News Roundtable with Brian Alvey and Dave Mathews - TWiST #171

0:00-1:30 It's our news Roundtable Friday.
1:45-3:00 Welcome to Dave Mathews, the founder of NeuAer.
3:00-4:00 Brian Alvey on the line from NYC.
4:00-4:15 Also with us is Kirin Kalia, the managing editor of LAUNCH.
4:15-6:30 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show.
6:30-7:00 First story: Airbnb goes into damage control mode after vandalism. (See the full story on LAUNCH at http://launch.is/blog/airbnb-confirms-insurance-in-case-your-pad-gets-trashed...)
7:00-7:45 Is this bad or a good opportunity for Airbnb, Brian?
12:00-13:00 Next story: Brands you follow on Twitter will now take top placement with their tweets. Will this make Twitter a significant amount of money?
13:00-15:00 Why did this take Twitter so long? What do you think, Brian?
17:00-20:15 Kirin: Do they use the same algorithm for brand pages and personal pages on Facebook?
20:15-21:00 Next story: AT&T is going to limit data rates to improve the performance of their network.
23:00-24:00 Why don't they roll out high speed Wifi everywhere?
25:15-25:45 Kirin: Why are we behind in the US in wireless infrastructure?
25:45-27:30 Jason's idea for a startup: Community, demand-based fiber.
27:30-30:00 Thank you to Carbonite for sponsoring the show. Everyone go to Carbonite.com.
30:00-32:00 Next story: Spotify has already been sued for patent infringement. What is wrong with our system?
36:15-36:45 And the patent is good for 20 years from the filing so they can shake people down until April of 2015?
37:30-40:00 Next story: Google and Facebook have ramped up lobbying efforts. Is the amount they're spending significant?
40:00-42:00 Any thoughts on why they're spending this money? Is it all about relationship building, Brian?
42:00-43:30 Next story: Google has launched an experimental hotel finder (see it at google.com/hotelfinder). What does this mean for other hotel deal sites?
47:15-50:00 Next story: Expedia and Groupon see almost a near sell-out of their first travel deal offerings. What's next for Groupon in terms of partnerships?
50:00-51:45 Brian: It's like buying traffic for a person who comes to a website once and then bounces.
51:45-53:30 Next story: Mark Suster said in a Business Insider interview that the VCs who are saying "no bubble" publicly are privately admitting that there is one. So what should we believe--bubble or no?
53:30-55:15 When Microsoft valued Facebook at $10B and then it went to $20-30B, that's when everyone realized things were getting ridiculous.
57:30-58:30 What are you thinking as an entrepreneur? When are you going to raise another round, Brian?
59:30-1:01:00 Next story: Apple ditches the DVD drive in the new Mac mini. Was this premature?
1:01:00-1:02:00 Jason: It's like a hot girlfriend who always insists on ordering the special.
1:02:00-1:04:00 Next story: A tweet from a DJ shuts down an LA street when 1000 people show up for a party. How dumb was that?
1:05:15-1:06:00 Last story: The Google Logitech TV Revue price has now dropped to $99. What happened here?
1:06:00-1:07:00 Jason explains what Google should have done when releasing this device.
1:08:30-1:10:00 Thank you to Carbonite and MailChimp for making this show possible.
1:11:00-1:12:00 Everyone search for and download ToothTag for your Android phone and everyone get your term sheets or developer resumes into Brian Alvey at brian@crowdfusion.com.

Support This Week in Startups and independent media by joining the TWiST Producer Program at TwistList.co!

Multilingual? Translate this episode of TWiST into another language and email the transcript to translate@thisweekin.com

FOLLOW ON TWITTER
Jason: @jason
Tyler: @steepdecline
Kirin: @kirinkalia
Brian: @brianalvey
Dave: @ggdm

Keep up with the latest from our sister company LAUNCH:

Airbnb Allows Users to Share Parking Spots
http://launch.is/blog/airbnb-allows-users-to-share-parking-spots.html

Sergey Brin Surfs at Google+ Beach Party--"I'd +1 that"
http://launch.is/blog/sergey-brin-surfs-at-google-beach-party-id-1-that.html

Aol's Wow Shutters, Directs Deal Hunters to Patch
http://launch.is/blog/aols-wow-shutters-directs-deal-hunters-to-patch.html

Google+ Allows Users to Reorder Their Circles--and Adds Creepy Giraffe
http://launch.is/blog/google-allows-users-to-reorder-their-circles-and-adds-c...

Barack Obama Spamming the Hell out of Twitter
http://launch.is/blog/barack-obama-spamming-the-hell-out-of-twitter.html

Special thanks to the members of the TWiST Backchannel Producer Program! See a list of all the members of the program at twistlist.co

Executive Producers
Louis-Eric Simard, Benjamin Gifford, Jacek Artymiak, Octavian Mihai, Will Paoletto, Geoffrey Clapp, Eien Hyett, Jeff Hoffer, Kyle Lonzo, Austin Miller, Rashaun Sourles, Robb Kunz, Greg Berry, Sean Lynch, Mary Ann Halford, Jim Joyce, Morgan Howard, Margaret Johns, Kyle M. Brown, Paul Cole, Nick Duncan, Magnus Ingvarsson, Amir Ayalon, Carlos Zaidenweber, Avery Keitt, Joshua Shipsey

Category:

• News
• Science & Tech

Starring:

• Jason Calacanis
• Tyler Crowley
• Lon Harris

Directed by:

• Matt Raub
• Branden Lymer

Produced by:

• Kirin Kalia
• Carolyn Bedgood

Tags:

• TWiST
• E171

[Pransterrr]

wuts malechimp?