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“Sarah Killen, Your Life is About to Change.”
First of all, yes, it is a slow news day. Typically, I don’t take my news queues from Techcrunch, particularly when it has to do with pop-culture reporting. Still, a post there regarding an odd choice by new-Twitterer Conan O’Brien is worthy of note. Conan O’Brien, as you know, was forced out of late night ...
What We Now Know from the “Twitter Epic Tweet Scandal”
On today, the day of Twitter’s 140th employee, I’m left wondering just how many of them really understand the nature of social media. I just caught Matthew Ingram’s post over at GigaOM on the latest in the “Twitter Epic Tweet scandal.” In case you missed it, the story thus is pretty succinctly summarized by Matthew: ...
Surprise! App Store Piracy, Like Piracy in General, Isn’t a Big Deal.
I spotted a surprising article today over at Gizmodo. It was surprising not for the fact that it deemed talked about piracy in general, but the attitude it treated piracy. The story focused around Apple App Store piracy, which it found in general to be at about 10% or less for most apps, and deemed ...
Mark Zuckerberg Started Inventing Facebook at Age 11, According to Patent 7,669,123
The big news of the morning is that Facebook was granted a patent (7,669,123) on their News Feed. Few people, though, have really analyzed what is covered by this patent. To highlight the ridiculousness that I believe this patent to be (because we all know that Facebook was not the first to do this, nor ...
Samsung TVs Confirmed to Support Skype This Year
Earlier today, Skype and Samsung announced that the free VoIP app would be available on the company’s new Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 series models, due to ship within a couple months. The TV set continues to be the home’s convergence point for the technologies we early adopters have all been using for years. Internet ...
Next Time, Try Googling “Define:Monopoly” First, Joe Wilcox
Update: Just after I hit publish Betanews put out yet another flawed post on a Google monopoly, this time on search. I understand it’s about grabbing pageviews or whatnot, but a quick looksee at a dictionary would really help out when you start bandying about terms you don’t understand. It seems about once a year, ...
Scoop: Millennial Media Re-Asserts Its Independence with TapMetrics Acquisition
Millennial Media today is going to announce an acquisition today of real time analytics firm TapMetrics. A source today sent us an advance copy of the press release due to hit the wires this morning. Today’s acquisition is just another in a long line of mergers, acquisitions and partnerships to fundamentally alter the shape of ...
Infographic: Millennial Media Mobile Year in Review
Back in December when Millennial Media launched their 2010 mobile ad predictions, they said that 2010 is not going to be the Year of Mobile, because 2009 was. Advertisers asked us for more proof points on that assertion, but Millennial wasn’t able to share year end information at that time. Now they can. This year-end ...
No Matthew, The Proper Response is RTFM! [Google Buzz Privacy]
The tech press has worked itself into a frenzy over recent comments from Eric Schmidt at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress. According to numerous sources, Schmidt told attendees that "[t]here was a lot of confusion when it came out on Tuesday, and people thought that somehow we were publishing their email addresses and private information, ...
Austin IRS Attack: Thoughts and Discussion
I’ve spent the last hour or two reading up on the various accounts of what happened in Austin today, as well as connecting with various SiliconANGLE members in the area to get their thoughts and checking in to make sure everyone’s OK. It seems that the fatalities were miraculously low. A few Austin members of ...
