Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Is the Location Based War Real or Imagined? [Gowalla vs. Foursquare]
Henry Blodget today demonstrates an alarming lack of ability to perform basic math in a post entitled “Watch Gowalla Pretend It’s Not Fighting For Its Life Against Foursquare.” In the post, he launches a full-out, succinct attack on Gowalla: After reading Kara Swisher’s happy intro to her interview with Gowalla CEO Josh Williams, you might ...
Episodic Acquired by Google, and What it Means for YouTube
It was just announced moments ago on the Episodic company blog that the small video platform startup was acquired by Google. From the blog post: We are thrilled to announce that Episodic has been acquired by Google. The entire Episodic team is extremely excited about this new partnership and what it means for our customers ...
Kownacki’s Question: Just How Big are the Location Based Social Networks? [SxSWi2010’s Twitter, Mini-Doc]
Jeff Pulver and Justin Kownacki have been advancing a conversation last week week that the germ of which started at this year’s SxSWi in Austin. In Siegler-esque headlines, the question is “What was this year’s Twitter at SxSW?” In terms that don’t make the early adopters gag, the real question is actually: “How relevant and ...
Dark Future: Monetizing Your Social Network
In a world where in-stream paid placements augment our reality… We spent a lot of time indoors, smoking and talking. She wasn’t physically beautiful, but I didn’t want someone beautiful; I wanted someone who made me feel safe, which Zoe did—until the night I mentioned her ring. It was a large copper band with a ...
This is Why the iPad Will Fail
In case you’ve been living under a rock and didn’t realize this, there’s a whole thriving culture of piracy in China. This encompasses piracy of music, video, software and increasing hardware devices. I’ve talked extensively why I feel the iPad is a giant #fail, and most of the reasons have to do with Apple’s selfish ...
What You Need to Know About the Salmon Protocol [Real Time Web]
Louis Gray has some important news regarding Twitter alternative Statusnet and a little known protocol called Salmon: As Marshall Kirkpatrick noted in a post on ReadWriteWeb this morning, the Salmon Protocol project we first introduced back in October of 2009 looks like it is progressing beyond the planning stages, as it has been integrated in ...
Paying for My Email [Attention Economy]
If you saw my inbox on any given day of the week, chances are it would give most sane people a heart attack. I’m at constant war with those who would automatically subscribe me to their marketing list or the PR distribution list (do I really need to be set up on alert when the ...
China’s Central Government Issues Rules for Reporting on Google China. Are You Compliant?
The Washington Post printed the Chinese government’s rules for media reporting on the Google-China pullout: Google has officially announced its withdrawal from the China market. This is a high-impact incident. It has triggered netizens’ discussions which are not limited to a commercial level. Therefore please pay strict attention to the following content requirements during this ...
Weekend Blogosphere Games Go Mainstream: Guess Twitter’s Business Model
Just in time for the weekend, speculation on what Twitter’s business model begins anew, this time with the charge being lead by financial TV network CNBC. I caught the clip over at Marketing Pilgrim this morning. Remember when Twitter caused a stir among the development community, when it suggested you may never want to use ...
Looks Like Magazines are Adopting iPads
The Wall Street Journal is profiling all the magazines that are doing the iPad thing: Time magazine has signed up Unilever, Toyota Motor , Fidelity Investments and at least three others for marketing agreements priced at about $200,000 apiece for a single ad spot in each of the first eight issues of the magazine’s iPad ...
