Podcasts
New Yellow Park Podcast out
Sunday, September 30th, 2007In this episode, I speak to Paolo Tosolini, New Media Business Manager at Microsoft for Academy Mobile.
New Yellow Park Tech Watch Podcast out
Friday, September 21st, 2007Part 2 of the conversation with Michael Gannotti, Senior Technology Specialist for Microsoft, Greater South East District in the USA - specialising in Sharepoint, Streaming Media, intranet, extranet , internet.
Visit the podcast site here, or stream the show below.
New Yellow Park Podcast out
Friday, September 14th, 2007In this episode, I talk to Michael Gannotti, Senior Technology Specialist for Microsoft, Greater South East District in the USA - specialising in Sharepoint, Streaming Media, intranet, extranet , internet.
Academy Mobile
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Today I had a conversation with Paolo Tosolini , New Media Business Manager for Microsoft in Redmond. Paolo is working on an exciting project called Academy Mobile,
“a Microsoft internal social computing initiative aimed at creating a knowledge sharing environment through the use of videocasts and podcasts. “
I recorded the conversation and will be publishing a podcast of the conversation.
Read all of the article on my Microsoft Subnet blog.
Latest Yellow Park podcast out
Saturday, September 8th, 2007The latest Yellow Park Tech Watch podcast is out now. This is Part 2 of the continued conversation with Eileen Brown. We covered so much great stuff, I decided to make 2 parts.
OCS, UC, Office Communicator, TechEd, Exchange 2007, VOIP, presence, Round Table, Messaging and Mobility User Group Northern Chapter, TechNet Road show, Unified Communications Road Show, IT Forum
Social Networking conversation with Michael Gannotti
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007I had a great conversation with Michael Gannotti, Senior Technology Specialist for Microsoft, specialising on Sharepoint technologies. I have been reading Michael’s blog and listening to his excellent Michael on the Go podcasts, and following his Academy Mobile videos. So I was really looking forward to speaking with Michael and I’ll be publishing the conversation as a podcast.
We covered a huge amount of topics surrounding Sharepoint, Academy Mobile, intranets, blogs, wikis, social networks, mobile devices to name a few. I also put forward quite a few ideas and potential opportunies for Sharepoint and the .NET platform with Social Networking:
.NET and sharepoint has a great opportunity combined with Silverlight and Popfly community elements to shape the future of the changing face of blogs. Think a lifestream like tumblr.com or soup.io combined with the features of tafiti.com and mashing up your vital feeds, images, bookmarks, videos and essential services etc.
A freely downloadable .NET blog platform, almost like Visual Studio Express in concept, to lower barriers to entry and spread the word of Sharepoint and .NET.
An emphasis on ease of integration to allow widgets from the community, social network sites like flickr and del.icio.us.
More cross browser compatibility. Some MSDN blogs don’t take comments from firefox.
Facebook applications for services like Soap Box.
It really looks like Microsoft is listening to the community and is putting a huge emphasis on integrating community elements. I’m massively looking forward to the development of Academy Mobile.
Podcast episode #9
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Episode 9 of the Yellow Park Tech Watch podcast is out now. In this episode, I speak with Michael Oh from tech superpowers.
Skype, windows updates, blogs.zdnet.com, sip, turning off servers to save energy, fonality, trixbox, gizmoproject, voip.
Cool stuff of the week
Vista reboot issue
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007I was listening to a podcast Between the lines tonight over on zdnet. Talking about how Vista has a habit of installing windows updates and rebooting at 3am in the morning. I have run into this problem with an SBS 2003 server, where the customer’s server was mysteriously rebooting 3am regularly.
Changing the setting of your Windows Update schedule will fix this one, or ask your frindly admin to ease up on the group policy.
Episode #8 of the Yellow Park Tech Watch podcast out now
Sunday, August 19th, 2007Episode #8 of the Yellow Park Tech Watch podcast is out now. In this episode, I talk to Steve Lamb, Security Evangelist for Microsoft UK. Visit the podcast website, or listen to the podcast below:
Microsoft blogs not best of breed
Thursday, August 16th, 2007I was pleased to hear from Michael Gannotti’s Podcast on the Go that he aknowledges that Microsoft blogs, wikis and discussion are not best of breed. It was refreshing hear this and it is something that I have blogged about previously. The point he does make, which is again something I have picked up on, is that as a canned service to intergrate quickly and reliably into your .NET infrastructure, these services are the most efficient. So in terms of extending your sharepoint system, there is no better way to do this.
I am increasingly getting asked by customers for extranet/intranet solutions that allows geographically dispersed staff and customers to access resources. While WSS is built into SBS 2003, I have found this to be an unreliable method for this purpose. The reason for this is not the functionality of WSS, but the inevitable lack of upstream bandwidth associated with broadband in the UK (normally 256, max 512), making upload and downloading an impossible task with reasonable file sizes. If a customer uses serviced office space, expect even slower upload because these serviced office space providers generally charge a huge amount of money for a 256 connection which is flakier than a Cadbury’s flake.
The obvious way around this is to get a bigger internet connection. This unfortunately is not a viable option for the majority of small businesses. SDSL in the UK is still a relatively huge amount of money for a SMB to fork out, maybe £200+ a month. Again serviced office space companies generally have huge glass windows on the tech support office so they can see their customers coming from a mile off and would charge a rediculous amount of money for a bigger upload speed.
So the only real solution is using a hosted service and if you want a Sharepoint hosted service, again you’ll pay a premium - suggestions and comments of reasonably priced providers greatly appreciated!
I have followed up this post with a tv show on http://www.kyte.tv/yellowpark
Episode #7 of Tech Watch podcast published
Friday, August 10th, 2007I have just uplaoded the next episdoe of the Yellow Park Tech Watch podcast. In this episode, I talk to Craig Cmehil, Community Evangelist for SAP Developer Network. This is Part 2 of the conversation with Craig.
Facebook, yahoo pipes, Facebook apps, mashup tools, plaxo, dopplr, Wiki Wednesdays, PHP User Group, Second Life, Podbean, wordpress.
Podcast Episode #6 out now
Friday, August 3rd, 2007In this episode, I talk to Craig Cmehil, Community Evangelist for SAP Developer Network. We covered so much content in this conversation, so we’ll be posting Part 2 of this podcast next week.
Yellow Park Tech Watch Podcast Episode #5 out now
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Just uploaded the latest Yellow Park Tech Watch Podcast. This episode was recorded at the EVO Community day at Microsoft UK on June 21st and is a collection of interviews with some of the people responsible for running the various user groups.
Rod Gordon - Office User Group
Ray Booysen (check spelling) - Vista Squad
Richard Sidaway - Windows Powershell User Group
Michael Bryat - Small Business Specialist Communty
Esther Hoenen - Culminis
Nathan Winters - Messaging and Mobility User Group
For details of all of the UK user groups, visit the UK User Groups website:
http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk/
Episode 4 of the Yellow park Podcast out now
Friday, July 20th, 2007In this episode I talk to James Governor, Principal Analyst at Redmonk - the Open Source Industry Analyst Firm.
The Round World Party
Coffee
James being burgled
Rich Internet Applications
Microsoft Popfly
Silverlight
Mashups
Second Life
Office Communications Server
SMS support
Google
Live Meeting 2007
Episode 3 of Yellow Park Podcast Out Now
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Episode 3 of the Yellow Park Tech Watch Podcast is out now. In this episode I talk to James Governor, Principal Analyst at Redmonk - the Open Source Industry Analyst Firm.
Yellow Park Tech Watch Podcast Episode 2 out now
Saturday, June 30th, 2007In this episode, I speak to Eileen Brown. Manager of the IT Pro evangelist team at Microsoft.
Just what exactly does Eileen do at Microsoft?
How did EVO come about?
Why is the community important to Microsoft?
Why would someone want to join a user group?
What is an evangelist?
How would someone setup a user group?
Click here to listen to the podcast.
Yellow Park Tech Watch Podcast out now
Friday, June 22nd, 2007I have just uploaded the first Yellow Park Tech Watch podcast. Recorded at the EVO community day at Microsoft UK on 21 June 2007. In this episode, we salivate at the forthcoming Round Table and look ahead to future gadgets with Brett Johnson and Julian Data from the Unified Communications team at Microsoft UK.
I also talk to Simon Palmer, head of Live meeting for Europe and we get a sneak preview of the forthcoming Live meeting 2007.
Click to visit the podcast homepage