We talk about two topics today. The first (most boring) is the G+ fight between Chris Messina and Mike Elgan about G+. Turns out, nobody cares. G+ is great, but no one will use it (except Chaim). Then we talk about the implication of removing the captcha and having some sort of internal test that… Continue reading inThirty 167 – Click Here if Human

On this episode we were going to talk about net neutrality, but we decided to talk about Amazon’s echo.

With all the little stories going on, we decided to go through them quickly.  Naturally analysis was also quick.  We talk about Fitbit and Google Fit, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and CurrentC.  We finish off with the Amazon fire stick

We were told to not talk about it, so naturally we did. We tried our best to find both sides, but we couldn’t. We did everything wrong.

All three of us watched the snoozefest so you wouldn’t have to.  You are probably still sleeping from it.  The big question is does Chaim by a 5k iMac?

Next week we will be treated to another Apple announcement. We assume it is new iPads. Chaim thought we will spend the show discussing the minutia details of the ipad, but it turned into Chaim being told that nobody cares.

We have three hot topic items for you this week. First off we talk about Ello for longer than anyone thought. Who knew this social network will still get publicity for a week after launch. We move on to #bendgate where we agree it is overblown. We finish up with Windows 10

Amazon last week put out a whole slew of new kindles. Are they worth it? We discuss the need for so many different variations, as well as the need of a $200 eink version. Editor’s note: We apologize for this episode. Everything bad that could go wrong, went wrong.

We are recording the day iOS 8 came out. Since Paul and Justin downloaded the Gold Master, Chaim was stuck waiting for the download to happen. We discuss the major changes that will be useful.

We talk to Tim Hwang of the DERP institute to find out if they are for real or are they a joke.  Turns out they are for real, and they want to help gather data across the biggest community generated news sites around.