Google I/O has come and gone without any new Chrome OS hardware. Was it a bust for Chromies? Not at all, but most of the news were behind the scenes services and provided context for Chrome’s future vision.

You can see some of that future in Chromium for the Mac, which is getting the Chrome App launcher. Our extension of the week dovetails with Google’s new Play Music All Access subscription service. And while Kevin still loves the Chromebook Pixel, he pleads with Google to add one important function to Chromebooks: Support for Google Play movie and TV downloads.

Hosts: Chris Albrecht and Kevin C. Tofel

• So what was Google I/O like, what’s new for Chrome and what new services did Google add?
• More Intel-powered(intc) hardware builds are being tested
• Chromium for Mac getting the App launcher
• What’s Google’s vision for Chrome? To take over the world, of course!
• Extension of week: Better Music for Google Play Music
• When will Google add movie and TV downloads for Chromebooks?

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Google I/O was a different event from years prior and on this week's show we discuss why. 

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Hosts: Tom Krazit
Guests: Kevin Tofel, Janko Roettgers, and Eliza Kern

Thirteen years ago Adam Dunkels was trying to hook up a hockey team in Lulea, Sweden with sensors and cameras so coaches and fans could track helmet cams and players’ vital signs. It was an academic project but it was also an early example of the internet of things. The project was doomed to fail for a variety of reasons, but out of that experience came a lightweight code for connecting devices called Lightweight IP.

A later version of that code became the base for LEGO Mindstorms and a variety of other connected projects. But Dunkels realized that to truly build a platform for connected devices he needed even lighter weight code. So he built Contiki, an operating system of sorts of the internet of things. And now he’s commercializing all that he’s learned in a startup called ThingSquare. In the podcast we discuss the history of the internet of things and when we reached the tipping point that made the internet of things inevitable.

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Host: Stacey Higginbotham
Guest: Adam Dunkels, chairman, co-founder and chief architect of ThingSquare

• How connecting a hockey team in 2000 helped him learn what the internet of things needed.
• Why he build LWIP, microIP and later Contiki as an OS for the internet of things.
• The factors that led to a tipping point for the internet of things.
• Dunkels tells me to stop looking at the future and to pay attention to the present. Because the internet of things is here today.

On the all-Chrome podcast this week, we remind folks that Google Keep is replacing Scratchpad in Chrome OS: Don't forget to sync your notes! Also, Google has added push notification support in Chrome. Speaking of Google, Joe Marini, a Google Developer Advocate talks about Packaged Apps, Native Client and more.

Our extension of the week will help you better manage your tasks while a quick tip helps unhide your "missing extensions. Oh... and isn't there a big event this week? Hear our preview thoughts of Google I/O!

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Hosts: Chris Albrecht and Kevin C. Tofel

• Goodbye Scratchpad, hello Google Keep
• Google gets pushy with notifications
• Special guest: Joe Marini from Google
• What we expect from Google I/O
• Extension of the week: Any.DO
• Tip: Can't see all of your extensions? Here's the fix

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Some publishers and content companies are betting their future on subscription revenue from readers and users, while others are keeping their content free and banking on advertising revenue to pay the way. What are the pros and cons of each model?

Moderated by:
Mathew Ingram – Senior Writer, GigaOM / paidContent

Speakers:
Bob Bowman – President and CEO, MLB Advanced Media
Raju Narisetti – SVP and Deputy Head of Strategy, News Corp
Justin Smith – President, Atlantic Media
Richard Tofel – President, ProPublica

It was a busy week in the tech world. In between rumors of billion dollar acquisitions, we plucked three interesting stories for you to sink your brain into this weekend. Mathew Ingram joins the show for a look at how LinkedIn is evolving into a media entity. Erica Ogg and Kevin Tofel help us examine whether Apple’s iPhone is just becoming a dumb platform for Google and others. And finally, Janko Roettgers breaks down the breaking (as of recording time) news of YouTube subscriptions.

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Co-Hosts: Chris Albrecht, Tom Krazit
Guests: Mathew Ingram, Erica Ogg, Kevin Tofel, Janko Roettgers

LinkedIn continues its evolution as a media entity with the launch of magazine-style news channels

Google lets iOS apps direct users to Chrome instead of Safari

YouTube launches its paid subscription channels with select partners

Connecting devices to the internet helps solve the problem of turning on your lights without ever leaving your chair, but a 1980s device called The Clapper did the same thing. To really bring connected devices into the future people are using them to build services. That’s fun, but it gets even better when you add machine learning to the data those devices collect.

That’s what ThingWorx did when it signed a partnership with Jeff Hawkin’s hot data startup Numenta. Hawkins who was the creator of the Palm Pilot, has tried to build out a series of algorithms that look at data in the manner a human mind does to make predictions. But it can process a lot more data than a human.

In this week’s podcast Russ Fadel, CEO of ThingWorx, talks about the partnership and how predictive intelligence plus connected sensors are changing farming and improving medical care.

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Host: Stacey Higginbotham
Guest: Russ Fadel, CEO of ThingWorx

• How farmers are using the internet of things to improve their crops.
• Adding more intelligence to connected devices means they can tell you what to do (and eventually those sensors may tell a robot what to do).
• Does a secure internet of things mean a closed system?

On the all-Chrome podcast this week, we start out with news of Asus getting into the Chrome hardware market later this year and how Intel's upcoming new Atom chip could prime the pump for all-day battery life on Chromebooks.

From a personal standpoint, Chris has had a few problems on the Stable channel with his Chromebook while Kevin is enjoying all the new features of the Dev channel. A few new tips are shared -- including where to get a Chromebook at a discount -- as well as our extension of the week for Chrome and Chrome OS.

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Hosts: Chris Albrecht and Kevin C. Tofel

• Asus plans Chrome hardware for the second half of 2013
• What might Intel's Silvermont silicon bring to Chromebooks?
• More about that LTE radio in the Pixel
• Tip: Opening tabs in new pages
• Chris' Chromebook is crashy!
• Kevin is finally rocking the Dev channel and all the great new features it brings
• Extension of the week: Add to Amazon Wish List
• Google Keep is no Evernote, but it's handy and works offline; it's a Packaged App!
• Chromebooks can be found for as little at $185.50 at Amazon's(s amzn) Warehouse

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Sites like reddit, LinkedIn and Vox Media are known for their viral hits and eccentric user communities, but they are also becoming content commissioners in their own right, hiring reporters and ad agency creatives and doing interviews with the president. Are these sites the new media barons, and how will that change the landscape and audience of the existing media players?

This is a re-broadcast of a panel from our recent paidContent LIVE show in New York. Check out full coverage and on-demand video from the event.

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Moderated by:
Jacob Weisberg – Chairman and Editor in Chief, Slate Group

Speakers:
Jim Bankoff – CEO, Vox Media
Erik Martin – GM, reddit
Daniel Roth – Executive Editor, LinkedIn

Taking a cue from Apple (appl), we mixed it up this week on the GigaOM Weekly News Wrapup show by taking over a small conference room and recording the podcast at GigaOM HQ. A good time was had by all as we talked Apple’s possible new design direction, the billion dollar slap fight between Microsoft (msft) and Amazon (amzn), and a lively discussion over Path way less taken (bonus:Caddyshack!).

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Guests: Erica Ogg, Barb Darrow, Eliza Kern

Design changes for iOS 7

Say what? Microsoft Azure’s a $1 billion dollar business?

Path doesn’t have a registered user problem, it has a trust problem