December 13, 2011

Don’t Contaminate the Alien Corpse!

This week we get to talk about Facebook and location services, Twitter redesign, Apple iTV, Amazon being evil, and why don’t we know one way or another whether or not cell phones will bring down a plane?

Have to apologize, there was a definite microphone problem in this episode. Jeff, Bleu, and Sean were joined by good friend Random and Sean moved to an older mic that barely worked, which means he sounds far off in the distance.

It’s official: Facebook buys Gowalla team (Bleu)

Twitter Redesign Courts Businesses, Catches Up With Facebook, Google+ (Bleu)

Will Apple iTV Trade the Remote for Kinect-Like Control? (Bleu)

Local Bookstores Ask Customers To Boycott Amazon Over New Price Check App Offer (Bleu)

LightSquared and Skype Co-Founder’s FreedomPop Partner to Offer Free Broadband Services (Bleu)
Related: LightSquared’s LTE network disrupts 75% of GPS devices in tests

Megaupload Music Video: Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Will.i.am Star (VIDEO) (Bleu)
More: RIAA Label Artists & A-List Stars Endorse Megaupload In New Song
The Video: http://youtu.be/pCkI5I8vsBg

Louis C.K. Doesn’t Get Torrenting, Doesn’t Do DRM, Just asks for fairness.

Alec Baldwin gets kicked off plane for Words With Friends
Isn’t it about time we truly test whether cell phones are a threat to planes or not?

Mattress store’s Star Trek commercial might be the best commercial ever (Jeff)

Gift idea for geeks: miracle berry tablets make your food taste different by altering your taste receptors (Jeff)

new Google Currents released, about to give Flipboard a run for their money (Jeff)

George Takei will be beaming us some knowledge this evening (Jeff)