Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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We’re going to resume posting our queue…
We’re going to resume posting our queued articles here for the time being, as well, while we wait for our various server instances to finish getting set up. We still don’t have an ETA yet, but we should be looking at a matter of hours.
(While we’re working, I’m going to tre…
(While we’re working, I’m going to treat this a little like the SABackchan…) Did anyone see this post? (http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0) Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens They’re amazingly close to creating true, usable displays on a contact lens. I think I died and went to geek heaven.
StockTwits’s Growth is an Indicator of the Coming Move to Federation
I’ve been talking a lot recently about the impending move of status-update-centric networks to a federated system, either with or without the consent of the networks themselves. In a move chronicled by Techcrunch today, StockTwits shows us a sneak preview of what this migration might look like down the line. The story is that StockTwits ...
Skype Getting Sold
In what is bound to be a developing story over the course of the morning, word comes from the New York Times that eBay is set to announce Tuesday the sale of the Skype division to a group of private investors lead by Netscape founder Marc Andreeson. The investment group is likely to include Andreessen ...
Google Has Failed the Initial Integrity Litmus Test. Will They Establish a Pattern of Cowardice?
[Editor’s Note: Updated with response from Google to @marshallk – mrh] As I discussed last week in my post about the Pirate Bay, Google’s Blogger and the AT&T Google Voice case, it seems that the collective intestinal fortitude of the tech world is slowly eroding. Marshall Kirkpatrick points an upcoming touchstone for Google – a ...
Literacy Revolution: What It Means for Our Digital Ecosystems
Back in my early days of my personal web usage, my web page creation habits were fairly sporadic – mostly because I was new to this whole thing, and wasn’t quite sure what to do with my newfound command of HTML. At some point along the way, though, I discovered a number of interesting “online ...
Duncan Riley Predicts the Dominance of New Media in 2010
When it comes to New Media vs. Heritage Media analysis, I find that I seldom line up with any other analyst more than I line up with Duncan Riley, founder of the Inquisitr. He and I have disagreed from time to time on minor points in this wheelhouse, but generally we agree more than we ...
How To Make $42,000 From Your Online Video [Free!]
I used to write a lot on how to monetize online video. Working here at SiliconANGLE, but building a blog from the ground up with John and the team has distracted me from really doing the things with video that keep me on the bleeding edge of that world like I used to be. That’s ...
A Potentially Massive Security Hole in Twitter Uncovered
The team at David Naylor Search Monitoring today uncovered what is potentially a truly massive security hole in the Twitter API. They describe it simply and succinctly in their blog post on the topic: So as I’m sure everyone heard about the other day, Twitter recently added rel=nofollow to links produced by their API (e.g. ...
Why The Aversion to the Low Hanging Fruits?
I spent a great deal of time last night interacting on the Hacker News discussion boards instead of writing my blog posts. I did have a very interesting conversation around Facebook and their monetization strategy (or lack thereof), though, with HN user unalone. Like a good blogger, I’m going to repurpose most of what I ...
