Posts with tag "Daily Edition"

CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Techmeme Friday – fun and yuks for everyone

cbn1-podpost Friday are meant for fun and relaxation after a hard week of work and it is no different for cynical old bastards like Sean and myself. So starting this Friday we’re going to try something different. Our target will be Techmeme at its headline list at the time of the show.

No pre-amble, no in depth analysis. Just fun quick rips on the headlines and what we might already know about the stories – or the people who wrote them.

Some of the targets in tonight’s show

Understanding the web to make search more relevant
Google’s Brin And Page To Sell Off Shares; Give Up Majority Voting Power Over Five Years
Microsoft shakes up its Entertainment and Devices unit
Journalists’ Social Media Sideshow Will Prove Nothing
Judge reduces $2M music-sharing verdict to $54k
Twitter Starts Rolling Out Local Trends (Pictures)

I Don’t Care About Your Apple Tablet Rumor – Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins
The whole Apple tablet thing makes no sense – The Inquisitr

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: It’s gonna be a tough year for free

cbn1-podpost A day doesn’t go by it seems were we aren’t hearing yet another story about some free service turning tail and running back home to the land of pay.

Tonight’s show with myself and Sean take a look at two of the newest victims in the battle to kill off free. The first such victim could hold some pretty potentially serious ramifications throughout the whole web.

That news being that the European Union has approved the sale of SUN to Oracle which means that MySQL now will be under the thumb of the most proprietary database software company in the world – never mind the web. What the finalization of the sale means for MySQL is still pretty much speculation but somehow I don’t think it will bode well.

Following that we look at the news that Hulu will be implementing some kind of subscription service – well as soon as they figure out the details. Neither Sean or myself think very much of the idea but then in my case it doesn’t matter since we can’t get Hulu in Canada.

Posts referred to in the show.

At Hulu, ‘free’ may soon turn into ‘fee’ – LA Times
Sun CEO: Go Oracle! [Internal Memo] – All Things D

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast

cbn1-podpost Talk of subscriptions and delusions of hearing great Cha-Chings of the nickels and dimes are slowly taking over the Web. In tonight’s show Sean and myself take a look at this growing trend of companies looking to rescue themselves from oblivion by jumping on the great subscription train that is beginning to gather steam.

Never mind the fact that consumers on the web are not an inexhaustible supply of monthly subscriptions. At some point this to will come crashing down and businesses will be back looking to salvage themselves.

Posts referred to in the show:

Bankruptcy by a thousand subscriptions – The Inquisitr
How To: Save Up To $600 a Month on Cable and Mobile Costs – SiliconAngle
What Ever Happened To TV Guide? – TechnoBuffalo

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: The highs and lows of Twitter

cbn1-podpost It is a sort of Twitter mish mash night where myself and Sean take a look at some of the news happening on Twitter and about Twitter.

First up is the tirade that seems to be going on as @1938media – otherwise known as Loren Feldman – has been on a bit of a tirade against the web’s favorite easily driven to tears blogger: @Scobleizer.

Not really sure what started this avalanche of vitriol but damn there are some strong opinions being expressed by Loren.

Sean then takes us off into a bit of a rant over the stupid reaction to the news that Twitter’s growth has only been 3.5% which seems to have brought the naysayers out in full force.

After a brief sidestep into a bit of a discussion about the Windows phone rumors we end off the show talking about the newest member of Twitter – @billgates himself. Just don’t expect him to follow you back. I know I’m not.

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Watch what you say on Twitter it could get you arrested

cbn1-podpost Tonight’s show with Sean and myself returns to look at the idiocy and good things that happen within the Twittersphere.

It starts off with a discussion about the gentleman arrested in England for a statement he made on Twitter about blowing up an airport. It then digresses, as we are want to do, in to a larger discussion about police, privacy and one is become more para-military like and the other is being diminished.

We end up the show talking about Haiti and the effect that Twitter and the larger social media world has had on getting both the media attention and as a result world attention turned to Haiti as quickly as it did.

Posts reference in the show.

Facebooks Privacy Changes Help To Criminalize Us All – Paul O’Flaherty
Chicago Transit Authority urges commuters to report photographers – Carlos Miller

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CobWEBS Daily Edition podcast: Social Media is all about a shift in power

cbn1-podpost Tonight’s show with Sean and myself centers around much of the day’s news that had to to with the FTC. From making silly statements about not really knowing how to enforce their regulations on blogger disclosure through to playing footsie with tech companies in their Net Neutrality hearings.

The show’s conversation wound its way around to the talking about the copyright laws and how they are under attack as well as the effect that Social Media is having on our society in ways that is unnerving to some.

Posts referred to in the show.

FTC Not Sure How to Enforce Blogger Disclosure Rules – Wall Street Journal
Net Neutrality is a good thing as long as it screws with copyrightsThe Inquisitr

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Louis goes for a boinking network, Leo shows hip hop love

cbn1-podpost Even at the height of a disaster of unimaginable proportions it seems that some people just can’t help but prove how much of an idiot that they are.

Yes we did mention ‘Doofus’ Robertson but we also highlight one jerk off who just had to make reference to the difference in where the most SMS text donations were made. After which he tried to do some smack talk about the Bible Belt being cheap.

Of course you know that giving today is the day that Blippy went live we just couldn’t help ourselves and had some fun with the whole thing. Not too mention the fact that if everyone thinks Blippy is so cool then Louis Gray has a real winner of an idea on his hands. We say go for it Louis – you’ll have VCs hammering down your door.

Posts referenced in show.

Tech companies adding to the relief effort for Haiti – The Inquisitr
Pat Robertson Haiti Comments – Sean P. Aune
leolaporte is using Blippy – Leo Leporte
Can We Live In Private and Demand Companies Be Open? – Louis Gray

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Get a grip, Google smack talk isn’t about China’s censorship

cbn1-podpost In tonight’s show Sean and I go after the easy target of the day’s happenings because that’s just how we roll. First though Sean gets the fact that he was wrong (and I was right <snicker>) in yesterday’s show when it came to Google’s learning how to screw its customers.

Anyway once that was dealt with we got on with the meat of today’s show which of course had to do with the late breaking news that Google is threatening to pull up stakes in China because of the whole censorship thing. Except its not and it had nothing to do with censorship.

Post referenced in the show:

Corporate Bravery from GoogleRobert Scoble
Google’s “we’ll leave China” has nothing to do with censorship – The Inquisitr
Google Is Just Saber Rattling And Won’t Pull Out Of China – Paul O’Flaherty

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