Fri, 22 February 2013
This week, the sky falls over Russia, Apple makes their own Pebble, Bungie announces their 1st non-Halo game in over ten years, Google plans to launch stores (and a new netbook to put in them), Sony’s Playstation 4, and Tesla drives the New York Times crazy. What We're Playing With Andy: Black Mirror, Series 2, 3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen, Spaceteam Headlines
Audible Book of the Week Musical Interlude: Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People Hot Topic: TeslaGate
Musical Interlude: Shut Up And Drive by Rihanna
Outro: Bug Hunt (Nosia Remix) by Skrillex Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) 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. |
Fri, 15 February 2013
Within the course of seven months, Reddit user Scopolamina went from relative newbie to 2012's top ranked user on the social news site, amassing an unheard of 1.87 million karma points, the Reddit currency that marks the success and popularity of a particular user. During that span of time, he also submitted well over 37,000 posts, moderated about 300 subreddits (most NSFW), and has personally been responsible for removing countless incidents of spam on the site. Then, in mid-January, as seems to happen with increasing frequency to top Reddit users, he was unceremoniously banned from the site, following allegations of selling his influence to spammers. Joining us to talk about that incident, his experience as Reddit’s top user, and his insider secrets to becoming a top user, is Reddit user Scopolamina... Podcast [display_podcast] A Few Tips from Reddit's Top User
Audible Book of the Week Musical Interlude: American Bad Ass by Kid Rock Show Links
Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) 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. |
Fri, 8 February 2013
This week, Chinese hackers infiltrate US newspaper networks, Twitter also gets hacked, Oreo takes advantage of the Superbowl blackout, is Netflix’s full season release schedule the future of television...or a big mistake, will your body be the next unlimited storage device, and if you thought J.J. Abrams hit the motherlode last week for helming both Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet! Headlines
Audible Book of the Week Musical Interlude: Cara Mia Addio from "Portal 2" by GLaDOS (Ellen McClain) Hot Topic: Binge Viewing: The Future of TV?
Musical Interlude: Science is Fun from "Portal 2" by Mike Morasky Last Word: Convergence of Man and Technology Viral Video of the Week We're trying out a new segment on The Drill Down, where we'll be featuring a different viral video each week. Here's this week's video: Outro: Want You Gone from "Portal 2" by Jonathan Coulton (feat. GLaDOS) Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) 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. |
Fri, 1 February 2013
This week, we discuss the most ridiculous law of 2013 (so far), Twitter launches a video service, Microsoft Office & YouTube go to paid subscriptions, Ashton Kutcher & JJ Abrams induce nerdgasm, and Is the new Blackberry OS 10 & devices Blackberry’s last stand, or is it already too late? Podcast [display_podcast] Headlines
Audible Book of the Week Musical Interlude: The Asteroid Field from "The Empire Strikes Back" by John Williams More Headlines
Outro: Main Title from "Star Trek" by Michael Giacchino Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) 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. |