Sounds Legit

Chris Luckhardt and Martin Kuplens-Ewart discuss the popularity and mechanics of crowd funding, with a focus on the Indiegogo photography campaign Passing Reflections.

Chris Luckhardt and Martin Kuplens-Ewart discuss the benefits of using open source source, on the eve of Mozilla's 15th anniversary.

Chris Luckhardt and Martin Kuplens-Ewart discuss Mailbox and the next evolution of email - time-based email management.

Chris Luckhardt and Martin Kuplens-Ewart divide this episode into two segments to discuss possible solutions for two personal, yet common, technology problems - how to play a wide variety of media on your television and time management in the digital era.

Chris Luckhardt and Martin Kuplens-Ewart discuss the primary problem with Google Glass - how it affects people on the other side of the glass.

Chris Luckhardt and Martin Kuplens-Ewart discuss the current trend toward simplified and flat user interface design for websites and mobile apps.

Chris Luckhardt and Martin Kuplens-Ewart discuss the culture of start-up acquisitions, beginning with the founding of Google and leading up to Instagram's sale to Facebook. Are companies founded by developers more likely to build a long-term product? Do investors drive a push to sell early?

Chris Luckhardt and Martin Kuplens-Ewart discuss Vine, Twitter's new 6 second video sharing app. What do we think about Vine? Check out the episode to hear our slightly less than enthusiastic review.

Chris Luckhardt and Martin Kuplens-Ewart kick off the new season of Sounds Legit with Martin's technology trend predictions for 2013. From Firefox OS to the continuing surge in China's online commerce, it should be no surprise that the conversation focuses on mobile technologies.

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt ruminate on why some people are disconnecting and taking extended breaks from technology and social media.

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt discuss the issue of people and companies buying masses of fake social media followers. As questionable reputation building and intended reputation attacks are increasingly occurring on Twitter and other platforms, some tips and solutions are offered to help users maintain authentic, transparent and genuine reputations.

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt continue their lively discussion and debate about Drupal and WordPress, currently the leading free and open source content management systems, and their different approaches and philosophies as website building tools. This is part two of a two part episode.

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt have a lively discussion and debate about Drupal and Wordpress, currently the leading free and open source content management systems, and their different approaches and philosophies as website building tools. This is part one of a two part episode.

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt discuss the pros and cons of Apple's new iOS 6 Maps. Are they really as bad as the recent hype would have us believe?

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt discuss how education systems are evolving around the world in the digital age.

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt discuss Internet telephony, including its early origins in the open source community with Asterisk up to the most recent developments coming out of Silicon Valley from Twilio, OpenVBX and Burner.

Chris Luckhardt welcomes Eric Portelance to the podcast to discuss the short messaging ecosystem, including Twitter and its past and current competitors like App.net.

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt discuss The Oatmeal's crowd-sourced fundraiser to save Nikola Tesla's laboratory, a $35 million SMS message and Felix Baumgartner's upcoming jump from the edge of space.

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt dedicate an entire episode to a discussion on the state of broadband internet connectivity in Canada and around the world.

Martin Kuplens-Ewart and Chris Luckhardt discuss the events and technology of the Mars Curiosity landing, Digg's new website and iPhone app, Facebook login and user data deceptions and Google Fiber coming to Kansas City.