- Startups - News with Sean Percival and James Altucher - TWiST #223

0:00-2:15 On today's News Roundtable, we're joined by Sean Percival and James Altucher. 2:15-3:30 Welcome Sean. So you're an EIR over at Science now? 3:30-5:30 James, thanks for joining us. How are you doing? 5:30-7:30 Thank you to Sourcebits for sponsoring the program. Everyone remember to show their support by tweeting them a thank you @Sourcebits! 7:30-10:00 First story: Google was caught scraping the database of a company in Kenya called Mocality. Google apologized, but how did this happen? 11:00-12:45 Are they making a mistake by trying to integrate Google+ so deeply into search? 13:00-17:15 Should this have been opt-in as opposed to opt-out? 17:15-19:00 James: This could be a genius move. Now everyone has to sign up for Google Plus to be relevant in search results. 21:30-25:15 Jason: Twitter and Facebook both need to launch their own social search engines. 25:15-25:30 James: I don't like to have to think when I use Google. 25:30-28:00 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the program. 28:00-30:30 Moving along to a CES Roundup: Ultrabooks were all the rage at the conference this week. HP and Lenovo both showed off new models, so what did everyone think of this? 30:30-32:15 What do you use as a computer, James? What do you think of the ultrabooks? 34:15-35:00 Sean, do you limit the number of hours of day your daughter uses an iPad? 39:15-40:30 Jason: So the constant begging for attention and validation is what we're moving to in media? 46:30-49:15 Next story: Myspace <b>...</b>
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