Awesomecast: Tech And Gadget Talk

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg, Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker and AJ Kuftic tackle a slow news week with glimmers of hope for a Duke Nukem Forever release date, Mashable honoring the WWE, Android and iPhone talk, Kevin Smith's attempt at Indie 2.0, and the rise, and fall, and rise, and fall again of iDOS for iPad. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg and Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker are back in their respective studios and joined by Walt Ribeiro of ForOrchestra.com, who we first got the chance to meet back at Podcamp Pittsburgh 3. We talk about his growth and time doing the Weekly Music Lesson as part of Revision3 Beta, and the transition to his new gig. We talk about King of Kong to hear Chachi geek out, a Pac Man reality show, Chachi's new T-Mobile G2, Sprint and T-Mobile UK staking high fees and limits for data, Steve Jobs stepping aside, Target.com's Playstation 3 snafu and how their customer service handled it, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, Mike Sorg and Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker are live at the Sharp Edge Bistro on Penn for the 5 year party for the Wrestling Mayhem Show! We're joined, in part, by Doug "Fatherspoon" Derda of ShouldIDrinkThat.com, another almost 5 year old Podcast, and Mulango Akpo-Esambe of Mangtoons Studios and Animation What? as we discuss all the latest in technology post CES, which is almost forgotten since today was the announcement for the iPhone on Verizon. We also talk Angry Birds board game, free video games making sense, the Mac App Store, naughty Windows Phones, and much, much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, and Mike Sorg are joined in the studio by Tony â??Chachiâ?? Walker of ChachiSays.net who should be around more often as we venture into 2011. We are also joined on Skype by John Chichilla to talk iPads, all of the tablets and 3D speculations of this week's CES, real Angry Birds, novel uses of Twitter in New Jersey, and much more! Join us in person and online when we go live 1/11/11 at Sharp Edge on Penn. More info here! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz, and Mike Sorg are joined in the studio by Tony "Chachi" Walker of ChachiSays.net to bring you greating tidings and cheer! We talk about Delicious's exagerated demise and it's alternatives, Rob fights his computer to conquer Google Body Browser, Word Lens, the future of iPhone gaming with Unreal, what we thought of Tron Legacy and the 3D Experience, and we look at 2010's top gadgets and trends and make that big prediction for 2011! Merry Christmas! We'll be off for the last week of 2010, but look for us to return in 2011 by January 5! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are online, and rejoined by AJ Kuftic once again, who joins us in studio! We run the line of tons of news and talking points for the week, including the latest in the WikiLeaks/OpenLeaks saga, Smurfy hackers, Mortal Kombat lameness, dealing with denial from the upcoming Mac Store, teaching our parents tech, and a little techy throwback. Please excuse the geekery. Oh, and how about Kim John-il staring at things? Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are in studio! Together! And we're joined on the couch by Robb Myers, and via Skype by Richard Colvin, both of Pittsburgh-based Alphalab startup No Wait to demonstrate their weeks old app live on the show! We also go Google crazy in the news as we cover the new Chrome WebApp Store, Plants vs Zombies, ChromeOS netbooks for all, Nexus S, eBooks, Groupon, new Facebook profiles, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are joined by Sam Winston of StoryPixel.com talks with us about tech in Kentucky, Epic Small, and weighs in with us on the stories of the week including Cyber Monday, domain seizures, bandwidth battles, magazine and news on tablets, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are joined this week with KDKA TV 2's Traffic Man, and YinzTeam Softball coach, Jim Lokay. He joins us to talk about social media's growing role in his work using Twitter, Facebook, and whatever else comes across. We also talk about the new iPad newspaper initiative, iOS 4.2 and it's updates for iPad, free Find my iPhone, Netflix price changes and streaming only plans, id Software's Rage HD, Angry Birds issues on Android, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are on with our old friend Tony "Chachi" Walker. And we're catching up with the latest on RockMelt, Firesheep, Boxee Box, Samsung Tab, Netflix on Android, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are on with our old friend Tony "Chachi" Walker. And we're catching up with the latest on RockMelt, Firesheep, GoogleTV, Windows Phone, Skyfire, and more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are welcoming back the MC for the upcoming Evening with Podcamp event, Norm Huelsman! We talk about the fires in the news this week, including the threatening FireSheep plugin plaguing our coffee shops, SkyFire spreading Adobe Flash to iPhones like a virus, iPads invading Verizon stores, and whether it may be a better option, Netflix on Xbox, Boxee Box, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST. And make sure to check out ReddUpThreadUp.com for the Pittsburgh area clothing swap, if youâ??re in the neighborhood!

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg are fresh off an exhausting shoot with The Baristas, and have welcomed back our first ever guest, Mike Pound AKA Uncle Crappy! We hash out the details from last week's Back to the Mac event, including the Macbook Air, Mac App Store, and iLife? We hit up how the GoogleTV is fairing, the Playstation Phone, Nook Color, and Uncle Crappy shares his experience with Pennsylvania's new automated wine kiosk. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST. And make sure to check out ReddUpThreadUp.com for the Pittsburgh area clothing swap, if youâ??re in the neighborhood!

Rob de la Cretaz,and Mike Sorg welcome back Mitch Donaberger of Chemistry Communications to tear apart what we think Apples and Lions have to do with eachother for Wednesday's "Mac to Mac" announcement, Facebook security, Zynga's hold on our souls, and Fox putting the Smackdown on Cablevision subscribers on Hulu. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both videoand audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST. And make sure to check out ReddUpThreadUp.com for the Pittsburgh area clothing swap, if youâ??re in the neighborhood!

The AwesomeCast is ramped up again! Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi Says" Walker and Mike Sorg are back from the SorgatronMedia.com hiatus and ready to dive into phones, TVs, and books. That would be the avalanche of announcements for the Windows 7 Phone, comparing it to iPhone (which may be coming to Verizon?) and Android platforms, the Logitech GoogleTV devices, and we have a live demo of who three self described tech industry know hows can't figure out Facebook's new Groups. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audioformats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST. And make sure to check out ReddUpThreadUp.com for the Pittsburgh area clothing swap, if you're in the neighborhood!

Since Sorgatron Media is on vacation for the rest of the week, Mike Sorg and Rob de la Cretaz are joined by Mulango Akpo-Esambe and Tony "Chachi" Walker after watching The Social Network for a little bit of a roundtable discussion. We talk about the movie in general, it's impact on Mark Zuckerberg's image, and the impact of social media in general. All this, and hear Rob lose his damn mind when a furry walks into the coffee shop. A huge thanks to Caribou Coffee down at the Southside Works for allowing us to bring a camera in and be the weird people in the corner. The AwesomeCast appreciates it!

The AwesomeCast is ramped up again! Rob de la Cretaz, Tony "Chachi Says" Walker and Mike Sorg are ready to dig into the dirty, dirty tech news for the week, along with a friend in the Pittsburgh tech community, Mike Woycheck of the Alphalab. We talk to him about what this tech incubator has to offer new recruits, and it's latest cycle of applications. We also run down the new Twitter, the Blackberry Playbook, Windows Phone 7's ad campaign, bad news for French pirates, wiretapping extensions to the internet, and Mark Zuckerburg's swimming pool of money. Check out all of our links on our Delicious page. Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook,, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in both video and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

We're recovering from Podcamp Pittsburgh 5 and our first ever live audience podcast! Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are joined again by regular Tony "Chachi" Walker, and Spike Katora from Vivo! We talk about the latest Twitter bug, Intel's master CPU plan, HDCP gets cracked, Google Voice on iPhone, Podcamp Pittsburgh 5, and much more! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in bothvideo and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

It's Podcamp Pittsburgh time! After Sorg's Video Podcasting 201, we decided to do a little more show and tell and show them our show in person! For the first time, Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg get to be awesome in one room together! We are also joined by an allstar cast! Tony "Chachi" Walker joins us with a little bit of a crowd participation experiment! DJLunchbox Will Rutherford joins us and gets his just violence in true Podcamp historical fashion via Jennie Roth! "Uncle Crappy" Mike Pound talks with us about his thoughts on Podcamp! Unicorns! Guest callers! Craziness! It's a fun show about social media community people! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in bothvideo and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can chime in with news, thoughts, or comments at Contact@AwesomeCast.com or 724-25-A-CAST.

Rob de la Cretaz and Mike Sorg are getting all Podcampy gearing up for the big event this weekend! We have the mad man behind the original Podcamp Pittsburgh, and creator of Something to Be Desired and the upcoming The Baristas, Justin Kownacki, to talk about the event, and his new venture into his next project with your help via Kickstarter. We also hit the news about Apple's spelled out app restrictions and the return of Flash, fun with Google's Instant Search, Sorg's take on The Social Network after an advance preview, and what is a Flattr and what does it mean for content creators out there? Be sure to check out Mike and Rob of the Awesomecast, and all of our friends, at Podcamp Pittsburgh 5! We'll both be doing multiple sessions, as well as a live broadcast of AwesomeCast from the event Sunday September 19 at 2 PM EST! Join the AwesomeCast on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and be sure to follow us on iTunes in bothvideo and audio formats, as well as YouTube, Boxee, Roku, and Blip.tv! As always, you can ch