released a fact sheet last week that they have for the first time past one billion active users per month active i don't this is a quote and how many how many people do you know that their dogs have a page and pit a billion users per month six hundred million via mobile the median new user age is now twenty two last year it was twenty three the report was twenty six that was one of them moms coming on thank goodness pinterest yet it is totally serious as far as that talking about the way people interact and it's somehow like like a chair it is very i've i think it's run very much like netflix i'll netflix will run last summer pretty much yeah you have the big dog on campus facebook with this huge thing that still is huge but it was like netflix and it made certain changes to it and now it's taking off from the body that got to where it was about two years ago it was able to shake around a little bit and people didn't get too upset because it was pretty much the only get out there but suddenly it's got all sorts of alternatives and things that are more excuse a lot of their developers by basically altering the the a p i and saying that everything that uses twitter's information has to be presented exactly the way twitter presents it as opposed to grabbing things and that's and that's kind of like and useful i mean that the reason it's popular is because celebrities got on and people are excited because they can interact with celebrities and it's interesting that i think what's going to happen i mean the companies are going to tick off people as they get bigger and they start making changes it leads me to believe that if you're trying to keep this from your kid you know the idea being i guess your shopping your kid they're going to go over this big section where the squares are and always parents and they're trying to figure out how to take pictures of their phones or stamp your codes with their their phones are go or but q r codes number one are a pain i think they're a real good attempt at trying to do something but stumble i mean i don't see a lot of people jumping on it well i think it's because i don't know there's not a content or all these are just linking to a website for advertising right hey look buy this hey look here's something else we're doing and i think the biggest stumbling is i and you know throw that out there for a little show here it's my little comic booky them it's a talking comic book and it's just a connection to a you tube video this guy's face and you put it on here just make some talk but if someone savvy enough to use this or do this they're savvy enough to go on the internet and order it i mean i can't unless it's got some advance or this jumps ahead of the line or something i think or what they were trying to do with it i don't know whether it's going to successful is that the cure or code of their top items as opposed to the items that are going to be selling out so whenever you go to the store and try to find out in this kind of forgetting about it or going to a different store you're already out today you take a snap of it and then they're going to send it to you at your home i think that's their idea bank and like i said yeah you can just go right on the internet and order it if i if i scan it here at the store ok great but then i get the message twenty minutes later it's us we're sold out and i could look up three off the shelf unless they did something where you're able to pay for in store as your stand because i know a lot of the people there typically that i imagine me doing this are not the ones that are using the internet to purchase things for whatever reason  think i was i would think if i'm in the store and i'm going through the hassle of doing that i guess my worry is if i do this i'm like sweet you know and i go home and you know i'm looking at my phone later on they say darn it were sold out or this will be shipped to you in march that does nothing for my christmas shopping that i got to hide something else and then i'm upset if there was some guarantee with it great well and i think that's that's also money issues if targets of i mean well remember amazon in the first the first christmas of amazon and then all the bad publicity they got because they were not able to fill orders moses promise of one and it was all it took off i think i think this is a brilliant idea actually if it works because the idea is to you're eliminating disappointment so this is for the parents out shopping and that's gone and normally they're going to go to another store but you know this is almost like you know we're going to almost  inventory in the store but we have three hundred this way or you can be one of those three hundred s again that code i don't know i think maybe because it's not going to stop people from buying online i don't think it's not either or if it's something that is if people are out about and they happen what they're getting their kids all excited about this toy the most unless they're using it for shipping purposes well this is so far in front of the holiday season maybe they're tracking where you're scanning like your coat saying art i scan this  be coming out being released and announced and maybe some rumors are said that ten million production units are going to ordered of this thing so obviously if this is an i pad mini ends as many people believe apple's expecting this to be and i'm assuming there is people that don't want to spend six hundred dollars maybe you want to spend four hundred dollars on a but i guess the issue is that of the things that make the i pad that people just about the i pad as far as the retina display and all those kind of things that make it look i guess my concern again i have a concern for apple but is that if it doesn't look as good if it looks like a cheap knock off of the i pad as opposed to you know and the i pads of this while thing on the i pad mini it's like ok it's i would think that there may be a little more trouble trying to for this to be a success i mean there's there's actually a market we've seen all these small tablet  i don't think that's a concern i think since we don't officially know what you know we don't know that the i pad mini is coming our whatever there maybe there's something different about this that we can hope for some gimmicky thing about it like when i pod nano came out it was just a smaller i pod but was popular because it had different colors something something gimmicky like that exactly i know you did i know they did and the market was very narrow  pad and i'm not jumping on to the three yet we have an i pad two of my house but i can't see tons of people who haven't jumped in getting on to this i mean maybe my guess is the gear market is for teens i mean most of these kids have i phones but probably don't carry around an i pad i think there are targeted markets got to be somewhere in that two hundred range somewhere between that two hundred dollars and three hundred to complete compete with the kindle fire  skews a little bit older and this is trying to get that not quite fire ready but more hipster cool whatever kind of level wow what a sad state of affairs  i think they desperately need another breakthrough and i think the same thing but smaller is not it sure i think the same thing with more memory is not and i don't know where they're going to go yet one of things interesting about this is apple's typically been seen as this company that says here's our product take it or leave it and over the last few years it seems like there i was in a completely expanding but i mean just the fact that they are saying ok there is this ten inch screen that's there for some people and they're almost there broadening the market appeal i guess of it's a say hey we're going to serve a few different markets and we're just talking about that this will be aimed towards a different market that's typically not going the way apple i would i would you agree the nano definitely was it was choosing that but it seems like they have typically kind of said this is our device take it or leave it it's i don't know and also interesting that next week that the samsung galaxy note two is probably going to be announced for us release and i think that these and these are the these types of combo units of attracting the name the of technology but on really happy news rovio from finland our big friends and finland of have announced that they're going to release angry version of the angry birds series after your bird seasons rio space and of course the spin off bad piggies that came out a month or two ago or has mentioned that there's been over one billion downloads of angry birds they just launched a tumblr page that allows people submit fan art and get some preview of what the game is going to be like it's been an interesting thing to watch casual gaming went from i guess a lot people look at pac man being the first to arcade casual game and then it went to and then we got smaller devices tetris being on the gameboy and then further along you got  to solitaire microsoft of all things you know perhaps bring it to the p c and i think that it's been it's funny cause i was around for years and years and years and then suddenly bang they they released this really silly game  people play on their phones or play it everywhere and you know interesting to cheer star wars to partner with i don't know i don't think so ok perfect you think oh my gosh yes perfect i mean cheap addictive easy to play game and the other versions you know for five bucks but still five bucks people are easy to throw down that money and something like star wars i bought the first version and didn't buy anything since then but for with the star wars yet tax that dumb original trilogy came out in theaters they filmed a long sequence the ones coming out each year first was coming out this december for the holiday season the hobbit ok so you don't know it's the shortest book of that you know  books but the big the big thing about it was really they're going to break up into two movies which everybody still thought was wow they doing that and then they decide we're going to make into three movies now like a last minute change and now they're even saying that when the d v d comes off  but this one it was more so the director's idea to do this whereas it wasn't the studio's idea it was jackson to do with he's the one to convince them to extend this out like when is enough enough when you peter jackson want to do this sure how much more does he get paid to do this and then the studio scene for three nights or one project that's right he's getting it like that's like saying to me you know hey we have three hundred days in a school now and we'll pay you three times as much for that i think about a little bit and i'm jumping on the project of course this is another guaranteed millions and millions of dollars for him over the lifetime of it and they'll have eighteen different versions of it it's like everything else if i can if i could have you buy it three or four or five times or more yes i'm into that i mean i think the market has reached its saturation point with purchasers we're not going to buy anymore and the studios still desperate for growth stockholders like any business looking for exponential growth and what's the next thing well we've milked everything out of our purchases so let's have them buy it again and then again again and then again again again again how many times you bought star wars twelve times fourteen i think i bought it on d v d like six or seven times i mean that's and and then v h s two or three times the have an extended d v d and then go see the next one or not me i'm not gonna i bought when lord of the rings came out they announced their they're releasing the lord of the rings d v d s but in three months it's the extended i said no thank you i will buy it when the extended one comes out not buying that because that was coming out and then of course i bought the super stupid version of that comes with one extra d v d and at some statues and  the quest for more money couple quick notes movie notes foxcatcher which we talked about a good bit last week is having a casting call this saturday so for those of you that didn't get a chance to be in the perks of being a wallflower if you go down t million dollars to again which is still pretty good despite the horrifically bad reviews taken to as the number one movie of the past weekend with fifty million dollars hotel  number two number for twelve point two and frankenweenie common man is fifty with just eleven million dollars crash and bird this week argo is coming out and affleck directing ben by quite a stretch that it had one guy to pay and everybody else was you know a couple hundred dollars to show up at a film and it made some ridiculous amount of money crazy well today