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TWiT 58: Podcast Academy

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:14:00 GMT

Hosts: Leo Laporte, dl.tv's Patrick Norton, IT Conversations' Doug Kaye, Buzz Out Loud's Molly Wood, and Floss Weekly's Chris DiBona.

We're at Yahoo! for Podcast Academy 3
Bill Gates is stepping down from his position and handed his keys to Ray Ozzie.
Google has launced a Shakespeare site
Google Earth beta 4.0 has been released
Google is building a GooglePlex
The iPod city.
Apple is going to investigate the iPod city.
Apple may create a flash-based ultra-portable
Microsoft is creating an audio/video device and service.
Apple is in trouble with Scandanavia for its iTunes user license.
ThePirateBay is moving back to Sweden
Amazon is beginning to sell groceries.
There's a ringtone that only kids can hear.
In Washington, any site that talks about online gambling is committing a felony.
Cablevision countersues Hollywood stating that their DVR system is similar to Betamax.
Samsun is shipping the very first Blu-Ray player.
A worm called BlackAngel.B spreads via MSN Messenger, en espaÃïÃÂol.
Netflix is suing Blockbuster over movie queues.
And Blockbuster countersues saying that it is "like a fast-food restaurant trying to patent...the drive-through window."
Flickr's taking down screenshots.
Microsoft says there is a critical hole in Windows 98/Windows ME, and will not fix it.
Netscape has a Digg ripoff on their hands.

Running time: 1:12:46

TWiT 57: Vloggercon

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:24:00 GMT

Hosts: Leo Laporte, dl.tv's Patrick Norton, Cranky Geeks' John C. Dvorak, Command-N's Amber MacArthur, Weblogs Inc.'s Jason McCabe Calacanis, Microsoft's Robert Scoble, Rocketboom's Andrew Baron, Ask A Ninja's Kent Nichols, and the father of RSS and podcasting Dave Winer.

Dvorak talks cats and ceiling fans
E-mail is dead?
Debate about the definition of vlogging.
The House of Representatives has approved a bill to allow telcos to offer subscription TV.
Use Inboxer to search through Enron's e-mails.
The House of Representatives voted against net neutrality
Cox Interactive was blocking Craigslist
Microsoft introduces pay-as-you-go computing
Survey says: iPods are more popular than beer
Windows Genuine Advantage phones home
Office 2007 is incredibly slick
"If you blog with authenticity, you have a better life." -Jason McCabe Calcanis
Rocketboom is beginning a new kids show called Jet Set Show
Ask a Ninja is starting a new show called Hope is Emo

Join us at Podcast Academy 3, June 16 on the Yahoo! Campus in Silicon Valley.

Running time: 1:08:37

TWiT 44: Hacked

Mon, 6 Mar 2006 15:06:00 GMT

Hosts: Leo Laporte , Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Roger Chang, Molly Wood, Roman Loyola, Steve Wozniak

Topics:

Was it the press or Apple that overhyped this week's announcements?
Macs can connect with XBox 360 consoles using Connect360
Want to judge a stereo - don't crank it up (and don't listen to TWiT on it)
Was Woz misquoted? Read the original article, Steve's rebuttal, and the response with transcript and you be the judge
Have you seen the Origami "ad" on YouTube? Is it a hoax?
It's certainly more than the cryptic Origami Project site reveals
Here's one way to get out of a cell phone contract
Vista will come in six slick flavors - with online upgrades
The Pope has a nano
RIM settles with NTP and saves the Blackberry
Cosby is going after Waxy Links
And the FCC is going after the call spoofing sites
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has introduced a Senate bill to prevent a two tiered Internet
Is AOL's plan for email certification the end of free email or just a way to help legitimate mass emailers? Discuss.
HDCP will leave around 3 million HDTV owners in the lurch when HiDef DVD players become available
Dan Sokol says there's a $300 device that will by-pass HDCP, but the movie companies are fighting back
The US Justice Department is investigating collusion in online music pricing

Thanks to the San Francisco Apple Store for hosting this episode!

Running time: 1:09

TWiT 42: Dvorak's Lost It

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:04:00 GMT

It's TWiT 42, your answer to life, the universe, and everything. Now in dazzling TWiTnicolor. For audio versions visit TWiT.tv.

Hosts: Tom Merritt, John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Robert Heron, and Roger Chang.

Topics:

Thanks to Nitrozac and Snaggy for the cartoon
Amazon is going head to head with Apple - opening its own music store
The OS X Worm is nothing to worry about but it does herald the end of innocence for Mac users
FON has found an interesting way to promote itself
Is World of Warcraft the new golf?
Funny how consumers and experts completely disagree on which LCOS display is best
Want to know why Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas and Sen. John Ensign of Nevada are so hot to stop municipal wi-fi? Follow the money trail to ATT.
The Firefox memory leak is a feature not a bug
Is it illegal to play poker online? It's not clear but if two Congressmen have their way it will be, with a five year penalty to boot
BitTorrent is proposing end-to-end encryption to foil ISPs who block the protocol
Skype encryption prevents wiretapping. Or does it?
And what's going on with Intel and Skype? Is it fair to artificially limit Skype's capabilities unless you use Intel?
Careful watching "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in Germany. Fox has planted a rootkit on the DVD.
The ladies of the evening want families to boycott Grand Theft Auto
Do two podcasts ending production make a trend? Some call it "podfading"
Halo 2 will only ship on Vista, not XP
And Vista will require a DirectX 9c capable video card
More significantly, no video card has HDCP support yet, and Vista will require that for output to an HD display
Careful playing solitaire around Mayor Bloomberg
Microsoft antivirus uninstalls Norton. Oops.

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Running time: 1:07:40