The Drill Down

• Published:May 5th, 2008
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• Category:Show Notes, The Drill Down, Uncategorized

Reg is out this week, so we’re joined by Dave3, webmaster of Geeks of Doom, a terrific blog catering to geek culture. We discuss the decline of quality stories on Digg, GTA IV & Mario Kart Wii, a $200 3G iPhone in our future?, and Metallica does an about face.

Show notes

The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg
GTA game smashes UK sales records
AT&T’s 3G iPhone Is $199 This Summer
Michael Arrington - The 2008 TIME 100
Purchase New Movies on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release
Metallica Considering Radiohead-Style Release
Apple 2.0 Safari market share tripled on Windows after Apple gambit
Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails
7 Confessions Of An Apple Macintosh Specialist
Confirmed: Facebook Apps Are Useless

Recently, Andy Sorcini spoke at a Mixergy event called How to Grow Your Site’s Traffic. Here’s a video highlight of that event:

• Published:May 4th, 2008
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• Category:The Round Up

Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up - a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down.

In the eleventh episode of The Round Up, Greg gives us a preview of the brand new trailer for The Dark Knight, while Andy plays a sample of the new single Echoplex by Nine Inch Nails.

Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www.thedrilldown.com/ - and you can listen to Social Blend at http://www.mixxingbowl.com/

Show Links:

The Dark Knight - Second Trailer

Nine Inch Nails - Echoplex - at Facebook.com

• Published:April 28th, 2008
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• Category:Show Notes, The Drill Down

This week Mu regales us with tales of his trip to Web 2.0 Expo 2008, and we discuss Ning.com, More 3G iPhone rumors, the new Ubuntu, Muxtape, and KipKay’s big payday.

Show links

3G IPhone Due on June 9, Analysts Say
The second-gen iPhone: 3G, GPS, only slightly thicker
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) Released
10 Percent of Broadband Subscribers Suck Up 80 Percent of Bandwidth But P2P No Longer to Blame
The Pirate Bay Smashes 12,000,000 BitTorrent Users
Muxtape With Coverflow Using Fluid


Making Money, the How-To Way


Experiential Typography | One Day Poem Pavilion

• Published:April 27th, 2008
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• Category:Show Notes, The Round Up

Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up - a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down.

In the tenth episode of The Round Up, Andy gives us a preview of Forgetting Sarah Marshall with a tune from a rock opera about Dracula! Greg returns to his metal roots with a song called Weight of the World played by Gold Tooth - a hard rock / metal band from Saint Louis, Missouri.

Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www.thedrilldown.com/ - and you can listen to Social Blend at http://www.mixxingbowl.com/

Show Links:

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Trailer and Official Site

Gold Tooth - MySpace Page

Donut-Eye Joe

• Published:April 21st, 2008
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• Category:Show Notes, The Drill Down

This week we hold an impromptu podcast clinic on optimizing your presence to social media with Kellvin Chavez of LatinoReview.com. Later we discuss Twitter saving lives in Egypt, the return of the Mac Clone, Pirate Bay’s new blogging service, and iJustine does Madonna.

Show Links

Demonoid.com is back!
‘OpenMac’ Promises $399 Headless Mac… But Not From Apple
German Startup Community Makes Us Proud Once Again: Freundefeed
Senator: Let’s Spend $1B to monitor P2P for illegal file
Twitter Saves Berkeley Student Arrested in Egypt
The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service
New Facebook Feature: Import Your Digg Stories!
How to make a Sawed-off USB Key