Merlin on TWiT 101: Moon over Google
Submitted by Merlin on June 17, 2007 - 11:06pm.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Wil Harris, Steve Gibson, and Denise Howell
Google Street View and privacy, Michael Moore and piracy, hackers and Safari…
- Leo has begun to use Facebook for only people he knows personally.
- Facebook has recently allowed for applications which enticed Leo.
- The People Aggregator will allow you to create a social network using your login from another social network.
- Create your own social network with Ning.
- Steve Jobs keynoted the WWDC conference announcing Safari for Windows, but no API.
- Apple has plugged several security flaws that were discovered in the Windows version of Safari.
- At WWDC, numerous new OSX Leopard features were unveiled.
- Steve Gillmor had a post called iPhonomics regarding the possibility of Google Gears coming to the iPhone.
- Linspire has made a deal with Microsoft to share numerous technologies.
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, somewhat chastised Microsoft regarding software patents.
- Microsoft has also partnered will LG for their Linux-based devices.
- Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor, has been to Valleywag.
- Sicko, Michael Moore’s new controversial documentary, has been leaked onto Bittorrent.
- The Manchester Cathedral is complaining to Sony about their appearance in the game “Resistance: Fall of Man.”
- Google has launched a “Street View” service that are fairly recent. Leo’s buddy Patrick Norton was actually caught on it crossing the street. Check out the top 15 sightings on Google Street View.
- Keep track of Google Street View sightings at StreetViewr.
- Audio is a Facebook application that allows people to upload audio - giving way for piracy to happen on the site.
- eBay threated to take their ads off of Google.
- It is the 50th anniversary of the Frisbee.
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