TWiT founding member Kevin Rose joins this week’s episode to give some exclusive coverage about Digg 4 and its new social-friendly features. It seems like they main thrust of the update is making news feeds relevant to you and the people who follow you, with later pushes for lending “tastemakers” credibility to help build the quality of the whole network.
Due to Facebook’s decline in popularity in the tech world, just the tiniest spark of news about a Google-powered competitor has set the scene ablaze. Google Me was initially...
Diggnation has been going crazy with the live shows recently and this week’s episode was shot live in Arizona. Things get a little rowdy with the Go Daddy girls and Kevin hits a ball with a golf club right at an audience member. No one was hurt and the person actually caught the incident on video with the ball hitting the camera. Kevin, for future reference, don’t hit balls with golf clubs at people.
Starting out the stories this week is the new Chevy Volt which is due to debut in 2011 at a claimed 230 miles per gallon– not...
This episode was recorded last week while Alex and Kevin were in Las Vegas for their live show. It’s strange, but everyone seems a little more drunk here than during the live show, which was actually taped after this one.
First up this week is an unfortunate example of why you kids should be careful while having fun. The next story showcases just how untouchable Megan Fox is when even Seth Rogen can’t sneak in a peck on the cheek. Kevin feels the pain on this one, but Alex has other preferrences.
High schoolers play a big part...
First story up this week is about a bikini that is being pitched as a good post-breakup revenge tool because it disintegrates seconds after hitting water. This sounds all well and good, but how is this plausibly going to work? You either have to anticipate the bad breakup and gift it before or somehow gift it after the bad breakup. This is not going to happen either way.
The biggest real tech news of this episode has the guys discussing Yahoo and its partnership with Microsoft to drop their own search technology and transplant it with Bing. ...
The first story is one that falls in the “funny but it shouldn’t be” category. A nursing home in Germany came up with the idea of installing a fake bus stop outside the building to help keep patients from running away. It is actually a rather human and sweet way to deal with a tough situation if you read the story.
Microsoft sells the full version of its Office suit for the equivalent of $29 in China. Pirating software is such a common phenomena in the country that offering products at an extremely low price is the only way...
If you were saddened by the recent news that Comedy Central was not planning to bring the original voice cast of Futurama back due to budgetary reasons, you will be happy with this first story. Apparently, John DiMaggio, voice of Bender and others, was at the Futurama Comic-Con panel and hinted that things will probably work out in bringing the original cast back.
The trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland has been released and it looks like– Alice in Wonderland directed by Tim Burton. The guys have some reservations, and rightfully...
The first story up front here is the Nazi stealth fighter. As Kevin and Alex cover, this was basically an American stealth bomber 20 years before its inception. It is pretty amazing to see how hostory could have been so different with just a few tweaks.
Tim Burton has been at the forefront of visual design in films for the past 15 years and now he is putting his spin on Alice in Wonderland. The concept art alone shows that this movie is starting in the right place. This is the kind of stuff we wish would show up in game design.
Kevin and...
Extra! Extra! Read all about it. JK Rowling is a woman! At least it was news to Kevin. Also, he says he could write a “wizard book.”
The story about the girl diagnosing herself is either really cool or extremely depressing. Either way, good for her.
This episode was obviously taped a few weeks ago since the news is Facebook vanity URLs and the story of Megan Fox missing a kid trying to give her a rose. Hopefully you got your Facebook address by now or what you want is probably gone.
JK Rowling gets sued, Teen diagnoses...
Kids these days. More stories about high schoolers changing up the whole system for those of us that were born in the early 1900s.
Microsoft’s Bing has proven to be a quite capable search engine. This may just be the first Google competitor that we have seen. The chance of a mass exodus to Bing is unthinkable, but if it proves to be consistently better, Google may have to make some changes. Remember, competition is always good for innovation.
More relationship advice in this one. Kevin always has good advice, but it’s a little...
Apparently, a 14 year old Australian boy found himself in a predicament when a fish went somewhere he didn’t mean for it to go. Well, maybe he meant for it to go there, but the real problem was when he didn’t want it there any more.
The guys get into a discussion about jealousy and how they each handle it after a story about a guy who found out his wife was cheating on him when seeing he in a video he procured.
Howard String has some crazy things to say about the internet and it baffles Kevin. It really is strange when you hear heads...
There is a new app for the iPhone/iPod Touch named Red Lazer that scans barcodes much like an application that was available for the G1 at launch, The problem with Red Lazer is that it doesn’t really work. The real problem is the camera in the iPhone doesn’t support short focus. Hopefully this will be fixed with a hardware revision at WWDC.
The guys are talking about the PS3 slim leak and subsequent cease and desist. Kevin calls it as being a deliberate hype builder. Again, we’ll have to to wait until next week’s...
We get some really great stories this week starting out with one about ATM scams. If you aren’t aware, ATM scammers have been attaching external card readers to standard ATMs to steal card information and PINs. Be careful using those machines.
There has been a serious problem with a naked wizard at Coachella and the police were not too pleased. They proceeded to tazer the “wizard” with a group of bystanders around. See what Kevin and Alex have to say about the incident.
Coming out of an unfortunate story about a sexual...
It seems to be coincidence that Hippie Glen and Pregger are not around this week and we get an unusually long show.
Disney has bought a 30% stake in Hulu and that means that Hulu now has content from almost every major network. Kevin says that this confirms complete domination by Hulu and he is probably right. It is now next to impossible for any competitor to catch up without a completely innovative idea.
Wolverine did VERY well at the box office during it’s opening weekend in spite of being leaked months and months earlier. It make...
The boys start out on an unusually strait-forward and serious story this week about Google’s experiments with Captcha methods. If you aren’t familiar with Captcha it is the system that verifies that you are a human when you enter a comment or signup for something on a website and have to enter some often indecipherable words. Google new method looks like a nice change.
The guys go on to talk about a story that covers some cool YouTube url tricks that can help you customize your YouTube experience whether you are on YouTube.com or...
Diggnation has hit the 200 episode mark. If you have been watching from the beginning it feels like those 4 years passed incredibly fast.
Kevin and Alex are talking about the prospects of the Zune HD. Kevin doesn’t look like he is feeling it at all from the beginning and he makes a good point as to why. Now that we have the iPhone, does anyone really want to carry a 2nd media player even if it is a little more capable? If it is not also a phone, it loses a lot of its practicality.
A Hulu App is coming to iPhone. Everyone should be...
