This week on Girls Out Loud, Maya and Cristina discuss checkins on Foursquare and Facebook, how the Huffington Post is overtaking the New York Times in visitors to the site, how enormously expensive Twitter trending topics are, and WeinerGate. Yes, we talk weiners.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304778304576373860513481364.html

http://www.fastcompany.com/1756995/check-off-how-facebook-places-stacks-up-against-foursquare-at-airports-hotels-times-square

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-huffpo-nyt-unique-visitors-2011-6?op=1

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/seo/great-news-promoted-trends-on-twitter-now-cost-only-120000-per-day/3255

http://mashable.com/2011/06/09/weinergate-aftermath/

This week on Girls Out Loud, we get giddy over virtual currency craze Bitcoin (or Maya does, while Cristina remains skeptical.) We also discuss the inevitable truth that Netflix is finally the largest source of internet traffic in North America, the upgraded piracy bill turning the "streaming" of copyrighted content into a felony, and the coalition of the biggest tech players in the Valley to fight the proposed California social network privacy bill. Listen for more!

Also, HUGE apologies for apparently saving the same sound file TWICE, once as Episode 32 (which it was) and once as 33. Does that mean nobody heard 33? The post has been updated with the correct file, thanks so much to the anonymous commenter who pointed out that we were "repeating" ourselves...literally.

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110518/linkedin-will-price-at-45-a-share/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/netflix-largest-internet-traffic/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/new-bill-upgrades-unauthorized-internet-streaming-to-a-felony.ars

http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20110516/take-your-paws-off-our-privacy-laws-facebook-google-twitter-zynga-formally-oppose-california-social-networking-bill/

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/05/18/will-work-for-bitcoin-coder-says-most-people-just-using-it-as-an-investment-vehicle/

This week on the Girls Out Loud Show, Maya and Cristina wile out over the potential new discovery of anti-gravity...or, more accurately, Maya dorks out while Cristina chuckles in the background. Additional topics of conversation include Twitters acquisition of Tweetdeck, Chinese Facebook competitor RenRen's INSANE valuation, and of course, the role of social media in the news of Osama Bin Laden's capture and death. Fascinating stuff, if we can say so ourselves!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54151.html

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384810,00.asp

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-03/renren-seeks-twice-facebook-valuation-in-social-media-ipo.html

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110502/on-the-web-bin-laden-news-is-big-but-not-as-big-as-soccer/

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/05/does-antimatter.php

This week on the Girls Out Loud Show, Maya and Cristina discuss the "revelation" that Apple is tracking our location on iOS devices, although we're not all too surprised. In the acquisition of the week, the unlikely acquirer Walmart purchased social platform Kosmix for $300M. While companies are being bought left and right, some investors are growing weary of founders cashing out too early. Last but not least, Maya goes gaga over Amazon launching library lending for the Kindle while Cristina tries to recall what a library is like. All this and more is on the show this week and if you have comments, please leave them below or hit us up on Twitter at @papayamaya and @cristinacordova!

Topics This Week

Concern Grows Over Founders Cashing Out Too Much Too Early

Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is Recording Your Moves

Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books

Exclusive: Wal-Mart Paid $300M-Plus for Kosmix

This week on the Girls Out Loud show, Maya and Cristina marvel at how far we've come that Virgin Galactic has a real job opening for pilot-astronauts live and ready for takers! Also on the docket is the New Yorker magazine's first foray into Facebook fan-gated magazine content, the Amazon Kindle having its price slashed in exchange for a brand new advertising program, and Google's newest viewpoint on social-- that its the indicator of the company's well-being, at least with respect to bonuses for the year.

http://careers.virgin.com/search/1921/

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-11/amazon-com-to-sell-kindle-digital-reader-with-ads-for-114.html

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/04/11/new-yorker-like-page/

http://scobleizer.com/2011/04/10/dear-vic-heres-your-google-bonus/

This week on the Girls Out Loud Show, Maya and Cristina discuss the sometimes unbelievable perks tech companies are dangling in front of new hires, the Silicon Valley tech bubble that's currently approaching hiring levels of peak dotcom bubble times, Jack Dorsey's return to Twitter, the new Color app (haterade alert!), and the decline of the Blackberry.

http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/03/27/rim-the-inmates-have-taken-over-the-asylum/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/jack-dorsey-takes-over-product-again-at-twitter-as-executive-chairman/

http://gigaom.com/2011/03/28/color-more-than-just-another-photo-sharing-app/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/technology/26recruit.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/26/BUG41IHABH.DTL

This week on the Girls Out Loud show, Maya and Cristina are alarmed with the state of the world-- they discuss the terrifying earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the state of nuclear reactors in California, and ultimately decide to get straight to ordering emergency supplies, if nothing else. Additional topics covered include the departure of Josh Topolsky and Nilay Patel from Engadget (bummer, but Good Luck dudes!), the iPad 2, and how Silicon Valley most certainly still IS cool.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/13/the-city-by-the-meh-thoughts-on-falling-out-of-love-with-the-valley/

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/14/japan-third-blast-at.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/14/so-californias-san-o.html

http://pulsene.ws/15cpW

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110312/engadgets-top-editors-topolsky-and-patel-exit-from-aols-giant-tech-site/

This week on Girls Out Loud, Maya and Cristina naturally took up opposite sides of the ring during the discussion, and it seems like Maya favors the Devil (where the Devil is the larger companies often on the funky side of these media stories.) Check out the show for the girls take on a new Apple patent for "Places," Facebook's revamped (again) privacy policy, the sudden shut down of Breakup Notifier, and the Semantic Web (or how Google Recipe search is the bomb-diggity!)

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/02/apple-reveals-places-a-social-networking-related-trademark.html

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/23/breakup-notifier/

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150434660350301&id=69178204322

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/google-recipe-semantic/

This week on Girls Out Loud, Cristina and Maya speculated some reasons President Obama might have had to have a dinner at John Doerr's house with the most elite leaders in Silicon Valley (and wished they could have been there.) Additionally, the girls discuss the shutdown of UberTwitter and Twitdroyd for violations of Twitters API, the real inside story of a retail Apple store employee, and the coolest AI machine ever, IBM's Watson.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/confessions-of-an-apple-store-employee

http://www.slate.com/id/2284721

http://searchengineland.com/obamas-one-night-stand-in-silicon-valley-a-rorschach-test-for-bloggers-journalists-65412

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/18/ubermedia-bill-gross-twitter-surprise/

This week in Girls Out Loud, Maya has completely lost her voice...well, almost completely. We decided it would be a good idea to get a show in before it completely left my body. This week we discuss the inflationary tech bubble, Twitter potentially being sold to Google, the new Facebook phone (meh), and potentially cheaper iPhone models.http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/please-twitter-dont-sell-to-google-or-facebook/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/video-inq-facebook-phone/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-10/apple-said-to-work-on-cheaper-more-versatile-iphone-models.html

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/02/are-we-in-inflationary-part-of-internet.html