Episode 1202

1202 - Multitasking, iAds ... and Folders!

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Aired

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Duration

37:43

Hosts

Tom Merritt, Molly Wood & Jason Howell Co-hosts: Donald Bell

Producer

Jason Howell

Guests

none

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In today's episode, we follow the Apple live-stream for earthshattering iPhone OS additions like multitasking (woo!), an interactive ad platform (woo!), and an innovative new app organization structure called ... Folders (WTF?). Also, the UK rushes through a big online piracy law, so that's going to end well, and Google Voice may be coming to the desktop. --Molly

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Kickers and Science[]

New service aims to improve on Chatroulette

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20001995-52.html

Voicemail[]

Jay from DC was on the show bomber flight… with his iPad.

Emails[]

Hi Buzz crew.

I wonder about the guy who said the iPad was slow for presentations… FUD perhaps?

Everyone with an iPad can try this for themselves:

1) Get the overpriced Apple iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A

(come on Monoprice, people are waiting for the $10 version)

2) Hook it up to a VGA port in a monitor

3) Launch Keynote and run the sample ‘how to’ presentation.

My iPad ran the presentation full speed.

Or…

Put a sample video on the iPad and launch the Video app. Mine ran the video at full speed as well.

Love the show

- Jim the Geek

PS: Developers will have to add some code to use the video out API.

Yesterday, you guys joked about a device that would let you view yourself in the third person as if you were walking around a video game. I'm sure it doesn't really come as a surprise to find out someone has already done that. His name is Marc Owens, an artist interested in the relationships between people and inanimate objects. He built what he calls the Avatar Machine. It consists of a head-mounted display, a harness and a camera. When you put on the harness, the camera sits in a mount above and behind you. The head-mounted display gives you a live video feed of yourself as if you were walking around an MMORPG. In other words, it's a virtual out of body experience. I wrote an article about it a couple of years ago:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/other-gadgets/avatar-machine.htm

And here's a video of it in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuC1st-cA9M

Love the show!

Jonathan Strickland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuC1st-cA9M

Hey Buzz Crew,

I had some thoughts about why Bebo went so very wrong. I think Molly’s prediction could have come true if they hadn’t made the same mistake that Myspace did…they marketed heavily towards teenagers..more specifically 11 and 12 year olds. I’m 14 now, haven’t accessed my account in 3 years, and saw if you go to the site it’s littered with Justin Bieber and Vampires. Thus this site is filled with people around that age. Since it is not marketed for adults, and the privacy settings for minors are not good at all, it has petafile written all over it. Facebook has actually I think done a good job in building a reputation of securing the privacy of minors whereas Myspace and Bebo have done nothing excpet scored horror stories on the evening news. When will social networks learn that marketing towards minors is never a good idea?

~John in Oklahoma

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Episode 1202

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