Episode 40 of inThirty sure was a live one! We used Google’s new Hangouts on Air feature to broadcast live and record our pre-show ramblings. Yes, you can see video of Chaim, Harry, and Justin in our natural environments doing what we do best: yapping.
After considering our burgeoning careers as reality YouTube stars we manage to reign ourselves in and talk about the state of tech journalism. Harry’s CuriousRat.com has recently been Reddited and Fireballed, you see, forcing him to eloquently explain the difference between a pundit and a journalist.
Here’s a naked link to the YouTube video of the broadcast, we’re all clothed: http://youtu.be/1AMXc7IBh7g
Show Notes
“Google Drive Terms vs. Dropbox Terms (Comment Thread)” | Reddit
“The Echo Chamber” | Curious Rat
“Apple iTV: It’s real...” | Digital Trends
“Are People Finally Getting Bored with the Tech-Blog Circle Jerk?” | SF Weekly
“No Comment” | inThirty
“I’m Giving Up Reading for a Year” | Curious Rat
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
RIM’s BlackBerry OS smartphone chops are showing their first signs of ripeness: on the 39th episode of inThirty we give our take on BlackBerry 10. The dev kits and PR speak are flowing like maple syrup straight from Waterloo and comparisons to more mature smartphone platforms abound as we analyze RIM’s future prospects and discuss whether the hardware keyboard will be BlackBerry’s defining feature going forward. We also consider whether RIM’s popularity with the enterprise can be spun into success in the consumer sector.
On episode 38 of inThirty we cover all the ways to get your files into the cloud without putting your USB drive into a catapult. Google finally released its cloud storage service, Drive, and we take it for a spin and compare it to it’s older, wiser competitors.
Can’t remember if your bank password has a ^ before the p or an * after the q? On episode 37 of inThirty we cover passwords and guest Amber Gott of LastPass takes us through her company’s password management software and their goal of reducing to exactly one the number of passwords you have to remember. We talk about the best way to share passwords and discuss whether the expanded use of Facebook Connect diminishes the need for traditional passwords.
Work it. Episode 36 is here and we cover wearable tech from digital pedometers that clip onto your belt, to headsets that plug into your ears, to those new Google glasses that perch on your face and make you look like a total…ly nice guy. We discuss whether form or function is more important when choosing your geek chic and find out how many steps Chaim takes in an average day.
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