TUAW Live: Talkcast Thursday 8/2 9:30p ET

I'd like to be invited.

joshjagdfeld

I would like to join as well, thanks.

MIchael - one word. Rain. :) Actually it is supposed to rain today here (was hoping to take the convertible into the city tonight for Geek Night) but has been clear but super hot the past couple of days. Your loyal weatherman, Peter T live from TalkShoe :)

#15 -- Dave, looking forward to it... and as a loyal CMU alum, I'll need a weather report from Pittsburgh... :-)

Hi Micheal and everyone,

I wish you the best of luck with your Talkcast tomorrow night. Be sure to invite me, TalkShoe CEO, and (to this point) lifelong PC guy on the verge of converting to iPhone and possibly a Mac too. I love my video iPod and the iTunes podcast directory!!!

Hello Michael,

Can you please invite me to your first LIVE telecast tomorrow. I would love to be there!

Thank You.
Amy

Hello,

I would love to participate in the TUAW Live: Talkcast this Thursday, August 2nd, at 9:30 PM ET.

My username on TalkCast is: coolosxapps

I will be attending, looking forward to seeing you all there to chat amongst one another!

Kind Regards,
Brandon Collins
CEO, Owner & Webmaster - Cool OSX Apps at http://www.coolosxapps.net

Thanks for your responses guys, and I don't want to clutter the comments here and risk decreasing TUAW's audience for the podcast. Peter, I'll look into TS a little more when I get a chance (I'm currently swamped in video production).

Mike, thanks for the explanation there - I wasn't taking into account your position within a much larger beast, and the limitations on streaming things yourself. I'll listen to the TUAW podcast later on, to see how the quality comes out. I am interested in both parties succeeding, despite how some of this might have come across.

Regarding using something like Audio Hijack - I use a Presonus Firepod to capture 4-6 separate inputs. Audio Hijack would merge everyone together, which means I wouldn't be able to adjust levels in post. In addition, Skype doesn't support the Firepod, so I'd have to double everyone's inputs somehow into the built-in mic for Skype to pick up. I ended up using iChat for remote audio, and remote guests record their audio locally and send it in to be merged in post.

Joe - feel free to contact us for more detail as I don't want to clutter the TUAW comments section with TalkShoe support, but I do have to correct one thing: everything does come in to a conferencing bridge but a direct VoIP connection which we do offer for callers to one of the VoIP cards on that bridge will not traverse a traditional POTS line. See this FAQ which will lead you to more info on connecting directly with a SIP client (and you can alway sign up for our ShoePhone beta client - which many hosts do if they aren't using a SIP client - which is also a direct VoIP connection for callers): http://www.talkshoe.com/se/voip/

And we do agree that the service isn't yet as good as it can be (nothing ever is though) and continue to make improvements as quickly as we can. Thanks for the input about the bumps and such. I'm not a marketing/sales/exec, so I should stop there - I'm just a techie member of the team and can only speak well to those points :)

Joe, Peter, thanks for the comments. We're going with Talkshoe as an experiment and we'll see how it works out.

Joe, couple of notes -- a) since we're hosted via the Weblogs Inc./AOL systems we're not in a position to self-host a live audio program, nor are we prepared to manage inbound call setup without something like the Talkshoe client.

b) For your own recordings, is there a reason not to use Ubercaster or Audio Hijack to record your local audio + Skype/Gizmo VoIP connection to Talkshoe? You'd get the full quality of your own configuration with the voice feed from Talkshoe.