The Social Hour 5

The Social Hour Episode 5

The Social Hour 5: GigaOM's Mathew Ingram, News.me, sneaky Facebook settings, social headphones!

Amber and Sarah discuss gamification vs. passive consumption with GigaOM's Mathew Ingram, News.me's unique Twitter approach, Facebook privacy issues, social headphones, and much more!

Guests

• Mathew Ingram, senior writer at GigaOM

NEWSWORTHY

• SPOTLIGHT: News.me
  • Sarah was on vacation when it launched so more of organic first impression
  • difference between news.me and clipboard, zite, pulse, etc is that it's the links to stories in your friends' twitter streams, shared in visual form
  • not what your friends are sharing, it's what they're following

• FACEBOOK TIP: Get more control of your news feed
  • news feed settings, choose "all my friends and pages"

• FACEBOOK TIP: Audi has most engaged fans on Facebook

VOICEMAIL

• Seth from Philly likes us! He really likes us!

RAD OR FAD?

• Billed as “the first social headphones” because of their integrated duo jack, these $170 cans were designed by the same sound engineer who created the Monster Cable “Beats"

Sponsors

Netflix

• Netflix.com/twit
• Netflix-1
• ad times: 0:35 - 0:49 and 23:00 - 26:11

Squarespace

• squarespace.com/socialhour
• SqSp 4
• ad times: 0:49 - 0:59 and 45:22 - 49:58

Audible

• Audiblepodcast.com/socialhour
• ad times: 0:59 - 1:07 and 55:13 - 59:02

Production Information

• Edited by: Alex
• Notes:

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