Aug 21, 2016
This episode has a focus on social media apps, in particular the rise of Snapchat, Instagram and Medium. We chat with Francis McCarthy (Unikrn) based in Seattle and Jamie Andrei (Flying Machine Films) in Sydney. We discuss: 1. How Medium is changing the blogging game. 2. Snapchat vs Instagram (recorded before the launch of Instagram Stories). 3. The perils of publishing on LinkedIn. We recorded it using a 360 degree video camera. So you can touch, tilt, spin and explore the video to see it in all its goodness. If you have Google Goggles, you can view in immersive 360 view. Check out the Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF-amGz7C8E We were also wearing microphones to record the audio. However, the original audio recording failed due to a faulty SD card (*shakes fist*). We were able to use the audio from the 360 video camera for the podcast. Hence we're calling this the lost episode! Its raw and mostly uncut. It simply features a couple of friends chatting about how tech is changing the world. RESOURCES Unikrn - the ultimate esports experience https://unikrn.com/ Flying Machines Film http://www.flyingmachinefilms.com.au/ Yahoo Takeover: Verizon buys search engine $6.5bn http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-25/yahoo-verizon-takeover/7658638 Firefox Will Dump Adobe's Flash in August 2016 http://www.wsj.com/articles/firefox-will-dump-adobes-flash-in-august-1469128298 Nerding out on Pokemon Go - This Mobile Life http://inspiredworlds.com/pokemon-go The Enormous Power of Small Group Messaging https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/enormous-power-small-group-messaging-francis-mccarthy?trk=prof-post Medium: Home Of The Ringer https://medium.com/@el/medium-home-of-the-ringer-829dd263f955 The Ringer https://theringer.com/ Medium Email Form by Rabbut https://rabbut.com/rabbut-tools/medium/medium-email-form/ Medium is not a publishing tool https://medium.com/the-story/medium-is-not-a-publishing-tool-4c3c63fa41d2#.q545dogeo This is not a new strategy https://medium.com/@ev/this-is-not-a-new-strategy-2ad781c6dedc#.d9zd3wyrw What does Medium want to be when it grows up? More like Twitter, it seems http://fortune.com/2015/05/21/medium-twitter-network-effect/ Francis McCarthy's blog on the podcast episode https://medium.com/@francismccarthy/podcast-to-snap-or-to-medium-filmed-in-360-video-e1c5acb0dea5#.llqxln70p Francis McCarthy on twitter https://twitter.com/FrancisMcCarthy