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127

November 18th, 2009

net@night 127: That Was Measy

Use the web to send snail mail, the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year, and NASA responds to 2012.

163

November 12th, 2009

net@night 126: Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki, Google Dashboard, Retweeting, and more.

162

November 4th, 2009

net@night 125: Robot Rock Band

Robot Rock Band, John Mayer's tech support call, Pizza Hut iPhone App, Sweden, Twitter in Spanish, and more.

161

October 29th, 2009

net@night 124: Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl stops by the cottage in this episode of net@night.

160

October 21st, 2009

net@night 123: The Woopra Effect

Woopra provides website tracking, stats, and analytics in real time.

159

October 14th, 2009

net@night 122: We Broke Pollux

Leo apologizes to Pollux, Amber talks about her new book, massive copyright violations, and more.

158

October 7th, 2009

net@night 121: TweetMeme

Google Wave, bosses block Facebook, StyleCaster, Twitter addicts, and more.

net@night with Amber and Leo

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April 3rd, 2007

net@night 17: There's Something Wrong With The Sheep

Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte Amber's links, author Scott Sigler discusses his attempt to bum rush Amazon, and Jason Fried of 37Signals announces Highrise - a group contact manager.

  • G4 has acquired TWiT.TV. Actually; April Fools!
  • Google has a couple April Fools jokes. First, sign up for Google TiSP: a free in-home wireless broadband service using fiber optic via your toilet. Secondly, they introduced Gmail Paper. Let Google print out your Gmail!
  • Facebook launched LivePoke on April Fools day, "Facebook will dispatch a real live person today to poke a friend of your choice."
  • Is Mark Zuckerberg leaving Facebook? Or is it just another April Fools joke?
  • Amber recently did a story on Twitterholic: a site that lists the top 100 followed Twitter users.
  • Bum Rush the Charts was the idea that thousands of people would buy the same independent song from iTunes in order push it to the top of the charts. The effort was a success with it hitting #11 in the US rock charts.
  • Watch the trailer for Black Sheep, a movie about sheep gone bad.
  • LoneGirl15 is now taking product placement from Hershey's Icebreakers.
  • Scott Sigler's book, Ancestor, entered the top selling list in Amazon. He attempted to Bum Rush the Charts for his books, and it worked!
  • Scott's books can also be found on Podiobooks as a podcast.
  • Cory Doctorow also allows for his books to be downloaded as an e-book for free.
  • Scott Sigler is using Garageband to record with a Macbook Pro being routed from an Alesis Multimix Firewire with a Behringer Studio Pro microphone.
  • 37Signals is a small company based in Chicago that has several very useful online applications.
  • Check out 37Signals' book, Getting Real, "The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application.
  • The company's latest product, Highrise allows people to maintain their contacts, what they said to them, and what to do next. You can also set up reminders for follow-ups, notes, calls, tasks, and more.
  • 37Signals is taking advantage of Mongrel and less of LightTPD.
  • Check out 37Signals' design & usability blog: Signal Vs. Noise.
  • Ruby on Rails will be shipping with OSX Leopard.

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