Ping 122: Omnitouch, PocketTouch, Cutting Phone Costs, Ballmer's Feeling Lucky (Channel 9)

Laura and Paul are back to their hyper-selves this week and bring you all sorts of touchy subjects and the banter you have learned to love.

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Omnitouch

Windows Phone Going for Volume

PocketTouch

Ballmer at Web 2.0 Summit

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WhyBeTea

Oct 25, 2011 at 5:41 AM

I love this show! No matter when you post it. Yall got the best chemistry on all of channel 9! Keep up the good work. Love the new desk. Paul should get Laura coffee every morning as part of the punishment. Or do a episode of Hot Apps LOL... no scratch that. Coffee idea sounds better. Leave it to the pro's to do Hot Apps. And maybe get some of those banana bread slices to go with the coffee. Those things rocks! anVzdCBzYXlpbmc=
CKurt while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }

Oct 25, 2011 at 1:19 PM

Uhm, it is now 1:18PM on Tuesday in PT and it says posted 17 hours ago, so I guess Laura failed this one already right? It should have said 24 hours ago
PaulMest Ping co-host, Founder Mythly Studios

Oct 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM

18 minutes ago, CKurt wrote
Uhm, it is now 1:18PM on Tuesday in PT and it says posted 17 hours ago, so I guess Laura failed this one already right? It should have said 24 hours ago
Ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!
AdamSpeight2008 The Bandito Coder

Oct 25, 2011 at 2:10 PM

Maybe Laura's fate should involving nakedness ( god no, in all that is holy no. ) and a plackard saying "Lost To Paul" in Pike Street Market.
Or Laura having to put Paul face as the Background and or lock screen on her phone.
PaulMest Ping co-host, Founder Mythly Studios

Oct 25, 2011 at 2:48 PM

36 minutes ago, AdamSpeight2008 wrote
Maybe Laura's fate should involving nakedness ( god no, in all that is holy no. ) and a plackard saying "Lost To Paul" in Pike Street Market.
Or Laura having to put Paul face as the Background and or lock screen on her phone.
1) We have a no nudity rule.
2) I already do that when she leaves her phone unlocked. That, and dial a bunch of 900 numbers. Shh.
CKurt while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }

Oct 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM

So, since you clearly both lost....

You should both pick eachothers halloween costumes and walk arround campus in it for the whole day! We want pictures in your office, in meetings, trick or threating coworkers (not just your building!)
Also, use Bing Haloween And the rules don't say anything about the costumes having to match gender But they must be the right size though.
s0ftimage

Oct 25, 2011 at 8:57 PM

Love it... and wishing Laura brought me a nice Nokia WP7 phone from London Safe travels!
martinmine I see you're a coder, I'm pretty much a coder myself

Oct 26, 2011 at 12:55 AM

Does that mean its a touch touch touch screen? Yo dwag, we heard yo like touch screen in your touch screen
Looking forward to the Nokia conference. Going to be interesting to see the new handsets
Moumen MSP

Oct 26, 2011 at 3:05 AM

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http://bit.ly/vvAi7R
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martinmine I see you're a coder, I'm pretty much a coder myself

Oct 26, 2011 at 3:58 AM

@Moumen: Cool! You using the algorithm I had in my code? Besides, you should add an option on it so it doesn't add the spacing which Laura does not like since it takes up way more space then without spacing, even though I agree it looks far more organized with the spacing
dentaku

Oct 26, 2011 at 8:57 AM

Nice Suface. You should demo it a bit on the next episode.
BrentMorrisRTP Living the Dream

Oct 26, 2011 at 10:54 AM

Nice show - Thanks for the comment about Steve B. - I am sick of Wall St. talking trash about him and MSFT Stock.... Thanks again for a good show.
cbae

Oct 26, 2011 at 2:44 PM

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cbae

Oct 26, 2011 at 2:59 PM

Did Laura verb a noun when there's already a verb that was verbed from a noun?
natelawrence

Oct 26, 2011 at 3:12 PM

Laura, where in the world do you come up with all of the audio clips where you cut to text on the screen for a moment and comment on/reply to something that you or Paul just said? In any case, it's one of my favorite parts of ping! and adds a great fun flavor to the show. At least, I've always assumed that those quotes were your doing. Perhaps there's someone else involved in production there at Channel 9 who picks these?
Richard.Hein Stay on Target

Oct 26, 2011 at 3:46 PM

LOL "look at our demographic".
Moumen MSP

Oct 27, 2011 at 3:27 AM

@reply to comment: Thanks but I didn't use your algorithm. I did it myself (it's not really that complicated ). As for the spacing, it actually does allow you to turn them On/Off (the ToggleSwitch at the bottom)
Come on guys! would you vote it up for Hot Apps?
WhyBeTea

Oct 27, 2011 at 7:01 AM

You got my vote @Moumen!
IRB

Oct 28, 2011 at 6:04 AM

I have to agree with Laura, I don't see a need for the PocketTouch technology unless its for MP3 controls.

I like the sound of cheaper Windows Phones!
hellokeith

Nov 05, 2011 at 11:31 PM

Hotmail on 2 million iOS 5 devices, growing 100K per day