GeekThree Podcast

We seem to change our minds each week, we go more high brow, leaner, and slicker, to make a much more listenable podcast, thanks to Kathryn’s cakes:

– NEWS

• What is web design? a wofty-tofty explanation from A List Apart
• Foodpairing - Like bananas but bored of banana splits (and other 80’s characters) Foodpairing.be
• I’m feeling lucky looses $110 million, aren’t Google nice caring good people?

–PITCH

• imachunt.com. Find the iMac, win an iMac in chuckleworthy game
• mybadger.com. buy one off images, stylised for your life
• giftbook.com some facebook toss

– MY WEEK

• “Fasthosts suck. but then are any hosting company good?”, says Paolo
• “Wordpress is too heavyweight a blog platform. I’m swapping to tumblr“, says Benjy
• “Service and maintenance agreements, argh! help” says Tariq

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 Show 6 - imachunt.con, banana splits and Wordpress too heavyweight:
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This week, after last episodes yawn-worthy news section we’ve trimmed down the first segment, and made it really fucking funny. Well, we think so.

– NEWS

• The Asus 200 quid laptop - http://eeepc.asus.com/uk/
• Ebbsfleet united the first web socially bought club thing bob - http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/
• New brutalism ugly design is in, web 2.0 is out! - http://www.designobserver.com/archives/027719.html

– PITCH

• 404errorComp.com - pimp your sites error page, points awarded for comedy, style and geekiness
• NING - mullet social networks, and create your own social network for anything - http://www.ning.com/
• sponsoragypsy.com - geo tag, sponsor and control gypsies in your area now!

– OUR WEEK

• Paolo goes keyword crazy, with adwords, nichebot.com and SEO nut juice
• Turdspace, Myspace pumping their membership figures, by not letting tariq leave
• Client discounts, do clients apprecaite discounts, or do they not bother to read anthing?

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 Show 5 - gypsies, 404 error porn, and new brutalism in design:
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In this week’s podcast we are at Benjy’s, and he’s locked his better half up in a cupboard!!

NEWS

• Ad-tracking opt-out, no more big brother knowing what you’ve been looking at
• Google Open-Social, Google make it easier to write crappy cross-website, widgety poo poo http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
• Skitch, new screen-shot grabbing software that lets you share images quickly http://plasq.com/skitch

PITCH

• Pump Monitor 2000, can condoms 2.0 be the answer the bad sexual etiquette?
• MyDietCokeBreak.com, 11am home-erotic thoughts from Paolo
• Skyve, AI bot that convinces your boss you’re working hard from home

OUR WEEK

• Cooking With Laptops, I’ll never buy a celebrity cookbook again
• Advance Client Brown Nosing, subtle means of extracting money out of your clients
• Profit by Bad Design, cheat money from website users with poor interfaces

 

 Show 4™ - Skyve™™, Google open-social, Condoms 2.0 and more...:
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In this week’s podcast we are at Paolo’s and have pesky Molly cat jumping on iMac whilst recording.

NEWS

• Google Adsense referrals, more global domination from Google
• Zopa listings: ever wondered how to fund your girlfriends bigger boobs
• NIN release new album allow fans to pimp their tracks

PITCH

• babecamcontests.com - hot babes, you decide who’s ass wins
• Designer easier, design better: who needs Benjy anyway
• Wificoffee.co.uk, quality local wifi cafes with comfy sofa’s and fair trade coffee

OUR WEEK

• Benjy’s early Morning McWifi trendy experience, I’m loving it
• Computers live! honestly, they are alive, like number 5
• Bad Adwords, very bad Adwords

Show length 34 mins, 16.6mb, click below to download, or subscribe via iTunes.

 

 Show 3 - Zopa, get rid of designers, McWifi, and more:
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cheers, Paolo, Tariq, Benjy

This is our 2nd show, now with dodgy intro music. taking place chez Tariq with some fine beers we shoot the breeze on:

GEEKY NEWS

• welovelocal.com or do we?
  (Read the discussed article; Launching a UK Start-Up: Seven Lessons Learned on Vitamin.
• Sharing your Wifi with dodgy weirdos in your town
• iphones do people use them with this web-thing?

PITCH (if we lived in our dreamworld)

• Paolo tells us How to grow a juicy steak in a lab
• Tariq pitches a website where you can choose the cow that’s gonna be your juicy steak
• Benjy predicts a Telepathic Twitter in web 5.0

OUR LOUSY WEEK (and pesky clients)

• Babies, clever aren’t they?
• Does the client own the designs or us? Or should I give them to him?
  (Read about Copyright for web designers on .Net).
• How the hell do you get content off clients?

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 Show 2 - iphones, juicy steak & pesky clients:
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In our first ever geekthree podcast episode we chat about:

• Terrorist logo designers
• Virgin megastores exit from the high street
• Burglr.com the social networking website for thieves, crooks and the underworld.
• Why clients suck, cashpoints GUI’s suck, and project management is like tetris.

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Tariq, Benjy & Paolo