- Guy Fawkes night.

- My condolences to all of those affected by the tragedy at Ft. Hood.

- What happened to this country coming together?

- Christmas is already upon us?

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Scattercast Episode 68: Come Together

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and I have another discussion about e-readers this evening, but from a different angle than usual. Barnes & Noble are being sued by Spring Design saying that the Nook violates the intellectual property rights of the smaller e-reader known as the Alex.  Good times for all involved!

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CobWEBs Daily Edition – Nook v. Alex – a Don Quixote quest to recoup their losses

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and myself take Robert Scoble to task over his enthusiasm for Facebook FriendFeed Twitter lists.  We also take on the basic concept of the lists, and how Pete Cashmore of Mashable basically turned the lists into a pointless game in one post.  Oh well, in 30 minutes something else shiny will distract Scoble and the whole process will begin again.

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CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter Lists, swing and a miss – It’s all now a game

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and myself tackle an entirely speculative subject today as to why Microsoft isn’t manufacturing its own computers. This is an unusual departure for us, but it was an interesting subject to tackle.

Stories mentioned in this podcast:

Should Microsoft be thinking about making their own PCs? – The Inquisitr
Episode 190: Apple Takes On Windows 7 – John Dvorak
Microsoft’s next step – MarketWatch
7 Reasons Why Microsoft Should Make PCs – Datamation

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CobWEBs Daily Edition – Come on Microsoft, quit being such a wuss

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- Um … could someone remind Google that they’re a search engine? Thanks!

- Seriously, shut up, Bobo.

- More thoughts on the passing of Chuck Biscuits.

- And a bit of music for the season.

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

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Scattercast Episode 67: Google, What Is It Good For

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself do today’s show, and we take on Robert Scoble’s post today about why he has quite using Google Reader. Mark already wrote up a great rebuttal of why Scoble got it wrong, but we couldn’t leave well enough alone.

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CobWEBs Daily Edition – Hey Robert it’s not all just about you – kthxbai

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins do today’s show … albeit just a wee bit late. (notice when I host, we do it on time!)  Today Google announced it was launching a real-time GPS for Android 2.0 today, and the GPS manufacturers Garmin and TomTom took massive hits to their stock values.  Mark and Steve hash out how Google has turned into a 1,000-lbs gorilla and what this means for the future of markets Google may target.

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CobWEBs Daily Edition – Google are innovators but they are also market depressors

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Steven Hodson and myself discuss the fact that Google seems to be totally losing its brand identity.  Is it a communications company?  A video company?  A storage company?  Who knows!  They used to be the kings of search, and now they seem to have no clue what they are.

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CobWEBs Daily Edition – What … Google is a search engine? Seriously?

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself discuss the “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” attitude everyone in the blogosphere is taking with Microsoft in light of the news that they had pulled sponsorship of an upcoming Seth MacFarlane comedy special.

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CobWEBs Daily Edition – Microsoft screwed if they do, screwed if they don’t

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Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech universe. The show will have a rotating host schedule between Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and myself. You’ll always get two of us, you just never know which two!

Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and I once again go after Twitter, this time over the fact that it constantly forgets that it is a business, and businesses tend to, you know, make money.

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CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter: Silicon Valley’s perpetual welfare case

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