News Panel with Marshall Kirkpatrick #188

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From dinner table talk, to TechCrunch winners to the scum of the Westboro Baptist Church, TWiST covered a little bit of everything today! Join ReadWriteWeb lead writer Marshall Kirkpatrick as the gang holds a memorable News Roundtable Panel--and don't even think of missing the action after we called 'cut'!

0:00-1:00 Welcome to the TWiST News Roundtable.
1:00-3:30 Today we’re with Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb.
3:30-4:30 Marshall, if you could give us one year of your life to give Steve Jobs five, would you do it?
4:30-7:00 Lon, what about you?
7:00-9:00 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show. Check them out at Mailchimp.com.
9:00-10:00 This week’s top story is that Twitter has introduced an analytics platform. How effective do you think this will be for publishers?
10:00-11:30 What do you think, Marshall?
11:30-14:00 Are the analytics paid or free?
14:00-16:45 Marshall, what are your thoughts on the board shake up?
16:45-21:30 Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft are banding together in an ad deal. What do you think, Marshall?
21:30-22:45 Doesn’t Flipboard seem a little busy?
22:45-25:00 Details have emerged about YouTube’s co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen’s plans for Delicious. Will they be able to make it popular with the masses?
25:00-26:30 Jason: Google does not care about organic search.
26:30-29:00 Marshall: What is about Pinterest that people like so much?
29:00-31:00 Jason: I could hire someone to put a kitten in their cleavage and have the most successful site on the Internet.
31:00-32:30 Thank you to Carbonite for sponsoring the show. Head to Carbonite.com to start your free trial today!
32:30-33:15 Google is reportedly going to launch a new service called Propellor that will be a Flipboard-like app. What does everyone think?
33:15-35:45 What’s your take, Marshall?
35:45-37:45 Sometimes as a publisher, don’t you just say, screw it, I should do short, re-hashed posts and pick up a ton of traffic?
37:45-39:30 Jason: I found out about Scarlett Johanson’s nude pictures from Ranker.
39:30-41:00 Facebook introduced some new features this week including a subscribe button and smart lists, which is similar to the Google+ circles functionality. Are these new features too complicated?
41:00-46:00 Marshall, have you tried this?
46:00-48:00 Marshall: If you remember the original contract between Facebook and its users it was, we’re going to keep all of your info private.
48:00-51:00 Let’s do a lightning round: A UK man was convicted of sending indecent communications after he posted hurtful remarks on a Facebook memorial page of a girl who committed suicide. Is this an appropriate punishment?
51:00-54:00 Jason gives his friends at Anonymous a special mission: bring me all of the information on the members of the Westboro Baptist Church so I can launch a jihad against them.
54:00-55:30 Marshall, if you could pick, would you want Anonymous to exist or not?
55:30-59:00 Lon, what are your thoughts on Anonymous?
59:00-01:00:00 Is Yahoo! for sale? Sources inside and outside the company say it may be. Will they sell in the near future and to whom? What are they worth?
01:00:00-01:02:00 Marshall: I would sure like to see Yahoo! get bought by someone who loves technology and not just money.
01:02:00-01:05:30 Israeli startup Shaker was the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt this week (think Facebook meets SecondLife). Was this a good pick?
01:05:30-01:07:30 Jason: I could see how this could possibly interesting to single people who are trying to get laid, but no one else.
01:07:30-01:10:00 Anyone want to bet that Shaker will be meaningless in five years?
01:10:00-01:12:30 Lon: Do you have an opinion on what should have won, Jason?
01:12:30-01:14:00 Tyler: This just raises the inevitable issue of the conflict between the conference and CrunchFund.
01:14:00-01:15:00 Marshall, is the conflict of interest a real problem?
01:15:00-01:16:00 Thank you to all of our supporters, Carbonite and MailChimp. And thank you to Marshall for joining us today.

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