Monday, February 22, 2010

Episode 2 - Open Source and Twitter with Matt Hamilton

In this episode Richard Banks talks with Matt Hamilton about his open source twitter client Halfwit and some of the reasons for writing it, as well as social networking with Twitter and technology and community interaction in rural areas.

Links

Matt's Blog
Matt Hamilton on Twitter
Halfwit Twitter Client
Comicster
TweetCraft

Duration 31:15 mins | download mp3 (29Mb)

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Episode 1 - An Interview with Scott Barnes

Welcome to the launch of a new podcast!  Thanks for dropping by and I hope you enjoy the show.

In this, the very first episode, I talk with Scott Barnes (@mossyblog), the former Rich Platforms Product Manager at Microsoft about a number of things:

  • The recent Windows Phone 7 announcement, the UX for the device and some ideas for improvement
  • The iPad, vendor lock-in, GoogleOS and device UX in general
  • How agile development affects UX and the differences between UX and UI design
  • His thoughts on Visual Basic

Links

Scott's Blog
Scott Barnes on Twitter
Windows Mobile 7 the “meh” release.
Can you mix UX with Agile?
DataGrids are the Safety Blanket for Bad Design
 
Get Microsoft Silverlight
Duration 31:47 mins | download mp3 (29Mb)