Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Amazon Decides to Game North Carolina Politics
Amazon, today, flexed their muscles in an attempt to intimidate the state of North Carolina out of passing a new tax bill. Andy Beal over at Marketing Pilgrim has the story: It appears that North Carolina is about to follow New York’s lead and implement a tax collection scheme that will see Amazon.com shut down ...
I Have The Solution for Fred Wilson’s Watch Later Problem
Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson yesterday put out a public call and proposal for a feature he wants to see for web based video. He’s calling it a “DVR for online video,” something that will allow you to “watch later.” What I want is a video plugin, where I have a little thing on my browser, ...
The Downside to Crowdsourcing [Google’s Free Artists]
Recently, Edward Cruz (founder and creator of BountyStorms.com) did a series here on crowdsourcing, which encouraged big business to take a second look at crowdsourcing as an economical alternative to getting a generally higher quality product for a variety of things a business may need. One of the things he emphasized throughout the course of ...
The Apocalypse Will Be Scheduled [Are You Kidding Me?]
If you’re in any way dependent on Twitter for mission critical work or as the basis for any projects you’ve invested significant amounts of time in, you probably want to read up on the atrociously named Twitpocalypse. I caught this earlier in the week, but discounted it as a ridiculously tin foil hat method of ...
@DellOutlet Drives $2 Million on Twitter
When you have a reputable brand and are known for being good with your customer service and open to conversing with your customers, Twitter can be a valuable tool for moving product. That’s the lesson we learn today from Dell in a post from their community portal: We’ve surpassed $2 million in revenue in terms ...
Intel Thinks Microsoft Has to Die
Robert Cringely has an interesting take today on the purchase of Wind by Intel. In essence, he is saying that Intel is gunning to take down MS with their purchase of Wind because Microsoft takes the lions share of profits from each Netbook purchase. The problem with PC’s in general and netbooks in particular is ...
Some Theories on How Digg’s Making Money.
Digg CEO Jay Adelson showed up yesterday to Fox Business channel to talk about the success that he’s having over at the company. Throughout the conversation, Jay seemed to sound a lot more bullish on newspapers than one would expect; perhaps a bit charitable, given the very dismal reality right now. “I think we are ...
‘Dark Tangent’ Joins DHS Advisory Council
I honestly had given up any hope of our new President bringing on any technology insiders to advise him or any of the new administration’s agencies on how to steer the country in a new direction, technologically. Both he and Senator John McCain were picked as the best two tech presidents during the course of ...
NIN Uses New Media to Change the Music Game. Again.
James Lewin over at Podcasting News today pointed out another interesting way in which the band Nine Inch Nails is once again shifting the game forward when it comes to the music business. Typically, concert videos don’t come out until after several months of post production, but in quickly uploading a special live performance of ...
Intel Software Launches Online Video Network
Today marks the launch of Intel Software Network’s new 24/7 streaming video channel. A lot of the content might be familiar to those who already participate actively within the Intel Software community, but the presentation is new and is likely to attract a whole new audience. John Furrier and I got a chance to take ...
