TechZing

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Justin and Jason discuss the cancellation of Justin’s trip to Europe, Justin’s satirical post about Microsoft banning iTunes from Windows, Jason’s idea for a crowdsourced book, the technical challenge of processing the new Twitter search stream, TechZing as a mastermind group, the effect of releasing AppIgnite early, the risk/reward of building a platform, Justin’s transition from Windows to the Mac, the possibillity of organizing a TechZing meetup, the technical underpinnings of dragging and dropping attachements in Gmail, the scientific limits to multitasking, Justin’s about face on frameworks and Jason’s idea for summarizing web articles.

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Justin and Jason discuss the re-branding of Tweetminer as Pluggio, how Justin learns from the show’s guests, the effectiveness of communicating with your users via email, whether or not Justin should raise funding for Pluggio, Jason’s secret project – AppIgnite, the mother of all demos, how Hacker News almost blew a gasket over the iPhone SDK 4.0 TOS, Strategy Letter V – commoditizing your complements, Justin’s new game – Swarm, and Jason’s idea for a massively multi-player, browser-based AI strategy game.

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Justin and Jason speak with Michael Dirolf, a lead developer at 10gen, about how MongoDB combines the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and relational databases.