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I met Brooks and took this quick interview at SXSWi but I never got around to posting it. In his free time Brooks built TweetChat. It is a quality site for group chatting on twitter hashes. If you would be interested in embedding something like this into your own site, send him an email.

I got Brandon Wiley on camera at the Dorkbot party at SXSWi. He is one of the best evangelists for our beloved Austin. He is involved in almost everything startup. The next day he pitched his service (ringlight) to a panel at the Bizspark Accelerator event.  (ringlight) is a cool new way to access, organize, share, and publish your files. The secret sauce is that the files are hosted by you on your machine but available anywhere. It is currently in private beta but you can go to the site to sign up for a chance to check it out.

I have decided one of the best things I can do to connect to and promote Austin is to interview people doing cool things here. I figure I should start with what I do and so I interviewed my bosses. I have been working with Lee and Carrie Little here in Austin for 3 years. They founded and run BarZ Adventures, a GPS tour guide and gaming solution company. They are great to work with and for. I forced them to let me put them on camera yesterday and I have put it up for your viewing pleasure. I may at some point attempt to transcribe these interviews, but for now I will let you just enjoy the raw footage. Please forgive my lack of interview/camera skills. (Doing this threw me off a bit. It is kind of like hearing yourself on someone’s answering machine.) Hopefully, I will improve with time. If you are starting something cool in Austin, I would love to interview you. Hit me up. I am hoping to post a few more of these types of interviews while I am here at SXSW.