Welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of overthinking thermometers.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am currently sitting here cleaning out space on my desk

for our Webby Award.

It was just announced that the VergeCast won the Webby's People's Choice Award for Technology

Podcasts, which means it is thanks specifically to all of your votes that we won.

I'm not going to lie to you, this award makes me much happier than I thought it was going

to, and it means even more that you all voted for us.

So thank you so much, and please excuse me as I let it all go, it just absolutely

right to my head and become a total diva monster going forward.

It's all over for everybody.

Anyway, we have a great show for you today.

First up, Dan Seaford and I are going to talk about weather apps because it turns out

we're in the most interesting moment for weather apps in a really long time.

And then we're going to spend the rest of the show with Neely and Flipward CEO Mike McQ

talking about the future of social media.

And why activity pub, which is this little web protocol that most people have never heard

of, might be that future.

All that's coming right after the break, but I have a little more sprucing up to do.

I can remove pictures of my family to make room for my awards, right?

That's totally cool and fine.

This is the VergeCast.

We'll see you in a second.

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