WEBVTT - TechStuff Looks Back at the Tech of 2010 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:08.920 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:18.040 tech stuff from how stuff Works dot com. Hey there, everybody, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:20.680 My name is Chris Bollett, and I am an editor 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.480 here at how stuff Works dot Com and cracking up 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.000 across from me as usual because I said something goofy 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.160 as senior writer Jonathan Strickland, just think about it. Our 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.000 whole world is sitting there on a computer. It's in 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.720 the computer. Everything your your your d MV records, your 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.559 your social security, your credit cards, your medical records. It's 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.159 all right there. Everyone is stored in there. It's like 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.120 this little electronic shadow on each and every one of us, 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.680 just just begging for someone to screw with. And you 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:50.400 know what, They've done it to me, and you know 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:55.280 what they're gonna do it to you. Dune Dune, Dune, 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.520 I was gonna gonna do that? Or Hi everybody, since 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.319 you kind of started off that way at any rate, 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.199 Today we thought we would talk about some of the 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:11.399 interesting tech that debuted or became popular in the last 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.039 year that being and kind of give our impressions on it. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.040 So some of it's going to be stuff that we 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.360 particularly like. In some cases it might not be, you know, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.399 technology that we particularly like or use, but we found 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.800 it notable in some sense. So, um, would you like 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.080 me to start to do? Want to start? Um? Well, 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.520 you know what mine is probably going to be. I 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.039 can think of one or off the top of my head. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.560 Let's see if right, the one that I actually have 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:38.559 in the office with me at the moment. It rhyme 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.399 by dad, Yes it does. Okay, So you're talking about 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:47.560 the iPad, Apple's device, which, uh, you know we made 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.640 a prediction about last year. I mean, we had been 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.760 sitting there. But I'm not doing this to torch you. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.560 I mean, you know what, frankly, I didn't expect it 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.400 to be as big as it it did. Well, I 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.720 thought it was gonna be there, seven screen or five 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.320 inch screen popular, as popular as it was. I kind 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.720 of figured it would be sort of a niche market thing. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.760 But and it it's it is, but the niches bigger 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.760 than I thought. Well, And and part of that, I mean, 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.640 you can't be blamed for that because, like we said 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:20.440 back when we did our original podcast about the iPad rumors, uh, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.640 the tablet form factor had never really been successful, and 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.720 so it was hard to imagine a product that would 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.080 change that, and yet Apple did it. So yeah, that 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.040 was a huge story in and of course, the rumors 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:40.600 about a tablet device uh from Apple started years ago. Yeah, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:45.519 they were coming to um pretty much a frothy, steamy 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.000 head by the end of two thousand nine. So if 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.959 Apple had not come out with a tablet device in 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.640 two ten, we would have all been upset. I was 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.040 imagining beer. I just want to I just want a lot. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:03.160 I want a lat taste so badly. I need some caffeine. Okay, Well, uh, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.480 and the thing is too, I was thinking like the 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.200 Windows tablets, and this is a completely different well I'm 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:14.520 almost completely different form factor from those larger, more laptop 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.880 like devices. So I think I think that that particular 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.160 size UM and the fact that it already had an 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.960 established base of software helped it a lot. So yeah, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.240 that that definitely was a big story this year. Of course, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.320 Oprah named it one of her favorite things well, and 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.520 and so that always helps with the publicity. Epple made 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.760 a really savvy decision to create a device that could 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.800 run apps but was not trying to replicate what you 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.840 do on a computer because that that model had been 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.040 tried many times before and that was the one that 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.080 had failed multiple times. So Apple said, no, that's not 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:53.800 how we're going to do it. We're going to design 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.560 this so that it runs apps that are either made 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.680 specifically with this device in mind, or are easily convertible 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.840 from our iPod Touch and iPhone platforms. So yeah, it 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.080 was a really smart move and it paid off. So yeah, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.920 that was a that was a huge tech tech story 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.800 in Okay, I'm gonna I've got one. This a little 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:21.840 self serving. Actually it's a lot self serving, but I'm 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.120 being sincere when I say this, the house stuff Works 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.360 dot Com app, iPhone and iPod Touch. I actually really 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.239 like it. Yeah, Okay, Now I don't own an iPhone, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.280 but my wife does. She has an iPhone now and 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.400 the second application that she downloaded was the house stuff 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.120 Works dot Com app, and uh, I played with it 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:43.960 on there. I played with it a little bit before that. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.560 I had written an article about the the app, uh 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:48.640 to times so that it would come out at the 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.960 same time at the app went public, and uh it 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.920 really I like it a lot. And the reason why 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.000 I like it is it it collects all our stuff 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:01.159 in a very easily accessible way. Because if you've visited 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:02.960 how Stuff Works dot com, you know that we have 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.359 these amazing articles on our site, articles, quizzes, games, that 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.800 kind of stuff on our site. We have another site 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.440 that houses our blogs, because you can read all the 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.160 blog entries written by the people who do the various podcasts, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:15.919 as well as some blogs that that don't have a 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.440 podcast yet. Then we've got the podcasts, so you can 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.880 go to an rss uh site or you can go 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.440 through iTunes or whatever to get access to the podcasts. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.760 And then we have our social networking right so then 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.040 you'd have to go to Facebook or Twitter in order 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.440 to interact with us on those social networks. But this 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.400 app collects it all in one place and makes it 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.840 really easy to go back and forth. You know, I 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.960 know I am not the only person who wants to 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.599 know what the first app was, but I bet I 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.760 can guess. I will. I will put it this way, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.400 and without revealing what that app was, I will say 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.680 that it relates directly to her job. So it was 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.160 not Angry Birds. I thought it was gonna be Angry Birds. No. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.320 The first app I downloaded on my HTC G two, 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.280 which by the way, another tech story that I like, 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.800 uh was Angry Birds. Actually, you know that that was 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.640 a big The HTC G two is a story, but 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.280 so it was Angry Birds. It was huge. I actually 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:11.960 have not on my list too. Yeah, which is kind 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.239 of amazing to think about. Uh, you know, just an 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.640 individual game, and not even a console game or a 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.200 PC game, but an app. I didn't think any game 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.200 was ever going to really take the focus away from 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.160 the discussion about Farmville. But then Angry Birds came out 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.320 and that became the game everyone talked about. It wasn't 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.080 Farmville anymore. It was Angry Birds. Not that not that 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.640 you played the game on the same platform. You didn't, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.440 but you can now. Yeah, But Angry Birds was was 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.240 just the thing that everyone talked about so much so 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.240 that I had to download it when I got my 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.400 my G two because um, I just heard so much 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.560 about it and I had seen videos, but I never 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.560 played it, right, I mean, I've never had a chance to. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.320 And here's what I have to say about Angry Birds. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.640 Thank goodness, I now know what those strange noises are 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.800 from the bathroom stall next to me. Because I thought 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.839 I thought we had people with severe digestive problems. But 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.120 now I know it's just that people playing angry birds 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.840 while they're in the John. Okay, that's way too much 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.000 information about our coworkers. How do you think I feel? 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.640 I lived it, and I don't. I don't have anger birds, 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.720 so it's not me. Okay, Yeah, all right, yeah about 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.800 Windows Phone seven, Windows Phone seven a big story. That's 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.240 one of those things. I was going to say it 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.680 in our our Predictions episode, but I uh, we're recording 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.520 this after we've recorded our episode about Predictions, so it 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.440 did not make it into that episode. I can say 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.600 that for sure because I didn't say it. But um, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.560 I think that Windows Phone seven is going to have 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.360 a decent but not spectacular year in eleven. I think 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.360 it's going to build a good foundation, and I think 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.400 after it'll really start to become a contender in the 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.600 smartphone space. Because I gotta tell you, that is a flashy, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:05.360 nice looking OS or smartphone. Yeah yeah, I think. Uh. 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.160 I think Microsoft's past in the mobile market is hurting 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.320 it as far as this this OS is concerned, because 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.720 I've from what I've seen, it's a nice operating system 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:20.400 and the critical claim has been pretty pretty Critics have 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.600 responded very well to it. I mean, all the first 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.040 look stuff seems to be that you know, this is 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.400 this is definitely a contender. It can go toe to 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.040 toe with iOS and Android in the smartphone space. I 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.680 just think it's going to take about a year for 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.520 it to really get its footing, and then it'll they'll 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.480 I think will be when we see like some great 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.400 competition in the smartphone space. I'm looking forward to that 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:47.920 because no matter which platform you support, everyone benefits from competition, 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.480 that's right, because everyone starts to innovate and invest in 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.199 their platforms and everyone improves as a result of that. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.240 And there will be more flame wars as people talk 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.960 about how crummy the other yours. I hate you and 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.679 the phones you like, yeah said, I hate you and 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.720 the bands you like exactly very much. I've got one 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.600 piece of tech that did not that that I wanted 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.079 so badly to come out, but it it died in development, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:20.560 the Lenovo you One. Now, you guys might remember after 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.360 cs I was talking about this a lot. I blogged 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.240 about it. I think I talked about it on podcasts. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.079 The Lenovo you one was a pretty neat uh computer. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.360 It was a laptop computer where you could detach the 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.280 screen from the computer base and it would become a tablet. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.520 And not only that, but it ran on two different 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:43.040 operating systems to when it was connected as a laptop, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.200 it ran I believe it was a Windows and when 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.040 you detached the the screen it would become a Lenox tablet. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.760 Um It was supposed to launch in the summer of 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.520 Lenovo ended up shelving that. There was talk that Lenovo 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.040 might relaunch the one, but use a different operating system 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.800 for the tablet, possibly Android, but we still haven't seen it, 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.480 and so I don't know if they if that project 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.800 still has any steam in in Lenovo land, but I 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.400 really hope so, because it was actually, I mean, it 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.800 was the kind of tablet that I wanted because it 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.719 meant that you could if you needed to use a 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.360 laptop like capability, you just connected and then you can 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.560 type away and whatever. But if you just wanted something 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.920 where you could, you know, read a book or watch 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.840 a movie, pop that screen out and you're good to go. Um, 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:38.760 let's see other big text stories. Really you want to 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.360 do that one? Yeah? Google Buzz Yeah, Yeah, it's a 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.720 tech story. Yeah, not a good one. Well at least 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.719 not not the initial response. Yeah, Google, Google had a 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:56.920 couple of sort of busts this year Buzz, which was 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.160 their answer to Twitter, sort of a microblogging service. But 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.600 the problem wasn't with the service so much as it 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.400 was with the privacy settings. Yeah, it allowed you to 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:10.720 see another person's connect contacts essentially, that's their Gmail contacts, 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.160 really is what it boiled down to. And it it 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.520 revealed more information about people and the people they know 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.960 than a lot of folks were comfortable with. And so 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.920 there was a pretty big backlash to Google Buzz early 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.080 early on, just shortly after it launched, and as a result, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:32.040 Google actually apologized and went back and tweaked those settings 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.480 so that it wasn't so open and um, and there 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.080 are still people who use Google Buzz. It's it hasn't 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.080 gone away. In fact, I still use it, and a 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.120 couple of my friends use In fact, one of my 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:46.480 friends has stopped using really Facebook and Twitter for the 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.000 most part, and she still uses Google Buzz, which pretty 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.240 crazy to make I use all three, But then I'm 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.920 a social media junkie, So yes you are, yes, well, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:02.000 pot and kettle, dear Piette. Well, then there's then there's 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.839 Google Wave, which was supposed to be a big tech 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.920 story is a big tech story in two thousand nine, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.040 and then it just sort of People had a difficult 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.320 time learning how to use it, and then came the 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.720 news that they weren't going to support it anymore. Yeah, 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.440 and you figured they're going to incorporate that technology into 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.640 their other products. Oh sure, yeah, and it's not it's 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.000 not gone. That was the initial word was that they 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.640 were going to just get rid of it. But you know, 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.640 I still have access to my Google notebook. I checked 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.400 the other day. Um, So I think they'll probably leave 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.440 it there for people who want to and can use it. 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.200 I just don't think they're going to make any significant 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.640 improvements and not supporting it like they were. Yeah, they 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.880 may just look at bits and pieces of it and say, 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.880 you know what, this would work really well in Gmail. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.480 Let's go ahead and adapt this so that we can 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.600 incorporate into a Gmail feature. That kind of think. Chris 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.720 and I actually found a really good use for for 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.200 Wave back when we had Tech Stuff Live. We would 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.920 use that to build our show order and uh, and 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.040 it became pretty helpful. We could put in links and 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.200 we could order the show exactly the way we wanted to. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.360 We would discuss the various news stories and narrow it down, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.319 and it became a nice way to have an interactive 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.559 meeting without having to actually, you know, book a conference 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.320 room or something. But that's a very specific use and 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.400 it's hard to argue for a tool that, you know, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.000 I couldn't really come up with another use that I 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.120 could put it to use for, you know, on a 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:25.040 regular basis. So, yeah, the writing was kind of on 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.040 the wall for that one. Yeah, they they they sort 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.240 of promoted it with you know, you're going to have 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.400 Google Wave discussions with your friends and set up meetings 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.440 and things, you know, get togethers, not not corporate meetings, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.160 but parties, parties and things like that. And I just 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:46.400 don't see how, Yeah, Evite has that. It's already so 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.439 easy to create an electronic invitation using Evite or one 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.280 of the many other services that have similar features that 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.120 even Facebook you create a Facebook event, or heck, you 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.000 even put it out on Twitter if you want to 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.719 do an impromptu it thing. It just I think there 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.440 were enough other tools that did it well enough that 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.800 Google Wave was so not a really steep learning curve. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.200 I mean, it was just one of those things where 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.560 you're looking at that for the first day or so 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.840 thinking what the heck can I do? Yeah, there's too much. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.760 There's so much stuff that I don't know how to 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:23.160 use this UM keeping it kind of connected to Google 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.080 UM in a way and talking about stuff that died 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:30.920 out Cool c U I L Cool, the the search 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:36.120 engine that was headed by former Google employees and UH 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:40.720 and other people as well, the Google Killer, the Google Killer. Yeah, 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:45.120 they that search engine went away in the the plug 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.240 was pulled UM. All the employees were let go and 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.400 the servers were turned off, and now there is no 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.160 cool an you can't find it. I mean if you 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.480 go to the website, there's nothing there. So you're saying 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.320 we've lost our cool. Yes, we have lost our cool 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.720 and the cool encyclopedia that went along with it. That 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.440 actually did launch in but it wasn't enough to keep 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.880 the search engine around. We did gain WOLL from Alpha. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:15.720 We did game was that might actually be a little earlier. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.040 It's hard for me to remember too, because I was 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:19.680 like I had to actually look stuff. Oh we got 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:26.560 rock Melt, new browser that's intimately tied with your Facebook profile. Yes, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.600 that's really the only way to use it, and so 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.520 that's made some people nervous about privacy issues as well. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.840 So rock Melt is brand new, it's still in beta, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.840 it's still invitation only, but those invites multiply because when 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.120 you get invited, then you suddenly have three invitations, and 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.240 when you invite other people, they get invitations. Plus if 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.160 they download. If people you invite download rock Melt, you 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.360 get your invitations back so you can invite more people. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.720 So really it's it's one of those you know, they 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.040 tell two friends and they tell two friends, and so 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.080 I can hear you thinking about except that it's more 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.560 than that, right, because I tell two friends, they tell 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.960 two friends. Well, meanwhile I'm telling to other friends and 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:06.000 they're telling two friends. So it just it explodes very quickly. Um, 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.400 stuff like that usually does, I think, based on the 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.640 encounters I've had with betas and things like that, it 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.040 just it just takes off. Um. And yes, you're right, 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:15.720 that was two thousand nine for a will from Alpha, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.880 so I thought it might be to remember. You know, 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:22.040 it's funny people say that tech years are like dog years. Um, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.200 I can see that, all right, I've got another one. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.760 And this actually goes back to Apple and and phones 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.600 again iPhone four oh yes, and antenna gate, antenna gate 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.880 and glassgate. Yes. So the iPhone four coming out having 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.400 the front facing camera, FaceTime all that stuff, plus the 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.440 iPod Touch with the new cameras so that you can 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.560 use FaceTime on those as well. Um. Yeah, Apple really 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.880 had a pretty big year for introducing new devices when 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:49.920 you factor in the iPad, the iPhone four, in the 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.960 new iPod Touch, plus the other new iPod form factors 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.480 as well. The only one that did not get an 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.480 update was iPod Classic, which actually wasn't referred to it 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.400 all in their event, but it still exists, it's still sale, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.520 So there was that. It was a big year for games. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.040 We had games like Fallout, New Vegas, Halo, Reach, Left 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:12.679 for Dead Too, Epic, Mickey Medal of Honor, h lots 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.240 and lots and lots of games. I spent many many 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.920 hours playing games until my Xbox three sixty died. Yes, 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.120 I should be getting that in the mail any day now. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.679 Oh um. I I remember one thing it came out 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:31.360 of our predictions for but as a good thing, um, 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.720 which was Palm being acquired. So it looks like uh, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:40.000 Palms new web OS operating system will continue to live 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.440 on now that the company has been acquired by Hewlett Packard. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.320 I've got some fun which is kind of interesting, some 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.639 fun text stories that we can talk about briefly. Do 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:54.439 you remember chat Roulette? Oh? I do. Yeah, that was 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.919 a news story that broke in. Of course, that was 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:01.600 the video chatting service that would random repair people uh 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.760 for chatting UM sessions. And of course that was where 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.760 we learned that many people apparently have no problem with 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.800 nudity in front of strangers. Yes, And we learned that 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.840 some people like to imitate Ben Folds and sing to 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.360 whomever is on the other end of the and sometimes 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.399 and sometimes apparently it is Folds apparently, but one of 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:27.040 those people Ben Folds. Yes. Yeah. Chat Roulette was funny 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.600 and UM, I'll never forget. The greatest screen capture I 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.560 did all year long was when The Daily Show ran 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.000 a segment about chat Roulette, and at the end of 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:41.720 the segment they had a certain Natalie de Conti now 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:46.600 Natalie Morris, who was commenting on chat Roulette and then 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:51.080 hiding her face in her hands as one of the 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:55.680 the nudists I referred to UH joined chat with her 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.359 and so I got a great screen capture of Natalie 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.800 hiding her past in her hands in a window above 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.159 John Stewart's shoulder. It was a beautiful thing. Yeah, it 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.040 was a proud moment for her. She was on Daily Show. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:18.520 Congratulations Natalie, um double rainbow? What does it mean? Oh? Yeah, 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.000 we're gonna go with memes. And there's certain memes that 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.800 I I would mention, but I couldn't go into any 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:30.320 detail because it's objectionable material. Like there's a certain song 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.520 that got really popular. Actually, there's two songs I could 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.480 think of off the top of my head we got 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.919 really popular in the Internet, and neither of them are one. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.040 So we can talk about you should you should probably 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:43.480 refrain from mentioning them at all at all because to 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:47.920 talk about insane clown posse and cel Okay, I won't. Uh, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.840 there's how about this. Here's a great story. Yeah, Old 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:58.199 Spice and their YouTube ad where they in real time 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:03.000 to Twitter messages sp a whole day shooting replies and 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:08.000 posting them rapid fire. This was that reminds me of them. Yes, 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.600 Conan Cam another another example of using the Internet in 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:17.440 a brilliant way. A very absurd silly way to get attention. Uh. 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:19.840 So with the the Old Spice one, of course, they 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.359 were using the the the I'm want a horse guy. Yeah, Isaiah, 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:28.400 Isaiah exactly. And he was responding to Twitter messages. People 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.199 were sending tweets and he would direct these responses to 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.199 specific people and they got posted to YouTube and they 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:40.080 were all hilarious and bizarre and absurd, and people just 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.600 flipped out on Twitter. They I can't believe that the 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.200 Old Spice guys talking to me. And there were conversations 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.000 that started up between the Twitter people and Isaiah and 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.639 it was just hilarious, great marketing. And of course the 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.520 Conan thing was a twenty four hour camera set up 0:20:55.560 --> 0:21:00.320 in the stairwell of teen Cocoa. Yes, Conan O'Brien new 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.760 show on on TBS. They were preparing for the launch 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:08.160 and as as the first show is impending. Uh, they 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.840 had show staffers come out and do stuff in the 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:16.880 stairwell like they do dramatic readings. Uh. They would play games, 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:22.320 the dancing top pairs, aerobics, bears doing aerobics were awesome, 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.640 but the dancing taco was my favorite. And here's why. 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.120 The camera angle was in a stairwell, and you could 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.560 also see down a hallway, and in the hallway there 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.160 was an elevator. Right there's one point where the dancing 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.600 Taco starts to It's a guy in a taco outfit 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.360 doing just goofy dance moves to this, to this looped 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.679 free music. About half an hour so he's dancing. At 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.800 one point he starts dancing down the hallway and then 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.040 he dances down to the elevator, pushes the button, continues 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:52.879 to dance, the elevator doors open, He gets in the 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:56.320 elevator to the doors closed. About two minutes later you 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:00.280 see him dancing up the stairs and then his when 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.240 he gets to the topic, he says to the camera 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.760 stairs a heart, let's limit the stairs, and it just 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:07.480 goes right back to dancing. And I was like this 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.760 that I know it's incredibly stupid. I know that there's 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:15.840 no sophistication to this humor. I love it. Yeah, yep. 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.800