Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Social Media Gone Awry: When Mommybloggers Attack
I had intended, today, to focus solely on coding and site issues, as I have been doing for the last 36 hours (aside from a brief nap). I made the mistake at glancing at the headlines a few minutes ago to see what parts of the world had passed me by, and I caught a ...
The FTC Alleges Intel Engaged in Systematic Anticompetitive Campaigns
The US Federal Trade Commission today finally issued a statement regarding their ongoing investigation of alleged anticompetitive practices over at Intel, on the claim that they are stifling innovation: The Federal Trade Commission today sued Intel Corp., the world’s leading computer chip maker, charging that the company has illegally used its dominant market position for ...
Amazon’s Spot Instances: Innovation or Lock-in?
Yesterday, news came down from Amazon that they were going to an almost Google Adsense style auction model to their EC2 platform. Spot Instances allow you to specify the maximum hourly price that you are willing to pay to run a particular instance type. We set a Spot Price for each instance type in each ...
Rackspace Pulls eBay Veep Mark Roenigk for COO Slot
A major executive hire was made today, as Rackspace today brought on a new COO in ex-eBay veep Mark Roenigk. Roenigk will be reporting to Rackspace president and CEO Lanham Napier, and has been tasked with helping to build up the “computing platform on which all our services run,” according to Napier. Roenigk has a ...
The eGuiders are YouTube’s Curators of the Month
My friend Marc Ostrick over at eGuiders sent me a note that he and fellow SiliconANGLEr Michael Sean Wright as long as the rest of the team of content editors at the site have been picked by YouTube to curate the content for the front page of YouTube. In case you haven’t been stopping by ...
How To Solve the Programming Cost Problem: Go IPTV
A couple days ago, I talked a little bit about my experience and expertise around the mechanics of how Internet over cable works, and why it befuddles me that cable companies continue to refuse to deliver IPTV, ten years after most of them had the technology to do so. Later that evening, Stacey Higgenbotham posted ...
Tis the season for mergers and acquisiti…
Tis the season for mergers and acquisitions, apparently: Sanyo has just been acquired by Panasonic for a staggering $4.6 billion for a 50.2% stake in the company, according to a post from TheStreet a few minutes ago: Panasonic purchased its stake in Sanyo for £2.8 billion or $4.6 billion, offering 131 yen or about $1.50 ...
The Inevitable Singularity and the Haunting Words of Bruce Schneier
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of noodling on the concept of convergence and singularity. Many years ago, I read Ray Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines, and it had such a re-wiring effect on my worldview, I can only liken it to a spiritual experience (a worldview that was only reinforced with his sequel, The ...
Why Big Cable and Big Telecom Should Love Net Neutrality Regulations
Every time my friend Michael Sean Wright and I have recorded a conversation (for a podcast, testing purposes, or any other reason), he’s taken to tagging it out with “Go Net Neutrality,” as a callback to a test podcast we did last week with the WeTokU service. Since then, I’ve put forth the argument in ...
Privacy isn’t the Key Buzzword: It’s Social Search [Facebook]
Facebook today adjusted their privacy settings (and got rid of regional networks, a feature that most of us forgot was a part of the social network). The press release came across the wires this morning, and the bottom line is that this will have far reaching and reverberating effects across the social web, giving Twitter ...
