Buzzword Bingo

The browser wars are back! George Lucas isn’t writing their fate this time. If so, Internet Explorer would be Firefox’s father. No, the heavyweights are weighing in on the latest generation of the web. The browser is the key to current cloud applications (and possibly desktop applications in the future). There is as much for the winner to gain this round as there was back in the 90’s when Microsoft and Netscape went head-to-head. In this week’s Buzzword Bingo, we survey the current browser landscape with returning guest, Corey Moomey (@camdogthetwelve) and a new guest, Andy Waschick (@Gestalt). Andy is the owner and founder of Gestalt, Inc. As always, we also cover recent stories in our Net-Net News segment, Rants and the Call-To-Action.

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Show #6 Agenda

• Think-Outside-the-Box Main Topic: Browser Wars 2.0
  • Firefox 3.5
  • Safari 4
  • Internet Explorer 8
  • Google Chrome
  • Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate – Ars Technica
  • Browser Javascript Performance Comparison
• Net-Net News:
  • Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
  • YouTube – Office 2010: The Movie
  • Soon you’ll be able to buy any top-level domain you want
  • Official Google Blog: Google Voice mobile app for Blackberry and Android
  • FixOutlook Response – Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog
  • Wal-mart rolls back cheap Blu-ray player price to $98
• Mike’s Rant:
  • Why is it so easy to start a Mac vs PC flame war?
• Jason’s Rant:
  • Why do we have to use Microsoft in the enterprise?
• Corey’s Rant:
  • Experience the operating system.
• Andy’s Rant:
  • Please stop using the term “webinar”!
• Call-to-Action:
  • United Breaks Guitars

Running time: 01:17:50
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There are plenty of enterprise collaboration applications to choose from. Wikis, blogs and forums are all the rage, but are they really better than email? This week on Buzzword Bingo, Jason and Mike talk enterprise collaboration tools with Michael Popovich and Jeremy Laurenson. Michael is a Consulting Systems Engineer with Cisco. Jeremy is a Technology Solutions Architect with Cisco. Together they provide some great insight on the usefulness of enterprise collaboration tools and their impact on end-user productivity.

(Sorry, but I messed up the chapters in this episode. They’ll be back next time. But now, if you subscribe to the video podcast in iTunes, there are chapters in that version.)

Show #5 Agenda

• Think-Outside-the-Box Main Topic:
• Enterprise Collaboration Tools
• Net-Net News:
• Outlook is Broken
• Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models
• Our favorite iPhone applications
• Skype video calls from 30,000+ feet on Southwest Air WiFi!
• Hands-on experience with the Verizon MiFi
• Best Ad from Microsoft EVER! (Bing)
• Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon
• Mike’s Rant:
• URL Pronunciation
• Jason’s Rant:
• FAA: Update your In-Flight Rules
• Michael’s Rant:
• AT&T FAIL
• Call-to-Action:
• “Weird Al” Yankovic – Craigslist

Running time: 01:13:50
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