Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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#theCube Broadcasting Live from #CitrixSynergy
The SiliconANGLE editorial team will be in and out throughout the day during their coverage of #citrixsynergy, liveblogging what’s going on in the stream. Follow along here with us to be up on the latest coming out of the conference. Citrix Synergy
Early Adopter Grief: Google Video and Yahoo Buzz Bite the Dust
Early adopters are having a hard time with the lives of their early favorite apps lately. Two deaths are hitting me where I live right now: The first one is Google Video. I got an email from Google, letting me know that I needed to download all my old videos and find a new home ...
Amazon Looking to Subsidize the Kindle All the Wrong Ways
Jeff Nolan wrote a great post here at SiliconANGLE talking about the overwhelming feeling of “meh” on the topic of the brand new ad supported Kindle. Throughout my long history of eReader punditry, going back to my days at Mashable, so much of what I see in the eReader world has been “meh,” only because ...
Joint: The Twitter Based IM Client [The B-List Lives Again]
If you’re in the in-crowd of early adopters today, you’re probably playing with Joint, an Air based IM client. Here are the bare facts: It uses Twitter to authenticate, but doesn’t appear to use Twitter’s messaging for communication, from the best I can determine. It’s better than DMs for one on one communication, without a ...
Infochimps, the Gathering (of Structured Big Data)
One of the more interesting conversations I had at SxSW was the with Nick Ducoff of Austin-based Infochimps. Those of you interested in the trends in big data are likely well aware the company – they’re in the business of curating, housing and providing API access to large data sets, and at the festival, they ...
The Angle on Big Data
Before we head off to Santa Clara to cover the 2011 O’Reilly Strata Conference, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit some of over previous “big data” coverage for those of you who may have missed it. I’ve compiled a quick montage of some of our most poignant bits, along with some ...
Privacy and Do-Not-Track: Let’s Allow Some Nuance Into This Discussion
I’ve been following the stupidity of EPIC and CDD’s war on the internet, in the form of their idea, the “Do Not Track” list for many years now, starting with my days at Mashable, and continuing to the present. Usually, I write about this issue from the perspective of debunking the truly mad perspective of ...
Distribution is Key: “The Fast Fix” Beats MSNBC for Beltway News
If there’s anything that illustrates the need for distribution partners as a central part of any serious content producer’s strategy, it’s this story: Andy Plesser at Beet.TV talks about how “The Fast Fix,” a daily 60-second video brief on the news of Washington D.C. has surpassed the viewership numbers for MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. As political ...
Notes from Ballmer’s CES 2011 Keynote
Art Lindsey, John Casaretto and myself sat down with a few adult beverages and watched Ballmer’s speech tonight, prepared for a repeat of last year’s snoozer event. We were pleasantly surprised with a powerful presentation that showcased the new capabilities of Windows 8 and ARM System-On-Chip (SoC), the Kinect and Window’s Phone 7. The take-a-way ...
Should We Have a Network Neutrality Panic Together over MetroPCS 4G?
Dallas-based mobile communications provider MetroPCS has received a lot of positive press recently, in response to their move to be the first 4G LTE provider in the country (and continuing to provide that service without the soul-crushing long-term contracts most other providers are known for). Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb and Ryan Kim at GigaOM are ...
