Shooting at Bubbles

Yes folks, it’s time for yet another Techmeme Friday where Sean and I spend some time going through the headlines on Techmeme and use them as fodder for our special blend of humor.

Well we call it humor anyway.

Headlines mentioned in the show.

• Airplay is Apple’s ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy - 9 to 5 Mac
• When Web sites and Web apps collide with IE 9: Questions and some answers - Mary Jo Foley
• Statement: Reports of notebook, netbook sales declines grossly exaggerated - Best Buy
• A New Movie Experience, Starring You and Your Friends - Facebook Blog
• Intel Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Uses HDCP Crack - TechCrunch
• Fly on the wall says Apple made Newsday kill funny iPad ap ad - Network World
• T-Mobile Won’t Tax Twitter Texts But Will Hike Prices - GigaOM
• Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It’s Down For Good - TechCrunch
• Global Wireless Subscriptions Reach 5 Billion - iSuppli

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For those lucky saps looking forward to a nice long weekend this podcast is for you because that is the way that Sean and I roll.

Okay so it’s our regular roasting of Techmeme show but at least we didn’t go so off the rails like we did last night. Close but not quite and we blame the formula for that.

Some of the Techmeme headlines we picked on.

• Letter from Apple Regarding iPhone 4 – Apple
• Life and death of Microsoft Kin: the inside story – Engadget
• Apple Hopes to Re-enter the Living Room – Bits
• How Many Palm Employees Did HP Just Lay Off? – Digital Daily
• “Arc Touch Mouse” surfaces – Microsoft to launch multi-touch mouse? – Long Zheng
• Apple Lets Google Sell Targeted Ads – Wall Street Journal
• Pressure-Sensitive Drawing on iPad – Ten One Design
• Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Swedish Parliament – TorrentFreak
• Twitter to Publish Shopping Deals Through @EarlyBird Account – ReadWriteWeb
• Mozilla: 2 billion Firefox add-ons downloaded – Ars Technica

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Man you gotta love Friday’s with the sweet smell of the weekend just around the corner and of course that also means it is time for Techmeme Friday’s here at Braindead HQ. Speaking of brain dead we lead of with what has to be one of the most brain dead things that Apple has done is some time (and that’s saying a lot).

Techmeme listings referenced in the show

Apple Starts Accepting iPad Applications; Launch Apps Must Be Submitted By March 27 – TechCrunch
Apple Swears iPad Partners to Secrecy – Business Week
One on One: Christopher Poole, Founder of 4chan – Bits
Hope You Enjoy the Smell of Napalm in the Morning – Daring Fireball
Twitter Search Results to Show Popular Tweets On Top – Mashable
Apple CEO Steve Jobs joins Schwarzenegger to push organ donor registry – Mercury News

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It’s the end of the week folks and you know what that means around this neck of the woods – yes it’s Techmeme Friday. The show every Friday where Sean and I take a rip on the headlines found at Techmeme – every tech bloggers dream aggregator – at the time of the show.

This week I was betting heavily on that Techmeme would be loaded down with regurgitated SXSWi stories; except I was way off as iPad crap seem to be the flavor of the hour. We did manage however to start the show of with a bit of a rant over a $5 million bonus  (not counting stock options) for 6 months worth of work – nice Job if you can get it.

Posts mentioned in the show.

Apple Estimated to Have Taken 50,000 iPad Orders in First Two Hours – MacRumors
Apple iPad — model A1337 — phreaks the FCC – Engadget
iPad ‘Mute’ button magically turns into ‘screen rotation lock’ – 9 t0 5 Mac
Google to strip unique client ID from future Google Chrome installs – Download Squad
Tim Cook Receives Bonus of $5 Million and Stock for Performance During Jobs’ Absence – MacRumors
Formspring prank story plagues Twitter – The Inquisitr (OMG did some-one goof?)
Brightkite’s Sneaky Plan To Get Regular Users Into Location: Group Text – TechCrunch

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