333: Two-Faced

This week, Google buys into music and shuts down their oldest social network, Did T-Mobile swindle customers out of millions of hidden fees?, Facebook’s secret mood manipulation study, and is the NSA’s first transparency report just one big oxymoron?

Headlines

• Google in Deal for Songza, a Music Playlist Service
• Google Is Shutting Down Orkut, Its First Social Network, On September 30
• Yahoo Shuts Down Unpopular Services
• FTC Alleges T-Mobile Made Millions From Allegedly Bogus Text Message Charges
• Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone

Audible Book of the Week

• Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
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Music Break: The Humans Are Dead by Flight of the Conchords

Hot Topics

• Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment
  • Facebook Doesn't Understand The Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study
  • Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for poorly communicating controversial News Feed study
• New Snowden documents show FISA court authorized NSA to spy on all but four foreign countries
• The NSA just posted its first full transparency report

Music Break: At Least It Was Here by The 88

Final Word

• Yahoo Picks Up 'Community' for Streaming Video Site, Screen
• Reading Rainbow is back!! And on Android!

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Glen Keane - Duet - Google ATAP

• Glen Keane - making of 'Duet'

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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), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.