News Panel with Jason Nazar and Peter Horan #203

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Friday, November 4, 2011 at 09:04PM

News Panel with Jason Nazar and Peter Horan #203

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Hot topics like Groupon's IPO and Yahoo's new releases dominated the News Roundtable this week with guests Jason Nazar and Peter Horan. To hear all of the insight and analysis, take a listen--and keep an ear out for Jason's Groupon prediction!

0:00-2:45 Welcome everyone to the News Roundtable with Jason Nazar of Docstoc and Peter Horan, formerly of About.com.
2:45-4:45 Thank you to SurveyMonkey for sponsoring the show. Everyone please thank @SurveyMonkey on Twitter.
4:45-7:45 Yahoo had debuted a few new products including Livestand, a Flipboard-like app. Will this fair well?
7:45-12:30 Tyler, got any thoughts on Yahoo’s new releases?
12:30-14:30 If you’re Yelp and you’ve been pushed down the page by Google Local, should you be investing in search traffic?
14:30-15:00 Who is a better company for a startup to align themselves with: Apple, YouTube or Google?
15:00-17:00 Tyler: What changed your opinion of the open web, Jason?
17:00-18:45 Google plans another algorithm change that could impact 35% of all searches. What kind of effect do you think this will have on the ecosystem?
18:45-20:30 Peter: Caffeine vs. Panda is the issue here.
20:30-22:15 Jason: They've capped the ability of any one site to become too powerful.
22:15-25:00 Peter, did you see that same thing happening at About.com?
25:00-27:15 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show. Everyone thank @MailChimp on Twitter!
27:15-30:30 Kevin Rose’s lab Milk has launched their first app Oink. It’s like a review site but for specific things inside places instead of just the place itself. What do you think the adoption will be like for this app?
30:30-32:30 Kevin tried to do something very similar to this at Digg and it didn’t work, so this seems a little bit like an “f you” to Digg, no?
32:30-35:00 Jason N.: Where do the products come from? You have to take a picture to describe it?
35:00-37:00 Peter: The problem is that the responses will be fragmented when you’re doing something as granular of a dish.
37:00-39:00 Jason: The problem is that most people are dumb and can't write. I'm going to start deciding who the 1% are.
39:00-41:15 Jason gives away a new Samsung Android phone to one lucky person in the Chill chat room!
41:15-43;30 A Steve Jobs bio has sold over 379,000 copies the first week on sale. Is this just because Jobs was such a fascinating character or is it all the media hype?
43:30-44:00 Have you ever know anyone at Job's level of success that people don't say was a jerk?
44:00-47:00 Peter relays an anecdote about when Bill Gates lost it on an employee.
47:00-48:00 Do you think Gates would give up $1B of his net worth to have invented the iPhone?
48:00-51:00 Former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky has launched a new site called The Verge. Is this a worthy new entry into the field of tech journalism?
51:00-55:00 Peter: I think the market actually needs more good tech news.
55:00-57:00 Let’s talk about Groupon, who began trading on the NASDAQ this morning. It’s the biggest tech IPO since Google by the share price. What message does this send to the other players, especially considering all the negative press they had going into this?
57:00-58:45 Peter: Are they a transitional life form or will they survive long-term?
58:45-1:00:00 Jason: I guarantee that Google will buy Groupon. Or Amazon or Facebook, but they’re going to be bought.
1:00:00-1:02:00 Peter: My experience with Groupon is that there are too many restrictions on it for the merchants.
1:02:00-1:04:45 The largest ever Google+ hangout occurred this morning when the Stanford University's open AI class was broadcast free for anyone to watch and discuss. Is this a sign of greater adoption for G+ or just this feature?
1:04:45-1:08:00 Regular Google search results now are incorporating much more social data, such as what someone has liked, how many followers they have, etc. Why are they doing this?
1:08:00-1:10:00 Congrats to BookieKingPin, winner of the Samsung phone.
1:10:00-1:10:15 Everyone follow @PeterCHoran to keep up with him on Twitter. Thank you Peter and Jason for joining us today.

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