Our youngest son, age 13, joins me on this week’s Hmmcast to cover the past week’s happenings. Was kind of like who’s leaving Microsoft HR week, but a lot of other interesting things happening as well. I was shown a couple exciting demos privately — no NDAs — and hope to be writing about them in more depth soon.

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Most Hmm-worthy posts from June 10 - June 16, 2006
- Money changes everything: Scoble leaving Microsoft (10) [june 11]
- eBay AdContext in “coming months” (7) [june 12]
- Putting Google Spreadsheets to some use (0) [june 12]
- Nearly 1 in 4 age 18-50 have a tattoo (4) [june 12]
- *War of the short URL worlds (12) [june 13]
- The Scoblelizer Replacement pool odds (5) [june 13]
- I’m 24% cynical, you? (4) [june 14]
- New Netscape.com righteous or ripoff of Digg debate begins (4) [june 15]
- With Gates going part time what will this mean for Tablet PC future? (1) [june 15]
- MySpace plans search cage match using GYM (1) [june 16]

This week historical news events
- Amazon groceries
- eBay announces plans to integrate Paypal with Skype at eBay Live conference, as well as new contextual ad program that serves only eBay auctions
- 6 of last 7 months PS2 has outsold the Xbox 360
- Vonage stock dips beneath $10
- AOL/Netscape heavily inspired by digg-type format for new venture
- Washington State sends first cease-and-desist over new anti-online gambling legislation

Comments by
Kevin, Jeff Barr, brady (from O’Reilly, he left no link), qaqwex and Jason Calacanis

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Duration: 9:14

• Hmmcast #13: Life without TV begins
• Hmmcast #14: back channels, SL, climate, PC inventory
• Hmmcast #10: Microsoft steps and missteps, online gambling a felony and more
• Hmmcast #11: More secure password management, House votes down Net Neutrality and more
• Hmmcast #4: Xbox 360, newspapers and more
• Hmmcast #17: She’s only 17 edition