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Buzz Out Loud 1588: Loved the show (Podcast)

At 1,588, it's the final episode of Buzz Out Loud, the podcast that launched a thousand news stories, arguments, hosts and co-hosts, producers, and good times. We packed the studio full -- Tom Merritt, Veronica Belmont, Jason Howell, Rafe Needleman, Donald Bell, plus, of course, Molly Wood, Brian Tong, and Stephen Beacham...and it's possible there was some Champagne, a little whiskey, some cake, and even a couple of news stories. Oh, and tears. Definitely tears.

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FLASHBACK! Buzz Out Loud 1207: Dropping the EFF bomb on the RIAA and MPAA (podcast)

This flashback was chosen based on the description in the Buzz Out Loud wiki... "The Best Molly/MerritRant in Forever or Just In a Long Time." That's good enough for me!

Warning: contains strong language (that will be bleeped by the time you hear this), but we frankly couldn't help ourselves when we saw the stuff the RIAA and MPAA want to do to your computers, border guards, the FBI, and Homeland Security. It ain't good. Also, Twitter makes developers mad again, and we are definitely not number 1 in broadband. And it hurts.

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Buzz Out Loud 1228.5: Tom's Best Moments on BOL (podcast)

As promised in Episode 1228, here is the unabridged montage of Tom's best moments on BOL. If your podcatcher only downloads the most recent episode, you will want to go back and manually download Episode 1228!

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The Real Deal 210: Tom's favorite questions

A moment of silence, if you please, to honor Tom Merritt, the guy who launched this podcast four years ago, hosted it solo by himself for two, and who is leaving CNET to go work at some other content company, Twit something-or-other. We'll miss you, Tom. Thanks for a great show.

For Mr. Merritt's last show, we have some of his favorite tips and tricks and questions, plus a few of mine, and more call-ins than we've ever had.

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Gadgettes 183: The You're Killing Me Episode (podcast)

Tom Merritt joins us to discuss the many ways that technology is conspiring to kill us all.

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Facebook privacy policy: Longer than the constitution

Zuckerberg IMs

The many missteps of Facebook

Things Facebook should say at their internal meeting

Cradle from Quirky: An iPad lap desk with a twist

Get a “Keyboard Upgrade” for your ipad

Desktop donut factory? Sweet!

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Dialed In 126: Dating the Evo 4G (podcast)

This show was recorded before we knew the price and availability of the HTC Evo 4G, but we do mention it in the show. We also go over the iPhone appearance in Vietnam, the LG Ally, more Android news, and the latest reviews.

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Rumor of the week: Unique Motorola Android handset

News HTC Evo 4G gets FCC approval iPhone 4G prototype in Vietnam? iPhone exclusivity with AT&T? Sprint hangs up on Google's Nexus One Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to get Android 2.1 update … Read more

BOL meetup: say goodbye to Tom Merritt

Updated with useful information, such as the correct date of the meetup and the actual time.

As you all know by now, Tom Merritt is leaving CNET and Buzz Out Loud, and his last day is next Friday. It seems only natural that we should send him off with a truly epic Buzz Out Loud meetup! If you'll be in or near San Francisco on Thursday, May 13, please join us at 5:30 p.m. at the Thirsty Bear Brewing Company at 661 Howard Street in San Francisco.

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The Real Deal 209: Evernote (podcast)

This week: A focus on Evernote! Listeners of this show know that I'm a fan of this service. It's a note-taking app and photo archive. It runs on Windows, Macs, iPads, iPhone, Android, and the Web, and syncs data across all those platforms. I use it to remember things, I take notes during interviews in it, and I even do most of my writing for CNET in Evernote. I use this app because it works for me, pure and simple, and because it rarely, if ever, stops me from doing what I want to do.

So after several suggestions from Real Deal listeners who have become sick to death of hearing me say how great this app is and who want me to finally get off the stick and just do a show on Evernote, that is what I am doing today. We'll talk about how to use this app, what it can and cannot do, and maybe even alternatives. Our special guest is Phil Libin, the CEO of Evernote.

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The Real Deal 208: All questions (podcast)

This week: Your questions answered! Also, some road test items. With special guest host Josh Lowensohn. Josh is the main Webware blogger, and also happens to be the guy who answers a lot of Real Deal e-mail questions for me, although he's been working behind the scenes, just feeding me intel... until now.

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