TechFan #86 - Photo Booth Emergency

TechFan

My Mac Productions MyMac.com Tim Robertson

Gadgets, Technology

3.8 • 30 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2012

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

David and Tim discuss some fun new iOS games, Emergency and Field Runners 2. We get some audio feedback from Scott Wilsey to kick of the show to discuss Twitter, and David prepares to break his Olympic records. Also, what direction should Yahoo take now that they have a new CEO? And Nokia is not looking good.

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0:00.0	You're listening to another great podcast in the Stoplight Network.
0:05.5	Okay, Tim, I have to agree with David on this one.
0:08.0	You're doing Twitter wrong.
0:10.0	Twitter's not about conversations.
0:12.3	It's about, you know what, I use Twitter in place of RSS feeds.
0:15.6	I follow all kinds of crazy people of various topics, some that I probably agree with, some
0:20.6	that I probably don't,
0:21.5	and I use it as a news feed. I get all my news, almost to all my news from Twitter now.
0:27.4	I hardly follow any RSS feeds manually. It seems ancient and antique to do so. I just think you
0:33.1	can't use Twitter like Facebook. You have to use it like Twitter. And for me, it's best for
0:37.0	links and quick, up-to-date news, what's going on in Twitter. And for me, it's best for links and quick
0:38.1	up-to-date news, what's going on in the world. And hey, here's a great article you might want to read
0:42.5	that, you know, you might not have found otherwise. And I do that. I don't use Google Reader
0:47.1	anymore. I can't remember the last time I fired up an actual RSS reader. I do have some of my Google reader feed. I do have my Google reader feeds plugged into flipboard, and I do look at that sometimes. But, you know, honestly, 99% of the time,
1:00.6	it's Twitter that I use for news. So I don't know. That's just how I use it. I side with David Cohen on
1:05.5	this one. Sorry, but that's just how it is. Tech fan number 86.
1:12.3	I am Tim Robertson.
1:13.7	He is David Cohen.
1:14.6	Hello.
1:18.1	Now, usually David is much more upbeat.
1:22.1	The problem right now, quite honestly, is we're getting ready to watch the Olympics.
1:27.4	David is getting ready to compete in the weightlifting and the high jump.
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