Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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From /SABackchan: #crunchpadfail, Evil Mashable, and Sponsored Conversations
The last few days, due to the holidays, we’ve been posting light on the main blog. This has lead to somewhat of a vacuum in our addiction to blogging, so naturally we’ve been satisfying our urge to blog by hanging out over on the /SAbackchan. Here’s some of our topics of conversation. The threads are ...
Does Anyone RTFA? (There Never Was a Windows 7 Family Guy Episode)
I wish I could blame this latest round of mis-information on Matt Buchanan of Gizmodo, Jennifer Van Grove of Mashable, Matt Burns of CrunchGear, Devin Coldewey of CrunchGear, Martin Bryant of TheNextWeb, and “Staff” of TechEBlog. I wish I could but unfortunately this current cycle of mis-information goes far further back than I’m willing to ...
Reading the 9/11 Wikileaks is a Little Like Reading a Twitter Timeline
It’s been a sobering morning – after a late night of plotting out the posts to cover the Thanksgiving holidays (so I can actually take a day of), I woke up late this morning to the news of the Wikileaks release of the nation’s 9/11/01 pager and text records. I read through the various tech ...
The Fact that Scoble is doing Twitter Wrong is Wrong.
Why is it that whenever I’m riffing on a Robert Scoble post, the premise is so very often convoluted? Questions of semantics aside, Chris Brogan and Robert Scoble have had a slightly tongue-in-cheek feud on the “right way” to use Twitter. The following quote and embedded video of Chris’s Web 2.0 Expo speech tell the ...
Who’s Right on the Smartphone OS Mix?
Earlier today, Erick Schonfeld over at Techcrunch wrote up a release from AdMob disclosing Smartphone OS marketshare (measured by impressions). In their report, Admob showed that a monstrous 55% of all smartphone requests came from devices on the iPhone OS, while Android made up 20% and RIM a measly 12%. Interestingly, earlier today Sean P. ...
In-Stream Twitter Ads: You’re Already Doing Them [Yes, You]
I’ve never been all that silent on the subject of in-stream Twitter advertising, and since it’s the topic du jour today, I thought I’d weigh in on the blog post over the weekend that seemed to be the furthest out of line from the rest of them: Robert Scoble’s post entitled “More thoughts on in-Tweet ...
Google has acquired Teracent for Super-A…
Google has acquired Teracent for Super-Advanced A/B Testing Google just announced on their blog (hat tip to Andy Beal) that they’ve acquired ad company Teracent. I’ve looked around, but I don’t see the terms of the deal as being disclosed yet. Most interesting so far is the tweets I’ve been seeing already talking about how ...
158,616,176 Reasons Why Google Chrome OS Won’t Fail
The party’s in full swing today on Google Chrome OS bashing – it seems that the blogosphere took cues from Steven Hodson yesterday, and multiple bloggers are attempting to advance the theory that Chrome OS is going to fail, and fail hard. Randall Kennedy has a long screed on why Google Chrome OS will fail ...
Google Founder Sergey Brin’s Vision on the Cloud
Teaser from John’s quick podcast with Sergey Brin at the Chrome OS event today. John: “What is your vision for the cloud?” Sergey: “I think whether you’re an enterprise or an individual, it rarely makes sense for you to have your own buildings, fiber cables and infrastructure. It takes a lot of time and effort ...
Chrome OS Isn’t an Anti-Microsoft, Anti-Apple Play [Gratuitous Backpatting]
… subtitled: I, like my friend John Furrier, Was Right About Chrome OS In case you’ve forgotten, I’m here to remind you of all the dire predictions, which in my estimation were probably made to garner more pageviews and TV appearances, that Google was intending to compete head on with the big boys (Microsoft and ...
