In This Episode: Recap of 2022, Wordle, Shorts, Starlink, Social Media, Space & Security

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

• 0:00 Cold and keeping warm
  
• 4:00 End of year. A quick run through/look back at this year’s interesting stuff
  
  • 4:10 NFTs. Misunderstood and weird, but they got sold. Along with Crypto, Web3 took a dive.
    
  • 6:00 The technology is sound but…
    
  • 7:00 Blockchains
    
  • 8:20 5G. Mostly marketing, but is it needed?
    
  • 10:30 Wordle. Still going. In NYT crossword app.
    
  • 12:38 Which technology made the biggest difference:
    
    • LN: Open Broadcast System: OBS
      
    • 13:22 DavinciResolve. For videos
      
    
    
  • 14:00 GR: It’s been pretty stable.
    
    • New hardware. From Mac Pro to Mac Studio
      
    
    
  • 15:30 The emergence of shorts
    
    • TikTok/Shorts/Instagram Reels
      
    • 19:00 The way the feed works
      
    • Gonna be the big story of 2023
      
    
    
  • 22:00 Starlink & Ukraine
    
  • 24:00 Podcasts been around a long time, it exploded
    
    • Not enough time
      
    • 24:40 Audiobooks
      
    
    
  • 27:20 Twitter (April to December). The name that shall not be mentioned.
    
    • 28:00 Real time news delivery
      
    • Alternative sites. Banning of journalists
      
    • Mastodon
      
    
    
  • 34:00 GR: Apple stuff. Not remarkable changes, but good high end stuff
    
  • 37:00 LN: Windows updates, relatively smooth
    
  • 38:00 AI (June), ChatGPT. Gonna get bigger
    
  • 39:00 Space – James Webb Space Telescope
    
  • 42:00 Travel Tech, payments
    
  • 44:30 LastPass got a lot of press
    
  
  

Our Mastodon links.

• Gary: @rosenz@mastodon.social
  
• Leo: Personal: @leonot@mastodon.social
  
  • Ask Leo!: @askleo@researchbuzz.masto.host
    
  
  

• 47:30 LN: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
  
  • 49:00 Cautious mention: White Lotus
    
  
  
• 49:45 GR: Love, Death and Robots. Shorts on Netflix?
  

• 51:30 LN: Is OneDrive a Backup?
  
• 52:30 GR: How To Use Apple’s New Freeform App