Unquiet Desperation

A week ago, I asked for people to submit some topics that they’d like to hear me write about. Some of my comrades in the Cleveland Programming Wasteland chimed in, wanting to know how I wound up working for Mahalo.

In a word, podcasting.

No, really.

Desperation, Quiet to Unquiet

When the podcasting community started to form in late 2004/early 2005, I was working for a small development firm in Medina. While I enjoyed the work, I wanted to do something more creative in my off time, and because of that, I got into podcasting. My first contact was with Evo Terra, who at that time was the co-host of The Dragonpage. He mentioned his idea for serialized audiobooks delivered via RSS, and dubbed them Podiobooks. At the time, Podiobooks.com was a simple site with five books on the front page.
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I’ve been playing with Pownce the last few days, and I find it interesting. It’s a decent refining of Twitter, and I think it has potential. I’ll be curious to see where Kevin Rose and his team take in the next month.

I’ve been talking to some friends, and asking what they’d like to see in future revisions. Here’s my list:

• A way to filter chatter by friend or group. (J.C. wants this too. )
• A way to manage Shared Sets of Friends. For instance, if I have a group of friends that are in a Podiobooks group, I’d like to be able to share and admin the Set for a group of people. So that, if I add a new author to the Set, everyone has that person added automatically.
• A mobile version, that I can access from my Sidekick
• More API info. I’m in ur pownce, playin’ with ur messagez.
  

That’s my short list thus far. I’m sure the team over there already has some of these in mind. What do you think so far, and what are you wishing for? Feel free to comment here, or if you are on Pownce, visit this message and reply.

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