The Drill Down
By Andrew Sorcini
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Podcast Description
Regular hosts Andrew Sorcini, Devindra Hardawar, and Dwayne DeFreitas discuss the week's most intriguing issues in technology, social media and on the internet.
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ExplicitShow 219 - The Dotcom Bust | We discuss the DOJ's bust of filesharing site Megaupload, a plan to kill Hollywood, Apple’s new textbook initiative, and their amazing 1st quarter profits. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 218 - Blackout | We discuss the Internet's reaction to the Stop Online Piracy Act & Protect IP Bill, including a nationwide blackout of several prominent websites, in protest. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 217 - ncomment's War, Part III | We welcome Lee Garnett, the brilliant mind behind the social media-conscious online comic, ncomment. Lee guides us through the final chapter of his magnum opus, War. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 216: Year in Review 2011 | As we close out the final days of 2011, we review the top tech stories of the past year, and offer our tech predictions for 2012. | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 215 - Foresight and Zeitgeist | We look ahead with 5 innovations that will change our lives in the next five years, and back over the top Google searches of 2011. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 214 - Kill the Middleman | This week Louis CK disrupts digital distribution, and we foresee a world where remix culture is politically legitimized. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 213 - The Fight For Your Living Room | We discuss upgrades to XBox Live, Verizon challenges Netflix, and YouTube's new interface, all intended to steal your attention in the living room. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 212 - Holiday Shopping Guide 2011 | This week we deliver The Drill Down's annual holiday shopping guide, a list of the best tech appliances, gadgets, software and media, hand-picked by Andy, Dwayne & Devindra. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 211 - Resurrected Development | This week, we discuss the potential dissolution of the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile USA merger, and rumored new cellphone devices from Amazon and Facebook. | 11/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 210 - The Human Touch | Logitech ditches Google TV, Steam is hacked, Community is shelved, COD:MW3 & Skyrim launch, Google Music & iTunes Match emerge from beta, we rant on the future of interaction design. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Drill Down 209 - Gone in a Flash | We discuss Groupon's IPO, Disney teams up with YouTube, the new $249 Nook Tablet, Steve Jobs' lost interview, Google Plus pages for businesses, Adobe ditches Flash for mobile. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Drill Down 208 - Every Kinda People (and Robots) | Google attempts to disrupt the living room with new updates to Google TV and 100 new YouTube channels. Also, we explore the lack of racial diversity in the tech sector, causes and potential solutions. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Drill Down 207 – The Unvarnished Truth | Netflix loses nearly a million subscribers, iPod creators invent a futuristic thermostat, Steve Jobs' bio tells all, Nokia launches their first Windows 7 phone. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 206 - Does that come in white? | This week, we discuss Google's 4.0 iteration of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, Android vs iOS 5, and Amit Gupta's request for bone marrow donors. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 205 - Endings, Initiations, and Reversals | We discuss the launch of Apple's iPhone 4S, in-depth (including iOS 5), and the impact of streaming services in the modern content delivery landscape. | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Drill Down 204 - iCon, RIP. | We celebrate the life and legacy of Apple co-founder & tech visionary Steve Jobs, who passed away at the age of 56, after a long bout with pancreatic cancer. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 203 - From a Kindle to a Fire | Former co-host Lidija Davis joins us as we look at Facebook's new Timelines and "frictionless" sharing, and Amazon's new Kindle lineup, including the Fire. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 202 - The Downside of 'Sorry'. | This week we discuss Netflix's decision to split the company into two separate divisions, and we talk about Facebook's new News Feed changes. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 201 - Eureka! It's Metro! | Andy, Devindra and new member Dwayne De Freitas discuss Windows 8 Developer Preview, and Tom Cheredar interviews the head of the 'Save Eureka' and 'Save SGU' campaigns. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Drill Down 200 - The Drill Down Turns 200! | This week we celebrate The Drill Down podcast's 200th episode with interviews with former show co-hosts Reg Saddler & Lidija Davis. Plus the week's hot topics! | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 199 - Farewell, Steve | Steve Jobs officially resigns as CEO of Apple. HP quits the PC business, sells the TouchPad at a loss. Ridley Scott plans another 'Blade Runner' film. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 198 - Googorola Not Motoogle | We explore Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility and the subsequent shockwave within the mobile community. Also did BART's protest silencing violate free speech? | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 197 - Social Media & The London Riots | We discuss the Greater London Riots and how Social Media has been used to both aid conspirators to coordinate their actions and help peacekeeping forces to identify looters. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanShow 196 - Enter the Cyber-Dragon | Guest: Dwayne De Freitas Topics: Operation ShadyRAT, the largest cyber-espionage campaign ever & are handheld game consoles obsolete in the era of the smartphone? | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Drill Down 195 - Feeding the Patent Trolls | A groundbreaking breakthrough from director Francis Ford Coppola, China clones Apple stores, LulzSec boycotts PayPal, and the White House RickRolls a Twitterer. The increasing problem of software patent litigation and its stifling of innovation. | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSDCC 2011: An Early Evening with Kevin Smith (NSFW) | Every year at Comic-Con, Director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) regales the Hall H audience as only a master raconteur can. Here he talks about quitting the film business and beginning a podcasting empire, lowering your expectations, raising a geek da | 7/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 194 - Live from ComicCon 2011 | This week we come to you LIVE from the 2011 San Diego ComicCon International, the premiere convention for comics, movies, television and pop culture. | 7/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 193 - Netflix's Faux Queue | Netflix's controversial new pricing plan, Google+ hits 10M, ISPs agree to "six strikes", rumors of an HD iPad, TechCrunch's facelift, and the News of the World cellphone hacking scandal. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 192 - Two Things Certain In Life, Taxes & Tiered Data | Research In Motion employee woes, CA online tax enforced, Fox News' twitter hacked, Verizon ends unlimited data, Google may buy Hulu, Facebook adds video chat. | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 191 - Social Trust & Antitrust | We look at the new Google+ suite of services, and if it will be a 'Facebook-killer', and discuss whether or not Google is skewing search results in favor of its own services. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 190 - An Old-School S**t Shaming | Goodbye to the Winklevii, Lulzsec prattles on, Bitcoin's exchange gets hacked, Final Cut Pro X, Lytro, Hulu for sale, & Michael Arrington vs. Catarina Fake | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 189 - All Aboard the Lulz Boat! | We discuss bold (and reckless) cyberattacks by merry pranksters Lulz Security, and the exodus of major movie studio presence from Comic-Con. | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 188 - WWDC / E3 2011 | We discuss events at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference, and E3 2011, including new Kinect integration, Playstation Vita and Nintendo's Wii U. | 6/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 187 - Now This Means War | We discuss Chinese prisoners forced into gold farming, Zuckerberg's visceral new diet, escalating consequences of cyberhacking, and a preview of Windows 8. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 186 - On the Bubble? | Will LinkedIn's $9B IPO launch precipitate a new tech bubble? And how the Apple Store 2.0 & Square's new Register & Card Case apps will transform retail Point-of-Sale. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 185 - And we would have gotten away with it too... | The PlayStation Network is back, Apple stores get a facelift, Facebook is caught instigating a smear campaign against Google, and Netflix broadens its reach. | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 184 - Sky.net | This week, we're proud to add VentureBeat's Devindra Hardawar as a regular co-host. We discuss Microsoft's purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion, and we cover Google's I/O conference. | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Drill Down 183 - The New Viewership | This week Tom Cheredar and Andrew Sorcini are joined by Devindra Hardawar, writer for VentureBeat and co-host of the Symbiotek & Slashfilmcast podcasts. This week we discuss the decline of TV ownership and DVD/Blu-Ray sales. | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 182 - Hacked and Tracked | The breach of Sony's Playstation Network and its 77 million victims, & the details of Apple's iOS location tracking controversy, from Apple's press room itself. | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 181 - Week of Oops | Research In Motion's missteps, Google crowdsources maps, AT&T admits network failures, Playstation Network clobbered by intruders, How (and why) Apple tracks your location, & Amazon's cloud service fails big time. | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 180 - Dilligaf at 48 fps | Man claims to own half of Facebook, Cisco kills Flip, New Final Cut Pro, Nintendo HD, IPv4 runs out in Asia, Film at 48fps, and are check-ins dead? | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Drill Down 179 - Google Gets Social | WonderCon, April Fools on the 'net, MySpace's decline, Know Your Meme bought by Cheezburger Network, Anonymous vs. Sony, and Google goes social. | 4/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 178 - AT&T +1 | NY Times' paywall, Showtime's decision to pull shows from Netflix, Amazon's Cloud Player, and Google's +1 button. AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile, and the future of Digg. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 177 - Streaming is Not a Crime | We discuss the IP Czar's plan to allow wiretapping to hunt for IP infringers, and felony charges for illegal web streaming. Also, Netflix to produce and air their own original programming. | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 176 - Renting Movies on Facebook | Our in-depth discussion this week is on a Warner Bros. announcement to market movie rentals and purchases via Facebook, using Facebook credits. | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 175 - Bambi Legs | Welcome to the first retooled, shorter format episode of The Drill Down. It's a work in progress, and we definitely welcome your feedback, either in this post thread below, or at comments@thedrilldown.com. This week, hosts Tom Cheredar and Andrew Sorcini | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 174 - Global Domination Cocktail Party | Apple's upcoming iPad 2 announcement, Amazon's streaming movie service for Prime members, Nokia's partnership with Microsoft and the death of Symbian. | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 173 - You've Got Female | We discuss AOL's purchase of Huffington Post, Gawker Media's new layout design, tech companies return to Super Bowl ads (and Groupon's incendiary ads), Mark Zuckerberg gets a stalker, Anonymous pwns FBI contractor HBGary, and Duke Nukem Forever fizzles. | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 172 - The Revolution Won't Be Streamed | Greg Davies joins us to discuss protests in Cairo, including the shutdown of the internet; Canada's internet metering; News Corp. releases 'The Daily'; Digg gets an overhaul; Bing gets caught red-handed copying Google's search results | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 171 - And the Winners Will Be... | This week we're joined by previous guest Dragon*Con TV‘s Chris ‘Crispy’ Lloyd, as we discuss President Obama's recent State of the Union address, and in particular, its focus on the advancement of technology. We're then joined by LatinoReview.com's editor | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 170 - Damn Hipsters | We reflect on Steve Jobs' medical leave from Apple its future without him, the overthrow of a tyrant in Tunisia, & why you should always encrypt your smartphone. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 169 - Fan Night | We discuss the premiere of Apple's iPhone (and the iPad) on Verizon, Myspace axes 47% of their staff, Twitter stands up to government subpoena about Wikileaks. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 168 - Seacrest In | This week Andy, JD, and Tom discuss Goldman Sachs's Facebook offering, the vaporware of 2010, AT&T's 4G plans, Reddit boasts 232% growth, and more. | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 167 - Year in Review 2010 | Andy, JD & Tom are joined this week by Amy Vernon, Director of Viral Marketing for BlueGlass to discuss the many successes and failures of 2010 too numerous to list. | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 166: Mega-Supernode | This week our Skype is down, so we jury-rig a broadcast solution via iPhone, hence our spotty audio. We discuss the FCC's weak ruling on Net Neutrality, Mark Zuckerberg: Man of the Year & generous philanthropist, Yahoo 'sunsets' several services (&a | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 164 - Hot Potato | This week we discuss updates to Google Chrome, the Chrome App Store and ChromeOS, further developments in Cablegate, and Facebook's new profile pages. | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 164 - Gift Picks With Sukhjit | The holiday gift-giving season is upon us and The Drill Down wants to help, so we brought gadget blogger Sukhjit to help with tech gift picks for the holidays and our picks as well. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 163 - Cold Oatmeal | We discuss MySpace's Mashup With Facebook, Facebook's patent on the word "face", Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs announce an iPad only newspaper. | 11/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 162 - We Can Work It Out | This week we welcome web entrepreneur (and world record kitesurfer!) Tammy Camp as we discuss Facebook Messages, TSA rage, and The Beatles on iTunes. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 161 - We Need To Go Deeper... | This week we discuss the Google/Facebook data portability war, the return of lists on Digg filtered by content type (and additional changes to their UI), the debut of social browser Rockmelt, game theory to explain viral content on social news sites. | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 160 - No Love Lost | This week The Drill Down crew discuss Facebook Deals, Facebook buys Drop.io and gains a CEO, FARK's Drew Curtis defends Reddit from Stewart/Colbert, the dawn of promoted tweets, a very public (and seemingly personal) feud between Arrington and Calacanis. | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 159 - Grave Diggers | This week, the Drill Down Crew welcome Bracken MacLeod, moderator of Reddit's Zombies subreddit, as we discuss-- what else, zombies. | 10/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 158 - Lion Share for Apple | This week Mu, Tom and Andy discuss Apple's new iLife, OSX Lion, and MacBook Air offerings, Steve Jobs' uncharacteristic 4Q phone call to investors, additional privacy concerns at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg on 'The Social Network', Ray Ozzie leaves Microsof | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 157 - Driverless | This week, Tom and Andy discuss Digg's BP ad and its new CEO, the debut of Windows Phone 7, the effectiveness of twitter on social activism. Driverless Google cars, cracking glass on the iPhone 4, the popularity of smartphone apps, and Facebook loves Bing | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 156 - Shrimping? Get my Sister. | This week, we look at Facebook's new Groups and Download features, Twitter's new CEO, CNN's Rick Sanchez vs. Jon Stewart, Apple hit with $625.5 Million patent violation, Android moves ahead, Apple preps an iPhone for Verizon, Google TV gets more real. | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 155 - Segue Off the Cliff | This week we're joined by Brian Howard, editor for The Daily Green as we discuss Digg's decline, Blockbuster files for bankruptcy, Facebook founder's new fortune, AOL acquires TechCrunch, and Google Voice is finally coming to the iPhone. | 9/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 154 - The Truth Lies Somewhere In Between | This week we explore what Digg must do to survive, Anonymous' DDoS attacks on MPAA & RIAA sites, Google's Transparency Report, Steve Jobs in a p*****g match with a college journalism student, Twitter gets hacked (again), the real story behind the Face | 9/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 153 - Checking In With Miso | This week, we talk to Somrat Niyogi, CEO of Miso, the social sharing network for TV watchers. Later we discuss The New Yorker's profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. | 9/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 152 - Hail to the King, Baby! | This week The Drill Down team explore Google Instant, craigslist's censorship of their adult services listings; a slew of new Apple releases, including Ping, a music discovery service for iTunes. | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 151 - Surfing With The Aliens | The Drill Down crew is proud to welcome to the show Reddit admins Chris "KeyserSosa" Slowe and Mike "Raldi" Schiraldi. | 9/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 150 – Le Digg est mort, vive le Digg! | This week, The Drill Down Crew welcome Dragon*Con TV‘s Chris ‘Crispy’ Lloyd, who talks about his upcoming involvement in Dragon*Con, and shares with us his latest video. Later we discuss reactions to the new Digg version 4. | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 149 - Is The Web Dead? | This week, the crew tackles Chris Anderson & Michael Wolff's incendiary piece in Wired, "The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet". | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 148 - Investigating the Digg Patriots | This week the Drill Down team welcome Ole Ole Olson, aka Digg user Novenator, lead investigator of the Digg Patriots conspiracy scandal. He breaks down his investigation and fields questions from the TDD audience. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 147 - What's Brewing with Zack Luye | This week we're happy to have as our guest video producer and creator of Bottles, Blends and Brews podcast Zack Luye. Zack shares his experience in creating BBB and the most unusual beverages he's ever had. Later we discuss Nielsen's report on how we're | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 146 - Better Than A Poke In The Eye | This week The Drill Down crew enlist the help of Latino Review.com's Kellvin Chavez as we review the best (and worst) of San Diego's Comic-Con International 2010. Later we assess the impact of WikiLeaks' Afghan War report on the state of internet and main | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSDCC 2010: Kevin Smith at Comic-Con 2010 | Kevin Smith live at Comic-Con 2010 | 7/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 145 - Bumpers for EVERYONE! | This week JD, Mu and Andy discuss Steve Jobs' make-good for Apple iPhone 4 owners, rival cell manufacturers snap back over Jobs' 'death-grip' claims, NYT attacks Google, The Times loses 90% readership after paywall, is the RIAA's business model worth it?, | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 144 - This podcast is now DIAMONDS! | The Drill Down team welcomes Social Blade's Jeff Cryder, Jr. in place of the traveling JD Rucker this week. We discuss Consumer Reports' assessment of the iPhone 4 and the fallout, Blizzard's attempt to de-anonymize their forums, Old Spice's brilliant vi | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 143 - Eclipse of the Dead | JD, Tom and Andy talk about Apple's official answer to their iPhone antenna issues (and why it ultimately won't work), Apple's App store is hacked, Finland mandates broadband for everyone, Amazon buys Woot! (and they in turn thumb their nose at the AP), J | 7/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 142 - You're Holding It Wrong | The Drill Down team discuss the rapid death of Microsoft Kin, Google wins landmark judgement against Viacom, .XXX gets its own domain, the new Digg V4 alpha, Steve Jobs tells users they're "holding it wrong", Google flicks its Android 'killswitch', Google | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Drill Down 141 - Killswitch Engage? | The Drill Down crew are joined by Devindra Hardawar (of VentureBeat and his own Symbiotek Podcast) to discuss the proposed bill to allow the President to shut off the internet, record breaking pre-orders for the iPhone4, iPhone reception problems, record | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 140 - No Teleprompter | This week JD and Tom fly solo (duo?) as they discuss Google's Bing imitation, Post-suicide wage increases at Foxconn, World Cup Fever, Microsoft Kinect, Portal 2, Free WiFi at Starbucks, and Kevin Rose's post-Diggnation plans | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 139 - Boom 4.0 | The Drill Down team discusses Apple's iPhone 4, an iPad security breach, AT & T's new data pricing, Mark Zuckerberg's 'Nixon moment', China blocks Foursquare, RIAA vs. Limewire, the inaccuracy of Wikipedia, Skype's five million downloads, and Team For | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Drill Down 138 - New Day, New Time | The Drill Down team (including new permanent co-host Tom Cheredar) debut on their new day and time (Wednesdays, 6:30 pm Pacific), with a slew of stories covering Facebook's official response to privacy criticisms, the first human infected with a computer | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 137 - Welcome to the Team, Tom! | The Drill Down welcomes (again) Geeks Of Doom columnist Tom Cheredar as a regular member of The Drill Down team (Yay!!), as we discuss (yet again) Facebook privacy breaches as it's discovered they're sending personal user info to advertisers, a site that | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Drill Down 136 - A Challenger Appears | This week, the Drill Down team are joined again by guest host Geeks Of Doom columnist Tom Cheredar to discuss Facebook's official response to privacy criticisms, a Twitter bug, another leaked iPhone 4G, Adobe ♥s Apple, Digg's pesky user problem, Hurt Lock | 5/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 135 - Privacy? What Privacy? | This week, JD & Andy are joined again by Tom Cheredar to discuss Apple seizing Gizmodo's computers, HP purchasing Palm, Facebook's continuing privacy issues, Digg's layoffs, and why we should hate 3D. | 5/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 134 - Live from ROFLCon 2010 | This week Muhammad Saleem and Andrew Sorcini are joined by 'Bacon Queen' Amy Vernon as they report live from ROFLCon 2010, the premier celebration of Internet pop culture. We interview Christina Xu and Tim Hwang, the ROFLCon founders; Brad O'Farrell, the | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 133 - Whoops. | This week, we're joined once again by Geeks Of Doom columnist Tom Cheredar as we discuss perhaps the biggest tech mishap of the decade, the loss (and subsequent finding of Apple's next iPhone prototype. Later, Facebook wants you to 'Like' everything on th | 4/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 132 - The Old Ways Are Dying | The Drill Down crew rail against the Establishment this week as we question the usefulness of the RIAA/MPAA, piracy reports, television and Roger Ebert. We also look at the end of Ning's free service, an update to Google Docs, Twitter's acquisition of Twe | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 131 - Awesome. | This week we’re pleased to have as our guest Neil Pasricha, creator of 1000AwesomeThings.com and author of the new book, “The Book of Awesome“. We discuss the creation of the site and its subsequent public reaction, the genesis of his book deal, and his o | 4/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Show 130 - The Coming of the iPad | This week TDD regulars JD Rucker and Andrew Sorcini are joined by The Bacon Queen herself, blogger extraordinaire Amy Vernon, as we discuss the release of Apple's iPad and the impact it will have on consumers, developers, publishers, and authors. | 4/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 129 - Digging on the iPhone | This week The Drill Down team discusses Google's exit from mainland China, Digg's iPhone app and publisher buttons, does Facebook cause syphillis, Wikileaks vs. the U.S. Government, three strikes for copyright scofflaws, Photoshop 5 magic, tcket prices | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 128 - SXSWXMU2 | This week The Drill Down's resident SXSWi correspondent Muhammad Saleem regales us with the sights and sounds of the 2010 conference, and answers the burning question, "Is SXSWi Dead?" | 3/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 127 - Pi Day | This week we welcome back Tom Cheredar as guest host on this mega-sized edition of The Drill Down as we discuss if Adblocking killing your site, the true story behind Facebook, DRM crippling software & changes on Digg. | 3/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 126 – Social Media Hustler | This week Andy and Mu welcome Khayyam Wakil, a promoter, brand designer and self-proclaimed social media hustler. We discuss social media tools for disasters, Facebook's patent of the feed, the Dalai Lama joins twitter, Apple bans sexy apps, Ubisoft's ann | 3/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 125 – Shat My Dad Says | This week The Drill Down crew welcomes social media/tech/comic geek and Geeks of Doom columnist Tom Cheredar as our guest co-host as we discuss Kevin Smith using social media status as a bully pulpit, Windows new smartphone, evolving pay models for e-read | 2/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 124 - F*ck You, Google! | This week Andy and Mu review Google Buzz, Google's foray into a real-time social conversation feed (and all the inherent security issues that entailed), Google's plans to be your fiber network, Google tells the Australian Government to get stuffed, Bing s | 2/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 123 - Did someone say "Superb Owl?" | On this week's show we discuss Google's collaboration with the NSA, FBI and Police want your personal data, Google's tablet concept, Toyota's software problem, Steam, LOST, and Wikileaks is dead..or is it? | 2/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitShow 122 - SMBC and iPad | This week The Drill Down team is pleased to welcome the creator of the massively successful webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach Weiner. We ask him about SMBC's origins, his influences, the creative process behind the strip, and how comedy can | 2/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 100 Episodes |
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The Drill Down is easily one of my favorite tech podcasts, right up there with any of Leo Laporte's shows.
One of the Web's Best Kept Secrets
When I first tuned into The Drill Down some months ago, little did I know that I was about to discover one of the web’s best-kept secrets; a wonderful gem consisting of the best in tech news hosted by some of the brightest and funniest individuals I have encountered on the web. Choosing new sources for informative updates regarding tech and social media can be tedious and exhausting. It remains easy to become closed off to new sources and remain locked into one’s own tried and true outlets, to continue reading the same few websites and/or listening to the same podcasts. Some months back I ventured out of my own comfort zone and tuned into The Drill Down, which promises to cover “Some of the week’s most important events in tech and on the web and how they affect us all,” and week after week, it delivers.
Andrew Sorcini (MrBabyMan) is joined each week by co-hosts Tom Cheredar (TChed), JD Rucker (0boy) and Muhammad Saleem (msaleem) and will oftentimes feature a special guest. Banding together each week to create a podcast that is not only highly informative, but also entertaining, this motley crew not only shares a passion and interest for technological innovation and gadgetry, but more importantly, how technology shapes the self and society. Or as Andy promises before the start of each show, how the most important events in tech and the web take shape and affect us all. Each participant’s unique personality as well as their joined inherent wealth of knowledge and experience makes this podcast stand above the rest. From Andy’s clever asides, to Mu’s unrestrained passionate dialogue, to JD’s proclamations and declarations to Tom’s dry wit and “tell it like it is” attitude, The Drill Down makes for an unmatched viewing and/or listening experience, what has simply become one of the highlights of this writer’s week.
The Drill Down streams live on Ustream.com every Wednesday at 6:30pm Pacific. Information, past and current episodes can also be found at TheDrillDown.com.
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Lots and lots of "ums" and "uhs" and pauses -- unprofessional, and uh inefficient, um, uh, and echoes points uhhhh already made uh more succinctly um and uh intelligently on other oh other um sites and podcasts.
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