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Podcast Description
Download This Show is your weekly access to the latest in social media, consumer electronics, digital politics, hacktivism and more. Presented by Marc Fennell for ABC Radio National. Published every Sunday.
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End of the Call Centre? Your data after death, DNT | How much do you hate being left on hold to the help desk? Is it possible to replace call centres, help desks and support lines with social media? An Australian company is trying to do just that. Plus, all the ways you can tell the internet to not track you online. And, what happens to your data when you die - all those passwords, banking records, your Facebook page? | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pay For Facebook Status? Safe Sexting, Pirate Pay | When you look at your Facebook news feed, do you sometimes wonder why some posts hang around forever while others seem to disappear without a trace? Why has Facebook chosen to highlight certain people in your digital life? This week we consider Facebook's EdgeRank - it’s part-engineering, part-psychology and it connects over 800 million of us. Plus, you’ve heard of safe sex - well we're experimenting with safe sexting - and an app that aims to give some control over your risque images. | 16 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apps To Ease Cancer, Digital Radio and more | How much is your personal data worth? 3 years on we examine the future of digital radio? And we try out an app that's trying to ease pain for kids with Cancer. | 10 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zombies Run, Google Drive, Overpriced Software | When there’s no more room in hell the dead will help you lose weight. This week on DOWNLOAD THIS SHOW we talk to the app designers who are using zombies to make us fitter. With the launch of Google’s new hard-drive in the clouds ‘Google Drive’ we examine what truly makes a good drop-box service and more. | 2 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anonymous Music Service? Virtual Canadian Currency | The online hacktivist collective Anonymous have become famous for their online attacks that have pulled down the websites of everyone from the Prime Minister to the Russian space program. But now a few of their number have decided to move into the music business with a new social music platform called Anontune. Plus we examine the Canadian Government's launch of a virtual currency called MintChip and we ask what the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft is likely to do next in the wake of their resounding defeat in the High Court. | 26 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apple v Amazon eBook racket, are comments bad? | Are you the type of person who can't wait to comment on a story you find on the web? We examine whether comment threads are actually bad for online media. And, as the US Government sues Apple and the publishing industry for alleged price fixing of eBooks, we ask whether a little bit of anti-competitive behaviour is precisely what's needed in order to save the publishing business. Meanwhile, the UK government is considering new spying laws to allow it access to Britain's emails, browser history and phone calls all in real time without a warrant. How would you feel about James Bond watching you surf the net? | 21 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Glasses, Pirate Bay, Connect Pink | The Pirate Bay is the most resilient website for accessing pirated media. How has it managed to survive so long? We also take a gander at Google's proposed internet-connected eye glasses. Is it a likely reality or false advertising? And we look at Fairfax's rumoured new social media network Connect Pink, aimed at women in regional Australia. But you have to pay for it and do regional women need or even want their own social network? | 14 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China's Weibos, Blackberry Death? Ambient Social | As China clamps down on its social media networks we examine the wider complexities of online networking behind the great firewall of China. Plus RIM; it's the company that literally invented the modern smart phone in the form of the Blackberry but what the hell has happened to them and why is the company staring into the abyss? Where did it all go so wrong? And the good the bad and the downright inappropriate in the world of ambient social apps (like the creepy 'Girls Around Me' app). | 8 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Tattoo as a ringtone? Disconnect me, Pair | Disconnect me, please. As Google's controversial new privacy settings take hold we talk to the team of ex-Googlers who are helping keep your data to yourself. How the app 'Pair' is helping long-distance romance blossom in the age of the App. Oh, and just what the hell is Nokia doing by patenting a vibrating tattoo? | 31 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Netflix's (Un)Arrested Development, New Translator | Now the story of a beloved tv comedy that lost it's network and the one website that had no choice but to bring it back to life...it's Arrested Development. Also this week: can the website Netflix become the next HBO or Showtime and reinvigorate television? Plus, have Microsoft finally cracked the Universal Translator? And are we witnessing the beginning of the end for text messaging? | 25 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Job Interviews, Instagram, Social TV Apps | Applying for a job in the digital age? The rise of services like HireArt and TakeTheInterview are making it harder and harder to get away with lying on your resume and photos (dammit!). And, the rise of social photography: As the world's leading photo-sharing app Instagram prepares to launch its Android version (to go along with its 27 million iPhone/iPad users) we ask what the effect is on photography, photographers and on us. Plus, if television was always a social family activity, now there's a bunch of social apps to go with your television-watching, like Channel 7's Fango. But are they a lame way of expressing our thoughts about what we are watching and please can't we just go back to Tweeting and Facebooking like, you know, normal people! (Oh, just to clarify: we DEFINITELY DON'T think that Yahoo7's research about TV viewing is made up. We're quite sure it's real and were just having a bit of a joke at their expense.) | 18 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Speech Jam, Getting Rid of Keyboards, Siri Talks | Just think of the most annoying, talkative person you know. Now, imagine a gun that you could point at them that would automatically shut them up. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? This week we have a look at The Stutter Gun and examine its wider implications for anti-protest technology. Also, should we be phasing out the QWERTY Keyboard? Plus, Apple's voice recognition app Siri is about to get a lot more competitors: We interview a few prospective 'Digital Assistants' in studio. (It will be strange; that much we can promise you). | 11 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NBN: Facts vs Fiction, Storify, Pinterest, Tablets | The NBN has become something worse than a political football, so this week we're separating NBN facts from fiction. Don't forget to have a say as well. Drop a comment below or visit our Facebook page (facebook.com/downloadthisshow) and tell us what YOU want to know about the supposed $50 billion project. We examine the rise of social curation with Storify and Pinterest and examine the effect it will have on journalism and retail. Plus the future of Tablet computing as we review a few of our favourites.. | 4 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Targeted Marketing in your Womb, Digital Product Placement, Pervasive Gaming | How did an American department store predict that a 15 year old girl was pregnant before anyone else? We examine the strange and fascinating world of Predictive Analytics and Data Mining both in and away from the computer. We examine how the world of Pervasive Gaming is bleeding out of the screen and intro the streets. And Digital Product Placement - imagine all your favourite old TV shows with brand new brands inserted into them. | 26 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Buy Drugs off the Web, Hack a New Arm, Kickstarter | Can you hack a new arm? We meet the man who has hacked Microsoft Kinect to help people who suffer from phantom limb syndrome. We slip into the Dark Web and go shopping on the infamous online pharmacy The Silk Road. Along the way we examine Bitcoin and the world of virtual currencies and whether they truly have a future. Plus how virtual pan-handling can give you one million dollars as we evaluate the world of crowdsourcing and Kickstarter. | 19 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3D Printers meet pirates, Gamify, Batteries reborn | Can the principles behind computer gaming solve world hunger and untangle the GFC? We examine the quirky world of Gamification. Plus, what happens when you combine a 3D printer with the world's largest illegal downloading network? Hilarity, that's what. And If you're sick of your mobile phone running out of juice (and aren't we all?) Download explains the future of the cell phone battery. Plus we investigate whether Google has found the lost city of Atlantis. | 12 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grindr hacked, music subscription and Twitter censorship | It's the $4 billion industry that wants to see you get more sex. We examine the psychology and business behind Digital Dating in light of the gay hook-up iPhone app Grindr being hacked by a NSW teenager. And only in our second episode we declare that Radio is Dead! Long Live RDIO. Do music subscription services like Spotify and the newly launched RDIO mean a genuine competitor for iTunes? We also examine Twitter's decision to allow country-by-country censorship -- is it actually a good thing? And as a little treat, imagine if you could take over the official Twitter feed of an entire nation... what would you say? | 5 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mobile payments, piracy and facial recognition | Imagine doing away with your password and logging on to a website using facial recognition technology. We also examine the possibility of your mobile phone replacing your credit card. And we wade though the numbers to find out just how much damage piracy is really doing to the entertainment industry. This week's guest panel includes Nick Ross, editor of the ABC's Games and Technology website and Patrick Gray, cyber-security journalist from Risky.Biz | 29 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Irony and Insight
What would you expect? With equal dollops of humour and cogency, Marc and his guests discuss the impacts of changes in information technology upon media, politics, and our lives. Thanks Aunty, this one is a winner.
Just what you'd expect...
From Marc. What a fantastic figure we Gen Y's have in the youth media. Very proud of his excellent work, as a movie critic and this show as well as the now sadly defunct Hungry Beast. If you're into the Beast, you will LOVE this show. Worth every star.
Awesome podcast
This podcast is so well structured, so informative, and so interesting. Also the host is awesome (even if I forgot his name already) and makes everything flow so nice. Love the weekly guests too.
Download this show!!
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