Tear Down Show: Recent Episodes
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In the world of tech, the term "tear down" means to take apart a piece of hardware for thorough analysis. On the Tear Down Show, we apply the same metaphor of the "tear down" to break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles. Hosts NextMarket.co Analyst Michael Wolf and veteran tech journalist David Spark.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show:
YouTube Shooting - In David's backyard The automated pickup is gaining traction (story) Tinder and Bumble are going at it (story) Twitter has suspended 1 million terrorism accounts since 2015 (story) Google Employees protesting involvement in Pentagon program (story) Lawyer bots are fighting traffic tickets (story) Twitter and Facebook scanning for inappropriate content. Facebook reads your messenger text if the stuff you share is flagged (story) MIT Researchers have a read-your-mind wearable (story) Hacker steals coins from cryptocurrency Verge with a '51 percent' attack (story) Isle of Dogs Goldbergs Ozark Ready Player One Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show:
YouTube Shooting - In David's backyard The automated pickup is gaining traction (story) Tinder and Bumble are going at it (story) Twitter has suspended 1 million terrorism accounts since 2015 (story) Google Employees protesting involvement in Pentagon program (story) Lawyer bots are fighting traffic tickets (story) Twitter and Facebook scanning for inappropriate content. Facebook reads your messenger text if the stuff you share is flagged (story) MIT Researchers have a read-your-mind wearable (story) Hacker steals coins from cryptocurrency Verge with a '51 percent' attack (story) Isle of Dogs Goldbergs Ozark Ready Player One Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Someone took a photo with every mailbox in Seattle (story) How did a connected wine bottle company fail? (story) Oh Facebook, what did you do? (story) You can't really delete Facebook (story) Let's be like Elon (story) YouTube bans a variety of "how to" gun videos (story) WeWork is second biggest office tenant in Manhattan (story) Cutting "Old Heads" at IBM (story) The next wearable? On your tooth (story) What the? Byron Allen buys weather channel for $300 million (story) Google wants its publishers to get consent from users to comply with GDPR (story) "I'M GOING TO CLOSE THIS DEAL USING BUSINESS WORDS I'VE HEARD MEN YELL IN AIRPORTS" (story) 99 Percent Invisible on the history of jingles Why'd you push that button? podcast
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Someone took a photo with every mailbox in Seattle (story) How did a connected wine bottle company fail? (story) Oh Facebook, what did you do? (story) You can't really delete Facebook (story) Let's be like Elon (story) YouTube bans a variety of "how to" gun videos (story) WeWork is second biggest office tenant in Manhattan (story) Cutting "Old Heads" at IBM (story) The next wearable? On your tooth (story) What the? Byron Allen buys weather channel for $300 million (story) Google wants its publishers to get consent from users to comply with GDPR (story) "I'M GOING TO CLOSE THIS DEAL USING BUSINESS WORDS I'VE HEARD MEN YELL IN AIRPORTS" (story) 99 Percent Invisible on the history of jingles Why'd you push that button? podcast
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Who is Mike Doughty? Space hotels are coming (story) The Great Twitter Purge - Got rid of bots and it affected Conservative tweeters (story) Police use Snapchat to solve murder (story) Bogus conspiracy theories being floated online - All designed to devalue the students' words (story) More Amazon Go Stores are coming this year (story) Ex Google engineer harassed female employees with his infamous memo (story) Tesla bringing chargers to work (story) Kylie Jenner's Tweet Wipes out 1.3 Billion of SNAP's value (story) This is Love by folks who brought us Criminal Criminal - the murder manual Mortified Guide Beyond Stranger Things Why'd You Push That Button
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Who is Mike Doughty? Space hotels are coming (story) The Great Twitter Purge - Got rid of bots and it affected Conservative tweeters (story) Police use Snapchat to solve murder (story) Bogus conspiracy theories being floated online - All designed to devalue the students' words (story) More Amazon Go Stores are coming this year (story) Ex Google engineer harassed female employees with his infamous memo (story) Tesla bringing chargers to work (story) Kylie Jenner's Tweet Wipes out 1.3 Billion of SNAP's value (story) This is Love by folks who brought us Criminal Criminal - the murder manual Mortified Guide Beyond Stranger Things Why'd You Push That Button
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show:
The kids from Parkland are preemptively countering agenda-driven narratives on social media (story) Talk about how technology is affecting us - Given and presented by old people Blockchain wannabe investors continue to get robbed (story) Sometimes its the old-world guys doing it (story) Living in a post text world (story) People are blaming video games again for violence (story) SF City attorney is saying Uber is thumbing its nose at the law (story) Our search for martians is being hindered by bitcoin miners (story) Drones follow you like paparazzi (story) Apple employees are smacking into glass walls in their new campus (story) A Very Fatal Murder podcast by the Onion (story) Noir Alley - Eddie Muller Audio equipment - Lavalier microphone for your phone.
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show:
The kids from Parkland are preemptively countering agenda-driven narratives on social media (story) Talk about how technology is affecting us - Given and presented by old people Blockchain wannabe investors continue to get robbed (story) Sometimes its the old-world guys doing it (story) Living in a post text world (story) People are blaming video games again for violence (story) SF City attorney is saying Uber is thumbing its nose at the law (story) Our search for martians is being hindered by bitcoin miners (story) Drones follow you like paparazzi (story) Apple employees are smacking into glass walls in their new campus (story) A Very Fatal Murder podcast by the Onion (story) Noir Alley - Eddie Muller Audio equipment - Lavalier microphone for your phone.
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about on the show:
Cygilant blows up (not in a good way) on Twitter. How to fix it (story) The robots are now opening doors. (story) How Facebook is killing comedy (story) The two years of hell at Facebook (story) Facebook lost near 3 million users under 25 last year (story) My CISO/security vendor series on Forbes (story) Outdoorsy is the Airbnb of RVs (story) Nolan Bushnell Applauds the rescinding of his game developer conference lifetime achievement award (story) Google Flights Now Predicts Delays (story) Origins of the 10000 steps a day milestone (story) Mosaic for HBO (which started as an app) (story) A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about on the show:
Amazon Go store Doomsday Clock is 2 minutes from midnight (story) Facebook to allow for ranking of trustworthy sites (story) Reviewed.com founder has launched a cooking appliance company (story) Facebook is inviting influencers to make vertical videos (story) Netflix has 118 million subscribers (story) Pirating media in China dropping dramatically due to ease of purchasing digitally (story) Why the IRS fears Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies (story) 50 Cent didn't realize he had 700 Bitcoins which are now worth millions - He completely forgot (story) Wilson - Woody Harrelson Wet Hot American Summer - 10 Years Later
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show:
Michael creates an open Slack channel for The Spoon. Man passes out on Bay Bridge, says car was on autopilot (story) Man attacks self driving car in the Mission (story) Nearly 700 thousand people getting emails from Twitter about Russia bots (story) Use of Nuclear response to Cyber attacks? (story) Amazon selects the 20 finalists for HQ2 (story) Car manufacturers are tracking you (story) TWiT Sues Twitter for using audio and video (story) Latest meme: Google Arts - Painting that looks like you (story) YouTube and Facebook removing Tide Pod eating challenge videos (story) The End of the F***ing World Beyond Yacht Rock podcast Comedians in Cars getting coffee (on Netflix) Rob Cantrell's new album "Pure Uncut Joy"
email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: CES 2018 Michael avoided the power outage Weirdest and worst items of CES 2018 (story) Welcome to the era of the smart toilet (story) Microsoft playing "long game" with Cortana (story) White noise video on YouTube has five copyright claims (story) 16% of households have a "smart speaker" (story) KFC Canada has rolled out the Bitcoin Bucket, an offering that can only be paid for using Bitcoin. (story) The media industry is freaking out about Facebook's feed changes (story) American Vandal
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Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
We have in-studio guest and host of "The Beancast," Bob Knorpp on the show.
Here's what Michael and David AND Bob talk about during the show:
AWS re:Invent 2017 Bitcoin's insane rise, but you can't spent it anywhere legit (story) There's a talking drink decanter now (story) Speaking of talking tchokes, remember Billy Bass? (story) And now, of course, Billy Bass works with Alexa (story) A New York man was arrested and charged Wednesday after threatening to kill Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) and his family if the congressman did not support net neutrality. (story) NYT cutting free articles from 10 to 5 (story) Trump can spout hate on Twitter and Twitter doesn't ban him because it's newsworthy. Thus the recent defense for the recent Muslim videos. (story) Google rolling out home services for Google Assistant (story) Speaking of voice assistants, people are scooping them up for holidays, and people are shopping with them (story) Lyft employees will have to drive or support four hours per quarter (story) Randi Zuckerberg harassed on an Alaska Airlines flight (story) Vox handing out 2 drink tickets at this year's New Year's party (story) Heavyweight Podcast Jonathan Goldstein 2 Wingsuit flyers base jump into a moving airplane
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Stocking Stuffer idea: Tesla Semi truck (story) Mashable sold for $50 million to Ziff Davis. That's just 20% of what its valuation was two years ago. (story) Other companies considering selling to big media at a song (story) Listening to podcasts at high speed - podfasters (story) Williams Sonoma is buying an AR company (story) CompuServe forums are closing down 12/15 (story) Richard Spencer and other white supremicists have lost their Twitter verifications (story) GameStop giving away XBOX 360 consoles for Black Friday (story) 13 Reasons Why Hackable by McAfee Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insight
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Amazon is building a second HQ in North America Red Sox steal signs from Yankees with an iWatch (story, story 2) Russell Wilson is trying to build a tech company (story) Equifax announces an enormous data breach. Could affect 143 million consumers (story) Three executives sold a total of $1.8 million in stock before publicly announcing the breach. Stock fell more than 6% (story) Futurama is coming back as a podcast (story) Speaking of podcasts, companies are still raising money (story) Life in the age of facial recognition (story) How to hack Siri and Alexa with non-audible sounds (story) Social Media growing as news source (story) Origins with James Andrew Miller Michael has a skill on Amazon D4Darious Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Twitter bots are becoming a problem (story) VMworld: VMware Cloud on AWS (story) Could it be bad? (story) Roku files for IPO (story) No more Juicero (story) You can't block Mark Zuckerberg or Priscilla Chan on Facebook (story) Jim Louderback, CEO of VidCon (story) Tinder figures out how to make money: let people see who swiped on them (story) Google tied search results position to promotion of its own social network: report (story) The podcast funding bubble is getting frothy (story) SanDisk microSD can take 400 GB (that's for phones). They have SD cards that can handle a terabyte. - Much needed for 4K resolution which eats up a ton of space. Michael Dell, who was born in Houston, donates $36 million toward Hurricane Harvey relief, the largest donation to the effort. Dell hopes to raise $100 million in donations. (NYT). Trump claims he's donating $1 million. Big Little Lies American Kingpin - Nick Bilton Atypical on Netflix Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Tear Down Show #179: We Start Juicing to Dominate the Microsoft Office World Championships
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Donald Trump's attack on Amazon (story) The right is building an alternative Internet as Google and others turn the screws on them (story) Charlottesville video by Vice was amazing and fast (story) Leaning on the YouTube and Twitch gamer community to build your successful game (story) Rapportive creator has a new email called SuperHuman (story) Messy Confusing future of TV (story) People are watching NBC's snapchat TV show (29 million in fact) (story) Microsoft Office Olympics (story) Apple investing $1 Billion in new programming. Netflix reportedly investing $7 billion in 2018 (story) They spent $6 billion. They're second to only ESPN who spent $7.3 billion (story) Ozarks Jason Bateman on Silver Spoons 13 Reasons Why 7 Mistakes Content Marketers Make When They Try to Be Journalists
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
-- Spark Media Solutions - Content is the currency for social media and search
Author of "THREE FEET FROM SEVEN FIGURES: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows" available at ThreeFeetBook.com.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Story of the Year: No two butts are the same. (story) According to Elon Musk, AI is more dangerous than N. Korea (story) Video game champ just lost to an AI bot (story) Lyft will always have human drivers (story) HBO Hacker leaks more content (story) HBO was going to offer $250K bounty payment/ransom payment (story) Amazon shutting down "Netflix of Europe" (story) New Crowd Surf feature on SnapChat lets you experience concerts from multiple angles (story) Alaska's biggest newspaper just went bankrupt (story) The original MS Surface had a return rate of 17% (story) Frustrated with YouTube TV Horse heads Our own video on the spoon! (story) Skatetown USA Roller Boogie Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Buzzfeed released a kitchen gadget! (story) The New Rules for Making it in Hollywood (story) The Tesla 3 is not as economy as they touted (story) Roomba data up for sale (story) Wisconsin Company to Implant Microchips in Employees (story) Katie Couric is leaving Oath. Who's Oath? Yahoo. that's who (story) Why sitting at your computer all day can wipe you out (story) Why create original content when you can just post commercials? That's what BI and Cheddar are doing (story) Microsoft Paint to be removed after 32 years, but no people demand it stays. (story) Prescription video games (story) Reply All - Long Distance This American Life: The Magic Show Tech conference list 19 year old magician doing card manipulation Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Blacklist of VCs who sexually harass (story) Robots are coming for old people, and it doesn't include insurance (story) Staying employed at the same company for over two years on average is going to make you earn less over your lifetime by about 50% or more. (story) Amazon Video Direct Program (story) Amazon isn't just killing broadcast TV. Now they're coming after Blue Apron (story) And Amazon isn't done. They want to bring a bookmobile meets Internet sale to your town (story) Summer Camp to be an Internet celebrity (story) NBC launches Snapchat TV shows (story) Technology to thwart facial recognition (story) Sears going to sell Kenmore products on Amazon (story) Do not play wedding songs (story) Sneaky Pete "Go Like Hell" Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
-- Spark Media Solutions - Content is the currency for social media and search
Author of "THREE FEET FROM SEVEN FIGURES: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows" available at ThreeFeetBook.com. On Facebook Blog: Spark Minute Twitter: @dspark LinkedIn Skype: davidspark
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Smart Kitchen Summit coming to Japan NYTimes Sexual Harassment by VCs article set off a flurry of responses Can we even trust the security guys? Kaspersky may have connections to Russian govt (story) David's finally cutting the cord (story) Juicero has laid off 25% of staff in wake of a really bad viral article in Bloomberg (story) In Europe, Employers can't check social media accounts (story) Drones can now go over 160 mph (story) DoNotPay - Chatbot helps with 1,000 legal issues - Same one reported on that helps you get out of parking tickets. It's completely free. Although it's only 55% successful (story) Hyperloop had its Kitty Hawk moment (story) Woman destroys $200K of art taking a selfie (video) Dennis Lehane's Since We Fell Bill Simmons and South Park guys Louis CK's 2017
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Don't Recommend: Lock Artist All of Uber's culture crisis stories (43, no 55) (story) Uber CEO Travis Kalanick takes leave of absence Amazon buys Whole Foods (story) Walmart buys Bonobos (story) E3 - Stories - Forza 7 on Oct. 3rd. 4K support. XBOX One X new console will deliver (story) Original Age of Empires coming back (story) Atari is making a console (again) (story) Robot powered burger joint is getting more $ (story) Why people watch gaming content on YouTube (story) Facebook using Artificial Intelligence to find extremist posts (story) Car of the future a living room on wheels (story) Troll Cakes (story) Orange is the New Black is back Haley Joel Osment is now a Silicon Valley star RedBull Illume Photo Contest Top 45 Free games you can play Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show:
IMPORTANT GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALISM: Expose into the life of waiter (story) Family throws Quincenera for their cat (story) Apple releases first original TV show, Planet of the Apps (of course) (story) Uber CEO instructions for sex at Miami party (story) Uber executive obtained medical records of a rape victim of a driver, fired (story) The cab industry is about to collapse (story) An explosion of online video could triple bandwidth consumption again in the next five years (story) The U.S. ranks 28th in the world in mobile internet speeds (story) Airbnb using platform for refugees (story) Economic value of skipping college (story) Verizon to lay off 2100 after Yahoo deal (story) Al Franken on WTF Al Franken's new book, Giant of the Senate Cool site - Generate tables 99% Invisible about origins of basketball Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Let's analyze what happens when a person crosses the line (Kathy Griffin) (story) Mary Meeker report (story) Walmart is looking to develop service that lets Walmart employees deliver products on way home (story) Cut throat world of toddler racing (story) Blue Apron going public (story) Ethiopia shut down the Internet to stop exam cheats (story) Twitter misinformation (story) Gmail rolls out phishing link detection (story) Pinboard buys Delicious (story) Veep WSJ: The Future of Everything Pancake Robot Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: David saw CEO of YouTube speak about diversity and it was non-diverse Google can now track online to offline transactions through credit card data (story) Sprig - another food delivery company - shuts down today (story) Foldmate and Landroid - Robots that fold your laundry (story) There's a family friendly home router (story) Instagram is the most harmful social network for your mental health (story) How many lives does the maker of a $150 technology-laden plate have? (story) NFL relaxes endzone celebrations for 2017 season (story) Weird Peter Popoff ad on Better Call Saul Wolf it Down with Tyler Florence - New Orleans Interview with advisor to Silicon Valley on HBO, Ed McManus Wow in the World podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Google Lens (story) Google Lens - Google is going bigtime into image recognition (story) Glucose monitor on an Apple watch - now that's a useful wearable (story) Ransomware is profitable and doesn't require expert skill (story) Uber is still top destination for job searchers, apparently (story) Suing over jokes (story) Medium launches audio versions of stories (story) Austin mans sues his date for texting (story) Target invested in a mattress company (story) Mark Zuckerberg's I got into Harvard video (story) Reply all - What kind of idiot gets phished? KEXP The Daily David's Forbes article - You're already sitting on the secret to successful blogging Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Which Tech Giant would you drop Google/Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook (story) Comscore offering viewership # s for OTT services 76ers start an incubator offering tips for Fan sports gaming sites like FanDuel (story) Andy Rubin backed company Lighthouse debuts - an machine vision company for the home (story) Amazon Echo Show (story) WannaCry ransomware spreads to 74 countries (story) NBC buying a craft site for $230 million (story) BCBS offers free Lyft rides to the doctor (story) How I built this - NPR Golf.audio update Up first podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Facebook hiring 3000 people just to monitor content, especially from live feeds. (story) Facebook launching TV as well (story) The Race to Build the world's first sex robot (story) Taxing robots (story) Amazon touch screen computer (story) The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can't Outpace Obsolescence (story) Twitch is looking at choose your own adventure TV (story) REALLY poor security practices (story) Games of thrones are two-factoring their emails (story) Guardians of the Galaxy Man vs. Snake Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Flying car will be available at the end of this year - "hold an altitude of up to 15 feet" and is designed to fly over fresh water. (story) How Russian hackers went from credit card phishing to tilting elections (story) Amazon's "How Do We Exploit Driverless Technology" Group (story) T-Mobile's weird CEO and his unlimited plan appear to be working, while Verizon is struggling (story) SlingStudio - Tricaster competitor for $999 (story) Tim Cook supposedly threatened to pull Uber from AppStore due to privacy violating behavior (story) French presidential leading candidate (story) Obfuscation - TrackMeNot, AdNauseum Fargo Silicon Cowboys Guy bowls a 300 game in 86.9 seconds (video) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David discuss during the show: Buzzfeeed guessed my age and height after I picked some fast food (story) Engaged to a robot (story) Airbnbn added 2 factor authentication to prevent scammers from renting out your home (story) Someone hacked every tornado siren (156) in Dallas. Went off for 95 minutes. (story) Uber booked 20 billion in rides in 2016 (story) Google's Autodraw and Quick Draw (story) Bezos: It's always Day 1 because Day 2 is the start of death (story) Dave's video of Bezos (story) Utter uselessness of Job Interviews - Believe that it's actually harmful (story) Burger King ad launches Google Home - Google made changes to prevent it from launching their devices. Plus there were changes made to the Wikipedia entry. (story) S-Town Filmmaker IQ - How a Director Stages and Blocks a Scene (video)
On this episode of the Tear Down Show, Michael and David discuss: Walt Mossberg is retiring (story) Uber's psychological tricks (story) It's not a PR problem at Uber (story) Google is adding fact checking (story) It's also using AI to reduce spam on maps (story) Employee Cyborgs (story) There's an open source clone for twitter (story) Appearing in stock photos was the biggest mistake of my life (story) Yahoo's new name: Oath Homeland Security drops demand to unmask Twitter account (story) Michael watches LOVE on Netflix DSLR Video Shooter What will the Trump administration do to protect your digital privacy? Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael, David, and Dave's Mom (Barbara) talk about during the show: IMPORTANT LEAD STORY -Predicting a friend's wedding by the pizza you order (story) Twitter ditches the egg (story) Internet Privacy and ISPs - Gone (story) Robots are replacing US workers at alarming rate (story) The argument for just ONE monitor (story) 2016 was the year streaming music finally became majority of industry revenue (story) How managers can retain technical women on their team (story) ESPN is slipping. They're not prepped for the future (story) S town podcast - apparently its huge How to Get Kicked Out of an Event Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Senate votes to gut our privacy rights. Overturn Obama's regulation that required ISPs to get our permission before selling our location and browser history to third parties (story) Mnuchin: AI won't replace US jobs for 50-100 years (story) 38% of the jobs are at risk of being replaced by robots (story) Dropping out of the job market to play video games (story) GIFS are maybe coming to FB comments (story) Password Rules are BS (story) Amazon made their first drone delivery (kinda) (story) Apple iCloud Ransom demands from Turkish Crime Family (story) Eatsa being sued (story) Have phones replaced teenage drug use? (story) Latest episode of Reply All - Alex Blumberg's Uber account hacked. Apparently it happens a lot LOVE second season Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Consumer Reports will assess cybersecurity in product reviews (story) Snapchat's $34 billion valuation. 44% increase. David said they were morons for not taking Facebook's $3billion offer. (story) Snapchat is taking a beating (story) Twitter says its timeline tweaks are a success, but won't get too specific (story) MIT Reviews 10 breakthrough technologies for 2017 (story) Reddit to Trump in 24 hours (story) Google sorry for Google Home spitting out Obama conspiracy theory (story) Facebook tests a Dislike button in Messenger (story) The Snuggie has been classified as a blanket, not clothing (story) Girls final season Logan Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: How stoned are you quiz Cloudbleed: Big web brands leaked crypto keys, personal secrets thanks to Cloudflare bug (story) An inside look at the failure of Disney's Maker deal (story)
DeleteUber - We are deeply saddened response only went out to 40 people (story)
Uber sued by Google's Waymo for stealing 14000 sensitive documents (story) Another passenger sues Uber for sexual assault (story) The Trump Troll is killing it on Kickstarter (story) Toughest job interview questions - Glassdoor (story) Eagles are the new drone killers (story) Drones are going to kill us somehow (story) Missing Richard Simmons Podcast The Detour Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: David has the Lion candy bar from Dwayne Melancon. He saves it to eat on the show for the first time. RSA highlights - Future of hacking. Worst malware stories. Vendors. Ransomware. Privacy issues. Role of security journalists now. Snap starts selling its augmented reality glasses online at spectacles.com (story) Sexual harassment at Uber. (story) They're going to look into it. (story) Everyone is offering unlimited plans now (story) Screens on planes being phased out (story) This guy was managing Sweden's Twitter acct when Trump named another fake terrorist attack (story) What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border? (story) The UW has a class called Calling BS in the era of big data (story) Big apartment management company sues Airbnb (story) Lego Batman, Siri reference 30 for 30 XFL Pixar training on storytelling Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Tear Down Show #159: A sandwich told us we're young actors looking for our big break
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: David, do you know what my subway sandwich habits tell me? (story) Hot topics in Cybersecurity for RSA: Security poverty line, Ransomware, machine learning/automation/analytics Cybersecurity is the new hotness (story) Ford dropped a B on self-driving car startup (story) Russians engineer a slot machine hack (story) The super bowl commercial set off a bunch of Google Homes (story) Hard Drive failure rates. 2016 edition from BackBlaze (story) New bot lets you autoinvest when Trump mentions a company (story) Coding is the new blue collar (story) New 24. Comedy series on CNN Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Tear Down Show #158: We Want Everyone to Know What We Leaked to the Press
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: How to Leak something to the press (story) Google has an app to design a dress for you: "Data Dress" (story) Hotel thermostats are placebos (story) Tinder for orangutans (story) Uber is still working on flying cars (story) Are Adult film stars in danger of losing their job to technology? (story) Facebook photo key to getting a job interview (story) Electrolux bought Anova, my headline sponsor! (story) A smartphone you can wash with soap and water (story) Should Elon Musk be advising Trump? (story) An app to mend the broken heart. It's called Mend. (story) Hater dating app (story) Trumpcast on slate Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should Keep its Mouth Shut (story) Trump still using his insecure Android phone (story) Trump staff using private server (story) The rich are now doomsday preppers (story) Apple joins AI ethics consortium with other big 5 (story) Biggest Tech IPO in 2016, Line, is losing ground in 2017 (story) Managing fake news is not easy (story) Amazon has a random-candy button you can press (story) What Would Happen If You Never Took Your Earbuds Out? (story) There's yet another fat-content startup with big names: Axios (story) Facebook says it will promote longer videos with high completion rates in News Feed (story) Is Verizon looking at Charter? (story) Uber passes Starbucks as business travelers #1 expense (story) New music by Flobots Society is collapsing The Young Pope on HBO - The big three networks are dead
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We recorded on Inauguration Day and here's what we discussed: Michael's big announcement The awkward gift exchange Two carrots hugging (see the picture) Spark Media Solutions celebrates 10 years in business (story) Trump's POTUS Twitter used an Obama Inaguration pic (story) Apparently there's ANOTHER social app name we have to learn (story) Google products appear on top in Google searches (story) Sonos has a new CEO, who apparently wants to do the things his previous CEO didn't (story) Uber settles for $20 million overstating income potential (story) Kristen Stewart wrote a research paper (story) IDG sold to Chinese investors just before inauguration day (story) Zuckerberg may be harboring political ambitions (story) Zuckerberg has a team of people managing his digital presence (story) Disco Demolition Night - UNDONE Netflix advertising how much content it's pushing out. 21 shows in 4 days. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: CES! Michael's AMAZING Mexico border story Trade show of trade shows Amazon to hire 100K new jobs in 18 months (story) Russia's state TV network took over CSPAN for 10 minutes Journalism, Media And Technology Trends And Predictions 2017 (story) Andy Rubin is creating new AI powered consumer hardware (story) Fake news debunkers: BBC (story) Chrone Extension from First Draft News (story) Daimler invests in Starship, a robot delivery company Apple to create original content (story) YouTube institutes Superchat on live streams. Paid messages (story) Michael Lewis - Undoing Project Why Oh Why podcast - Randy stories Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Beacon technology at conferences Are you using Signal? Amazon Go: Amazon wants to reinvent the grocery store (story) Clean Your Desk - Amazon interview experience (story) Pebble is no more. How to get banned from Uber (story) Is the era of gadgets over? (story) Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will no longer charge after the next update (story) The very best "How To" Guide to failing at CRM (story) 70 of the Most Useful websites Trumpcast on Slate Moana Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Buzzfeed does groundbreaking story on the horror of sharting (story) Along Came Polly Gooligan Malware (story) Are you ready for virtual eating, David? (story) Pebble rumored to be acquired by Fitbit (story) When tech is a problem child (story) Buzzfeed names fake news expert as editor (story) AT&T and T-Mobile fighting against Net neutrality with zero rating data (story) Amazon creating new touchscreen device (story) It's getting worse for retail stores. Amazon Prime members double or triple their spending after they join. This goes into building more fulfillment centers. (story) You can now download Netflix movies (story) Man in the High Castle The Gist with Mike Pesca Free to Play: The Movie Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Tear Down Show #152: How Can It Be a Meme if We Never Heard of It?
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Memes of 2016: it's time to decide (story) Friend of show has had his company acquired (story) Fewer than 3% of cars sold are sold with manual transmission (story) Another Gigafactory is coming, this time to Europe (story) Airbnb is getting into tour guides (story) Social media is altering global events, most notably our election (story) Fake news is more viral than real news - Quantity doesn't matter. What matters is the number of people who share it. (story) Post Truth: Oxford's word of the year. First used in 1992. But used 2000% this year vs. last year. (story) A reviewer got his hands on a $1500 computer-powered oven, and he wasn't happy (story) How to remove Trump or anything else from your feeds (story) Twitter new controls for hate speech - Not far enough (story) Dude sets up netcam, gets infected by malware botnet within minutes (story) Guy steals credit card and uses it to buy home security camera (story) The story of Aardman Jimmy Fallon - Metallica - Enter Sandman on classroom instruments Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Tear Down Show #151: We can't guarantee this podcast isn't filled with fake news
Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: My Yelp and Lyft apps have been "Samsungized" and I don't know what that means McDonalds has a Nutella burger (story) Facebook's fake news problem (44% of Americans get their news from Facebook). They have objectivity concerns since the backlash on how they were suppressing conservative stories in the news feed. (story) Google responsible as well. Their top result for "final election count" was a fake news site (story) Will my Facebook feed still be filled with Trump? Amazon wants to send a Merry Maid to your house (story) Parental tracking (not spying) on children - Do you do it? (story) What will Trump do with Twitter in White House? (story) Facebook responsible for a longer life? (story) Snapchat sells spectacles to lifelog, AR, etc (story) Mannequin challenge - Yet another viral video sensation (story) Amazon forced to pay back for kids making in-app charges on games (story) Heavyweight - Podcast Jonathan Goldstein - Wiretap Patton Oswalt - Talking for Clapping David Cross - Making America Great Again
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Here's what David and Michael talk about: Research says 20% of people change mind because of social media (story) Fish are now talking (story) Slack open letter in NYTimes (story) Bad idea or good idea? (story) Why so many friggin' open letters? Why not just a post? Google taps brakes on drone delivery (story) Speaking of drones, you gotta fight them off, right? (story) Macedonia becomes a hub of pro Trump information (story) Someone created a butter serving robot like on Rick and Morty (story) Samsung recalls exploding washing machines. Samsung has now become the exploding brand (story) Samsung releases full page apology ads (story) Trump's press page let you put in your own headline (for a while) (story) A company's created the flying car radar system (story) Poof - Fitbit for pets. Poof isn't the only pet fitness tracker on the market — it competes with others such as FitBark and PitPat, but Tran argues Poof is the most comfortable to wear and has the longest battery life. (story) Gawker media settled with Hulk Hogan for $31m, not $140m and removal of three "true stories." (story) Catastrophe Westworld Crazy Ex Girlfriend Pandemic - Game
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Vine dead - Why it died (story) Twitter cuts 9% of its staff (story) Follow the #TwitterLayoffs Hashtag (story) Uber wants flying cars (story) Facebook's new voting app (story) Dude gives up on self-driving car once he realizes it would be regulated (story) Cleantech is rebranding as smartcity (story) Microsoft made paint 3D (story) Facebook lets you exclude users based on ethnic affinity (story) Remember Jason Kilar of Hulu? He started a startup and it got bough and shut down (story) Drone hacking, now public (story) Screenagers Muppet Babies is coming back Hyperbole and a Half Finished Luke Cage. Awesome series on Netflix. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David discuss during the show: IoT suffers black eye due to Mira botnet (story) Why we should be really scared about the massive Internet outtage - Small devices have turned against us. (story) One webcam company out of China issued a recall (story) Wirecutter sells to NYT for $30 Million (story) Hackers sabotage drone design, causing to crash (story) What is Samsung going to do about their reputation and how are they going to launch the poorly named phone Samsung Note 8? (story) Samsung parody videos being pulled off of Youtube due to Samsung copyright claims. (story) Here's a mattress that will detect if you're spouse is cheating on you (story) AT&T and Time Warner Merger - Apple angle. $85.4 billion (story) The smartwatch is dying (story) Videogame voice actors on strike. They want a portion of game sales. They get $825 for a four hour session. (story) Pokeman Go players walked more, but not much. 1400 steps. About a 25% increase (story) Walking Dead - The spoiler avoidance Far Out Space Nuts, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
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On this episode of Tear Down Show, Michael and David discuss: Three people hit $1.00 on Price is Right (story) Complete ban on Galaxy Note 7's on planes. You can't bring it on even if powered down. (story) Are you read for Trump TV? (story) Peter Thiel to donate 1.25 million to Trump campaign (story) Dumping traditional sports for e-sports. (story) Are you ready for a marriage holiday? (story) Official word on not the official word on the Apple car is that it's failing (story) Meatless hamburgers that bleed have sold out (story) Google Flights will show you when prices are going to increase (story) Google Trips pretty darn cool as well Netflix is killing it (story) Google to add fact checking to its news stories, but nobody's seen it (story) Divorce on HBO Janet's blog Embedded podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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On this episode of Tear Down Show, Michael and David discuss: Three people hit $1.00 on Price is Right (story) Complete ban on Galaxy Note 7's on planes. You can't bring it on even if powered down. (story) Are you read for Trump TV? (story) Peter Thiel to donate 1.25 million to Trump campaign (story) Dumping traditional sports for e-sports. (story) Are you ready for a marriage holiday? (story) Official word on not the official word on the Apple car is that it's failing (story) Meatless hamburgers that bleed have sold out (story) Google Flights will show you when prices are going to increase (story) Google Trips pretty darn cool as well Netflix is killing it (story) Google to add fact checking to its news stories, but nobody's seen it (story) Divorce on HBO Janet's blog Embedded podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: THE MOST IMPORTANT TOPIC IN AMERICA AND WORLD: CLOWNS (story) Tesla unveiling "mystery product". Let's guess what it is (story) Southwest flight evacuated after Samsung phone catches fire. And this was a replacement after the recall. (story) All the major carriers are offering replacement devices for Samsung Note 7 users. They halt sales of the phone. (story) Comcast rolls out 1 TB caps. Scoble got one. His family got really close. Author used 1.2TB because of 4K video and gaming. (story) This week in singularity: lightly used robotics division for sale (story) Salesforce Shareholders weren't keen on Twitter deal so they squashed it. Fidelity Investments led the cause. (story) Sony is trying to be the hip 40 something step dad and is releasing a movie starring...an emoji (story) Guardian buys ads on its own site only to discover that they're only getting 30% in worst case scenarios (story) Malcom Gladwell podcast on Toyota debacle. The Spoon Luke Cage on Netflix - Erroneous that it took down Netflix Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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On this week's episode of Tear Down Show, Michael and David interview two teenagers about their usage of social media. Is it as bizarre as you've been led to believe by the recent Wired article and episode of This American Life?
On the show we have two teenagers from opposite coasts who are very involved in social media.
Emi Powers. She has a protected account on Instagram www.instagram.com/emipowers. Aidan Mitchell. He can be found on Twitter www.twitter.com/KillAidanMitch and he also wanted to give a shout out to his friend, Leslie Purchase @lespurr.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Do Women cost men money from a career perspective Danny Bonaduce - David in Chicago Radio Corey Feldman on Today show...What? Where? How? Why? (video) "unintended" consequences of free Internet kiosks in NYC were very expected (story) A bot to tell your wife you love her (story) Coding with Swift Playgrounds - Apple (story) Mode media shuts down w/o notice (story) Binge watching can bring you closer to your spouse (story) This week in singularity: AI will eliminate 6% of jobs in 5 years (story) Watch streaming sports through TWITTER (story) Guy at age 37 complaining about ageism. Created Old Geek Jobs 9-year old rugby player dominates Easy on Netflix Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Important news for pet owners (story) New iPhone has wireless earbuds - More for you to lose (story) The new iphone: Missing the cycle (story) Oculus wins an Emmy (story) Virginia Tech will get drone delivered burritos via Alphabet and Chipolte. (story) This week in Singularity: Fake voices are getting less fake (story) Galaxy Note 7 Users can't use their phones on planes (story) Samsung's shares dropped as a result. A $10 billion loss (story) Twitter has an Alexa skill (story) Half of people get mobile news alerts, but only half of those people actually look at them. (story) Elon Musk is starting conspiracy theories about its rocket (story) FCC's new plan reqires all cable companies to create apps to access their content (story) Don't write dating articles if you look like this dude Adult coloring books - what's up with that? Rampant Media YouTube channel
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show:
0 to $640M: Non-obvious Lessons Learned at BrightRoll (story) SpaceX explodes (story) Apple owes $14.5 billion in back taxes (story) Why Ireland doesn't want Apple's money (story) When you're sad about a nerdy thing: Google kills Ara modular phone (story) IF you thought human soccer was dull, wait until you see robot soccer (story) This week in singularity: Watson makes a movie trailer (story) Galaxy Note 7 recalled due to exploding batteries (story) Mossberg says Jobs wanted to reinvent TV. And then he died. (story) jean claude van johnson Unknown Caller by Debra Spark Narcos - Season 2
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Remember being mad about college textbook costs? Now its about online fees (story) Social Media Lives of Teens (story) This week in singularity: Facebook fires 18 humans, promotes its algorithm (story, story 2) Should you charge your phone overnight? (story) Netflix is a manbang knockoff. (story) Sports writer banned from Twitter for posting three Olympics GIFs (and then lifted after the story hit) (story) Are honorary corporate names the new honorary degrees? If you're a world class athlete, yes (story) Peter Thiel launches Legalist - Finance lawsuits you think will win (story) Forget Monet. Here's a Jobs. (story) Uber testing flat fare pricing in SF (story) First driverless taxis hit Singapore (story) Theater review: Pirates of Penzanz (that's how Michael spelled it) The new Netflix arrivals are like digital Christmas (story) Louis CK and Jay Leno rip on each other (video) Unknown Caller by Debra Spark (Get my sister's book!) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about with their guest Dwayne Melancon (@thatdwayne), CTO of Tripwire.
The Poopocalypse: Robots are rubbing our nose in poop and we can't stop it (story) Uber auto driving cars in Pittsburgh (story) Dumb alibi story goes horribly wrong (story) NSA Hack (story) How Trolls are ruining the Internet (story) What is the deal with cheating in Pokemon Go? (story) Pokemon Go SMS phishing (story) Finally, we're fighting back against the robot(calls) (story) Competitive pinball (story) Watch people play Pinball on Twitch (story) An iconic war photo (story) Oh Nothing, Just a Fake Human Sacrifice Near the Large Hadron Collider (story) Amazon launches a "featured on Product Hunt" section (story) On The Morality Of Steve Miller's "Take The Money And Run" (story) eero dramatically improved my home WiFi (so I can stream the following...) Mr. Robot and Silicon Valley Atlas Robot - Swearing Mod How to Hire 1M Security Pros
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Michael and David's Podcast Preparation Now Involves Cupping
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: The Pathetic Olympics The Lead Story: why are people cupping? (story) eSports using more online traffic than the Olympics (story) A Martin Skireli reply all email conversation happened today (story) GM wanted to buy Lyft. Lyft wants to continue dating around (story) Twitter is a honeypot for A-holes (story) 40% of Americans have been harassed online (story) Twitter claims there are inaccuracies in the story (story) Target's adding a connected rubber ducky to their store. Do you want one? (story) AdBlock Plus vs. Facebook - Cat and Mouse Game (story) Another one-button control mechanism called Pop. Interested? (story) Health records are prime targets now for digital thieves (story) Arianna is leaving Huffpo. Should we care? (story) Vice Principals - coming around Don't celebrate too early sports fails Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Swimmers toes: we need to be paying attention to this important issue (story) IOC is cracking down on Olympics GIFS. Good luck on that. (story) New Apple Watch coming: are you ready to get one? (story) Apple converts its gun emoji to look like a watergun - People revolt (story) Walmart buys Jet.com for $3 Bs (story) Facebook changes its algorithm to avoid clickbait (story) Hulu's killing free, going all-paid (story) Pokemon Go drives a surge in smartphone backup battery sales (story) Blake Krikorian died (story) World's biggest cruise ship - Almost 9000 passengers (story) China's straddling bus hits the road (story) I'm going analog with a daytimer. Mock me if you want I finally listened to Malcom Gladwell's podcast and really liked it. Podcast episodes: The Stanford endowment; Elvis Costello and perfecting a song Luke Aikins skydives without a parachute How do they score gymnastics Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Doug the Pug meets Mark Z's pooch (story) The hack of the DNC emails. Wikileaks lost the moral high ground (story, story2) The election systems are probably hackable too (story) Amazon reaches new high of 268,900 employees — skyrocketing 47% in just one year (story) Play Dungeons and Dragons on Roll20 (story) Instagram allowing control of comments (story) How Default settings rule the world (story) Buzzfeed editor reminds staff to not post political beliefs on social media (story) Second person is what makes you happy. Yes you! (story) Oracle buys Netsuite for $9.3 billion (story) Millennials dig Word (story) Musical.ly app - Make music videos to become famous (story) HBO's Ballers and Vice Principals Star Trek: Beyond Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: When is the right age to give your kids a smartphone? (story)
hackedbyjohnson give me your password request - This is amazing (story)
Verizon Buying Yahoo (story) Yahoo original surfers (story) Pokeman Go Sherpas (story) Milo Yiannopoulos banned from Twitter for going after Leslie Jones. Claims he's a conservative voice for Breitbart. Is it an act? (story1, story2) Redbox is testing new video streaming service (story) Dungeons and Dragons is now hip with A-list celebrities (story) Facebook launches first drone....for internet access (story) Selena Gomez getting $550K per social media post (story) This week in Singularity: Bots writing more fiction (story) The VCR is officially dead (story) Mr Robot Ballers is Back All last week with Colbert Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show:
Endless stories about the true FAD of Pokeman Go - Businesses squeezing themselves in to the game (story) - NH police use Pokeman Go to lure fugitives to headquarters (story) - Rare Pokemon appears in Central Park (story) - Floriday man shoots at Pokeman Go players, mistaking them for burglars (story) - New Zealand man quits job to hunt Pokemon full time (story) - Pokewalk - will play Pokeman Go for you (gag) (story) - Stop playing Pokeman Go at the Holocaust Museum (story) - The pokemon go backlash has started (story) This.is goes out of business. You probably never heard of This.is. That was the problem (story) Facebook blames pipeline for diversity problem (story) The Big Lie: Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring — Don't Panic, Just Hire (story) Google's Diverse emoji for women at work approved by Unicode Consortium (story) Softbank buying ARM (story) SB Nation getting into radio (story) Headphone culture (story) Seven people who hold the key to the Internet's security (ICANN) (story) Trump's ghost writer for Art of the Deal hates himself (story) Hail Caesar's star is new Han Solo (story) Binge watching Louie after hearing him voice dog in The Secret Life of Pets Top Spin Finally watching Game of Thrones Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Facebook's Heavy Promotion of Live Video when dealing with gruesome live streaming (story) This week in the Singularity: Bomb robot used to kill Dallas suspect (story) Skill based casino games to attract Millennials (story) Dear Steve Miller segment: Is it fair to ask an 80's hairband start to sing at your wedding? (story) Classic Blackberry and it's keyboard discontinued - end of an era (story) Microsoft is betting future on AI (story) Snapchat gets a class action lawsuit over exposing sexually explicit content to minors (story) How Valleywag changed my life: a post (story) VR porn festival in Japan (story) Bear live stream. You can't stop watching (story) startup: grooveshark episode McEnroe and Borg (watch on YouTube) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Sure you could listen, but why not watch it here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwdH5oKbRRc)
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Facebook favors friends and family over publications. Wasn't this always the case? Has been their second formal announcement. (story) Fox News the most engaged site on Facebook (story) Uber tracking driving telemetrics for "safety." I argue it's to cover their legal behinds. (story) AI chatbot lawyer overturns 160K parking tickets in London and NY (story) Olympic VR - DOA? (story) What's wrong with the 2D web? Why do we need at 3D web? Tony Hawk lands another 900 at 48 Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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David begins the show talking about the tragic death of his friend and former guest on the show, Bill Biggar. Bill appeared on episode #120, which he wanted us to title "Biggar and Better" (the web address says that), so we're titling this show "Biggar and Better."
(if you want to hear the episode with Bill, that episode can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/teardownshow/tear-down-show-120-we-stand-in-line-to-buy-a-tesla-3-that-doubles-as-a-juicer)
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show. Brexit Brexit Brexit - John Oliver's follow up after the vote Twilio goes public. Shares close at 90% above starting price (story) Amazon's stealing new hires away from...Amazon (story) YouTube livestream from your phone. (story) This week in Singularity: Boston Dynamics Dogs can't quite make it around the house (story) Matter media incubator opens in NYC. Should have started there. (story) What's wrong with VR. (story) Springer wins in German court against ad blocker Eyeo. (story) Dog influencers on Instagram (story) Miranda Sings heads to Netflix in October (story) UnREAL Season 2 Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David discuss during the show: New segment: This week in the Singularity (story) Working long hours a sign of privilege (story) Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of the Internet (story) Intense culture Netflix has created to remain competitive (story) Netflix juicers suing for higher pay and overtime (story) Yahoo's 53 acquisitions since Marissa Meyer. Most shut down. (story) Linkedin's other suitor (story) English Teacher Re-Titles Classic Poems As Clickbait In Last-Ditch Effort To Trick Students Into Learning (story) Beautiful stories about anonymous people (story) Season 3 Orange is the New Black Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Email Justice Free dinner night Call from an interviewee IMPORTANT LEAD STORY: 27 THINGS YOU CAN BUY WITH A DOLLAR (story) Ziff Davis to buy Gawker Media? (story) Gawker Media files chapter 11 (story) UberRush API (story) China building underwater space station (story) Tesla knows when a crash is going to happen (story) A neural net wrote a screenplay, and it was apparently pretty good (story) Detect if people have pancreatic cancer before diagnosed from their search history (story) Michael cancels Blue Apron Apps that help with public speaking (story) Trolling started in the gaming world (story) Google's investment in Flying cars - Disturbing or great use of displaying text? (story) Michael's podcast with Mark Cuban Larry David maybe bringing back Curb Sunspring - Movie written by AI Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Techcrunch has an intern (story) Giant alligator on a golf course (story) Tony Fadell is out at Nest (story) Smartphone growth slowing - smartphone shipments are expected to grow 3.1% in 2016, which is a substantial slowdown from the 10.5% growth in 2015 and 27.8% in 2014. (story) Jon Stewart - can he save us from Trump (story) Zen and the art of managing smartphone photos (story) Changing model of local news. More than half are selling sponsored content, up from about 1/5th a year ago. More than half are making revenue of less than 100K a year. (story) Tribune rebrands as Tronc (story) Backlash against a selfie statue in Sugarland, TX (story) We recommend Silicon Valley again. It's on season 3. A video by David, "Why Do So Many Corporate Videos Suck?" Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David discuss during the show: Hungry Dog stops watching baseball game (story) Peter Thiel's campaign against Gawker. (story) Nick Denton's Open letter to Peter Thiel (story) Apple's now developing an Echo rival (story) Twitter easing the 140 character restriction with @ replies at the beginning, plus videos, and photos/GIFs. (story) Pebble Core: Another anything button (story) How Technology Hijacks People's Minds (story) The Flip Phone is continuing its comeback (story) Discussion of ethics/laziness of PR professionals - 3 recent cases. Cells Phones Cause Cancer (story) Noti-Fly - Get a text when your fly is down. (story) Let's discuss Jeopardy (story) Favorite 80's Sitcom Theme Music Dude Perfect - World Record Edition. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Michael's friend was outside the White House and was all over the news David Hasselhoff's financial troubles IMPORTANT LEAD STORY: teenager gets teacher cake (story) Lots of Google I/O announcements. (story) (Michael's initial review to Google Home vs. Amazon Echo) Smart clothes platform: Working with Levis. Do you need smart clothes? (story) Other Google announcements: Google Daydream, Allo messaging, Duo a competitor to Facetime (story) Apple renames Genuis Bar to Genuis Grove, gives Silicon Valley HBO writers more material. New Hangout. Apple store in SF. (story) Google has patented sticky glue on cars to catch pedestrians (story) 85% of Facebook Video is watched without sound (story) Hey Steve Miller for Yahoo!: Take the money and run (story) YouTube prank videos that go wrong (story) Chewbacca mask lady The Internet's favorite book - You'll be surprised Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: IMPORTANT LEAD NEWS STORY: 70s Stars and what they look like now (story) What is Apple doing with podcasts? Why have they never capitalized on it? (story) Apple confirms the music erasing bug in iTunes and will update (story) Donald Trump's press spokesperson John Miller is amazing (story) Trump going after Jeff Bezos (story) Zuckerberg says they're not surpressing conservative stories on trending topics, but will investigate (story) Vine is dying on the vine (story) Return of the dumb phone (story) Finally, an all purpose Amazon button (story) France may make it illegal to send after hours work emails - They don't have a siesta or the sabbath, so this is what they have to resort to. (story) Tinder...for buddies? (story) Half of your friends don't consider you a friend. (story) An obituary: The Muppets were cancelled (story) Great videos for filmmakers. Indy Mogul, Griffin Hammond Videos on how to make a teleprompter for your iPad.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: IMPORTANT LEAD STORY: why tickling is dangerous (story) Apple Music deleting files off of people's hard drives - If this is "common" practice why is it only reported by one user? (story) Turns out Apple Music is not good. It's confusing. But it's not deleting files off the HD without explicity permission. (story) Google using romance novels to make AI more conversational (story) Trump's taco bowl tweet blows up the Internet (story) Why does every platform need an editor in chief? (story) An argument for yelling at customer service (story) Who is Palantir, and why is Business Insider still calling them a startup? (story) Why so much VR press NOW? No story, I'm just amazed that the VR pr world coordinated to raise everyone's interest in VR right now. Is it solely because of the release of Oculus? Zynga HQ worth more than Zynga (story) Budweiser themed VR headsets at Cavalier games: why? (story) Space Invaders and Sonic the Hedgehog added to the Video Game Hall of Fame. Why did it take so long for Space Invaders? (story) Did you know there's an Angry Birds movie coming out? Alan Meckler's Elevator Pitch videos United Shades of America - W. Kamau Bell - on CNN My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Available for free on iTunes - how long?
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Chandler and Joey hung out in London (story) Comcast purchases Dreamworks Animation $3.8 billion (story) Tesla has bioweapon mode on its cars (story) Future of driverless vehicles. Lobbying group with Google, Ford, Uber (story) Ready to McAfee your Car? (story) Does Google's Big Data analytics already know the outcome of the election? (story) Business Insider some type of boiler room for journalists? (story) An iPad goes on a journey, it's owner follows it online (story) Snapchat fighting for your right to take selfies in the voting booth (story) More advice from Michael? Hey Steve Miller - Don't be like Ted Cruz. Also, crack jokes like Barack Obama. Traffic lights on the sidewalk so you don't have to look up from your phone (story) The Term Sheet - Lucas Carlson - former Gigaom friend The Ip Man movies - Great martial arts films Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Prince didn't want his music on the Internet (story) Medium raised another monster round (story) SpyEye Makers Get 24 years in Jail (story) John McAfee goes behind the scenes of his viral video (story) Virtual weapons turning teens into serious gamblers (story) Yik Yak founders settle lawsuit (story) Changes in Facebook News Feed rankings (story) Staples Connect going away, Mike kinda helps break story (story) Google and Microsoft call a truce - really? (story) Holy White Hounds, Faction Radio on Sirius Podcast Rank Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David discuss on this episode: Buzzfeed combines faces of couples using Photoshop (story) UC Davis and Chancellor Katehi try to erase "pepper spray" references from search results (story) Nest/Revolv relents, offers full refund for bricked hub (story) Uninstall Quicktime Now if you're on Windows (story) Sharp launches RoboHon, a robot...phone (story) The Textalyzer for motorists in accidents in NY (story) Apple Watch: A flop? (story) Why do we go into the office if everything is digital? (story) Mike's new segment: Advice for a colleague. This week's colleague: Steve Miller of Steve Miller Band Louis CK losing millions on Horace and Pete (story) Serial Season 2 Disrupted: Dan Lyons book about Hubspot The Warriors - The movie Season 2 of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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On this episode, Michael and David discuss: Buzzfeed blew up a watermelon with rubberbands (story) Panama Papers - THIS is the lead story - Why this isn't getting more press? (story) Children of wealthy flaunting wealth online/Instagram (story) Mashable Layoffs (story) Twitter wins NFL deal for Thursday night games (story) Fleet of trucks drove self across Europe (story) Brave Software gets cease and desist for digital ad substitution (story) What Every Web Browser Knows About You (story) Medium offers tons of new features (story) People are being less annoying on Facebook (story) WhatsApp End to End Encryption (story) Hearthstone Electric Boogaloo - Story of Cannon Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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It's the first of two Tear Down Shows this week because, well, Mike didn't get the show out last week. But this one's great..
Here's what David and Michael talk about with in studio guest and laugh track, Bill Biggar: Would you buy a $700 juicer (story) April 1st, or JV Comedy Day. Google blows it with its Mic Drop (story) Netflix goes John Stamos crazy for April Fools (story) CEOs talking bad about others is always a bad idea (story) The Amazon Dash button proliferates. It's advertising in your home. Use OurGroceries instead. (story) Mars company buys a "Fitbit for dogs" (story) We're more honest with our phones than doctors (story) The Model 3 is debuted and is killing it (story) 6 Things to ask for when interviewing for a remote job (story) Amazon Echo Dot only buyable through Echo: some problems Video creators getting screwed over by freebooting on Facebook (story) Togetherness is cancelled HBO Clip (Red Sox win World Series on Oct. 27, 2004) and the reaction in Boston Talk Like William Shatner Day Bill Biggar's "Pinky and the Brain" promo Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Goodbye Garry Shandling - Check out Judd Apatow book and Marc Maron WTF Microsoft Tay is the best story of the week (story) The mess at Nest (story) The other side of that disturbing Silicon Valley lawsuit (story) Redbox launching video service...again (story) Netflix caps video stream quality for Verizon and AT&T customers (story) Only in Seattle: Man in tree becomes national story (story) Man arrested for not returning VHS copy of Freddy Got Fingered from 2002 (story) Google Maps Gets Wrong Texas House Torn Down (story) Dave Attell's Road Work (Watch now on YouTube) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Hulk Hogan wins $115 milliion against Gawker (story) Target launched Project Goldfish, a secretive project to reinvent retail (story) Microsoft had schoolgirl dancers at GDC (story) Evernote is killing itself. Stop it. (story) Virtual Elvis. Brought to you by the same people who bring you hologram Michael Jackson. (story) 13 Annoying Communications that Must End in 2016 (story) Soundcloud nets Sony, ready for pay music service: Begs question - do we need it? (story) Click fraud in streaming music (story) Mark Zuckerberg takes jog, gets mocked (story) The coolest LA girls on the Internet (story) Canva Noir films on Archive.org Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what you'll hear on this episode: GM to make driverless cars. Car sharing. Changing economy for standard businesses (story) the next Elon Musk? Kyle Voigt (story) Pancake printer - ask about if I ever try to make cool shapes w/pancake batter (story) Instacart lowers pay for delivery people (story) Obama's speech at SXSW (story) End of Moore's Law (story) Sonos is struggling (story) VRTually There News Show being produced by USA Today (story) VidAngel and Movie Swap Legal? (story) Tool to move from Evernote to OneNote (story) Charlie Kaufman on WTF Love - on Netflix Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Microsoft rejects Slack acquisition idea (story) Ashley Madison Fallout (story) Meerkat pivots. This isn't going to end well (story) New Yorker using snapchat (story) Amazon adds Dot and Tap (story) Spotify's Fresh Finds (story) Intuit Sells Quicken. This makes me sad. (story) Student forwards nude photos of teacher from her phone (story) Calacanis gets reality show. Can he finally make VCTV work? (story) The Internet is Rigged (story) Virtual Reality on Rollercoasters (story) k-poparazzi - Radiolab Great Trailer: It's a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road Horrible Trailer: New Ghostbusters Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Google's Neural network image search is scary (story) Apple-FBI iPhone hack isn't about privacy-security (story) Google docs let you voice type - and edit, format - now (story) Kevin Roose invited two hackers to hack him (story) What's your reaction to Facebook reactions? (story) Zuckerberg dealing with a form of racism at Facebook (story) Amidst VR mania, Google apparently has Project Tango (story) Computer Science Is Now A High School Graduation Requirement In Chicago's Public School District (story) 4G for drones (story) Amazon pays $15 million for Woody Allen's film unseen (story) Netflix changing the model of TV (story) Len Peralta's Poster (story) Smithsonian photo contest (story) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: The great iPhone hack debate. Can tech companies just defy court orders? This will be a landmark case. (story) Trump wants boycott, McAfee wants to hack iPhone (story) A unified IoT standard (story) The launch of Cheddar - a Millennial focused finance streaming show. (story) Cofounder of YouTube starting video network about food (story) Men make more money on ebay than women (story) Yahoo Originals shut down (story) The secret lives of Tumblr teens (story) Star Wars Fan Films (story) Vinyl Togetherness - Duplass Brothers Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Apple's Creating a Dr. Dre scripted series (story) Zenefits created a backdoor program to bypass the required 52 hour course to get a license to sell health insurance (story) The Fitness app rollup is about done (story1) (story2) Sony hackers still alive and well. Are they from N. Korea? Evidence shows common tools, techniques and procedures or TTPs (story) Twitter puts recommended tweets on top of timeline (story) Independent newspapers closing and going digital (story) Andy Rubin unleashing AI: good piece in Wired (story) NOOOO. Experiments with vertical video (story) NBC launchd a pay reality TV streaming service. Really. (story) James Woods gets the green light to go after the twitter defamer in court (story) Mad Dogs on Amazon Wild (screenplay) Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David discuss in this episode: Man spends $21k on Super Bowl tickets, does interview and says to keep a secret from his wife (story) Hashtags used in 45% of Super Bowl ads. (story) uber, Dominos Pizza, and Spotify via Echo (story) Amazon plans to open 400 brick and mortar bookstores (story) Technologies to watch in 2016 (story) About time: Instagram announces account switching (story) Google Hangouts Confirms it will use P2P connections to improve call quality and speed (story) New York Times launched Latin America edition (story) The New York Times' new Slack 2016 election bot sends readers' questions straight to the newsroom (story) Verizon exploring buy of Yahoo (story) Bustle and the Industrialization of Confession (story) Hail Caesar! Funny Tweeter Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Special guest for this episode is Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk), Founder of Little Bird.
Here's what Michael, David, and Marshall discuss in this episode: Amazon investing in podcasts (story) Future is conversational commerce (story) Is creative arts the future to success in age of automation? (story) Twitter CMO You Share. I "Like." Is That the Extent of Our Friendship? (story) The VR and AI Rollups by Apple, Google and Amazon (story) Remote work is not about productivity (story) What My Wife and I Lost and Gained Running a Business Together (story) Is Martin Shkreli punking us? (story) HuffPost to publish anti-Trump kicker with all Trump coverage (story) What's cool/not cool with teens - Apps (story) Little Bird, the influencer discovery and relationship tool, just had a big update. Subscribe at GetLittleBird.com Bob's Burgers Latest Season of Project Greenlight The Future of the Future - Bonnie Graham - podcast - SAP sponsored "Overweight Sensation" and rediscovering Allan Sherman on Spotify Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Samsung and VR in Restaurants (story) Facebook Sports Stadium (story) We're all Hunter S. Thompson Now: F Bombs on Medium - Just look at top stories in Medium The recurring bad password story (story) Apple releases Music Memos, for those annoyed with Garage band (story) Tech layoffs. VC funding drops (story) About.Me Redesign (story) Violating restraining order by tagging ex in-law on Facebook (story) Baskets with Zach G Master of None Boston Accent Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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TDS #109: Michael and David Penalized in League of Legends for Unnecessary Roughness
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: CES: smart home, smart food, and IoT everywhere. Some cool drones too ESPN covering e-sports (story) PewDiePie Launches on Content Network with Disney, Revelmode (story) Nest outage (story) Udacity offers guaranteed jobs or your money back for four specific courses (story) Crowley and Foursquare (story) Social media isn't the biggest distraction at work (story) Intel invests in robotics company (story) Vidmob - at CES - Like Magisto, but with real editors, for a small cost (about $55-$65) Serial going bi-weekly (story) Blue apron review Bob and Dave shows on Netflix Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Michael and David look back and the biggest stories of 2015: Ashley Madison - The story that kept giving and giving. Amazon's IoT Strategy Year of the drone personal/commercial - Fireworks video. The Car Hack - Jeep Cherokee AI comes into its own: Alexa, Siri, acquisition binges, Innit Google's Reorg: Confusing but important Year that Internet programming hit mainstream. Unbelievably great programming on Netflix. Podcast industry maturity: related trend: Midroll acquired, Gimlet gest more money. The struggles of independent tech media (Gigaom, ReCode gets bought, ReadWrite, Pando) Rise of Uber and Lyft and death of taxi. Windows 10 - A free OS, and a hassle free upgrade. Terms we didn't use until 2015: Unicorn, Selfie Stick, and the poop emoticon. Awareness of online harassment of women in gaming. Anita Sarkeesian. Lack of diversity in Silicon Valley and being aggressive to change that. Ellen Pao and Kleiner Perkins. Late night changed and stop being so pointlessly vicious. Rise of investigative comedy (Daily Show and John Oliver) Death of Radio Shack. How can any retail brick and mortar tech outlet survive? Michael and David also offer up their favorite books, movies, TV shows and podcasts for 2015. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Tear Down Show #???: David and Michael Summon the Internet's Reaction via Facebook Messenger
Here's what Michael and David talk about on the show:
Internet's loop of action and reaction - For every news story we get additional stories of the reactions. (story) Cult of Likability - We're imprisoned by reviews (story) Obama going on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (story) 21% of Americans online almost constantly (story) Google upgrades robots and drones to Google X (story) Even Apple doesn't want to use Final Cut Pro X (story) Stern reups with Sirius for 5 years (story) WhatsApp blocked in Brazil for 48 hours for not complying to a criminal case (story) Summon an Uber from within Facebook Messenger (story) 10 Best Memes of 2016 (story) Top 10 Viral Sports Videos of 2016 (story) Serial Season 2 is back (story) Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook (story) Top 25 News Photos of 2015 (story)
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Recap of the Smart Kitchen Summit Draft Kings and FanDuel sue NY Attorney General for unilateral cease and desist letter (story) Fossil buys Misfit as Watch Makers try to get smart (story) The Breakup Shop - $10 for a text or email to end your relationship (story) One of the father's of the mainframe has died (story) Beats Music shutting down - Fully Apple Music YouTube Music App now available (story) Unicorn problems: Zenefits tanks after revenue short fall (story) Pornhub's traffic dips on the day Fallout 4 comes out (story) Marissa Mayer's attempt to boost employee morale through $70K executive photo shoot (story) It's Sonos's world, and you're just living in it: Wireless speaker startups running into trouble (story) Muppets Freaks and Geeks
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Stories for the week:
-SXSW dumping the gaming and harassment panel, Then the backlash from the community. Vox Media, Verge, and Buzzfeed threatened to boycott the event. -Twitch launches Twitch Creative -Microsoft dumping Sunrise. -MIT working on RF capture, which will be killer for distributed gaming -Twitter alerts me about the World Series and runs ads during the World Series -Founder of defunct company takes user credit card info w/him -Uber Surge pricing study -11 Year old sells secure passwords for $2 -Fan TV has $7k in revenue in three quarters, then Rovi still spent $12 million on them -Watch the NBA in VR
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show. YouTube ad free (story) $1 pill makes life hard for a bropreneur (story) Guy plays Fantasy Football full time (story) Venmo, the social payment service, is a little late on joke investigations (story) Google employee lives in a truck in the parking lot (story) Google hides math joke in stock repurchase (story) Silicon Valley health issues (story) Jack is giving $200 million to Twitter employees (story) Kaufman and Foxx on tour again as holograms (story) Martin Sexton Hate watching Quantico Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: No more nudes for Playboy. (story) Match Group files to go public: a love connection super IPO (story) Is texting just as addictive as gambling for teenage girls? (story) Netflix growth slows on...chip enabled credit cards? (story) Google Books wins. Not copyright infringement (story) August will let your dog walker in for you (story) Top 13 YouTube stars made $54.5 million collectively (story) Twitter layoffs (story) Yahoo Mail relaunching without passwords. Verifications to smartphone or smartwatch. (story) Amazon has patent for smart glasses (story) Michael's podcast: Smart Kitchen Show David's book! Three Feet from Seven Figures: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show. MIcrosoft Suface Book, HoloLens, and other hardware (story) How could Microsoft steal phone market share from Apple and Google? (story) Google truly owns the Alphabet (story) Insider trading in Fantasy Sports: DraftKings - FanDuel (story) What exactly is Medium becoming (story) Information stored on your boarding pass (story) We're past the age of smartphones as hot tech category, and VCs are looking for what's next (story) Facebook's new "like" button is out. It's Reactions. In test now. (story) Federal lawsuit of intellectual property theft to launch adtech startup Gravity4 (story) John Cook of Gawker: "What I care about is ensuring that this organization wakes up every morning with the intention of doing some fucking damage on the internet. That you continue to move faster than your competitors." (story) 5 Creative Tripod Tricks (video) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Trying to unsubscribe from mailing lists. It's like playing whack a mole. Peeple - Yelp for Peeple - What could go wrong? (story) Selfie-shaming at a baseball game (story) Putting mobile ad blockers to the test? (story) Amazon pulls Apple TV (story) Web Summit a scam? (story) Amazon Dash into more devices Patreon hacked (story) Bunk Beds for rent in SF - $750-$1000 (story) Business Insider acquired (story) Bill Simmons Podcast Don't watch "Minority Report" "Quantico" Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Episode 100!
Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Our favorite playground games Mercer county school district in WA bans "tag" (story) PC sales slide. People not replacing as fast. 1% drop (story) GigaOm comes back to life (story) Netflix viewers don't get hooked on the pilot (story) Sorkin vs. Cook on Steve Jobs movie (story) CNN to broadcast debates in VR (story) VR news-$99 Samsung headset available in November 2015 - Works with Samsung Galaxy phones from 2015 (story) Oculus Ready PCs for $1K from Dell, Alienware, ASUS (story) Minecraft 10 available in 2016 plus Bullet Train Unreal Engine Demo (story) Pizza Rat (story) 360 degree videos on Facebook. Star Wars one out. (story) Snoop launches a weed site at TC (story) Limetown the podcast Control-Walt-Delete Tech CEOs on Colbert - Netflix's Reed Hastings, Snapchat's Evan Siegel and Airbnb's Brian Chesky Forza 6
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: David finally sells something on eBay Tech elite on Colbert's first week: Apple, Tesla, Uber Marco pulls ad blocking software after shooting to #1 (story) The Facebook Dislike button (story) Amazon hands a gift to Shopify (story) Facebook introduces Signal for journalists (story) Matt Mullenweg talks about commercializing their home-built Slack (story) Sharp is going to sell an 8K TV. But there's no content for it. 85" version is only $133K. video has to be fed in via four separate HDMI cables, which are needed to handle the quantities of data involved. (story) It's the end of Zune. (story) Top 100 passwords on Ashley Madison (story) $50 tablets from Amazon, or get a six pack for $250. (story) TV Box Battle! Amazon releases a new one, one week after Apple TV (story) You're the worst YouTube Creators channel And we talk A LOT about Welcome Back Kotter and Three's Company. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions.
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Here's what Michael and David talk about this week: Stephen Colbert launches. Can he play himself? Is he better in character? Apple announcements, iPad Pro, Apple TV, Pencil was my favorite; Live photos; iPad Pro; Apple TV Apple Pencil - Is it a mistake or a boon? (story) Only 11% of US IPOs are tech this year (story) Washington Post blocking the ad blockers (story) John McAfee is running for president (story) More Ashley Madison News. Badly encrypted passwords - 11.2 million passwords revealed (story) Android Pay debuts. Are you having a hard time paying for things that you need this? (story) Programming cheerleaders (story) Missing Podcast 39 Best Simpsons literary references Finishing Narcos GameInformer
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Episode #97 of the Tear Down Show.
We're in a hurry this week - so you get the show notes in audio version only (the podcast). Enjoy!
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New York Daily News' Headline on the reporter shooting (story) YouTube Gaming launches to compete with Twitch (story) New Apple TV coming with Wii-ish remote (story) Barely any women on Ashley Madison. What were the men paying for? (story 1) (story 2) NYC taxi drivers developing app (story) What's OK/Not OK for cell phone use (story 1) (story 2) Amazon wants into our kitchens (story) Netflix courting YouTube stars to get tweens and teenagers (story) 1 Billion on Facebook (story) Sarah Palin is interviewing Donald Trump (story) Amazon Underground - Offering a ton of apps for free, even in-app purchases (story) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Ashley Madison reveals continue. This story is going to keep giving for a long time. Modern day Robin Hoods? (story) They made $2 million off of delete account service (story) Social popularity of NY Times sections and authors (story) Facebook lets advertisers use GIFs: good or bad? (story) China is cleaning the Internet (story) Flash is dead (story and Techcrunch story) Auto generated memories with Google's Remember the day, automated generated videos, and Magisto (story) This week in sad promotions: a free Rolling Stone Song to commemorate 20 years of Windows 95 (story) The Verge reviews animals (in other words, WTF is going on with the Verge?) (story) In conversation with Quentin Tarantino An Honest Guide to SF Startup Life Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Ashley Madison reveals continue. This story is going to keep giving for a long time. Modern day Robin Hoods? (story) They made $2 million off of delete account service (story) Social popularity of NY Times sections and authors (story) Facebook lets advertisers use GIFs: good or bad? (story) China is cleaning the Internet (story) Flash is dead (story and Techcrunch story) Auto generated memories with Google's Remember the day, automated generated videos, and Magisto (story) This week in sad promotions: a free Rolling Stone Song to commemorate 20 years of Windows 95 (story) The Verge reviews animals (in other words, WTF is going on with the Verge?) (story) In conversation with Quentin Tarantino An Honest Guide to SF Startup Life Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Abuse at Amazon (story) Jeff Bezos' reaction (story) Comcast offering 70% rev share to content creators. Much higher than Facebook or YouTube. It won't make a blip though. (story) Slate says: People should be able to marry robots (story) Why comment sections fail (story) If your website is full of a-holes, it's your fault - Anil Dash (story) Midroll and Maron launch Howl (story) Google Project Sunroof (story) Newest frontier in sharing economy: Manservants (story) Lawrence Lessig's Presidential Bid (story) Psych John Stewart's last show. His plea to call BS when you see it. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Black Hat Conference - What went down (End of Show Report) Vulnerability management (story) Hack of a rifle (story) Tour of the NOC (story) Forget hacking cars, we can hack skateboards (story) What should you be scared of right now? (video) What should the users of Ashley Madison Do? (video) Watch sales fell most in 7 years, NPD blames Apple Watch (story) Report for determining the quality of local news (story) Gimlet Memberships Tinder Plus and Tinder for 30 under 30 (story) Lexus makes hoverboard (story) Lots of people think Twitter is acquisition target - who should buy them? (story) Shaun the Sheep NextDraft Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Ashley Madison Hack - Is this the public wake up call? (story) Identity revealed. They're not bluffing. (story) Car completely hacked...remotely - Watch it (story) Recall by Chrysler (story) Comcast facing midlife crisis, may try to buy way into cool crowd (story) Vidcon conference. It's changed a lot from six years ago when I went. (story) Apple yanks Nest: What does it mean? (story) How to rage quit a media job. In light of Gawker media mess. (story) Apple music apparently sucks (story) $1 billion of mobile ads are never seen (story) Twitter frat party deemed poor taste - PC culture becoming rampant to the point of becoming a joke. (story) Midroll acquired (story) Ballers on HBO Most recent episode of The Startup. Kind of an amazing story going from 0 to $2 million in revenue in one year for a podcast media company. (listen) Hot Girls Wanted on Netflix Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about on the show. Reddit fallout (story 1) (story 2) Gawker removes a post outing a CFO at Conde Nast, but there's still so much other coverage. (story 1) (story 2) (story 3) Neil Young pulls music from services, citing quality (story) Huffington Post is covering Trump's presidential campaign as "Entertainment" (story) Apple updates the lowly iPod Touch (story) Cameras that follow you - Soloshot and Lilydrone (watch video) First commercially available flamethrower (story) Fake site constructed to look like Bloomberg to manipulate Twitter stock price (story) Netflix preferred TOP network over most demos (story) Password sharing of Netflix and HBO costing possibly $500 Million (story) News sites are slow-loading, bloated pieces of junk (story) Trainwreck El Narco Killing Pablo
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Here's what David and Michael talk about on the show: -Skateboards are the new combovers. Any youthful efforts you're chasing? (story) -Windows 10 is coming. Do you care? I do sort of (story)(story) -Using technology to solve the problems technology has introduced into our lives. (story) -Prince is pulling music off of Pandora, Spotify (story) -Zuckerberg says we'll communicate by thought (story) -Gawker opens the financial kimono ahead of Hulk lawsuit (story) -LEGO Robot solves Rubick's Cube in 3.4 seconds - World Record (story) -Record Breaking LEGO Ball Contraption - Rube Goldberg machine (story) -Alexa is now Amazon's competitor to Siri (story) -End of Slot car with Anki Overdrive (story) -Google tags black people as Gorillas (story) -Freescale wants to use RF technology to reinvent cooking (story) -Ready Player One -Love and Radio -Zoe Nightengale
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Here's what David and Michael talk about on this episode: Amid protests, French government tries to shut down Uber (story) Marc Maron's interview, and his follow up discussion with his producer. (podcast) Treasure Truck is on its way (story) Google's Undo Send Feature - All this is putting a timer on when you hit the send button. (story) Fred Wilson's sick of startups focused on growth, not profitability (story) Netflix bigger than the networks? I don't buy the math. (story) Disney bans the selfie-stick (story) Structured stories - Structured Stories is a news database that empowers everyone to collect, use and improve a permanent record of news events. (story) TumblrTV, a GIF search engine (story) Why join a big VC when you can roll your own? (story) Cooking Issues Podcast The Late Show Podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show. -Twitter Project Lightening (story) -How the Uber full time employee decision might affect the sharing economy (story) -In the future, employees won't exist (story) -Obama heads into Marc Maron's garage (story) -Texting and Walking lane at Utah Valley University (story) -Ebay-Craigslist legal battle ends - fascinating story of corporate spying and duplicity (story) -Blocking ad blockers (story) -A shakeout for smart home? (story) -Cuba getting Internet WiFi hotspots. Problem is a Netflix subscription is about 1/3rd of a month's salary (story) -Google removing nude photos that you don't want up there. Or revenge porn (story) -Tech-aided human telepathy - how far away? (story) -Banana slicer review on Amazon UnREAL
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show. Breaking up with the Apple Watch (story) Uber recruits new drivers with Uber drive (story) Watch out Twitch, Here Comes YouTube Gaming (story) Kaspersky hit by a hack attack (story) All federal employees SSN numbers hacked in last week's attack (story) High tech oven that cooks food perfectly - You should do this (story) Companies don't refer to native ads as ads - Because they're not, and you shouldn't call them native ads either. (story) What's going on with Twitter? (story) Popularity of ad blocking software (story) New version of iOS 9 Safari will feature ad blocking (story) Buzzfeed gets 1.2 billion video views each month, almost none on Buzzfeed (story) Makers of the real doll are trying to make it robotic (story) Orange is the New Black-Season 3 Ready Player One Top 100 Movie quotes of all time Cinefix YouTube channel Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show. Politwoops - deleted tweets by politicians - shut down because it violates the developer API terms of service (story) ReadWrite struggling and just after they were purchased. On the verge of being shut down. Bare bones staff. Starting a fundraising campaign at Bring ReadWrite Back Another Techcrunch Blogger becomes a VC (story) Chinese hackers stealing 4M government employee records. (story) Amazon and groceries: keeping grocers up at night (story) YouTube's move to mobile (story) Nest sent out an invite to a press event on June 17th (story) Spotify betting our music interests aren't so rigid (story) Tumblr's trying to stay relevant: Reddit AMA type platform and GIF search engine (story) "Claw machines are rigged (Watch how) Mystery Show Starlee Kind - Gimlet Media Note To Self: Formerly called New Tech City Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: All the highlights from Google I/O: Google Cardboard, 360 degree virtual reality videos with GoPro for Google Jump, the virtual reality system, and lots more (story 1) (story 2) (full list of announcements) Android Pay (story) Rebirth of Gigaom? The sale. Less than $1million - You should do this one (story) Recode sold to Vox (story) New level of bullying with Cash of Clans (story) OUR SPONSOR: IGLOO (Get your free unlimited trial here) Android Nanodegrees (story) And now the IRS has been hacked - Advice on how to protect yourself, which you can't. (story) Serial's coming back (story) Open Source media and arts invention launches in SF. Buzzfeed founder (story) Facebook to support animated GIFs (story) Google's creating a whole industry around connected fabrics (story 1) (story 2) 500 questions Wayward Pines (story) Hey Ladies Submit.co - List where you should submit your startup. Not complete information Kung Fury Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about on the show:
-Tech industry financing largest share of Hillary Clinton's speaking engagements (story)- -Delta is shutting out travel sites (story) -Google launching IoT OS - Michael's scoop (story) -Audio versions of magazine articles (story) -OUR SPONSOR: IGLOO Software - Get a free unlimited trial -Adobe discontinues iPad apps - not all the apps (story) -Snapchat and the NYTimes...I still think it's useless. And all the videos are shot vertically. STOP THAT! (story) -Microsoft was willing to pay $55 billion for Salesforce. It wasn't enough (story) -Linkin Park started a VC firm (story) -The real teenagers of Silicon Valley (story) -Woody Allen and Amazon: Regrets (story) -Stripped -Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast -Misery loves Comedy
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show:
How's the Zappos Holacracy working out? (story) The Cars of Mad Max (story) Chris Roberts supposedly hacked into a plane and changed its course (story) Apple's creating TVKit (story) Why so many podcasts are sponsored by Squarespace (story) OUR SPONSOR: IGLOO Software - Sign up for your free trial with the code "tear down" ADT is disrupting itself with DIY home security (story) Timelapse videos from public domain photos (story) Is Colorado the next Silicon Valley (story) The end of Dave (story) The story behind the Bandidos Biker Gang (story) "I Was There Too" podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Microsoft not betting on cash cows. Joining other companies for far out visions. (story) Grooveshark shuts down and apologizes (story) Secret is out. Whisper hits 10 Million users (story) (story) Here come the telepresence robots (story) The successful podcast advertising model (story) OUR SPONSOR: IGLOO SOFTWARE - Get your free trial with code "Teardown" Anatomy of a Podcast Ad (story) You can now play old video games in-tweet (story) Advice about journalism that's good for everyone (story) Elon Musk's home battery is the biggest thing in tech (story) Mad Max: Fury Road NOT a CGI spectacular (In Wired magazine this month) Letterman talks about his 33 years on TV to the NYT (story) Hulu pays $160 million for "Seinfeld" licensing deal (story) Pied Piper is hiring (story) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix Supermensch (On IMDB and Netflix) All the Ken Block Gymkana videos. Unbelievable driving. (Watch) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about on the show: Comcast - Time Warner merger fails (story) So What now for Comcast: Who do they buy? (story) David comes back from doing a ton of coverage at RSA. Catch all coverage here and on Tenable blog. Quirky's the most interesting company in America (story) Forget 3D printing: I'll take 4D printing (story) Kleiner Perkins offering to waive the $1 million in legal fees to Ellen Pao if she doesn't appeal (story) YouTube is 10 years old: Why did the dude who uploaded first video stop at 1? (story) Storytelling remade with VR (story) Cablevision offers "cord cutter" package (story) Inbox zero vs. people who have a flood of email. (story) Reply All: Email Forgiveness Day (listen to episode) Smart home device: Ecobee Smart home device: Leeo Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about on the show. Newspaper reporter - Worst job of 2015 - Ranked 200 of 200, bumping out lumberjack (story) xiamo wants to buy 100 more companies - they just bought Segway (story) App recommendations on mobile from Google search results - App discovery (story) 3D printing poster child Makerbot laying off 20% of staff (story) Google's "Find My Phone" didn't work for David. Worked for Michael. (story) Mortal Kombat gets its first gay character (story) Kilar's Vessel raises another massive round, less than year after $77 million series A (story) Bing now has 20% of the search market (story) Roommates fight over which phone is better - iPhone or Android (story) Amazon's Dash button - do you want a button to order anything? (story) How security pros unsuccessfully explained security to the business (and turned it around) (story) Sonics fans celebrate OKC losing The meme's around Star Wars trailer (video) The Star Wars trailer - Han Solo is back (video) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about on the show. What Really goes on at Apple - An employee quits and talks about mind games (story) The awkward presidential candidate efforts to appear tech-savvy have begun - Hillary's announcement (story) Dealing with professional jealousy...at 26 (story) Generation X is sick of your BS (story) First CEO image on Google is CEO Barbie (story) Boeing has plane sleep patent (story) YouTube pushing its partners to participate in its paid ad-free service (story) Twitter is stalking Meerkat users to get to switch to Periscope (story) HP concedes defeat in public cloud fight - No longer offering public cloud (story) Lynda.com bought by Linkedin - NY Times piece on 60 year old owner, Lynda Weinman (story) China's censorship moves to new heights (story) Muppet Show is coming back to TV Comedy Bang! Bang! Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show:
Robot car crosses U.S. almost completely unassisted (story) Vox did the best data-gif ever (story) NYT to make NYTNow mobile app free (story) You can apparently serve divorce papers using Facebook (story) Limits to media based on advertising by Tom Standage (story) Apple Watch half price for employees (story) Microsoft turns off "do Not track" by default (story) NPR's podcasting strategy (story) In-game purchases have dynamic pricing (story) Universal Studios - Springfield RiffTrax
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Sexism lawsuits fail and no more booth babes at RSA
Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show:
Ellen Pao loses all four charges against Kleiner Perkins (story) Why her lawsuit is so revolutionary (story) Booth babes are banned from RSA (story) 7 New Facebook features (story) Facebook and IoT (story) Embeddable Facebook Video (story) Clean Reader (story) Tinder hack (story) Meerkat vs. Periscope (story) Periscope may be revolutionary with distribution of news (story) Jimmy Kimmel on Bill Simmons (video) Castles cheaper than apartments in SF (story) Chelsea Clinton and Jimmy Kimmel (video) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talked about on this episode CNN Experimenting with in-show advertising (story) Mark Cuban thinks we're in a bubble and it's worse than the last one. (story) Smellovision is back! (story) HBO's à la carte service will be called HBO Now. Will release in April and will be $15. (story) NBC Comedy subscription service (story) Sling TV's subscription Service at 100k subs (story) HBO Go not available on PS3 or PS4 if you've got Comcast (story) Kim Kardashian mobile game made $74 million. Expected to make $200 million and she'll get an $85 million cut. (story) Meerkat - streaming live video over Twitter (story) 30 Most influential people on the Internet (story) Pebble Smartwatch most funded in Kickstarter history. $15Million 57K backers (story) Buzzfeedification of the web (story) Cool fun CardKit tool for creating meme photos (story) Long interview about ESPN Audio (story) Fanny packs are BACK! Reply All's Jennicam episode Errol Morris Films - The Streaker and many more Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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RIP Leonard Nimoy!
Here's what David and Michael talked about on this episode -FCC Enforces Net Neutrality (story) -Verizon wrote it in Morse code and set the date as "1934" to make the point that the FCC is taking us backward in time (story) -Apple Watch, new Pebble (story, Kickstarter campaign) -The MMT Horological Watch platform (story) -AI that learns basic video games. Google's DeepMind. About 30 games they mastered. (story) -Google pays $25 million for TLD .app (story) -Amazon purchases the .BUY domain (story) -Aereo's assets bring less than $2 million in auction. Was hoping for more than double that. (story) -Twitter fighting the trolls (story) -Some numbers on Radiotopia's success. 620k reached in kickstarter campaigns with 22k donors. (story) -Google no longer blocking porn on blogger. Going after commercial reposting of porn you don't own. (story) -House of Cards Season 3! -Criminal podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Here's what David and Michael talked about on this episode: YouTube unveils app for kids (story) SNL 40th Kills it Norm McDonalds Twitter Book about it. (story) Alex Rodriguez's handwritten apology (story) Equation group's viruses that are installed on your hardware's firmware. (story) Microsoft cleans up the Superfish mess. (story) U.S. fights ISIL with response digital propaganda (story) Harris Wittels, originator of the HumbleBrag concept, died (story) Exploding Kittens - Most funded game in Kickstarter history. It's a card game that's raised $9 million (story) Apple car (story) SF's DeSoto Cab company becomes Flywheel to compete with Uber and Lyft. (story) TwitchCon Coming to San Francisco (story) David and Michael recommend: Bosch series on Amazon (Watch episode 1 for free) Mortified podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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For this entire episode, David and Michael talk with Michael Conley (www.twitter.com/mpconley), VP of Digital for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Prior to working with the Cavaliers, Conley has worked for FOX Sports developing digital content. We talked with Michael all about the market for sports digital media and also what Conley is doing to feed the overwhelming demand from fans. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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The Dish will stop publishing on Andrew Sullivan's exit (story) Goodbye Radio Shack (story) Switzerland's big boys getting in on smart watches (story) Changes Satya Nadella has made to Microsoft (story) Dropcam churn: when management teams clash post acquisition (story) Cable viewing declines 12% in January (story) ReadWriteWeb sold to Wearable World (story) Amazon's Kindle Convert can Turn paper library into e-books (story) Getting passed around: FiOS users (story) NEST, the overpriced thermometer claims three studies that their thermometers pay for themselves in three years. (story) Michael is going to be more organized about using Evernote. David is already organized, to a degree using OneNote. Michael recommends the final season of Kroll Show. David hasn't tried it, but would like a SF listener with an iPhone to try out the Detour app for an audio tour of San Francisco. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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What Silicon Valley thinks of women (story) Andrew Sullivan quits blogging (story, story 2) Marshawn Lynch and the NFL One week of harassment for Anita Sarkeesian (story) Here's what harassers do when they're not attacking Anita (story) 25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming (video) Anita Sarekeesian on Colbert (video) Goodbye Joystiq (story) And Sega lays off 300 (story) How to Win Any Hackathon and why they're important - Jason Calacanis for LAUNCH (story) Vine is becoming a key ingredient in sports news (story) Microsoft releases Office apps for Android. They're out of beta. (story) Outlook which is supposedly a great Gmail app (story) Tumblr cleaning up interface Free Swift programming (or 50% off) at Udemy Getting addicted to Match Game with my wife, and watched the documentary, "Behind the Blank" (video)
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On this week's show, Mike and David discuss the following:
-Windows 10 a free upgrade and the new MSFT glasses (story) -Microsoft introduces cool product, lamely completely mistitles it for marketing purposes (story) -GoPro and Pro sports: awesome. NHL Outfitted with GoPros (story) -Virtual Reality Million Man March as news report (story) -Box goes public: My story with Aaron, the CEO (story) -The rise of the unicorns. $1 billion private startups. Google and Amazon were never worth $1 billion when they were private. 39 in 11/13, today there are 80. the median valuation of a Series A round of funding soared 135% between 2012 and 2014 (story) -MIchael Dell on being private (story) -Dreamworks in Redwood City shuts down. Going from 3 movies to 2 movies per year. (story) -Twitter's while you were away feature (story) -Four different types of audio people like to share. (story) -David recommends the Circa News App
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TDS #69: It's Just the Tech and Media News...Nothing Else
On this week's show, Mike and David discuss the following: Marco details his finances from Overcast (story) Can't purchase Google Glass anymore. Other Google failures? Google Wave. Jaiku. Video player. Google Notebook. Google Answers. (story) Amazon making moves for theaters (story) Jeff Bezos' purchase of Washington Post. How's it doing so far? (story) Plaxo cofounder arrested for murder (story) YouTube producing its own halftime show to promote its stars (story) The cognitive tax of multitasking (story) Spike Lee selling his movie on Vimeo one month before theater release (story) Space internet is a big thing suddenly (story) KeySweeper can log all keystrokes from a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard (story) HBO's Togetherness Mike learns to code with his son at Code School David recommends LEGO Movie Xbox Game, "The Memory Palace" podcast, and Comedy Bang! Bang! on IFC. Our sponsor this week is Protect Your Bubble.
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David and Michael talk about CES. What happened. What was cool and what was not.
Here are some roundup articles from CES we recommend you check out.
The Wirecutter Paste Magazine PCWorld TIME Cnet Entrepreneur
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TDS #67: Our Tech and Media Predictions for 2015
-David and Michael discuss their trends for the New Year. Here's what we discuss. -Cyberterrorism, hacking, whatever you call it, it will define the year -Same day delivery wars. Biggest players - Google and Amazon, but could there be a dark horse? An Uber or Lyft to take down the kings? -Amazon will need to focus (for once) - NYTimes story -Context aware systems, e.g. Google Now, will level up. -Economy will be strong unless major catastrophe (cyber, natural or otherwise) -Liquidity of all computing. Software defined networking and all other computing. Everything will be able to be moved digitally. We won't be constrained by anything physical. -Facebook as company becomes less and less about Facebook, because nobody likes Facebook -Audio continues momentum, but gets crowded like ebooks -3D printing will not go mainstream, neither will smart home. People will say its a failure. But it isn't. -Drone will be overhyped. Will be movement for regulation. -Agile social marketing. Just in time marketing. -Betting on the phenomenon of viral is officially ending.Content marketing must also include paying for distribution. -Reply All podcast -BoJack Horseman (Wikipedia)
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Mike and David hash out the week's tech and media news. Our sponsor this week is Protect Your Bubble (www.protectyourbubble.com/teardown).
Here's what we discuss: -Serial ends and Mailkimp (sic) is the advertising winner (story) -Sony hack is the story of the year. U.S. seeks China's help to block N. Korea from more cyberattacks (story) -Journalists need to understand the business and the product. (story) -Journalists working w/product/devs (story) -Goodbye Colbert Report (story) -Instagram worth $35 billion - 27 million to 300 million (story) -How much can you make being a Lyft driver/Uber driver? (story) -Are best of lists worth doing anymore? -Why Jackie Chan's action comedy works (video) -Bots outnumber humans on the web - 56 percent of web visits are from bots. Of the bots, 20% estimated are malicious. (story)
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Mike and David talk about the news.
This week: -Cable is Dying! Or maybe it isn't? -Uber says what controversy, raises a billion or so -Microsoft Nook end loveless marriage -VC dollars getting all up in your inbox -David talks getting a case of the business owner Mondays -More!
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We discuss the evolution of tech and energy economics with Adam Lesser (@adamdlesser), cleantech curator at GigaOM and lead researcher at Blueshift Research.
At the beginning of the show, Michael and David discuss the following:
-Michael's take on Re/Code zapping all their comments (story) -Uber hysteria. How we're so reactive to bad behavior. (story) -Magic Leap - $500 million in VC worlds to turn us into WallE people (story) -Aereo files chapter 11. That was inevitable, wasn't it? (story)
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Phil Kaplan, aka Pud, is the founder of "F'ed Company" and many other businesses such as AdBrite, the social media commerce follow tool Blippy. Most recently he launched the musician-only social network Fandalism which gave rise to Distrokid, a low-cost tool to submit your music to all the digital music hosting sites.
At the beginning of the show, Michael and David discuss the following: iPads in seats in terminal (story) Amazon Echo, the device that answers all the questions you never planned on asking. (Michael's story on Forbes) Bill Simmons is trying to get fired, and ESPN coworkers are helping him (story) 25% of people would undergo surgery to have their brains connected to the Internet (story) Man arrested for $4.5 million Ponzi Scheme. SEC (story) Once Upon a Time: Disney is Brilliant (watch the show) Serial: Podcasts about the podcast (guide to Serial podcast) If you're new to gaming, don't get Titanfall. David's $43 mistake which should have only been a $25 mistake. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206
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Mike and David discuss the latest tech and media news.
-Is Space Tourism Dead? (story) -Microsoft Band. Health tracker. (story) -$12 annual band from Pivotal Living (story) -The Rise, Fall, Rise of Virtual Reality (story) -Gawker's snarky take on surviving media brands. What's our take? What media brand would you start now? (story) -Rafat Ali's commentary on the state of the media (story) -The launch of Ellentube. A space for safe videos. (story) -College course through the History Channel. (story) -Are webinars still cool or a thing of the past? -Inside NYTimes video strategy (story) -Virgin America's Nearly 6 Hour Warholesque Video (story) -Walking Dead -Watch 23 Free Hitchcock movies (story) -How to rip YouTube videos. -Use TruPwr to extend battery life on your iOS device while watching videos. DISCLOSURE: TruPwr is a client of Spark Media Solutions. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206
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Carlos Rodela (www.twitter.com/onawa), Video Producer for Big Fish Games, joins us for a discussion about GamerGate and demands from the gaming world. Watch Carlos' videos at the Big Fish Games YouTube channel.
For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about: Deezer buys Stitcher (story) GamerGate, GamerGate, GamerGate (story 1, story 2) Amazon's Fire phone a heaping pile of burning trash (story) Quora Q&A optioned as potential TV series (story) Videogame Break (GamerGate discussion) (podcast) Open Broadcaster Software Xsplit Our Five Favorite Trade Show Gimmicks Drivingfast.net
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Last week we talked about marketing for startups. This week we discuss PR for startups with Murray Newlands (www.twitter.com/MurrayNewlands), co-author of "How to Get PR for Your Startup" which will be available in just two weeks. Murray is also a writer for Entrepreneur and Inc, plus he's an instructor at the Academy of Art University on Entrepreneurship.
For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about:
-The hardware crowdfunding revolution continues to crash (story) -HBO is FINALLY going to offer A LA CARTE. But not until next year. (story) -Cable bundling unraveling. CBS also offering à la carte (story) -Podcasts in tweets. Works with Soundcloud. Not locked to a tweet as you listen. Called AudioCards. (story) -Twitpic shutting down on 10/25 (story) -Hardcore History podcast -Sparkletack podcast for San Francisco history -Bowery Boys podcast -Serial podcast
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We talk marketing tactics for startups with guest Bob Knorpp (@BobKnorpp), host of The Beancast Marketing Podcast, strategic consultant at Cool Beans Group, and adjunct professor at NYU.
For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about: Bill Simmons and ESPN - would he be able to spin off (story) Legality of Cloud DVR. Comcast rolling out regardless. Like Slingbox. (story) Ello: will is make it? (site) London phone booths being turned into mobile phone charging stations (story) Google gives SF free WiFi in public places - Wasn't municipal WiFi a big thing a while ago? What happened? - 32 locations for a cost of $608K (story) Passenger Shaming on Facebook - My experience on a plane (Facebook site) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Guest: Ian McCarthy (www.twitter.com/ianmccarthy), Co-Founder of BrightSky Labs, creator of the 10 mobile app for sharing highlights from GoPro videos. Great conversation about trying to take advantage of this new platform.
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For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about: -The Oatmeal and the power of Internet celebrity w/crowdfunding. (story) Amtrak writer residency begins (story) -Amazon keeps trying w/original series (story) -Andreesen Tweetstorm (story) -Kevin Mitnick selling zero day exploits for $100K (story) -Bittorrent adding a pay gate for its bundles (story) -Good article on Fast Company on the podcast network evolution (story) -TV networks offering more on demand programming to avoid ad skipping (story)
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We talk with Michael Mahemoff (www.twitter.com/mahemoff) creator of Player.fm, a web-based and Android player for podcasts.
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For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about: -Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, steps down (story). -YouTube promoting existing YouTube stars (story). -Netropolitan: A social network for rich people (story). -Twitter quantifies impact of live tweeting on TV engagement (story). -David recommends the Field Trip app to learn more about where you are.
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Steve Hall (www.twitter.com/stevehall), Editor and Publisher, of AdRants, an industry staple for covering the industry for more than 13 years. The blog used to be a huge money maker for Steve Hall and unfortunately given the changes in the industry, and increased competition from media outlets with far greater resources, it's faded in prominence dramatically. Hall talks with us about the evolution of his site, the shifts in the ad industry, and how much content drivel is being produced. Check out some of Steve's other pieces over at Marketing Land. For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about:
Microsoft buying Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5 billion (story) No disruption at TechCrunch Disrupt (story) Six Californias Fails (story) The slew of 9/11 branded tweets. WHY? WHY? (story, response) Great advertising model on Startup Podcast. For pinball fans, make sure you download Pinball Arcade.
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Guest: Kris Smith of Croncast and Palegroove
This week we welcome back Kris Smith, who is the host of one of the world's earliest and longest running podcasts in Croncast. Kris helped MTV, NASCAR and others get into the podcast game early on, and now almost a decade later he's doubling down on the podcast business as he believes that brands are more eager than ever to explore audio as a form of branded entertainment.
You can find out more about Kris's new business venture at www.palegroove.com
For the first half of the show, Mike and David talk about: -Would you buy an iWatch for $400? Rumors about the pricing of Apple's iWatch (story) -The monstrous success of e-sports. Will they ever be as popular as traditional sports? (story) -The Somebody App. Have people deliver (in person) messages for you (story) -Media sites generating an unnecessary level of content (story) -Michael recommends rediscovering "The Simpsons" through the FXX marathon. And checking out "The League" also on FXX. -David recommends listening to the NPR podcast TLDR which you can get when you also subscribe to On the Media.
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For the whole show David and Mike talk about:
Ice Bucket Challenge as a phenomenon Most smartphone users download zero apps per month. The top 7% account for half of all smartphone app downloads. Disney and Drones How funny operates: Onion's Art Department and SNL Films Don't say your busy An argument for the satire tag on news sites that produce satire. Politico on Vox is weird, but Vox is, well, kinda weird Detecting native ads with ad detector
Media we recommend: Flashboys by Michael Lewis N3Twork App Brian Williams raps "Baby Got Back"
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We have a high level discussion about podcasting with Paul Colligan (www.twitter.com/colligan), the man who has literally written the book on Podcast Strategies and YouTube Strategies. Paul is also the host of "The Podcast Report," a podcast on the industry of podcasting.
In the first half of the show David and Mike talk about: -Youtube product slips - Best Buy accidentally revealed new Peq smart home product (story) -Robin Williams' death. Dave's personal experience with Robin Williams, and how others are trying to capitalize on his death for attention. -Seattle police asking you to "Tweet Smart" for their own safety, or one reporter argues a violation of first amendment rights. (story) -Horshack dies again. (story) -A pathetic (and common) example of blogger relations (story) -Why Frank Catalano is ending his Seattle Times e-subscription. They're digitally clueless he argues. (story) -Wayward Pines series by Blake Crouch -Elvis concert movie "That's the Way It Is" being re-released to theaters -You're the Worst on FX Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Guest: John Heinsen
On this episode of the Tear Down Show we talk with John Heinsen (www.twitter.com/Bunnygraph), CEO of Bunnygraph, and Vice President, New Media for the Producers Guild of America. The three of us talk about the value of transmedia, the lack of standards, and how it needs to be owned by content creators and not the marketing department. Because it's not multi-media which is more or less telling the same story across various media, but rather an extension of the lead piece of media to tell even more story.
In the first half of the show David and Mike talk about:
Amazon vs. publisher Hachette. Amazon is so amazingly tone-deaf on this one (story) Amazon's reasoned response (their open letter) Facebook game developers can't force people to "Like" their page (story) YouTube stars rank higher than traditional celebrities. Do we believe it? (story) David loves the podcast Narrative Breakdown for creative writing insight (podcast)
John Heinsen shares some great examples of transmedia: 2014 Nominees for interactive television awards Winners in 2013 for interactive television
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Dwayne Melancon (@ThatDwayne), CTO of Tripwire, joins David and Mike for a discussion of all things security, from the incredibly lack security on Internet of Things to training security people in safe environments such as BlackHat, Security B-Sides, and DEF Con, which are conferences happening this week in Las Vegas. Read Dwayne's musings on the Tripwire blog.
In the first half of the show, David and Mike talk about:
Beacons come to SFO (story) People called 911 when Facebook went down - Actually this is not uncommon (story) RFID tagging in the NFL (story) Elon Musk: AI more dangerous than nukes (story) FCC Chairman responds to Verizon Wireless' throttling for unlimited users (story) Settlers of Catan (Play the HTML version) Discussion of your favorite news and aggregation sites (what's yours?) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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A full year of tear downs!
In this episode, David and Mike talk about the year, their favorite guests, and the latest in tech and media:
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This week's stories:
-Swell App acquired by Apple; Marco launches his podcast app (story) -How I exposed a social media/sales "expert" on Twitter. (the Twitter conversation) -HBO $49/month only web trial may expand past Comcast (story) -Hilton moving to smartphones as keys (story) -Hilton offers beautiful hotels, and endless emails (story) -NYT Chronicle from NYTimes labs - Search keywords over the paper's history. (the tool) -Amazon opens a 3D printing store (story) -Dungeons and Dragons turns 40 this year and it saved many a teenager, including -David and Michael (story) -Dungeons and Dragons Open Sourced through d20 License (the available rules) -Nerd Poker - Podcast of comedians playing D&D with Brian Posehn (podcast) -Weed is legal (at least in Michael's state of Washington) (story) -"Public" to the media industry and technology industry. The blurred lines. And how "Policy" tries to control it. Anil Dash piece on Medium. Interesting discussion. (story) -Kindle Unlimited (learn more) -NPR One - New curated app for NPR content. Requires you to log in via G+ or Facebook. Collects user data, and learns from behavior. Also has donate button. (read story and download the app) -Bonza app for crossword puzzle fanatics (download the app)
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Guest: Andrew Stess
Mike and David get together chat with Andrew Stess, Chief Revenue Officer at LyricFind and advisor and consultant to other digital music startups. Andrew has been in the digital music space since 1998 where he was was the first hire at CDDB which became Gracenote and he pioneered the licensing of music recognition. Stess also works with other music firms such as Senzari, Rdio, and Moodsnap.
In the first half of the show, David and Mike talk about:
-DRM for coffee (Michael's mixed relationship with his Keurig) (story) -Scalping restaurant reservations in SF (story) -Food startups do seem hot (Kickstarter, story Techcrunch) -Twitch claims an average of 106 minutes watched A DAY by the average user (story) -Video of drone in the middle of fireworks -If you're getting started in journalism, look at what the most popular shows on YouTube are doing.
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Guest: Richard Bullwinkle
Mike and David get together with Richard Bullwinkle (www.twitter.com/rbullwinkle) to talk about the TV landscape and what the future of TV technology looks like. Richard has worked at Samsung Electronics, Rovi, Mediabolic, and at the earliest days at TiVo.
In the first half of the show, David and Mike talk about:
-The explosion of Vidcon (story) and YouTube's new tools for Creators (story). -The troubles with Byliner. Michael catches up with Richard Nash to get the dope on what happened (listen to NextMarket podcast). -In social media world, new attitudes towards journalism (study).
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Guest: Surj Patel, CEO of SmartMocha
In this episode, Mike catches up with an old friend, Surj Patel, who is CEO of SmartMocha, an Internet of Things startup.
In the first half of the show, David and Mike talk about:
Byliner's troubles and ask can any startups succeed in the publishing world? (story) David complains about T-Mobile's gimmicks to attract new customers Mike talks about why he's not all that excited about the new Amazon Fire phone. (story) The ridiculousness of Yo (story) A user email from Tony Gale! Computer World has been around for at least three centuries, apparently, and now they're ending their print edition (story) ProductHunt - a way to find out about new apps (site) They talk about the show 24, which Mike doesn't watch, but thinks would be a good topic for a podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com
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Guest: Sammy Wegent (www.twitter.com/SpeechlessShow) of Speechless and Jamie Wright (www.twitter.com/LekkerMedia) of Lekker Media.
Mike and David talk to Jamie and Sammy about why companies are demanding more comedy to promote and run their businesses. Both Wegent and Wright are heavily involved in producing corporate comedy for their respective businesses.
Speechless is an improvised PowerPoint presentation on a random subject with slides that neither the speaker nor audience has seen. With a clicker in their hand, the presenter needs to begin their presentation with zero presentation and no knowledge of what they'll see next.
Lekker Media produces comedy videos for internal company events. They're designed to let employees have a chance to show their comedic side, often by putting their business in a new environment, like a pirate ship or as characters in the movie "Top Gun."
In the first half of the show, Michael and David discuss: Amazon's MayDay button Bargaining at the Globe and Mail to get the journalists to do content marketing as well Another day, another hack Elon Musk open sources Tesla's electric car technology Secret is being ruined by the trolls Michael is excited that "Last Comic Standing" is back, and it's actually about comedians doing comedy David is amused by The Onion's new site Clickhole which parodies clickbait and viral sites. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.
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It's just two guys talking this week. In other words, Mike and David go guest-free to talk about some of the big stories in tech and media that week.
(See two handsome fellows posing for a picture at an unnamed McBrewPub.)
Here's what Mike and David discuss:
Mass shooting attempt at Mike's alma mater, spins positive for the hero Heavy disconnect between the public and marketers when it comes to online reviews (fake or not?) Uber's $19B(?) valuation. What's it up to now? Pissing match between Verizon and Netflix Netflix will soon be blaming all the providers - Note, after recording it appears that Netflix will be removing these warnings. Bill Watterson of "Calvin and Hobbes" returning to the comic pages Orange is the New Black, Season 2 Go see the live show of Mortified, and the documentary on Netflix. Secret's on Android now, and Michael's tried it Close to half of U.S.households subscribe to Netflix, Hulu Plus, or Amazon Prime. That's not far from cable penetration 25 years ago. Amazon's launch events invite the average user NYTimes Opinion is launching as a $6/month app, as opposed to the whole paper for $15/month. Tindr gets photos Time, Inc. is going public. Harry McCracken, friend of the show, left TIME. Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.
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Shel Holtz (www.twitter.com/shelholtz), Principal for Holtz Communication + Technology, returns from the first episode of the Tear Down Show to discuss with us what he's calling "the quiet explosion," or the success of audio content and distribution as an effective content marketing technique. Everyone points to videos, photos, and articles as being the most valuable forms of media for content marketing. But unbeknownst to most people, there's this network of audio programs that are becoming very popular and being heard all over the country, even on public radio stations thanks to the Public Radio Exchange, or PRX. Shel is also the host of "For Immediate Release" a podcast for PR professionals and marketers and it's been recording for nine years.
In the first half of the show, Michael and David discuss: Analysis: How Would Apple Smart Home Impact Others Google's Biggest Problem As Home Security Provider? Consumer Trust? Vice media employees complain of crappy salary and sponsor influence and Vice responds to Gawker Media's claim. Thoughts and Hunches about a Microsoft Smartwatch WhatsApp a share driver of content The intense desire for Internet anonymity of our mistakes - Snapchat and right to be forgotten, Reputation.com - other search engines? 21 Tips for Producing Funny "Man on the Street" Videos Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 Connect with David Spark on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.
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Richard Hart (www.twitter.com/NextStepTV) is the co-founder of the multimedia department at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. The nascent program, only three years old, is educating our future multimedia journalists. Hart is probably the best to teach this curriculum since he's been a staple in Bay Area television and tech broadcasting. He was the co-host of Evening Magazine in San Francisco, but also he was the host of a variety of technology shows, such as The Next Step on The Discovery Channel, and various programs on CNET TV.
We spoke to Hart about how he's training many of tomorrow's broadcasters, or really netcasters across all media.
In the first half of the show, Michael and David discuss: -Would you use a phone watch? -BitLit - Get ebooks of books you already own -Amazon creating a lot of resentment in the book world -YouTube Creator Series - Informing YouTube producers on what they're working on next. Like Google Labs, but for YouTube. -Michael's XBOX360 died, and he just bought another one. -Watch one of the worst 80s sitcoms, "We Got it Made." Lots of episodes available on YouTube. Go find some of your favorites.
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Alex Harris (www.twitter.com/alexdesigns) of AlexDesigns is a web designer specializing in ecommerce websites, conversion optimization, and A/B and multivariate testing. Check out his master class on Master Website Conversions.
In the first half of the show, Michael and David discuss: -YouTube to acquire videogame streaming service Twitch -The end of the NYTimes' print edition? -NYTimes Innovation Report -Felix Salmon: Salaries should not be secret -AT&T purchases DirecTV
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We've got Jason Womack (www.twitter.com/jasonwomack), CEO of the Jason Womack Company. Trainer, teaches on productivity, and he's created a peer-to-peer exclusive network called Get Momentum. Jason is also the author of "Your Best Just Got Better."
In the first half of the show, Michael and David discuss: Michael's GigaOM article on potential for a wave of crowdfunding lawsuits AdAge's horrible reporting on the shows that are most popular with cord cutters The explosion in BS jobs MonkeyParking in San Francisco. Sell your public parking space as you're leaving it Alternatively, SpotHero is the solution for renting your parking space when you're not using it FourSquare splits in two to stay alive amidst Facebook pressure Tear Down Show listeners, we've got lots of new ways for you to participate in the show.
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This week we talk with David Burk (www.twitter.com/burkburk), CEO of The Electron Shop, a creative and digital strategy agency. The firm is designed to relaunch small and medium sized firms as digital businesses. David and his team are your Chief Digital Officer.
In the first half of the show, David and Mike discuss: -Woman writing VC backed serial e-novel -The viewability and lack there of video ads. -Woman tries to hide her pregnancy from Big Data. It's a miserable experience. -Secret.ly Apple rumor-starter comes clean -Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Joe Biden: White House Correspondents' Dinner 2014 -Stop watching all videos that will "leave you speechless" or "you won't believe what happens next." -Watch the ReelSEO channel.
Tear Down Show listeners, we've got lots of new ways for you to participate in the show.
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Guest: Aaron Cohen
This week we talk with Aaron Cohen, adjunct professor of Internet history at NYU and Internet entrepreneur.
Aaron is currently the COO of Yashi, an ad tech company, and has ran multiple other Internet companies. He also continues his Internet oral history project, which he started at NYU.
You can find out more about what Aaron is up to at: http://www.aarondelcohen.com/
In the first half of the show, David and Mike discuss:
-Donald Sterling's racist rant -CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Fired by RadiumOne Board -The rumored Atari cartridge landfill is actually true -The death of Net Neutrality -Should Netflix use P2P -Aereo case -Comment from show listener Gary Carpenter on Soundcloud hosting
Tear Down Show listeners, we've got lots of new ways for you to participate in the show.
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Guest: Capture Your Flag's Erik Michielsen
Today's guest is Mike's old research industry friend, Erik Michielsen. Unlike Mike, Erik escaped the research business to launch a 'near-peer' career learning and education resource company.
Erik talks about what he has learned launching a content company, his innovative effort to capture the stories of people early in their careers and over time, how this "longitudinal" approach to storytelling is a true differentiator in the Buzzfeed era, and he talks about how packaging up his content in different ways as he experiments with different forms of monetization.
You can find out more about Erik and Capture Your Flag at: http://www.captureyourflag.com/
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Guest: Dwayne Melancon, CTO of Tripwire
In this week's episode, we talk to Dwayne Melancon, the CTO of Tripwire, about enterprise security. It's a timely conversation, as it's just in the wake of what some see as the biggest security threat in years, Heartbleed.
Topics for the first half hour:
-Google Glass Smash in SF -Can You Google This for Me bill -Saleforce Leases Tallest Building in SF -The Healbe Hustle -Sun Times Kills Comments -Netflix's Multiple Roku Problem -Our Thoughts on HBO's Silicon Valley
Find Dwayne at https://twitter.com/ThatDwayne
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We talk with Josh Weinberg (www.twitter.com/joshuaw), President of Digital Life Consulting Group about the do's and don'ts of launching consumer technology products. Tear Down Show listeners, we've got lots of new ways for you to participate in the show.
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Stories for the week:
The what's wrong with wearables post all of a sudden establishes conventional wisdom on wearables Another "not enough women in tech" article and blames sexism in startup culture. Firefox CEO steps down because of his donation to anti-gay marriage group. Openness is welcome in Silicon Valley just as long as it doesn't oppose our views. The Verge breaks Android TV (not really) Problem with the poor Facebook reach is we're liking too many company pages, and EVERYONE is generating content. Letterman is retiring, who should replace him? Download, play, and challenge David and Michael to Quizup.
Guest: Dijit's Jeremy Toeman
Mike and David have known Jeremy for a long time, and for this episode they catch up with Jeremy to talk about selling his social TV startup to Viggle. We also discuss the evolving TV landscape, dealing with the incumbents and whether Jeremy thinks its a good idea for Apple to release a TV set.
Tear Down Show listeners, we've got lots of new ways for you to participate in the show.
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.
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Stories for the week:
Here's Why Facebook and Google Are Leading the Moonshot Era in Tech Evolution of Automated Breaking News Stories - Follow @MediaGalleries Readmill shuts doors Google's Century Long Work/Life Balance Study David recommends the podcast RISK and the show Speechless for which he's going to be a participant on April 17th in San Francisco. Michael recommends seeing the movie Bad Words
Guest: Andy Tarczon, VP of partnerships for smartwatch maker Meta.
We talk to Andy about making the leap from working as an analyst to working in product development for a wearables company and go deep on the wearables market and how it's very different from other technology markets.
Tear Down Show listeners, we've got lots of new ways for you to participate in the show.
Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Leave a message on the Tear Down Show line 206-350-6206 Connect with David Spark on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dspark. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.
Stories for the week: Michael pivots a site and launches a tech podcast hub: www.Technology.fm Google Glass gets some backlash so Google tries some PR to dispel some rumors. "Growth hacking" is BS. Listener feedback: Joe Pulizzi of Content Marketing Institute talks about our discussion last week of NYTimes' awful native advertising on his podcast, "This Old Marketing." Plus Jason T told us to get our butts on Stitcher for which Michael has submitted us. We'll let you know when we're live on Stitcher. Michael recommends you take your spouse and your kids to see the new Muppets movie. David recommends you get HBO for free for half a year by signing up twice for their three month free offers.
Guest: Carlos Rodela, web show producer and host of Videogame Break.
Segment 1: Warner Bros screws up Veronica Mars release, the vortex of valueless marketing metrix, native vs. sponsored content, Silicon Valley's youth problem, anonymity apps, three rules of tech adoption and David gets a shopping app.
Segment two: Guest Carlos Rodela on web show productions, the web show landscape and much more!
Find Carlos at http://www.carlosrodela.com/
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Our guest today is Paul Gillin
Opening Segment: SXSW, Bitcoin founder found...maybe, MtGox, it's hard being a Kickstarter startup, Zite, Mike's new favorite podcast and David's kid learns to read
Guest Segment: We talk to marketing expert Paul Gillin about B2B marketing. social media marketing, corporate blogging and much more.
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Our guest today is Rob Walch - VP of podcaster relations with Libsyn.
Opening: We talk about RSA conference and the near death of Bitcoin.
Interview segment: We get caught up on the latest and greatest with Rob Walch. We look at how Apple is doing vs. Android, what are the hot podcast genres, the average life span of a podcast and much more. We also get a little advice from Rob on the new Tear Down Show format.
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Today's guests are Kris & Betsy Smith of @Croncast
A quick update on our show: We're excited to announce a new format, where we talk to folks in different spaces to learn lessons about business, tech and life. As always, we'll open the show with a quick discussion about the news of the week, but we figured since our guests are so smart and interesting, we were missing a real opportunity by not talking to them about lessons they've learned from having success in the trenches.
And who better to launch our new format than the duo behind Croncast? Look up podcasting on Wikipedia and you'll see Croncast, one of the first shows that sprung out the early podcast movement. That's because Kris & Betsy have been podcasting longer than most everyone, having created over 800 shows of their seminal podcast since 2004.
The Smiths tell us about how podcasting has changed their lives, how the show has survived for 10 years and how they've built a community.
You can find Croncast on Soundcloud @croncast or their website at www.croncast.com
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Guests Ben Chodor of Sherpa Digital Media and Chris Launey of Disney.
Stories on this week's show
-Now you can create a new gender for yourself on Facebook. -Comcast buys Time Warner for the pipes -Comcast purchase of Time Warner in Six Charts -Facebook's big problem selling fake "Likes" -Forbes Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army -Kickstarter hacked
Connect with our guests:
Ben Chodor (www.twitter.com/s57benchodor), CEO of Sherpa Digital Media and Chris Launey (www.twitter.com/clauney), Director of Cloud Services and Architecture, of Disney.
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With guests Patrick Kearney (www.twitter.com/pjk) and Ted Rubin (www.twitter.com/TedRubin).
Ted is a Social Marketing Strategist and acting CMO at Brand Innovators. Patrick Kearney is an Executive producer and strategist for broadband, mobile and emerging digital technology.
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (www.twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (www.twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Today's topics:
The Rise (and overnight disappearance) of Flappy Bird My Son's Internet Rendezvous (written by David's sister, Debra Spark) Amazon's scooping up underappreciated moviemakers now too Facebook tribute videos and the parodies - here's one, another, and another. Viral audio experiments Prince - 3rdEyeGirl Youtube Channel ReciteThis.com - fast and free way to make a quote look snazzy Ice-T @FinalLevel podcast promotion via audience testimonials (RT to 450K+ followers) Klout, the influence score I want to ignore - They launch a new version. Apple working on new products New Microsoft CEO 6 must dos for the new Microsoft CEO
It's Show 27!
Now that the Super Bowl is over, we've got Winter Olympics fever.
Guests are:
Scott Vaughan (www.twitter.com/ScottAVaughan), CMO of INTEGRATE. Bob Knorpp (www.twitter.com/bobknorpp), host of The Beancast podcast. Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (www.twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (www.twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions. Trend of the week:
"N" is stolen on Twitter, and can't be retrieved. Why not? Jason Calacanis launches Inside.com, mobile news app with cheap staff doing curation Media disruptors of the week: Marshawn Lynch wins Super Bowl Media Day (and pisses off a bunch of old media guys) Plugin Rewrites sensationalist clickbait headlines into really boring headline copy. Hire someone to get your spouse's password using spear phishing technique.
Today's topics:
The Olympics experience...digitally - Stories on AdAge. Is there any news left on Twitter and Facebook? Consolidation of socialTV.
It's episode 26!
On this episode we talk about viral content and whether it works in a B2B marketing context, plus we ask why don't news aggregation apps take off the same way that search and social networks do.
Guests are:
Alan Stafford (www.twitter.com/alanstafford), senior marketing content manager for SuccessFactors Josh Gingold (www.twitter.com/joshgingold), Director of Content Marketing for Ziff Davis And your hosts:
Michael Wolf (www.twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (www.twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Trends/Opportunities of the Week Hackers are winning - Math wizard hacks OKCupid to find his true love. And a fun video that answers the question: "Why Nerds are Cool" Who will offer the first Internet TV service? Media disruptors of the week: Marvel and Star Wars Twitter conversation Google Glass Sex App Today's topics:
Facebook to Princeton: You're Dead to Me (And Others by 2021) - Facebook's analysis of Princeton's future, and the story on CNET. New Yorker article on what makes content go viral. Trove - The launch of yet another news aggregation app - And more analysis from Pando Daily
Episode number 25!!!
In this episode we debate whether booth babes work, why Google bought Nest, and Facebook's mobile unbundling strategy.
Guests are:
-Spencer Chen (@spencerchen), Marketing and Growth for Frontback. -Steve Hoffman (@captainhoff), Co-Founder of LavaMind and Co-Founder of Founders Space
Hosted by:
-Michael Wolf (@michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights -David Spark (@dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Trend/opportunity of the week:
-Out with the old, killed by the new - Nintendo is dying and is finally considering phones. Best Buy looks to be on the same trajectory as Circuit City. -Net Neutrality argument is over. Proponents lose. Providers can discriminate against content. So they can charge Netflix, a huge hog of bandwidth, more than other content providers. - How will this affect journalism?
Disruptors of the week:
-The Internet of Things has given rise to pervasive connectivity. These devices have become victim to cyberattacks. -Paramount is the first studio to stop distributing celluloid film. Eight percent of theaters, mostly small independent houses, aren't equipped to handle digital. They'll have to come up with $70K for a digital projector for each screen.
And the roundtable topics:
-Booth Babes Don't Work - Our guest Spencer Chen wrote a piece for TechCrunch about how he discovered that booth babes don't deliver any benefit. In fact, they're a detriment to the success of your booth. Here's a video David Spark shot at ad:tech of booth babes who didn't have a clue what company they were representing. -Google Goes Nuts - They purchased NEST and they're now developing contact lenses. -Facebook's 2014 strategy is to unbundle the all-in-one app. How do other developers react to this?
Plugs for all: -Check out Steve Hoffman's Zapitalism, the game Spell Gems, and Founders Space Fusion -Spencer Chen (and team's) latest project with Frontback -Download David Spark's ebook, "58 Annoying Communications That Must End."
It's all CES, all the time!
If you want to know what happened at CES, how the media covered it and whether CES is still relevant, we got it all for you in this episode.
Our guests:
Harry McCracken (www.twitter.com/HarryMcCracken), Editor-at-Large for TIME. Tim Street (www.twitter.com/1TimStreet), CEO of Ape Digital.
And your regular beloved hosts:
Michael Wolf (www.twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (www.twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions. Our media disruptors of the week (you guessed it):
CES! That's the media disruptor. No other media happened this past week than CES. Except for maybe the news that a few key speakers at RSA have bowed out to protest RSA's involvement with the NSA. Today's topics:
CES!
We talked about our favorite technology at the show, how the media coverage of the show differed this year vs the past, some of the flops of the show (and reminisce about flops from years past) and how we think CES is holding up as the Tech Show To Meet All Tech Shows.
Here are a few links to check out:
Tech we're looking forward to in 2014: A realist's guide to CES - Wirecutter We Pick the 10 Best Gadgets at CES - Wired CES 2014: What we saw, what we loved, and what we'll remember - Ars Technica In Praise - Yes, Praise! - of CES - TIME - Harry McCracken Why CES 2014 Lacked a Big Bang (and Why That's OK) - AdAge Stop Trying to Judge CES - Wired
And of course, some plugs: Download, read, and watch Tim's book Vids. Read all of TIME's CES coverage. Download David's new ebook for free, "58 Annoying Communications That Must End"
Last week, in episode 22, we discussed the year in review. This week we're making our predictions for 2014. You may or may not want to put your money down on our predictions. Depends on how much you trust us, and how much you think we actually know. Enjoy and let us know what you predict.
Here are some of the issues we discussed on this episode:
Business trends and market opportunities for 2014 First, read Michael's article, 14 Companies That Will Hit the Tech Zeitgeist in 2014. Publishing - Evolving attitude towards micropayments Looking for more opportunities in online education Wearables market - Smartwatches to succeed with the general public while Google Glass and its competitors will remain toys of the tech elite. Investors will pull back from throwing money at over-the-top and social TV. Major maturity with content networks - They'll develop radio and video channels. Using social networks to extend fictional stories that appear in other medium, or social may just the medium of choice. We'll see lots and lots more advertising models focused on enjoyment of content and participation. Increase in privacy education and hopefully application because it's sorely needed. More organizations will begin instituting two-factor authentication (most financial services use it), plus a simpler and wider use of encryption. Rise in project managers that have around-the-world relations and can build and manage a virtual team in an instant. A major sports league will make their content solely available live online. We already see this through the NBA and MLB. This will help as we watch more people dumping their cable subscription services which will cause prices to go up which will cause more people to quit. Like Amazon had success with people using credit cards with the Harry Potter book, there will be another watershed moment for using a digital wallet to buy a highly sought after yet low price/low risk item. New technologies or technologies that will finally have a market viable product in 2014 Do it yourself smart home will be significant with many consumers investing in one-off products such as Nest which just received a $150 million investment to get them started on the road to building a smart home. This combined with wearables will greatly increase their benefit and usage. 3D printing will see its greatest growth in design and manufacturing. Same with robotics. Increase in "Minority Report"-style gesture-based controllers. Plus we'll see an increased use of voice technology by consumers. Will see flexible interactive screens in phones and other devices Consumers next notebook purchases will include SSDs. Who will win, who will lose in 2014 In tech media, seeing a bubble mentality around events. Too expensive and too many of them. We'll see a pullback In old to new media, we will continue to see some moves. Think Re/Code will replicate (Re/Plicate could be the new name) what it did at AllThingsD such as high priced events. The Fremont Project could be a home run or return to earth for Kilar Apple will completely reshuffle its projects, and launch a moonshot or two. Don't think we'll see a TV, but pretty confident we'll see multiple wearables and a smart home effort. Neflix and Amazon will scare the crap out of the cable providers, by landing bigger and bigger content deals. 4K won't take off in 2014 because there simply won't be any content, but we'll see content for 2015 and later. Facebook will add a true Snapchat-like feature through Instagram which will hook in a lot of reticent teens who were avoiding Facebook. They will come in droves and Snapchat's $2 billion offer will dwindle to less than $1 million. And for your amusement, for those attending CES, please read "Pepcom: We'd Like to Invite You to a Party We Don't Want You to Attend."
And if you're going to CES, make sure to ping Michael at @michaelwolf.
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Here it is, our 22nd episode of the Tear Down Show, and it's our year-end wrap up and review. Michael and David discuss the biggest tech and media stories of 2013, the trends, and which ones were the biggest disruptors,
Here's a quick list of the topics:
Trends/Opportunities of the Year Mobility matured - the rapid hunt for new platform opportunities Online video/connected TV become a mature industry Evolution of the smart home The increased recognition of the value of the share economy and how that plays into the future of work Wearable computing - First generation of usable products on the market with Google Glass and smart watches Evolving model of software releases gains greater acceptance/requirement - Update of iOS7, Adobe Creative Cloud, and cloud computing applications with monthly license fees.
Media Disruptors of the Year Consolidation of blog networks Closer integration of media with ad networks and no the continued struggle to find the best solution for paid media. Big social media matured and the kids moved out. Dangerous Media Mistakes - Hysteria catching Boston Marathon bombers - NY Daily Post and Reddit - Breaking News embarrassments such as KTVU's reading the "names" of the pilots of the Korean Asiana flight that crashed. The endless hoaxes. See a nice long list of them. Patreon and Kickstarter - New ways to build a business, a media company, gain investment. Buzzfeed and Upworthy - Gaming social media with an intense focus on click and link bait, plus constant rewriting of headlines and testing. Beyonce's surprise album
Disruptive businesses and stories of the year Privacy - NSA and Snowden Lyft and Uber - Great disruptive businesses, but taking full advantage of the sharing economy. Bitcoin - Shutdown of black market drug site, Silk Road. Can Bitcoin become a legitimate financial marketplace? Snapchat rejection of a $2 billion offer from Facebook. Teenagers shunning Facebook. Twitter IPO - Twitter eagerly looking at revenue models.
Thanks everyone for listening to the Tear Down Show in 2013! Tune in next week for our predictions episode.
Welcome to the 21st episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Brian Zisk (www.twitter.com/brianzisk), Founder of the SF MusicTech Summit and Future of Money and Technology Summit Michael Bourret (www.twitter.com/michaelbourret), literary agent with Dystel & Goderich
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (www.twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (www.twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Trend/opportunity of the week:
Future of work and freelance platforms are maturing. Everything You Wanted To Know About The Giant Elance, oDesk Merger & Ensuing Backlash (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Wearable tech, it's the cover of Wired this month and it will probably be the rage at CES, which brings me to the second trend which is asking people, "Are you going to CES?"
Media disruptors of the week:
Tom Merritt, previous guest on Tear Down Show and former Editorial Director at TWiT.tv is taking to Patreon to fund his next media venture.
Bittorrent's serverless chat
Today's topics:
Tim Draper's plan to split California into six states Will NYTimes' native advertising be DOA? Twitter: The Series
Plugs for all:
Follow our guests on Twitter and visit their business sites. Watch David's video from Dreamforce, "The Best Time to Start Swearing at Your Customers" If you're going to CES and want to connect with Michael Wolf, reach out to him on Twitter @michaelwolf
Welcome to the twentieth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
B.J. Mendelson (@BJMendelson), viral marketer, speaker, and author of "Social Media is Bullshit" and "Stop Following Me" coming out in April, 2014 Tonya Hall (@TonyaHallRadio, @Barzhini), host of the Tonya Hall Show (on Facebook) and Marketing Consultant at Barzhini. Follow on Facebook.
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (@michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (@dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions. Trend opportunity of the week:
Social media as an investment is winding down - There are opportunities in other areas such as digital to physical, education, and currency. Snapchat is in trouble with Instagram DMing images. Calling this the beginning of the slow demise of Snapchat and they should have taken Facebook's offer. Disruptors of the week:
The Beyonce album - no advance marketing campaign, radio airplay, or TV appearance. Weeklong album only exclusive on iTunes. Video of Beyonce announcing it on her Facebook page. 14 Songs and 17 videos all at once. (Hollywood Reporter on Beyonce album release, NYTimes on Beyonce album release) Kids are our future, and we should all be put out to pasture - Michael was impressed with what his daughter and other fourth grade girls were doing with robotics.
Today's topics:
Social media prevails over high-priced lawyers - Bike manufacturer Specialized sends its lawyers to attack small bike shop owner in Canada. Hoax is the new virus and the new story - Fiction is a key factor in successful virality. Realtime Reversal: Twitter uses itself to respond to its own self-created crisis
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Welcome to the nineteenth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
C.C. Chapman (www.twitter.com/cc_chapman), author of "Amazing Things Will Happen" and "Content Rules" and Chief Marketing Officer ofYSN Jason Miller (www.twitter.com/JasonMillerCA), Senior Manager of Content and Social at LinkedIn and rock 'n roll photographer at Rock and Roll Cocktail.
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (@michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights
David Spark (@dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Entrepreneur pro tip of the week:
Take advantage of future of work services such as fiverr, oDesk, and Elance. Go paperless this year. Advice on How to Create a Paperless Office.
Media disruptors of the week:
3D printing a record Twitter based Internet hoax caught the country's attention, including David's. Is it just obnoxious or a new form of storytelling?
Today's topics:
Another tech news site that will cost $400 per year. While most are skeptical of Jessica Lessin's ability to make it work, Business Insider is actually bullish. The rise and fall of Demand Media Jeff Bezos' true intention releasing the Amazon Drone story.
Plugs for all:
C.C. Chapman - Subway Global Challenge game Jason Miller - Frolic in the Snow with Those in the Know - free ebook from LinkedIn. Michael Wolf - Speaking at the Wearable Tech Con - December 10-11, 2013 David Spark - Why Most Holiday Cards Suck and How Yours Can Stand Out
Welcome to the eighteenth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Aaron Cohen (www.twitter.com/AaronCohen), an adjust professor of Internet and media culture at NYU, a serial entrepreneur and cofounder of GovLab. Check out Aaron's NetSoFar project, an archive of Internet history with an emphasis on stories. Hamish McKenzie (www.twitter.com/HamishMcKenzie), a reporter for PandoDaily in Baltimore. Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (@michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights and the NextMarket Podcast David Spark (@dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions. Entrepreneur pro tip of the week:
Having an annual plan - Look at your business and adjust, tweak, or blow up. Personalizing video holiday cards and sending personalized holiday gifts. For more, read, "I just sent 555 personalized video holiday greeting cards - How I did it," "I just sent 325 personal video holiday greetings-How I did it," "I just sent 325 personal video holiday greetings-The Response." Media disruptors of the week:
Ron Burgundy shows up to co-host North Dakota local newscast De Correspondent: Amazing $1.7 million kickstarter investment for a brand new media outlet.
Today's topics: The bubble returneth? Are startups discounting risk? Fight for your right to parody - GoldieBlox parodies a Beastie Boys song, but uses that parody to sell a product which is not cool with the Beastie Boys. NSFW closes doors, joins Pando Daily
Welcome to the seventeenth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Laurel Touby (@LaurelTouby), founder of Mediabistro Jon Fine (@jonfine), author, investor and media advisor
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (@michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (@dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Entrepreneur pro tip of the week:
Michael's tip: Travel less, but when you do, make it hugely productive David's tip: Never ask if there's available work and always be working even if you've got nothing.
Media disruptors of the week:
Katie Couric - Job-hopper and now Internet news anchor Demise of TV, especially cable/phone service TV subscriptions
Today's topics:
Twitter launches a new media hub - media.twitter.com Future of publishing - one person will create your local edition Can you make money from digital music? - Turntable.fm shuts down, Spotify gets huge investment, we're no longer owners of media, we're renters.
Plugs for all:
Jon will have a book coming out in 2015. Stay tuned for that.
Welcome to the sixteenth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
-Ty Hildenbrandt (www.twitter.com/tyhildenbrandt), sports broadcaster and host of the Solid Verbal podcast. -Caleb Bacon (www.twitter.com/CalebEatsBacon), Host of the Man School Show podcast and writer for Sullivan and Son on TBS.
Hosted by:
-Michael Wolf (www.twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights -David Spark (www.twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Entrepreneur pro tip of the week:
-Don't crowdfund just because everyone else is crowdfunding. A poorly planned and executed crowdfunding effort can do major damage to your online brand. -Build influencer relations through content - For more, read Increase Visibility By Pulling a PR 180
Media disruptors of the week:
We both agreed it's Batkid. How could it not be Batkid? It could possibly be the media disruptor of the year.
Today's topics:
-Jeter's Readers - Derek Jeter is opening a publishing company -What do you mean $3 billion in cash isn't enough? - Snapchat turns down a $3 billion cash offer from Facebook. -Does podcast discovery need a redo? - Mashable offers some solutions, and we offer some recommendations.
Plugs for all:
-Man School Show -The Solid Verbal Podcast -Please read "The Most Unprofessional Trends in Content Marketing."
Welcome to the fifteenth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Barry Cunningham (www.twitter.com/BarryCunningham), The Barry Cunningham Show and Director of Social Media Marketing & Activation at Zimmerman Advertising for Chairman & Founder Jordan Zimmerman Michael Killi (www.twitter.com/Killivt03), co-host of The Barry Cunningham Show and Social Media Command Center Manager for Wyndham Vacation Ownership
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (www.twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (www.twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Business frustration of the week:
Observing the rhythms of content networks and picking the right time to hit publish Trying to release an ebook - Copy done, design phase longer than expected Media disruptors of the week: City of Boston crowdsourcing its hold music Download apps for free based on location
Today's topics:
TV executives being replaced by crowdsourcing? - Amazon's new show measurement techniques (requires WSJ subscription) Can something be done about Internet trolls? The trend of "hate reads" and a new type of commenting on Goodreads. Blockbuster going bye-bye - On NPR and The Verge Plugs for all: Follow Barry Cunningham and Michael Killi on Twitter. Listen to Michael Wolf's interview with David Pogue, now of Yahoo! Watch David Spark's classic Comic Con video where he interviews booth babes dressed up as super heroes and asks, "The Power of Hotness: Is it a Blessing or a Curse?"
Welcome to the fourteenth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Marsha Lederman (@marshalederman) Western Arts Correspondent for The Globe and Mail
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (@michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (@dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Business frustration of the week: Michael - Trying to determine the best business model for an analyst: generating products or consulting? David - Trying to unsubscribe from Hilton Hotels' email marketing program - Read "Hilton Offers Beautiful Hotels and Endless Emails."
Media disruptors of the week: Kara Swisher outing Yahoo's media recruiter Woman gets a ticket for driving with Google Glass
Today's topics:
Traditional news says, "Let's put on a show" - Big media companies reaping big profits from events and branded content.Story on NYTimes and Marketing Dive. In today's software-driven world, should big media have a "Siskel & Ebert" of software? Dave Winer argues that mainstream media doesn't provide critical artistic reviews of software. Arts Trend: Democratization of distribution and production - Article about the Arts Hackathon. How to Crowdsource the Production of a Feature Film.
Plugs for all: Marsha - Read all the news on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his alleged crack cocaine use. Not written by Marsha. To read her work, go here. David - Watch "What Would Happen if You Left Your Mobile Phone at Home for the Entire Day?" Michael - Douglas Rushkoff talks to Mike over at the NextMarket Podcast.
Welcome to the thirteenth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Tom Merritt (www.twitter.com/acedtect), Co-Host of "Tech News Today" on TWiT.tv Paul Farkas (www.twitter.com/AllSocialTV), CEO of Shoe Week and board member of the Second Screen Society
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (www.twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (www.twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Business frustrations of the week:
Michael - Reading recommendations: Tom Kreider's Slaves of the Internet, Unite! and Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock. David - Fighting declining numbers (open rate and clickthrough) on newsletters - Is it the influx of email, or is it Google's new tabbed feature that separates email marketing from personal email?
Media disruptors of the week:
PRX Remix - App and site that acts as a mix tape for great spoken word content. Samsung fined $340K for posting bogus comments
Today's topics:
The great traditional news exodus: Flurry of stories of editorial and managerial leaving traditional news for online news and tech companies. Rick Berke leaves NYTimes to go to Politico, Vivial Schiller leaves NBC News for Twitter. David Pogue leaves NYTimes for Yahoo. Amazon can't hack the NYC publishing scene Apple's announcement that they're giving away their OS and iWork for free if you buy their hardware. Piece on TIME and TechCrunch
Plugs for all:
Tom - Tom Merritt's Tech History series coming out once a month as Kindle singles Paul - Accessory agency ULN launching "Accessory Week" where they'll be sponsoring the wearable lounge David - Silly video: The Most Obnoxious Things People Do on a Mobile Phone Michael - Interview with Michael's son about his purchase of the Pebble.
Creative Commons photo credit to sellamelie.
Welcome to the twelfth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guest is:
Joe Pulizzi (www.twitter.com/joepulizzi), Joe Pulizzi, Founder of the Content Marketing Institute and Content Marketing World
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (www.twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (www.twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Media disruptors of the week:
Great piece of brand journalism by The Onion, sponsored by White Castle. Google Media Tools - Resources for journalists
Business frustrations of the week:
For both Michael and David, it's trying to find the right balance between sales, building the company, and doing client work.
Today's topics:
There are Trolls, and then there are TROLLS - Jim Logan's attempt to sue everyone who has a podcast because he owns the patent to episodic content. What do you do to inspire comments? - the best and the worst - Political blog posts deliver both. SnapChatting the News - NowThis News tries out an experiment with disposable video programming
Plugs for all:
Joe Pulizzi - Author of "Epic Content Marketing." Also makes a great doorstop according to Joe. Michael Wolf - Got his son to start setting up hardware for him. Smart home is so evolved that his 11 year old was able to set it up. David Spark - Funny IBM video - Explaining the Private Cloud to Your Mom
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Welcome to the eleventh episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
John Federico (@gadgetboy), cofounder of Qrious Bob Knorpp (@BobKnorpp) Host of the BeanCast Marketing Podcast. Chief Analyst at Evol8tion.
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (@michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (@dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Media disruptors of the week:
Picobrew Zymatic disrupting the beer industry - Story on Medium by Michael Wolf PunditFact - Fact checking the pundits
Good and bad pitches of the week:
PR firms not following through Rise of content marketing has brought about more weaselly marketing tactics.
Today's topics:
BuzzFeed president says traditional news is failing young people Click to Comcast programming via Tweets talking about TV programming Newspapers cutting back their OpEd pages, although NYTimes increases its International OpEd pages
Plugs for all:
(some mentioned earlier) Bob Knorpp - Appearance on Fox Business News John Federico - Listen to the EventTech Podcast - Technology for events. David Spark - Check out the Tear Down Show on PodcastOne, and remember to turn off all your alerts if you want to be a lot more productive. David will be on Bob's show, The BeanCast, next week on 10/20.
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Welcome to the tenth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Steve Farnsworth (http://twitter.com/steveology), Demand and Lead Generation Strategist for Jolt Digital Marketing Paul Gillin (http://twitter.com/pgillin), author of Attack of the Customers
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (http://twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (http://twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Media disruptors of the week:
AngelList Syndicates, and pulling off a fake fundraising round The Daily Record brings commenting back for football fans, but for how long?
Good and bad pitches of the week:
One pitch to two different people, at competing firms (bad story turns good) Companies should start copying faith-based marketing tactics
Today's topics:
Battle to be social TV net of choice. (NYTimes article and WSJ article) Can any general news magazine, such as Newsweek, be a "must read" online publication? Samsung gets caught cheating on benchmarks. Does anyone care? Amazing reveal by Ars Technica.
Plugs for all:
Please visit the guests' sites above. And big announcement, Tear Down Show is now available on PodcastOne. Please listen and subscribe.
Welcome to the ninth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Harry McCracken (http://twitter.com/harrymccracken), Editor at Large for TIME Richard Nash (http://twitter.com/R_Nash), VP of Content and Community at Small Demons
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (http://twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (http://twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Media disruptors of the week:
-President of Iran tweets -California Governor Jerry Brown signs an anti-paparazzi law in California
Good and bad pitches of the week:
-Bad: Typos in pitches and overpromising -Bad: Microsoft's competitive iPad vs. Surface commercial
Today's topics:
-Reaction to Harry McCracken's cover story on TIME, "Can Google Solve Death?" -Bringing paywalls back to news content. The Nation gives it a go again, and paying for news content vs. entertainment content. -The war against cable and à la carte programming: Netflix CFO suggests HBO follow its model and break away from cable bundling. -Are comments dying or just changing? Popular Science shuts off comments and YouTube revamps its commenting.
Plugs for all:
Harry McCracken - Follow Harry on Twitter and read his articles in the tech channel on TIME. Richard Nash - Check out Small Demons for a whimsical dive into all culture. Michael Wolf - Follow Michael on Twitter (http://twitter.com/MichaelWolf) David Spark - Worst Advice on Content Creation
This week's challenge
Do you pay for news-based content online? If so, what? If not, why not?
Cover image of Popular Science from Paleo-Future.
Welcome to the eighth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Warren Whitlock (http://twitter.com/WarrenWhitlock), author and social media strategist David Schlosser (http://twitter.com/dbschlosser), a recovering PR flack, fiction writer, and publisher
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (http://twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (http://twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Media disruptors of the week:
Republicans use animated GIFs to add theater to a project they want finished. (TechCrunch story) Editorial staff of Mental Floss writing branded content for advertisers.
Good and bad pitches of the week:
"Coaches" who miss basic facts searchable in three minutes on the Internet. Pitched by PR rep to publish an article written by their client that pimps their clients business which is directly competitive to mine.
Today's topics:
Netflix Snoops on Digital Pirates AllThingsD is leaving Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal (On Fortune, Mossberg and Swisher's response, their possible valuation) Jonathan Franzen's irritation with our tech coolness obsession (His rant and the New Yorker's response)
Plugs for all:
Warren Whitlock - engage in conversation on Twitter, check out BillionsRising.com, and new search engine ISOOSI. David Schlosser - Will be speaking at the Red Pencil in the Woods Conference on October 26th. Michael Wolf - Our podcast and the NextMarket podcast are now on the Podcast One network. Wolf will be moderating panels the at the Wearable Tech Expo in December. David Spark - Session at Silicon Valley Code Camp on Oct. 5th at Los Altos - Hacking Media Production
Creative Commons photo credit to Antony_Mayfield @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antonymayfield
Welcome to the seventh episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Rob Greenlee (http://twitter.com/robgreenlee), Host of the New Media Show, Content Manager, Podcasts on Windows Phone at Microsoft Barry Graubart (http://twitter.com/graubart), Vice President, Product Strategy at Connotate
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (http://twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (http://twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Media disruptors of the week:
Using bad reviews as a means to promote Unfulfilled promise of ebooks: A missed disruption opportunity
Good and bad pitches of the week:
Arcade Fire's use of graffiti A negative reaction to a pitch should not be ignored.
Today's topics:
Pax Dickinson fired from Business Insider for years of offensive tweets (Interview with Pat Dickinson) Not publishing photos of your kids to give them a clean slate Does Silicon Valley meritocracy exist?
Plugs for all:
Rob Greenlee - Buy a Windows Phone and listen to New Media Show. Barry Graubart - Connotate - Platform for harvesting web content - about to launch a new version. No plugs for Michael Wolf this week David Spark - Tips for Producing B2B Video at Live Events (interview with Vidcaster)
Welcome to the sixth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
You can find the Tear Down Show online at www.teardownshow.com
Guests are:
Jeremy Toeman (www.twitter/com/jtoeman), CEO of Dijit, makers of NextGide Jim Louderback (www.twitter/com/jlouderb), CEO of Discovery Digital Network (formerly Revision3)
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (www.twitter/com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (www.twitter/com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Media disruptors of the week:
Whisper - The Social Network for Secrets CBS Negotiates rebroadcast rights through Time Warner cable
Good and bad pitches of the week:
Jean Claude Van Damme as GoDaddy's new pitchman Great way to connect with press is to give them a ride
Today's topics:
AdBlocker Plus' new Acceptable Ad program - Is this online racketeering? Oyster - The "Netflix for Books" Is "The Onion" getting less funny because of the Internet?
Plugs for all:
Jim Louderback - Animalists on Discovery - Lil Bub interviews Whoopi Goldberg Jeremy Toeman AND Michael Wolf plug NextGuide to find all your TV programming wherever it is. David Spark - New article on IDG's new site "Maximize Your IT." 20 Things You Don't Know About the Private Cloud that YouShould - Includes quotes from 32 cloud experts.
Welcome to the fifth episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are: John Wall (http://twitter.com/johnjwall), host of the podcast Marketing Over Coffee Christopher Null (http://twitter.com/christophernull), Editor of Film Racket
Hosted by: Michael Wolf (http://twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (http://twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Media disruptors of the week Valleywag and the VC celebrity culture - Attacking rich people (on Slate and on Scripting News) Miley Cyrus' VMA performance
Bad pitches of the week Offering content marketing writing to a site that doesn't exist anymore ExecSense not responding to their obnoxious spam pitches
Today's topics: Can you be an editorial outlet AND a publishing platform? (Buzzfeed has a Medium Problem, Buzzfeed backlash) Is there any value to anonymous commenting? (Huffington Post Deletes 75 Percent of Incoming Comments, Launch of Duvamis anonymous social network, Anonymous Social Network Opens the Gates for Digital Therapy) Investing in celebrities and athletes (Fantex, Pave)
Plugs for all: John Wall's book "B2B Marketing Confessions" Christopher Null's book "Five Stars! How to Become a Film Critic, the World's Greatest Job" Michael Wolf's NextMarket Podcast David Spark's video from VMworld 2013 "How Do You Explain Virtualization to Your Mom?"
Welcome to the 4th episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
Richard Bullwinkle (http://twitter.com/rbullwinkle), Head of Television Innovation at Samsung Electronics' Product Innovation Team Quentin Hardy (http://twitter.com/qhardy), Deputy Tech Editor for The New York Times
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (http://twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights David Spark (http://twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Media disruptors for the week:
Amazon genre imprints. Embedding tweetable highlights in an article.
Bad pitches for the week:
Barnes & Noble reverses strategy for a train wreck of an investor call The Obnoxious Trend of Faux Friendliness in Mass Emails
Today's topics:
Will Google purchase NFL Sunday Ticket and drive tons of traffic to Google TV? Reducing the "tourist tax" with more location and situation aware apps. Google Now updating car rentals and concert tickets, Steve Ballmer announces he's stepping down as CEO from Microsoft. Worst. CEO. Ever?
Plugs for all:
Richard Bullwinkle wants you to check out the latest from Samsung Smart TVs It's easy to find Quentin Hardy's articles on The New York Times plus his posts on the Bits blog. Michael Wolf's www.SmartWatch.fm David Spark's recent appearance on Bob Knorpp's The BeanCast
For full show notes w/links, visit: http://teardownshow.com/post/58154836686...k-and-stowe-boyd
Welcome to the second episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Our guests are:
-David Burk (http://twitter.com/burkburk), the digital marketing guy and a Partner for Digital Integration with Fleishman Hillard
-Stowe Boyd (http://twitter.com/stoweboyd), the futurist and Head of Social and Future of Work Research at GigaOM Research and Frontman for Stowe Boyd & the Messengers.
Hosted by:
Michael Wolf (http://twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights
David Spark (http://twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Today's topics:
-The media flurry around Jeff Bezos purchasing the Washington Post
-AOL layoffs at Patch and Tim Armstrong fires and employee live on a conference call
-Adobe's CreativeDay campaign
-Senator Diane Feinstein's antiquated definition of "real journalists"
-Designers take a stab at content around dating with http://40DaysofDating.com -Lithium's not so funny "Get Serious About Social" Campaign
-Learning about the analyst you're going to pitch
-Eventbrite invite to a bar party that requires you to include your birth date
-YouTube's improved content targeting through email alerts
Plugs for all:
David Burk's new campaign http://UncoverYourConfidence.com Stowe Boyd's new book...not done yet
Michael Wolf's yet to be released http://smartwatch.fm
David Spark's article on VentureBeat, 10 of the Most Obnoxious Ways We're Forced to Participate in Social Media
Welcome to inaugural episode of the "Tear Down Show." The "Tear Down Show" is where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
In this show our guests and their roles are:
Shel Holz - an organization communications pro with Holz Communication + Technology
Murray Newlands - content marketer, founder & editor of TheMail.com
The hosts for the Teardown Show are Michael Wolf of NextMarket Insights and David Spark of Spark Media Solutions.
Welcome to the third episode of the "Tear Down Show" where we break down markets, media and messaging from multiple perspectives and roles.
Guests are:
-Ryan Lawler (http://twitter.com/ryanlawler), Journalist at TechCrunch -Alex Howard (http://twitter.com/digiphile), Research Fellow at the Ash Center at Harvard University and a Fellow at the Columbia School of Journalism.
Hosted by:
-Michael Wolf (http://twitter.com/michaelwolf), the analyst, of NextMarket Insights -David Spark (http://twitter.com/dspark), the brand journalist, of Spark Media Solutions.
Today's topics:
-How would you launch a tech media site today? Story on Pando Daily about The Next Web shifting its editorial model. -Are we on the verge of virtual cable nirvana? Story on The Verge about Sony's tentative deal to carry Viacom's programming.
Plugs for all:
-Ryan Lawler's interviews with the next generation of YouTube producers in Los Angeles -Michael Wolf's launch of his hyper-focused smartwatch resource site, www.smartwatch.fm. Plus vote for Michael's SXSW panel "The Podcast: From Hype to Lost Hope to Red Hot." -Alex Howard new research project on social network transparency on government work. Contact Alex (@digiphile) if you have a story to share. He's looking for interview subjects. -David Spark's interview about brand journalism on Marketing Over Coffee with John Wall.