As Sean continues his wild holiday somewhere in the US Paul and I carry on the fine tradition of Techmeme Friday tear down of the headlines on Techmeme as we make fun of them at the same time.

We also had some fun with a rumor about Sean receiving something at his hotel room that he then started playing with, but we’ll leave that to your imaginations – unless of course you want to share your warped thoughts as to what he is playing with. If you do just email us at podcast@winextra.com and we’ll share them on the Monday show.

Headlines referenced to in the show.

• Apple, Google, Others Settle Antitrust Probe Into Their Hiring Practices – paidContent
• Video of Zuckerberg’s chat with Oprah today – The Next Web
• Eric Schmidt: Forget Apple, Facebook, Bing’s Our Biggest Problem – Silicon Alley Insider
• Zynga finalizing biggest S.F. office lease in years – San Francisco Chronicle
• Facebook Blames Outage On Database Failure – Information Week
• Scrabble Is First Paid Game App for Kindle – Gadget Lab
• The Microsoft Tanker Has Turned and You Ignore it at Your Own Peril – NewsGrange
• Discover Facebook Pages – Facebook Blog
• Sony Ericsson Is Planning No New Symbian Products – Bloomberg
• Apple issuing refunds for Apple TV rush orders, citing delay – AppleInsider
• The Rise of Reddit: 4chan and Digg Get the Credit While Reddit Booms – The Awl
• Google’s Extremely Bizarre Pizza Video – Mashable!
• Windows Phone 7 will not be able to tether after all – Boy Genius Report

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It’s amazing. Even though there are two timezones involved both Sean and myself had our schedules totally thrown to the dogs at around dinner time putting both of us behind the eight ball. This is of course the reason why the show is a little late getting to you tonight but never fear it is full of all kinds of good Techmeme chain yanking.

Headlines from Techmeme referenced in the show.

• Android Will Blow Past Apple And RIM To Become Second Biggest Mobile OS This Year – Silicon Alley Insider
• Microsoft workers celebrated Windows Phone 7 RTM with iPhone hearses – Neowin
• GoDaddy Is on the Block – Wall Street Journal
• Exclusive: IAC Finally Kills Off Bloglines – TechCrunch
• A Time Capsule of Mark Zuckerberg From 2005 – GigaOM
• Google: ‘Android not optimised for tablets’ – TechRadar
• Stanford student creates YouTube Instant, gets job offer from YouTube CEO – VentureBeat
• Newsday’s Ad For Its iPad App Is Brilliant – Silicon Valley Insider
• Police: Thieves Robbed Homes Based On Facebook Posts – WMUR
• Facetime coming to iChat, Windows? – 9 to 5 Mac

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The end of the week and the beginning of a long weekend, it doesn’t get any better than that unless of course it’s Techmeme Friday – which it is. While I am not sure if Sean’s keyboard will survive the horrors that he feels are being thrust upon us on this lazy night of Techmeme goodness but I think it was fun.

Especially when it came to Duke Nukem Forever.

Techmeme headlines for the night.

• Apple gets Ping’d with comment spam – They didn’t see this coming? – Chester Wisniewski’s Blog
• The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple’s Undoing – Xconomy
• Trimming our privacy policies – Official Google Blog
• BREAKING: Facebook Now Displaying All Liked News Articles In Search Results – All Facebook
• Texas Attorney General Investigating Google & Antitrust Issues – Search Engine Land
• Controversial ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ Will Finally Be Released – Speakeasy
• Digg’s Decline, Illustrated – MediaMemo
• BUSTED: Anti-Google Privacy Group Consumer Watchdog Is Tracking Your Clicks With Google Analytics – Silicon Alley Insider
• Apple TV isn’t 1080p and you shouldn’t care – Crave
• Apple Building 2 Million iPads Per Month, But Shooting for 3 Million – Digital Daily
• iOS browsing is bigger than Android (6x) and Linux says NetApps – 9 to 5 Mac
• Mint Sets Spending Data Free – GigaOM
• Coinstar Builds Apple Ties as It Seeks Online Partner – Bloomberg

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Wow what a desperately boring end of the week on Techmeme. I mean when the high point is the story from Associated Press because you wonder when Techmeme will be getting a bill for over quoting you know it’s boring.

Headlines from Techmeme mentioned in tonight’s show.

• Paul Allen Sues Apple, Others Over Patents – Wall Street Journal
• Google buys Angstro and hires founder to help build social networking service – L.A. Times Tech Blog
• Find out what’s hot on search with the Google Beat – Official Google Blog
• Condé Nast, I’m publicly offering to buy Reddit. – Ben Huh
• In protest, Reddit rolls its own pot ads – CNET News
• Fennec Alpha Released for Android and Nokia N900 – Mozilla Blog
• Six Things Google’s Free Phone Service Can’t Do (and One It Does Very Well) – Gadgetwise
• Digg Responds to User Outrage: Upcoming Stories Will Return – ReadWriteWeb
• Einstein Would Have Used a Mac.  John Lennon, Too. – Digital Daily
• Patent Suit Day Continues: Microsoft Takes Fight With i4i Over XML To The Supreme Court – TechCrunch
• Clearwire Confirms New ‘Pay As You Go’ Service Is Coming – mocoNews
• Are Wikileaks Activists Finally Realizing Their Founder Is a Megalomaniac? – Gawker

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As always on the last day of the week we faithfully bring you the fabulous Techmeme Friday edition of the show. However tonight Techeme must have known we were coming because not only was it boring but they keep showing Sean a different line-up of headlines which left me refreshing and chasing all over the page.

Thanks Techmeme.

Headlines mentioned in the show

• It’s Official: Google Acquires Like.com – TechCrunch
• Facebook is the new Google – MSNBC
• Facebook Places: The Real Target Is Yelp – GigaOM
• Jobs: Software Update to Address iOS 4 Performance Issues on iPhone 3G ‘Coming Soon’ – MacRumors
• We’ve Moved to Facebook – Hot Potato
• Google TV demo shows off Dish Network integration, universal search (video) – Engadget
• Tweet Button Bookmarklet: Share links from any page – Twitter Blog
• The Future of Internet Search – Esther Dyson
• Digg’s Founder Kevin Rose Says New CEO, Website Are Both About a Week Away – Bloomberg
• Creep Executive Officer – Daring Fireball
• The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone – Pew
• Textbooks Up Their Game – Wall Street Journal

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Some weeks Techmeme can be full of all kinds of goodies that just get you salivating over being able to poke and then there are week’s like this one where all you can do is go DUH!

That doesn’t stop us from poking fun though so don’t get to worried.

Techmeme headlines that jogged our funny bones.

• Initial Thoughts on Oracle vs Google Patent Lawsuit – Miguel de Icaza
• Facebook Live Launches, Broadcasting Celebrities, Product Launches and More from Company Headquarters – Inside Facebook
• Wireless is Different – AT&T Public Policy Blog
• PayPal Talking With Google About Handling Android Payments – Bloomberg
• How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero, Steve Jobs – Gizmodo
• The problem with Google Voice Actions for Android – Googling Google Blog
• Zynga Hires Former Facebook, MySpace Exec Owen Van Natta – TechCrunch
• The $99 Kindle – Why e-readers will soon cost less than $100. – Slate
• Axon Logic Hackintosh Tablet May Just Out-iPad The iPad – CrunchGear
• Survey Says: 34 Percent Of AT&T iPhone Owners Are Waiting To Switch To Verizon – TechCrunch
• Gowalla CEO: Sorry Mobile Web: Users Prefer Apps – GigaOM

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Yes folks it’s that time of the week – Techmeme Friday and all the hilarity that it entails which some weeks is more than others. On that scale this week is pretty good with plenty of sacrificial headlines to be slaughter on the alter of punditry.

Some of the headlines from this week’s Techmeme that came under pointed ribbing.

• HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns – HP
• Beatles and iTunes Deal Still at Impasse — Yoko Ono – Reuters
• Here’s the Big IPO You’ve Been Waiting For: Demand Media Files With the SEC – MediaMemo
• Best Buy’s CTO Tweets Out Pics Of A Rocketfish Tablet.  Seriously, A Best Buy Tablet. – CrunchGear
• Bill Gates: Better software modeling is a key – CNET News
• Google and Slide: building a more social web – The Official Google Blog
• Facebook on ‘lockdown’ as it prepares for war with Google – VentureBeat
• New ASUS Windows Phone 7 Device Appears in Pakistan – pocketnow
• AT&T Downplays iPhone Pact Risks – Wall Street Journal
• MTV loses Web videos from Universal Music – Media Maverick
• The Irish Red Cross Sues Google To Silence Anonymous Blogger, Amplifying That Blogger’s Message – Techdirt

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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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