News Roundtable Panel #158

TWiST #158 News Roundtable Panel with Tammy Camp and William Quigley

Google+ is the hottest ticket in town--or is it? Join Jason, Tyler and Lon along with guests Tammy Camp and William Quigley as they debate that and all the other big news in the world of tech this week. The gang weighs in on the Myspace sale, Amazon's affiliate program, the LulzSec hackers and more.

To see the full list of news stories we’ll be covering today, go to http://bit.ly/TWiST158News

1:00-2:00 Welcome to the Friday News Roundtable Panel on TWiST.
2:00-3:00 Update on the latest activities of the TWiST List. If you want to join, head to TwistList.co.
3:00-4:00 Tyler, you’re coming in from Clearwater, Florida, yes?
4:00-5:00 Welcome to our guest, Tammy Camp, coming to us from Singularity University, and William Quigley, joining us in the studio.
5:00-6:45 Thank you iStockphoto for sponsoring the show. To enter to win a 13” Macbook Air, go to ThisWeekinStartups.com/Contest.
6:45-7:45 Google+ debuted this week with features including Circles, Hangout and Instant Uploads.
7:45-9:00 Bill, have you played with it yet, what do you think?
9:00-10:30 Tammy, your thoughts?
10:30-11:00 William: At some level, Google is an exclusionary organization. Social will be hard for them to mimic.
11:00-11:45 Tyler, rate it on a scale of 1 to 10. (Tyler gives it an 8.5.)
11:45-14:30 Tyler, which features specifically impressed you so much?
14:30-16:00 Tammy, when you look in Zuckerberg’s eyes, is he pissed off or scared?
16:00-17:30 Lon, have you played with +1? What do you rate it?
17:30-20:00 Tyler: Google’s unspoken ace is that they own the browser and the hardware on your phone.
20:00-22:15 Jason thinks Google is gaining power in the gaming category.
22:15-23:30 Facebook sent out invites for a new product launch next week. There’s some speculation that it will be a mobile app or other mobile product. Guesses?
23:30-26:00 Tammy, have you heard anything about this?
26:00-26:30 William, speculation on a Skype sale?
26:30-28:30 Myspace has been sold by NewsCorp for $35M. What’s the lesson learned here?
28:30-29:00 Tammy, what are your thoughts?
29:00-31:00 Thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring the show.
31:00-32:30 Is Facebook facing a Myspace-like issue right now with alienating some of its user base and the smartest employees leaving?
32:30-35:00 Tammy: I would pay a couple hundred bucks a year to have an ad-free Facebook.
35:00-36:30 Tyler: Every company has a social media guru who is supposed to increase the brands likes and follows, and none of that exists in Google+.
36:30-37:00 What happens to brands when Facebook goes away or they realize that it’s meaningless?
37:00-37:30 Singularity U’s summer graduate program is in its third year and is gathering students from all over to change the world for the better.
37:30-38:00 So you live at the NASA Ames campus?
38:00-39:00 What are your marching orders? What’s supposed to happen 10 weeks from now?
39:00-40:00 The student body makeup is pretty diverse?
40:00-40:45 Tammy, will you tell us which conference organizer sexually harassed you?
40:45-42:45 Do you think there is active sexual discrimination in the Valley?
42:45-44:00 William: I’m been doing VC investing for 20 years and I’ve often wondered why the percentages of women-backed companies is so low,
44:00-46:00 A lot of people speculated that Mike Arrington was the person to ban you from the conference. Will you confirm if it was Arrington?
46:00-47:00 An article was written about Arrington in which the author, Vanessa Camones, calls him a bully.
47:00-49:15 Wall Street Journal vs. TechCrunch. Which is better?
49:15-51:30 Tyler, you’ve worked with Arrington, what are your thoughts on him?
51:30-52:15 Update on LAUNCH and the recent pieces put out by Managing Editor Kirin Kalia. Go to www.launch.is to see the latest!
52:15-55:00 Amazon shuts down its California affiliate program over tax law dispute. Does CA have a right to impose these sales taxes on Amazon?
55:00-55:45 States are broke, so now this revenue is becoming doubly important.
55:45-57:00 Why did Amazon have to turn the affiliate program off?
57:00-58:45 So Amazon now has to settle this with each state individually?
58:45-1:00:45 Zynga has filed to raise a $1 billion IPO today. William, your thoughts?
1:00:45-1:02:15 Are the Winkelvoss twins still continuing their lawsuit against Facebook?
1:02:15-1:03:15 Microsoft announces plans to discontinue the energy tool Hohm.
1:03:15-1:06:00 Hacker group LulzSec disbands. If we end up catching these guys, how do you think they should be punished--if at all?
1:06:00-1:10:00 Jason, speaking as a technotarian, says, “We don’t condone any illegal activity.”
1:10:00-1:12:30 Is it the fault of the protesters if an ambulance can’t get to where it needs to go because of them?
1:12:30-1:14:00 William: At Seattle International Airport, they’ve adopted iris scanning as part of their security measures.
1:14:00-1:14:30 Tyler, thank you for joining us from Florida. Lon, thank you for reading the news today.
1:14:30-1:15:15 Thank you to Squarespace and iStockphoto for sponsoring the show.
1:15:15-1:15:30 Thank you to William and Tammy for joining us today.

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