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FourSquare the Next Twitter ? Chrome OS Big Debut AOL to Lay off 2500 SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Location, Location by Andrew McCaskey Location, Location The latest prediction from Mashable is that the real buzz in 2010 is going to surround Foursquare the Next Big Thing. A combination of location reporting, tweeting and an online leaderboard game, Foursquare has all of the ingredients of a winner. I think it s going to be big and as the saying goes, the future is here, it s just not evenly distributed. Fifty cities are now in the system, and presumably as more are added it will gain increased notoriety and utility. There are a lot of things lining up. First, Twitter has set the stage for social user generated content among a wide set of mobile users. And, for the first time they have smartphone platforms that are ready to go, and a familiar use model. Very different from the pre-iPhone days of just two years ago. Secondly, they have a strong local component that can, for very little money in the form of specials, discounts, free drinks for the mayor of the venue a small business, restaurant or bar can attract a group of highly aware, social and loquacious customers. It s all about word of mouth advertising and personal recommendations, and this has it in spades. As true in the social media space as it is in Real Estate. More importantly, it s the function of location and time. And moving people into your business. DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Contact Us Automatic Captions in YouTube Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

FaceBook #3 Video Site Dawn of the GooglePhone Office 2010 Beta Downloads SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google and the Golden Goose by Andrew McCaskey Why Threaten the Golden Goose ? Why would Google threaten the Golden Goose of search based targeted advertising by picking a fight with handset and netbook manufacturers ? Because they must. In ten glorious years Google has established and dominated the search category, but as the demographic baton gets passed to Baidu the Chinese search engine and with Bing gathering close to 10% market share a few months after launch, competition has arrived in full force. Gigantic companies have to make really big moves in order to move the needle at all. A succession of Google initiatives that have failed to gain traction have at least failed fast. A small few, such as the location based Latitude fit well within a mobile focused universe, and when combined with search could leap to the next level. The recent acquisition of Gizmo5 puts Google at last in a firm connect to the public switched network. A data only Google-phone, marketed in parallel with a carrier but not as a phone-offering (much like Amazon does with the Kindle and the Sprint 3G network) might keep carriers happy. The handset and netbook manufacturers will be bent out of shape for a short time then figure out what their odds of success might be trying to develop a worthy competitor to Android and the iPhone. Netbook manufacturers will stretch XP for another year or two but that long in the tooth strategy is going to run out of steam fast, and by that time, Chrome OS will have traction. Google s not killing the Golden Goose. Just moving to a greener pasture. DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Contact Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgGxi3hiOnY feature=player_embedded YouTube Direct Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

Liquid Cooled Servers Offer Big Savings Crowdsourced Cartography Pirate Bay Loses the Tracker SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Broadcasters Circle the Wagons by Andrew McCaskey The Coming Wireless Avalanche Broadcasters are starting to circle the wagons. And this time there are more Indians attacking than ever. The CTIA The Wireless Association, and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)CTIA predicts that mobile data usage could grow by 66 times between what it was last year and 2013. BY 2015, a single smartphone users data consumption could be 450 times the amount of data consumed in 2005. The FCC predicts total wireless consumption could grow from six petabytes a month last year to 400 by 2013—a petabyte being a thousand terrabytes. In the late 1980 s I remember a conversation with a broadcaster who was seriously suggesting that since 80% of his viewers were on cable, how they could justify the antenna, transmitter, tower and operating expense for the remaining 20%. Even then, he joked if the tower blew down his business results would improve once he cashed the insurance check, as long as he did not have to rebuild and had 80% of his business the profitable part left over. Broadcasters will be fighting every step of the way, but it s a losing battle. And smart broadcasters are or should be moving as fast as they can to figure out what their online presence and strategy might be. Contact Us Senster Robotic Sculpture from 1969 Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

Madoff s Coder Helpers Droid Off to Respectable Start Apple Tablet The Everything Killer SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Mutually Assured Destruction in Search by Andrew McCaskey Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a plan to kill Google by paying the top 1,000 sites a cool million each to leave the Google index and move to Microsoft. But could such a plan ever work, and would it be worth the risk to abandon Google? Anti-trust considerations aside, it might not be a good idea. First of all even though Microsoft could find $45Bn in an offer for Yahoo, stockholders might be cautious about a billion or two. But, it might be that Google wouldn t stand still while its closest competitor tried to force the market away from its search engine. Maybe Google would up the stakes. After all, they have money too. Maybe the top sites could get Google into a bidding war with Microsoft, but would this be healthy for anyone except the companies that were the recipients of this largess? Mutually Assured Destruction strategies just keep everyone s nerves on edge. And once it went through all the legal appeals suits and countersuits it is likely to tie up such an approach in court for so many years that it wouldn t matter to most of us for a long, long time. Even Microsoft stockholders probably don t like paying lawyers. Contact Us Little Dog Robot- Boston Dynamics Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

Wordpress Adds Location Info Murdoch s Google Leverage Hail Mary Cloud Password Attacks SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Murdoch -v- Google by Andrew McCaskey Master of the Universe We all got a good laugh last week when Rupert Murdoch announced that he was going to pull his NewsCorp content from Google. It may not be that simple. Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who used to work for Murdoch’s Digital Chief Jonathan Miller when the two were at AOL, posted a simple suggestion: Not only should Murdoch de-index from Google, but he should get Bing to pay him for the exclusive right to index it. If other media companies joined Murdoch Google could actually find itself in a very difficult position, where Bing had content that Google didn’t. If you knew that Wall Street Journal and, say, New York TImes content was only in Bing search results, mainstream search users would suddenly have a big reason to go to Bing. This would shift the balance of power away from search engines and to the content sites – if they could pull it off. Bidding wars over rights to index content would conceivably break out between Google and Microsoft. In spite of what we see in the movies, the title Master of the Universe does not get thrown around lightly. Contact Us Cloud Computing Explained Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

Google SPDY HTTP Replacement Intel Settles with AMD for $1.25B Twitter Flatlines SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online NetFlix Explains ISP Economics by Andrew McCaskey And a Lot More Netflix CEO Reed Hastings shed a little light on the actual costs of streaming at the NewTeeVee Live conference today in San Francisco and had some words on the idea that ISPs are suffering from higher costs to deliver video to end users. He pointed out that the cost of bandwidth and capacity is falling rapidly due to Moore s Law. He pointed out that Amazon charges about 5 cents a gigabyte for bandwidth — or about a nickel a movie — as proof of the low costs. and that few users are able to use enough bandwidth to pick up the $60-80 a month they are paying for a 20Mb/sec connection. Hastings also pointed out that Netflix may compete with cable and IPTV video providers on the video side, but that services like his streaming video offering are driving demand for cable’s high-speed Internet products. Calling it a halo effect, and comparing it to Apple’s ability to sell more Macs after folks snapped up iPods, Hastings said the primary reason for anyone to subscribe to 20Mbps service is to watch video, not send emails faster. Fair enough. I have to wonder where the middle ground lies, between the claims of Verizon and Comcast that the few bandwidth hogs are making their investor s lives miserable, and the Netflix perspective. I pay around $80 a month (being forced to buy a basic Cable TV subscription that is not even connected) but get , on a good day, 20Mb/sec down and 5Mb/sec up. I have it mostly for the convenience, and for those times when I need to run simultaneous video, Skype, Voip sessions maybe once every six weeks. I know that Comcast is making some serious money off of me since I am buying the peak speeds, not the heavy throughput. If I had kids in the house watching movies, it might be a different story. Contact Us Boxee Quick Overview Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

Congress Investigates Scamville Broadband Stimulus Landrush Google 16TB Cloud Storage Pricedrop SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Google Oversteps by Andrew McCaskey Google Latitude Crosses the Line PC World says that Google Latitude has been updated to make it a smidge creepier than before. Now Latitude tracks your location history and alerts you when your friends are nearby two add-ons that could make stalking that much easier!. Location History is the creepiest of all, so thankfully this service is only for personal use and is not shared with Latitude friends. The way it works is Google pinpoints your trail of breadcrumbs and determines where you were by where you paused. The service is currently private, the rise in popularity of location-based services such as Loopt, Stalqer and FourSquare may convince Google to later selectively publicize Location History to friends. But wait, there s more -the other add-on to Latitude is Location Alerts to let you know that a friend (or enemy) is not in his or her usual location. Alerts establishes frequently-visited locations, so you won t get messages when someone is in an expected place like at home or in the office. PC World continues Google says it might take a week or so to learn your behaviors, but believe: it will definitely learn your behaviors. . . About a year ago we did a TPN Roundtable session on LifeCasting and digital archive which basically captured the entire digital stream from an individual by video, photos, keyboard, sound and sensor. Both acquisition and storage are now sufficiently advanced to handle both with consumer grade equipment. At the time, I concluded that this is one service that my newly born grandson did not need. I think that I have found one that I can agree not even his Grandpa needs or wants. No matter how non-evil Google is in it s current incarnation, it s not guaranteed to be resistant to a Court Order for my lifetime much less his. Contact Us Yubby Video Aggregator at Blogworld Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

Skype Becoming a Social Network ? LinkedIn and Twitter Team Up AdMob Grabbed by Google SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Road Train Concepts by Andrew McCaskey The EU is planning a study on Road Trains It s basically a big semi trailer with a professional driver , and a series of automobiles drafting danger close behind in a line. Wireless sensors and radar link these autos maintaining precise distances and synchronized speeds while Presumably those drivers are taking a nap or catching up on work online. It s sort of a guidance tractor beam that, once you join allows the group of vehicles to travel on down the road all controlled by the lead driver. Because the vehicles are so closely spaced in the airflow, fuel savings of 20% are anticipated. The drivers can relax until they wish to leave the road train, at which point they signal their intention to the driver at the front, and they are free to accelerate out of the trainline to an adjacent lane, and the tractor beam signals the car behind you to take up the slack. The EU s study will be entirely focused on the system working with wireless sensors and up to eight vehicles ranging from your everyday family cars to buses and trains. In theory, these vehicles could be mixed and matched in a road train Either way, test trials are set to begin in the UK, Spain and Sweden on tracks with public road trials beginning in Spain. Bet there are an entire generation of lawyers in school right now on this one.. a business opportunity for lawyers. Contact Us SARTRE Road Train Concept in EU Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

Skype Deal Finally Settled Google Buys Gizmo5 Firefox Turns Five SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Changing Business Telco by Andrew McCaskey Small Business Telco Definition The definition of small business telephone service is changing, and changing quickly. For sole practitioners, the combination of Google Voice, a cell phone and Skype pretty quickly eliminate the need for a landline connection. Like many entrepreneurs, I use Skype for almost all of my out bound calls. The convenience and quality especially on the MacBookPro beats any speakerphone combo. With colleagues and vendors I often run on Video as well even if they don t have the webcam capability, it speeds the interaction and adds another dimension to the relationship. Even with the addition of partners, a small company can flexibly move forward without Verizon or local telco business line support. And with services like Grasshopper augment their telecom presence on a flexible, month to month basis. It s hard to beat the flexibility of such new offerings with any Verizon package, or the Packet8 Asterisk system. Too much overhead, too much telephone speak. I expect great things from Google. With the purchase of Gizmo5 the SIP client by Google, there is now an end to end solution to the public switched network that can exist totally within GoogleTalk/GoogleVoice/Gizmo. And they did not even have to get a new service name beginning with the letter G.. DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0 Contact Us Augmented Reality from Esquire Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

Apple World Phone USF Broadband Subsidy Challenge A Good Night s Sleep SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Connectify a Roundtable Hit by Andrew McCaskey RoundtableDemo As I mentioned last week, Connectify.me is a new service that is going to turn into a game changer. And it offers real value and is going to sell more Windows 7 laptops to business users than any ad campaign. We had Alex Giziz, CEO on our TPN Roundtable, and got some more insight into the free download for Windows7 that creates a wifi hotspot from a net connection. In his demo, he was able to create the site and link his iPod Touch into the laptop within a few seconds. The hotspot is secured by passphrase, and even if an intruder is able to guess the phrase or has left the group, the host is able to observe the real time participants on his machine. If you are a mobile worker, you really can’t live without connectivity. Connectify is going to be an essential part of mobile professional s toolkits for years to come. Contact Us Live TV by Ustream TPN Roundtable #53 Connectify.me Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews