Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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The 4G Invasion Is Upon Us: HTC Evo 4G Here
Multiple news sources are now reporting the debut of Sprint’s (and the industry’s) first 4G phone, the HTC Evo 4G. From Yahoo: On sale now, the HTC Evo 4G ($199 with a new, two-year Sprint contract and after a mail-in $100 rebate) has been hotly anticipated for months now — and indeed, along with the ...
Do You Even Know Where to Ship It?
There are times, I think, when Godin’s style of short and pithy serves him ill. The other day, he put out a post (which I came across when a friend, a local web designer, shared it on Google Buzz) entitled “But What Have You Shipped?” I don’t typically do this, but the post is so ...
I’m Now Almost Sure that Twitter Isn’t Destroying the Sponsored Tweet Ecosystem [Maybe Instream Ads?]
I pointed out last week my disdain at Twitter becoming a one-company economic wrecking ball, with one single blog post destroying the futures of $20 M worth of VC backed Twitter startups. Either Twitter is now backtracking on their previous policy of “outlawing” sponsored tweet programs, or they’re clarifying their stance to mean that they’re ...
Mark Zuckerberg on Privacy
Mark Zuckerberg just finished a press conference announcing a new set of privacy controls, where the most important changes seem to be a broader, less granular view that’s persistent through future iterations of privacy controls. In other words, when you make a decision today about what you want to share on Facebook, your settings won’t ...
Coming Soon: The iPad’s Death from a Thousand Papercuts
At the end of March, days after the release of the iPad, I put out a post here trumpeting that I felt the iPad was doomed to fail. Of course, my words have been used against me quite a bit since then (even by avid iPad user and fellow SiliconANGLEr, John Furrier), but I think ...
Chicken or the Egg: Do Social Networks Influence Macroeconomics or Vice Versa?
I made one of those serendipitous discovery clicks on Twitter today that lead me to a short sponsored video exposition on the nature of social networks and their effect on the economy. The conversation is sponsored by Dow Jones, so it helps put the comments in the video and the reason for them being publicised ...
Twitter: The One-Company Economic Wrecking Ball [No Instream Ads]
It occurs to me, as I sit down to write another post about Twitter, that I’ve been awful hard on the startup. That springs to mind, of course, because I’m about to write another post that’s going to sound harsh. I feel like I owe Twitter an explanation here (particularly since I hear back through ...
The GDrive Heating Up Public Cloud Stack Wars? It’s Not True Vendor Lock-In.
Alex Williams, this morning at ReadWriteWeb, pointed to the new cloud offering from Google as “an exciting development but it also illuminates the lock-in issue and why many an enterprise is reticent about adopting cloud computing.” It’s definitely an exciting development in that it’s essentially the embodiment of the long awaited GDrive rumored to be ...
I’m Not Sure I’m a Fan of Google’s New Layout
I don’t have a lot to say on the topic. I’ll just let the screenshots speak for themselves.
The iPad/Netbook Graphs are Wrong: Buy Morgan Stanley a Calendar and Everyone Else a Calculator
Let me preface this post by saying that I don’t obsessively follow the punditry of Philip Elmer-Dewitt. He could be, in general, a solid pundit and a great asset for CNN/Fortune’s tech division. After reading his “hard hitting” analysis of some Morgan-Stanley Numbers regarding netbook sales, I have more questions than answers, and chief amongst ...
