Unsurprisingly, this week’s TWiT starts with talk about the Verizon Droid. Leo notices that a lot of his friends in the tech community seem to be interested, which says a lot for the phone. Mark Milian talks about how the iPhone is often praised as a good pocket personal computer, but Verizon’s network undeniably guarantees that the Droid will be a good phone at square one.
Comcast is now in the business of throttling bandwidth and Frank Barnako can’t help but protest. Since throttling is effectively false advertisement, it negates...
There have been reports flying around the web that Comcast may be in the market to acquire a controlling share of NBC. This could lead to some drastic changes in how easy it is to watch streaming TV shows over the internet with cable providers having a large interesting in driving package subscriptions. A play for NBC could be a way for Comcast to protect their traditional revenue streams.
The topic of advertising takes a big chunk of time this week. It is popular topic and the crew weighs in with their takes on viable strategies. Leo is a strong...
Andy and Alex have both gotten their hands on the new camera-equipped iPod nano and the impressions are fairly positive. While the image quality takes a serious hit when moving quickly, walking and in low-light situations, the video looks great in optimal conditions. Overall, it seems to be a great addition to the device.
The camera-less iPod Touch receives a lot of attention with the group again reiterating that a camera equipped version will probably show up in the next few months. The technical differences between the 8Gb and higher-end...
Right up front the crew is talking about the business prospect of giving content away for free and what that means on the business side of things. How is it that the big guys don’t understand that getting content out there will almost always have a positive influence on sales?
The 1 second commercial idea for this year’s Super Bowl is interesting. It’s just another sign of the changing landscape of advertising.
On a technical note, this week’s episode is a little echo-y, quite out of the norm for TWiT.
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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...
