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S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Demo and TechCrunch
Chrome Fix
New NCSA SuperComputer
Frickin Laser Beam
Intel SSD
Dell Drops Ball
NFL Flash
Ubuntu Jaunty

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Let’s Rock
Jobs Monopoly
How Can This Happen

Cool Tech - Zero Gravity Micro RC
TechTweak - Google Chrome w/out install

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10 Year Watch - Google
Google Antitrust Suit
NewsGoogle

Edward Jones

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DVD Copies
Microsoft Ad
Cars are Hot
That Sucks

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70s Game Consoles
Bottle Opener
Cool Camera
Make Your Own NetBook
51 Google Blurs
Microsoft Arc Mouse

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Greenest Museum

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• This Week in Tech History 6-23-08
• Episode 33 - 5-14-08

This week in the Live Show, we talk about Google Chrome, Microsoft Zune and a lot more. A question is asked about passwords in Mac and we talked about Social Networks like Ning.com and how Chris Pirillo now is a part of this Group.

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Hour 1

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• 2007 - the Retrospect
• Ep. 49 - 9-03-08 - Take 2 Edition

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Lets’ Rock
Intel Drops Price
Magazine on iPhone
Marriage Made in Computer
How Viagra Saves Life
3rd Gen Zune
Nokia Music Deal
New PSP
Alcatel Lucent

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Google Chrome
-Mossberg on Chrome
-Some Fine Print
-Mozilla’s Response
-25% Still Use IE6

TCT Podcast - IOGear Wireless USB to VGA Kit

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IT’s Top Concern
88% Steal Data
Vista to Linux?

Edward Jones

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TechBuzz ustream of Birth
Page Up / Page Down
RFID Myth

Apple - get an iMac

Listeners’ Notes:
Are You A Weblebrity
PA in a Briefcase
Where’s your Typewriter go?
Want Batman’s Tumbler
Backlit Keyboard

YouTubin
Gremlins Take Over

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• episode 25 3-19-08
• 2007 - the Retrospect

Not really Tech History - more Geek History, but there was a small show from the group across the pond that profoundly changed my way of thinking - And for that matter, walking. Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired its first show on sept. 7th 1969. Between Winks and “Say no More”s, there was a lot I learned from this show. Like the fact that nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition….

Anywho - Also on TWITH you will find out about Zimmy, a Digg Competetor that was shut down, Google was founded, eDonkey and the Edsel.

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• This Week in Tech History - 9-15-08 - Part I
• DigGoogle - What Google Can Gain if They Buy Digg

Digg grew to a powerhouse site in a very short time. The Popular News Aggregator service continues to be a great place for people to not only read news, but also contribute to what they think is news. Alexa reports that Digg has been fluctuating around the top 100 to 150 sites being viewed. 52.5% of those viewers are in the US.

The rumor mill is stirring up again that Google has put interest in buying Digg. TechCrunch reports that the “Rumor” is Digg will be selling for $200 million although CEO Jay Adelson denies it. Will this be a good deal for Digg, or can they grow and survive on their own?

Digg started in 2004 by Kevin Rose, Own Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky and Jay Adelson. The idea was to aggregate news items and put popularity to it. People would place a “Digg it” icon on their site in which you could easily send the article to Diggs news feed.  If another person liked the site, they would Digg it. Others could just as easily Bury it. Some sites get Dugg so much so quickly, the flooding of viewers takes down the web page. It’s a very powerful medium, and definitely something that Google could use.

There are other sites like this. Fark is one of the oldest in which we talked about in a previous article on Geekazine. Yahoo has their “Buzz”, which is awfully similar to Digg. Reddit, Technorati, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon all have similar popularity systems. However, Digg seems to be more popular in the US. According to Alexa Del.icio.us, for example, actually has a decent popularity in Germany.

Why would Google want Digg?

Two things here. First is the voting system. It’s not only very sound but also comes with a ton of analytical widgets that can spot trends and keywords. Even more, a large number of people actually have the “Digg” widget located on their sites, some of them have multiple widgets just on one page.

Second, it’s the community. Digg has a lot of members that contribute countless numbers of articles. When a new article is submitted, it must first be verified so it’s not a duplicate. After agreeing it’s not and a quick CAPTCHA verification, it gets put into the Queue. Of course that is where the members really shine. They can rise that article up to the top, or drop it like a mobster in Cement shoes off the East River.

What does Google gain in this?

Like I said, Digg has some cool systems in place to view trends and keywords. Their “Digg Labs” shows statistics as they happen in cool little flash pages. Trends and Keywords are big for marketing. Specializing ads, pitching companies with almost picture perfect statistics - All can give Google a better advantage in the market today.

It also can be great to see in search results. Maybe an “Article Trends” chart could be called up to find out when that information was most popular. It could definitely be put to use in their Webmaster Tools, Adsense and DoubleClick ventures.

What would that mean to Digg?

One of two things. The Digg Staff would either be incorporated into operations at Google - basically be called Google Digg or DigGoogle:  or Google would let Digg look like a separate being and cross platform with them. I would guess the latter is going to happen. Sometime full incorporation means job exodus and loss of creativity. Not to mention members jumping ship to other competitors.

On another front of this, Microsoft put in 11.3 Million in a 3 year advertising deal to Digg. If this acquisition happens, this contract could be axed overnight. If that happens, hey Microsoft - we at Geekazine have some ad spots you can purchase for considerably less. Give me a call.

Of course it won’t be the end of the world for Microsoft. Like I said before, there are other sites that are very similar. Digg will always have competition via Yahoo, Reddit, Technorati, Del.icio.us or on any of the other sites.

Bottom line, this merge would be great for both. Kevin Rose and the gang would get a boost for all the work put into Digg and maybe a shiny new title. Google would get a ranking system and analytical tools which in turn would also be bestowed upon the community of webmasters for their sites. It looks like a good Win Win situation for everyone.

That is, if it’s true…

Other Posts of Interest:

• Episode 30 - 4-23-08 - Weekly Podcast
• Fark vs. Digg - The fight of the Century.

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Bye Bye XP, Maybe - Register
Apple Raking in the Dough - Cnet
Did they listen? iPhone with a Keyboard? - Register
Microsofts’ Powerset Aquisition - VentureBeat
Guilty for Bittorrent - Ars Technica

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Cure for Cancer? - CTV
Apple 10.5.4 - ZDNet
AOL Price Bump - Cnet
Google Closing AdSense - Inquisitor

30 Second Promo - The Force Field

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Voyeuristic Ads?
First WiMax Deployment - Engadget
Family Guy on Google? - Silicon Alley Insider
Google Media Server - TechCrunch
Geocoding a Classic - Boingboing

Edward Jones

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First look Ubuntu 8.10 - Ars Technica
GoDaddy bids against customers - Nodaddy
Massachusetts: Tech Savvy - Yahoo
Prince Charles Wino Car - DailyMail

Listeners’ Notes:
Make Music with Slime - Fred
13 Best Movie Robots - Tom
Dell Sex Chat
iPhone Guided Tour
AMK Kids Instrument

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Other Posts of Interest:

• Episode 37 - 6-11-08
• Episode 34 5-21-08

A little later than usual, but we got your week in tech history right here. It includes:

Active Inc LCD Display

iPhone 1.0 released

IEEE Standard

Windows 98 released

AOL buys Mapquest

Other Posts of Interest:

• This Week in Tech History - 6-09-08
• Monopoly - Who’s next? Google? Microsoft?

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FireFox3
-FireFox 3 or Opera 9.5 - ZDNet
Verizon Blocks - Ars Technica
Solar Intel - Business Week
As Microhooglaol turns
- Google and Yahoo
- Microsoft’s counter
- Where does that leave Icahn?

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Spore
XP Ending - CNet
-Ignoring Vista - Electronista
Blogger Arrests - Ars Technica
iPhone for Free? - CNN
As the EAtake-two turns

30 Second Promo - Caffination Podcast

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Cyberbully Mom says Not - ChannelWeb
Datacenter Recovery Test - GCN
Why Women Quit IT - ComputerWorld
Cisco Sees Growth - Gigaom

Edward Jones

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Will GPS Make Us Dumb? - ABC
Are You A Blogger or Writer - Chris Bonney
LED TV? - NYTimes
Goodbye Bill Gates - Wired

Of Note:
History of Firefox
Mac Classic
DreamHouse
GoogleCar gets Ticket
Cosmopolitan Doesn’t Care about DRM

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• Episode 39 - 6-25-08
• Where does that leave Icahn with Yahoo

Lots of cool stuff talked about: Ping.fm, myspace, Google, Security, Wii Fit, Facebook, Streaming Audio, Stickam, Blip.tv, blogtv and a lot more.

Hour 1

Hour 2

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• Episode 34 5-21-08
• Microsoft Yahoo?

So is it Googhoo? Yahoogle? GoogleY? However you want to say it, Yahoo seems to continue to drive the stake in their hearts. Either Jerry Yang has hit a Yahoo midlife crisis or he basically said “If I can’t have it, no one can!”.

This mess ain’t over, either. Just because Microsoft has said they don’t want Yahoo anymore doesn’t mean Carl Icahn is going to back down. Yahoo is falling apart. The rats are leaving the ship. All the trees are still. Pick your metaphor.

First - is the Yahoo Google deal going to hurt or help Yahoo. Right now it’s hurting. Yahoo stock dropped 15% after the deal was made. Yahoo is choosing a bed to sleep in, instead of saying “I’ll take anything”. Being exclusive is nice, but if Google wants to drop Yahoo like a bad habit, they will.

Second - Let’s say that Microsoft is truely out of the hunt. Let’s say that Carl Icahn drops his proxy on July 3rd. (it’s hypothetical) If the waters finally calm down, what does Yahoo have?

(Rod Serling steps out): Picture yourself in a room on the top floor of a house of cards. Your objective is to carefully navigate the house and get out before it collapses upon itself. Here we have Jerry Yang - 39 year old CEO of Yahoo who’s put himself into a predicament he cannot possibly escape from. Add to his problems a bunch of possible disasters that he himself put into place to thwart Microsoft. Now it’s time to get out of the room… and enter…… (well, you get the rest. If you don’t, Google “Rod Serling”).

This is the very reason why Carl Icahn has to continue his fight and do some corporate raiding. I would support him 100%. I don’t have any stock in Yahoo, but I do have Stake in Yahoo. Lots of small companies have stake in Yahoo. Whether it’s email, webpages or some other Yahoo service, if the company falls hard, they all get affected.

Just like the new iPhone predictions, we’re all going to sit on the edge of our seats and see what happens at the proxy battle. I would expect some major changes coming down the pike. And just because Microsoft said “We’re out” doesn’t really mean that they are out. After all, this is the second time Microsoft tried for Yahoo. Business is business and the reality is Yahoo’s site stats are still in the top 5. Who wouldn’t want to take that over?

Other Posts of Interest:

• Episode 38 - 6-18-08
• Final Negotiations with Yahoo - Bitstrip Friday

Today I was perusing the news and so far everything I have seen and heard is over the iPhone 2.0. Within the next few hours we are going to be sitting at the edge of our seats listening to Steve Jobs give a keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA. What will he talk about? Will it be the iPhone? Will we all be wowed or disappointed?

The truth is…. I don’t care. Yes, this is a great phone with a lot of innovation and ingenuity. Yes, it can do a plethora of things that my current phone might or might not do. But what is the big turn-on with this device? It’s not a magic genie that will grant you 3 wishes.

There are 5 million iPhones out there right now. That is not even 1% of the cell phone population. At $400 a pop, I suppose that’s a good reason why it’s not there.

The iPhone 2.0 is not only expected to have new features like 3G, but also - according to MacRumors - will be accompanied by a $200 rebate, making the new version of the iPhone only $199. It will be a more affordable price and possible to saturate the market.

To put the iPhone into 10% of the populations’ hands would be a major coup. That would mean over 50 million iPhones in the wild. For Apple to do this, however, they would have to abandon the AT&T contract and open the phone up to most - if not all - cell carriers. Why? Well, if Apple wants to convince Corporate America to buy in, they will have to give them the choice of who they can get it from.

One of the new projects Steve Jobs already announced in a previous town hall meeting is to add functionality so the iPhone can be incorporated and used by Corporate. This is a big step for Apple seeing as they shut down their “Corporate Division” a long time ago. Even Business Week points out Apple doesn’t have any Corporate sales people.

Still, not all corporations have contracts with AT&T. Switching to a $200 phone with 3G might change a few contracts, but not enough to hit that 10% mark. Opening up the market to other carriers will.

According to Yahoo Shopping, the iPhone is the most popular phone. However, the #2 phone - the Nokia N85 - has sold twice as many phones. I couldn’t find a statistic on it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Blackberry Pearl is also ahead in phone sales than Apple. Why is that?

There are other fish that can be fried at the WWDC anyway. OS X 10.6 is one thing. The itablet is another. Apple might introduce a new “AppleTV”. Heck, even the iToilet might get some exposure.

The most interesting thing that I see is Jobs and WWDC getting free publicityof the event. Heck, I bet there are even a good amount of IT professionals that don’t know what WWDC stands for.

For the last couple months people have been yammering on about the new phone. Waiting in anticipation over the keynote, and eventual announcement. There are some that have even jumped the gun and posted “Hearsay” and false photos and information.

After all, according to Google Trends, what is the top Internet search right now? Well, it’s Leon Powe. But WWDC is 11th and 13th, and iPhone is 21, 33, 53 and probably a bunch of other spots. Still, many news sites and Blogs including this one are giving Steve Jobs the media push. Can’t say as much for the N85. Don’t even see that in the top 100 searches.

I still don’t care if it’s announced. If they do, that is nice. If they don’t I think I’ll laugh at those who made a big deal out of it and move on. In fact, now that I think about it, it might be in Apples interest NOT to talk about iPhone 2.0? Why? Could you imagine the press they would get if Jobs doesn’t mention one word on the iPhone?

I guess we’ll find out in a few hours.

Other Posts of Interest:

• New iPhone coming - Bitstrips Friday
• Episode 33 - 5-14-08

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Stop with the iPhone!
New Micrahoo Deal? - CNet
38 Charged in Phishing - ComputerWorld
Fake Name - Go To Jail - InfoWorld
Ex -AOL Execs Charged - AP
McAffee Researcher Charged - Yahoo

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Ars Technica Acquired
Firefox 3 RC1 - Linuxinsider
OLPCXP - Wired
SP3 STILL Problematic - PCWorld
Dont Fine Analog - Ars Technica
Wii Fit - Reuters
Google Medical - Wired

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How Google Friend Connect Works
Facebook for Sale? No. - Allthingsdigital
USB Server - PCWorld
When XP Won’t Boot - Techrepublic
Cell Sales Drop - USAToday

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Computer Barks - AP
Black Pencil for Apple - Guardian
Virtual PC 07 SP1 - ZDNet
82″ 2160p - tgdaily
50 Tech Visionaries - PCWorld

Of Note:
ASUS & MSI Photoshoppin a MacBook
MIDI Guitar Hero Controller
DIY ATOM PC
XBOX Pajamas
Keyboard Pants
Kama Sutra IT?
Power Tool Drag Race

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• 2008 Predictions in Technology by techpodcast members
• Episode 38 - 6-18-08

Now Micrahoo FREE! Site redesign - New Camera - Live Show and Talk Shoe - Job Hunt - Email Calendar scam.

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HP + EDS - CNet
Smelly Broadband - Yahoo
Blackberry Bold - PCWorld
AT&T the fastest? - Gizmodo
iPhone: 3G on/off - MacRumors
Punish YouTube Criminals - Techdirt

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Space Lawyer - Gizmodo
Google Friend Connect - NYTimes
ReactOS - PCMag
YouTube software Mac - Webware
An Earful - Canada
Pokerbot - codingthewheel
Bottender - Wired

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Android Payday - Techcrunch
Digg Town Hall - CNet
Interesting Rant on DRM - tidbits
HBO on iTunes - NYTimes
Apple talks to NBC - PCWorld
Peel & Stick Solar? - triplepundit

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31 Days / Dragon - Winners
10 Common Passwords - USAToday
Dell Gaming Revival - WSJ
One for SmokingGun - 1010wins

Of Note:
Coffin Table
Do Not Call List
MeeMix
Most Expensive Gadget

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What Else? - Micrahoogaol.- MSNBC
-Shareholder uproar - PCWorld
Microsoft Cloud Computing - CNN
Yahoogle - CNet
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Google vs. Verizon - Engadget
ooVoo Mac - *Techwhack
Facebook hires Google VP - TechCrunch
iStarbucks Workaround - MacRumors
GeekSquad Lawsuit - tgdaily
Wiretaps up - ArsTechnica

TCTPodcast - Laptop Seismograph

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Zune 2.5 - Gizmodo
-NBC on Zune - PCWorld
NIN Free Album - InformationWeek
Adobe OpenSource?
iFakes - ITWire
Y2k for Gas Pumps - TechDirt

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10 Renewable Tech Gadgets - *CleanTechnica
Craigslist Spam - TechDirt
107 Year Lightbulb - LATimes

Of Note:
Prosthetic Eagle Beak
30 Ways to Live to 100
Lego Virtual World
SuperFoosball
Maker Faire Pics

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• Weekly Focus #1- 11-11-07
• 10-17-07 #3

This week we sit down with Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang to try and resolve this merger issue. Dr. Eric Schmidt also joins the group. Select the picture to enlarge.

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• Microsoft Yahoo?
• Where does that leave Icahn with Yahoo

Web Apps.  Can we live without them anymore? What did we ever do without them? Webware put out it’s top 100 and we’re going to go through them and see what was good, what was bad, and what was… well, you know..

Webware is a site dedicated to watching what is popping up out on the internet. Any application that a web developer puts out will be checked out and reported on by this organization. It’s a good thing, too. There are so many out there, it’s tough to keep up.

On April 21^st, Webware put out the list of the top 100 apps. There were ten categories, each with ten winners. There were 5000 nominees, and 300 apps were chosen as finalists. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to dwindle this list down to 100.

According to Webware, most of the winners were also winners last year. There were a couple apps that pushed their way onto the list. This might not be as easy next year as Web Apps are expected to be more widely used within 2008.

So here are the top picks:

In the Audio category, we saw popular names like iTunes, Zune, eMusic and AmazonMP3. It was great to see sites like Lastfm, live365 and blogtalk radio on the list.

The Browsing category had Firefox, Google and Google Reader, Internet Explorer and Opera. iPhone was the newcomer and not a surprise to the list. Maxthon Browser is a lesser known app that is great to see win in this category.

Commerce and events saw Amazon, ebay, Google adwords, Paypall and Yahoo on the list. It was great to see Craigslist - it’s such a popular site and not graphically driven. Kayak was the name I wasn’t familiar with. It is a Travel aggregation website - which means it will find the best rates from the other sites, then redirect you there.

In Communication we saw Gmail, Skype, Yahoo mail and AIM. Meebo is a multinetwork IM platform that lets you chat between AIM, Yahoo, google and msn. Pidgen also is a multi IM site. and OoVoo is a chat and Video chat site. Too bad Twitter or Friendfeed didn’t make it.

Productivity showed us Google Docs, Microsoft Office Workspace and Yahoo Calendar. Some other lesser known sites could be Basecamp, Mint, Remember the Milk and Zoho. It keeps reminding me I have work to do…

Publishing and Photography contained sites like Blogger, Drupal, Flickr, WordPress and Twitter. Good to see an old site friend in Worth 1000 - a Photoshopping contest site - added to the winners.

The Search and Answers section had a host of old favorites. From Ask, Google, Wikipedia and Yahoo. A new entrant is Hakia. It’s a new site that searches on common words.

The Social winners were MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo, Google LiveJournal. Friendster had some tough times and almost were bought out by Google. However they prevailed and joined the list of the top 10 in this category. I may never go to “Stardoll”, but for anyone that wants to “Dress up dolls”, this may be the Social site for them.

Utility and security showed sites like Amazon, Bittorrent, Yahoo, Yousendit and OpenID. It’s also good to see OpenDNS in the list. It’s a great way to thwart online rogues in getting your information.

Last, but not least, the Video category had a lot of new names in it. YouTube, Netflix and Amazon were the three mainstays. Ustream and Joost were ones I knew about. Fixmymovie helps clear up pixilated video. A pretty good service - I may need it for my videos…

The list is pretty impressive. Like I said earlier, it’s too bad Friendfeed wasn’t on the list. Pownce is another site I can think of. But there is always next year.  And it will be a competition to look forward to.

Other Posts of Interest:

• DigGoogle - What Google Can Gain if They Buy Digg
• Episode 38 - 6-18-08