episode 6 of messa.tv

The first piece of news is was the announcement of the redesign and relaunch of messa.tv We talked about the new features, including bigger viewing size, ratings and others. Don’t forget to rate this episode or send us bug reports if you spot any. We also talked about plans to make messa.tv a video podcast (a show you can subscribe to)Next we talked about the Kindle DX and the must-have feature of native pdf support. I also explained the dark side of the Kindle, with the built-in kill switches. Hiro told us about the ebook software for the Nintendo DS that has a big range of copyright expired books available. I forgot to mention that the publishing industry is trying to move away from the pdf format and to the epub format.Our next topic was the P2 theme for WordPress which let’s you turn your WordPress installation into a twitter-like clone. Hiro was very impressed by the screencast that Automattic did. We communicate using a combination of email, irc and basecamp but we are probably going to try P2 and see if it works as well for us as it does for Automattic.One thing that is not working (for me) is my last.fm iPhone app. I didn’t know why, the error messages weren’t helpful and it was only later I stumbled across this forum post.last.fm are going “pay-for” in all countries except the UK, US and Germany. Surprisingly it isn’t because of licensing agreements with record companies in those countries. I explain the real reason. Related but not mentioned in the show is the announcement that the PRS (UK Music Rights) have reduced their charges for streaming tracks from 0.22 pence per track to 0.085 pence per track.As Hiro said let’s move onto good news. We went to the Web Directions East presentation by John Allsop, as mentioned in the interview with Oli last time. It was a great presentation and Hiro was impressed at the progressive enhancement concept. Something I try to practice as much as logistically possible. I don’t know if we mentioned it before but this WDE was actually WDE Express. We are looking forward to the full on WDE later this year.We ended the show with Hiro’s personal announcement regarding his blog. (WordPress +1, Moveable Type -1)As usual if you enjoyed the show please tell your friends or digg us, delicious us or twitter about us (http://twitter.com/messaliberty) (http://twitter.com/messatv). Thanks for watching!