Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Multiply Hits Their Stride and Identity as Mom’s Media Locker and More
A few weeks ago, I got the chance to check out the new rollout of Multiply with a walkthrough on all the finer changes to the service. I’ve watched with some interest how this company has come from being Yet Another Social Network to defining a clear and unique image for themselves. They’re turned more ...
Cuban’s Take on Media Fragmentation [PR 2.0]
Thanks to a pointer by Adam Thierer over at Technology Liberation Front yesterday, I was alerted to a post that entrepreneur billionaire Mark Cuban put up over the weekend that tackled the dilemma many brands and online actives often face from time to time – negative things being said about them. Mark Cuban went into ...
Mahalo to No Longer Be Human Powered
According to a scoop by Sean Percival at Lalawag, Jason Calacanis’s Mahalo is set to undergo a major revision change some time today, and no be “the human powered search engine.” According to Sean: Sometime Tuesday Jason will reveal “Mahalo 2.0,” a complete overhaul of the site based heavily on aggregated content. It seems Mahalo’s ...
Project Natal: Real-Time Motion Capture for the Masses
There is some actual hot news coming out of the E3 conference today – a little something Microsoft has cooked up on the Xbox 360 platform called “Project Natal.” The technology is being likened to both Minority Report as well as the “beginnings of SkyNet or The Matrix.” What is it? It, essentially, is the ...
FTC Blogola Roundup: The Jury Is Out
Despite the fact that it’s a somewhat dry and slightly esoteric topic, the subject we’ve covered here fairly extensively over the last several weeks regarding the FTC’s rules for bloggers, or as BusinessWeek is dubbing it: ‘blogola,’ is getting a fair amount of disparate discussion across various silos in the blogosphere. It’s a topic that ...
Two Kids in a Garage Invalidate Varney’s Concerns
Gary Reback yesterday tackled the issue of the Obama administration’s possible new stance on antitrust in a piece that attempted to refute the previous two posts that Forbes has put out on Christine Varney’s appointment as Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust. The general fear, and one that I share as well, is that Christine Varney’s ...
FTC New Disclosure Guidelines, a Third Examination [Bloggers, Marketers and PR]
I spent the bulk of my Memorial Day entrenched in the eighty-six page document put out by the FTC containing the new endorsement guidelines that we discussed on CobWEBs last week as well as here at SiliconANGLE over the last month (here and here). I had based my two previous posts based on information I ...
How Leo Laporte May End Up Owning Twitter
According to a number sources, including Variety and and the AP, Twitter is in development of a new “reality-type television show.” Steven Hodson encapsulated the basics for us at the Inquisitr: Twitter has teamed up with Reveille Productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to create a show that would have Twitter users become real-life stalkers players ...
Content: To Optimize or Not To Optimize [Twitter Tips]
There’s an interesting thread of conversations that’s worming it’s way through the blogosphere, one that should be of particular interest to content producers of all types, be they journalist / editorial types or bloggers with a corporate / company focus. The thread concerned, initially, how to make your content more “re-tweetable” on Twitter, but is ...
Will Upfronts (Eventually) Be Supplanted by New Media Surrogates?
Remember a year or two ago when the podcasting community got together and tried to establish industry unity and define standards for advertising? Our own John Furrier was a founding force of the resulting organization, the Association for Downloadable Media. It seems that a similar spontaneous unification is attempting to bubble up this year in ...
