Settle in for a lot of tech talk this week because this week’s episode clocks in at almost 2 hours. Jason Calacanis is on this week starting out the discussion with the start-up competition TechCrunch50, which kicks-off later today. The topic is talked about here, but the rumor is that we may hear something about the CrunchPad in mere hours.
The Apple event is one of the main focuses here and everyone has an opinion. No one can seem to get past the fact that a camera wasn’t put into the iPod Touch. This leads into a discussion...
Yahoo has relented and has given up on the search market. All searches from Yahoo will now be served by Microsoft’s Bing. This solidifies Bing as the #2 search engine in the world, with no real 2nd place player in the market. Jason equates this to Yahoo committing seppuku.
Apple is starting to garner a lot of ill-will from the tech press with their recent draconian business methods. Jason, in particular, is pretty upset and thinks Apple is one of the least consumer-oriented companies out there. This ties in nicely with the discussion...
A lot fo talk about the Palm Pre up front and it is not ll universal love. Leo makes a good point that if the iPhone didn’t exist people would be losing their minds over this phone. It definitely true, but unfortunately for Palm, the iPhone is around.
WWDC is mere hours away at this point and predictions are all of the map. One thing no one would be surprised to see announced is a new iPhone though. The rumor mill has been steady on this and it looks like a new, slightly updated iPhone is inevitable. There is not too much hope for...
Swine flu is a big topic these days. Many are wondering if this is the next big pandemic or if it is just part of the 24 hour news cycle. Leo is swaying a bit towards the former. Luckily, Dr. Kirsten Sanford is on this week talking about the actual severity of the situation and what you can do to protect yourself. You can also track the reported cases using Google Maps.
The news of Microsoft revenues being down while Apple is up is amazing. Apple provides a high priced product when compared to Microsoft’s offerings of very low priced...
This week’s show is a really great one. Kevin Rose and David Prager from Digg and Revision3 are on this week and Kevin is talking about his successful call of last week’s iPhone OS 3.0 announcements. He gives some insight into Digg’s newest product which is a link shortening service that is to be debuted within the next few weeks.
The backlash from the recent Facebook interface change has been pretty dramatic but not unexpected. The general public tends to always hate sweeping overarching changes to something they use on...
This Google malware site tagging issue was pretty major. It was labeling every site on the net as dangerous to navigate to. It really is amazing how such a big player like Google could make such an egregious error.
Pete Cashmore from Mashable.com is on this week’s show, as is Jason Calacanis. The guy’s spend a big part of the show talking about Forbe’s top 25 Web celebrities and they are all on the list. For those of you out there interested in trying an internet venture, there is a lot of insight to be gained from this...
We are lucky enough to get a clip show on this weeks episode of TWiT. When it comes to a weekly show, making a clip show is incredibly time consuming and labor intensive so it great to get this one.
Listening to all of these clips makes me glad I put TWiT in the top 5 that I put out a few days ago. The discussion here is great with so many different points of view from so many people. You absolutely will not find another tech podcast with a better roster than this.
A selection of good and bad TWiT clips from 2008, featuring many of this year’s...
The last TWiT of the year is creeping up. Next week’s show will be a previously recorded show with John Hodgman and the week after will be a “best of.”
I have heard the many don’t like Calacanis, but I find him quite interesting. He always has strong view and thinks he knows exactly what he is talking about, so I can see how he could rub some the wrong way.
Battery life, Google editing, LeWeb’08, and a look back at 2008.
Runtime – 1:34:54
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