About Owen Williams

Owen is an technology journalist with a background in software development and helping people understand the industry.

Based in Toronto, Canada, Owen writes a weekly column for Medium's OneZero, and spends his days as Content Strategy Manager at Shopify.

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018: Facebook goes to war with adblockers

This week, John and Owen talk about Facebook's war against adblockers, new MacBook rumors and why the hell Google is launching yet another messaging app.


017: Facebook murders clickbait

This week on Charged Podcast: how Facebook created and then murdered clickbait, Instagram copies Snapchat, Uber fails in China, Jet.com getting in bed with Walmart and a whole lot more.




016: Why leaving Twitter is improving my life

This week John and Owen discuss the freedom found by leaving Twitter, Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo, the takedown of KickAssTorrents (and the downfall of torrenting) and a whole lot more.


015: Pokémon Go sweeps the world

This week Owen and John talk about how Pokémon Go is making people crazy, Snapchat's weird new Memories feature, Theranos' big problem, Hyperloop's scandal and a whole lot about AI.


014: The weird future of cities

This week John and Owen talk about the weird smart future of cities and how data will influence them, the Facebookpocalypse, Spotify taking on Apple, Google's secretive Sidewalk Labs projects and a ton more.


013: LinkedIn + Microsoft = Heaven

This week Owen and John discuss everything you need to know about Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, iOS 10, WatchOS and MacOS as well as Microsoft's massive $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, and a bunch of other great stuff.


012: The US wants to control the internet

This week on Charged Podcast, John and Owen discuss how the US government might go back on a plan to release its control of the internet and Apple's WWDC event.


011: Is this even reality?

This week Owen and John discuss if reality is really just some big simulation, Uber's huge $3.5 billion raise from Saudi Arabia, a whole range of new emoji and how we're (still) obsessed with Snapchat.


010: Can phones get any better, or is this it?

John and Owen talk about Snapchat's $1.8 billion raise, Microsoft's total layoffs of its phone division after licensing back to Nokia, the state of smartphones and how AI is creeping up on us... whether we like it or not.



009: Google wants to invade your home

This week John and Owen tackle Nokia coming back from the grave, Google's plethora of Home-related news, what self-driving cars are doing to humanity and more.


008: Google takes on the internet of things

This week on Charged Podcast: an apology for a few missing episodes, Instagram's new icon, Google's copying Amazon Echo, Zenefits circumventing regulations and how Apple Music is already getting redesigned.