Aug 27th 2014
This Week in Google 264
Flinty Parsimony
Hosted by
Jeff Jarvis,
Leo Laporte
Does social media silence debate?
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Guests:
Gina Trapani
Hosts:Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, and Jeff Jarvis
Is social media an echo chamber? Uber's strategy to sabotage Lyft, Amazon buys Twitch, and more!
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Running time: 1:56:21
Links
- How Social Media Silences Debate
- Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
- Google Adds Office Editing to Docs and Sheets for iOS, Releases Slides
- Refreshed Hangouts in Gmail makes it easier to see who's online
- Google News & Weather updated with new widgets and a refreshed UI
- Google Search for Android updated with Google Maps navigation cards
- Google+ users can now import videos to their YouTube account
- Shall we try? Tricking Google Now into speaking with a British accent
- Google twitches; Amazon buys Twitch for $1b
- Related: Google was concerned about antitrust
- Tent — All your data in one place
- WatchABC and NPR One Android & iOS apps add Chromecast support