Engadget Podcast 019 - 12.06.2004

Good eggs! On this show we talk about last week's Microsoft Mobius conference (with audio from the event), requests to Microsoft, more Apple phone rumors, a new iPod hack from Hadley Stern, blog shills, word of mouth shills, Google and the rising problem click fraud, the Elegant Universe, sending IMs to Santa, voting for us, and our new phone number for leaving us messages (206-339-6257!).

Host: Phillip Torrone.
Format: 60 minutes, 14MB, MP3.

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We've added time codes in the following list and links to the stories or references.

Minutia..
02:00- Microsoft's Mobius 2004 conference in Seattle, lots of mobile peeps.
29:20- More Apple Phone rumors.
30:40- iPod hack tip from Hadley Stern, album artwork.
32:40- Blog shills, Word of mouth shills? Is this the future?
42:55- Google CFO, clickfraud.
46:10- Brian Greene's Elegant Universe online.
53:30- Add Santa to AIM, Santa has a TOS.
56:00- Vote for us for best Tech blog here and best podcast here.
56:00- This puppy likes Dawn and Drew.
57:45- Call and leave us a message! 206-339-6257

Left out Grand Theft Audio carjacking mashups (modologues), but here it is.

LISTEN

[Oliver @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

Any particular reason why the 18th podcast was never given a story? I mean it was uploaded and i got it via the rss feed a few days ago (last Friday i think), but it never appeared on the site.... weird.

[Aaron @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

18th podcast was here:

http://podcasts.engadget.com/entry/1234000940022294

[Oliver @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

Well that's really weird then. Not only did i never see that, but I even did a search for the term 'podcast' and it came up with the 17th and 19th podcasts, but not number 18.

Anyway, never-mind then :-p

[Steven @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

is anyone else using iPodder and not having the http://www.engadget.com/common/videos/pt/rss.xml url work?

[Brandon Campbell @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

I wonder if Philip got his $800 for mentioning **********?

[pt @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

haha, i wish, i'd donate it to the eff as i said on the show.

cheers,
pt

[quoteablequoter @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

I am surprised no one mentioned how cute the dog is already. May i ask what the breed is? I have been looking for a pet.

[brickballs @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

ok, heres the alt url for podcast 19 (this one):
http://www.gemair.com/~nathan/proxy-/index.php?url=uggc%2Sjjj.ratnqtrg.pbz%2Spbzzba%2Sivqrbf%2Scg%2SRatnqtrg_Cbqpnfg19.zc3

and just for good measure, heres the one for podcast 18 (i missed it too):
http://www.gemair.com/~nathan/proxy-/index.php?url=uggc%2Sjjj.ratnqtrg.pbz%2Spbzzba%2Sivqrbf%2Scg%2SRatnqtrg_Cbqpnfg18.zc3

[Joey Geraci @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

Some comments
"Imagine" is a pretty cool song, one of those timeless songs, incubus did a pretty cool remake too.
That string theory stuff does kind of blow your mind, my college physics professor is always making fun of those string theorists in the department, how they only have two questions: figure out what string theory is and to figure out what the variables are, and they will be set and we will have to throw away all of the current physics books down here in measly physics I and start learning about the 11 dimensions. I guess one of the string theorists in the department has kept saying that he will have the theory solved by 11:59, December 31st, and then we will have to forget everything about newtonian mechanics and all start learning about string theory.

Heh, learning about the different slices of bread might be more fun then learning about all of these different kinds of waves, I don't know...

[Gordo @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

Anyone have any trouble automatically downloading Engadget podcasts with iPodder? I added the feed a few weeks ago but it never downloads Engadget (even this one), just the other ones like DSC, DDS etc.

Yes, I have added the URL "http://www.engadget.com/common/videos/pt/rss.xml" to the iPodder list

[Tom @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

That dog is too damn cute :

[Gordo @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

Also, with respect to my above post, this could be the cause of my grief...

If I browse to http://www.engadget.com/common/videos/pt/rss.xml

I get the error

Access is denied. Error processing resource 'http://www.engadget.com/common/videos/pt/rss.xml'.

Plus, the URL now reads as
http://media.weblogsinc.com/common/videos/pt/rss.xml

Whats up with that, Phil?

[Gordo @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

Finally fixed the problem

Phil, for new users the "Add the Engadget Feed" link in this page needs to point directly to "http://media.weblogsinc.com/common/videos/pt/rss.xml" to work correctly.

I just added the above URL to iPodder and things work fine now.

[Steven @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

sweet, the media.weblogsinc.com/...xml worked =)

[Steve Holden @ Dec 19th 2005 2:27AM]

Has anyone compiled a text listing of all the phones being used by the Mobius short interviews? - Steve