The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #20 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @socialnerdia and first-time co-host @domineconcept talk about the latest..

Tech News: eBay finally sells a large portion of Skype, personalized in-videogame ads, Augemented Reality in your eyes with Wi-Fi in your brain, Wikipedia color schemes

Not-So Tech News: Disney acquires Marvel, Fox’s Twitter commentaries on re-runs, and Macaulay Culkin rumored to be real father to MJ’s “Blanket”

Upcoming Movie Releases: Gamer, Extract, Amreeka

Upcoming Music Releases: They Might Be Giants – Here Comes Science, Derek Webb – Stockholm Syndrome, David Bazan – Curse Your Branches, Andrew WK – 55 Cadillac, The Used – Artwork

Randomized Topic of the Day: Crowdsourcing (CP+B / Brammo, Fiat)

Announcement: Don’t forget!!! Today’s the last day to vote for SXSW panels… Please vote for “Here Come All the Latino Bloggers“ http://bit.ly/votesxsw

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Brett Erlich is the co-host of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, as well as a writer, co-host and associate producer for InfoMania. Both shows are on Current TV and you need to watch them if you haven’t already. Take a second, stop watching CNN or MTV and go watch some Current.

I had an awesome time talking to Brett on The Social Nerdia Show! and you can listen to it below, on blogtalkradio, or as a downloadable/five-star-reviewable/subscribable podcast on iTunes).

I’ve been a fan of Current for a while now. With shows like Vanguard and Super News!, it’s as if Current knows what I want to watch. So when I heard that The Rotten Tomatoes Show (based on rottentomatoes.com) was coming to my television via Current, I got very excited. With hosts like Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox, as well as a ton of clever viewer-created movie reviews, the show has become a part of Thursday nights for me.

Brett told me about how the show got started, how they select the user-generated reviews, and how much he enjoys working at Current. The show is a great example of what you can do by combining television and the web. Part of its success is that they are crowdsourcing some of the best material to movie fans and critics sitting in their living rooms.  Brett explained that it’s good that the show is more than just the opinion of the hosts and that “the more people we have contributing opinons, the better the show gets.”

So many people becoming film critics and spreading the word like a virus has definitely made it a bit challenging for movie studios. They can no longer simply depend on great marketing and polished trailers. For a movie to succeed, it might actually have to be good these days. Word of mouth has gone from casual conversation at a dinner party to millions of random people sharing thoughts in the internets. Sure, some movies like Snakes on a Plane bomb even with great online buzz, but I doubt District 9 would be the movie it is if it had come out 10 years ago.  (more…)

The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #18 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @socialnerdia and @somerlea talk about the latest..

Tech News: Canada makes Facebook rethink privacy, IBM’s patent for a blogging/tweeting TV remote, Microsoft’s CAPTCHA advertising patent, and YouTube’s new viral video revenue sharing.

Not-So Tech News: Searching for Jessica Biel is like searching for malware, Jason Biggs gets attacked by a Gibraltar ape (for real).

Upcoming Movie Releases: Taking Woodstock, The Final Destination, Big Fan

Randomized Topic of the Day: Bob Dylan is working with GPS companies to get his voice on your car. Bob Dylan telling you to turn right or left sounds like the beginning of GPS awesomness.

Don’t forget!
- Vote for SXSW Panel ”Here Come All the Latino Bloggers” http://bit.ly/votesxsw

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The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #16 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

 

In this episode, @jestebanc and @somerlea talk about..

Tech News: 3D coming to a TV near you, MySpace acquires iLike, and Dell gets into the phone market.. in China.

Not-So Tech News: Reality TV contestant Ryan A. Jenkins accused of murder, Celine Dion magically prego at 41, Terminator Producers file for Bankruptcy.

Upcoming Movie Releases: Inglourious Basterds (Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino), Post Grad (the girl from Gilmore Girls).

Randomized Topic of the Day: Still loving the Palm Pre. The Pre ads might be creepy but some people (including ad agency Modernista) think they’re working. We’d like to see some ads showing off the phone’s awesomeness instead of a pale girl saying “Bing.”

Some announcements:
- Vote for SXSW Panel ”Here Come All the Latino Bloggers” http://bit.ly/votesxsw

- Join us at next week’s Frisco Internet Entrepreneurs Meetup http://bit.ly/howtopodcast

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David Alston is the VP of Marketing and Community at Radian6, a software firm that helps remove the barriers to effective social media monitoring and analysis. I had a great time chatting with David on the 15th episode of The Social Nerdia Show! and you can listen to the conversation in its entirety on the player below or by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes.

I checked out a demo of Radian6 before talking to David, and I must say I was impressed. Their tool looks pretty slick and comprehensive. I particularly like the fact that it integrates with Salesforce and WebTrends, which many companies already use. And, as David told me, Radian6 is going to integrate with more CRM, Business Intelligence and Analytics systems in the future.

David shared about how the young company got started by being part of the online community. He also explained how their real-time web-based solution enables companies to interact online without having to manually go to every blog and site out there. ”Once you get all that data from all over social media, from all the YouTubes of the world, Flicker, all the blogs,Twitter, Friendfeed, news, all that stuff gets pulled into one big topic profile and once it’s there you can do all kind of drill downs and look for trends.”

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The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #14 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @jestebanc, @somerlea and @jonsterp talk about..

Tech News: Facebook acquires FriendFeed (for $47.5 Million), the 230 MPG Chevy Volt, and Radiohead abandoning the “creative hoo-ha” of albums.

Not-So Tech News: A Dutch survey reveals people preferring the toilet over friends, sex, and other things.

Upcoming Movie Releases: The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Randomized Topic of the Day: Jet Blue’s all-you-can-fly plan for $599.

We finally pulled it off in 30 minutes. Plus, we added some sound clips in between segments and improved the sound quality a bit. Thanks for listening!

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The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #13 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @jestebanc and @somerlea talk about..

Tech News:  Netflix rumored to be on iPhone & Wii, eReader Wars intensify with Sony’s newest and the potential of color eInk, plus TiVo strives to stay alive while adding video podcasts (featured shows and via RSS feeds).

Not-So Tech / Pop Culture News: Miley Cyrus gets stalked by a crazy old guy who has been barred from following her on Twitter. Also, Paula Abdul is finally officially out of American Idol (the pending question on everybody’s mind is whether her seat on the show can be sold on eBay).

Random Stuff: The earthiness and trendiness of “going green”, ebook-highlighting apps, and Gilligan’s Island actual location.

Upcoming Movie Releases (Aug 7th): The indie-ish movie/documentary “Paper Heart” and the scary-ish “Perfect Getaway.”

Randomized Topic of the Day: A listener left us a voice message about the recent Twitter DDOS attack and the new NFL & ESPN rules around Twitter and the social web. The call was so awesomely thorough that there wasn’t much more to be said, except the fact that Twitter probably loves the extra free press and… that we would love to see Donald Trump in-billion-dollar-merger tweets and/or NFL player in-game-while-punting tweets :)

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