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Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with text Stuff from stuff

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Speaker 1: works dot com. Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland, and this is the second

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Speaker 1: of two episodes where I look at listener mail and

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Speaker 1: answer a bunch of questions that don't quite merit a

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Speaker 1: full episode. Their short answers and short questions. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: answers tend to be pretty long because it's me. But

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Speaker 1: if you guys have any questions you would like me

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Speaker 1: to answer in a similar style show, just write me

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff at how stuff works dot com. I'll repeat

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Speaker 1: that again at the end of the episode. But let's

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Speaker 1: get onto some of the questions that were sent into me.

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Speaker 1: This one comes from Susan on Facebook, who says, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure if this is something you can use, but

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Speaker 1: it bugs the hell out of me. Why could you

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Speaker 1: only post photos to Instagram from a mobile device? Most

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Speaker 1: social media sites have web page access as well, but

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Speaker 1: Instagram will only let you leave comments on their desktop interface.

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Speaker 1: Why does Instagram maintain this lack of functionality? It makes

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Speaker 1: it much harder for those of us in social media

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Speaker 1: to schedule and work with Instagram as a platform. The

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Speaker 1: answer I have for you now This is again kind

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Speaker 1: of my opinion slash guests, because I don't work for Instagram,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know the inside story, but I think

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Speaker 1: it mainly has to do with Instagram positioning itself as

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Speaker 1: a mobile photo sharing service. Now that means that it

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Speaker 1: is trying to be the photo equivalent of something like Twitter,

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Speaker 1: and a move it to the desktop world would mean

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Speaker 1: that it would have to compete against lots and lots

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Speaker 1: to compete in that market. They don't want to be

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Speaker 1: up against things like Flicker or even Facebook, um that

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Speaker 1: sort of stuff. They would much prefer to have this

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Speaker 1: really appealing in the mobile space. It's something that the

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Speaker 1: the more likely people are going to adopt it. So

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Speaker 1: that's a lot easier than creating a very compelling service

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Speaker 1: on the desktop. UM that's probably why they're going that way.

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Speaker 1: It also makes it easier for them to work with

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Speaker 1: other existing social media if it doesn't look like they

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Speaker 1: are um hedging in on the perimeter of those other

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Speaker 1: But I do agree that for those of us who

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Speaker 1: work in social media where we're trying to schedule things

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Speaker 1: out and we're having to manage multiple social media UH platforms,

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Speaker 1: it's really frustrating. Um I oversee Facebook and Google Plus

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Speaker 1: and UH and Twitter and Tumbler, and every time you

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Speaker 1: top of creating the content that I do. So I

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Speaker 1: understand the frustration from Christian on Facebook. Hey, tech stuff,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember if I heard this from you guys

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Speaker 1: already been long and invented. In other words, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: really new, like warp drives or things like that. Everything

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Speaker 1: that is sold to the public is basically just repackaged

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Speaker 1: such as on the iPhone. They didn't just invent fingerprints

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Speaker 1: scanners or touch screens or wireless tech. These things have

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Speaker 1: eventually started to agree. But now I'm questioning that again,

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Speaker 1: and I'm really curious what tex Stuff would have to

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Speaker 1: on Elon Musk and all his business ventures. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I talked about this in our last episode a little bit.

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Speaker 1: The thing about inventions is again they are so it's

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Speaker 1: the present, right, we just see the the incremental changes.

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Speaker 1: We don't see the big jumps. But those jumps are there,

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Speaker 1: we're done with innovation and inventing. It may just be

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Speaker 1: different generations of products. So that's my answer for you. Next,

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Speaker 1: Frank on Facebook says, how about a podcast on the

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Speaker 1: media of the tech world? How does how do tech

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Speaker 1: companies compete for media coverage? How do tech news sites

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Speaker 1: choose which ones they want to talk about? With so

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Speaker 1: they bring it to the big, bad world out there.

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Speaker 1: So this is a little insider baseball. Technically, if you

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Speaker 1: that point you can post your story about whatever it

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Speaker 1: for how do companies get news out? They often will

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Speaker 1: from there. Next from Nate Langson on Twitter now. Nate

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Speaker 1: and as a friend of mine, so full disclosure there.

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