Posts with tag "Techmeme Friday"
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Braindead TechCast EP67: There’s no donuts

It’s that time of the week folks.

Yup it’s time for Techmeme Friday, the day of the week that Sean and I get to make fun of all the hot headlines that are on Techmeme at the time that we hit the record button.

Here are some of the headlines that we had some fun with.

Search more securely with encrypted Google web search – The Official Google Blog
FTC Closes its Investigation of Google AdMob Deal – Federal Trade Commission
An Open Letter to our Valued Customers – AT&T
Facebook confirms plans for ‘simple’ privacy settings – CNET News
Sayonara, iPhone: Why I’m Switching to Android – Daniel Lyons
Security Issues Could Force Facebook to Slow Down Product Development – Inside Facebook
Y Combinator Closes New $8.25 Million Fund, Sequoia Is Lead Investor – TechCrunch
Apple Officially Ends ‘Get a Mac’ Campaign, Revamps ‘Why You’ll Love a Mac’ Feature – MacRumors
US Court: RapidShare Not Guilty of Copyright Infringement – TorrentFreak
iPad Sold Out at Many Apple Stores – Digital Daily

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Braindead TechCast EP62 Techmeme Friday a perfect lead-in to the weekend

Yes folks it’s Techmeme Friday once again and we’re running a little late because we are still working through the kinks of recording and uploading to our new home for the show.

Anyway enough with the chit-chat here’s the headlines that Sean and I covered in tonight’s show.

Nexus One changes in availability – The Official Google Blog
WiFi data collection: An update – The Official Google Blog
Apple spurred police in iPhone probe – CNET News
Google Voice invites for students – Google Voice Blog
Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls – New York Times
God help us all, here comes 4chan 2 – CNET News
New York Times to Begin Website Charges in January – Wall Street Journal
Wi-Fi Sync app rejected by Apple, headed to Cydia for $9.99 – Engadget

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Braindead TechCast EP58: Techmeme Friday and The Patent Lawsuit Roadshow

Gotta love Friday’s because not is it the day before the weekend but it is also time for Techmeme Friday’s – the day of the week where Sean and I take time to go over the headlines at Techmeme at the time when we hit the record button.

This week is much improved over last week with more than just Apple to talk about plus our favorite blogger with his own theme song finally shows back up on Techmeme with not just one headline but two.

Oh and Sean and I already claim Silence of the Lambs as the next Twitter movie idea.

Some of the headlines we talked about

Nokia sues Apple in Wisconsin for infringement of Nokia patents – Nokia
Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Facebook With Zynga Live – TechCrunch
iPad Available in Nine More Countries on May 28 – Apple
Rivals are invading its patch, but Nintendo is ready to go to war – Times of London
U.S. Lets Hollywood Disable Home TV Outputs to Prevent Piracy – Bloomberg
Facebook to Add Location As Soon As May, Integrate Brands Later – AdAge
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare.  Awesome. – TechCrunch
Shop and Share with Bing – Bing
Now Borders Has A Kindle, Too: Here’s The $150 ‘Kobo’ (BGP, AMZN, AAPL) – Silicon Valley Insider

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Braincast TechCast EP55: Techmeme Friday & Google’s support number found – 1.800.you.funny

Yes it is that time of the week again folks – it’s time for Techmeme Friday where we take a look the the current headlines on Techmeme at the time we hit the record button. Thankfully this week we have a wider range of headlines to poke fun at unlike the last couple of weeks.

So without further ado here’s some of the headlines for tonight’s Techmeme:

Twitter for Android: Robots like to share too – Twitter Blog
Open Letter to Steve Jobs – Hugo’s blog
Waiting for iTunes.com?  Don’t Hold Your Breath – MediaMemo
Gawker Media seeks legal reversal in Gizmodo search case Yahoo! News
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash – Charlie’s Diary
Why it is too late to regulate Facebook – Robert Scoble
One in eight to cut cable and satellite TV in 2010 – CNNMoney
Family, Verizon far apart over nearly $18,000 phone bill – Boston Globe
Why iPad mags cost $4.99 each – Fortune
Los Angeles Bureaucrats Question The Transition To Google Apps TechCrunchIT
AT&T wants 3 strikes tribunal, government website blacklist – Ars Technica

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Braindead TechCast EP50: Techmeme Friday and at least a couple of really good ROFLMAO moments

This show was actually recorded around 5:30PM because Sean had to go to some silly concert but not one to be put off by small bumps in the road we went early with the show but that doesn’t change the fact that there were some really funny moments – like when Sean couldn’t stop laughing.

Now given it was recorded early I could have posted the audio a little sooner than this but for some reason my body decided that it was the perfect time to come down with a cold. Anyway that kinda slowed posting down a little further – with no thanks to Talkshoe either – but here we are better late than never.

Headlines talked about in the show.

Lost iPhone prototype spurs police probe – CNET News
Blippy users’ credit card numbers found on Google – VentureBeat
Cloudhopping – Twitter Blog
Lenovo emerges as leading candidate for Palm -sources – Reuters
For Web’s New Wave, Sharing Details Is the Point – New York Times
Understanding the Open Graph Protocol – FactoryCity
CONFIRMED: Fusion Garage SOLD ONLY 64 JooJoo Devices – UNEASYsilence
Dear Facebook & Google: We Are Not Your Pawns – Enough With The Auto Opt-In! – Daggler
Privacy issues?  Google engineers leaving Facebook in droves TechCrunch Europe

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Braindead TechCast EP45: It’s Techmeme Friday and is there nothing to report on except Apple?

Yes it is that time of the week again where Sean and I take a look at the headlines on Techmeme at the time when we hit the record button. Granted we don’t do a scripted show but on Fridays it is even more off the cuff than usual.

The really sad part about tonight that out of all of the stories on the front page of Techmeme at the time of recording the majority of headlines had something or other to do with Apple. This makes for a lopsided show because just how many times can you make a smart remark about Apple in 20 minutes. Well you get to find out in tonight’s show.

Some of the headlines we take shots at.

Dell’s 7-inch and 10-inch Streak tablets leaked! – Engadget
Apple in advanced discussions to adopt AMD chips – AppleInsider
Steve Jobs Says Apple Made a Mistake in Rejecting Pulitzer Winner’s App – Media Decoder
Search with fewer keystrokes and better spelling – Official Google Blog
Tech Sector in Hiring Drive – Wall Street Journal
Apple Introduces us to a New iTunes “Concert Ticket +” System – Patently Apple
Calif. cities dominate Apple’s top 10 markets – The Social
Security Experts ‘Shocked’ by Palm’s WebOS Vulnerabilities – Tech Check

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Braindead TechCast EP41: Techmeme Friday’s and no you can’t have our drugs

Of course the big news of the day – Twitter buying Tweetie – didn’t hit until after we did tonight’s show which is par for the course but that didn’t stop Sean and I having fun with Techmeme Friday’s. This is the show of course where we have some fun at the expense of whatever are the headlines on Techmeme at the time we hit the record button.

Where Twitter was the leading story at 11PM it was good old Apple who headed up the page among some other more mundane items. Here are the headlines that we had some fun with:

Apple Slaps Developers In The Face – The Flash Blog
It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor – Search Engine Land
Of course were hole fillers and why no-one should depend on only one platform – Loic Le Meur
Netflix Delays Universal and Fox New Releases, including Avatar PC World
Microsoft’s latest phone experiment – Reuters
Google accused of YouTube ‘free ride’ – Financial Times
iAd Solves Some Problems With Mobile Ads—But Not The Most Important Ones – paidContent
Who would benefit most by buying Palm? – CNET News
Microsoft Research’s “Manual Deskterity” explores the synergy of pen & touch – istartedsomething.com

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Braindead TechCast EP33: Techmeme Friday, Sean thinks suicide when told he could’ve been Scoble

Gotta love Fridays. Even though for people like Sean and myself Saturday is just another day for most other folks it is the evening leading into a day of fun and relaxations (we must be doing something wrong). It is also time for our Techmeme Friday show where we take a run through of the leading headlines as found on Techmeme at the time of the show.

Here’s some of the headlines we had some fun with.

iPad App Store Reveals Launch Apps, Top Seller Lists, App Details – MacRumors
Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt Spotted Together Again: Photos – Giszmodo
Jobs And Schmidt: We’ve Seen This Movie Before, I’m Just Not Sure Which One It Is – TechCrunch
Another Step in Open Site Governance – Facebook Blog
Radioshack search – New York Post
For the media biz, iPad 2010 = CDROM 1994 – Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard
BREAKING: Explicit Apps Are Back in the App Store — Almost – Mac Stories
USB Memory Support for the Xbox 360 coming April 6th – Major Nelson
Exclusive: Facebook Poaches Yet Another Major Googler-This Time, Ad Exec David Fischer [UPDATED] – Kara Swisher
AP Exclusive: ‘Smart’ meters have security holes – Associated Press

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