In This Episode: Threads launch. How they all integrate. Who is going to win?
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
- GR – Threads.
- 4:00 Launched with enough resources
- They got 100M users right away
- 7:30 GR – Transfers easily from Instagram
- 9:00 Sorting out followers and following
- 13:00 GR – So much sponsored stuff
- 24:00 Privacy concerns. Overblown?
- 30:00 Gary’s take: Importance of Twitter-like services very overestimated.
- 33:00 LN: Utility, however, is high if done right.
- 37:00 GR – Redit
- 42:00 GR – ActivityPub.
- 53:00 LN – Can it be on a desktop?
- GR: And iPad. But this is Instagram, so probably NEVER. Tricks to type
Ain’t it Cool
- 59:00 LN – Happy Valley (Brit, Acorn TV) – Little “happy” about it.
- 1:00:00 GR – Silo (Apple TV+)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
- 1:02:00 LN – If I Leave a Service Like LastPass, Does My Data Remain Online?
- 1:03:00 GR – 8 Ways To Make Text Stand Out in Mac Notes