CouchCast - Latest Comments

Re: Twelve Horses Has Merged With One to One Interactive

Robert Merrill — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:12:59 -0000

My intro here of @cspencer makes it sound like he's a contender in a boxing match! lol

Re: Talk Back

ultima online gold — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:30:27 -0000

Thanks for your nice post. Really like your point of view. Thanks for sharing with us.

Re: Interviews at Wordcamp Utah - September 27, 2008

Robert Merrill — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:53:22 -0000

Jake Spurlock updated his blog with a great post about how he taped Wordcamp Utah. Nice work, jake!

Re: Dave Bascom, CEO of SEO.com

Robert Merrill — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:40:26 -0000

Try again?

Re: Dave Bascom, CEO of SEO.com

Albert — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:20 -0000

I was looking forward to listening to this podcast but unfortunately after 10 minutes of buffering I still have not been able to play it.

Re: Richard Nelson — President, CEO of UTC and TECNA

Robert Merrill — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:01:38 -0000

Uploaded new file with better audio levels

Re: ComcastCares - Using Twitter to Care for Customers

Robert Merrill — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:58:31 -0000

Updated audio file with better leveling...

Re: Cameron Moll — Designer, Speaker, Author

Robert Merrill — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:09:01 -0000

I updated the podcast file with a new version that has been leveled... does it sound better?

Re: Cameron Moll — Designer, Speaker, Author

tannerc — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:55:05 -0000

I forgot Cameron was offered a design gig at Apple. What a jerk.

Re: Cameron Moll — Designer, Speaker, Author

Robert Merrill — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:47:31 -0000

@thomallen you're right, man. It was a really fun interview.

Re: Cameron Moll — Designer, Speaker, Author

Thom Allen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:36:37 -0000

This was a really fun chat. Cameron is a well respected expert, and he shares some great insite on technology in general, and how the LDS Church is embracing different forms of communications to reach it's members.

The letterpress project is awesome by the way. Thanks for sharing Cameron.

Re: Talk Back

Matthew Reinbold — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:49:53 -0000

Final bit - in short, numbers posted on Mashable show that Twitter usage has actually gone up - http://mashable.com/2008/07...

Re: Talk Back

Matthew Reinbold — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:41:03 -0000

The points were:

1) Twitter is not alone in facing outages ( http://moourl.com/a18cs ) or API changes ( http://moourl.com/f9i7o ). Developers who base their living on platforms they have no control over are on extremely shaky ground and should have their expectations set accordingly.
2) Twitter bashing was trendy among self described 'A' listers more than a month ago ( http://moourl.com/w7w3h ). However, Twitter's issues remain only a minor inconvenience to a majority of users. The reason that users have not flocked - en masse - to another service is because there is not enough pain to be bothered to do so. Why is there not enough pain? Because the features reduced or restricted are non-core items affecting the lowest number of people who consume the highest number of resources ( http://moourl.com/moxgq ).

The wringing of hands and gnashing teeth of over twitter often casts the service as an essential public utility. It's as if its downtime is rendering entire cities without water or electricity. There is no doubt that twitter is useful in certain contexts. But not being able to tell me about your latest blog post AT THIS VERY SECOND is not one of them. Perspective is essential.

Those that are attempting to build mission critical applications requiring that kind of utility-like guaranteed uptime ( a commercial version of http://moourl.com/g3rwl perhaps?) would recognized that's not twitter's strength - yet.

Re: Talk Back

Robert Merrill — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:39:07 -0000

Good point. I can't access seesmic at work (fail) but when I can, I will
post my comments!

@thomallen @libel_vox ... any comments from you?

Re: Talk Back

Jesse Stay — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:34:24 -0000

If you guys share your rebuttals here, I'd be happy to respond. No sense
sending a rebuttal to myself though ;-)

Re: Talk Back

Robert Merrill — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:22:05 -0000

Well, Jesse -- you sparked a pretty good debate judging from the show today. I know you have some comments to add in rebuttal... want to share?

Re: Calendar

Robert Merrill — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:08:36 -0000

I just received this comment about the calendar:

Don't forget to mention Utah Social Media Developers Garage, (tomorrow Tuesday, 77/8) at 7pm at EPIC - looking for sponsors for food!

Re: Utah Open Source Conference Preview - Jayce Hall of UTOS - Jul 07,2008

Robert Merrill — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:08:16 -0000

I just received this comment about the calendar:

Don't forget to mention Utah Social Media Developers Garage, (tomorrow Tuesday, 77/8) at 7pm at EPIC - looking for sponsors for food!

Re: Talk Back

Jesse Stay — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:02:39 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: eBiz for Everyone - Sterling Okura of BizLift.com - Jun 30,2008

Robert Merrill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:22:32 -0000

Ouch. I listened to the show on my iPod and I am very sorry for the sound quality for Sterling's voice. I knew what he said because I was there... on the call... and it sounded OK... we'll work hard to be sure the guest of honor can be well understood in the future!

Re: eBiz for Everyone - Sterling Okura of BizLift.com - Jun 30,2008

Sterling Okura — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:22:40 -0000

@robert - I didn't think you were being hard. Your skepticism with the link between cagefighting & business was a great opportunity for me to talk about one of my favorite subjects. So thanks! :-)

Re: eBiz for Everyone - Sterling Okura of BizLift.com - Jun 30,2008

Robert Merrill — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:02:00 -0000

@bizlift @drsick good comments! We weren't trying to be tough on you, Sterling... really just looking for more information than what appeared on the surface.

You did well, of course... .and I like your comment here: "Business ...involves a bit of confrontation when a contractor or partner isn't delivering, when negotiating a deal, or competing for a bid."

Or, like you said, it would be boring!

Re: eBiz for Everyone - Sterling Okura of BizLift.com - Jun 30,2008

Sterling Okura — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:32:25 -0000

@DrSick - Several people mentioned the tough questions. Especially Robert's early question expressing skepticism over my blog article comparing Mixed Martial Arts training to business. Matt asked as great question, "Isn't business supposed to be about collaboration?"

I agreed and replied about the teamwork involved training. But in hindsight, realized that the skeptical attitude about the blog post was confrontational, not collaborative. Interviews need a bit of confrontation, or they would be boring. Business also involves a bit of confrontation when a contractor or partner isn't delivering, when negotiating a deal, or competing for a bid.

Fight training is a great way to physically learn how to deal with confrontation, to flow with it, and most importantly to develop the warrior mindset to never quit. So thank you DrSick for all of your training and mentoring.

Re: eBiz for Everyone - Sterling Okura of BizLift.com - Jun 30,2008

Sterling Okura — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:30:11 -0000

@watsonda - Thanks for tuning bro. The volume might be because I switched from a headset to handset at the last minute as the headset was causing echos.

@Sheri - I posted a comment with links to the different open source projects, but didn't verify with Disqus. It might have been flagged as spam because of the multiple links. Thanks for checking out the broadcast.

Re: eBiz for Everyone - Sterling Okura of BizLift.com - Jun 30,2008

Robert Merrill — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:14:09 -0000

@Sheri -- Sterling just posted links to those... look over the comments again and you should see them.