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Year-End Spectacular. Special guest Juhan Sonin. Bull Session and It's News to Me.

Social Game Design. Special guests Brenda Brathwaite and Soren Johnson. Bull Session and It's News to Me.

"Design Thinking". Special guests Michael Dila and Peter Merholz. Face-Off and It's News to Me.

Mobile and the Future of Computing. Special guests Jim Leftwich and Luke Wroblewski (LukeW). Bull Session and It's News to Me.

This week's much-ballyhoed launch of RockMelt is again getting the tech intelligentsia in a lather about a potential new browser. What they seem to be ignoring is that the battle has already been won and lost: the best case scenario for RockMelt is, romantically, they become a plucky cult favourite like Flock before running out of steam and sinking into obscurity; pragmatically, they are doing things so well and advanced that they are bought and assimilated by the companies who have already won this space.

What search engines do best is immediately give us lots of scattershot information. It may be relevant, or it may not. It may be timely, or it may not. It may be useful, or it may not. While search engines used to be magic, as we become more mature users of connected computing devices, increasingly their results are clumsy. While it remains remarkable that they can bring us so much so quickly, the uneven nature of what they are providing is increasingly frustrating as we continue to expect more.

Reviews of the iPad, GoWear Fit and Dropbox. Special guest Juhan Sonin. Segments include: It's News to Me, FTW/WTF, Live From...

This week's theme is Games and Learning.

It is with no small bit of wonder that I recently realized my participation in fantasy sports began 20 years ago, in 1991. Originally "Rotisserie Baseball", within a couple of years I was also playing fantasy football and it was not long before fantasy baseball fell off and I just enjoyed playing the football equivalent. So it was that I am realizing how little I enjoy fantasy football today, and spent a few minutes trying to figure out why. My answer? Playing fantasy football today requires little-to-no thought. It has been reduced to a near-Zynga-like game, which for my money is the ultimate condemnation. Let's take a look at the evolution of the game that has reduced it to zombie-like button-pressing.