Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Deeper Dive on the $350 Sixth Sense
While browsing the newly redesigned Engadget, I caught a story about the MIT project “Sixth Sense” we talked about a bit on Tuesday. I’ve since done a little bit more digging on the project and extended an invitation to the members of the project to talk more about what they’re working on here at SiliconANGLE ...
An Updated Guide on How To Hit the Retweet Button
Updated: At the bottom – I added how to turn off retweets from someone you follow. While some are seeing a slightly skewed version of their friend timeline, I seem to be part of the lucky few to get the new version of the Re-Tweet interface a bit early. Since I’m one of the few ...
The Undiscovered Obvious Motivation Behind the NBC-Comcast Combination
Mike Berkley makes an excellent point on his blog TVNewsStream regarding the potential buyout of NBC by cable giant Comcast: What these stories seem to miss is that this a DEFENSIVE move by Comcast, not an aggressive move against its rivals. The real motivation behind this deal (I believe) is survival. Comcast understands that the ...
Buy a Sixth Sense for $350 [Game Changer]
I caught a post over the weekend from Boing Boing that shows the power and potential of augmented reality and wearable computers in a way that I’ve yet to see from the also-impressive offerings found on the iPhone and the Droid devices: "Rather than waiting for that time to come, I want people to make ...
The LA Times Shills for the FTC’s Definition of Blogola
I only noticed this story because Steven Hodson noticed it over at his blog Shooting at Bubbles, but the Los Angeles Times put out a meandering news post (?) completely painting mommy-bloggers as paid shills for food companies. This perspective, actually, is completely nothing new. Non-mommy-bloggers have always been a bit jealous at the volume ...
CNN Live Shutting Down. Is Live Video Streaming Dead?
Yesterday, I read over at NewTeeVee that CNN has laid off all of it’s news staff for their online channel – information that came serendipitously to NTV blogger Liz Gannes just as the day was wrapping up on the NewTeeVee conference: Just as I got off the stage at NewTeeVee Live with CNN Worldwide VP ...
Run a Community? You’ll Need These Three Essential Elements of the Real Time Web.
Even though the news is relatively old at this point, I’ve continued to noodle the discussion Steven Hodson and I had Tuesday night in the aftermath of the widely trumpeted news that LinkedIn would offer the ability to sync user status messages with Twitter. The discussion we had ran well past the usually designated 20-minute ...
Breaking News: HP Set to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion
Breaking News: HP Set to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion HP and 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) (“3Com”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase 3Com, a leading provider of networking switching, routing and security solutions, at a price of $7.90 per share in cash or an enterprise ...
Eric Schmidt Answers Our Questions as to Why They Acquired AdMob
Eric Schmidt gave a very juicy soundbite laden interview to Bloomberg this morning, mostly on the topic of the AdMob acquisition, but with some interesting insight on the mobile ad market as a whole. Om Malik titled his interview summary aptly “Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Why We Bought AdMob,” which of course got my attention ...
Google Releases a Programming Language
I just got an announcement from Google regarding something that sounds really groundbreaking – the release of a new programming language. They’re calling it Go. I’d love to give you some deep analysis of what this means or the quality of the language, but I haven’t had time to really pour over the codex and ...
