TWiT 272

TWiT Episode 272

This Week In Tech 272: Spill The Wine

Facebook acquires, kills drop.io, what is in a name, entrepreneur heroes, Netflix in Canada, Firesheep, white iPhone wisdom, and more.

Panel

• Leo Laporte (@leolaporte)
  • Leoville.com
• Loic Le Meur (@lioc)
  • loiclemeur.com
  • seesmic.com
• Lisa Bettany (@mostlylisa)
  • mostlylisa.com
• John C. Dvorak
  • http://channeldvorak.com

Topics

• Facebook Acquires Drop.io, Nabs Sam Lessin
• What's on Facebook's mind? Mobile event set for November 3rd
• Why Twitter’s C.E.O. Demoted Himself
• 'Self-absorbed' Americans may ignore Canada price disparity
• Check in and vote on foursquare
• Firesheep makes stealing your cookies, accessing your Facebook account laughably easy
• Cablevision, Fox Resolve Programming Dispute
• Google TV isn't ready for prime time
• 1 billion YouTube subscriptions and counting
• YouTube CEO & Co-Founder Stepping Down
• Lars Rasmussen, Father Of Google Maps And Google Wave, Heads To Facebook
• Samsung to unveil new Android device November 8th
• Honda's Asimo robot is 10 years old
• Digg To Layoff 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent

Notable Quotes

• "Notable remark or comment."
  • -- Panelist @ MP3 time code

Significant Products

• Product / Service Name
  • Link URL
  • Description

Sponsors

Carbonite

• Carbonite.com offer code TWiT
• Carb #3
• ad times: 0:47-0:59 and 47:02-49:20

Squarespace

• Squarespace.com/TWiT offer code TWiT
• SQSP #2
• ad times: 1:01-1:15 and 1:38:20-1:41:30

Ford Fiesta

• Drive One #3
• ad times: 1:17-1:34 and 25:52-29:56

Production Information

• Edited by: Tony
• Notes:

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