TEH Podcast
TEH 196: Reddit again. Voice assistants. Energy from air and flying cars.
In This Episode:
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.)
Top Stories
- 0:40 LN: More Reddit. Harvesting content and losing advertising.
- 3:00 GR: Why Reddit has to charge for API
- 7:15 Google also scrapes sites
- 11:00 What’s the strategy. Is it all advertising revenue?
- Or, is it just that third-party apps don’t show Reddit ads, so it is server use without any revenue generated by Reddit?
- Or, is it just that third-party apps don’t show Reddit ads, so it is server use without any revenue generated by Reddit?
- 13:00 LN: One person’s conspiracy theory
- 3:00 GR: Why Reddit has to charge for API
- 17:30 LN: Cortana going away
- What makes a voice assistant successful, anyway?
- 25:00 Will it turn into Bing?
- What makes a voice assistant successful, anyway?
- 30:00 GR: Making stuff up… or is it true?
- GR: Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material. This seems like too-good-to-be-true stuff to me.
- Clean electricity from air?
- 39:00 Why aren’t there flying cars? And drones.
- GR: Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material. This seems like too-good-to-be-true stuff to me.
Ain’t it Cool
- 46:00 GR: Renfield. Funny vampire.
- 49:00 LN: What’s Our Problem? – A Self-help Book for Societies – Tim Urban
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
- 50:50 LN: The Problem With OneDrive Backup
- 52:20 GR: XClipTools: Using the Calculator Functions
Leo and Gary in Denver