Mar
2010
The Braindead Techcast Ep. 26: school’s us on the SXSWi that Jolie O’Dell missed
Steven and I are joined tonight by our long-lost hosting buddy Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins tonight as he discusses how his SXSWi experience differed greatly from Jolie O’Dell’s, and why he wonders what she was really up to during the show.
We also turn briefly to this constantly trumped up story about Gowalla and Foursquare being locked in a cage match. Mark presents some really interesting real life case studies of why all of this location stuff is a bunch of hot air.
A brief mention of Mark’s fanboy moment upon meeting Leo Laporte … can’t say as I blame him.
Listen in and enjoy the show!
(Links by Steven for some of the stories we discuss in this episode)
Why SXSW Sucks – Jolie O’Dell
Why SxSW Doesn’t Suck – SiliconANGLE
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Richard Walker | March 20th, 2010 at 6:41 pm #
Hey Sean, I'm getting serious multiple crashing on Chrome, I don't know why… a few times while listening, and every single time I tried to log in. I'm on Firefox now, no problem.
The Chrome crash was interesting, Speed tracer was no help, the Inspector crashed along with this page, and I tried Incognito mode meaning no Extensions and no "corrupt profile" either.
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.p...
I'm rather amused at the location-based skeptical discussion. Imma buy ur smart phone a smart phone so ur checkins can check ur checkins and ur swarms can swarm ur swarms! That should fix it!
Richard Walker | March 20th, 2010 at 7:07 pm #
It's IntenseDebate. I sent them an FYI.
… "Log in" is the IntenseDebate log in, for to comment. Later, using Chrome I hovered over my IntenseDebate avatar to navigate to my profile and that crashed 4 tabs at once. Feel free to @ me if you want help reproducing….