Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Groups is a Cloud App Now: Spam Control to Come Later?
Today, aside from LeWeb, one of the big news stories is that Google Groups is now a part of the Google Enterprise cloud suite of tools. If you’ve never used Groups, it was what happened when Google acquired the foremost and oldest archive of USENET on the web – Dejanews. I seem to be the ...
It’s Nearly 2010: Where’s Cableco IPTV?
I have moved, on average, about once every 8 months over the course of my adult life. Up until about August of 2007, I had somehow managed to weasel out of ever paying for residential internet service. As I’ve been married a few years now, my wanderlust has been kept in check, but the frequency ...
The CrunchPad is now the JooJoo
Sean and I sat through the press briefing by Fusion Garage’s Chandrasekar “Chandra” Rathakrishnan. It’s really hard to know who to believe in this, but what FG put forth today makes a lot of sense, and rings true with a lot of us over at SiliconANGLE as experienced entrepreneurs, if not as folks who know ...
Spark Series Episode 3: Open
Once again, my friend and fellow ANGLEr Michael Sean Wright has hit it out of the park with a stellar mini-documentary in his Spark Series, this one entitled “Open.” Michael and co-documentarian Marc Ostrick this time followed for a day the goings of of Leo Laporte with a focus on his positions on Network Neutrality. ...
The Crunchpad: The Rest of the Story
Last week, Michael Arrington announced that the Crunchpad is DOA, no more, and has ceased to be. John wrote about it on the editorial backchannel shortly thereafter: I think that Mike made a good run at it, but in life partnerships go south all time. Translation: people screw each other all the time and it’s ...
WeTokU: Dead Simple Video Interview System
I’m always on the lookout for tools that will allow me to record video interviews with relative ease for both me and the interviewee. The market for software tools in this respect has come a long way since the days where Sean P. Aune and I started doing them over at Mashable. Our process used ...
12 Handy FTC Disclosure Badges [pics]
Earlier today, fellow blogger and friend Louis Gray came out with a set of eight highly useful badges to display in the event of a possible FTC disclosure situation. The new FTC disclosure rules for bloggers can be confusing. While many people do their best to explain when they may have received gifts or food ...
When Can We Expect Those FTC “Non-Blogger” Guidelines?
We spent a lot of time talking about the FTC blogger guidelines when they were proposed and approved over the last several months. The new rules, in case you missed the news, went into effect a few days ago, with more or less a whimper. A few bloggers made note of the event, and some, ...
What Caused the Blogosphere to Grow Up?
March of 2007 was an eventful time for me, personally and professionally. In August of 2007, I was still preparing for the birth of my new boy Jacob Li (born in May of that year), reveling in what was still a brand new marriage to my lovely bride Iris. Professionally, I was preparing for an ...
The Easter Bunny Hates You. Again.
Remember that epic viral video hit The Easter Bunny Hates You? Well, it’s one of the best ever and now the creators of that video — Black 20 — have paired up with Fox Television Studios’ new digital shop 15 Gigs in a development deal. Daisy Whitney of the New Media Minute is betting big ...
