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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: The Week in Web Trends [Watch (HLS stream): The Week in Web Trends](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HJx37Pca.m3u8) (2:24)  _Published 2010-06-11. TIME NewsFeed's Dan Fletcher and Steve Snyder discuss the top trending stories online, including Russell Crowe's internet "death" and Steve Jobs's iPhone demo fail_ --- Jul 27, 2023 2:16 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [The Week in Web Trends: Rage Against the Octopus](/video/cmp4iD5m/) ### The Week in Web Trends: Rage Against the Octopus [The Week in NewsFeed](/video/x0k5B8hU/) ### The Week in NewsFeed [The Week in NewsFeed](/video/SWBXm6wK/) ### The Week in NewsFeed --- ## Transcript >> I'm Dan Fletcher, this is Steve Snyder. Here's what's trending around the web this week. So, Steve, Obama got kinda tough? >> He got a little tough this week. >> Little tough. Everyone said he needed to get tough. >> A little profane. >> I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know who's ass to kick. >> I mean, I was really excited we got to use the word " ass" in the headline. >> And who's ass should we kick over the [ unk ], Dave? >> That's what we're still asking. >> Still figuring that out. >> It was really a tech [ unk ] week, actually, when you go back and look at it. You know, the big tech story of the week, though, is Steve Jobs on stage. Even though he's-- >> Speaking to the masses. >> Speaking to the masses. Even though we've seen the iPhone 4 before. Thanks, Gizmodo. We officially got a release this week. >> What I love more about the demonstration, though, is the complete meltdown of the Wi- Fi in the room. >> Here we go. Yes, I know that. I don't wanna sell you with [ unk ] network. >> But it led to this great pointed moment when he was saying, you know, " does anyone have any ideas ?" Or something like that. >> Yeah. >> And someone yelled from the back of the room. -[ unk ] >> He would defend the AT & T network or anything. >> No, yeah. He kept it together. You know, a lot of headlines were like " Steve Jobs meltdown ." But you know, the dude-- the dude wears a turtleneck. You can't get that off. >> That's true. >> So, the other thing, Steve, that was sort of big with the-- with Web Giants this week is Google got rid of that clean white background for a day on Thursday. Just a day. They're putting all these background images. And people didn't like that. >> People want to know where the settings are. They wanna know how to change things back to the way they wanted it, how to change the security settings. And I think it's far less about the art that Google wanted to use than about a person's inability to use the site like they normally do. >> Yeah. There was one of those things, you know, it's even-- it's just a 24- hour thing. But midway through Thursday, Google actually caved and removed it because the heat got too hot. So, Russell Crowe died, or so the internet said on Thursday. It was one of our most read things all week. >> You know, these unreliable sources, these unreliable rumors. I mean, what do you think? Is it just a way to drive traffic? >> Russell Crowe is alive and well. The internet, as usual, is wrong. 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