The Drill Down

The Drill Down 151 – Surfing With The Aliens

andy — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:30:08 +0000

The Drill Down crew is proud to welcome to the show Reddit admins Chris “KeyserSosa” Slowe and Mike “Raldi” Schiraldi. Chris and Mike discuss Reddit Gold, Reddit’s stance on ads for CA Prop 19, and Ben Huh’s public offer to buy Reddit. Later we discuss Digg’s Version 4, their revolting users, and their exodus from Digg to Reddit, Digg’s ‘broken covenant’, Kevin Rose addresses users’ concerns, and Digg gets a new CEO.

UStream encountered many connectivity issues during this recording, so no video this week.

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The Drill Down 150 – Le Digg est mort, vive le Digg!

andy — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:30:17 +0000

Chris 'Crispy' Lloyd of Dragon*Con TV

This week, The Drill Down Crew welcome Dragon*Con TV‘s Chris ‘Crispy’ Lloyd, who talks about his upcoming involvement in Dragon*Con, and shares with us his latest video, Vaderex. Later we discuss Leo Laporte’s cautionary disenchantment with social media, accusations of rape leveled against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Intel’s recent purchase of McAfee, reactions to the new Digg version 4, Portal 2′s release date (and cast!), and the most inspired viral marketing stunt since Old Spice on YouTube.

Discussion of Digg v4 on audio begins at appx 38 min.

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Digg V4 discussion video highlights:

Part 1 Part 2

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Vaderex @ Dragon*ConTV

Stormtroopers Gone Wild! (dragoncontv.com)

Portal 2 Dated, Gets Stephen Merchant on Cast

The Last Exorcism – BEST OF Chatroulette reactions

The Drill Down 149 – Is The Web Dead?

andy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:30:00 +0000

This week, the crew tackles Chris Anderson & Michael Wolff’s incendiary piece in Wired, “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet“. We also discuss Facebook’s new Places geolocation feature, AT&T’s take on Google/Verizon’s Net Neutrality proposal, a recent poll that shows a third of AT&T’s users would switch to Verizon if the iPhone were available there, Hulu’s potential IPO listing, Sony Ericsson’s upcoming new PSP-like Android phone, Twitter’s new “followed by” lists, advertisers’ frustration with Apple’s tight control of iAds, and…do iPhone users have more sex?

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The Drill Down 148 – Investigating the Digg Patriots

andy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:30:42 +0000

This week the Drill Down team welcome Ole Ole Olson, aka Digg user Novenator, lead investigator of the Digg Patriots conspiracy scandal. He breaks down his investigation and fields questions from the TDD audience. Later we discuss Skype’s IPO offering, Google and Verizon’s proposal for Net Neutrality, HP’s CEO Mark Hurd leaves amidst alleged sexual harassment claims, Twitter launches tweet buttons, and 4Chan’s founder explains the finer points of the site to a federal court.

Just can’t enough Digg Patriots news? Both sides appeared independently on Banned On The Web (The DP crew) and Social Blade (Patriots vs. Investigators) this week. Also, check out Nightly Media for full Digg Patriots coverage.

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The Drill Down 147 – What’s Brewing with Zack Luye

andy — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:30:57 +0000

This week we’re happy to have as our guest video producer and creator of Bottles, Blends and Brews podcast Zack Luye. Zack shares his experience in creating BBB and the most unusual beverages he’s ever had. Later we discuss Nielsen’s report on how we’re spending time online, Disney gets into the casual games space with purchase of Playdom, Android sales overtake iPhone sales in the U.S., Saudi Arabia bans Blackberries, college students gain higher awareness of privacy on Facebook, YouTube expands upload time to 15 minutes, and RIP, Google Wave.

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The Drill Down 146 – Better Than A Poke In The Eye

andy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:30:24 +0000

This week The Drill Down crew enlist the help of Latino Review.com‘s Kellvin Chavez as we review the best (and worst) of San Diego’s Comic-Con International 2010. Later we assess the impact of WikiLeaks’ Afghan War report on the state of internet and mainstream journalism, A contract that calls Facebook’s ownership (and its 500 Million users) in question, how a 15-year-old kid tricked Apple with a disguised iPhone tethering app, iPhone jailbreaking now considered fair use, Apple’s Magic Trackpad, the end of internet addresses, and the Flipboard phenomenon.

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SDCC 2010: An Evening with Kevin Smith at Comic-Con (NSFW)

andy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:30:52 +0000

Every year at Comic-Con, Director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Cop Out) regales the Hall H audience as only a master raconteur can. Here is his 2010 Comic-Con session.

WARNING: The following audio contains explicit language and is not for younger or impressionable listeners.

The Drill Down 145 – Bumpers for EVERYONE!

andy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:30:11 +0000

This week JD, Mu and Andy discuss Steve Jobs’ make-good for Apple iPhone 4 owners, rival cell manufacturers snap back over Jobs’ ‘death-grip’ claims, NYT attacks Google, The Times loses 90% readership after paywall, is the RIAA’s business model worth it?, Arrested Development is coming to the big screen, and Inception twists our minds.

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The Round Up 084 – Double Rainbow and The Social Network

andy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:05:21 +0000

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.

During the 84th episode of The Round Up, Andy discusses the Double Rainbow meme that spawned numerous songs including autotune remixes by The Gregory Brothers and Gigamesh. Greg then takes a look at the preview for The Social Network, the 2010 movie based on the history of how Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, starring Jesse Eisenberg and directed by David Fincher.

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Double Rainbow Freakout

Double Rainbow

Double Rainbow Song by the Gregory Brothers

It’s So Intense by Gigamesh

Mashable: Double Rainbow meme takes web by storm

Know Your Meme: Double Rainbow Guy

The Social Network – Official Trailer

The Social Network – Official Site

The Drill Down 143 – Eclipse of the Dead

andy — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:30:40 +0000

JD, Tom and Andy talk about Apple’s official answer to their iPhone antenna issues (and why it ultimately won’t work), Apple’s App store is hacked, Finland mandates broadband for everyone, Amazon buys Woot! (and they in turn thumb their nose at the AP), Justin Bieber is pranked (twice), Ebert doesn’t apologize (but does concede), and Eclipse is a killer.

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