Viral Audio: A Look Back at Tech in 2011, and Forward to 2012

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BoomTown on KQED's "iPhone or iSpy" Radio Show (Audio)

The Apple iOS and Google Android smartphone location-tracking kerfuffle. Smarty-pants commentators. KQED’s “Forum” radio show with interviewer Michael Krasny yesterday. Go!

Queen Sarah and Duchess BoomTown Talk Yahoo Layoffs on KQED Radio

Yesterday, TechCrunch Senior Editor Sarah Lacy and I went on Michael Krasny’s Forum show on San Francisco’s KQED public radio station to talk about the Yahoo layoffs earlier this week. During the talk, Lacy declared herself queen, so I dubbed myself a duchess. Thus, we are blog site royalty, which I compared to being the rulers of Latvia. Sorry, Latvia!

Viral Radio: Facebook Flap

Here’s a radio interview BoomTown did earlier this week on San Francisco’s KQED “Forum” show, hosted by Michael Krasny. The topic was a report in the The Wall Street Journal that certain third-party apps on Facebook were grabbing information about users in ways that violated the social networking site’s privacy guidelines.

Charlene Li and BoomTown Talk Yahoo on KQED's "Forum" Radio Show

If you want to listen to an interesting discussion on what happened with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s leaving his job and what’s next for the troubled Internet giant, well-known Internet analyst and now consultant Charlene Li and I talked yesterday with Forum host Michael Krasny for the “Forum” radio show on San Francisco’s KQED public radio. Click through to hear the show.