17
Sep
2009

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Welcome to the second 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 and I are back at it tonight (how did I end up doing four of these in a row?!?), and we’re talking about the news that Twitter now has a valuation of $1 billion. Will Twitter last long enough to ever reach that amount? It might … if it can become part of the “plumbing” of the Internet.

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16
Sep
2009

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Welcome to the second 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!

For this episode, Mark rises from the primordial ooze that was two solid days of TechCrunch50 coverage. So what did he like, what did he hate? He lays it all out for you while I grunt a lot in agreement and shake my head at the stupidity that some people try to pass off as a “startup”. If this episode has an alternate title, it would be “It’s all about the evites, baby!”

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15
Sep
2009

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Welcome to the second 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!

For this episode, Steven and I again take up the mics (since Mark is a big ole wuss!), and Steven and I take a harsh look at the new Google product, Fast Flip.  Yeah … we aren’t fans.  We spell out our reasons in the show, but we really take issue with the whole concept.

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14
Sep
2009

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Welcome to the second 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!

For this episode, Steven and I decided to completely ignore TechCrunch 50 and take on mainstream technology with a look at the current Hollywood fascination with 3D. Why is it being applied to so many properties? 3D TVs look to be coming, will you buy one? 3D sports on television makes our heads hurt. What is the point to adding 3D to video games? You get the idea!

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11
Sep
2009

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Welcome to the fourth 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!

For this episode, Steven and I take a look at what is happening with Facebook now that they have purchased FriendFeed, and are they really running scared of Twitter?

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11
Sep
2009

Scattercast is 60… and pondering early retirement!

- Different headset this week … Franklin, the 4-month-old cocker, destroyed my good one

- My weight loss has taken an odd, and slightly scary, turn

- Weight loss goals and some other thoughts on my losing 109 lbs so far

- SeanPAune.com is moving servers … again

- iPods

- Music

- A new recurring feature of Scattercast … listen in to find out what it is!

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


10
Sep
2009

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Welcome to the second 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!

For this episode, Mark and I take a look (again) at what is happening with e-readers and how we feel they could finally crack their way in to the mainstream.  It’s just going ot take some time and patience to do it!

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9
Sep
2009

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Welcome to the second daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of the Cynical Bastards!

For those who don’t remember from yesterday, 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!

For this episode, Steven and Mark take a look at the growing trend of the blog subscription model.  This is a new trend that is suddenly cropping up with the like of GigaOM Pro and Ars Premiere leading the way.  Mark also discusses how SiliconANGLE (a site both Mark and I work for) is pondering a similar model.

Push the big green button and have a listen to the first of the daily episodes!


8
Sep
2009

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Welcome to the first daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of the Cynical Bastards!

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!

For this first episode, Steven and I take on Technorati and just what the heck this once powerful name in the blogosphere has done to itself, what it plans to do and where we think it will ultimately end up.

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7
Sep
2009

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I’m finally catching up on posting these! Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, my fellow Cynical Bastards, and myself took on, a full load of subjects, and got in a good amount of Gillmor’ing.

- Sarah Lacy is an idiot

- Google gto a patent for their homepage… say what?

- For the second week in a row, RSS is dead… I’m tired of going to the funerals

- Apple chat bubbles are now a reason for apps to not be approved… what’s next?  Color choices?

- Who was the Dickwad of the Week? You’ll have to listen and find out.

- Starting September 8th something exciting is happening with CobWEBs … listen to the final 15 minutes or so to find out

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4
Sep
2009

Scattercast is 59… and trying to score a goal!

- This week’s episode actually has a running theme of “goals”

- My life is seriously lacking in a goal right now, and I explain why that is, and it may not be why you think

- Weight loss goals and some other thoughts on my losing 109 lbs so far

- Thanks to Jo at JosCafe.com for recommending for recommending the Grizzly Bear Egg Cafe podcast to me, but listening to it makes me want to change some things about Scattercast to be honest.

- Some announcements about my other podcast, CobWEBs

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


3
Sep
2009

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I’m finally catching up on posting these! Steven Hodson, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, my fellow Cynical Bastards, and myself took on, a full load of subjects, and got in a good amount of Gillmor’ing.

- Sean visits an Apple store and laments the lack of unicorns, rainbows and mermaids

- RSS IS DEAD! … again

- Ad clickers are losers and stupid (hey, we just report it, doesn’t mean we agree with it)

- Venezuela to ban violent games

- MOON FRY?!?

- Who was the Dickwad of the Week?  You’ll have to listen and find out.

- Starting September 8th something exciting is happening with CobWEBs … listen to the final 15 minutes or so to find out

- And a whole lot more… listen as Steven masters the art of the segue!

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