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Kim Komando Today

Secret driving tricks, smart shopping tips, $5,000 internet

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Can't afford Life Alert? Save your family members with Amazon Echo. Plus, Tesla’s "open" Supercharger network could arrive later this year. Oh, and would you pay $5,000 a month for internet? Starlink hopes so. Also, here's when Windows 12 will come out — and what is Amazon’s next Whole Foods scheme? Don’t miss out on this essential tech news. I’ve got some safety tips you don’t want to miss.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Kim Commando today, your daily podcast to keep you up to date with all things digital and beyond.

0:06.7

And I'd love to have you be a part of our podcast. You can make an appointment to speak with me.

0:11.8

Just head over to commando.com. And on the top right, there's a button that says email Kim, fill that out. And that's it.

0:19.8

Okay, let's start with just a little tech trivia.

0:22.6

Okay, listen to this.

0:23.6

Raised by Dr. Parents, the guy's name is Ben Silberman, and he assumed that he would follow the same path.

0:30.6

He went to Yale University starting in 1999.

0:33.6

Then he was there, he's like, oh, you know, this whole doctor thing isn't quite for me.

0:38.9

So he took a job working for Google.

0:41.5

We're going to fast forward to 2009.

0:51.3

Ben and a friend of his from college, Paul, along with Evan Sharp, they started working a site in which people could show collections of things that they were interested in.

0:53.5

Kind of like an electronic bulletin board.

0:55.9

So what was the site?

0:57.3

Of course, you can figure it out.

0:57.7

You know that.

0:59.0

The site is Pinterest.

1:05.5

But to make Pinterest take off, here's the twigrant question, the group did what?

1:07.4

So which of these is true?

1:08.4

The group did what?

1:11.8

A, they took ads out at the metro station all over Washington, D.C. B, they attended every hall and garden show in the three state area. C, they

1:18.6

personally wrote to the site's first 7,000 users with their cell phone numbers asking for feedback,

1:24.8

or D, they made the site a Kickstarter project and that's the way

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