On this week’s show, Andrew Sorcini and Christopher Burnor discuss: Facebook goes public! Google officially makes things, Microsoft goes social, Zuckerberg gets hitched, and private enterprise launches into space…

Here’s the headlines… Pinterest joins the $1 BN club, Microsoft launches social network So.cl, Comcast tests tiered pricing, SpaceX launches first commercial rocket into space.

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What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Leap
Andy: Google Outdoes Itself With Moog Synthesizer Doodle

Geekiest Uses (So Far) of Google’s Moog Synthesizer Doodle

Headlines

• Pinterest joins the billion dollar club: Gets $100M in round led by Rakuten
• Microsoft quietly launches So.cl social network
• Comcast ditches 250GB data cap, tests tiered pricing
• SpaceX Private Space Flight, Star Trek actor James Doohan’s ashes, along with 300 others’, aboard.

Audible Book of the Week

• I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern

Musical Interlude #1

Hot Topic: Facebook Goes Public

• Facebook IPO is official: $38 per share, on sale under ticker symbol ‘FB’
• Here’s The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO
• Facebook’s debut is modest, high volumes cause problems
• The Price Is Right: Facebook Closes Near Opening Price
• Facebook shares tumble as underwriters desert stock
• Facebook sued for $15 billion over alleged privacy infractions
• Ever-busy Zuckerberg marries sweetheart the day after Facebook IPO

Musical Interlude #2

Final Word

• It’s Official: Google Is Now a Hardware Company
• Google Chrome Leapfrogs Internet Explorer as the Web’s Top Browser

• Chrome Browser Usage Artificially Boosted
• Google must answer EU antitrust concerns over search

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* Yes, we know it’s pronounced ‘Mogue‘, but that wasn’t nearly as puny.

Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Techmeme editor Lidija Davis.