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:

• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

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:

• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

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!

In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast, Daniel travels to Keynote Systems in San Mateo, California to meet with Abel Gonzalez, Senior Project Manger at Keynote. Abel explains what Keynote is, and some of their products. A video will be coming shortly.

Sponsors:

• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

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, Daniel Brusilovsky interviewed Seth Sternberg, CEO and Co-Founder of popular communication site, Meebo. Meebo is a new communications and media company that’s re-writing the way people have conversations and communicate on the Web. We provide instant messaging and group chat to over 35 million people at meebo.com and via partner sites across the Web.

Hosts: Daniel Brusilovsky and Seth Sternberg

Sponsors:

• GoToMeeting – web conferencing solution that will revolutionize how you communicate with your business associates, family and friends.
• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!
• Spacevidcast – The video cast that lets you know the latest in space and science news!
• Today – Daily event and task manager for iCal Users!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

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, Daniel Brusilovsky interviewed Kerry Pearce-Parkins, VP of Product and Marketing for Mixx. Mixx is your link to the web content that really matters. There’s a lot of information out there and, let’s face it, you don’t have all day to find the good stuff (if you do, we’re totally jealous). And who knows better than you what informs you, what makes you think, what makes you laugh? So why should some faceless editor get to decide what’s important? For more information, head over to Mixx!

Hosts: Daniel Brusilovsky and Kerry Pearce-Parkins

Sponsors:

• GoToMeeting – web conferencing solution that will revolutionize how you communicate with your business associates, family and friends.
• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!
• Spacevidcast – The video cast that lets you know the latest in space and science news!
• Today – Daily event and task manager for iCal Users!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.

While covering The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, I met with Justin Smithline, Co-Founder and CEO of Instinctiv.

Hosts: Daniel Brusilovsky and Justin Smithline

Sponsors:

• Today – Daily event and task manager for iCal Users!
• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!
• Spacevidcast – The video cast that lets you know the latest in space and science news!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

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, Daniel Brusilovsky travels to Structure08 presented by Giga Omni Media. Daniel spoke with Michael Sheehan of GoGrid, to learn more about GoGrid, and the cloud.

Hosts: Daniel Brusilovsky and Michael Sheehan

Sponsors:

• GoToMeeting – web conferencing solution that will revolutionize how you communicate with your business associates, family and friends.
• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!
• Spacevidcast – The video cast that lets you know the latest in space and science news!
• Today – Daily event and task manager for iCal Users!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

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, Daniel Brusilovsky travels to Structure08 presented by Giga Omni Media. Daniel spoke with Ian Wenig of Zoho, to learn more.

Hosts: Daniel Brusilovsky and Ian Wenig

Sponsors:

• GoToMeeting – web conferencing solution that will revolutionize how you communicate with your business associates, family and friends.
• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!
• Spacevidcast – The video cast that lets you know the latest in space and science news!
• Today – Daily event and task manager for iCal Users!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

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, Daniel Brusilovsky travels to Structure08 presented by Giga Omni Media. Daniel had the opportunity to talk to Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) and Luke Kanies (@puppetmasterd) about their company, Reductive Labs, and their program called Puppet.

Hosts: Daniel Brusilovsky, Andrew Clay Shafer and Luke Kanies

Sponsors:

• GoToMeeting – web conferencing solution that will revolutionize how you communicate with your business associates, family and friends.
• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!
• Spacevidcast – The video cast that lets you know the latest in space and science news!
• Today – Daily event and task manager for iCal Users!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.

While covering Velocity 2008 for the Apple Universe Podcast, we stop by Hyperic, to learn about their product and their news announcement.

Sponsors:

• GoToMeeting – web conferencing solution that will revolutionize how you communicate with your business associates, family and friends.
• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!
• Spacevidcast – The video cast that lets you know the latest in space and science news!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.

Apple Universe visits Thomas Loverro, Director of Product Marketing at Data Robotics, for an interview regarding their trademark product, the Drobo. Drobo is the world’s first storage robot that keeps all your files safe, automatically, with little configuration, controls all of the aspects of backing up data.

While at Data Robotics, I got a demontration of the Drobo system on Qik. Here’s the archived video:

Drobo Interview from Daniel Brusilovsky on Vimeo.

If you’d like to buy a Drobo, support GeekBrief.TV (a video podcast hosted by Cali Lewis), by using the code CALI at checkout and get a special discount of $50.

Sponsors:

• GoToMeeting – web conferencing solution that will revolutionize how you communicate with your business associates, family and friends.
• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!
• Spacevidcast – The video cast that lets you know the latest in space and science news!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.

Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.