TWiT 204: Taste Like Dirt

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DATE : Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:47:16 -0700
Entered in Database : 2009-07-20 05:47:16
length : 50785150
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, and Dwight Silverman

Chrome OS, Firefox 3.5 flaw, Amazon + NetFlix, Google Design, Twitter hacked, and more.

• Leo reports via on AudioBoo from China
• Laporte wins TechRepublic's mock election for 'President of the Internet">
• Going to China, Language Reactivation, and Other Mischief
• TweetReel
• Insane that 20+ people are at our tweetup in Beijing, all used proxies to access Twitter http://bit.ly/3sYqAi
• Ethnic Riots Spread in China's West; 156 Killed
• AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure
• US State Dept. workers beg Clinton for Firefox
• Zero-day flaw found in Firefox 3.5
• Microsoft patches 9 bugs, leaves one open for hackers
• Google Chrome for Mac Developer Release
• Google Chrome OS
• Android
• Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS
• Google's Lead Designer Doug Bowman Leaves for Twitter, Cites "Paralyzing" Lack of Design Focus
• Netflix Rises on Speculation of Amazon.com Buyout
• Amazon-Netflix? Let’s Make It Happen, Please
• Facebook Movie is An Adaptation of The Accidental Billionaires
• Pirates of Silicon Valley
• WarGames
• King of Kong
• Amazon: We Won’t Remotely Delete Books Again
• From 2007: Fifteen geek movies to see before you die
• From 2008: iPhone 3G tethering App pulled by Apple (updated)
• The official Kindle 2 case is cracking the Kindle 2, $5 million lawsuit filed
• Kindle DX
• The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused)
• The Wisdom of Crowds (Paperback)
• Digg
• FriendFeed
• DiggBar Commits Career Suicide, Starts Redirecting Users To Digg Homepage
• DaringFireball April 2008: How to Block the DiggBar
• Cronkite Remembered
• We Choose the Moon: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
• Dwight interviews Craig Nelson, author of Rocket Men, on the Technology Bytes podcast
• Dell, HP neck and neck in second quarter U.S. PC shipment race; Apple slips, Acer surges
• Twitter hack raises questions about 'cloud computing'

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Running time: 1:43:55