We talk to Digg user FirstDigg about his amazing new Digg analytical app
Digg Front Page Data, and we find out exactly what the heck are poutine and king cakes…

 
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KingCake.com
SocialBlade - Digg Front Page Data
Digg’s Statistics, News and Views
io9. Strung out on science fiction
Poutine

Andy, Reg & Mu talk to Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc.com, an online document viewing and storage site. In the news, we cover an enticing new Apple patent, Muslims vs. Wikipedia, the banning of Wikileaks.org, Pirate Bay’s disappearance from Yahoo search, Portal 2, a leaked RIAA training video, and Music from Windows sounds.

 
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Show Notes

Mega Apple filing details next-gen ‘multi-touch input surface’
Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet
US Court order shuts down Wikileaks.org
Yahoo! Filters Pirate Bay From Search Results
The Pirate Bay Returns to Yahoo!
500 million Firefox downloads
Portal 2 Confirmed by Valve
Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too!
Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98!

The Document of the week
The Golden Age of Batman 1936-1956

The Round Up 01

by andy

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.

For our first episode, Andy gives everyone a sample of the music of Greg Weeks, with his song, Made. Greg takes a look at the geek fest news from WonderCon in San Francisco - with details of the upcoming movies Iron Man and The X-Files 2.

 
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Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www.thedrilldown.com/ - and you can listen to Social Blend right here each week at The Mixxing Bowl.

Show Links:

Greg Weeks - Official MySpace Page
http://www.myspace.com/gregweeks

Ain’t It Cool News - WonderCon reports on Iron Man and The X-Files 2
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35727
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35726
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35725

We talk about Twitter’s new feature, the end of the Writer’s Strike, DocStoc CEO Jason Nazar joins us to talk about his shady past, and a SEO/SEM wrap.

 
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Six Sigma - Wikipedia

Andy, Mu, Reg, and guest David Cohn discuss Anonymous vs. Scientology, Yahoo snubs Microsoft, The death of HD-DVD, Yahoo Buzz, the final repose of Steve Fossett, and “leetle girl, leetle girl!”

 
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Show Links
Anonymous group successfully orchestrates global Scientology protest
Anonymous’ Scientology Protest - Los Angeles, CA.
Netflix picks Blu-ray, good luck renting an HD DVD soon
Best Buy to recommend Blu-ray format
Wal-Mart Goes Blu-ray Exclusive in June
HD DVD Format on Death Watch
Spore finally evolves to retail Sept 7, 2008
Yahoo turns to News Corp., leaving Microsoft jilted at the altar
Exclusive: Screenshots of Yahoo Buzz, a Digg competitor
AT&T to offer iPhone tethering plan?
Judge declares missing adventurer Fossett dead
Call center salesman goes insane (REAL RECORDING)

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