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Intro
Kristin created Geek Girls Network, a resource hub for women who possess a passion, knowledge, and interest for all things “geeky”.
Aside from providing timely news, reviews and how-tos, this website also encourages women to share their geeky expertise by accepting contribution articles.
When I’m not writing or tweeting, I spend my time reading comics, building websites, dreaming about zombies, and reluctantely playing Bejewled Blitz (already about 80,000 ahead of Steven… still slightly behind JP though
). And as of today, will be officially guest writing for the new
GeekWeek online zine.
Christmas Presents!!!!!
JP -
- Tony Hawk’s Ride for Xbox 360
SM -
- Borderlands and Overlord I + II
KDR -
- Its beginning to look a lot like Zombies ( a zombie xmas carol book), & Bunny Suicide Calendar
Geek Speak
2009, 2010, and end of a decade
JP – 2 biggest stories of last decade
- 1 – 1999 new years – otherwise known as the Y2K (Nothing happened – pretty much people spent a ton and nothing really happened)
- 2- Apple… was on the verge of death and now rules most things tech (SM – I wouldn’t say “rules” but is the most buzzed about, yes)
SM – My 2 biggest stories
- Storage Capacity, 3 Terrabytes on a home computer?
- Y2K
KDR – My biggest
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Finally started a blog promoting the female geek
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Traded in my day planner for an iPhone
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Biggest FAILs of the Decade – The Watchmen, Indiana Jones, Vista, Xbox Red Ring
Devices / Software of the Year 2009
- SM – Droid / Android (marketshare figures)
- Chrome (released in 2008, based on webkit, 4% market share, passes safari, poised to blow up in 2010),
- Bing! (yes, microsoft’s search engine, 10% market share)
- KDR -Twitter spawns a gazillion social media gurus
- JP – iPhone!!!!! ALL LTHE WAY… turned me into a MAC convert… after years of rallying against! <-WORD!!! kdr
2009 Game of the Year
- SM – MW2 (JP agrees here!)
- KDR – Uncharted 2
2010 Predictions
Predictions for 2010? Apple iSlate? New Google Phone?? Next big Twitter-like product
- (JP – I predict iSlate is Jobs legacy and he will retire shortly after it’s release…)
- KDR – will anyone find a permanent use for Wave?
- (SM) I’m horrible at predictions. My guess is a Zombie Apocalypse and I have my Boomstick ready… (How about TPG makes it big… no HUGE in 2010??)
Google’s new Nexus One Reality? or more hype? (specs after jump)
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- Rumored to be sold directly by Google after the new year…
- is there any truth to this? If so, how will it be priced?
- How will google ramp up to do retail when they never have done this before?
- Does this make sense?
- What is their motivation to compete against their partners? (Verizon and TMobile?)
- Is there a new business model in sight here?
- WHAT ABOUT WINDOWS PHONE AND THOSE AMTHROPOMORPHIC ICONS IN TIGHTS?
- oh yeah, its just re-branded windows mobile on a HTC pure… doh!
- \Don’t forget the Android Netbook…
- (JP – I was trying have not spent too much time, but I tried to get a VM of Chrome running… will try to get it up again soon… no luck on first try!)
Tech,Gaming, and Geek News
- “Spock” Voices Star Trek Online (for John) (JP)
- Will Narrate the games introduction, also will be on various cut scenes throughout the game
- Newest Spock, Zachary Quinto, will be relegated to the “Emergency Medical Hologram tutorial”
- (SM)sounds like latrine duty to me, they should task him to hold Leonard’s Jock while he’s at it
- (KDR) Finished downloading the beta yesterday and will be releasing an official pre-review of the game shortly
- (KR) Finally a release date, 2010
- AT&T Stops Selling IPhones in NYC (SM)
- We talked about this a couple shows back. AT&T can’t keep up with the bandwidth hungry IPhone users
- Their solution: Stop selling phones in that market…. yeah. quite an epic solution
- (JP)And then re-adds it a day later without too much explanation…. (some talk is that there were too many stolen credit cards being used to buy them from here…)
- User to pay large sum because others are Pirating
- It’s in the UK and the Entertainment industry there is forcing the ISP’s to warn and then cut off users who are pirating
- all through a government bill called the Digital Economy bill
- Whats the catch? They aren’t paying the bill for the enforcement measures, the average user is.
- Everybody else at the ISP will have to pay more to foot the costs of the piracy crackdown while entertainment industry gets all the gains
- (JP- I am not ever down with this type of counter measure… I don’t believe this is a deterrent… you want to deter crime??? Make the punishments severe and make them stick. People do it because they can get away with it or they just get a slap on the wrist if they get caught.)
Deal of the Week
Intarweb Goldmine
Contact Info
- On Twitter: Steven is @DarthMolen and I am @JPuent and Kristin is @GeekGirls
- email us: darthmolen@thepowergeeks.com and jpuent@thepowergeeks.com
- Shout out and holiday wishes to our troops here and abroad special thanks to Kristin, and all our listeners for a great 2009 and let’s make 2010 HUGE!! Spread the Geek word!!
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