Extraordinary Everyday Lives #042 : Steve Spalding
Steve Spalding; How to Split an Atom blog (http://howtosplitanatom.com/)
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Extraordinary Everyday Lives show #42 – Thursday 21st Feb 2008
Steve Spalding; How to Split an Atom blog
(http://howtosplitanatom.com/)
Skype name: sbspalding
Twitter: sbspalding
Points discussed in rough chronological order:
Mike’s at car racing…piker.
Introduction: who is he; what does he do, etc.
How did he get into blogging?
Groveshark (http://www.grooveshark.com/). It’s in Steve’s email signature. What is it? What’s his involvement?
What are a few of his favorite blogs?
Kent asks the ‘Facebook’ question.
Widgets: the Siph lesson (http://howtosplitanatom.com/interview/lessons-from-entrepreneurs-siphs/).
We talk about Stumbleupon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/)
Techspoofs (http://techspoofs.com/).
What are his favorite online applications?
.gmail
.voice (http://vois.com)
.federated media (http://www.federatedmedia.net/)
Is requiring user registration an obstacle to growing users? Kent says yes.
How get eyeballs on your info. – filter
Microsoft & Yahoo
The intro. music for the show is from the song ‘Extraordinary Girl’ by ‘Jack
in the Pulpit’ (http://www.jackinthepulpit.com/) courtesy of the Podsafe
Music Network (music.podshow.com)
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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February 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
[...] The Karma police are on the job making sure I suffer for missing my part in episode 42 of the Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast (serves me right for being a petrol-head I suppose). The discussion around the Grooveshark business model was a ripper. As always, Dave was right on the money when he began talking about ‘network effects‘ – those systems/models that get better as they get bigger. It did not come out clearly, but Dave was having one of his prophetic moments when bemoaning FaceBook (and other big, centralised, do everything here, walled garden, monolithic sites) while noting that some aspects of Grooveshark get better the bigger the ‘network‘ becomes. [...]