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#49: Battery-based Packing Scheme

May 15, 2013 at 10:00pm • 1 hour 8 minutes

Google I/O 2013 is coming up, and it's supposedly all about the developers. What can Google really give them? And how far has Chrome come as an app platform?

#48: Draper-esque Long-view Thinking

May 8, 2013 at 12:45pm • 57 minutes

Kevin & Gina discuss the gotchas and benefits of using services like TaskRabbit to hire strangers to run errands for you on the internet. Then, they cover audio transcription services versus speech-to-text apps, and Kevin's Don Draper moment.

#47: Forks with Benefits

May 1, 2013 at 12:30pm • 57 minutes

Gina wrestles with her open-source project reaching slow, stable, less agile maturity—and then getting forked! And Kevin just finished going a week without email. Weird lessons all around.

#46: Attic of Notifications

April 24, 2013 at 8:45pm • 60 minutes

Kevin & Gina discuss notifications: on your smartphone, desktop, from the browser, on your wrist and on your heads-up display. How do users and developers reduce noise, increase signal, and make our apps tell us what we need to know and no more? Then, Kevin describes his love affair with custom notifications thanks to IFTTT and Pushover.

#45: The Perfection of the Drumming

April 17, 2013 at 1:15pm • 1 hour 2 minutes

Gina & Kevin get on the therapist couch and talk about their relationships and biases with Google, and whether there's room for improvement. Also: contributing to open source projects, and Rush.

#44: Playing Zuck's Advocate

April 10, 2013 at 11:15am • 1 hour 4 minutes

Kevin and Gina discuss Facebook Home: who it's for, its impact on the Android ecosystem, what makes sense about its intentions but misses in implementation, and what the tech press often gets wrong about open source and Android.

#43: Automatically Generate Engaging Content

April 3, 2013 at 1:45pm • 1 hour 1 minute

How does a Kickstarter project, an app, or a Google prototype headset manage expectations among early adopters? And what makes for good online behavior, versus the bad/wrong/abusive we can pretty easily spot?

#42: The Internet Doesn't Write an Apology

March 27, 2013 at 10:00pm • 1 hour 2 minutes

Gina and Kevin discuss what responsibility social networks have to moderate hate speech and death threats in light of the PyCon kerfuffle. Then, Kevin goes on a mission to find out exactly what it takes to leave email behind for real.

#41: Follow, Subscribe, Encircle

March 18, 2013 at 8:30pm • 56 minutes

Gina & Kevin talk through Facebook's recent moves to circumvent Android's rules and controls, then talk through the sad but maybe inevitable Google Reader shutdown.

#40: Bad at the Habit Zone

March 13, 2013 at 9:45pm • 1 hour 5 minutes

Gina and Kevin discuss Sheryl Sandberg's new book, Lean In, its backlash, and what a third wave of feminism looks like coming out of Facebook, of all places. Then, onto Turntable.fm's epic rise and fall--and what social apps have to do to keep users coming back.