Episode 284 — Bug or Feature?

AR F-150

LEGO, Star Trek, Instagram, AR glasses & Ford F-150, Fortnite and Apple (App Store, News, Arcade). Almost too much for one episode! Continue reading

Episode 283 — Virtual Cloaks

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A whirlwind tour of virtual real estate, virtual clothes on real people, faking out facial recognition AI with Fawkes, mmhmm, cat TV and board games. Something for everyone! Continue reading

Episode 244 — Who’s your secret crush?

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Facebook’s foray into dating, LEGO droid orchestras & Imperial Star Destroyers, Apple’s upcoming event, and a goose on the loose. Something for everyone! Continue reading

Episode 86 – App Granularity & Gamification

Sandy, Phaedra and Michael R. are traveling, on vacation or otherwise engaged in important work, so Michael M. takes a shot at a solo show to explore some thinking on how a number of major apps are breaking down their function into smaller bite sized bits and deploying them as individual apps. Examples of this are FourSquare, with its Swarm app, Facebook, with the Messenger app, alongside some of the recent acquisitions like Instragam and WhatsApp. Linking to the Gamification theme of this podcast, Michael muses on how this application functionality breakdown allows for smaller component pieces of functionality can … Continue reading