Archive for June 2009

The Round Up 48 – Surrogates and Against 72

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 48th edition of The [...]

E3 2009: “If anybody wants to see, there’s a Donkey Kong kill screen coming up.”*

Nothing stirs my geeky heart more than drama involving an underdog who refuses to quit, and good old fashioned retro nostalgia. Those elements combined Tuesday at E3 2009 when Steve Wiebe,  championship Donkey Kong player, and subject of the 2007 documentary, “King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” attempted to break the world record of [...]

The Drill Down 089 – Twitter (and other) Rock Stars

BING! The Drill Down gang drill down into Microsoft’s new search/reccomendation engine, Mozilla’s development engine and Google’s upcoming threaded collaboration software. We discuss 4Chan’s griefing of YouTube, CBS handing last.fm data to the RIAA and Digg ditching shouts forever. Later we play an exclusive premiere of singer Carina K‘s new ode to Twitter.

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