Irish company, Japanese name, ground-breaking product?

I remember reading some blog commentary not so long ago where this guy was ripping into the Finnish mobile giant - Nokia - for having chosen a derivative Japanese name for their company. Yes the poor chap was clueless but I can imagine him having a field day with Nakatomi, the Dublin based portal to community-based social aggregation.

Lest your eyes glaze over at that generic tagline take a look at their announcement of Skypod - all your conversations, tagged, searchable and saved forever. In other words - "a ground-breaking mashup of Skype, podcasting, and the semantic web".

David Barrett and Des Traynor are the two guys behind these amazing claims and I'm after signing up for a beta test to put them to the test. (Actually, I'm in dire need of a software only Skype recording solution for a podcast I'm putting together but that's another story). If this thing does exactly what it says on the can then surely it is indeed a ground-breaking system. Mind you, they have a patent pending on their Statistically High Improbability Tagging Engine so it could well be an utter load of SHITE ! ;-)


Technorati Tags: skype, semantic web, podcasting, tagging

Comments

[Conn O Muineachain]

Hi James! Assuming Skypod doesn't carry too much overhead it sounds like it could be the answer for you.

As I've said, my solution is to do the recording on a separate device using the Skyping PC's audio output. This is just my personal preference - plus my experience has been that I can't fully trust my PCs to record audio faithfully without dropping bits here and there - even if I'm not Skyping.

But you are right. It should be possible to Skype and record on the same machine. The entire podcasting community knows this - but no one has quite cracked it yet. These guys may be about to supply a crucial tool. I hope so.

BTW - I know some people use Audio Hijack Pro, but I think it's Mac only. Don't know much about it, I'm afraid. Tom Raftery might?

Hope the Web 2.0 event went well. I was disappointed I couldn't make it in the end.

Conn

[Robin Blandford]

ummm I always presumed that site was a joke! is it not?

[Robin Blandford]

no it definitely is!! read it!

[Eoghan McCabe]

"Unleash the power of AJAX today!" :\

[James Corbett]

That's why I said it could be an "utter load of shite" lads - the "Statistically High Improbability Tagging Engine" was a bit of a give away wasn't it ;-)

Sorry for reproducing an old joke but it was a slow day and you have to give them credit for putting so much effort into it...

[Des Walsh]

have you checked out Skylook? They have a 14 day fully featured free trial - http://www.skylook.biz/ - and no, I'm not on a commission :)

[James Corbett]

It looks interesting Des, thanks, but... I don't use Outlook! :)

[David Barrett]

Skype recording is a complete pain in the ass. It took myself and a friend 4 hours to get it sorted out between our two Macs... it's easy enough to set up to record both voices, but very hard to set up so that you don't hear yourself talking OR send back the other person's voice back to them along with your own.

The easiest thing to do is just use the Gizmo project client... that has built-in recording. That said, when Des and I tried to use it, it just kept crashing.

By the way, make sure to click that "Unleash the Power of AJAX today!" button.

[Des Walsh]

I have used Pamela and it seemed to record ok but I would not want to vouch for quality without some checking - it was a while ago now. http://www.pamela-systems.com/

[James Corbett]

Thanks lads, I'll try out both the Gizmo Project and Pamela. David, I love that line - "When Nakatomi is fully complete we will release a beta version of the product."... ROFL ;-)