Ah yes. It’s Friday, the end of the week, the beginning of the weekend which means that it is time once again for – Techmeme Friday.

This is the night where Sean and I go through the Techmeme headlines at the time when we hit the record button and scoff, make fun of and generally disparage said headlines.

Some of the Techmeme headlines that were sacrificed for tonight’s show

• Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet – Aza on Design
• Samsung offering Galaxy S phones to frustrated iPhone users – Wired
• India shows $35 ‘iPad’ prototype – BBC News
• A New Way To Embed YouTube Videos – YouTube
• Most iPhone users love AT&T – Fortune
• Mac Pro Unavailable for In-Store Reservations at Many Locations – MacRumors
• Apple Delaying White iPhone 4 So It Can Fix The Antenna Problem? – Silicon Alley Insider
• Tech worker testifies of ‘blue screen of death’ on oil rig’s computer – Computerworld

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Just as the sun will set each night and rise in the morning so to shall Techmeme Friday. We don’t care if the only thing on Techmeme is Apple because it seems to be like that every day now. No, we would not let our faithful listeners down by abdicating our responsibility in ripping Techmeme asunder.

So without any further ado here are some of the headlines that got us started.

• Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users – Engadget
• Deeper understanding with Metaweb – The Official Google Blog
• San Mateo D.A. Withdraws Controversial Gizmodo iPhone Warrant – EFF
• Apple’s $100 Million iPhone Test Chamber – Gizmodo
• Introducing The Boxee Box, Bringing Web Video To Your Television – Silicon Valley Insider
• The Pioneer Behind @ComcastCares, Frank Eliason, Resigns – ReadWriteWeb
• U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs – TorrentFreak

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It’s party time folks as Sean and I celebrate our 100th episode of Braindead TechCast and of course we do it in fine style by being extra nice considering it also Techmeme Friday.

Heck we even have a warm and fuzzy moment but rest assured it is one of those rare moments that we save for special episodes like this.

So without further ado here’s some of the Techmeme headlines that sparked our jollies.

• What’s bigger than 1080p?  4K video comes to YouTube – YouTube Blog
• Larry Page: Jobs is rewriting history – Fortune
• Exclusive: Want More Followers?  Twitter May Help You Buy Some. – MediaMemo
• Judge slams, slashes “unconstitutional” $675,000 P2P award – Ars Technica
• An In-Depth Look at How People Are Using the iPad – Mashable
• Cavs Owner Goes Online To Rip LeBron A New One… In Comic Sans – TechCrunch
• Google says China has renewed Web page license – Reuters
• Loophole May Have Aided Theft of Classified Data – New York Times
• Lawsuit Advances Claiming AT&T iPhone Monopoly – Gadget Lab
• Why Facebook Killed A $100 Million Baby – All Facebook
• Blizzard Reverses Plans To Require Real Names On Forums – MTV Multiplayer

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Thank God it’s Friday even if it is a total write-off for anything even closely resembling getting work done. The saving grace is t hat this is the day that Sean and I get together on the show and have some fun ripping on the headlines at Techmeme at the time we hit the record button.

Here’s a few of the headlines we had some fun with or caused us to bang our heads in frustration.

• Did Disguising the iPhone 4 Mask a Temperamental Antenna?- Bits
• 77% of iPhone 4 sales were upgrades – Fortune
• Going, Going, Almost Gone: Foursquare Poised to Get New VC Funding, After Being “One Inch” From Sale to Facebook – Kara Swisher
• EXCLUSIVE: First Teaser For “The Social Network” [VIDEO] – Mashable
• Apple Retina Display – Jonesblog
• Remote Kill and Install on Google Android – Jon Oberheide
• The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace – The White House
• Coke sees ‘phenomenal’ result from Twitter ads – Financial Times

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I gotta admit that this week’s edition of Techmeme Friday is probably the funniest one we’ve done in awhile. Granted much of the headlines helped create the atmosphere of humor but then at some point our general nuttiness took over.

Techmeme headlines reference in the show.

• Introducing the Google Command Line Tool – Google Open Source Blog
• Apple Tells FCC: There’s more to the iPhone than the Public Knows – Patently Apple
• Verizon May Follow AT&T’s IPhone to Tiered Pricing – Bloomberg
• Apple secretly updates Mac malware protection – Sophos
• Ray Kurzweil Vows to Right E-Reader Wrongs – Bits
• Motorola to Pump Cash Into Spinoff – Wall Street Journal
• Pakistani lawyer petitions for death of Mark Zuckerberg – The Register
• Google’s Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords, email – InfoWorld
• Square Delays Mass Roll-Out, Admits They Began Before Things Were “Fully Baked” – TechCrunch
• The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks – Salon
• Apple On The Cusp Of Crushing Amazon Kindle Platform (AAPL, AMZN) – Silicon Alley Insider

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Given the fact that both Sean and myself suffered computer problems of one or another it’s amazing we both had any hair left by the time we started the show. But we surmounted the problems and pressed on because the last thing we would want is t o deprive our listeners of their Friday night dose of humor and sounds of our heads hitting the desks as we peruse the black hole of sensibility that is Techmeme.

So without any further ado here are the headlines that got us going from Techmeme tonight.

• Comscore Says It’ll Fix Search Share Measurement Now That Yahoo And Microsoft Are Gaming It (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG) – Silicon Alley Insider
• Just When He Thought He Was Out, Facebook Pulls Calacanis Back In – TechCrunch
• iPhone 4 at Wal-Mart on June 24 – CNET News
• World Cup Fever: Internet Has Busiest Day Ever as Tabulated by Akamai – Beet.TV
• Google Voice Desktop App Launch Delayed, May Be Scrapped – TechCrunch
• The End Of An Era: Hotmail Ditches The Taglines – TechCrunch
• Apple fears the killer app – Why does everything suck?
• iPad Hackers: Obtaining Emails Not Illegal, We Will Fight If Charges Are Pressed – The Snitch
• ITC to probe Apple for HTC patent infringement – Reuters
• Exclusive: Twitter’s Next Moneymaker-”Promoted Trends” – MediaMemo
• FTC Sets Apple Mobile Software Probe – Wall Street Journal

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And here you thought we had disappeared into the great big black hole known as Social Media, well think again folks. It wasn’t that we planned on a two day holiday in the middle of the week but circumstance beyond our control decided to mess with us each on different days.

But we’re glad to say that we haven’t disappeared and have returned just in time for Techmeme Friday, which has to be one of our favorite shows to do. So with out further ado here’s a selection of some of the headlines on Techmeme at the time of recording the show that caught our attention.

• A Farewell to Bing cashback – Search Blog
• Updated: iPad 3G Shortage Won’t Bar Getting Unlimited Data Plan, AT&T Says – Bits
• Zuckerberg’s Bizarre Facebook Insignia Revealed, And What It Means – The Snitch
• At This Monday’s Apple Keynote?  Help Us Liveblog – Gizmodo
• China Blocks Foursquare; Too Many People Checking Into Tian’anmen – techblog88
• Google’s iTunes Competitor Will Likely Be Called Google Music – TechCrunch
• John Gruber jumps the shark – Why does everything suck?
• AOL Isn’t Negotiating A Search Deal, It’s Negotiating A Sale To Microsoft (AOL, MSFT, YHOO, GOOG) = Silicon alley Insider
• Yahoo Wants HuffPo Badly – TechCrunch

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Ah yes, it’s Friday, the end of the week and the beginning of the weekend, which of course means it’s time for our world famous Techmeme Friday show.

Needless to say Techmeme has offered up a few really good headlines for Sean and myself to riff on, which, needless to say Sean does when it comes to the headline for a Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ) headlines.

So without any further ado here are some of the headlines that we discussed in tonight’s show.

• The next Apple TV revealed: cloud storage and iPhone OS on tap… and a $99 price tag – Engadget
• Source: Microsoft Bing Taking Over iPhone Search – TechCrunch
• Exclusive Video And Screenshots Of Digg Version 4 – TechCrunch
• AT&T to offer iPhone insurance for $13.99/mo – Boy Genius Report
• Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Open Source, Facebook Competitor – Epicenter
• Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5? – interfacelab
• Our new spin on the Foxconn suicide epidemic – Fake Steve Jobs
• Desktop Notifications: Now available to extensions in Chrome – Chromium Blog
• Android Emerges as Big Rival to iPad – Wall Street Journal

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