Posts with tag "Daily Edition"

CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: The Forbes Web Celeb 25 – picked from a panhandler’s hat

cbn1-podpost Tonight’s show with myself and Sean takes a look at the freshly minted Forbes Web Celeb 25 list. Not surprisingly neither of us made the list but we did realize that is that if you want a shot at next years list there’s a few things you will need.

Top of the list is the famous Mashable Stubble Razor with a helping hand from the patented Arrington look-a-like wig and a liberal dose of Tequila madness. Never mind about creating anything unique or useful. Just apply the above three things to your life and you could have a shot at next year’s list.

Finally Sean and I express some surprise over support for Microsoft’s Bing search engine as it comes from an unexpected person.

Posts referred to in tonight’s show.

In Pictures: The Web Celeb 25 – Forbes.com
Is Google’s One Trick Pony About To Be Euthanized by Microsoft – Shoemoney

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Six degrees of Twitter and burning bridges

cbn1-podpost In tonight’s show Sean and I cover a couple of subject starting off with the silliness of Italy thinking that it’s actually going to make YouTube responsible for the content uploaded by Italian citizen.

Ya .. right. That plan is going to work out real well.

Next up was a quick look at the next serious of great ads from Verizon in its on-going battle with AT&T. It’s so goo that I’m embedding one of them here and Sean will be embedding the other on his blog.

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Finally we take a look at a few famous names and how they have burned their bridges with one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

Posts referred to in the show.

Italy Plans to Hold YouTube Accountable for its Users’ Uploads (Updated)ReadWriteWeb
Verizon to AT&T: We Taunt You a Second Time – All Things D
Meh: New Claims That Teens Don’t Tweet Don’t Add UpThe Inquisitr
Don Dodge: The new anti-Microsoft evangelist – BetaNews

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Amazon, Macmillian and the game of bluff that never was

cbn1-podpost Tonight’s show definitely goes from one extreme to the other as Sean and I start out talking about all the strange and wonderful things that PC people do to their machines to either fix broken stuff or make the machines run faster. This came about because of a post I had just down over at WinExtra about folks that bake their video cards to fix them.

Ya. Bake them.

Anyway we return to form when the subject of Amazon and their recent dust up with Macmillian Publishers over the pricing of e-book sold through Amazon. Surprisingly both of us for the most part came out on the side of Amazon with their original but not the capitulation.

Posts referenced in tonight’s show.

A new use for your kid’s Easy Bake oven – fix video cards. – WinExtra
Why my books are no longer for sale via Amazon – Tobias Buckell
The return of the LP and the future of book publishing – The Inquisitr

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: It’s Friday folks which means – it’s Techmeme time

cbn1-podpost In what is becoming a Friday tradition Sean and I take a look at the leading headlines as found on Techmeme at show time. There is no in depth analysis of the actual posts that got them there but rather we have some fun with them.

This is followed up with a quick scan of the service we both love to hate because it is so stupid and yes we are talking about Blippy – the service that lets you brag to the web how you are spending your money.

Before all this goodness though we do take care of a slight bitch as a result of a post by MG Siegler over at TechCrunch.

A small sample of our Techmeme victims headlines.

BoomTown’s Apple iPad Day, Starring Walt Mossberg (Plus a Steve Jobs Cameo!) – Kara Swisher
Apple to target iPad at business users with added features – sources – AppleInsider
Unexpectedly low Apple iPad price forces notebook vendors to re-evaluate their tablet PC strategies – DigiTimes
On the iPad – Alex Payne
Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer – Silicon Alley Insider
Amazon.com mysteriously removes Macmillan book titlesVentureBeat

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Sean discovers Apple’s plan for financial dominance

cbn1-podpost There’s a lot of stuff being written about Apple’s iPad and whether it will succeed or not. Some are just assuming a slam dunk because it’s Apple while others are beginning to pile on with their opinions about what is wrong with it.

What a lot of the pundits are missing is the stuff that happened yesterday that has far wider implication than just one little ol’ obese iPhone or iPod. I wrote about one of those quiet revolutions over at The Inquisitr earlier today and in our show tonight Sean passes along something that he figured out while on the treadmill (ya he’s an exciting guy <snicker>™).

In effect Apple now has a four quarter money train and press machine.

Posts referred to in the show.

The iPad might be sexy but that’s not the real news from Jobs’ new baby

– The Inquisitr

Collage of Shame: Media Who Took Obvious iPad Prank Seriously – Valleywag
Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 42% to $9.5 Billion – Business Wire
Earnings take-away: Microsoft is still powered by Windows – Mary Jo Foley

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Apple shows the world the iPad – an internet ready Kotex

cbn1-podpost Today’s show is a little earlier because none of my fans came to my rescue and saved me from having to talk about the Save The World gift that Steve Jobs and Apple brought down to the masses from the Mount of Cupertino.

So there you have it – me and Sean talking about the Apple iPad. At least we do try and look at it with some analytical eyes rather than the “Oh My God I Gotta Get One” viewpoint that seems to be prevalent at the moment.

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Don’t forget your running shoes

cbn1-podpost On the eve of when the world will change forever as Steve Jobs brings us salvation in the form of some sort of tablet Sean and I spend tonight’s show talking about – Twitter.

Yes folks the mundane and boring world of Twitter and its numbers. Thanks to the crew at The Next Web we have something other than the stupidity surround the non-stop drooling over something not even here yet because this is where I found out about RJMetrics and their released study of Twitter.

Sure we could have talked about running shoes – oh wait .. we did .. oh well I guess there are the Zune rumors that we can fill out some time with.

As well I close out the show with a plea to my fans – the one or two that there are out there.

Posts referenced in the show.

Are There Only 15 Million Active Twitter Users? – The Next Web
New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement – RJMetrics
Rambler shoes Tweet with each step – Slippery Brick
Updated Zune software drivers hints at Zune “Phone” - istartedsomething.com

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Rogers Canada show why Ben Parr is blowing smoke out his ass

cbn1-podpost In tonight’s show Sean and myself start of the week with a look at one of the stupider things published by a leading tech blog that professed to be predicting the next big 4 things that will change our world.

I am sure more than a few people are going – which stupid thing and some days they might be right. The problem with this one is that it has made a total joke out of the value of the ReTweeting system not to mention giving Sean and I a brain hemorrhage each.

Before we get to that we do take a moment to recognize a momentous moment where Robert Scoble wrote a really good post with some ideas that can give one food for thought.

Posts referred to in the show.

To create or curate? That is the Apple questionRobert Scoble
What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big Trends to Watch – Mashable
MASHABLE’S FOUR TREND MISH-MASH – Broadstuff
When Will The Web Stop Being U.S. Centric? – Paul O’Flaherty
Rogers takes Android users off the air – bitcurrent

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