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Squawk Box October 14 - Digital Media and Elections Conference call organized by Alec Saunders
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It's Tuesday after a long weekend in Canada. And it's election day here. we'll be talking about the impact of digital media and the web on the election campaign, both here and in the USA where they've got a little less than a month to go on their election.

And if there's time, we'll have a chat about the updated Mac's that are due to be released today. There are some cool new features that are bound to make a few people lust after a new mac.
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William Volk said:
Windows Naming Buffer (oldest at top):

Windows 1.x
Windows 2.x
Windows 3.x
Windows NT 3.1
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows NT 3.5x
Windows 95
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Windows 98 SE
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows XP
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And now…

Windows 7
James Body said:
A Wall Street joke - What's the difference between Investment Bankers and New York pigeons? The pigeons are still capable of making deposits on new BMWs!
James Body said:
iPhone vs Symbian vs Android vs RIM vs maemo and the rest
James Body said:
Mobile (handheld) platforms are really hot at present - the battle for the hearts and minds of the handset developers is well under way
Alwaysoncarl said:
why did tablets die?
Alwaysoncarl said:
i am waving my hand in the camera
James Body said:
Mine works....
James Body said:
More exercise required Carl
Alwaysoncarl said:
self stealth
Alwaysoncarl said:
a new feature
Alwaysoncarl said:
but i dont see it
Alwaysoncarl said:
i raised my hand
Alwaysoncarl said:
and the mac does not break
Alwaysoncarl said:
i broke 2 machines on the power charger pins breaking
tres cool! ;)
Alwaysoncarl said:
i am on because of the magnetic power cord
Alwaysoncarl said:
now lets talk about why i am on a mac
Hi Jeff!
Alwaysoncarl said:
i hate how much i have to pay to get tools for the machine
Alwaysoncarl said:
cardscan just came out for the MAC
Alwaysoncarl said:
iriscard does not work well
Alwaysoncarl said:
i crash on third party apps designed for them
Yes
Alwaysoncarl said:
no
is that fanboi, or fanboy? just askin'
James Body said:
Different tools for different jobs
James Body said:
I have a MacBook Pro and an ee
Alwaysoncarl said:
the software that i am use to on the PC sucks on a mac
$300 for eeePC. $900 for mac. Macs have never competed on price. and should not.
Alwaysoncarl said:
apple is going to get its head handed to it
Dan York said:
Alwaysoncarl said:
i will be the contrarian
James Body said:
WiMax - cos there are very few WiMax equipped districted at present
James Body said:
Well - we will all know in 2 hrs time!
Dan York said:
Alec - URL for what you are reading?
James Body said:
A City of London joke - What's the difference between Investment Bankers and London pigeons? The pigeons are still capable of making deposits on new BMWs!
Alwaysoncarl said:
and would like a few moments at the end of the day
Alwaysoncarl said:
i have a need for some support
Alwaysoncarl said:
we have that strategy too
James Body said:
The newspapers in UK are unlikely to devote much column space to the result of the Canadian elections I suspect
William Volk said:
Web 2.0 = Dead 2.0? The Financial Crises As An Extinction Event
William Volk said:
Alwaysoncarl said:
their is also something going on call schlep campaign
Greg McQuay said:
Agree. Ask your kids. I have heard some surprising things. This is how the politicians are getting to them.
Alwaysoncarl said:
ama vs. aarp
James Body said:
Snarkfest - I've written that in my notebook
Alwaysoncarl said:
and gore
Alwaysoncarl said:
pickens
Alwaysoncarl said:
is their is an amazing activity going on for medical and energy policy revisions
Alwaysoncarl said:
one then we did not talk about
Alwaysoncarl said:
but i find the dials fascinating
Alwaysoncarl said:
dont like having to focus on 2 spots
James Body said:
Anyone got experience of Cause Caller - http://www.causecaller.com/ ?
Alwaysoncarl said:
was on anyone on cnn watching the dials
not at this point ;)
Alwaysoncarl said:
no conservatives allowing eastern europe strippers to immigrate?
liberal's problem is a perception problem that their leader is weak
Alwaysoncarl said:
had a microsoft plugin
James Body said:
Our friend Dave Troy is busy leveraging a range of services in support of the US Democratic party - http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/google-voiping-white-spaces/2008-09-07
Alwaysoncarl said:
high quality in real time
nope. but the stink will be them for a bit, I think
Alwaysoncarl said:
move networks
Alwaysoncarl said:
are they still investigating the scandals of the liberals that lost them the last election
liberal party is splitting votes with the farther left parties.
Brad Jones said:
James Brody, I am using tringme on this call with the Google Chrome browser on a low power Windows XP ... excellent quality!
conservatives are winning
Alwaysoncarl said:
or are the conservatives winning
Alwaysoncarl said:
is their a liberal trend in Canada
Alwaysoncarl said:
i am sorry i am late
James Body said:
Hello Carl!
no problem!
Alwaysoncarl said:
sorry about that
Alwaysoncarl said:
fivethirtyeight.com
James Body said:
I think that I would be challenged to name one recent Cnadian politician - interestingly I can name Canadian military men - but not politicians
Greg McQuay said:
I am Canadian living in the US. The election in Canada is mostly off the radar south of the boarder. News on this comes via family members.
James Body said:
It sounds terrible - but I had no idea that there was a general election goig on in Canada - the level of interest here in UK is tiny compared with the US political show!
William Volk said:
Obama also has a iPhone application. Very well done.
Sergio Meinardi said:
hello
Dan York said:
Okay, you folks up north have definitely outdone us... I can't imagine seeing either Obama or McCain in a Star Trek uniform!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotteh/2939330287/
Dan York said:
Cool... on the NetPrimeMinister.ca site, click on Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, etc. and you'll see the appropriate media for the candidates.
Dan York said:
Whoa... and there's a NetPrimeMinister.ca: http://netprimeminister.ca/ (Scary thing to me is that I actually recognize 4 of the 5 names)
Dan York said:
Hey, wait! TechPresident has some Canadian Facebook stats: http://www.techpresident.com/scrape_plot/canada
Dan York said:
And here are some somewhat esoteric stats about McCain vs Obama in the online world: http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/31491/mccain_vs_obama_how_the_meta_data_stacks_up
Dan York said:
And here's something I hadn't heard of yet in this campaign - the Obama campaign is running ads in an XBox 360 racing game: http://gigaom.com/2008/10/13/confirmed-obama-is-campaigning-on-xbox-360/
Dan York said:
A great site to stay up on what the US presidential candidates are doing with digital media is http://www.techpresident.com/
Dan York said:
Whoa.... you guys are having an election up there north of the border??? Wow! We didn't realize that down here. ;-) (Just kidding... I *did* know about it, but only because of Twitter.)
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