This week we talk a lot about Google. Make sure you check below for the link to their new logo (hint: it’s not this logo).
108: The Billionaire’s Kid
The Book, The Millionaire Next Door, shares stories of successful parents who attained their level of success DESPITE hardship. They don’t want their kids to experience hardship like they did, and so parents help their kids out to fulfill their dream via money/housing/affirmations. Unfortunately, those kids never experience success because of the crazy plot twist: their parents attained success BECAUSE of hardship, not DESPITE hardship. We see this same effect in tech companies today: Google is “helping” Motorola to create a solid business by providing money/affirmations. Unfortunately, just like Microsoft’s online division, the opposite appears to be happening.
Here’s what else we talked about:
Apple will be covering some new iPads on Tuesday, Sono invents noise canceling windows, Premise Data Corp improves government data, Moore’s Law was broken, Apple hires Angela Ahrendts to lead their retails stores, Motorola continues to cost Google Billions, Greenbox is the Nest of gardens, Alion Energy uses robotics to clean solar panels, Microsoft releases Windows 8.1, and Mike Hopkins of Fox is the new CEO of Hulu.
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- Robot’s that clean and install solar cells can bring the cost of power inline with Natural Gas
- Google-backed startup seeks clearer economic signals through better, faster, stronger data
- Breaking Moores Law
- Google Fiber Now Explicitly permits home Servers
- IoT Startup Greenbox Aims To Become Nest For The Garden
- Apple Announces October 22 Event: “We Still Have a Lot to Cover”
- Apple’s new hire, a perfect match for the Apple Stores
- RJ Pittman leaves Apple after Apple store coup
- Windows 8.1 goes live
- Hulu officially announces its new CEO, former Fox exec Mike Hopkins
- Motorola is burning cash, and the only solution to stop it might be the undoing of an entire platform
- Motorola is Google’s Surface
- Android closes the monetization gap
- Google “Accidentally” confirms Nexus 5
- Noise Canceling Windows
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No One Will Survive 10 Years
Episode 32 and there’s lots of news to cover this week. We talk about why Google & Facebook might be gone in 5-8 years. Why Moore’s law will be done in 10 years. The amazing Samsung Galaxy S III, Yahoo’s Disgrace, and AT&T’s biggest regret.
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- Why Facebook and Google might be gone in 5-8 years
- Moore’s Law is collapsing. It’s about to get fun again
- Samsung Reveals Galaxy S III & Demo Video
- The Disgrace of Yahoo
- AT&T’s biggest regret, and why Skype/iMessage Keep them up at night
Monday
- Rumor: Hulu Will Soon Require Viewers To Have A Cable Subscription [Update: It’ll Happen, But Not “Soon”]
- Start-Ups Look to the Crowd
- Google Wave reaches zero amplitude
Tuesday
- Rumor: Digg to be acquired by The Washington Post [Updated: site will remain, tech team transfers]
- HP reclaims top spot in PC sales, market as a whole climbs 21 percent
- Twitter’s big problem: It still needs better filters
- Apple CEO-in-waiting Scott Forstall sold 60,000 shares for a cool 38 mill
Wednesday
- Where Klout Meets Kickstarter: Wahooly Lands Angel Round
- EA to throw kill switch on Rock Band for iOS on May 31st
- BlackBerry offers $10k to developers
- Tectonic shift away from BlackBerry in the US Federal Government
Thursday
- Zynga’s New Ad Pitch for Draw Something: ‘Draw This Brand’
- LinkedIn to acquire SlideShare
- Target to Stop Selling Kindl
- 37% of internet users ages 12-17 participate in video chats
- Verizon pushing Android 4G hard over iPhone
Friday
- Draw Something Hemorrhages 5 million users after Zynga buyout
- The Father of disruption is concerned about Apple
- Google may pay more than $10 million fine
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This Week In The 1950’s: Censorship and Textbooks
This week’s episode is a little dark. We talk about Hulu expanding into original shows, kites that harness wind power, computer worms, SOPA protests, disrupting politics and Hollywood, Apple’s iBooks, and Lego’s new social network ReBrick.
- Hulu Plans to Raise Money as It Expands Into Original Shows
- Makani’s Kite-Like Turbines Harness Wind Power At Altitude
- “Worm: The First Digital War” by Mark Bowden
- Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing All Shut Down For a Day in Protest of SOPA
- Beyond SOPA: Let’s Iterate Politics
- Y Combinator Sees the Deeper Meaning of SOPA/PIPA: It’s Time to Kill Hollywood
- Apple in Education event
- Apple’s Big Problem: Pricing
- Why the Emotional Criticism of iBooks Author Is Wrong
- ReBrick: Lego Launches Social Media Site
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