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Google Wave Feels Like a Chat Client, But is it?

By Andrew Davis | Published November 22nd, 2009

I don’t know how many people have received Google Wave invites. In September, we were told 100,000 users would be invited to participate. I opened my Gmail account last weekend to find my invitation awaiting my attention and with great excitement I clicked through to start my Google Wave experience. I am ready to change the way I communicate online. There’s only one problem: with so few early adopters invited to participate I don’t have anyone to communicate with.

That being said, I’ve had my first valuable interaction on Google Wave and feel confident in telling you what I think about my initial experience.

Measuring Your Podcast’s Success

By Andrew Davis | Published October 22nd, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, Jim Cosco wrote a great post about how to make your podcast a success. We produce a podcast every week (well almost every week), and we’re really proud about the audience we’ve built. Within three months we hit the 20K downloads marker, and we’re chipping away at the next 20 thousand. But how do you know if your podcast is really successful? How do you measure its reach? What can you infer from the stats you’re collecting?

Open Source, Open Sesame

By Brett Virmalo | Published July 22nd, 2009

Online content and, by extension, the platforms delivering it, should be constantly evolving and improving. That’s why open source software, in addition to being incredibly affordable, can be more effective at producing and delivering content than “professionally” developed equivalents.