272: Grim Farewell

This week, April Fools...on the web, Amazon snaps up Goodreads, Bitcoin breaks a 1 Billion dollars, the elusive Facebook phone may be on Android, a new iPhone gears up for production, and a special message from The President.

Intro: BallBlazer Theme

What We're Playing With
Andy:WonderCon, Bioshock Infinite
Dwayne: Drobo 5D
Tosin:SimCity

Headlines

• April Fools 2013: The Round-up
  • All of Google’s jokes for April Fools 2013

Google Nose

Gmail Blue

YouTube's Ready to Select a Winner

• ThinkGeek April Fools
• Game of Thrones Pirates Break BitTorrent Swarm Record
• GDC 2013: top 10 moments from the conference
  • GDC 2013 Activision Shows Off Next-Gen Engine Rendering

  

  Battlefield 4 preview, "Fishing in Baku"
  

  • OUYA available at retail on June 4 for $99

Audible Book of the Week

• Doctor Who: Tales From the TARDIS, Volume 1
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: The Curse of Monkey Island

More Headlines

• Amazon acquires Goodreads, aims to meld Kindle with social
• Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion
  • Still Nobody Knows Who Created Bitcoin
• Facebook’s Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life
• Apple to Begin iPhone Production This Quarter
• Disney Shuts Down LucasArts Just 154 Days After Acquiring It

Viral Video of the Week
A Special Message From The President

Outro: Themes from Grim Fandango
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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.