There’s something worse than crack and it’s the Kim Kardashian game from Glu Mobile. Logo design is hard, guys. AirBNB changed theirs and the internet trolled them...hard. FB and Twitter are experimenting with enabling e-commerce from their platforms. Would you make a purchase from your social media feed? Amazon’s new subscription service puts startups like Oyster and Scribd on the ropes. Email isn’t dead. Kimberly talks about the return of email and we get to know the fitness app Monique is obsessed with. We got deep about hacktivism and The Internet’s Own Boy -- a documentary about Aaron Swartz. Then we got dishy on dating in Silicon Valley.


The Kim Kardashian Game is Digital Crack

This is Beyoncé preparedness week for Monique, so she made Kimberly do the heavy lifting. Kimberly makes fun of women that she met in an online dating focus group in which a woman share her husband hunting tips on the app Tinder. Then the ladies debate the viability of two startups: Manservant, where you can hire men to hold umbrellas for you and brush your hair and Canary, a service that bills itself as an Uber for weed. We round out the conversation with a timeline of the fighting between Pando Daily and Secret in all of its “he said/she” said goodness. Grab your popcorn this episode was salty! 

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9 ways the internet has become like High School: The Sex, Gossip, & Weed Edition

We’ve been watching the Anaconda video on repeat (76 million VEVO views!) and Monique is treating it like its a freaking TED talk. The side twerk, the floor twerk, the baby crawl twerk, how to twerk while lifting weights, twerk while eating a banana, even learn how to twerk with a snake! On a more serious note,  we tackle big questions this week, like if you are just now doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, are you just showing the world how behind the times you are? Should racists be able to use crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe? Is it tacky to use the new UBER Corner Store to order condoms and lube or just good thinking on your part? Is it shady to not give a gift when you attend a wedding even after you dropped a grand to get there? The answers may surprise you on this week’s edition of CTRLCast. 

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The Anaconda Ice Bucket Challenge

A fresh look at our digital lives with an upbeat examination of the latest in tech, our favorite new startups, and breaking news. Each week we find the best in consumer gadgets, life inside Silicon Valley, and an exploration into all things innovation. Kimberly and Monique bring their unique sense of humor and their insider access to give listeners a special look inside the tech industry.

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