Posted: March 20th, 2013 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: App.net, Apple, Google Glass, iWatch, microblogging, News Genome, news websites, PS4, Twitter | No Comments »
We discuss wearable computing from watches to glasses. Now you can finally look like an X-Men team member or Robocop.
Do you want to wear a computer on your body? Jeremy and I discuss how these wearable computing devices could fit into a smartphone world. We don’t see them replacing phones any time soon.
We also discuss the PlayStation 4 failure to launch. So, there’s that.
Also, should the Knight Foundation of paid Jonah Lehrer for talking about his past plagarism? Is there value from hearing him recount his past mistakes?
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Posted: February 6th, 2013 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: Apple, porn, Twitter, video, Vine, YouTube | No Comments »
Vine is setting the video blogging world on fire six seconds at a time.
Are you into six second video clips? What if I were to tell you they were sometimes porn clips? Are you interested now?
Well, Vine has some porn on it. Does Apple have a porn problem? Should they care about this? Or is porn just part of life, and Apple should allow it as long as its labeled explicit.
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Posted: January 6th, 2013 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: Apple, Flickr, Instagram, iPhone 5, photo filters, T-Mobile, Twitter | No Comments »
We’re a little late in launching out latest podcast. The end of the semester did us in.
But neither one of us is barred from our campuses, so all is well.
We spend some time discussing my latest smartphone purchase. After that we get into T-Mobile getting away from selling phones on contract, which is a BFD. We also discuss the new Flickr, Instagram, Twitter and photo filters. It’s not about photo filters.
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Posted: December 8th, 2012 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: Arab Spring, fair use, IDF, Internet, iPad Mini, Israel, live-tweeting, Microsoft Surface, Palestine, Twitter | No Comments »
We discuss the merits of live-tweeting a war.
Who exactly is the IDF’s target audience with their tweets? Unlike pre-Internet, pre-social media propaganda efforts, everyone in the world can read what you’re tweeting.
We then discuss how Fair Use is a defense, not a right. And because oft his, you often need money to prove your Fair Use claim. This discuss started off by discussing the watershed Republican copyright memo that was later retracted after we presume Hollywood applied some pressure.
Oh, we also discuss the iPad Mini and Microsoft Surface.
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Posted: October 29th, 2012 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: Apple, debates, Hurricane Sandy, iPad Mini, patents, social media, Twitter, U.S. patent system | No Comments »
Many of us on the East Coast are stranded and our work is closed.
As long as you have power (or your mobile phone does), we’ve got an hour of tech + liberal arts goodness to listen to.
We lead off by discussing the presidential debates and social media. The Twitter experience is better than the actual debates.
We also discuss the terrible, terrible U.S. patent system.
Stay warm. Stay dry. Stay safe.
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Posted: October 24th, 2012 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Notes | Tags: Facebook, News.me, Twitter | No Comments »
This is a bummer:
News.me, the social news service built on top of Twitter (and Facebook), todayannounced it is killing its curation apps for iPhone and iPad. The company is blaming Twitter for the move and says it wants to focus on its Digg efforts instead.
They claim this will not impact News.me’s great daily emails, but who knows how much data you’ll be able to get out of Twitter moving forward. News.me is the first thing I check in the morning to see what’s going on in my world. It always highlights interesting stories by seeing what my Twitter and Facebook friends are up to. I don’t use Digg and don’t plan to any time soon.
Posted: October 21st, 2012 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Notes | Tags: Facebook, social media, TVs, Twitter, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Well I’m shocked that people don’t want to tweet from their XBOX 360s:
Eagle-eyed gamers may have already noticed that the Xbox 360′s dedicated Twitter and Facebook apps have gone missing after the latest Dashboard update, and now Redmond has confirmed it’s put the applications out to pasture. According to a Microsoft representative that spoke to IGN, the firm is “retiring the Facebook and Twitter apps” as it works to streamline functionality. When asked if the pair of apps will ever make a comeback, Ballmer and Co. didn’t comment.
Updates from Tvs was a fad the last few years, and thankfully it’s going away. Why would someone want to check or update a social network from a TV? The XBOX 360 doesn’t even come with a keyboard, so I’m not exactly sure how this was supposed to ever work. All the data actually points to people using mobile devices to access social networks while they use their TVs. That makes sense.
Posted: October 17th, 2012 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: App.net, microblogging, News Genome, news websites, Twitter | No Comments »
Would you give up one of these to use a Twitter clone?
Jeremy and I discuss wildly reinventing the concept of the news site. Our idea is far from the typical news website that tries to mimic print in many ways.
We call our concept the News Genome, with the idea being that a news site should learn from what you like and don’t like in news and dynamically show you content.
But first we discuss App.Net. Would you forgo a few lattes a year to pay for it? And would you be happy doing that?
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Posted: September 8th, 2012 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: App.net, microblogging, Twitter | No Comments »
This week we discuss the new social networking dariling App.net.
It’s a Twitter competitor with a twist — you have to pay to use it and there are no ads.
Is this service worth it? Is it elitist? Will it ever have a big enough network?
We can’t escape any App.net discussion without discussing the recent Twitter API changes. They are the reason that App.net was funded, and why people are willing to pay $50 a year for a Twitter clone.
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Posted: June 5th, 2012 | Author: Patrick Thornton | Filed under: Podcasts | Tags: aggregation, AOL, Apple, blogging, Cricket, Huffington Post, iPhone, Maryland Juice, Twitter | 1 Comment »
The iPhone has entered the prepaid world, and that’s big news.
We discuss the implications and our hopes that this can disrupt Verizon, AT&T and Sprint (maybe T Mobile?).
We also discuss some very interesting Twitter data from a new Pew report and AOL threatening a blogger for doing what AOL Huffington Post does.
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