Two weeks ago, Clark Boyd from The World came by the Opera Software offices in Oslo to do an interview about Opera. This interview is airing today on PRI stations across the US. You can listen to a streamed version of the interview at The World's archive page. There should also be a (potentially longer) podcast available tomorrow on The World's Technology pages. The interview is mostly a short synopsis about Opera Software, with some quotes from Jon, Eskil, Moose (page not available at the time of writing), Charles, and me. It's worth a listen. The ring tone you hear in the interview was from a call I made to one of the demo phones, too.
Clark was a pretty neat guy. He was relaxed, enthusiastic, and very friendly. Clark did three separate interviews: one with Jon (the CEO), one with Eskil (Jon's swimming coach and our PR manager), and one with a group of employees. During the employee interview, he asked us questions about Opera's competitors, how we saw Opera in five years, and what Opera use is like in our home countries. The interview only lasted about thirty minutes, about half as long as we expected. Afterwards, a couple of us grabbed lunch together out on the terrace.
Away from the microphone, lunch trays on our laps, we chatted a bit about the radio industry, public radio, and the recording industry. One of the cool things that The World does, is offer a podcast of their technology segments. For those of you that don't know, podcasts are downloadable music or talk shows, designed for playback at your convenience (often on an iPod, thus the name) and indefinite storage. He had very progressive views about distributing broadcasts and music on the Internet, which was quite refreshing.
Enjoy the show!
Update: The podcast is finally up! There's not much new (if anything, I didn't compare them), but the rest of the stories are interesting too.
