Seasonal Predictions - Episode #203 of CloudFocus Weekly

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00:10 Jason Atwood: This is the 203rd episode of CloudFocus Weekly for the first week of January 2015. This episode is titled seasonal predictions. CloudFocus Weekly is brought to you by Clone This User. Clone an existing Salesforce user with the click of a button by the desktop or and made for Salesforce One Mobile. Available for free, free, free, free on the AppExchange or just easily go to www.clonethisuser.com. I'm your host, Jason Abbot, and joining me for the first time in 2015 rounding past the 200 episodes closer and closer to the mythical 250 or 300 Justin Edelstein. The number is 250. That's the big number. It's a biggie. The big one. Yeah well we'll do something. We'll see if we make it. I mean we're right on track right around December is when we did it in theory.

Jason Atwood: Don't think theory theory. I think we didn't do as many podcasts last year as we did the year before We we tried to do one a week, but I feel

Justin Edelstein: Like there's like we know that I mean someone got married last year It's unrealistic. I think I think Like 40 is the no realistic goal is 40 to 45.

Jason Atwood: That's a realistic goal. Yeah Yeah, so I mean if I look at the episodes for last year for last year There were 39. Yeah, so 40. We started on the first. We started on the 16th, so we were a little bit ahead of ourselves, and we went all the way up to the 19th. Right.

Justin Edelstein: So we had 40 for the year. And we usually catch up a little bit around Dreamforce time, where we get to load in a few at a time. But yeah, there's a occasional slippage. Listen, life gets in the way sometimes,

Jason Atwood: And podcasts are one of those things that have to go away. But this is the year, and until it happens, I'm just gonna... I'm gonna throw it out there. This is the year we do something special with the podcast.

Justin Edelstein: Such as? I'm not gonna say.

Jason Atwood: Until we actually get it running. Until we get it running and up in something that someone can actually see, I'm not gonna talk about. Such as?

Justin Edelstein: Like, such as the Iraq?

Jason Atwood: Such as the Iraq. Alright, if you have not seen that video, search for what is it like. Just search for Stupi- South Carolina, no, South Carolina... Miss South Carolina Speech.

Justin Edelstein: Something like that. Such as the Iraq. Stupid..... Well isn't that like the word that would get it stupid? No, maybe I wouldn't use the word stupid. I might use the word. I would actually get the word.

Jason Atwood: This podcast by the way is still PC. Just saying. Okay.

Justin Edelstein: But we recorded on a Mac. Very nice.

Jason Atwood: Welcome back! Oh thanks! Hey buddy! It's nice to see you. It's nice to see you. Like I haven't seen you fight the last five days in a row straight. Actually that's not true. We took a little break from each other.

Justin Edelstein: We did. It was nice. It was so nice. Much needed. Oh my god. I didn't see you for like two weeks in a row. It was so good. Was it really? I feel like it was at least 10 days and man... So how were your holidays? What did you do? That felt so good. So I spent the week, the Christmas week, I spent in the sunny Bahamas. Nice. Where specifically? at Sandals Resort. He asked knowingly. He did. Hahahaha. It was lovely. The wife and I. The Sandals Resort. Is that one of those swingers places? It is not a singer's place. Oh, okay. It's just like a... But there's no kids allowed. It is not for that lifestyle. Although maybe, I don't know. Not that I'm aware of. But there's no kids allowed. There are no kids.

03:45 Jason Atwood: Like what's the oldest you can... Like is it 16 or 18?

Justin Edelstein: I saw some people that I thought were... Were probably near low 20s. Okay, like maybe 21 22 23 Didn't see anybody that struck me as a teenager. So was it like a party place like was it like like No, well, yeah cuz it's all inclusive so Inclusive a drunkenness. Yeah, so they have a lot of bars all over the property they have eight restaurants all over the property and One of the bars is open really late. Like, really late? Like, what's really late? Like, we live in near city. I think they said like 7am. Oh, okay. So it's literally like... And then you just go right there to like Mimosas if you want at the breakfast. And then the breakfast opens, yeah, if you really are crazy about it. But they don't even open... That place doesn't even open until later.

Justin Edelstein: There's some places that are open for breakfast, some lunch, some dinner, some everything. Oh, so eight restaurants, but only so many. They're not all open at the same time. Yeah. And I think there were like three or four pools. They had an island half a mile off of the resort that was theirs. That's part of the resort. So you can take a little boat over to the island and hang out there for the day or for an hour if you want. It was very nice, very relaxing. you don't have to really think about anything. That's what I like. I like to go on vacations where I don't have to be at a certain spot at a certain time and I don't have to think to plan or... You're not a like, go look at the like, the ruins type of vacation.

Justin Edelstein: Don't care. I just want to sit on a rock, on a beach. I would maybe want to check the ocean.

Jason Atwood: Whatever. It's pretty interesting enough, you said that, but then you actually told me that you got bored by the last day. Yeah, because there's so much rock sitting.

Justin Edelstein: I didn't get bored of the day, I got bored at night. Oh. Because there's only like... With your new wife?

Jason Atwood: Well, they're only married for six months, is that what it is? I'm out very well.

Justin Edelstein: Haha, I think she does Elizabeth. Ah, she's getting forwarded to this podcast today. What it is podcast brought to you by marriage counseling. There's only so many like bars that are actually open at night. Because a lot of the bars, quote unquote bars, are like swim up bars at the pool. Or you know, and those are not open. And like, you know, so it's like there's only like one. or two places to go and hang out at night. That's what I kind of meant by it. It was like monotonous, like the same thing every night. You go into like, imagine going to the same bar every night. It's like, oh, this is like the same bar. That's true, that's true.

Jason Atwood: I could see that. But can't you like grab drinks and go sit on your porch and look out at the ocean? Yeah, absolutely, sure. And we did. That's what those people have been married for 11 years. That's what we do. Well, we did that too.

Justin Edelstein: We grabbed some drinks, we... outside where we had a balcony. Some days we didn't go for breakfast, we had breakfast, you know, brought to us out on the balcony. It was very relaxing. So that sounds really nice. It is really nice. I recommend the all-inclusive sandals. What I will say, this is the second sandals I've been to. They also have the same company has a similar resort called beaches which is for families. Oh, okay. So there's sandals and there's beaches a So maybe I should try beaches. So if you had a kid, I do. You might prefer the beaches resort as opposed to sandals. I think of it as a stationary cruise. It a cruise that's not moving.

07:31 Jason Atwood: And you're just kind of in that same place. I wonder if the cruise industry says, we're like sandals put on a boat.

Justin Edelstein: They should because that's basically what it is and I've been on more cruises than I've been to sandals But I've been to sandals very but the cruises are very like action-packed like give come to the Lido deck and play bingo If you want they have these activities at sandals as well all throughout the day. There's pool tables. There's ping pong tables There's dart boards, but are they doing like they raw-rawing it like walking around big they had hey stuff like while we were there again like A cruise is very self-contained, right? It's five days. It's seven days. It's ten days So they've got you for those five days, seven days, ten days, and they plan it out, right? This is a rolling set of people coming in and out every day We just happen to be there for a stretch of five days So they're kind of having to repeat a lot of stuff over and over again Makes sense.

Justin Edelstein: You know, they did like, you know, belly flop contests in the pool and all that stupid stuff Okay, so they did do the stupid stuff. Yeah, they do the stupid stuff too. We played some ping pong We played checkers one night. We were sitting there playing checkers. So you were saying you got bored. Well we love ping pong, my wife and I. We love playing ping pong. We just play for like an hour. Nice.

Jason Atwood: I should have brought my racket. Yeah you should have. I didn't for my paddle. You actually have it in a jacket. Yeah your paddle. Whatever it's called. I don't think my wife and I could play ping pong very much because We're both so super competitive and while she thinks that she's better at ping pong for than I am she's not.

Justin Edelstein: You see that's the fun part. We're also both very super competitive but I happen to be really good at ping pong. And she's also very good at ping pong but she knows she's not even close to as good as ping pong as I am. So. She knows that we can play and I can beat her like 21 to 5 if I want to. Or we can play and it could be 21 18. Okay.

Jason Atwood: So it's not like when we play Madden and I crush you. No, it's not like that. All right, let's move on.

Justin Edelstein: Well, why don't you tell us about what you did because I just spilled the beans. Yeah, you did. I took... That wasn't my New Year's. That was just... I don't know, your news was unanswerable. Your news was rather boring.

Jason Atwood: I mean you live in New York. We do like all New Yorkers do. We go to our apartment and we... We went to Times Square of course. Yeah, locked the door. Never. Here in Times Square right now. Yes. We didn't even come to the office anywhere near it. We made that mistake many years ago. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. I've come close to being here. People everywhere. I've been near Times Square at like... 6 p.m. On the day. What is wrong with you. I know I had to get home like I went so I'll play and had to get home Like the way to get home from where I live and so It was like it was scary though.

Justin Edelstein: We were shutting down the streets. We did take the subway, but we we were in the city the night of of New Year's or New Year's Eve. That's what it's called. We stayed on the east side. Right, you didn't go anywhere near San Anyway, my news was whatever,

10:42 Jason Atwood: But for the The wife and I took a little... A day and a half to get there. No, we were only there for a day and a half. Then we took a little trip to Miami. So we did some, it's kind of a yearly trip to Miami for a vacation. We, we're both sports fans. We go down a local sports sporting team down in Miami, play a local New York team. You guys can do the math on that one. And it's fun. We actually, we stayed down South Beach. We stayed... I think we did the math like we've done this like almost 15 years now and we stayed in so many different hotels and This time I think we found a dud we found one we don So the dream hotel on 11th and Collins.

Jason Atwood: Sorry, not getting a higher view. No, you know, it is There's there's a there and the price Amenity mix sure and the same hotel for $200 a night less and that would not have chopped their price in half, would have been okay. I see. But like where they were and what they were charging, you're like, yeah, you're not at the level. They were charging for location, location, location. Because the 11th and Collins is like, right. They were trying- They were trying to charge for amenity, amenity, amenity, because they had some of them. But they didn't really have them done well. So it's like one of those places that like, oh, we have all these amenities, but when you actually dig into the amenities They're not there you like to stay down down there I when I go to South Beach I stay a little north six blocks north yeah, but there's a big difference difference

Justin Edelstein: Those those seven eight blocks are Lincoln really is the big game Lincoln and then Besides where you are in relation to Ocean Drive. In South Beach,

Jason Atwood: The ocean drive and kind of the fun of ocean drive and the restaurants and the stuff like that, I really the like that. We love the news cafe which is on 8th and Ocean Drive. It's kind of our little place to go. I mean again, everybody goes there. It's very well known. It's a semi-tourist trap. We actually only ended up going there once, which is unusual because we've been going there about four or five times. Because there's just not as, like there's a lot of places in South Beach that, you know, as you walk by, they're like, come in, come in, have fun. You know, it's annoying.

Justin Edelstein: I prefer to just walk and eat there outside. Like it's good. I don't just... There's only a couple good restaurants up there, though. There's not a ton. I find that there are quite a few.

Jason Atwood: Yeah, we had we had a couple of duds there. It's too touristy. They're they're totally trying to trap. I mean, we went into a place we sat and waited for 45 minutes. Oh, I just like the atmosphere of the whole like outdoor. Outdoor. Ocean Drive to you sit outside and watch theo people and have nice drinks. I just like the way it's a thoroughfare. Yeah, that's right. We just for one. It's good. I went for a nice run down on that's, the nice thing about being down there in December is it's 80.

13:54 Justin Edelstein: Yeah, good morning weather Yeah, and the morning is 75.

Jason Atwood: Better than, like, negative 4. Negative 4 is not fun. That You know what? Everybody gets a little crazy about winter. I don't really care. Winter to me is just... Winter does disrupt my running schedule. Yeah, but it's just the season. It'll be over and then we'll be... We'll get warmer and then it gets hot and then we'll be sick of the hot and then we want it to get cool. and then you just always are looking forward to the next Alright, so we did that. Let's talk about... We only really have... We have some big stuff to talk about next time. We have, Spring 15.15, which you've written a blog post already up on blog.arkusinc.com. I've been reading about it. I've seen a couple things. We should do a little giving you some home.

Justin Edelstein: I will like I didn't.

Jason Atwood: Okay then. We hired Justin to help you out.

Justin Edelstein: This is high school. Cheat off you during the test. Excellent.

Jason Atwood: Arkus, I place where cheating off your test is appropriate.

Justin Edelstein: I every time I. a and the and it's a way for I think that this is like taking someone who's-, to the Salesforce developer when I do that with air quotes developer because there's you know The declarative developer and then there's the coding developer and I think for now This is really geared towards doing more declarative development stuff as opposed to programmatic Even though I think it has it has some bits and pieces for for Programming as well It's very, very new.

17:18 Jason Atwood: It's very new. You. You. You. It really is much more learning management than it was just but make it more interactive, make it have video, make it have you connected up to your developer account. Which it tells you how long you're going. So, you know, it's much more thought-provoking and, I'm cooking on the video and starting and they call them challenges like start your challenge as opposed to. do the workbook. Yeah. So it's actually at developer dot salesforce.com slash trailhead.

Justin Edelstein: And where they got trailhead for I get trail. I don't really get head. Yeah, I don't really I don't know. Trailhead, you're heading down the...

Jason Atwood: You know, Unit tests with it. Nice. I don't know. That's up on blog.arcasync.com. Now I will say we have made one small change to the blog it on and we to realize why we hadn't been turned on but then we left it on. Anyway, our web CMS content management system allows you to expose the author at the top. So now there's no more by the person who did this than by the person who did this because this actually, you'll see their name. You'll see their name. So maybe we should actually start talking about who wrote them. And you can even click on their name if you really want to. Yeah, like you find, like in the next one, we'll talk about the next part. the next blog post, you can see it's by me and it tells you when internet or the internet site.

Jason Atwood: So anyway, the internet site. So next up on blog.arcasync.com is the annual, the year in a row. Very annual. Cloud computing, predictions for 2015. Crazy how this lines up every year for you. Jason Atwood on January 1st at F... And the one that I'm kind of excited That happened. That happened. They did rebrand. They did. That happened. They did rebrand. They did. So I kind of, now I say they would go more. I think they've said more force and they've kind of gone away from.com. Not less force. But here's what I said. This was 2000 until a year ago. It's been a long time since CR.M. was the only product offering of Salesforce and the.com era has come and gone. Twice. This year Salesforce will do a corporate rebrand from top to bottom dropping both sales and.com to just become force.

21:41 Jason Atwood: Okay. It was a little bit out there on the side. Just that one. May it be with all of us. Anyway, that was 2014. They also talked about Google buying Evernote. I always kind of throw in, I basically throw in a big like someone by someone. So let's talk about the ones for 2015. I have one, two, three, four, five. Let's do them all.

Justin Edelstein: Really? Yeah. Okay. time. Alright, so your first one was called Facebook. Predicting the decline of something is just a matter of timing, but you think the time has come for start slide. Facebook is declining. I mean, I know a lot of people are like, I don't even go on Facebook anymore. I just Instagram or I just write this or that. And it's like Facebook has become just this clutter fast.

Jason Atwood: And I just don't know if they have enough to keep them going. So I mean, again, I don't think they're going to die as a company, but I feel like they're not. That's it. It's the growth isn't gonna be there. The, the, the user ship is going to start to slip. You know, it's like people are, because I don't think the younger, the, the youngins are kind of like excited about Facebook. I'll tell you this, I have a nine year old and she's more excited about survival craft than she is about Facebook. Like to her, to that, to her at this point, when she's at the point where she's actually on a computer and doing this stuff, that's going to be the place her mother and her mother post pictures, like. That's what she sees it as now.

Jason Atwood: It's not a cool, fun place. It's a place where her mom posts all those stupid pictures of her.

Justin Edelstein: So, well, even my sister, who is in her mid-20s, there's no Facebook for her. Really? No.

Jason Atwood: It's all Instagram. Right. And then, for an example, your mother uses Facebook Messenger as a way to... to communicate with. So where it's going and I don't know. It's funny because I my use of Facebook I've since for years is kind of dwindled and more and more dwindled. I do. I miss it when people say oh you didn't see that this and this happened to that person like the big life events because I'm not paying attention to Facebook. It's great for birthdays still. Yeah, I actually don't like it for birthdays. I love it for birthdays. If I know you well enough to know your birthday, I text you.

Justin Edelstein: No, I love it to like tell me it's someone's birthday. Oh yeah. And if I care enough,

Jason Atwood: I'll throw that in my calendar and then I text. You can just subscribe to it on your calendar. You literally can just subscribe to the Facebook events calendar in your calendar. All right... What's your next one? Freece stuff from Salesforce. Like hats? Yeah, swag. So actually the product makes some sales which just keeps growing and so does the ping. Hahaha. But like years past, they learned from their mistakes, lack of sales, and started to bake in more and more products into the core licenses. Next year, I guess this year, expect to see work.com. Pardot and ExactTarget all get new features highly integrated included in the base price of the license.

25:03 Justin Edelstein: You know what's interesting is you wrote, I know when you wrote this, you wrote this in early December. Early December. And you did publish it after the spring 15 pre-release notes came out. But I haven't read them yet. Well so we already got one right work dot com is slowly but surely making its way right in the sales cloud product. There is already pieces more pieces of work dot com than just thanks are now being baked into the product free right.

Jason Atwood: So that's already starting to happen with WorkDawn. It's really not a fair prediction because it's literally what they've done with every single product they've ever bought. They buy it, they try to charge for it, and then they eventually bake it in, and then they leave something above it. Ideas,

Justin Edelstein: Content, mobile, I can go on and on. Even like... knowledge now. Right, well now they've.

Jason Atwood: The publisher versus everyone else who can see it. The one I should have predicted was the site. The site publisher and site stuff, I feel like that's gonna go free this year. I just don't see people paying the money for that thing and again it's. Well it's used for communities so. The big model is this. You buy. Bye. You know people who really want something will pay more for it and then after everybody who's gonna a for is paid for it Then they stop paying for it.

Justin Edelstein: It's your confidence on this Six so you have a seven and a six. Yeah, I don't think I don't really don't pay too much attention to my confidence points Well, that's a good thing. You're putting them down there.

Jason Atwood: Well, cuz I think you told me a couple years ago Why don't you tell us how confident you are with these?

Justin Edelstein: Oh, good. All right. Next up. You can write Apple TV dominance Yes, so I know people have been predicting the coming of an Apple TV for years, but I'm putting it squarely in 2015. Not only will they release a new, very updated, a massive shift in strategy for the Apple

Jason Atwood: So, CES has a nice announcement we'll talk about, next week. But one of the things is Slingbox is now, has a service called SlingTV. It's a subscription service, it's 20 bucks a month and includes cable. It's like a cable subscription service. So it's ESPN's, it's all that stuff. So for all the cord cutters out there, this is kind of getting into the big news category, it's like, oh, I now can sling. So I don't need a sling box. I don't think I need the box. But what do I get with it? I think it's like 20 channels or so. But it's basically for the people who would never give up because of sports, right? Because they need to have ESPN. They still get some live TV there. Well, yeah, because you can't, right. You need, you need sports and you need, so this is the, this a, so I haven't read a lot about it, but we can talk about it the next.

Jason Atwood: I don't know. Maybe it's just, maybe I'm just crazy on the Apple thing or.

28:15 Justin Edelstein: You are. you Google is gonna buy Salesforce one year.

Jason Atwood: I think I did that many years ago. That was a long time These are WAGs. These are WAGS. Confidence, level 3. So I said Google enters CRM market. So there's too much money on the table. Google wants to start to be a part of it. So they'll release a brand new CRM market. built into their apps and we start a big push into the market. It will leave the basic serum things to have the basic serum things, but it'll will Google Fi it with all tight integration with Gmail drive docks, which Because they probably feel like they can build it. I just feel like it just makes you want sense. The market's huge, it's tons of money, they're already in the small business space, they- already do apps. I guess they have their app exchange, right?

Jason Atwood: They have their Google Play, whatever, and I think some of those have some CRM aspects to them. I certainly don't hear them like competing, but- Man, would that make a big splash if they said, you know what? No, we're really getting. Getting into CRM and it's going to be part of our, it's going to be part of that business app thing that you purchase from us and it's free. And you know, for a lot of people, they might be like, O. I like to buy like free and comes to drive. It. I'm going to fight. Salesforce salesforce integration with, with email. the connection between email and CRM is not direct.

Justin Edelstein: And don't forget the tight integration with Google+.

Jason Atwood: No, I will forget that. Don't forget the social power. No, that will forget that. I could but Google.

Justin Edelstein: Google Buzz. Come on. I love Google Buzz. Picasa anyone? And then last one. This is the longest shot. It's the longest shot. Global warming solved. Yeah, Mike drop done. Yeah Al Gore global warming dreamforce

Jason Atwood: Solve yeah, I said didn't mean solve this and fix but I think next year There's some scientific breakthrough that can reverse the damage big data data science. Yeah, I called it Kickstarter for the planet That's pretty good. It's pretty good for the planet. I like it And we based on power and it'll be based on the power of cloud computing. Yeah Eco-friendly, cloud computing.

Justin Edelstein: There you go.

Jason Atwood: So that's what I put. So we'll come back, maybe we'll each have a couple So you have to actually do some reading, you know, power up your site. But now let's get into our cloud focus app of the week. This is funny. And you got to tell the story behind this. I do. The most personal episode of CloudFocus Weekly. So Thank you.

31:24 Justin Edelstein: Thank you. I'm sitting in your apartment. This is an odd story. Sitting in your apartment this past weekend, watching football. Was I there? You were there. Okay, good. And your daughter is a couch. And I think maybe your wife said, why don't you play... This game with a Justin. I think my wife was gone at that point, but whatever. I think it was her who suggested that we look at it. So it's this game called Acanator the Genie. Do you have it on your iPad? I do not. I could download it right now if you want. It's... can you download it? It's $1.99. Oh, I have to pay for it. You already have it. Can't you just download it?.. was a canada and a canada free oh maybe just grab the free whatever because I wanted to kinda do one that's where I was gonna bring my iPad but I forgot my iPad oh wait there's two oh okay I'm gonna get the one that has a 904 stars, there's the one that has two stars.

Justin Edelstein: So let me explain it and then once you get it we'll actually play one. So It's $1.99. It's from a a company called Elocence. And basically what it does is it walks you through a series of questions. Basically, you have, I think you have five answers that you could potentially answer. Yes, no, probably, probably not, or don't know. And as you, and you tell it before you start that it's a famous character from your world. I don't understand what that checkbox does, but I just keep it checked. As opposed to my another world, some other world, Akinator's world. Anyway, so it walks you through this, these series of questions like, you know, is your character a man? Is your character a famous? Character on television is your character a real person right is your character An NFL player is your character You know and then once it starts to understand like a little bit more and a little bit more and I Want We're gonna you pick a person just did I just picked Mark Benny off and the thing is that this thing without actually to ask questions and then it will figure it out eventually it'll say is your person and Mark Bay and it's incredibly accurate.

Justin Edelstein: Let's see how many goes. All right. Okay. Here we go. Let's go. Questions. I'll answer them. Yes. Okay.

Jason Atwood: Remember we're going for Mark. is your character real? Yes. All right. I will answer. I'll answer in advance of you. Is your character an adult male? Yes. Oh, wow. And the keeps ask is your character linked with sports? No, I'm gonna say no. I Mean he likes his Fitbit. Is your character record any albums? No, now the the genie picture is getting frustrated, right? Is your character on a popular TV show? No No, see he's getting really frustrated because he's a character politician. No, although he probably wants to be right now We're question 11. Does your character personally know you? He kind of actually does. But let's say no. He doesn't.

35:23 Justin Edelstein: Is your character associated with technology? Is your character linked to a video?

Jason Atwood: No, no, no. Is your character handy? No. He's big. Is, character associated with technology? Yes. Is your character associated with technology? Yes. Is your character linked to a full rotation? No. Yes, no, no he does not he is getting there No, did you did your character have trouble with the law?

Justin Edelstein: No disbanded Wait Did you care to sell something to sell?

Jason Atwood: Yes. Is your character the head of a multinational company? Yes. Come on. Is your character Play Games? No. Come on, Akinator. This is the worst pick ever. Is your character Sligo overweight? I'm not gonna answer.

Justin Edelstein: Is your character wealthy? Yes.

38:26 Jason Atwood: Oh, is your character popular in the 90s? No.

Justin Edelstein: Is your character someone's pet? No. Come on, Akinator. So. So by the way, did your It's not a problem.

Jason Atwood: Is your character an outcast no we totally broke a we did we broke a canada make it hilarious puns no man yeah that's 50 questions we broke acne and I think you have gets it at the only baby got it I think of my friend sales force how do you do that

Justin Edelstein: That's impressive he actually got it, but it took 50 questions, It's a fun little game. We just did it for like 10 minutes. That was big of the year. So that's a fun little game. We were doing it with like famous actors and Musicians and sports players on football teams and baseball teams

Jason Atwood: So we think it's, well I'm pretty sure it's using Google in the background and it's basically putting together queries and each one of your questions is adding a plus or includes to the query Yeah it's very smart Very cool. Well mine is me spell it for people. Okay,

Justin Edelstein: It's tough a K I N ATO our If you search for that, yeah on Android and this time them and there's a lot of knockoff So make sure you get the right look for the one from Ello Kent's.

Jason Atwood: Yes Acting it because there's there's literally tons I searched and those like it's like Like a fun little game. Yeah, but it was like there's lots of no, no, no, no

Justin Edelstein: You're doing your pick I'm gonna play and search for Jason out when you see how many questions I need to answer So I know him now is he fat? Yes Terrible is he bald?

Jason Atwood: Yes Getting there Like when you actually get there although we know here it's not a lot Really? This is where this podcast is going?

Justin Edelstein: I think you made fun of my six month old marriage about 25 minutes ago. That's true. Because you know, nights are boring. Nights are boring. This is the worst podcast we've ever done. Nights are boring. Write your complaints to podcast at archaSync.com. Oh man, this is a...if you really enjoyed this one. Oh, we can do these again.

41:30 Jason Atwood: This is not even with alcohol. All right, so my pick is something, it's a Kickstarter. I'm a huge Kickstarter. Oh, you love the Kickstarter. I am Kickstarter-ed up. This Kickstarter I've actually had and been using for over a month. So it was called, and now you can actually buy the thing, but it's called Echo Cube, the desktop ecosystem that grows flowers and herbs. So what it is, is a It is basically a self-contained unit that has, you know, it's like a fish tank and then the fish tank also has a filter on top, but then the filter is not a filter. It's a, here, I'll put the picture of it if you want to. Yeah, throw a picture. Not a picture. I'll show the, here's the link. And don't play the video. So.

Jason Atwood: It's a so it's a it's like a cube and there's a fish tank and then on top of it is a filter But and then there's a I've seen it. I don't need to like yeah There's LED light on top of it that grows grows a plant the idea is that the plant the the water from the from the fish tank goes through the plant the plant uses the nutrients AKA fish poop, to grow and then cleans the water and it goes back into the water. So it's like a self-contained system. You don't have a filter. Basically, you have to fish tank without a filter because the plant acts as the filter. It's pretty cool. I have it. I have seven fish in it, three snails, and I'm growing basil. It has this cool LED light on the top that you can set to lightning storm.

Jason Atwood: Or different colors, but you can also just send it, my favorite setting is cloudy, and what it does is the LED lights kind of go in and out, like it's a cloudy day, kind of fun, so that's how this is cloudy, a cloud pick. Sure. Whatever you need to tell yourself. It is really neat. Anyway, I funded it. Long time ago. Oh, yeah, so here, I just got this in December. It was successfully funded January 12, 2014. I got it. It was 11 months. Although I've seen ones take longer. We have a couple coming that have even taken longer. I have one called Parrot. I have another one called Sense. Both have taken them. Sense is coming. I got an email the other day. Yeah, I got an email too, but those are taking a long time.

Jason Atwood: Anyway, so very, very cool thing. I put it in my den at home. I sit there. I really like it. My basil is growing at this point. So when I get full up, I'll post a picture. I'll tweet a picture when I have it, when I have the basil really cooking there. It's really neat. It's actually a nice looking tank too and it's small and contained. So it's EcoCube or EcoCube by Aqua Design Innovations. You can now buy it from them. I don't know how much it actually costs. I think I pledged 118. I pledged 118. They sell them for like 200 or 250 now. They're not cheap. Keep. I guess for a fish tank, a self-contained fish tank. So that's my pick. Enjoy that. All right, well, we talked about what it would be next week.

44:33 Jason Atwood: We'll come back with more personal stories from the adventures of J and Jay. We can follow us on Twitter, justelstein at Jason at Atarcasink, facebook.com slash arcasink, success community group. We have our own group there. Go in there. Join the group. OOP We post everything in there LinkedIn Google Plus and so you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or in stitcher or on many apps if you Again, if you listen to this, but you haven't seen apps from or haven't seen Podcasts since around 9 1 97 that is because you're on the old feed that we just retired because we moved to a new provider. So resubscribe and wherever and you. Should be up to date with two oh three, which is this episode until then we'll be back. Justin and Jason saying, enjoy those cloudy days.

Justin Edelstein: Thank you.