Net@night 150

Net@night Episode 150

"Swift.fm"Hosts: Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur Guest: Edward Aten Recorded: May 4, 2010 Published: May 5, 2010 Duration: 50:05 Transcript Previous episode – Next episode

Contents 1 Net@night 150: Swift.fm 1.1 Guests 1.2 Topics 1.3 Picks of the Week 2 Notable Quotes 3 Significant Products 4 Sponsors 4.1 Audible 4.1.1 Picks 4.2 GoToTraining 4.3 Squarespace 5 Production Information

Net@night 150: Swift.fm

Guests

Edward Aten, Founder, Swift.fm

• http://www.swift.fm/

Topics

• Google plans to launch e-book store this summer

Google will allow book retailers to sell Google Editions on their own sites and, according to the Wall Street Journal's report, "keep the bulk of the revenue." Google, of course, also plans to highlight these e-books on its own book search engine. It's important to note that Google is also still trying to win the right to distribute out-of-print books, but the Google Books Settlement that would give Google the rights to do so is still caught up in various legal challenges.

• Embeddable tweets launch
• http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/

A few nice things about the tool: 1) it picks up the styling of your own site. “Note that when you paste it into your site, the tweet will pick up some of your styling, e.g. the font-family you use on your tags. That’s intentional!,” Twitter writes (noting that it may change this). 2) It also copies over whatever background a person uses on Twitter. So in that regard, it is just like taking a screen grab. 3) The embeddable tweets actually look nicer than the one Twitter previewed yesterday on its media site. Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/04/twitter-blackbird-pie/#ixzz0mzJAyuz7

• Notetaking tool Evernote reaches 3M user mark

Evernote is now registering 8,000 new users per day — no doubt with the help of its fantastic iPad app. The company also points to international interest as well as partner referrals as drivers of growth.

Picks of the Week

SITE OF THE NIGHT

• Not My Type (from D Dodell)

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

• OK Go Parody "Mousetrap Never Works"

In any case, comedians and online-video makers The Fine Brothers have recently released a parody of OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” video via The Station, titled “Mousetrap Never Works.” And it’s already managed to rack up more than 300,000 views. If you’re not hip to YouTube controversy, “This Too Shall Pass” was first thrust into the limelight when YouTube and EMI disabled embedding on the first iteration of the vid. After they released a newer, more bad-ass, embeddable version (complete with a Rube Goldberg machine) with the help of State Farm, OK Go waved bye-bye to EMI — but not before their video went wildly viral. Whew. It’s been quite a year, huh, boys?

Notable Quotes

Significant Products

• Link URL and optional brief description

Sponsors

Audible

• Audible.com/night
• ad times: 1:11-1:19 and 11:35-16:49

Picks

Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life by Ian K. Smith (UNABRIDGED) Narrated by Ian K. Smith

GoToTraining

• GoToTraining.com
• G2T #1
• ad times: 0:41-0:55 and 42:49-44:58

Squarespace

• Squarespace.com/night
• ad times: 0:57-1:10 and 26:42-29:27

Production Information

• Edited by: Tony
• Notes:

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