Digg user Shazad Butt (OptimusPrime01) comes online to offer his opinion on the recent changes at Digg.
This week we’re once again joined by tech podcaster/blogger Lidija Davis as we discuss yet another Seinfeld Gates ad, Apple’s new treats, a Kindle killer, the impending end of the world, the end of the public face of The Pirate Bay, and Spore!
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Show Notes
I Don’t Care What You Say, I Love the Microsoft Ads
Apple rocks out, announces new iPods, iTunes 8
Apple launches iTunes 8, NBC comes back, TV shows at $1.99, Genius in the house
iPhone 2.1 update is out: bug fixes and longer battery life promised
A closer look at Plastic Logic’s Kindle killer
The Pirate Bay goes media silent
Large Hadron Collider comes online, world fails to end
Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
Google goes after 3 billion with super satellite
EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.
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.
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In the twenty-fifth episode of The Round Up, Greg gives us a sample of a new Tarantino produced flick called Hell Ride. Andy then plays us a song called The Show by Lenka.
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/
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Hell Ride - Official Trailer
This week we muddle through some technical difficulties and introduce a new guest, Lidija Davis of Australia’s Tech Talk Radio. This week, we discuss Myspace’s Tom Anderson: l337 OG hacker, Comcast’s 250GB cap, Mozilla’s Ubiquity project, Google’s Chrome browser, who’s making money from Digg submissions, and Microsoft’s moist and chewy new commercial.
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Due to technical difficulties during recording, the Ustream recording was spilt into many parts. Here’s the largest surviving segment.
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MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s
It’s official: Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth caps October 1
Mozilla Labs: Introducing Ubiquity
Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project
Amazon Launches Video Streaming Service: Look Out iTunes, Hulu, Netflix
Docstoc Brings ‘My Documents’ Replacement To The Web
Want On The Digg Home Page? That’ll Be $1,200.
An interview with Digg top user
Apple confirms September 9 Special Event: “Let’s Rock”
There’s Something In All That Nothing
Lifestyles of the Digger Famous: 3 Top Diggers on Social Fame
On this weeks show, we discuss Bono’s big “oops”, Apple’s rumored $129 iTunes subscription model, Microsoft’s Photosynth, an amazing new example of CG facial animation, and the most incredible gadget unboxing you’ll ever see.
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U2 Tracks Leak After Bono Plays Stereo Too Loudly
Apple hit with class-action lawsuit over iPhone 3G flakiness
Apple finally ready for iTunes subscriptions?
A third of new PCs being downgraded to XP, says metrics researcher
Microsoft granted Page Up Page Down patent
State of the Art - From Snapshots, a 3-D View
