with his in-law’s and won’t be able to record a podcast this week. We’ll resume the regular schedule next week.

Join us for the live recording of the next episode at 7:30 PM EST on Jan 4 at http://live.castroller.com

The next episode will be published on Tuesday, Jan 5

CastRoller Podcast 22: Kindle in our Hands

Welcome to the twenty second episode of the CastRoller podcast for Dec 15th featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com

CastRoller News

• Installed Quantcast on the site, apparently CastRoller is the 164,151′th most popular site on the internet.
• Coming up with new ideas for the channels page, turning them into a destination page where hot video and audio will pop up.

Tech News

• Samson Q2U Mic does USB and XLR in one
• Google Phone, the Nexus One

Picks of the Week

• Bill’s pick is the Amazon Kindle
• Will’s pick is Calibre, awesome E-book manager that supports automatic downloading of news

Events

• KW Social Media Meetup, Dec 16
• London Geek Dinner on Jan 6 at Chaucer’s Pub in London

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CastRoller Podcast 21

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

CastRoller News

• Search now powered by Google Custom Search
• Nomiate CastRollerfor the best bootstrapped startup Crunchie

Tech News

• Amazon Kindle is available in Canada. Also adds PDF Support to the Kindle 2
• The CrunchPad is no more
• YouTube is now streaming in 1080p

App Picks of the Week

• Will’s pick is TweetDeck which just added support for Twitter lists
• Bill’s pick is Byline which is an offline reader for Google Reader that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch

Events

• London Geek Dinner on Dec 2 at Chaucer’s Pub in London
• KW Social Media Meetup, Dec 16

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CastRoller Podcast 20: SMarts London

Welcome to the twentieth episode of the CastRoller podcast for November 17th featuring Bill Deys and Will Spaetzel. This was recorded while streaming live at live.castroller.com

CastRoller News

• Will be adding text commenting to episodes on CastRoller. We’re getting lots of comments through the contact form, so it’s good to come up with a way to share the comments with everyone.
• Once we roll out claiming podcasts, will allow podcasters to enter their Disqus API key to have full integration between the two sites
• ChartBeat gives sweet real time stats of CastRoller users

SMarts

• Bill was a big part of the organizing team, we share our impressions from the event.
• Using Airport Expresses is nice, but there appears to be a limit to the number of them you can chain together

App Picks of the Week

• We use Dropbox to share files for CastRoller, easy to drag and drop files in Finder or Explorer and have them appear on your collaborator’s computers
• Bill’s pick is Blur iPhone Tripod

Events

• KW Social Media Meetup, combined with StartupCampWaterloo this month – Nov 18
• Ignite Waterloo Nov 25
• London Geek Dinner on Dec 2

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