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Eric Davich is the Founder and CEO of Jammy, a mental health coaching app with music committed to enhancing the emotional well-being of young adults. Prior to Jammy, he co-founded Songza, later acquired by Google, and was an early team member of Amie Street, acquired by Amazon. During his 8.5 years at Google, he led various partnership marketing functions for Android, YouTube Subscriptions, and Google Play. His depth in music, mindfulness, and mental health comes from a lifelong practice in emotional regulation through music, meditation, studying mindfulness, and facilitating Google's 'Fundamentals of Mindfulness' course. Recognized in Forbes '30 Under 30,' Davich's blend of technological expertise, entertainment experience, and mindfulness knowledge uniquely equip him to drive innovations in mental health technology. Website: http://jammy.chat Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericdavich/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geeksofthevalley/support

For a large part of his early life, today's guest lived in the shadow of his very popular, but very different, older brother. It wasn't until he found his passion for technology in high school, something he found an immediate aptitude for, did he start to come into his own identity, and gain the confidence to pursue his own path in life.Entering technology just post the dot com bubble was humbling. From working on innovative projects to, having to say yes to anything, even gig-economy moving jobs, he did what it took to survive another day.Many years later, a stressful exit from a technology company he co-founded coupled with a physically demanding high-altitude hiking trip, caused a lot of compound health issues to come to the surface. With traditional western approaches not working, a podcast on the healing powers of cannabis piqued his interest; our gust decided to revisit the plant. After a lot of exploration, coupled with his natural tendency to dive deep, he eventually found his cure. With his health on the mend, his exit complete, a lot of deep knowledge of the cannabis plant, a working product, a proven but under-supplied product category, and the funds to get it off the ground; the door was wide open for this next adventure in entrepreneurship. Please enjoy the Founder's Journey of creating a cannabis beverage company with Jason Reposa of Good FeelsProfessional Summary:Jason Reposa is a lifelong dreamer and the Founder and CEO of Good Feels. The mantra ‘Do No Harm' has become the guiding principle that steers his serial entrepreneurism after 20+ years of experience in software development and as the lead developer of multiple nationally-recognized brands. Jason transitioned into the cannabis industry two years ago to address personal ailments and is now focused on spreading Good Feels to all. His tenacity to overcome challenges comes in part from his mother who immigrated from Honduras when she was 16 without knowing how to speak English. Growing up in a family without a lot of technology, Jason found himself doing whatever he could to get his hands on old computers. Later he would graduate with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and become a professor of computer programming. Jason has developed his skills as an innovator and leader in two CTO positions. Jason co-founded the personal finance tool MyBankTracker as their CTO before transitioning to CEO. He also co-founded the digital product agency AD:60, which developed products for Stash, Christie's, Nutrisystem, Songza, and many more. Each month Jason volunteers time on the Medway Energy and Sustainability Committee (MESC) in his hometown where he's a resource to many locals on recycling. He is also a proud husband and father of three children. From his very first lemonade stand to becoming a 2nd time CEO, Jason has always pushed himself to become a better technologist, business leader, and creator of positive change.Company Summary:Good Feels brings people together with their fast-acting line of ready-to-drink cannabis-infused seltzers and go-anywhere beverage enhancers. An alternative to alcohol, smoking, and vaping, Good Feels products have zero sugar, and zero calories and are flavored with essential oils from real fruit. Good Feels uses 100% renewable energy in its carbon-neutral facility. As a Massachusetts Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Good Feels is committed to social equity and has a company minimum wage of $20/hour. Learn more about Good Feels products and values at getgoodfeels.com or follow us on Instagram,

Welcome to Surviving Tomorrow, a podcast, newsletter, and publication that helps you navigate life in an age of democratic destruction, ecological collapse, and economic irrelevance, available for FREE on Substack, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Facebook, and Youtube.Jeff Bezos controls Amazon. And Whole Foods. And The Washington Post. And IMDB, Zappos, Souq, Blue Origin, Kiva Systems, Alexa, DPReview, Fabric.com, Woot, Goodreads, Twitch, Audible, Elemental, Quidsi, Annapurna Labels, Accept, Living Social, Twilio, HomeGrocer, Bill Me Later, eZiba, BankBazaar, Kozmo, Ionic, Songza, and Wine.com. Plus he has VC stakes in Lookout, Juno, Grail, Workday, Vessel, Domo, Fundbox, Stack Overflow, Everfi, Remitly, Rethink Robotics, General Fusion, MakerBot, Unity Biotech, General Assembly, Business Insider, Google, Uber, Airbnb, and Twitter. And he's working on acquiring MGM. Plus he owns at least eight mansions and 100,000+ acres, a bunch of penis-shaped rockets, and a $500,000,000 hyper-yacht.Bernard Arnault controls LVMH, which has swallowed more than seventy of its competitors, including Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Dom Pérignon, Loius Vuitton, Moët & Chandon, Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, Loro Piana, Princess Yachts, Bulgari, Sephora, and Tiffany & Co.Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns massive chunks of nearly fifty companies including Apple, Amazon, Amex, Bank of America, Chevron, Kraft, Mastercard, Sirius, Visa, Wells Fargo, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, GM, Merck, T-Mobile, GEICO, and Coca-Cola, which itself has eaten more than 400 competing drink companies.Blackrock, which owns a piece of 5,480 companies including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Nvidia, Tesla, JP Morgan, Paypal, Home Depot, Disney, Exxon, Pfizer, Pepsi, AT&T, Nike, Walmart, McDonald's, Costco, and Netflix, just bought Reese Witherspoon's media company for $900 million, adding to its $9 trillion Smaug-like horde.It makes you wonder when monopolists will stop growing larger and larger.And then one day it occurs to you…They will not stop until they are stopped.The factsThere are now 2,755 billionaires on the planet, not including “royalty” and dictators.In the year 2000, they controlled less than $1 trillion.Today, they control more than $13.1 trillion.13.5X in a generation.And they've grown their wealth by $5.5 trillion during the pandemic so far.The world's richest eight men now own more than the bottom 4 billion.On the flip side, there's never been so many people experiencing suffering and deprivation in human history:Systemic inequality pushed 200+ million people into poverty and cost women around the world at least $800 billion in lost income in 2020.690 million people go to bed hungry every night (and the number is rising by 16 million per year.)5.5 million people are moving into slums per month.2.3 million children die from malnutritionment every year.Clearly, there is no limit to the depth of poverty and deprivation to which our global society will allow humans to fall — never forget that millions of children are still trafficked for rape annually and that nine million people die from starvation each year — yet somehow elite individuals are allowed to amass unlimited plenty in a world of deprivation?It begs the question: Is it moral and right for us to allow individuals to hoard extreme wealth in the face of overwhelming widespread poverty, documented democratic subversion, and environmental catastrophe?If humanity saw itself as the global family that it truly is, it would be morally impossible to not limit the amount that one family member could control while another suffered and died.“Earned” wealthIt is impossible for an individual to legitimately earn a billion dollars.If someone earned $100 per hour — more than enough for anyone to live in luxurious comfort — in order to truly earn a billion dollars, they'd have to work 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for five thousand years.So how is a billion dollars actually amassed?By skimming a profit off the backs of untold others:off the workers they employoff the suppliers they squeezeoff the carcasses of the competitors they destroy with monopolyoff the planet they unsustainably extract fromoff the governments from which they gain subsidies and advantagesoff the stable societies they sell to while evading taxationoff the democracies whose rules they change at willoff the shareholders they dupeHow is the ability to skim achieved? Through unfair advantage and privilege.It is impossible to “work hard, save, and invest” your way to a billion dollars.Let's be crystal clear: billionaires don't “create jobs.” They extract value — time, talent, creativity, effort — from others at an industrial scale.Decentralize everythingHere's a short thought experiment.Which is better: 2,755 billionaires and their $13.1 trillion, each monopolizing roughly one industry apiece and subverting democracy, or 131,000 centa-millionaires in competition?How about 1,310,000 deca-millionaires?Or 13,100,000 millionaires?13.1 million millionaires would do far more for the economy in terms of spending, hiring, diffusing power, avoiding democratic destruction, increasing competition, and sparking innovation.Are there truly enough benefits to the global population to merit supporting the costs of maintaining billionaires? Surely not. No rational person can make the argument that 2,755 billionaires are globally preferable to having 13.1 million more millionaires, or 131 million more workers each controlling a $100K stake in the businesses wherein they constitute all of the wealth-creation.“But those poor billionaires are just rich on paper!”Sychophants for the ultra-elite are quick to cry out that most billionaires don't actually have $1,000,000,000+ sitting in a Scrooge McDuck-style vault. Their wealth is usually tied up in shares of the companies they almost always undemocratically control.But these people don't understand how billionaires work.Billionaires borrow colossal amounts of cheap debt against those paper shares, and let inflation devalue that debt over time.So you and I — the real taxpayers in society — end up footing the bill as the money-printing machine devalues our actual-earned money.We need a more equitable pre-distribution of ownership, wealth, and opportunity.Mathematical doomI believe — as do most of the working masses and the desperate poor — that it is morally wrong and utterly inhumane to be a billionaire whilst millions starve and billions suffer.Full stop.To paraphrase the Bible: “The poor will always be among us because the rich will always be above us.”The world and planet can't afford to support billionaires anymore.Corporatism is a gross inefficiency and major source of economic inequality; it is anti-democracy; it is ecological unsustainability.We should replace it with an economy of sole proprietors, partnerships, cooperatives, not-for-profits, and for-benefits — all the wealth to all the workers — massively diverse, all competing and cooperating and innovating within a body of economic law that enforces ecological sustainability (as defined by biology) and economic fairness (as defined by real democracy.)If we don't, we're mathematically doomed.Charting our trajectory to zeroWhen will billionaires stop amassing more wealth?The answer is clear:They won't.Our total global wealth is currently $431 trillion.In the past twenty years, billionaires have grown their wealth by 13.5X, to $13.1 trillion, far outpacing the poor and total growth in global wealth.At their current pace, billionaires will control $176 trillion in twenty years and $2.3 quadrillion in forty.You read that right: If we do not stop them, billionaires will control the entire globe's resources within our lifetime.From there, it's simply a game of thrones to determine which few families will survive.In the winner-take-all economy, elites will not stop until they are stopped.Why can't voter-shoppers fathom this fact?The solution is frightfully simpleIt's a radical idea that will be common sense to future generations:Individual private wealth must be limited.That's right: No more billionaires.Every dollar over $1 billion in net worth will be taxed at 100% or placed in a commons trust.As one Redditor put it:Once you reach $999,999,999 we give you a plaque that says, “congratulations, you won capitalism,” and we name a dog park after you.A global Billionaire Ban will have wonderful implications for protecting democracy and making the economy more robust and fair. Obviously, democracy can argue over the exact number for our new global limit — 10 million, 100 million, even 1 billion — so long as we agree on the underlying fundamental that private wealth must have an upper limit.Older right-leaning white men will now scream “Communism! Socialism!” while failing to realize this piece is not advocating central ownership or central control of the economy. That's what billionaires are working on.We need to reform our economic system. We need a more equitable pre-distribution of ownership, wealth, and opportunity, and we desperately need democratic limits to protect against monopoly and wealth hoarding.This isn't optional for the survival of our species: it's now required for the survival of all species.We need to move quickly.In the time it took you to read this article, the world's billionaires gained $62 million while sixty people moved into slums and thirty children died of hunger.How many more people must suffer and die before we re-structure the global economy for widest-spread well-being? Get full access to Surviving Tomorrow at www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe

Jeff Bezos controls Amazon. And Whole Foods. And The Washington Post. And IMDB, Zappos, Souq, Blue Origin, Kiva Systems, Alexa, DPReview, Fabric.com, Woot, Goodreads, Twitch, Audible, Elemental, Quidsi, Annapurna Labels, Accept, Living Social, Twilio, HomeGrocer, Bill Me Later, eZiba, BankBazaar, Kozmo, Ionic, Songza, and Wine.com. Plus he has VC stakes in Lookout, Juno, Grail, Workday, Vessel, Domo, Fundbox, Stack Overflow, Everfi, Remitly, Rethink Robotics, General Fusion, MakerBot, Unity Biotech, General Assembly, Business Insider, Google, Uber, Airbnb, and Twitter. And he's working on acquiring MGM. Plus he owns at least eight mansions and 100,000+ acres, a bunch of penis-shaped rockets, and a $500,000,000 hyper-yacht.Bernard Arnault controls LVMH, which has swallowed more than seventy of its competitors, including Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Dom Pérignon, Loius Vuitton, Moët & Chandon, Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, Loro Piana, Princess Yachts, Bulgari, Sephora, and Tiffany & Co.Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns massive chunks of nearly fifty companies including Apple, Amazon, Amex, Bank of America, Chevron, Kraft, Mastercard, Sirius, Visa, Wells Fargo, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, GM, Merck, T-Mobile, GEICO, and Coca-Cola, which itself has eaten more than 400 competing drink companies.Blackrock, which owns a piece of 5,480 companies including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Nvidia, Tesla, JP Morgan, Paypal, Home Depot, Disney, Exxon, Pfizer, Pepsi, AT&T, Nike, Walmart, McDonald's, Costco, and Netflix, just bought Reese Witherspoon's media company for $900 million, adding to its $9 trillion Smaug-like horde.It makes you wonder when monopolists will stop growing larger and larger.And then one day it occurs to you…They will not stop until they are stopped.The factsThere are now 2,755 billionaires on the planet, not including “royalty” and dictators.In the year 2000, they controlled less than $1 trillion.Today, they control more than $13.1 trillion.13.5X in a generation.And they've grown their wealth by $5.5 trillion during the pandemic so far.The world's richest eight men now own more than the bottom 4 billion.On the flip side, there's never been so many people experiencing suffering and deprivation in human history:* Systemic inequality pushed 200+ million people into poverty and cost women around the world at least $800 billion in lost income in 2020.* 690 million people go to bed hungry every night (and the number is rising by 16 million per year.)* 5.5 million people are moving into slums per month.* 2.3 million children die from malnutrition every year.Clearly, there is no limit to the depth of poverty and deprivation to which our global society will allow humans to fall — never forget that millions of children are still trafficked for rape annually and that nine million people die from starvation each year — yet somehow elite individuals are allowed to amass unlimited plenty in a world of deprivation?It begs the question: Is it moral and right for us to allow individuals to hoard extreme wealth in the face of overwhelming widespread poverty, documented democratic subversion, and environmental catastrophe?If humanity saw itself as the global family that it truly is, it would be morally impossible to not limit the amount that one family member could control while another suffered and died.“Earned” wealthIt is impossible for an individual to legitimately earn a billion dollars.If someone earned $100 per hour — more than enough for anyone to live in luxurious comfort — in order to truly earn a billion dollars, they'd have to work 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for five thousand years.So how is a billion dollars actually amassed?By skimming a profit off the backs of untold others:* off the workers they employ* off the suppliers they squeeze* off the carcasses of the competitors they destroy with monopoly* off the planet they unsustainably extract from* off the governments from which they gain subsidies and advantages* off the stable societies they sell to while evading taxation* off the democracies whose rules they change at will* off the shareholders they dupeHow is the ability to skim achieved? Through unfair advantage and privilege.It is impossible to “work hard, save, and invest” your way to a billion dollars.Let's be crystal clear: billionaires don't “create jobs.” They extract value — time, talent, creativity, effort — from others at an industrial scale.Decentralize everythingHere's a short thought experiment.Which is better: 2,755 billionaires and their $13.1 trillion, each monopolizing roughly one industry apiece and subverting democracy, or 131,000 centa-millionaires in competition?How about 1,310,000 deca-millionaires?Or 13,100,000 millionaires?13.1 million millionaires would do far more for the economy in terms of spending, hiring, diffusing power, avoiding democratic destruction, increasing competition, and sparking innovation.Are there truly enough benefits to the global population to merit supporting the costs of maintaining billionaires? Surely not. No rational person can make the argument that 2,755 billionaires are globally preferable to having 13.1 million more millionaires, or 131 million more workers each controlling a $100K stake in the businesses wherein they constitute all of the wealth-creation.“But those poor billionaires are just rich on paper!”Sychophants for the ultra-elite are quick to cry out that most billionaires don't actually have $1,000,000,000+ sitting in a Scrooge McDuck-style vault. Their wealth is usually tied up in shares of the companies they almost always undemocratically control.But these people don't understand how billionaires work.Billionaires borrow colossal amounts of cheap debt against those paper shares, and let inflation devalue that debt over time.So you and I — the real taxpayers in society — end up footing the bill as the money-printing machine devalues our actual-earned money.We need a more equitable pre-distribution of ownership, wealth, and opportunity.Mathematical doomI believe — as do most of the working masses and the desperate poor — that it is morally wrong and utterly inhumane to be a billionaire whilst millions starve and billions suffer.Full stop.To paraphrase the Bible: “The poor will always be among us because the rich will always be above us.”The world and planet can't afford to support billionaires anymore.Corporatism is a gross inefficiency and major source of economic inequality; it is anti-democracy; it is ecological unsustainability.We should replace it with an economy of sole proprietors, partnerships, cooperatives, not-for-profits, and for-benefits — all the wealth to all the workers — massively diverse, all competing and cooperating and innovating within a body of economic law that enforces ecological sustainability (as defined by biology) and economic fairness (as defined by real democracy.)If we don't, we're mathematically doomed.Charting our trajectory to zeroWhen will billionaires stop amassing more wealth?The answer is clear:They won't.Our total global wealth is currently $431 trillion.In the past twenty years, billionaires have grown their wealth by 13.5X, to $13.1 trillion, far outpacing the poor and total growth in global wealth.At their current pace, billionaires will control $176 trillion in twenty years and $2.3 quadrillion in forty.You read that right: If we do not stop them, billionaires will control the entire globe's resources within our lifetime.From there, it's simply a game of thrones to determine which few families will survive.In the winner-take-all economy, elites will not stop until they are stopped.Why can't voter-shoppers fathom this fact?The solution is frightfully simpleIt's a radical idea that will be common sense to future generations:Individual private wealth must be limited.That's right: No more billionaires.Every dollar over $1 billion in net worth will be taxed at 100% or placed in a commons trust.As one Redditor put it:Once you reach $999,999,999 we give you a plaque that says, “congratulations, you won capitalism,” and we name a dog park after you.A global Billionaire Ban will have wonderful implications for protecting democracy and making the economy more robust and fair. Obviously, democracy can argue over the exact number for our new global limit — 10 million, 100 million, even 1 billion — so long as we agree on the underlying fundamental that private wealth must have an upper limit.Older right-leaning white men will now scream “Communism! Socialism!” while failing to realize this piece is not advocating central ownership or central control of the economy. That's what billionaires are working on.We need to reform our economic system. We need a more equitable pre-distribution of ownership, wealth, and opportunity, and we desperately need democratic limits to protect against monopoly and wealth hoarding.This isn't optional for the survival of our species: it's now required for the survival of all species.The Christian response to wealth inequalityWhat's incredibly disturbing about the wealth inequality discussion is how callous many Christians have become to the plight of the poor.As if the riches of the wealthy matter more to our God than the survival of the poor!Luke 3:11 is perhaps the most economically-convicting verse in Scripture:“Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”Clearly, God is not in favor of infinite wealth accumulation. Regardless of what reasonable limitations secularist governments place on private wealth, surely God always calls His family to a higher standard of generosity and stewardship.Mark 14:7 says that “the poor will always be among us”… but that's only because the rich will always be above us.Do you where there weren't any poor people? In the Acts 2 church, when those of means rejected the temptation to accumulate infinite wealth and instead sold assets to help others. And according to Acts 4:34, “There were no needy people among them.”That's the power of Christians who actually obey Scripture… what a testament such a church would be to their community!Christians live by a principle that transcends all secular economic schemes. When it comes to finances, we express our faith with one principle: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.When we align our financial thinking with the Bible's, we end up using all of our abilities for His glory, and He meets all of our needs, not just as individuals, but as a community. After all, unlike the individualist anti-culture in which we find ourselves, we profoundly understand that we're all in this thing together.We need to move quickly.In the time it took you to listen to this episode, the world's billionaires gained $62 million in wealth, while sixty people moved into slums and thirty children died of hunger.How many more people must suffer and die before we re-structure the global economy — or at least our local church community — for widest-spread wellbeing?Thanks for listening to Future Faith. 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Mark Patricof is a serial entrepreneur and media executive with extensive leadership and operational experience in the finance, entertainment, technology, and sports industries. A seasoned investment banker, he has advised and invested in a wide range of leading traditional and digital media and entertainment companies and transactions. He previously served as Managing Director and Co-Head of the Technology, Media, & Telecom practice at Houlihan Lokey, a publicly-traded global investment bank. Notable transactions while there include advising on the highly publicized bankruptcy auction sale of Gawker Media to Univision for $135 million, and the sale of iconic concert venue Webster Hall to AEG Presents and Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment. Mark was formerly a Co-Founder of Media and Entertainment Strategy Advisors (MESA Global), a boutique investment bank strategically acquired in 2015 by Houlihan Lokey. Founded in 2008, MESA served high-growth companies across the media and entertainment landscape, offering M&A advisory, private placement, and structured finance services. Core areas of focus included film, television, music, sports, live entertainment, and digital media, including key verticals such as games, interactive, advertising, and e-commerce. MESA advised on over 80 transactions including some of the most notable deals in the sector: Colony Capital's acquisition of Miramax, the sale of Songza to Google, the sale of IndiaGames to Disney, structured finance transactions for Relativity and IMAX, and equity finance transactions for Blue Man Group and FanDuel. Additionally, MESA advised multiple global corporations, including Discovery Channel, Time Inc., and Viacom. In 2012 Mark launched MESA Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on e-commerce, advertising technology, and digital content. The fund invested alongside established and top-tier early-stage VC firms, combining a unique data-driven ranking system with a co-investment strategy to create an “indexing” approach to seed-stage investing. Mark was a Co-Founder of , an incubator/digital studio that financed, designed, and built businesses for clients such as the BBC, CBS, Disney, Hearst, Sony, and Viacom. He served as President and CEO of the company until it was sold to Omnicom. Mark began his career at Creative Artists Agency (CAA). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toby-usnik/support

Måske har du aldrig rigtig tænkt over det, men du er altså bare en kødsæk af data, som man kan analysere på alle mulige leder og kanter. Resultatet af analysen kan bruges af virksomheder, offentlige myndigheder, spiontjenester eller hackere til sælge dig ting, overvåge dig, manipulere dig politisk eller måske hjælpe dig til at holde styr på din motion og dit helbred. Hvis du aldrig har tænkt over det, så har du et problem. Så har du formodentlig ikke forstået det datasamfund vi lever i - men bare rolig - Techtopia er her i din øresnegl for at hjælpe dig. I denne og den næste udgave af podcasten kan du nemlig møde et par mennesker, som vil forandre datasamfundet til det bedre samt en enkelt techgigant, som er vågnet og har opdaget sit samfundsansvar. Vi lægger ud med Aza Raskin fra Center for Humane Technology. Han er medstifter af Center for Humane Technology, der fokuserer på den digitale opmærksomhedskrise og at tilpasse teknologi til mennesker og ikke omvendt. Aza Raskin har arbejdet hos Mozilla, Massive Health, Songza.com og Humanised. Han har desuden opfundet "the infinite scroll", der gør det muligt at scrolle ned af en webside i uendelighed, hvilket er et eksempel på den teknologi, han nu gør oprør mod. Medvirkende: Aza Raskin, cofounder, Center for Humane Technology Link: Center for Humane Technology 

On vous relaie les premiers tests de Google Stadia, l’occasion de s’attarder un peu dans l’actualité du monde du jeu vidéo. Nous faisons également le point sur les dernières innovations en matière de smartphones pliants. Et puis, nous abordons ensemble de plusieurs affaires liées à l’actualité du web, en commençant par des infos sur le conflit entre Google et Oracle. Réagissez à l’émission en commentaires sur techcafe.frSoutenez Tech Café sur PatreonDiscutez avec nous et entre vous sur le groupe Telegram À chaud Premiers tests de Stadia : Google fait son gros beta. JV : Villages dans les Nuages Stadiabolique : service incomplet, calendrier compliqué, mais plus de jeux.Stadiacritique : les devs ont peur de l’effet Google Wave. Ou... Knol, Health, Talk, Plus, Buzz, Orkut, Picasa, Reader, Nest, Allo, Inbox, Goggles, Tango, Spaces, Ara, Panoramio, Songza, Currents, Sparrow, Piknik, Jaiku, SideWiki… et 140 autre.Microsoft X019Everwild, Tell me why, Flight Simulator, Grounded, Age of Empires IV… La Scarlett n’aura pas à rougir !Stadiantre ! Le Xbox Game Pass compris dans XCloud ?Lassé d’Oculus, Carmack veut inventer Skynet sur son temps libre.Vita minée : un brevet de cartouche Sony, mais pour qui ? Plis values Rétro futur : le Mate X est sorti en Chine, avec une sacoche en cuir.Le Razr de près : Motorola ouvre son clapet.Brevet de smartphone pliant chez LG. Les toiles du Web Match re-retour : Oracle vs Google à la cour suprême.Google search : petites mains et grosses magouilles ?Google Curie : red hot Chili câbleur.Point fric : le .org passe dans le privé, l’empire contre-attaque pour le JEDI.Un grosse période de rodage en vue pour les pubs Twitter.Wiki de tous les kikis : Wikitribune devient WT:Social.Toupargel : Github veut un refuge en arctique pour l’open source. Geneva, un algorithme génétique pour contourner la censure. En vrac Les enfants ne réussiront pas sans un iPad et IBM +

Scott Robbin, web developer and co-creator with Naz Hamid of Vapid, an intentionally simple content management system to create websites. Starting in the late 90s, Mr. Robbin founded different companies like Halobrite and Songza, and also worked as lead developer and director for Cards Agains Humanity, Blackbox, and more. You can check out his projects on srobbin.com and learn more about Vapid, his latest creation, on vapid.com.

The Island Fringe Festival had its launch party last night at Marc’s Lounge, and Oliver decided that he wanted, at the last minute, to respond to the open call for poets to read “found poetry.” Fortunately the Fringe team is on the ball and digitally-engaged, so the request-to-perform reached them in time for him to make the list. And so we headed over to secure a seat around 7:30 p.m. for an 8:00 p.m. start. Because of Prince Edward Island’s antediluvian liquor laws, Oliver was only allowed to be present until 9:00 p.m., and so there was some last minute stress surrounding whether he’d be able to go on stage before turning into a Prohibition pumpkin, but, again the Fringe team rose to the challenge and made sure he was on in the first hour. Oliver is a master of the acrostic poem, an excellent adaptation that accommodates he’s need to express with his challenges with choices: it’s a poetic hook to hang his hat on, so to speak, and to watch him pull a poem out of the digital ether is a sight to behold. Here’s the poem he read: Had IPods Pluto Songza That are now Things of the Recent Past Extinct Revolutionized Cities Short Vine Videos Yearning for Unoriginal Objects Continuing to Recreate  Completed Things In the Present Existing Past Since Then Many Revolutionized Cities and Had IPods and Pluto Leaned Lots Extinct Now Not New IPods Another Last Generation That are Now Things of the Recent Past Short Vine Videos and Songza Growing Generation Everyday New Era Recreate Atari Today It Only Continues to Grow Now Xenocracies Everywhere Really Soon I love the phrase “continuing to recreate completes things in the present.” There was an intermission of sorts just before 9:00 p.m., and Oliver insisted we high-tail it for the door lest the Provincial Treasurer come and haul us out by the coat tails.

DTS Play-Fi We had a chance to check out the WiSA standard in our review of the Axiim Q Wireless Home Theater System on Podcast 728 a couple weeks ago. On top of that, Ara is a big AirPlay fan for whole house audio and Braden is invested in Sonos.  Since we can't have just one, or even four, standards, it looks like another competing technology, this one from DTS, is hoping to fulfill our dreams of wireless audio around the home. The technology, called DTS Play-Fi, looks pretty promising and has some solid companies in its corner. What is it? DTS markets Play-Fi as a premium, whole-home wireless audio ecosystem. They are quick to point out that the technology is open and available to anyone. Not open as in free, but open as in unrestricted access. They claim to have the largest ecosystem of brands in the world, allowing you to build an AirPlay or Sonos like system, without the restrictions that come with those platforms. Since all Play-Fi products are seamlessly interoperable, you have the freedom to select the perfect speaker for each room, and know that they will all work together as if they came from one manufacturer. With AirPlay from Apple, you get a lot of freedom to select the right speaker, but you're pretty limited on the control side. Apple really wants you to control the system from one of their products. There are third party apps that allow you to stream to AirPlay devices from an Android phone, but nothing like the native support you get from an Apple device. Sonos is the complete other side of the spectrum. You have total freedom in how you control your audio system, use a Mac, a Windows PC, an iPhone or iPad, or any Android phone or tablet. But you have to buy Sonos speakers. There aren't any non-Sonos speakers that will work in that system. DTS actually came by the technology via their acquisition of a company called Phorus in July 2012. Phorus was using the technology in their PS1 speakers. Staying consistent with how DTS tends to operate, they decided to open the platform and license it, hoping to get on as many devices as they possibly could. They didn't want to make the devices themselves, they wanted to build a technology to allow their partners to enable wireless, whole-home streaming and take a little cut. It has worked out pretty well for them with other technologies. What does it do? In a nutshell, it allows you to essentially build your own Sonos with any devices you like. Prefer the tonal quality of one speaker brand over another? Go for it. Buy their Play-Fi speakers. Prefer the aesthetic look of a particular speaker, have at it. Want to control it from an Android phone? iPhone? Windows PC? Go for it. All with native support. Bottom line, stream your favorite content at high audio quality from every device that you've got. Like Airplay, Play-Fi sends audio from your devices to speakers throughout the home over WiFi using their proprietary streaming, synchronization, and authentication technology. Features include: Lossless audio transmission Multi-room, multi-zone, multi-user options Advanced Left/Right speaker configuration for stereo speakers Support for high-resolution audio (24bit/192kHz) New features and services delivered wirelessly Works over standard Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Powerline networks For Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, and Windows PCs Just like Sonos and AirPlay, Play-Fi works over your home WiFi network. If you have spotty WiFi coverage in some rooms, this could be an issue. And you need to make sure your router is up to the task of streaming all that music simultaneously. Play-Fi support streaming the same source to up to eight devices simultaneously. Of the three, only Sonos offers the ability to create its own dedicated network by connecting one of your devices via hard-wire to your router. In this mode each Sonos device also operates as a wireless repeater, extending the range of the dedicated network and helping you overcome spotty WiFi issues. And, of course, Play-Fi comes with a bunch of music options from around the world.  The native app has support for Spotify, Pandora (enabled for select Play-Fi products only), Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Deezer, Songza, Sirius XM, KKBox in Taiwan, QQ Music in China, and multiple others. They also support DLNA for access to content from your local network. And they're adding new sources all the time. Since the sources come from the control devices, the speakers don't need to be updated to support new ones as they come out. Doing a feature for feature comparison, Sonos and Play-Fi are fairly neck and neck, while AirPlay lacks a few capabilities they both offer. We already know Apple doesn't do Android, but AirPlay also only supports multi-zone streaming from an iTunes collection on a computer, not from your iPhone or iPad. AirPlay can't stream from multiple sources, and doesn't support left/right stereo pairing, while both of the others do. Play-Fi differentiates itself from both of the other options with support for High-Resolution (24bit/192kHz) files and a 5GHz Wi-Fi option for interference-free playback on most devices. What doesn't it do? WiSA gives you up to 7.1 surround sound, all wirelessly. Sonos provides a surround sound experience by pairing two Play:1 speakers for rear surround with a PlayBar sound bar for front L/C/R and a Sub to make it go boom. Not really a full surround sound experience, but absolutely better than a sound bar all by itself. Like AirPlay, Play-Fi does not have an option right now for wireless surround sound in your home theater. They have sound bar options from a few manufacturers, but nothing for the rear or side surrounds.   To be frank, this really surprised us when we started looking into the tech. We naturally assumed that a company best known for surround sound would use their wireless technology to enable that in your home theater. No such luck. There are even a couple receiver and processor options from Anthem that have native Play-Fi support. Just not for surround sound. You can use them to stream music to your home theater speakers, but only in stereo. Device Options Play-Fi has an impressive lineup of technology partners. Anthem offers two receivers and a pre/pro. There are speaker choices from Definitive Technology, MartinLogan, McIntosh, Paradigm, Phorus, Polk Audio, and Wren. Many of whom also offer a sound bar option or two. Other partners include certain Hewlett-Packard tablet models and Fusion Research who make the first multi-source server designed specifically for the custom installation market so you can integrate Play-Fi into your home automation system. They have partners announced with products to come in the future like Klipsch, Rotel, Dish Network, Acer, Arcam, SVS and more. Conclusion We aren't looking at another VHS vs Beta, Blu-ray vs HD-DVD format war for wireless audio protocols in your home theater just yet, but it could happen. Right now for whole-house audio, much like automation protocols, if there are enough devices, or more specifically the right devices to meet your needs, in the technology camp you select, you should be fine. With the relationships they already have from licensing surround sound technology, and the established expertise in audio, DTS should be able to build a solid ecosystem that only grows over time. They already have more options that just about any competing technology.

On this podcast, Nora Young talks about Apple shuttering its iTunes radio service (via Tech Crunch), and Songza being folded into Google Play Music. What does the future hold for streaming music services? Will we start to see artists making exclusive deals with services and distribution platforms as this article suggests we might? On the next edition of Spark, Nora will do two interviews on a related issue: what do new players in the video content world (formerly known as TV and movies) mean for the future of the entertainment biz? Cathi Bond refers to Mixcloud as a source of great curated, streaming music. Here's one of her favourite DJ/curators. Meanwhile, Cathi looks at the growing push for connected cars and autonomous vehicles, including the Obama administrations efforts to get national standards (via PSFK). She is ticked off, and feels that autonomous vehicles are being shoved down our throats. Do you agree? Also, Cathi's first car was a Spitfire; what was yours? Leave us a comment!

Hip Hop/Rap/Old School/Chilled.   This mix is all old school hip hop fun. It was inspired by a retreat to Gabriola island in beautiful British Columbia where me and a good friend, Jonny-boy, spent a few days listening to old school hip hop on Songza (now Google Play Music). Soul II Soul - Back To Life ( However Do You Want Me ) ( Instrumental ), Naughty By Nature - Everything's Gonna Be Alright, Coolio - I Remember (feat. Billy Boy, J-Ro), DJ Maars - Sensi Says ft. Mr Vegas, Alozade & Hollow Point, Primal Scream - Trainspotting, Jurassic 5 - Quality Control (Maars Reggae Re-Work), AZ- The Come Up (Maars Reggae Re-Fix), Jay Z - Regrets, C.L Smooth- T.R.O.Y (Maars Re-Groove), DJ Maars - Head Nod Riddim, Mad Skillz- The Nod Factor (Maars Reggae Re-Fix), Common- I Used To Love H.E.R (Maars Reggae Re-Rub), Beenie Man- Girls Dem Sugar (Maars Re-Work), Mantronix - King Of The Beats, Ultramagnetic Mc's - Poppa large (remix)

Any time my podcast can get in front of more people I'm happy. From what I've heard on the Feed Podcast where a Google Rep was interviewed here is what is what we think is going to happen.  Google will pull an episode and host it on their servers (but they won't be a media host) The reason for this is they have control and reliability (come some people do stupid things like put their files on a website host instead of a media host). They reserve the right to put ads after your show, and you will get nothing an like it. There will be a directory, you will be able to direct people to a location There is no set date besides "as soon as possible" It is just in the USA for starting. There are specific Google tags (just like iTunes Tags), but you can submit a feed and it will use the iTunes tags. There will be stats. They are not splitting your file into bits. They hope to feature your show when people search for it. They want to give you what you want - when you want it. This is probably why they paid $35 million for Songza (a company that generated custom playlists) back in 2014. Their artwork spec is from small to HUGE, so for now use your 1400X 1400 artwork that you use for iTunes. You can add your podcast at http://g.co/podcastprotal Here are the Terms of Service for Google Play Check out No Agenda Show for more in depth Media Analysis So How Do I Feel About Google Coming Into Podcasting? Anytime my podcast can get in front of more people, I'm very happy. As I've been online for a while, I've seen Google products come and go (Remember Google Buzz?). So while I'm excited, there is nothing for me to hold, touch, smell, and critique. Am I upset that they are going to host my files? No. Do I wish they would just pass through my files from Libsyn? Yes, but I understand why they are not. We all have our fingers crossed that they use better encoding that Stitcher (which makes you sound barely listenable). Am I upset that an advertising company is going to play ads after my show and I get none of that? No. (and I'm not surprised). As long as I can say what I want in my show and use it to direct people back to www.schoolofpodcasting.com I'm fine. Even Google has to pay the bills. So at this point, I'm "Hooray! - um, I think..." Terms of Service For Other Hosting Platforms Blubrry (use the coupon sopfree to get a free month )Content Producers agree that the content in you shows are free from speech that advocates violence or speech that promotes hate. The Company reserves the right to immediately remove any media content from its Websites that in its sole discretion is deemed to violate the restrictions of this paragraph. Libsyn.com (use the coupon sopfree to get a free month) MonetizationAny attempt to directly monetize Your Content via third-party ad networks or other outside business agreements at the expense of Libsyn without written approval from Libsyn is prohibited. 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Professional or corporate users please use one of our paid services. 99% of the time the terms are there for the provider to cover their rear end.  Patreon Best Practices 22:01 Today we are joined by Taryn Arnold the community happiness representative of Patreon.com to take another look at Patreon ( spoke about Patreon in March of 2014 on Episode 399). They are "THE" platform when it comes to reoccurring crowd funding. When Joyride went out of business they directed their customer to Patreon. Patreon is like a virtual tip jar for your audience to support you. Unlike Paypal (which can have issues when your listener's credit card changes or gets updated, and also may not notify you when a donation happens). Patreon is working to add discovery to their already vast set of tools. Patreon is a community building tool - not just a paywall. People who are succeeding at Patreon are treating it as a community tool to interact with their audience (make it two way - not just you putting stuff behind a pay wall). $3.5 Million is being processed a month to creators. There are roughly 25,000 active creators on Patreon.com. Let me do the math for you 3,500,000 / 25,000 - $140 per active user (roughly...) Be sure to add a link to your Patreon account in you email template so you never forget to mention it. Most people are doing a monthly setup (instead of a per post item). If you are doing items less frequently, it may be better to set up your account as a "per post." 39:52 Some people like are putting the content they give away for free in Patreon. This makes a singular place for your community to find your content and interact with you.  Pete Hollans makes 7,767.05 per video It costs zero to start using Patreon.com they take somewhere between 4% - 6% The $5 and $10 pledges are used the most (the average is $7). You might want to make a few posts that anyone can see so that people who are browsing your items can get a free sample of your content. [clickToTweet tweet="Patreon is paying 3.5 million a month to creators" quote="Tweet This: Patreon is paying 3.5 million a month to creators"] My Favorite Podcast Is I am accepting submissions for my annual "My Favorite Podcast Is" episode. This is where you can get extra exposure for your show. Here is what you do: Go to www.schoolofpodcasting.com/favorite (you can upload a recording, you can record your message using the Speakpipe button, or call the toll free number). Let me know the name of your show, where we can find it, and what it's about. Then let me know what your favorite podcast is AND WHY. If you know their website that would be awesome as well. This will be used in the last episode of the year, and turned into a book on Amazon (so more exposure). 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Magnifique week-end à toi, semaine folle qu’on a passé, alors pour terminer la semaine: Guillaume vous recommande d’aller au Tam Tam, Guillaume veut fourrer Kanye West, Alexandrine veut se réveiller en homme, Guillaume parle d’hypnose, Chuck réfère le très mauvais The Hot Chix, les hommes transgenres, prendre les gens une mauvaise journée, Alexandrine se mélangerait si une célébrité venait à sa job, Alexandrine connaît les tondeuses & coupe-herbes, Chuck a servi Karine Vanasse, le public Québecois est poli avec ses célébrités, quoi faire si on rencontre Jean Dujardin, Chuck veut devenir Karine Vanasse, on jase iTube, Facebook, Songza, Pandora, Shazam, Instagram, Chuck ne comprend pas les gens au gym. Tout ça et ULTRA-PLUS pour cet épisode épique. À lundi prochain!Twitter - Facebook - iTunes - Youtube

This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover & TARDISBlend podcasts joins Dwayne & Andrew as we discuss: Facebook fights clickbait, the NSA builds a Google to search your records, Amazon buys Twitch, and...is misogyny in games out of control? Podcast [display_podcast] What We're Playing With Dwayne: Circle of 6 / White House Council on Women and Girls Greg: gSyncIt (PC) and Metal (Android) Headlines Jawbone Up data shows how many people woke up during Sunday's Napa earthquake Documents and interviews reveal Uber's sophisticated, nationwide scheme to poach Lyft drivers Facebook shifts its algorithm to fight clickbait. Will it kill off Upworthy and Buzzfeed? SavedYouAClick ICREACH: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google Apple Said to Prepare New 12.9-Inch IPad for Early 2015 Apple iWatch could be real this time T-Mobile ‘Music Freedom' adds limitless data for Songza, Rdio, Grooveshark, & others Audible Book of the Week Lock In by John Scalzi Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: Video Games by Lana Del Rey Hot Topic Amazon to Buy Video Site Twitch for $970 Million Amazon Pounces On Twitch After Google Balks Due To Antitrust Concerns Final Word: Misogyny in Gaming Gaming Misogyny Gets Infinite Lives: Zoe Quinn, Virtual Rape, and Sexism The Drill Down Video of the Week Hyperlapse, Instagram's New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Radio has always been one of the things that has been consistently ripe for mobile disruption on two fronts. The first is broadcast which is being handled by the likes of RDIO, Spotify, Pandora, Songza, iTunes Radio and now Amazon among many many others. All-told there are roughly 140 million Internet radio listeners that share their time across the new broadcasters. Not a huge global industry, but enough to warrant a rethink of the business and engagement models - which is the second piece ripe for a rethink.   This is where XAPPmedia comes in. The company focuses on creating action within the ads broadcast over Internet radio. An ad that is enabled by XAPP prompts the listener to engage - by voice - for more information about the product being featured. What's really cool about this is that it can actually bring the listener into a commerce-enabled world over the air.   Pat Higbie is the founder and CEO of the company and joins us to talk about the state of radio and Internet radio today, where the revenue does and will come from going forward, how long the idea of paying for radio will be sustainable and some key things that are needed in order to make this industry thrive. We also discuss the impact of Internet radio and mobile on the way advertising is done and paid for as well as a glimpse into the short future to see what is in store for this industry. Pay particular attention to what Pat has to say about the impact that what this industry will do to traditional search.   Full show notes can be found here: http://untether.tv/2014/ep-519-what-happens-when-you-can-talk-back-to-the-radio-with-xappmedia-founder-pat-higbie/

Soundcloud removes music creation tools from their popular app. Google buys Songza. Music Vault opens their vault by publishing 12,000 concert videos on YouTube. The podcasters discuss a recent blog... So what's it take to be Indie anywho? www.cdbabypodcast.com

Man kan faktiskt göra det i bilen   Beta Tisdag blev Beta Måndag när iOS 8 och OSX Yosemite fick nya uppdateringar. Foxconn byter arbetare mot robotar. Är iWatch en lyxklocka och hur stor blir iPhone Air? Allt detta plus en hel del snack om backup bjuder vi på i veckans AppSnack 122. Podcasten om teknik och uppkopplat nörderi i allmänhet, och ditt mobila liv i synnerhet.   STÖD OSS HÄR Samsung Bashes iPhone Battery Life, Calls Users 'Wall Huggers' in New Galaxy S5 Ad   I panelen: Michael Ploug Gartner och K-A Nikka. Programmet leds av Calle Gisselsson. Nyheter   iPhone börjar tillverkas av robotar OS X Yosemite gets Dark Mode and other interface tweaks in third developer preview All the tiny new tweaks added in iOS 8 beta 3 Apple Stores changing graphics to show people using products   Allt fler biltillverkare stödjer iOS i bilen (nämn endast i förbifarten) Pond's 'Stream' case brings MFi-approved Qi wireless charging to Apple's iPhone 5/5s http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faradays_bur 1Password i iOS 8 blir betydligt smidigare att använda On iOS 8, App Extensions, OS X Yosemite, and 1Password Hands-on: 1Password beta highlights iOS 8′s Touch ID & Extensions APIs (video) Veckans rykten   Patrick Pruniaux går från Tag Heuer till Apple LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A Microsoft Working on Fitness Band Compatible With Windows, iOS Rumor: Apple's 'iPhone 6' to launch on Sept. 25, larger 5.5" version dubbed 'iPhone Air' Veckans snackis/lyssnarfråga Namn: Joakim W Message: Hej kära App-snack Jag går i tankarna om att förenkla livet för mig, jag har för tillfället en MBP och en separat hårddisk på 500gb. Jag skulle vilja att min säkerhetskopia synkas trådlöst istället, borde jag välja apples alternativ; Timecapsule 2TB för ca 2300kr, den är som apples andra produkter: den för sin sak men kanske är lite för högt prissatt. Eller ska jag välja exempelvis WD My cloud 3TB för ca 1500. Alltså några hundralappar billigare plus att den har cloudfunktion. Snälla App-snack hjälp mig, hur hade ni resonerat? Finns det för och nackdelar med dem båda?   Tack! EXTRA   Google buys music service Songza to take on Apple and Beats Telia köper norska Tele2

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss Verizon's prepaid upgrade, T-Mobile's FTC woes, HTC's recent success, Google's acquisition of Songza, the beginning of Apple's back to school promotion, and so much more.

This week, Google buys into music and shuts down their oldest social network, Did T-Mobile swindle customers out of millions of hidden fees?, Facebook's secret mood manipulation study, and is the NSA's first transparency report just one big oxymoron? Headlines Google in Deal for Songza, a Music Playlist Service Google Is Shutting Down Orkut, Its First Social Network, On September 30 Yahoo Shuts Down Unpopular Services FTC Alleges T-Mobile Made Millions From Allegedly Bogus Text Message Charges Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone Audible Book of the Week Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: The Humans Are Dead by Flight of the Conchords Hot Topics Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment Facebook Doesn't Understand The Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for poorly communicating controversial News Feed study New Snowden documents show FISA court authorized NSA to spy on all but four foreign countries The NSA just posted its first full transparency report Music Break: At Least It Was Here by The 88 Final Word Yahoo Picks Up 'Community' for Streaming Video Site, Screen Reading Rainbow is back!! And on Android! The Drill Down Video of the Week Glen Keane - Duet - Google ATAP Glen Keane - making of 'Duet' Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Some quick talk of permission sets hitting Summer 14, our take on Google IO, Amazon Fire Phone, Songza to our hearts and Facebook Emotion-gate.

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We primarily discuss online music services on the show, plus a little news, and good tunes from David Fienstien, ELP and others. Plus, The Maestro Dick Wagner chimes in again, and BigJD talks to the Canadian Managing Director of Songza on uTalkin2Me. Next week we talk about headphones. Like us on Facebook!

iMacs overheat, people. That’s why we record this podcast on a lovely 27” iMac! Special guest this week, Mr. Sippy Straw. Also, Jeff Goldblum, Robot Chicken, cell phone companies suck, and forgetting to hit record, on Montreal Sauce. Show Note: This is the beginning of March Montreal Madness! Because of our backlog of episodes, we’ll be releasing an episode every week in March. In April, we’ll return to our regular every-other-week schedule. Jurassic Park life lessons and learning chaos theory. He was most Goldblum in The Fly. Hey, you’re not perfect and sometimes you Britta things. Thanks, Community. Chris’ terrible George Bush impression is an impression of Robot Chicken’s Bush. Tacos rule. Is Jim our imaginary editor or an extreme liberal? Correction: The Fox skit comedy show Chris was reference was The Edge, not The News. Peep a Compilation of the 15 second “Right This Minute” fillers that aired between sketches. Chris’ missing beard. Mobile providers are going to allow corporations to sponsor your data? Sketchy. Your PSA from the Saucerors: Net Neutrality is a big deal. Pay attention. If you weren’t sufficiently bored by Chris’ iMac story or if you need pictures, more info can be found here. What is Mame? Emulating the old, coin-op arcade games you couldn’t afford as a child. Subsonic is a ridiculously easy to install music server for Windows, Mac & Linux. Ditch iTunes and listen to your music everywhere. Linux what now? Linux Mint & Ubuntu, two user friendly distributions to revive an old computer. OWC kits to install SSD drives in your Mac. Want to nerd out with stats on your Mac? iStat Menus is king, but there are plenty of free alternatives like MenuMeters and atMonitor. Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that doesn’t have enough rap songs about it, yet. YET! Chris has a batphone in Canada? Well, that’s what he calls the OBi110 that he uses to call his mom in the states for free. No, really! He calls his mom occasionally. dd-wrt Can breath new life into a router or unlock more features. There’s also the many flavors of Tomato. Dan, a recent guest on a previous episode, made a webcomic based on a stray tweet from Sikkdays. Check it out and all the other great comics on clattertron.com. Phish has a version of Gin & Juice. GentleMint is a “mint of manly things.” Pintrest for dudes, as it were. What’s an 8-track? Chris still has one. The Muppets sing Octopus’ Garden. Eddie Murphy’s bit from Delirious on Elvis Be warned, this is from the NSFW Eddie Murphy days. Looking for music? Perhaps you should ditch iTunes and MP3’s and try Rdio, Spotify, Pandora or Chris’ choice of Songza. Alternatively, you can keep your music and then subscribe to iTunes Radio for more as Paul suggested. In this week’s OPT-OUT, your heroes discuss Chrome-gate! Some great extensions for Chrome & Firefox get quietly bought out by ad companies that fill them with malware. Click this for more info. A list of the “infected” extensions is maintained here. So check your Browser! Paul doesn’t have the resource hog Flash installed on his computer. Instead, he uses Chrome, when necessary, because it has Flash built-in. Another Mac option is Click to Flash for Safari. FreeOTP is a two-factor authentication application. Say what? If you don’t know what two-factor is and don’t use it, Get on it! Geeksphone makes phones that are truly open source. How about a phone that is concerned with your privacy instead of collecting your data. Check out Blackphone. Listen to people eat dinner? Sign me up. The former podcast archives, I Like Juice. Wow many coin for Chris? DLu57vD1DWE3rJNBviKrzmWBeC4RNdw3bd Such profit for Paul? DUNMd3mpcggpiVV2mWFF4Eo3SFaSF3bgTp Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Nous sommes Guillaume et Mathieu et vous pouvez nous rejoindre sur @niplife ou sur info@niplife.com. Trucs * Podscout (PC, Tablette sur Windows 8) * Air server (Mirroring + enregistrement) (PC & MAC) * Bing Cuisine & Vins (PC, Tablette sur Windows 8) * Application pour être en forme en 7 minutes chaque matin * Pushbullet * Astuce : plus rapide que Google Translate ? * Truc pour découvrir de la musique Gardez-vous Shazam lorsque vous écouter de la musique. Sur iPhone, iPad, Android et Windows 8 etc.. Écoutez de Songza et dès que vous aimez une chacon un petit Shazam et on tag. * Truc pour faire des "imprime écrans" comme un pro * Peek Calendar * Comment synchroniser Twitter et G+ :A) Avoir Google Voice B) Connecter Voice à G+ * Bring up Google Voice and navigate to Settings » Voicemail & Text. Select the option to “Forward text messages to my email: ”.Note: It's important that this points to the gmail address. If it doesn't, take the necessary steps to add a gmail address here. Save changes when finished. * Send a text message FROM google voice to 33669Note: The address can/will be different in other countries. Check with Google+ SMS support for details on which numbers to use internationally. * Check your gmail address for an error notification back. It should say something like:From: 33669 ; To: G+ SMS: Existing Google+ user, verify your phone at http://g.co/gplussettings. New users signup on your phone, at google.com/+ C) Faire une règle qui IFTTT d'envoyer tous les tweets vers cette adresse de mail. * Critique de la sourie T630 * Retour de Xavier --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/relifepodcast/message

In this episode of the Deep Dive, Cortney Harding and Kyle Bylin discuss music curation with outspoken tech exec and startup founder J Herskowitz. Curation is a topic that just keeps coming up in the press. Spotify buys Tunigo. 8tracks revamps its website. Songza introduces a paid tier. And Beats Music poaches several high-level people in preparation for a U.S. launch. Meanwhile, Rhapsody and Google Play are talking about how they have been using humans to curate all along. What does all of this mean? Where might music streaming services take curation next?

During a weekend of cocktails, bachelorettes, and parties Ginny gets obsessed with a new music service and an old way of eating while Charlie celebrates the sale of his farm with a vintage bottle of wine. Listen today for all the fun.

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iTunes App Store approaches 50 billion downloads while Songza 3.0 gets an upgrade to make it even cooler. What’s the greatest rock cover of all time?  Plus Beyonce’s bonkers concert rider demands (RED toilet paper?), why the radio industry fears self-driving cars, and how to listen to Justin Bieber without losing your mind. The post Slow Motion Train Wreck appeared first on The Geeks and Beats Podcast with Alan Cross and Michael Hainsworth.

Bloggers and music fanatics David Greenwald of Rawkblog and Nicole Cifani of Moheak Radio talk about the past, present and future of music blogs. We discuss the role of technology in curation and ask if social media makes music blogs obsolete. Plus news on Twitter, Songza, Universal, and recommendations for apps, drinks, and secluded islands off the Pacific coast!

The late night talk show war is about to get more musical. All this talk about Fallon taking over for Jay Leno could put more pressure on Paul Schaffer than David Letterman. We’ll introduce you to Eric Davich. He’s one of the guys behind Songza. Songza had more than 1-million downloads in Canada when it […] The post No Goats Were Harmed appeared first on The Geeks and Beats Podcast with Alan Cross and Michael Hainsworth.

This week, Aaron Herman had the opportunity to visit New York Tech Day. NY Tech Day is a “science fair” for tech startups to showcase their companies to the public, investors and press. Many of the most prominent NY Tech startups attended including tumblr, Meetup, SecondMarket, Boxee, and Knewton. The event will also showcase newbies such as SpaceSplitter, Digital Ocean, Unroll.me and Songza. In addition, more than 35 notable VC firms attended, including Spark Capital, Greycroft Partners and Lerer Ventures.

This week, Aaron Herman had the opportunity to visit New York Tech Day. NY Tech Day is a “science fair” for tech startups to showcase their companies to the public, investors and press. Many of the most prominent NY Tech startups attended including tumblr, Meetup, SecondMarket, Boxee, and Knewton. The event will also showcase newbies such as SpaceSplitter, Digital Ocean, Unroll.me and Songza. In addition, more than 35 notable VC firms attended, including Spark Capital, Greycroft Partners and Lerer Ventures.