Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Web Use May Have Reached a Plateau, But Wait for ChromeOS
Brian Morrissey at MediaWeek points to a recent Forrester study that suggests that Internet and Web usage may have reached its height. Forrester Research recently found only a small increase in the number of people using the Internet after years of steady growth in the online sector. According to its survey of nearly 38,000 users, ...
Why is Posterous the Platform of the Future?
Earlier this afternoon, I was pointed to (by Steve Rubel, not surprisingly) to a post up on Wayne Sutton’s blog that intimated that Post.ly (or Posterous) is the platform of the future. I’d respectfully disagree. Posterous is a blog style CMS that uses your email client as your post window. Simply, you email your post ...
Radio and Internet: Together Again?
Steven Hodson over at the Inquisitr and Doc Searls brought up a good point yesterday as he waxed about the impending doom of the print and over-the-air media: One of the points Doc made was that for much of history of both industries newspapers owned radio stations. This all changed however when the FCC changed ...
Wizzard Media Expands their iPhone Podcast Plans
Wizzard Media had announced their intent back in June to work more towards monetizing their massive podcast library by distributing iPhone applications and promoting those apps from within the podcasts in their network. From their press release in June: Based on current sales figures, Wizzard estimates these Apps will generate over $228,000 in annual revenues, ...
Augmented Reality: Metaphysical Far Future Repercussions
As I anxiously await Brunner’s Rick Gardinier to send over his next installment of his augmented reality musings, I find that my mind has been wandering into the realm of far future tech and science with the child-like excitement I had when I first read Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines. For some reason, perhaps my ...
Bleeding Edge: Wireless Electricity
WiTricity made a splash today, being featured in the LA Times Tech Blog. Is it the end of power cords as we know it? WiTricity is a Massachusetts company, apparently spun off from a project started at the prestigious MIT university. According to the LAT, the company is claiming that they will have the ability ...
A Minor Update to the Facebook Spoofer Story…
On Friday, we ran a story on three VCs who saw their Facebook, Twitter and email identities spoofed (featured today over at PEhub’s First Read). It looks like the spoofer not only didn’t check his homework, but just couldn’t help himself from expanding his campaign to spoof the Web 2.0 world. Little old me had ...
Three VCs Have Their Identities Spoofed
[Editor’s Note: We later got our identities spoofed too by the same joker. –mrh] Identity management. Verified accounts. Facebook scamming. Identity spoofing. 419 Scams. We’ve all heard the stories of these things, it’s not uncommon to hear of a friend getting hit up on Facebook by a friend on their list who’s suddenly “stuck in ...
The Uncommon Zivity Spinoff Spawns VC-Entrepreneur Lovefest
Earlier today it was announced today at Techcrunch that venture backed oddity Zivity had created an amicable split within the company, spinning off much of the company, employees and assets into a separate venture to be called “Top Fans.” Cofounder Cyan Banister takes the CEO spot at Zivity, which will continue to publish adult content. ...
Video Startup Ooyala Achieves Profitability
Mike Arrington over at Techcrunch today noted that video advertising startup Ooyala has achieved profitability. [Ooyala] hit an important milestone last month – positive cash flow. The company was founded by ex GooglersBismarck Lepe, Sean Knapp and Belsasar Lepe in 2007 and has raised just $10 million in funding. Every once in a while, I ...
