EELS070
Thursday 13 Aug 2009

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Dave, Mike and Kent get together for this week’s conversation.

Dave has a new headset (Plantronics DSP400). High fidelity ensues.

Mike has been preparing for The University of Adelaide’s Open
Day and enjoying Science
Alive.

Social media marketing for District
9,
complete with confiscation of cell phones. Tweets ensue.

The Newsome family’s trip to New Braunfels, and the Comal River. Cassidy is a daredevil.

The Palm Pre pulls an ET, and phones home. Outrage ensues.

Facebook and the happiness or lack thereof behind the walls. Kent sort of
defends Facebook. Pigs take flight.

Facebook buys Friendfeed. Slumber ensues.

Delicious founder rethinks sale to Yahoo. Is Delicious relevant anymore?
Dave shows A.Tinythread.Com to Mike and Kent. Are we seeing the rebirth of
the message board? Mike likes RSS and messy things, and finds the
in-between things wanting. Usability does not always define the experience.

RSS is wonderful, but does anyone care? Kent and Mike mourn the treatment
of RSS. Dave says RSS is the infrastructure, not so much the destination.

Are stand alone RSS readers dead? Kent says it’s about monetization and
Google’s big war chest full of free. Dave and Mike praise
NetNewsWire.
Mike likes the archival abilities.

Dave is looking at microphones. Various alternatives are discussed. SAMSON C01U, RODE Podcaster or BEHRINGER C1U. Samson get points for being social.

Kent and Dave talk about how to make everything
better.
They have many good ideas for developers to ignore in favor of another
useless sharing feature.

Profiles: Facebook, Google Profiles, or just a free range web page? Dave
and Kent explore Google Profiles. More on this next time.

Pre Microsoft DOS for sale on eBay. Kent misses DOS. Dave tells the story
of how Microsoft acquired DOS.

The problem with YouTube.
Another problem is the music labels. YouTube’s audio swapper is a somewhat
acceptable work-around.

Kids think outside the box. Maybe that’s why they are the innovators.

Acknowledgements

- Image by me
- Thanks for the show notes Kent
- Intro music “Wake Up Now”, by steck [Graham Steel; Scotland; macblawg], via macjams.com.

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