Oh, to be smart and young (or, in my case, either!) Matt Cassell is doing Academic.net Radio Has had developers from Mono and Julia Lerman on his podcast already. He’s 15. Gonna be fun to watch what Matt does in his career.

When I was in Brussels I met with Erwin van Hunen, lead technical architect and developer for DopplerRadio. He took me aside and showed me his new podcasting device (DopplerMobile) which just went into beta today. This thing ROCKS! Developed in .NET 2.0 too. Speaking of which, I just got a report from more of the .NET 2.0 launch events. They continue being sold out around the world. A couple of weeks ago there were 5,000 people in India at the launch events there.

I just interviewed developers from SAP who are converting from Visual Studio 2003 to 2005. They were effusive in their praise. It’s not everyday you get your competitors to praise your new technology.

Unfortunately DopplerMobile requires a mobile phone running Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphones and it requires that the phone has the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 installed (which is a separate download for Windows Mobile 5.0 phones). I say unfortunately cause my Audiovox still has the older software on it. This will push me to get a new phone, though. I’m going to the Consumer Electronics Show in January to check out phones. I hear the new Motorola coming out rocks big time.

Personal warning to Doc Searls: Don’t you know that Microsoft owns the trademark on evil? We all know that Google can’t be evil, right? So please refrain from calling Google evil. Thanks. Otherwise we’ll have to have our lawyers throw some chairs at you or something. 😉

Oh, and I just read NewsWeek’s reprint of Eric Schmidt’s (Google’s CEO) words where he pointed out that at Google they don’t throw chairs, like at those “other” technology companies. Sounds like Eric doesn’t like Mad Money by Jim Cramer (he throws a chair every evening on air).

Anyway, this is just a gratuitous post to tell you it’s time for another GooglePark from Jamie: The Battle for AOL. Warning, it might get you to throw a chair in laughter!