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February 3rd, 2010

net@night 138: Boagworld

Website Owner's Manual, Revision3 view count, Ze Frank's Pain Pack, Charlie Brooker's news, and more.

174

January 27th, 2010

net@night 137: Web Usability Guru Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen on web design, Foursquare newspapers, YouTube's Music Discovery Project, and more.

173

January 20th, 2010

net@night 136: Host On The Ground

Conan's Craigslist sale, Google and China, mobile apps soar, Yelp funding, Farmville parody, and more.

172

January 13th, 2010

net@night 135: Backupify

Web loves Conan, Al Gore's fonts, pay-per-tweet, MIA gets bad tech support, and more.

171

January 13th, 2010

net@night 134: Gowalla

No suiciding Facebook, Skype HD on TV, Foursquare, Gowalla, Phitter.com, and more.

170

December 30th, 2009

net@night 133: Blippy And Pippy

A Facebook Christmas, FirstFollower.com, Withings.com, Ommwriter, Blippy, and more.

169

December 23rd, 2009

net@night 132: foursquare

YouTube Doubler and short URLs, Twitter profitable, a Wave goodbye to 2009, 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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