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18 December 2006
Robert Scoble interviews Marc Lucovsky
Posted by Paul Miller at December 18, 2006 11:46 AM
The Podtech network is assembling a good body of podcast content on their site, and they're well worth keeping an eye on.
They also offer video interviews, and some of those Robert Scoble has been doing recently have been great. Unfortunately, as reported before, I tend to listen to podcasts in the car and I'm not sure how well the police would take to me watching videos whilst driving. So although the videos are great, I tend to queue them up and not actually get around to watching very often. Indeed, I frequently wish there were an audio-only version for me to treat as a podcast; does a picture of a talking head really add much to what the head is saying, and would it not be better for me to just hear it rather than never quite getting around to watching? With show notes containing a set of pointers, I could then find and view any of the sites shown during the video... if what I heard interested me.
Anyway, Ben Toth sent me an email over the weekend that caused me to actually sit down and watch one of the videos in my queue.
In the video, Robert talks to Marc Lucovsky. Marc, formerly involved with Microsoft's Hailstorm, is now at Google and working with their AJAX Search API.
It's an interesting interview, with loads of pointers to some of the ways in which a Platform provider can make themselves invaluable to a broad constituency, and Marc has a lot to say about how - and why - one might want to take a service (like Google search) and make it easy to embed within someone else's application in ways that meet their needs rather than Google's.
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