The Drill Down

• Published:October 27th, 2008
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This week on the show, we discuss how McCain campaign volunteer Ashley Todd used Twitter to perpetrate an elaborate hoax, Apple’s response to Microsoft’s new ads, Australia’s total Net censorship, the biggest hacker in China (spoiler: it’s Microsoft!),  Gmail’s new canned responses and emoticons, and…zombies in GTA IV! Advertisers: advertise on The Drill Down, and send us to Cancún! Email comments@thedrilldown.com

Joe The Mugger?
‘Net filters “required” for all Australians, no opt-out
New Get a Mac Ads Fight Back Vista’s Ads

Think Firefox 3 is fast? Try Firefox Minefield
Forecast: Legal P2P uses growing 10x faster than illegal ones
Microsoft described as ‘biggest hacker in China’
Gmail’s Canned Responses
Gmail gets emoticons
GTA IV Multiplayer to bring quarantine, zombies
Apple to oppose anti-gay marriage ballot question
Under the hood: New open platforms wiring Yahoo’s social dimension

Videos we discussed on the live show, but didn’t air:

• Published:October 20th, 2008
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On this week’s show, The Drill Down crew talks about Apple’s new laptops, Windows 7’s new (old) name and release date, our (potentially) first internet President, an enterprising and felonious TSA agent, an absolutely insane WoW player, the new Star Trek crew, and Mu unveils Tip’d, his brand new community for financial news, ideas, and tips.

The live Ustream show crashed on us several times this week, so no Ustream link this week unfortunately.

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Apple’s all-new MacBook Pro packs new NVIDIA GPUs, glass trackpad
Apple’s Steve Jobs calls Blu-ray “a bag of hurt”
Windows 7 to be officially named… Windows 7
Obama Would Be Our First Internet President
Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law
TSA agent helped himself to a $47,900 camera (and more!)
WoW Player Has 36 Accounts, Raids by Himself
Tip’d – A community for financial news, ideas, and tips
Twitter Replaces CEO With Co-Founder Williams
LittleBigPlanet Faces Worldwide Recall For Qur’an References
Star Trek Reveals Galore: Kirk, Spock, Nero, Full Crew and More!
Awesome F-35B Video Shows US Marines Already Have Transformers
First teaser trailer for Bioshock 2

• Published:October 13th, 2008
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This week on the show we discuss Apple’s new rumored notebooks, Google’s Mail Goggles, YouTube reads your comments back to you, how premature ejaculators may be better gamers, and Reg calls bloggers to arms to write about Digg.

Show Notes

Apple Teases New Notebook, Rumored Under $1,000
Google Mail Goggles aims to end drunken email embarrassment

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Santa Cruz University Fights Back at RIAA
Read Blog Feeds Like a Magazine with Opera 9.6
Digg’s Kevin Rose: “We have to do better”
Rose wants key Diggers to keep influence
Time to Act: Call for Blog Posts About Digg 10-12-2008
Premature ejaculators might be better at games
Oops, I voted for Rick Astley 961 times

• Published:October 6th, 2008
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We tread familiar ground again this week as we discuss another round of bannings on Digg.com. Wal-mart embraces DRM-free music. Apple allows iPhone app developers to talk to one another again, China spies on Skype, Google pushes a new green initiative and the first privately developed rocket has made it into space.

Official google.org Blog: Clean Energy 2030
Nintendo announces DSi with dual cameras, “DSi Shop” content store
ASUS Launches Fashion-Friendly Eee PC Model, S101
Amazon Kindle 2

• Published:September 29th, 2008
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This week we welcome BlogWell’s Lidija Davis as The Drill Down’s first official fourth regular member. Everybody, please make her feel at home! On this week’s show, we discuss the first official phone loaded with Google’s Android OS, Adobe CS4 (and software piracy), Jack Thompson’s disbarment, and the end of “Bond…James Bond.”

T-Mobile G1 first hands-on
Android: Google’s Dream, Apple’s Nightmare?
11 ways Android will kick the iPhone’s ass
Adobe unveils CS4 suite
The Pirate Bay Tops 15 Million Peers
YouTube - Wario Land
Jack Thompson Disbarred
Thompson Responds To Disbarment
Project 10 to the 100th

Owen Byrne: Former Digg programmer ready for his book deal
Digg gets $28.7M boost, plans to double size, go global
New Bond blockbuster drops the catchphrases