Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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What the FTC and Facebook Can Learn from the Final Fantasy Franchise [Make Menus More Fun]
This Sunday, Chuck Schumer (Democrat Senator from New York) held a press conference around a letter he wrote to the FTC asking for regulation around privacy settings on social networks. From TheHill: "Hundreds of millions of people use social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter every day," Schumer said. "These sites have helped reconnect ...
Facebook Insights: Not Scary and Not Effective (Yet)
I wrote a post the day of Facebook’s f8 developer conference trying to mitigate the outrage and panic expressed by a lot of Open advocates. Since I wrote that post, a great deal has happened within that community, and they’ve seized on the momentum of predicable grassroots backlash against Facebook as best as they can. ...
Why $10 a Month for Hulu is Just Right, IF…
The rumor is today that Hulu’s moving forward with their plans to charge for access to the site. At first blush, this sounds like a colossally stupid move. The Web video site is getting ready to roll out its much discussed subscription offering of $9.95 a month, theLos Angeles Times reports. That jibes with chatter ...
An Open Letter to My Friends Concerned About Open [#F8]
Ever since Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote address this morning at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, I’ve been fielding a variety of phone calls ranging from panicked to outraged from many advocates of Open. One of the recurring things I keep hearing is that this is a decisive blow against Facebook and against and open and free Web. ...
In Case You Missed It, Skype is Sort of a Big Deal
Om Malik today posted on his blog marveling at the sheer size of Skype, particularly in the context of all the social media destinations that we herald as behemoths that’ve crossed over into the mainstream like Facebook, Twitter and others. We all marvel at Facebook and its number of users, which at last check stood ...
Microsoft Launching a New Language; F# is for Multi-Core
When I look at an announcement like the one I saw today at the Register for Microsoft’s new programming language, it makes me realize just how long I’ve been writing and coding for the web. Launching a new language is easy – getting it used is hard. The combination of existing code and existing skills ...
The Found iPhone 4
Gizmodo put out exclusive photos and videos of their iPhone 4 prototype scoop today, and it’s crashing servers, apparently. Not only are their video serving platforms overloaded, but apparently the volume of comments on the post has crashed all other Gawker property’s comments. None the less, we’ll send a little more traffic their way on ...
Dear Foursquare: Sell Out Now. To Yahoo. Right Now. Please. [Recursion Error]
This morning, Mike Arrington posted an impassioned plea to Foursquare not to sell out to Yahoo in a post called “Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo”: It is becoming alarmingly apparent that Foursquare is strongly considering a sale to Yahoo. As of the end of last week they had put the venture ...
Millennial Media Launches “Mobile Device Index” and Android Stars in the Show [Infographic]
Android is once again the star of the show in this month’s Millennial Media “Mobile Device Index.” We regularly cover the Millennial Media SMART report here at SiliconANGLE, because Millennial continues to be the largest independent network for mobile monetization, and as such always has interesting insights to show us when they tally usage. This ...
HP is Europe’s Latest Pocketbook. Bummer, HP.
News has hit that HP is now subject of an SEC investigation over allegations that they’ve paid bribes to win business in Russia. From the WaPo post: HP said Thursday that the SEC had contacted the company and that it would cooperate with authorities. The company said earlier this week that German and Russian officials ...
