Last Friday I interviewed Torsten Kinsella and Lloyd Hanney of God Is an Astronaut (homepage, Last.fm, MySpace, Wikipedia) in the Róisín Dubh, Galway.
We spoke of their upcoming album, the loss of visuals in their live set, a new mixing desk that will let them replicate their studio sound live, record deals, booking agents, national attitudes to their music scenes and how to gain a following.
This week Dave, Gareth and Shane chat about Google’s shiny new phone, the Nexus One, what hardware sales mean for Google, Google’s moves toward being a mobile carrier, and what cloud services could mean for personal data.
We also had an interview with Ronan Skehill (Homepage, Twitter, LinkedIn) of PinPoints (Webpage, Twitter), a GPS link service that is device agnostic, converting links to the format your device supports, be it Blackberry Maps, Nokia Maps, &c. Nokia demo’d PinPoints at their CES ovi stand and we discussed the future potential of the service.
In an extended, for web only show, we talk about getting fired for running SETI@home, a pirate Stock exchange, challenging Danish copyright law, upcoming conference talks, an Irish company signing a deal with LG for UWB chips, and we go on a bit of a Media/Google rant.
Travis Goodspeed joined the panel this week to talk about vulnerabilities in embedded systems, bank data and quantum computing.
National broadband brought into law in Spain and Finland. Beta builds of ChromeOS released. Interview with Hugh Nolan, captain of winning HackEire team.
Our first FM episode, with two new panellists, Shane and Andy. We discuss current issues and get a bit passionate about some religious topics; emacs vs. vim, PHP vs. Ruby.
Interview with best-selling author Sir Terry Pratchett about upcoming books, writing, the legalities of fan ideas, technology and Alzheimers.
On twitter, signing to Stones Throw, pursuing your passion, the need for production (but not a producer), collaborations, and his secret motivations for touring.
