Are podcasts The Next Big Thing — again? With Spotify, Amazon and Apple all scrapping to get big names and fresh content while throwing around big money, it sure seems like something’s going on. After El Kaiser and J.D. roll through the rest of the week’s headlines, El Kaiser also offers a few suggestions for remote podcasting software. It’s all right here in PTJ 337 from the comfort of your own home!
Links to News Stories on This Week’s Show
- “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” (DreamWorks)
- “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power”(Watch on Netflix)
- Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing (Apple-Google)
- Apple and Google launch coronavirus exposure software (The Washington Post)
- Mark Zuckerberg: Half of Facebook may work remotely by 2030 (NBC News)
- Facebook to Limit Offices to 25% Capacity, Require Masks at Work (Bloomberg)
- Preventing Unwanted Contacts and Scams in Messenger (Messenger News)
- Twitter is testing a feature that limits who can reply to your tweets (TechCrunch)
- Accessibility updates that help tech work for everyone (Google Keyword blog)
- Amazon pushes Prime Day to September as it returns to normalcy: WSJ (Reuters)
- The podcasting world is now Spotify versus everybody else (The Verge)
- Amazon’s Audible Goes Beyond Books to Chase Spotify in Podcasts (Bloomberg)
- Apple Ramps Up Original Podcasts, in Part to Help Promote TV+ (Bloomberg)
- Chrome 83 arrives with redesigned security settings, third-party cookies blocked in Incognito (VentureBeat)
- Protecting against resource-heavy ads in Chrome (Chromium blog)
- Apple Buys Older Shows for TV+, Stepping Up Netflix Challenge (Bloomberg)
- Helping members who haven’t been watching cancel (Netflix)
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