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Braindead TechCast EP 87: Being ahead of the curve is a pain

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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It is amazing that between myself, Sean and Mark (our missing in action host) we have done over a 100 tech related podcasts and at very points we have made suggestions or prognosticated on some of the hotter tech subjects. Generally we have been pretty right on the mark when looking back but it can be really frustrating when some puff-piece blogger tweets an idea we’ve been advocating since day one and the crowd goes crazy.

Duh!

And people wonder why we bother.

Anyway here’s the posts referred to in tonight’s show.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Does Entire Show On a Webcam – Technologizer
  • Why Amazon Should Give Away Kindle Free – CNBC
  • Music Labels Tell Google To Remove Infringing Links - paidContentUK

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: Braindead Techcast, Google, Kimmel, Kindle

Braindead TechCast EP 79: WordPress.com goes down on the blogging world

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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As everyone knows by now WordPress.com went dark and in the process took down some fairly big blogs in the process. Among them was TechCrunch, Fortune and oh my god … the LOLcats. Now that is the terrible part of the whole episode as doing without our LOLcats just isn’t allowed folks.

Anyway WordPress.com is apparently back up and the world has been saved once more from LOLcat deprivation and we could continue on with the show.

Other topics covered include Apple and Google ad war looks to be attracting the attention of the Feds – which it should. This of course is on top of the Feds deciding that since a whole bunch of fairly important people are using the iPad they had better looking into the security breach that released 114,000 email addresses and ICC-ID of those people.

Most importantly though both Sean and I wondered if 5,500 years from now anyone would care about our shoes – or Zuckerberg’s cryptic hoodie.

Posts mentioned in the show

  • FBI Opens Investigation Into iPad Security Breach – Main Justice
  • Google Kills Its Homepage Background Image Experiment Early – TechCrunch
  • Judge limits DHS laptop border searches – CNET News
  • Feds eye Apple-Google ad war – Fortune
  • 5,500-year-old leather shoe is oldest ever discovered [Mad Archaeology] io9

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Categories: Podcasts | Tags: Apple, Braindead Techcast, Google

Braindead TechCast EP 78: A Gruber size bottle of aspirin

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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While there wasn’t all that much news today what there was floating around was pretty interesting – in a brain dead sort of way in some cases.

Both Sean and I both are need of a big bottle of aspirin after trying to figure out John Gruber’s response to John Battelle’s comments about Apple possibly blocking Google’s AdMob ads from their iPhonbe and iPad apps. Ya that makes a lot of sense.

Then for some reason we got side-tracked in to talking about Billy the Exterminator – and no I’m not sure how we got there.

We also take a look at the security breach that saw a whole bunch of iPad user ID information siphoned off the AT&T servers and yet everyone seems to want to parcel some of the blame onto Apple – I don’t think so.

Posts referred to in the show

  • John Battelle on Apple’s Banning Google From iOS App Ads – Daring Fireball
  • It’s Official – Apple Kicking Google Out of iWorld – John Battelle
  • Uh Oh. 114,000 iPad Owners Have Their Data Exposed By AT&T – The Next Web
  • Linden Lab Lays Off 30 Percent Of Staff – TechCrunch

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Braindead TechCast Ep. 74 – Does your ISP lie? DUH!

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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Not that any of this will matter since the Steve Jobs Effect is in action and everyone is hanging off of every word he says at the D8 conference but hey we’re gluttons for self-abuse so on with the show.

We start off talking about the absolute ridiculousness surround the whole Google gives Windows the boot story that everyone is falling for hook line and sinker. From there we have a little bit of a go at the Wired iPad app that everyone – except Sean – is in love with and how Adobe thinks its creation tools for iPad magazines is all the snizzle.

The show ends off with us talking about the silliness that is the FCC asking people to let them know if they think their ISPs are a bunch of liars. Duh!

Posts referenced in the show

  • Report: Google ditches Windows over security concerns – The Inquisitr
  • Google kicks Windows to the curb over security – what a load of crap – WinExtra
  • Adobe iPad Publishing Tools Coming Soon – Fast Company
  • The FCC Wants to Know if Your ISP is Honest – ReadWriteWeb

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