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OMG Technology Porn

I can’t wait man. This is going to be fantastic.

Big ups to you guys and Gary too for the inspiration.

Jason, are you guys going to use uStream?

Couldn’t agree more.

I would love to see this released as an mp3 and eventually presented as a podcast if it becomes regular.

Have to agree with Andrew Johnson, both podcasted and archived would be great.

Very cool. I have a meeting at that time, but hoping I can attend (wish I could TiVo it!)

This is an awesome idea; I’d like to also request it be archived.

Could it be possible to have one or two in the evening? Those of us who are treated like serfs while at work will regrettably be unable to attend.

Great idea!

I’ll be listening tomorrow.

Is this going to be recorded?

I think there are ten times the listeners willing to view what you guys do if they can watch when it is convenient for them.

Nice—-love it…and props to Gary for inspiring you!

Fantastic! See you guys tomorrow :)

Count me in

ok, i will check it out from india, have a fast connection, good test of several servers/systems

Great idea. I felt like I asked a million questions at your Denver presentation, plus I had a million more to ask. Thanks for being receptive to all of us who have some many questions.

All of us at our company were impressed at how down to Earth and real you were to the entire audience, regardless if the question was good or bad.

Thanks for being real!

Yeah would be great if this could be podcasted please. Unfortunately cant make this time but would love to listen if its made available.

Thanks. Great work!

Yay!!! can’t wait!

Nice. Good luck!

Also, regarding:

We also seem to give better answers when we talk them through rather than when we write them down.

I was wondering if you have any thoughts on why this might be true? Or just further thoughts on that issue itself?

@GeeIWonder

I feel talking on camera live forces you to be in the Now. You don’t focus on self editing, you focus on delivering a message.

You use more “directed thought” and less thinking about past or future.

This is very exciting. We at Ideaworks are setting up in a “conference room” (the old parlor in the historic building we work in) and watch as a group.

The focus of a question that I know I will be asking: Twitter. I’m excited that you guys are using it, and would love to hear some of your insights into the tool

Curtis www.ideaworks.com

No workie for me in IE or Firefox on Vista.

Damn.

The Chat doesn’t seem to be working. Anyone else having this problem?

In the last few seconds it died. Check their twitter…Hope its back soon.

Thanks for doing the live chat. It was informative – and thanks for answering my question!

Wow, it’s buffering a lot :(

Interesting web cast. I think it would have been just as good with sound only and no video. Unless you think you are going to need a whiteboard to answer a question, I’d can the video.

The sheer volume of off-topic, blatantly inflammatory, or otherwise inappropriate or vapid comments in the “chat” was very distracting. Maybe you could filter that next time.

I was hoping for more technical questions and less about being a startup. You could try separating the two types of questions into two different web casts in the future.

Thanks for sharing! Congrats on 1K viewers!

Yes it was great. Thanks guys.

You can’t top that format I guess! Was a great time over at your house. Unfortunately couldn’t see all because of a phone call and a video blackout for a few minutes. So next time with recording, pleeeasse. Thanks for everything!

P.S. Really impressive as no question seem to be too difficult to take for you guys!

Thanks guys for sharing with the community. It would be great to be able to see the video clip of the sessions to see the parts that one missed out due to the ustream.tv streaming issues.

Is there any way to get a recorded version?

The chat unfortunately didn’t work (company firewall blocks IRC to make our network less attractive I think)

It was great to see you and listen to some great questions and answers. I made the browser window narrower so that I could just watch the video without all the off topic comments. I look forward to the next one! Thanks!

Definitely syndicate. Puh-leeeease!

I missed it :-), please record it in the future.

Hey, thanks for answering all of our questions. I’m confident all the viewers learned something new about 37.

Thanks for sharing us some of 37signals invaluable knowledge!!! We’ll be looking forward for another QA session. Best!

bummed i couldn’t watch it, totally assumed I’d be able to catch the re-run, maybe next time. guessing there isn’t a transcript?

David and Jason,

Thanks for taking the time to put this together. I really enjoyed watching you!

I’m looking forward to the next session! Would be great if you guys could implement the “vote the question” system if you know what I mean.

Jason, thanks for answering my question on what you would do diffrent if you could start over..

David thanks for your opinion and advice on the diffrent subject at hand. Also thank you for your advice on the best gel to model your hair like an true RoR Developer.

Best regards, Geert

I enjoyed watching.

For next time:

- No chat. - Question Submission (one per user? to stop flooding) - People can vote up questions (one per user per question)

Its a user suggestion, so I know it wont happen ;) But thanks a lot for your time last night.

Great session!

I agree with no chat suggestions and screening questions beforehand. I lost connection at my end couple times, so I don’t know if you answer my questions or not and you didn’t record the session, so I look forward to the next session

Best regards,

Martin

DOH ! I can’t believe I missed it! I was away from the computer for the past few days enjoying some (finally) nice weather. See what happens! I guess you got to enjoy life sometimes. And I just submitted a ‘Question’ last week or so too! Damn!

I agree. The chat was full of spamers and russian talking people. Please select the questions beforehand.

Oh, and ustream crashed my Safari two times. Isn’t there some alternative?

One suggestion may be to have a Live feed for video or for audio only.

I’m not sure all the specifics behind this, but I bet some people once they got a good look at both of your handsome faces, just listened and minimized the video.

I know I couldn’t see the chat I think something was blocked on my end, I think I saw through your Twitter comments/feedback to @37signals after the show that someone else had this happen. But that’’s an issue on my end.

Great show!

Is it available in quicktime or else?

It was cool. Please Never use ustream again though. That thing is evil. It crashed my browser like 3 times.

Oh and why not use Campfire for the chat next time?

It was cool… I think (if you guys have the time) it’d be a great thing to keep up with every now and then.

And I agree with Jim, something other than ustream would be great. It was the only thing running on my 2.8GHz iMac, and it crashed safari and firefox a number of times. Of course it’s nothing I can’t deal with, but if possible, an alternative would be awesome.

I had a few dropout sections too. Wish I’d heard the answer to question about replacing subversion (what you’re using in its place, why you chose it etc.)!

I found the big advantage of having video was keeping track of who was talking. Perhaps if the bandwidth req’t is killing things you can find an alternative way to indicate the speaker (aside from saying, “This is Fred!” each time).

I think most people would like to see the rapid repetition of questions (verbally pumping their hands at the ceiling, and audibly whispering, “Pick me, pick me!”), and the troll-talk filtered out on the text side.

Thanks again for doing this. It’s great to hear from people at a successful company.

I’m so bummed I missed this… Will you guys be posting it online?

Many thanks for the webcast. Switzerland was closer to Chicago for a while.

I think it is important to ‘re-humanize’ online services whenever it is possible. Nothing will replace body language, facial expressions and voice intonation. I’m a more confident customer since the webcast. Thanks.

My only suggestion for the next session is to maybe work on the props and the wine-cellar décor! :-)