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The second day of the Live show was another success. Once again our friends at NBC Universal let us borrow the stage to show people the cool items we found while on the floor of CES. Todd Cochrane, Andy McCaskey and myself interviewed several people including:

• Jeff from PogoPlug
• Derek from Pleo
• JR from YouRockGuitar
• Bob Crane from C.Crane and the GeoBulb
• John from Aluratek
• The As seen on TV Hat

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The TechPodcasts Crew will be borrowing the stage of our friends at NBC Universal for this live broadcast at CES 2010. We will be starting at 4 PM PST (7 PM EST). We have a great lineup of items including MapLock, Connectify, Blue Mic, MakerBot, Pogo Plug and Yurbuds.

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The following is my segment for the 24 hour podcast. Todd and I talk about CES, the Day in Tech History, the Podcast Awards and the weather. After our discussion Todd talked to Peter Cox and the Litopia podcast.

The 3rd Annual 24hr Podcast will kickoff at 11am EST, and like years in the past we have an exciting line up of guests. This years charity is Ronald McDonald House Charities and we ask that you Donate a Few Dollars.

Featuring Special Guests, Open Lines, and Special Events! At 4pm Eastern the 4th Annual Christmas Tech Podcast Round Table will be presented. At 8pm Eastern the 5th Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards Ceremony streamed live in conjunction with 24hr Podcast. Throughout the entire event we will have some cool social experiments and stimulating talk.

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July 4th, 2008 – The company that used to be called “Ask Jeeves”, but is now Ask.com officially announced they acquired the Lexico Publishing Group. The LPG is a company that built a series of reference websites. Most notably Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. The transaction was an all cash one, and undisclosed.

Other items in Tech history this week: Hotmail is launched, AOL buys Mapquest, the eBay Baby, in 2001 the P4 1.6 was released at $294 and a lot more in the Geekazine Quickcast

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I use Twitter a lot. I wanted to stay informed, especially from friends. I decided to port all direct messages to my cell phone. That way I didn’t have to install a Twitter client. At first that was great – I could respond to people I need to talk to.

That has all changed with the Twitterbot.

Now, if I “Follow” the wrong person, I get a direct message:

Thanks for following me. I hope to talk to you, but in the meantime: here is a free gift hllp://i.am.spamming/you.

I am not impressed – In fact, I am downright annoyed. You want to get unfollowed by me? Then all you have to do is send me a bot like that. I’ll unfollow you in a heartbeat.

I don’t mind @replies. But the direct replies are the ones that go to the cell phone too. I am glad someone is trying to open communication, but this is redicuous.

So what can be done to change this?

Twitter could block directly direct messages – Maybe set up a blocker to direct messages until the two have conversed or a 30 day grace period has passed. Maybe even an

“Allow this person to DM you” option. Just because I want to follow them doesn’t mean I want them to spam me.

DM Karma – If your Karma is below a certain level, you cannot DM anyone.

In the meantime, I am going to have to turn off the option to SMS me for direct messages. I guess what was a good thing last year might not be so much this.

*NOTE* There are some that think Swine Flu comes from contact with pigs. The virus – H1N1 – has nothing to do with animals. It is a form of influenza that is circulating. Other variants in the past: Russian Flu (H2N2) Spanish Flu and bird Flu (H5N1).

It’s a fact – you have more germs on your computer keyboard and mouse than on your household toilet. We’re talking thousands of germs as oppose to only a few from a toilet. So when it comes to Swine Flu, do we have to worry about cleaning these items?

It is spring cleaning for me anyway – I reorganize and take care of items that I don’t normally touch on a weekly basis. Of course, with planning on moving, that also adds to the fun.

I keep my keyboard pretty clean. A can of air to blast out any dust, food or other items that get in between the keys. A handi-wipe to take care of the surface of the items – especially when I see dirt buildup on the devices.
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I didn’t realize how tired I was…..

This weeks’ show had Brian Slawin on from Busyevent.com. The beginning brought some technical difficulties. When we got going, we talked about CES, MacWorld, Palm, Nationwide Cell ban and a lot more. Since Brian was in a remote location (as well as my jet lag), we kept the show short.

This week, we have on the Panel Brandon Mendelson and David Schenberg. We had a great “Before CES” show. Of course, the first hour we talked about the big shows of MacWorld and CES. We went on to discuss the Twitter phishing issues.

Hour 2, brought in a lot of talk about Netbooks, Bai du and the Chinese target at Internet Porn, FCC easing up on Filtering rules and a whole lot more. Brandon and David kept up some great conversation as I was starting to loose it. But I got my composure back and continued on.

Here is the Video:

Hour 1

Hour 2
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