Twitter has tons of potential and that can only be unlocked with a full-time CEO, SQFT aims to reduce agent costs to only 2%, Taylor Swift and Apple harmonize over Apple Music, Google and Tidal try to keep up, Pando become subscription based, Facebook Messenger doesn’t require a Facebook account, Uber is driver France crazy, 360Fly wants to capture the VR recording market, and Swarm mayors are in the house again.
194: Watching The WWCD Keynote Next to Chris Pratt
It sounds like Jurassic World is pretty good and will hold the open weekend box office record until December. We also talked about the the impact of the World’s Fair on your life, Apple’s numerous announcements: El Capitan, Siri, Swift 2, watchOS 2, Music, News, and more. Oculus announced their consumer hardware which will work with Windows 10 and Xbox One. Finally Dick Costolo is out of Twitter and Jack Dorsey will be taking over.
193: We Read Your Tweets.
Jurassic World is upon us! But first, let’s tweet about it.
Google Photos puts together some strange albums, The World Video Game Hall of Fame includes some great titles, Swift is a year old, Chris Sacca believes in Twitter, The Button is done, Google will start reprint accidents, Windows is coming next month, LEGO is going to take on Minecraft, Netflix will start showing ads, Apple Watch has a heart rate problem, ThunderBolt gets a USB-C plug, TechCrunch is changing hands again, and Yahoo is killing off properties nobody cares about.
187: Nudging You To Buy a Delightful Watch
The Spanish city of Jun using Twitter to run its government, Matthew got an Apple Watch, Google experiments with cell networks with Project Fi, BWM is selling a car that parks itself, Elon Must almost sold Tesla to Google, Central Japan Railway breaks a speed record at 603km/h, Cedar Fair’s new roller coaster Fury is decided to scare us, Apple haptic are going to become more life like, the Chevrolet-FNR looks cool but isn’t real, and Twitter is getting more into the messaging space.
185: Is The Apple Watch Worth It?
Is the Apple Watch going to change the wearables landscape? We don’t know for sure, but that doesn’t stop us from making bold proclamations. We also talk about Star Wars being released on iTunes, Daimler’s incredible results of the SuperTruck Challenge, Twitter’s better handling of the Quote Tweet, Taylor Swift and the impact of exclusives in the music industry, Chinas Great DDOS Cannon, YouTube’s future subscription plan, how to make antennas a lot smaller, BlueTooth LEGOs, all-electric Aston Martins, and Square’s email product to help brick and mortar retailers send better email.
175: The Biggest Competitions In The World
This week we talk about competitions happening in the tech space. For example, Twitter takes on group messaging, Snapchat takes on the media, Tumblr takes on simple design and Microsoft takes on Gmail through the iPhone.
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- The Nexus 6 Should Have Had A Fingerprint Scanner
- How Google Is Leveraging Youtube To Force Music Key To Be A Success
- NFL Video Highlights — And More — Come to YouTube and Google
- Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera
- Twitter tries to up its game with group messages and native video
- Snapchat Launches Discover
- Snapchat does what Facebook couldn’t: Get publishers to trust it with their content
- Snapchat Outgrows The Friend Zone
- DJI Firmware Now Prevents Drones From Going Into No-Fly Zones
- TI Announces Ti-84 Plus CE
- A Graphics Demo Using The Unreal 4 Engine
- Why Apple Is Continually Underestimated
- Apple, The Oil Company?
- Tumblr Takes On Medium With Upgrades To Its Writing Interface And More
- Microsoft Is Investing in Cyanogen Mod
- MileIQ raises $11M to take the pain out of mileage tracking and put more cash in users’ pockets
- The best Gmail app for the iPhone is now made by Microsoft
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167: The Escape Velocity of Marketing Campaigns
Matthew starts off by spoiling the Star Wars movie. Then we move on to real news.
Lockheed Martin is developing the N+2 supersonic jet while Aerion develops the AS2 supersonic jet, PSY breaks YouTube, the Internet of Things is real, Nevada tries to solve a taxicab problem that Uber already solved, Google Glass isn’t dead yet, Google sold more Chromebooks to school than Apple sold iPads to school last quarter, Netflix gets accused of creating a personal fast lane, Snapchat continues to innovate, Sony marketed the PlayStation by appealing to older gamers, and Yahoo passes Twitter in ad spend.
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- Google Glass To Use Intel Chips
- Google sold more Chromebooks to US schools than Apple did iPads in Q3
- Race to be the new Concorde! Supersonic jets battle to become first aircraft to cut flight times in HALF… reaching speeds of 1,200mph
- Is the IoT hitting Escape Velocity?
- FCC Alleges That Netflix Is Effectively Working To Secure An Internet Fastlane
- Snapchat’s geofilters are now open to everyone
- How To Hire When Everyone Wants To Found Their Own Startup
- Uber.gov: It’s Time to Let the Government Drive
- NASA Launches Orion: A First Step Towards Mars
- How The Sony Made The PlayStation A Thing
- Kim Kardashian Didn’t Break The Internet. But PSY Broke Youtube
- What Are The Top Most Watch Videos?
- Yahoo On Track To Pass Twitters As One Of The Biggest Online Advertisers
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165: Sharing News, Money and Smashes
Google’s Inbox is just plain strange, Toshiba is growing lettuce in a factory, Eric Schmidt wants to grow more food through AgTech, sharing on social media sites and Facebook and Twitter is getting more difficult, turns out the internet is not dead, Toyota is investing in fuel cells, Snapchat and Square team up to make snapCash, Samsung is showing restraint with the number of phones they make, the Apple Watch SDK is available, Super Smash Brothers is unbalanced, and Ruby on Rails is the best paying programming skill.
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- Farms of the future
- Eric Shmidt’s Farm2050
- Toyota Pushes In To Fuel Cell Cars
- Snapchat Will Send Cash
- Native Apps Are Part of the Web
- The Web, Still Dying After All These Years
- Facebook at Work makes sense for Facebook and no one else
- Facebook Launches An App That Focuses On Groups
- And it’s kind of dumb
- Samsung Will Make Substantially Fewer Phone Models
- 11 things we just learned about how the Apple Watch works
- Taxis Cause Gridlock At SFO
- Mashable editor Jim Roberts on how he approaches the news
- Forrester Says Marketers Are Wasting Resources on Facebook, Twitter
- Re/Code Removes Comments
- Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros
- Corning’s New Gorilla Glass Can Now Survive A Fall
- These programming skills will earn you the most money
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153: The Portal to Posting
This week we come up with 3 amazing ideas. You’ll have to listen to the podcast hear them One comes at the very end.
We talk about the Emmy’s, using Yo, Amazon by Twitch, Google’s new Wing program, battery less iBeacons by Ifinity, Google’s purchase of ZYNC to render video, Instagrams Hyperlapse app, Square Cash 2.0, Intel’s penny sized 3G modem, Nintendo’s “new” 3DS, and using the Oculus rift with roller coasters.
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- Amazon, Not Google, Bought Twitch
- Why it makes sense for Amazon to buy Twitch
- Batteryless iBeacons
- Google Acquired Zync, A CGI Rendering Tool For Their Cloud
- Hyperlapse: The New App By Instagram
- The Technology behind Hyperlapse from Instagram
- The Stand-Along App
- Square Cash 2.0 Adds Free Money Transfer By Text Message, Payment Notes And More
- Report shows Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire Phones
- Thoughts On The Emmys
- Intel Made A Tiny 3G Modem
- Twitter Opens Its Nifty Analytics Dashboard To Everyone
- Where to Trade in Your iPhone for the Most Money Back
- Remember That One Time You Had An Idea That You Knew Was A Great Idea, But Didn’t Pursue It, Then Someone Else Did? Yeah… I Remember Too
- Leap Motion Might Have Found A Use
- Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program
- Nintendo Announce A New Suit Of 3DS’s
- Space Mountain? More Like Space Battle Mountain
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152: The Dog Days Of The Tech Summer
Yo turns out to be useful, Google brings Photo Sphere to iOS, Matthew buys a PS4, Shakedown is a dumb app, Noke is a digital pad lock, Thalmic goes for the enterprise, Steve Ballmer is out of Microsoft, Samsung unveils the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, Twitter starts showing other tweets in your timeline, Windows 9 is coming soon, Apple will help you find your car, Facebook and Pandora are the most popular smartphone apps, SpaceX blows up a rocket, the ice bucket challenges are getting crazy, and Google wants to keep their self-driving data private.
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- Noke Is A Simple, Keyless Bluetooth Padlock To Share Access To Your Stuff
- The Shakedown And Other Dumb Ideas
- Thalmic’s Push Into Enterprise
- Steve Ballmer Steps Down From MS Board
- Google Launches Photo Sphere Camera App On iOS
- The About.me Backstory Reimagines The Resume For A New Generation Of Users
- Samsung Launches Their Nook Tablet
- Twitter now officially says your timeline is more than just tweets from people you follow
- Windows 9 Reveal To Come September 30th
- Sony Doesn’t Know Why The PS4 Is Selling Great… And It’s Kinda Freaking Them Out, Man
- Apple is Solving The Greatest App Idea: Where’d I Park?
- Baby Boomers Are Still Playing Words With Friends
- Dear Brands, Here Are Some Do’s And Don’ts For Your Ice Bucket Challenge Videos
- SpaceX Performed A Rapid Mid Air Disassembly Of One Of Their Rockets
- What Google Doesn’t Want You To Know About The Google Cars
- Also, They Speed
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