News Panel: Paige Craig and Sean Percival #179

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Spirited doesn't even begin to describe the debate that occurred when we got Sean Percival and Paige Craig in studio, together, for a Friday News Roundtable Panel. The team ran through all the hot topics, like Groupon's IPO amendment, Walmart's music shut down and Twitter's tabs update. Be sure to watch to the end, when Paige pitches his Ad.ly plus prayer startup. We smell a winner!

1:00-2:00 It’s News Roundtable Friday on TWiST!
2:00-3:00 Welcome to our guests Paige Craig of BetterWorks and Sean Percival, serial entrepreneur.
3:00-3:30 And Tyler Crowley is joining us from an undisclosed location.
3:30-5:30 Thank you to Carbonite for sponsoring the show. To get two free bonus months with your purchase, use the offer code ‘TWiST’ when you sign up at Carbonite.com.
5:30-7:45 Let’s get to the first story: Groupon has amended their IPO filing after a metric they were using to calculate their profits was widely criticized. Is there any case to be made for why they used this metric?
7:45-8:15 Is it a red flag when somebody uses special accounting?
8:15-9:45 What do you think, Sean?
9:45-10:00 Who are the losers here?
10:00-13:30 Sean, did Myspace ever think about doing a deal site?
13:30-16:45 After eight years, the Walmart music download store is shutting down. Will anyone be able to challenge iTunes in this arena? (Read more about Walmart's shut down at LAUNCH.)
16:45-18:15 Maybe Walmart buys Hulu?
18:15-19:45 Do you think they’ll make the Kindle a subscription service?
19:45-21:30 Next story: A German court issued an injunction baring sales of the Samsung Galaxy tablet in the EU. Is Apple’s new move to block competitors? Or is this another patent reform issue?
21:30-23:45 What’s the legal issue between Zynga and Brazil?
23:45-25:45 Next story: Twitter is updating tabs to include @replies, when someone follows you, when someone favorites one of your Tweets and more. What does Sean, the social media expert, think?
25:45-26:30 Is Twitter finally catching up with Facebook and Google+ on their product releases?
26:30-27:30 I was supposed to have a pro page three years ago. Where is it?
27:30-28:30 Paige, what are you concentrating on for BetterWorks?
28:30-30:30 Tyler, which of these three companies would you invest the most money in: Google, Facebook or Twitter?
30:30-32:45 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show. For a free account that’s always free, sign up at MailChimp.com.
32:45-36:15 Next story: Google+ is launching games integration. How important is it that they get games right? Will this kill Facebook?
36:15-37:45 Tyler demos the beta version of Google Offers.
37:45-40:00 Sean: Businesses got burned once before in the rush to the Web, and now it’s happening again to some with social media.
40:00-41:30 It feels like Facebook is now out of their league.
41:30-44:15 Next story: Angry Birds maker Rovio is seeking a $1.2 billion valuation. Is this a reasonable goal for a company this size?
44:15-45:00 It’s heartening as an entrepreneur to realize that you can make something on a very small scale and beat the big guys.
45:00-47:00 Discussion of Minecraft, the best indie game by profit according to our chat.
47:00-50:00 Next story: Hulu has announced plans to launch their subscription service in Japan. Is this where Hulu has always been heading? Is this going to further jack up the price?
50:00-51:00 So Sean, you’re not watching TV because you have a young child?
51:00-52:15 What’s Myspace Tom up to?
52:15-55:15 How great is it that Trump is now considering a run for president and that is making the stock market go up?
55:15-55:45 Jason: Obama has been a terrible disappointment.
55:45-57:00 Who’s the guy in Texas who was holding the prayer meeting?
57:00-57:30 Paige: You could take Ad.ly plus prayer circles, we’d have pay-for-prayer worldwide.
57:30-57:45 Next story: The NYPD has opened a new social media unit to use Twitter, Facebook and other platforms to track criminal activity. Sean says you deserve to be caught if you tweet about your crime.
57:45-59:45 Next story: Klout has doubled its services. Paige says he’s received resumes on which people list their Klout scores.
59:45-01:01:30 Jason tells the story about Starwood responding to his tweet immediately because of his Klout score.
01:01:30-01:02:30 What is the new credit rating going to do for the economy?
01:02:30-01:03:45 Last story: Facebook has launched a separate app for mobile and inter-Facebook messaging. Is this just a knockoff of Group.me?
01:03:45-01:04:00 This is why Mark Suster was right when he called Facebook the inter-not.
01:04:00-01:07:00 Paige, thank you so much for being on the show. How’s BetterWorks going?
01:07:00-01:09:30 Sean, thanks for coming on the show.
01:09:30-01:11:30 Jason tells a story: You go into a meeting with Paige, he singles a person out and asks them five questions and you sit there in fear wondering if you’re going to be in the hot seat.
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