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Braindead TechCast EP 115: Techmeme Friday and a whole lotta dumb news

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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Wow, it’s that time of the week already and just like all previous Techmeme Fridays we have a boatload of really dumb news headlines from which Sean and I can derive a few moments of hilarity.

Techmeme headlines that caught our funny bone’s.

  • Discovering Who To Follow – Twitter Blog
  • RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on Apple’s IPad – Industries
  • The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets – Wall Street Journal
  • Android Wallpaper Apps Falsely Accused of Spyware and Stealing Sensitive User Data [FUD] – Android Tapp
  • Facebook Said to Put Off IPO Until 2012 to Buy Time for Growth – Bloomberg
  • MoneyBall for Startups: Invest BEFORE Product/Market Fit, Double-Down AFTER. – Master of 500 Hats
  • Steve Ballmer on the iPad: The transcript – Fortune
  • New York Subway Stations Will Go Wireless, Catching Up With Tokyo, Berlin – Bloomberg
  • Microsoft Will Take Steps To Block The Google-Yahoo Japan Partnership – Silicon Valley Insider
  • Sony’s Response To New Kindle: Not Chasing “Cheapest E-Reader” Title – Velocity
  • Did we pronounce privacy dead this week? – CNET

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Braindead TechCast EP 114: Time to start stocking up on aspirin and Gravol

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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So are you ready for the tsunami of 140 character messages that are going to be going at you non-stop once Twitter, and all the Twitter clients, start using the real-time User Stream API?

It might sound like a great idea but in practice I think it will be a far different experience.

Posts referred to in tonight’s how.

  • Real-time Twitter streams – excuse me while I go smash my head against the wall – The Inquisitr
  • Sources: Spotify Reboots U.S. Label Negotiations – Billboard
  • Old Spice’s Echo Chamber – Shamable

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Braindead TechCast EP 113: Real men can pet their mouse

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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Our English may suck and our grammar may drive people nuts but at least we do what we do with passion and without destroying any movie or television analogies.

Posts referred to in the show.

  • The Mouse Is Dead. I Just Killed It. Now Can We Move On? – TechCrunch
  • MG Siegler Destroys the English Language — Episode 4 – Plankhead
  • iPad gets odd rival in $150 Android tablet at Kmart - electronista
  • Is all your Facebook info sitting on some torrent site? Don’t worry it’s legal. – The Inquisitr
  • So how much do all those mobile apps care about your security? Some not so much. – The Inquisitr
  • Botnet hacker caught in Slovenia – BBC News

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Braindead TechCast EP 112: Those nasty evil file-sharers

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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Sean and I realized that while everyone seems to be totally enraptured with the every so magical Magic Trackpad released today by Apple there were other things going on as well. From file-sharers destroying the movie business to Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla aren’t all that they are cracked up to be we dig into the bullshit of it all.

Posts referred to in tonight’s show.

  • Forrester: Why Most Marketers Should Forgo Foursquare – AdAge
  • Are Location-Based Services All Hype? – ReadWriteWeb
  • Apple’s Magic Trackpad Signals The End Of The Mouse Era – TechCrunch
  • Abc – Hulu Loses 45 Percent Of Its Viewers – Contact Music
  • The Twitter Effect Isn’t What Hollywood Thought – The Wrap
  • For An Industry Being Destroyed By ‘File Sharing,’ Film Industry Keeps Reporting Record Numbers – Techdirt

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