Sun, 23 December 2018
The second and final part of Peter Smallbone's (@petersmallbone) LIVE interviews from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. 00:00 – How to find like-minded gamer friends w/ John Uke of GameTree (@gametreeapp / 🎮🌲.WS) 08:04 – A new way to check for code vulnerabilities with Joe Noll (@noljoh) of AppGuard (App-Guard.io) 14:46 – Smart navigation for visually impaired people with Gustavo Madico (@elgus) of Aiserve Technologies (@AiServe_tech / aiserve.co) 22:33 – A new BlockChain-based bank account with Robert Harrison (@RobertMark1984) of Bitwala (@Bitwala / bitwala.com) 30:28 – How ground transportation companies can compete with Uber with Victor Ngo of QUp World Inc (@QUpworld / QUpworld.com) 40:37 – How online can help with shopping offline with Galina Charni of VeryClothe (@VeryClothe / veryclothe.com) 45:59 – Startup Battlefield winner announced!
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Mon, 17 December 2018
In the first of a special two-part LIVE episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. 0:00:00 – In da club with Max Hatzold (@MaxHatzold) of Field Buzz (@field_buzz / field.buzz) 0:02:19 – Using BlockChain to get paid faster with Ryan Fife (@ryanpaulfyfe) of WorkChain.io (@workchain_io / workchain.io) 0:10:33 – The new in-game advertising revolution with Ben Fenster (@BenFenster) of Anzu (@Anzu_io / anzu.io) 0:20:39 – The smart way to match medical professionals with jobs with Catrinel Hagriveta (@CatrinelHag) of MEDIJobs Romania (@MEDIjobsRO / www.medijobs.ro) 0:28:34 – AI and people working together in harmony with Sebastian Denef (@denefs) of OWN.space (@ownHQ / own.space) 0:35:04 – A new way to hire freelancers using better tech with Rafael Platas of HYP3R (@wearehyp3r / www.hyp3r.io) 0:39:36 – How to try on a ring without the ring with Artem Soundelzon (@Paasweb) of Inova Diamonds (@InovaDiamonds / inova.diamonds)
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Wed, 21 November 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Google's new leadership, a new Blackberry acquisition, Microsoft's VDI acquisition, Alexa's court order and more! 00:00 - New Phone Fails 09:00 - GOragle 17:00 - Blackberry's Billions 22:00 - Year of VDI 27:00 - Murder Testimony aaS
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Wed, 7 November 2018
This week, Peter and Melissa discuss Twitter's ineffective character bump, the new iPhone/IOS security bypass, Waymo's new driverless testing, Amazon's HQ2 update, SF's Airbnb-related lawsuits and VMWare's intended acquisition of Heptio. 00:00 - Sleep Class 06:15 - Not for Goldfish 09:45 - iSpy a Security Flaw 13:50 - WAY Mo Unmanned Vehicles 17:19 - HQ 2x2 22:10 - SF is Taking Your Bedroom Profits 25:05 - You get a Kubernetes & YOU get a Kubernetes 31:29 - PLEASE Hire Peter! 34:00 - Little League is Hard on Your Knees
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Wed, 31 October 2018
This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Robbie McKinstry (@bravenewprince), Research Engineer at HashiCorp. Together they discuss IBM’s plans to buy RedHat, NASA using remote reboots to fix hardware issues on the Hubble telescope, Twitter’s new debate strategy, Apple’s recent announcements, the latest Malware hit and more! 00:00 – Taco Twednesday 04:00 – Peter gets Fyred up 07:00 – Big Blue gets a Red Hat 07:01 – Now all they need is a purple feather 16:20 – Remote galaxy reboots for the win 19:32 – Peter tries to relate to the kids 20:00 – Twitter may kill your likes 33:30 – Shiny new Apples 38:00 – Government compute gets an STD 42:30 – Halloween
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Mon, 29 October 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa travel back in time a bit to discuss IBM's JEDI Protest, Duck Duck Go's success, California's new password laws and Microsoft's big opening of patents. 00:00 - Melissa the fool 07:30 - NewOps Days 09:28 - IBM joins the Empire 16:01 - Duck, Duck, Growth! 24:00 - California hacking 31:15 - Microsoft opens Pandora's patent box 31:16 - …and all I got was an I <3 Linux t-shirt
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Thu, 11 October 2018
This week, Peter and Melissa discuss the Cloudera-Hortonworks merger, the UK’s conservative party information leak, Competition strategy at the Tech Giants, Google’s search engine spend, Azure’s Linux footprint, and the chip-hack-not-chip-hack that every major company is denying happened. 00:00 – Peter gets snubbed 03:15 – Merging to take on the cloud 07:15 – Politicians get leaked on for once 12:30 – Burning money in the evil empires 15:30 – How much is being #1 worth? 18:12 – Linux puts Windows in the corner 21:58 – Everyone is denying it
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Wed, 3 October 2018
This week, Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss MS Ignite, Sirius XM's acquisition plans for Pandora, the US government's JEDI program and AI takeovers in marketing. 00:00 - Gurney-Atwell Dance Off 05:15 - Ignition Failed 15:35 - Opening the Box on Sat Radio 21:25 - Jedi for sale, $10 Billion 28:00 - 70 is Pulling Out 33:40 - Face Creepers 38:25 - Deeply Learn-ed Advertising 43:35 - Boy Scout Popcorn
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Wed, 26 September 2018
This week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss Elon Musk’s new rocket plan, Apple’s new product line, Amazon’s echo launch, Equifax’s new fines, a Netapp acquisition and more! 00:00 – New Intro 06:00 – Melissa throws everyone under the bus 08:00 – To the moon (ish), Elon! 12:00 – Flo 16:00 – MAX Mac’s? craziness 21:00 – Josh turns Alexa on 32:00 – Her Majesty gives Equifax a light spanking 36:00 – Netapp acquires hypetrain 45:00 – The buy more stuff game! 50:00 – Little Josh didn’t make it
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Tue, 18 September 2018
This week, Ed, Peter and Melissa are joined by Doug Hazelman (@vmdoug) with CloudBerry Lab. Together, they discuss more trouble for Tesla, Equifax's fall out a year after the breach, eBay's switch and more. Doug's Podcast- MSP Voice: https://www.cloudberrylab.com/msp-voice-podcast.aspx 00:00 - Hit by the life bus 05:00 - Take a toke, and all of my stocks... 12:20 - Equifree of consequences 16:00 - Microtik's new internet parasite 20:00 - Ebay dumps OpenStack for the hypetrain - auction to follow 24:00 - MSPS plz friend me 30:00 - Backing up all the clouds 37:00 - IBM takes us back to the future
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Tue, 3 July 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Uber's return to London, Facebook's drone WiFi program, the latest in consumer tech manipulation, the hyperconverged state of the union and more! 00:00 - Slackers gotta slack 06:33 - Uber's British Invasion 12:40 - Facebook's WiFi faceplant 15:00 - Github ADD Sidebar 21:30 - Consumer tech <3's cheap tricks 26:00 - Hyperconverged: engage hyperdrive 35:20 - Doing nothing and crushing it
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Tue, 5 June 2018
This week Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Chris Weis (@ccweis), Global Practice Manager of Compute and Automation at World Wide Technology. Together they discuss Snapchat's hardware upgrade, updates from the Uber AV crash, Tintri's recent struggle, Amazon's facial recognition for government offering and lessons in iterating and automating at scale. 00:00 - Corn and Captain Kirk 04:37 - Spectacles++ 10:31 - AV Indecision 17:05 - AutNOPE-pilot 20:19 - More Storage on Life Support 24:15 - Soon: Paying Taxes to AMZN 31:47 - WW Whaaaaat? 37:24 - Driving to Solutions 44:24 - Silo Bustin' 47:00 - Sharing is Caring
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Mon, 28 May 2018
This week Peter and Melissa are joined by Jason McGee (@jrmcgee), IBM Fellow, VP & CTO of IBM Cloud Platform. Together they discuss new options in AWS, HPe's new acquisition, AI creating jobs and cloud trends. 00:00 - Cast off Kinks 04:00 - AWS hops on the NVMe bandwagon 07:00 - HPe plugs their SDN hole 10:00 - Robot job creation 14:00 - Open Source and Cloud 20:00 - GDPR is everywhere 25:00 - Cloud futures 32:00 - AI strategy and ethics 35:00 - Yet Another Marketing Fail brought to you by Google
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Fri, 11 May 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss Comcast's attempt to swipe more content, Uber's fatal autonomous vehicle collision, Air taxis and Google's latest assistant demo. 00:00 - The guys got robbed 10:00 - Comcast tries to outdo the Mouse 16:00 - It's not a bug, it's a false positive 23:00 - Can't figure it out on the ground? put it in the air! 27:30 - AI takes another job you hated 38:00 - Who do you want to be next?
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Thu, 3 May 2018
This week Melissa is joined by special guest Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) of thectoadvisor.com and ctodose.com Together they discuss this week's tradeshows, CIOs looking at AI, Cloud revenue reports, Ford is reducing car options in North America, Fitbit's new Google Healthcare Cloud announcement and how to rock being unemployable. 00:00 - No Spoilers because we <3 you 01:30 - Little shows in Vegas 06:00 - Half of CIOs -already replaced by robots 09:40 - Cloud companies still printing $$$$ 12:20 - Ford shifts its Focus 15:11 - Fitbit putting an end to lying to your doctor 21:44 - Building business as an independent influencer
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Fri, 27 April 2018
This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest and occasional co-host Amy Lewis (@commsninja) Director of Influence Marketing at VMware. Together they discuss: Cloud Foundry's new take on Kubernetes, Pivotal's IPO, AI taking over Banking jobs, the custom AI chip trend and the latest Amazon rumor. 00:00 - It's not you, it's us 03:00 - Doubling down on Conference Adventures 08:00 - Cloud Foundry eats Kubes 09:25 - IPOs with meteor attention 12:00 - The robots are canning your bank teller 20:00 - Chipping away at AI 23:18 - Melissa's Small Wonder 24:00 - These are not the droids we are making 28:00 - Foo what? 33:00 - Geek Whisperer Activate! 36:00 - Yadin is a Robot
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Thu, 19 April 2018
This week Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Mark Twomey (@storagezilla). Together, they discuss VMware's VSAN Announcement, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, Amazon pausing perscription drug play, Elon Musk's new couch, the FBI's latest recruiting challenge and movie suggestions. 00:00 - Zilla teaches Peter about books 04:20 - VSAN isn't quite past it 09:30 - Tech Giants making the arena shrink 16:20 - Amazon steps back from the drugs for a minute 21:06 - Solid proof you are surrounded by idiots 24:20 - The FBI: because clean is more important than good 31:00 - Hiding from the real world because you're gorgeous
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Wed, 11 April 2018
This week Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Julian Wong, VP of Customer Success at DataVisor (@DataVisor). Together, they discuss EU domain reclamations, Cryptocurrency for the Joshes of the world, Apple's privacy play, Vulnerability issues in Serverless, the new WinDefender exploits and the world of data fraud. 00:00 - EUUUUUUUR OUT! 04:30 - Cryptocurrency: it's better with Whisky 07:48 - Apple: We're selling you in, not out! 11:23 - Serverless, you have some 'splaining to do 13:57 - WinOffender 17:00 - Veeping Customer Success 23:00 - The Fraud Arms Race
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Fri, 30 March 2018
This week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss the Dropbox IPO, Pivotal's filing for IPO, Uber's move out of Southeast Asia, Zuckerberg's UK summons, Pure's blinged out AI Play, Intel's new glasses and Ecuador killing Assange's wifi. 00:00 - Dropboxing stock like it's hot 07:35 - Josh gets called on the carpet 09:40 - Pivotal's Filing by the Haters 15:30 - Uber Grab's a new approach in Asia 21:00 - Zuck's UK snub 31:00 - Pure and Nvidia go for gold 37:30 - Intel's sweet new dating technology 40:00 - Julian is grounded from the interwebs
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Thu, 22 March 2018
301 - Product Privacy This week Josh, Peter and Melissa are joined by Todd Cowles (@toddcowles01) Data Science and Analytics Technical Specialist at IBM. Together they discuss Facebook's recent headaches, IOT Farm troubles and potential data privacy challenges with machine learning. 00:00 - Digital Packrats 05:30 - Facebook's data hell is Peter's fault 15:00 - Hey man, your data is showing 20:00 - IOT eating the farmers 24:50 - Shout out to legitimizing your gut 26:30 - Learning to teach machines to learn 30:55 - Data Science not sexy -Wait what? 38:00 - You are not a snowflake
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Thu, 15 March 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa join forces with special guest Tim Crawford (@tcrawford) CIO Strategic Advisor at Avoa. Together they discuss robot job replacement issues at CaliBurger, Tintri's financial struggles, drones causing wildfires and transforming the role of CIO and what it means to the future of technology 00:00 - Conference Crashers 03:26 - Will the real Tim Crawford please stand up? 08:19 - Flippy gets flipped off 13:30 - Tintri finds it's THIS IS SPARTA! moment 19:33 - Drone goes up in smoke like its owner's money 22:11 - Bracing for 6 years of technical impact 34:00 - Tim drops the ultimate #TruthBomb about cloud 38:30 - Snowflakes are for suckers, and we are fully stocked 40:30 - Josh has a "moment"
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Thu, 8 March 2018
This week Peter and Melissa discuss the AI burger takeover, VMware's results, Amazon's latest acquisition, Yet Another Uber Innovation and Apple bleeding its employees. 00:00 - Planes, Ninjas and Sledging 05:00 - Flippy is here to replace your angsty teen 11:00 - VMware: Kicking it. 16:15 - Amazon and Beyonce suggest you put a ring on it 20:24 - The EU wants a bite of Apple's Dutch Sandwich 25:22 - Uber now picks up hitchiking truckers 31:20 - Apple's new building calls for blood
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Tue, 27 February 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Yadin Porter de Leon (@porterdeleon), Head of Content Marketing @druvainc and serial podcaster. Together they discuss Flight Simulators that hack you, AI's impending job takeover, Dropbox's massive savings, Android Pay going away and the Dell EMC Code Community. 00:00 - Yellow Snow Warning 05:30 - Putting Light Sabers in Hands 06:36 - Simulator Street Justice 11:50 - AI is coming for your job 21:00 - Dropping it and it's hot 27:25 - Android's lost Wallet 33:35 - Saying goodbye to Dell EMC Code 35:55 - Yadin's Mission
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Thu, 22 February 2018
This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Hyperloop proposals, Atari's new cryptocurrency, Sony's taxi bid, Microsoft's drug program, Spotify's new bet and being Switzerland. 00:00 - Watching bad movies #ForTheTech 03:28 - Elon's boring between McDonald's & ATF bureau 04:52 - Melissa hates on the MidWest 10:38 - Atari's Token Stock Market game 14:58 - Sony gives Uber the "Boy Bye" using AI 19:49 - Microsoft's giving away free cloud candy 26:16 - Spotify's hardening their approach 33:09 - Josh has moved to begging, Melissa nerd-dating 36:20 - Pouring one out for the Swiss
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Wed, 14 February 2018
This week Josh and Melissa discuss drones, Citrix’s new acquisition, IBM’s new vulnerability, iMessage features on Android phones, Uber’s settlement, a new Social Engineering trick and moody voice assistants. 00:00 – Drones filing for separation 08:30 – Citrix’s warm blanket security strategy 12:20 – Using lotus notes? My Secret Squirrel has a present for you. 15:00 – Passive Aggressive iMessaging love for all 17:50 – I love you baby, here’s $240 mil. We cool? 21:05 – Why you should treat Siri like your crazy ex 25:40 – Simulating conversations with lost loves 29:00 – Even your voice assistant sets a bad mood
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Fri, 9 February 2018
This week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss Comodore64 making a comeback, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch, Kodak’s new Cryptocurrency, Samsung overtaking Intel as the world’s largest chipmaker, Cloud company revenue and RedHat’s acquisition of CoreOS 00:00 – Dry Hell in Colorado 04:45 – Peter is ready to get his nunchuckers on 06:25 – Using Rockets to dispose of your rivals 11:45 – Cryptocurrency playing with your film stock 16:51 – Congrats Tostitos! Worlds largest chipmaker 20:00 – Cloud companies making it rain 24:00 – Just to have Kubernetes in the show notes 26:00 – M& maybe a Reverse A… ? 30:02 – Superb Owls
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Wed, 31 January 2018
This week, Josh and Melissa are joined by Brian Gracely (@bgracely), Director of Product Strategy at RedHat. Together they discuss Microsoft's bug "fix" rejection, the UK gets high speed broadband, Dell's reverse acquisition rumor, podcasting, BBQ and great causes. Donations for the Krispy Kreme Challenge can be made here: https://www.crowdrise.com/thecloudcastnet 00:00 - Engineering tiny cars 03:00 - Intel gets bit by the love bug 04:40 - Josh remote trolls Peter 07:12 - Brian says hello 10:52 - The Dell Reverse Turducken 17:00 - Buy Elon Musk's boring flame throwers 19:00 - Doing all the buzzwords at RedHat 23:30 - Amazon taking the FUN out of VC funding 30:29 - Run to Krispy Kreme for the kids 34:24 - Doing the DevOps with Gene Kim
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Wed, 24 January 2018
This week Josh and Melissa are joined by Eddie. Together they talk about the AI Next Conference, the OnePlus phone breach, Bitcoin's recent plummet, Apple's redistribution of wealth plan and Whole Foods food shortages. 00:00 - Ready or not, here AI come 10:00 - ph-0wn3d your credit to buy ring gear 19:40 - Doing the bitcoin dip and nay nay 24:13 - Apple is all about the washingtons 29:23 - No-ole Foods 34:50 - Streaming in the Sky, because no one should go an hour without Rick and Morty
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Fri, 19 January 2018
This week Melissa and Josh are joined by Greg McCarthy @gmccarthy24, Social Business Advisor at Dell. Together they discuss the Hawaiian missile threat, Google's new acquisition and all things CES from the couch. 00:00 - Lost bets 04:00 - Not a drill, but not true 07:16 - Deep Touch 10:00 - Rained Out in Vegas 15:12 - Speaking in Blockchain, CES greatest hits 20:00 - Wireless charging at the coffee shop is as good as it gets at CES? 26:30 - Alexa, give me a courtesy flush 33:43 - Boom box suitcase 36:35 - Software Defined Coffee 38:54 - We are Bane 44:30 - Roll up TVs 49:12 - Animatronic ducks for the kids 58:36 - Management - not for readers
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Fri, 12 January 2018
This week Peter, Josh and Melissa are joined by Ariel Zane (@lariebyrd), Health Sciences Analyst at MSC. Together they discuss Trump website issues, Amazon's Linux 2 release, Microsoft's latest acquisition, Specter/Meltdown and all things Data Science. 00:00 - Data Science.... OoooOOh! 04:00 - Trump the web troller 07:20 - Amazon is creeping onto your premises 13:00 - MS gets NAS-y 16:50 - Specter Meltdown is my James Bond themed emo cover band 22:51 - Data Science Shaping Policy 27:51 - On the next Hoarders: Your Data 30:05 - Data Archaeology and Data Janitors 37:15 - The Future of Data Science 45:10 - Getting Data Naked
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