Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Microsoft Had a Yahoo Pipes Competitor?
Covering social media almost exclusively as long as I have, it’s rare that I find something out there that I haven’t seen before. Today was one of those days, though. Somehow, Microsoft slipped past me without my notice something that’s being dubbed as a Yahoo Pipes alternative. I only learn about it today, though, because ...
Google Reader Makes Reading More Social
I’ve been sincerely enjoying the new updates that Google has put into their Google Reader product. It’s, I think, breathed new life into what’s been there all along. Louis Gray had the best summary of what’s new: “If you don’t want to have your shared items broadcast to the world at large, you can still ...
YoTwits: An Automated Way to Destroy Trust
Ben Parr over at Mashable profiled a new Twitter tool designed to automate the arduous task of finding links your followers might be interested and tweeting them out. It’s called YoTwits, and here’s one of the most scripted-sounding introduction videos I’ve seen in a while. What caught my attention in Mashable’s writeup was the same ...
Warner Music Group Silences a Legend (and some guys named Hall & Oates)
If you haven’t heard today, Warner Music Group has apparently pulled the audio out of the infamous cat that’s shown up in every uncomfortable Youtube moment for the last several years. It’s unfortunate, since it’s proven to be objectively funny, and incidentally exposed a whole generation of listeners to the music of Hall & Oates. ...
SALabs Social Search Project Graduates to Microsoft [SiliconANGLE Changes]
As you’ve probably noticed, there’ve been a lot of interesting changes around here at SiliconANGLE in the last couple of weeks. We try not to talk about ourselves too much here at the blog, but once in a while, enough radical changes take place over a short period of time that you need to mention ...
Advertisers on Magpie Start to Get It [Conversational Marketing]
About once every two months, Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb writes an article about the evils of sponsored posting, whether it be about Twitter ad networks like Be A Magpie or be they blogosphere based practices like ones espoused by IZEA. I bring him up mostly because he’s become my favorite foil on the topic: ...
Commenting Here on Furrier.org
I have taken some time off from blogging here to work on the SiliconANGLE project. siliconANGLE has been a big success in only three months. Next week I’ll be announcing new news on SiliconANGLE. I will use this blog to post my personal observations and random notes about my family, friends, and work. SiliconANGLE will ...
Isn’t It Time for Voting 2.0?
Do you know why we vote on Tuesdays in the United States? That’s the question posed by the aptly named advocacy campaign WhyTuesday, who’s focused on campaign and election reform issues with the ultimate goal of, amongst other things, increasing voter turnout. When we talk about voter turnout, we often focus on the “marketing” side ...
Palm Pre Hacked to Work on Verizon
Our collectively favorite mobile platform here at SiliconANGLE has now been hacked to work on the Verizon mobile, as shown by PreCentral’s forum member, ‘cleanser’. Much like other hacks I’ve seen (like the iPhone working on the MetroPCS network), data transfer is yet to work. Unlike Metro, Verizon has a data network that should be ...
… Even More on Google Chrome OS [Not A War]
To keep it pithy, I think it’s worth re-iterating here that I don’t believe this to be a war with Microsoft or Apple, as I stated yesterday. I think it’s worth re-stating for several reasons. First of all, the coming “war with M$” is still all everyone can talk about today. I simply couldn’t get ...
