Episode 163 – Chat Me Maybe?

Hey! I just met you. And this is cra-zy. Here’s my bot. Chat me maybe. Michael and Michael get together to enjoy some of the material covered in the Feb 22nd edition of the Daily Tech News Show, particularly around text based chat services, and where the medium is going. Michael M dives headfirst down the rabbit hole — imagining how people used to use arcane terminal commands to get things done, when this wasn’t the intent of the story — it is much more around augmenting communication with insight to enhance understanding and using context (location, time, preferences, etc) to … Continue reading

Episode 83 – 50 Years of BASIC

Can you game a chat client? The team at We Chat thinks that you can. We discuss that and how Google gamed their Google IO registration process with a wonderful little Easter Egg for 300 lucky developers. BASIC is 50 and the Michaels celebrate by talking about games and gaming technology. What was your first program? We begin with something like: 10 print “Hello!” 20 goto 10 Or this: 10 print “* * * * * * * * * * *” 20 print ” * * * * * * * * * * *” 30 goto 10 Show … Continue reading