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332: Good-Bye Furlo Bros, Hello Majordomo

27MarApril 6, 2018

This is it: our last podcast episode. It’s time we stop talking about tech, and get in the game. We’re launching a new business called Majordomo that we hope other tech podcasts will talk about. As such, we feel it’s important to focus and see just how great a company we can make. But don’t worry, we cover lots of topic for our final show. Specifically, Facebook is in a death spiral, Black Panther is HUGE, Google bought Lytro, and Steve Jobs tells us all to have skin in the game.

Thanks for being an fantastic audience. We’ll see you out there.

321: Concrete Predictions for 2018

09JanJanuary 10, 2018

It’s the beginning of 2018 and that means it’s time for us to provide concrete predictions of what will happen in tech this year. We managed to keep the show under an hour, which is amazing. We talk about larger tech trends (telling you the theme for the year), we cover the big 5 oligopolies (Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft), plus discuss some small players (Snap, Elon Musk, Snap, Disney). It’s a great show and will give you a concrete foundation for the year. See the show notes below.

320: 2017 Happened Exactly As We Predicted (Mostly)

02JanJanuary 1, 2018

It’s our seasonal finale where we review our predictions for the year and review what happened. There’s a lot packed into the 45 minute show (the prediction show, #275, was 3 hours!) Each of the predictions are captured below.

313: Facebook Wants To Consume As Much Of Your Attention As Possible

14NovNovember 13, 2017

Sean Parker said in a speech that they knew Facebook would turn into an addiction, and created it anyways. We discuss a few points of that statement: did they really know? Is Facebook, and social networks in general, addictive? What can be done, if anything, about it? Pay attention because this is important.

312: What’s Better: A Starving Artist? Or A Fat Artist?

07NovNovember 6, 2017

What happens when a founder/leader gets tired of their main product and decides to take on a secondary product? For the second product, they’re no longer starving artist, but a fat artist. Does massive amounts of money and people help? We discuss this idea in this week’s podcast with many examples.

308: How Can Facebook Fix their Fake News and Ad Problem?

10OctOctober 9, 2017

Facebook has a trust problem.

The issue is fake news, and Facebook’s reaction to it.

People believe, and now there’s some evidence, that Russian operatives bought at least 3,000 dark ads which were seen by 10M people, 4.4M before the election. The aim was to seed discontent by showing over-the-top, extreme ads. Let’s dive into what all this means.

301: Is Snapchat Doomed?

21AugAugust 14, 2017

We’re back after a summer break and we have a new format: shorter shows with one topic.

This week we’re talking about Snapchat and asking if the company and/or app is doomed. Their recent Q2 earnings didn’t go well and they don’t seem to have a clear path forward. Can they figure it out before they lose too much investor confidence? We discuss in this 30 minute episode. The show notes are below.

Question: Is your personal interest in Snapchat raising or lowering? Why? Leave a comment below.

294: Amazon Shows Off Their New Echo And Microsoft Builds A New Platform

15MayMay 15, 2017

Amazon showed off their new echo: Echo Show, which comes with a display to augment Alexa’s voice control. Think of it as a video conference landline, which the possible potential to be MUCH more. At $320, it isn’t going to be for everyone, but if you have the right use case, it’s a great product. The rest of the stories are below.

291: Facebook Builds A New Platform, But Will It Become A New Community?

24AprApril 24, 2017

Facebook held their F8 developers conference last week and they continued to build out their platform. The big focus was creating a camera effects platform where developers can create their own filters for people. They also created more bots for Messenger and showed of some new VR spaces. Facebook continues to demonstrate that they’re a technology company and not just a social media website. The rest of the stories are below.