Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Kicking the Tires on Google Wave
Yesterday I pledged that I wouldn’t write about Wave until I’ve had a chance to play with it myself. I always like it when Google does something innovative and is then rewarded with scads of hype, but talking about the potential of a product that you haven’t touched or seen outside of some screenshots is ...
The staff at partner publication Broadba…
The staff at partner publication BroadbandCensus just posted: Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday new targets for projects funded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Among the new targets were nine sets of specific objectives for Federal agencies for the final 90 days of 2009. Biden’s announcement include nine specific areas: Batteries for Electric ...
Coming Soon: Anti-AIDS Cream [bleeding edge]
We’re not a health technology blog here at SiliconANGLE, but about once every month or two, a piece of tech from the health business comes along that’s so advanced and utterly cool that it’d be irresponsible not to pass it along. Casey Kazan at The Daily Galaxy translated into plain English some truly remarkable and ...
SimplePie Development Shuts Down
I picked up a bit of unfortunate news from my buddy Jeffro at WPTavern yesterday: popular PHP RSS library project SimplePie is shutting down development: “…big news was published on theSimplePie development blog where it was announced that development for the RSS Parser would cease effective immediately.” While the first version of SimplePie was built ...
Recovery.gov now tracking Broadband Stim…
Recovery.gov now tracking Broadband Stimulus money Computerworld has the story now, check back later today for the inevitable story from our partner blog in DC, BroadbandCensus: Recovery.gov, the government’s official Web site for tracking federal stimulus spending, relaunched today with a trove of new data that lets visitors see — literally — where the money ...
Facebook Poll Asks “Should the President Be Killed?” and Nutbars Come Out of the Woodwork
Today, it came out that a Facebook application ran a “political poll” asking whether or not the president should be killed. It was quickly snapped up and capitalized on by liberal political blog “The Political Carnival” as a way to demonize the conservative mainstream pundits (Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News): ...
Here’s What $100 Million Buys [Yahoo and Twitter]
Earlier last week, $100 Million went into buying a chunk of Twitter. I talked about that briefly a few different times. This morning, we were shown what Yahoo decided to do with it’s summer vacation and $100 million. It’s a decent advertisement, but I can’t help but wonder if Peter Kafka didn’t make a solid ...
Blog Comments Aren’t Dead, But They Are Transforming
I found an interesting post through Jesse Stay on Friendfeed this morning, pointing to a post by a fellow named Brandon Mendelson entitled “An End to Blog Comments.” According to the New York Daily News, which is the only paper from New York City worth reading, Elizabeth Edwards is trolling Rielle Hunter in blog comment ...
Despite Recent Anti-Zune Sentiment, The Zune HD Still Has an Opportunity to Dominate
The anti-Zune sentiment didn’t take too long to crop back up. After having rave reviews since the launch of the product, Sunday, Joe Wilcox over at Betanews backhand complimented the device as the “Best portable media player you may never buy.” Alas, as this post’s title asserts: Zune HD is the best portable media player ...
Twitter’s funding was officially confir…
Twitter’s funding was officially confirmed. From @ev: There’s a lot of talk today about our financing. Yesterday we closed a significant round of funding with a group of investment firms that we’re excited to publicly thank: Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Morgan Stanley. It was important ...
