GeekCast 22: iPhone 2.0 and It’s Still Useless

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Lisa Picarille, Jim Kukral, Shawn Collins and Sam Harrelson sorted out a whole mess of geek stuff and randomness for episode 22 of the weekly GeekCast.

The show kicked off with talk of the iPhone 2.0, and the virtues like 3G speed, as well as the negatives, such as the keyboard, lack of copy/paste, etc.

The rumored ability to capture video didn’t pan out (did RIM start that rumor?), which was a letdown for your loyal GeekCasters.

Sam was excited for his new pet rock, I mean Kindle. I’m sure we’ll have a laugh over that contraption a year from now when it’s propping up Sam’s dining room table.

The new Co-Presidents of LinkShare were on the docket, too, as well as talk of the fantastic hairstyles that Lisa, Missy Ward, and Connie Berg will be bringing with them to the LinkShare Golden Link Awards and Symposium.

Shawn admits to discovering Google Video Alerts about nine months after it came out, and it sounded like nobody else ha really seen it either.

Two death watches: Twitter and the Vado video camera. FriendFeed and Flip FTW.

Also, Jim and Sam had a cat fight about the strategy behind Jim’s ZobZee project.

Then some bragging from Sam on the cutting edge video work by Motive Interactive. He was also quite proud of his metrosexual footwear, as Sam admitted to wearing mandals.

We flipped it back to video business and how it would be great for YouTube or somebody else to create a business channel for video.

Then Shawn lamented that of the hundreds of videos he has created, the most popular one by far has been a parody of 2 Girls, 1 Cup, which has racked up over 100,000 views on Daily Motion.

Some anti-SEO ranting and reminiscing about 80’s music to round things it.

The show runs a somewhat husky 78 minutes, but you’d think it was like 113 minutes with all of the good stuff jammed in there.

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