No sooner had I posted my previous entry on Skypcasts, than I received an email from Brian Schuliger, Senior Vice President of TalkShoe, suggesting that I might be interested in their network. And how!
TalkShoe allows you to integrate IP telephony, including Skype, group chat, conventional telephony, live audiocasting, and output the whole thing as an RSS-aggregatable MP3 (i.e. a podcast). Since it has host/moderator/audio bridge features built in, it looks to me like it was produced by Radio Professionals – but with amateur use in mind – just what the doctor ordered!
Digging a bit deeper, I found a site that makes use of TalkShoe and Skypecast to do some wonderful work: TechPodcasts.
The great thing about TechPodcasts is they pull in a variety of technologies to ‘do the business’, including text chat GoToMeeting (of which I’m a long-time user and enthusiast), to share screen control across disjoint presenters, and Camtasia Studio to record the entire experience for distribution to people who want to watch the replay. Here’s a great example of a recent TechPodcast.
Finally, one of the key technologies featured on the above TechPodcast happens to have been MotionBox – think YouTube but with the addition of highly intuitive and powerful editing tools, internal tagging (tag specific segments), and much much more – very nice! At first glance, it looks like it does for videos what Phanfare, that I also love and use regularly, has done for photos, but raises the bar a few notches along the way.
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