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Big Technology Podcast

Meta's Awkward Pivot, Crypto's Future, Amazon's Challenge β€” Crossover With Techmeme Ride Home

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 β€’ 395 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Techmeme Ride Home is a top-rated tech news podcast and its host, Brian McCullough, joins us for a crossover episode airing on both feeds. In this bonus episode, we discuss Meta's attempts to turn Instagram into TikTok, how Amazon can handle its next chapter under CEO Andy Jassy, and what the future of crypto looks like after the crash. Stay tuned for our travel hacks at the end of the show!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily. The show is a masterclass in

0:05.7

better living from some of the smartest writers around. Every morning, Monday through Friday,

0:10.6

we'll serve up a quick 10-minute lesson on how to strengthen your relationships, supercharge

0:15.4

your creativity, boost your productivity, and more. Follow the next big idea daily wherever you get your podcasts.

0:23.9

Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for ghouled at nuance conversation

0:27.7

of the tech world and beyond.

0:29.5

I'm Alex Cantorowitz and I'm Brian McCullough.

0:32.9

Welcome to the TechMeme Ride Home Experience, as Chris likes to say, but the TechMeme Right Home podcast

0:38.0

in general. The experiences are bonus episodes. So we're doing this together. We're doing a

0:44.2

crossover episode where it's kind of a little bit of big technology podcast, a little bit of

0:48.6

TechMeme Right Home. We're airing it on both feeds in an attempt to give our listeners a fun episode and be

0:55.8

a little bit of an entry into a show that we like.

0:59.6

I'm a big fan of Tech Meme Right Home, been on it a couple times.

1:03.2

Brian, can you tell us a little bit about what Tech Meme Rite Home is all about?

1:06.2

Yeah, it's literally a daily show, at least weekdays, daily.

1:15.1

15-minute roundup of the tech news, but it's not just reading headlines because you can get a robot to do that.

1:16.3

I tried to do a tiny bit of analysis, but also bring context.

1:21.1

So I'll tell you what the five or six big stories of the day are.

1:24.6

But then here are the tweets around it.

1:26.4

Here's what people are saying around it.

1:27.8

And it's sort of like if people know TechMeme,

1:30.7

it's a thing that people go to multiple times a day

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