My insightful friend & former co-worker Sarb recently launched Luboh (in beta) with his partners. Here is my text interview with Sarb to tell you more about the cool Luboh.

Kempton: For people who haven’t heard about Luboh yet, can you talk about how they can use Luboh? How will Luboh help people?

Sarb: The idea behind Luboh is to help users share their buying experiences. While there are many online reviews and customer feedback and opinions on many consumer products, the authors are typically strangers. Instead, we as humans place far higher importance on opinions of people we know. Our friends and family. Let me give you an example. Say you’re looking for a new TV and it just so happens that when you mention it to your friend while at the pub. He tells he just got a fantastic deal on a Sony model XYZ TV from a shop down the road. No doubt you’re interested. More so than perhaps reading an online review from an effectively anonymous individual. Luboh.com lets you easily find a product that you’re interested in and then to either ask your Facebook friends what they think of it or if you’ve already bought it, to tell your friends what a great deal you got! You can try Luboh at www.luboh.com

Kempton: Can you share a few screen captures to explain some of the Luboh features or functions?

Sarb: Here is a screen sample showing what search results look like. If you login with your facebook account, we’ll also show you what your friends have recently bought. (Click to zoom in to large image)

And here’s another one that shows how you share information with friends. (Click to zoom in to large image)

Kempton: Does the name Luboh have any special meaning?

Sarb: Well, other than “lu-boh” being a really cool name for a website, the word “lub-oh” in Punjabi (pronounced slightly differently to the website) actually means search-for.

Kempton: Future plans?

Sarb: The site is still in a beta mode and there is still some work left to iron out the wrinkles. In the future we hope to keep on increasing the number of products and services that we have access to, to make it more and more useful to our users.

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P.S. You can follow Luboh on their Facebook page.

The segments are linked to their individual audio pages with resource links. As we are still experimenting with the show format and presentation, feel free to leave us comments and suggestions.

1. Robocode (audio chat): Learning with Java implemented tank battles, Resources: Robocode home page, good Robocode intro article
2. Sketching User Experiences (audio chat): Creating better user experiences with Sketch, Resources: Book info, the Sketch a Move (toy cars) clip, the classic Bi-Focal Display clip, and other cool videos discussed in book, and some comments and links about Bill Buxton
3. Backgammon AI (audio chat): Computer program playing better Backgammon than human grand master, Resources: Backgammon AI, more info

The segments are linked to their individual audio pages with some resource links. As we are still experimenting with the show format and presentation, feel free to leave us comments and suggestions.

1. uPnP media server (audio chat): Something more on Myth TV. Resources: GeeXbox ushare
2. Brain Cancer Zapper (audio chat): Zapping cancer cells in brain. Ongoing clinical trial. Resources: ScienCentral article with video, ScienCentral extra with video, clinical trail info from US gov website
3. Super String (audio chat): The PBS Nova programme called “The Elegant Universe” is well worth watching! Resources: Superstring in Wikipedia, The Elegant Universe (streaming video available here)
   

The segments are linked to their individual audio pages with some resource links. As we are still experimenting with the show format and presentation, feel free to leave us comments and suggestions.

1. E-Voting security risks (aduio chat) – Resources: British Report on E-Voting, comment on British Report on E-Voting, comments on California E-Voting machine review (with access to source code)
2. Myth TV (audio chat) – Resource: Myth TV. And you can email us at LT3help at gmail dot com if you have questions in installing Myth TV.
   
3. NowPublic News (audio chat) – Resource: NowPublic

Each segment is linked to individual audio page. Here are the different parts of our first show with some resource links. As we are still experimenting with the show format and presentation, feel free to leave us comments and suggestions.

1. Show Introduction (audio chat)
   
2. User Generated Ad (audio chat) – Resources: my Gmail ad, Wired magazine article on user generated ad
3. Human Computing and ESP Game (audio chat) – Resources: Google Tech Talk on ESP Game, blog entry with links to comments and tech paper
4. Privacy in Social Networking (audio chat) – Resources: Facebook, Myspace, interesting article: New York Magazine feature
5. Time and Gravity (audio chat)
   

Welcome to “Lunch Time Tech Talk with Kempton & Sarb“, it is a weekly show created by Kempton and Sarb.

For many years in the 90s, Kempton and Sarb worked together in a large team designing and developing software for Transport Canada’s Air Traffic Control system (Canadian Automated Air Traffic System).

One thing they both treasured very much was their many lunch and after lunch talks. During those lunches and after lunch walks around the building, they invariably would start talking about different science and technology topics that interested them.

So the idea of “Lunch Time Tech Talk with Kempton & Sarb” is to create a platform for two old friends to talk science and tech. A place to share their views, interests, and insights over a virtual “lunch”.

Sarb is based in Vancouver and Kempton is based in Calgary.