Net@night 191

Net@night
Episode 191


"Convore"Hosts: Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur Guest: Leah Culver, founder of Convore Recorded: March 1, 2011 Published: March 1, 2011 Duration: 51:34 Transcript Previous episode – Next episode

Net@night 191:

Oscars court Internet age with success?, Facebook re-writes privacy policy, Leah Culver talks Convore, and more.

Facebook re-writes its privacy policy in human voice
- Make no mistake: Even in this early draft, the Facebook’s privacy policy is still a dense document. That said, information is much more understandable and the navigational aspects are a huge improveme

Hipmunk adds hotel search to flight service
hipmunk-hotel-search
- Up until now, if you’ve heard of Hipmunk, it has been as the “easy flight search service”. But today they’re adding another layer to their business. It’s an obvious one, but a big one: hotel search.

Lanyrd's Guide to SXSW
- Find SXSWi sessions your contacts are going to, they'll also email you coverage from sessions you missed.

SITE OF THE NIGHT

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Israeli Journalist auto-tunes Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's recent speech (almost 2M views)
- Journalist Alooshe spent a few hours using Auto-Tune to set the speech to the music of “Hey Baby,” a 2010 electro hip-hop song by American rapper Pitbull, featuring another artist, T-Pain. He titled it “Zenga-Zenga,” echoing Col. Qaddafi’s repetition of the word zanqa, Arabic for alleyway. In the early hours of Wednesday morning Mr. Alooshe had uploaded the remix to YouTube, and began sending the link to the pages of young Arab revolutionaries. By Sunday, the original clip had more than 400,000 hits and had gone viral.

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