Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson broadcast to 883 people from out of the kitchen at the 37 Signals offices. Audio is coming shortly. Please note that the audio is a bit choppy (due to broadcasting issues and bandwidth issues with Verizon in South Africa). I've normalised the audio as well as tried to remove as much noise as possible.
Feel free to download a copy of the audio file of the 37 Signals Live : Episode 2. The audio is being served from BingoDisk.
An interesting way of engaging with their community by doing a live Q&A session with their users online (with users submitting questions via an IRC interface):
UPDATE:
I've removed the video flash player - it seems that the 37 Signals guys did not record the Q&A session. I've found the live replay over here.
Rafiq Phillips dropped by to drop off a copy of Quirk's book eMarketing written by Rob Stokes and the minds of Quirk.
Anyway it was too good an opportunity to not get a photo taken of Rafiq and Christopher Mills both wearing their WordPress hoodies:
I've been pondering for a while about the issue with blacklists. Some email providers are using stupid blacklists which block whole IP blocks just because there is one bad egg on the range. Then you get the guys who still use deprecated blacklists which are no longer being run which return false positives for every email they receive and wonder why they are not delivering any email! It's like using a sledge hammer to hit a small nail into the dry wall and you end up making a big hole into the next room.
Maybe it's actually time to reconsider how everyone is doing email blocking to reduce SPAM? Hotmail's approach is quite shocking. They just discard emails after accepting them. Yahoo! just places it in the junk mail folder.
Maybe one needs to start campaigns like 'Friends don't let friends use Yahoo! Mail'.
