- Startups - News with Brian Alvey, Simon Berg, Dave Mathews and Andrew Warner - TWiST #266

1:30 Welcome everyone to a huge roundtable with Brian Alvey, Simon Berg, Dave Mathews and Andrew Warner.

2:30 On GoToMeeting, we have Andrew Warner of Mixergy, welcome Andrew.

3:00 Thank you to Sourcebits for sponsoring the show.

5:30 Skout has disabled is teen meeting function in light of allegations of rapes occurring between people who met on the service.

11:00 How could Andreessen Horowitz not have known about what was going on?

16:00 Brian, would you ever build an app like this for kids?

21:00 Discussion of the ethics of building a proximity app for children.

25:30 Thank you to GoToMeeting for their support! Everyone thank them @gotomeeting!

28:30 Insight from Tyler: "It's like a crying astronaut."

29:30 Brian, tell me what's going on with Crowd Fusion buying Ceros.

32:45 Simon, what appealed to you about partnering with Brian?

36:15 Andrew: What kind of training are you giving to companies to help them with content creation?

37:00 What does this mean for publishers?

37:45 Microsoft has announced that they are buying Yammer for $1.2B. What do you think of the timing of this acquisition?

40:30 Recapping past TechCrunch winners and their subsequent acquisitions.

43:30 It's been less than a year since Google debuting social gaming on Google+, but game makers are already abandoning the platform.

47:00 Andrew: So what will become of Google+?

49:00 Will Kevin Rose being at Google have any positive impact on G+?

53:30 Andrew: Do you remember the time when Yahoo was the portal and everything had to go through them? Maybe Google will end up being like that.

56:45 Tyler: If Google+ doesn't work, will this be remembered as a defining moment?

01:01:30 Dave: I don't want to dictate to my computer, I want context integration.

1:02:00 Andrew: I was amazed by Siri until I heard about Dragon Dictate.

1:04:00 In an effort to limit spam, Reddit has begun blocking high-level domain names. They say it's only temporary, but what can these domains do to get back in Reddit's good graces, Andrew?

1:11:00 Brian, what's the story, did you finally get yourself a Jason?

1:14:30 Andrew, what are you up to these days?

1:16:30 Lon, thanks for joining us. Everyone check out Ranker.com

1:16:45 Dave, what's going on with Neuaer?

1:21:00 Thank you so much to everyone who joined us today. We'll see you next time.

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