John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about why webOS is slow, what's wrong with Apple's digital distribution mechanisms, why Google+ is a really big deal (for Google, anyway), and the hidden world of server-side software. John also shares some statistics about his upcoming Lion review.

Links for this episode:

• Google to Retire Blogger & Picasa Brands in Google+ Push - Mashable
  
• Paul Graham - Wikipedia
  
• Beating the Averages - Paul Graham on the advantages of Lisp
  

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