The Apple Universe Podcast is finally back! After almost a year, the podcast is back with our new host, Jack DeFuria!
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Hosts: Jack DeFuria (@jackd)
Executive Producer: Jack DeFuria (@jackd)
Length: 11:14
Apple Universe is now @AppleUniverse on twitter! Follow us and @reply us things you’d like to hear about on the show.
In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast we travel to San Francisco for the WWDC conference.
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Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky (@danielbru)
Length: 14:54
Sponsors:
If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .
Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.
In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast we travel to Simplify Media in Redwood City, Calif. to learn about the music sharing application.
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This week we travel to Simplify Media and talk to Bill Bradford, CEO of Simplify Media. Simplify Media is an early stage startup dedicated to making it easier for people to access and enjoy their digital music, photos and videos with close friends and family. Our software connects people directly from within their favorite desktop applications, without having to upload and download files via a website or learn a new user interface. Simplify Media lets you listen to your home music from any computer or browse and play your friends’ music over the Internet. Simplify Media integrates with iTunes, Front Row, Winamp, Windows Media Player and Rhythmbox and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux computers, as well as the iPhone and iPod touch.
To be part of the beta process for Simplify Media, email . Also, here are 10 codes for Simplify Media iPhone version:
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Note: these codes will expire in two weeks. Use them now! Only available in the US App Store.
Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky (@danielbru)
Length: 27:16
Sponsors:
If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .
Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.
In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast we travel to CubeTree in Redwood City, Calif. to learn about the enterprise social network startup that recently launched.
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This week we travel to CubeTree and talk to Carlin Wiegner (@carlinw), CEO and Co-Founder of CubeTree. CubeTree is a free enterprise collaboration suite built on a social networking platform that enables employees to connect, communicate and collaborate efficiently and securely using a suite of full-featured, integrated tools. Delivered as a software service, CubeTree is designed for enterprises ranging from start-ups to Global 500 companies. Founded in 2008, CubeTree is a private company funded by Trinity Ventures and Mitch Kapor.
Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky (@danielbru)
Length: 18:10
Sponsors:
If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .
Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.
In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast we travel to Brightkite HQ in Burglingame, Calif. to learn more about the location-based social network.
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This week we travel to Brightkite and talk to Jonathon Linner (@jlinner), CEO of Brightkite. Brightkite is a location-based social network. In real time you can see where your friends are and what they’re up to. Depending on your privacy settings you can also meet others nearby.
Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky (@danielbru)
Length: 15:08
Sponsors:
If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .
Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.
In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast we travel to Appcelerator to learn about Open Source Mac Applications and Frameworks.
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This week we travel to Appcelerator in Mountain View, Calif. Appcelerator is an open source platform that provides everything you need to build rich web, mobile and desktop applications. Their two products, Titanium (an open source platform for building rich desktop and mobile apps) and Entourage (an open source framework for creating rich web apps using open standards), have become very successful in the Open Source community. In this episode, we speak with Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie), CEO, and Nolan Wright, CTO of Appcelerator.
Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky (@danielbru)
Length: 18:17
Sponsors:
If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .
Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.
In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast we talk about the new iPhone OS 3.0 as well as iPhone tethering.
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This week we travel to Microsoft’s campus in San Francisco for Startup Weekend San Francisco. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. Founded in 2007 by Andrew Hyde, the weekend is a concept of a conference focusing on learning by creating. It is known for its quick decisions, ‘out of the box’ thinking (oh no, the buzzwords are attacking!), unique facilitation technique and letting the founders show what they can do. The program has already met with success in Boulder, Toronto, New York, Hamburg, Houston, West Lafayette, Boston, DC and more. In this episode we talk to Founder Andrew Hyde, and San Francisco Leader Tyler Willis.
Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky (@danielbru)
Length: 19:36
Sponsors:
If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .
Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.
In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast we talk about the new iPhone OS 3.0 as well as iPhone tethering.
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Review:
The Able Planet Clear Harmony Headphones are a great traveling headphones with all the accessories it comes with. But, the Clear Harmony is an expensive product, and Able Planet has yet to establish a reputation on the high end audio field. The headphones go for $215.18 on Amazon.com. The good thing is that the Clear Harmony active noise-canceling headphones offer dramatic noise reduction and a rich listening experience. Great for musicians.
Don’t forget about Speck’s MacBook Air SeeThru discount!
Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky (@danielbru)
Length: 18:15
Sponsors:
If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .
Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.
In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast, Sam Levin (@samlevin) from the Cool Mac Picks show joins us to talk about some Apple news!
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Sam’s Cool Mac/App Pick of the week:
Review: MiMo Displays
A single USB connection from your computer gets you an instant secondary (tertiary, quaternary, quinary…) display. This awesome display is perfect for your IM client, your email, a spreadsheet, or your Photoshop tools. Not only do these displays enhance productivity, but they look great. The single USB connection combined with a weight of 1.3 pounds means these displays are ultra-portable. Overall, for the size and power, the MiMo is great for a IM window, or Twitter, but with a 24″ monitor at home in my case, I found it not very useful after the different compared to the 24″ monitor.
Don’t forget about Speck’s MacBook Air SeeThru discount!
Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky (@danielbru)
Associate Producer: Sam Levin (@samlevin)
Length: 30:09
Sponsors:
If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .
Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.
We recently sat down with Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous. Tapulous recently revealed Tap Tap Revenge 2 (iTunes link). We talked with Bart about the iPhone, and Tapulous. These questions were asked by the community at Twitter. Follow me!
Justin Morley @danielbru How is he getting music to license? Are artists sending it to him?
BD: Justin: Music is what makes the game fun, so we spend a TON of time working with artists, manager, labels and publishers getting all the necessary permissions to feature great music in the game. Sometimes artists come to us. In other cases, we have ongoing discussions with music labels and identify music that would be a good fit for the game. We also have a full-time head of business development who’s worked in the music industry for the last decade and does nothing but this. But yes, almost every day someone approaches us to feature there music in the game.
Nick Austad @danielbru Oh and ask them when we are going to get more modern rock over pop songs. Multiple genres means more fans of the game.
BD: Nick: I think we’ve done a pretty good job already having a broad range of music in the game. As you may have noticed, Tap Tap Revenge 2 has more than 150 songs, include Rock, Alternative, Hard Rock, Hip Hop, Pop, Electronic… we even have a couple of country songs. One of the fun things about the game, compared to other music games, is that it works for such a broad range of music, so everyone can enjoy it. Expect us to keep broadening the selection of music and genres!
Jake Mates @danielbru How did he (or his team) learn Cocoa and Objective-C? #tapulous
BD: Jake: I’ll confess: I don’t code. I’m the resident non-coder! Some of our team have a long track record developing on the Mac platform. Jessica Kahn and Riley Howard (PLEASE WELCOME HIM TO OUR TEAM! he just joined) each have worked at Apple for close to 10 years. Guy English, who plays a really key role on Tap Tap Revenge, has also been doing Mac development for many years. Others got intrigued by the Mac platform when the iPhone came out – such as Nate True, the creator of Tap Tap Revenge. Nate got started back in the Jailbreak days, just hacking on “Tap Tap Revolution” as it was then called. Sean Fannan, who runs our entire backend, has been building his own iPhone app on the side (you know, those 4 hours a day when he’s not keeping our servers up). The great thing is, with XCode and the iPhone platform, it’s not that hard to learn how to build cool apps, especially since the iPhone and the iPod touch kind of invite simple apps that do just one thing (but do it really well).
Nick Austad @danielbru What made them decide to create a sequel so soon? I’ve been wondering this all week. Thanks
BD: Nick, there’s no time to rest on your laurel on the App Store. There are now 25,000 apps, and every day great new apps come on. As you may have noticed, many apps lose popularity after just a week or two. Tap Tap Revenge has never left the Top 50, partly because it’s a great game, partly because tapping and shaking to great music can be addictive. But in any case, the original Tap Tap Revenge was a very simple game, and we wanted to do something that was as professional and slick as any paid game on the App Store. There are more than 6 million users playing Tap Tap Revenge, and we really want to make the experience richer, more fun, and even more addictive for our users – so we have to keep innovating!
Carl Hancock @danielbru good for them for cashing out, I love my minohd. Let’s hope Cisco doesn’t ruin a good thing
BD: We sold to Cisco? WOW! Nobody told me! 
Seriously, we’re an independent little company – and we don’t plan to ever ruin a good thing.
Jon Victorino @danielbru Tell him to give our founder a call. We want him to come by our office and talk iPhone apps
BD: Stop by The Shop in downtown Palo Alto – we’re at 240 Hamilton. I’m traveling for the next week, but will be happy to buy your founder a crepe next door. In fact, if i’m not mistaken I’ve been rudely ignoring his email – please apologize on my behalf!
