Episode 24: Social Media 101 Breakdown
June 28, 2008
The show started late because of Geoff!
Geoff and Aaron broke down the morning’s social media 101 event, at which Geoff keynoted and appeared on three panels, but Aaron was stone-walled.
Aaron remarked there were a lot of hot girls at the event., but both Geoff and Aaron quickly bailed on what could have been DC’s Sexy Geek Girls episode.
Aaron ragged on Matt from R2Design, while Geoff made cheap excuses for him. But then they talked about how Geoff got cut off on the mobile question, one of Geoff’s areas of domain expertise.
Geoff went into his white paper. Then they ragged on the widget answer. A great chat about the future of mobile and social continued.
Then they discussed how Facebook is the world’s most trafficked social network. Most of this traffic comes on the mobile phone.
Lauren Vargas called in briefly. Later she wins a present.
Then Geoff and Aaron had some good natured fun at Scoble and Gary Vaynerchuk’s behalf. Aaron discussed the great tie between Scoble and politics that occurred.
Aaron was particularly impressed with the accessibility of politicians on Twitter. We discussed if it was bettering democracy. Then we discussed astroturfing and blaming the intern.
Qui Diaz interrupted Aaron to ask if he had her cell # programmed. Aaron got defensive.
A give away ensured. Discussion of Scoble event continued. Geoff broadcasted he wasn’t going to show. And then the show ended early.
Episode 23: AP and Coyright Infringement
June 24, 2008
After a week of accidental vacation from the show, Geoff and I got back into the mix with an entire show dedicated to the AP mess. We referred to Jeff Jarvis writing “FU AP” and TechCrunch pledging to ban AP.
We were joined by Anne P. Mitchell, a Boulder-based attorney practicing internet law.
Mea Culpa: “It’s Technosailor’s fault!”
June 11, 2008
Sorry to everyone who was waiting for a live show yesterday. It was all my fault. Geoff was ready to go, but he didn’t have actual host access - whoops! Will remedy that.
As for my part, I was at the Graphing Social Patterns conference buried three stories underground. When Geoff text messaged me to ask where I was, I didn’t get it - until 4:30 or so when I went upstairs and back into signal.
I’m so sorry to all our listeners. We are going to try to do a show from Blog Potomac on Friday but it’s unclear whether we’ll be able to. We’ll let you know.
Worst case scenario, we’ll be back on next Tuesday at 4pm Eastern and we’ll have two weeks worth of stuff to talk about.
Episode 22: fbOpen, Fred Wilson and
June 4, 2008
Aaron is in Orlando at the Siemens PLM User Conference. Fortunately, he didn’t have to go to Disney World.
Aaron and Geoff kick off the show discussing Fred Wilson’s “grand view” of social media. His approach is very short sighted and shallow. Aaron makes the point that Twitter is funded by Fred and the strategic long-term view that Fred has makes perfect sense for a company like Twitter that obviously hasn’t planned ahead for their growth.
Next we move into fbOpen, the open sourcing of much of Facebook’s platform to challenge OpenSocial. It’s unclear if anyone is going to sign on to use this thing. I’m concerned that by opening this, the already deluged market of Facebook apps will become worse.
Geoff and I are going to be at the Vocus Users Conference on Thursday, June 5 talking to a bunch of PR folks. We are both really iffy about this conference and the demographic that is attending. Do PR folks really care about us? Heh, Geoff thinks not.
Brian Solis and Geoff are doing a Now is Gone book signing at the Arlington Barnes & Noble Thursday night as well. Then they will be book signing in NYC on Saturday and Steph Agresta is throwing a party. :)
Geoff is under attack for auctioning his time off for charity on eBay. Nice. Stupid PR flack.
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