Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Scoopler: Real Time Search that is Strong with the Force [No Jedi Yet]
I knew it was only a matter of time before some strapping young startup decided to fill the void only being marginally looked after by the likes of by a few mashups and Yahoo Pipe scripts. Today, though, MG Siegler profiled a new search startup geared towards cataloguing the “real-time web.” The site is called ...
As ‘Death of Newsprint Week’ Comes to a Close, Murdoch Outlines His Plan to Kill Newsprint
This has been an odd week – very seldom have I seen the memes surrounding the death of newsprint pushed to headline status almost every single day for an entire week in the tech blogosphere, but I suppose this is the first time that Amazon has released a Kindle since it became undeniable to America’s ...
Twitter Search to Start Getting Good
Twitter’s vice-president, Santosh Jayaram, spoke on a panel moderated by Webware’s Rafe Needleman last night about the future of Twitter search in a way that truly captivates the imagination: Jayaram confirmed that Twitter Search, which currently searches only the text of Twitter posts, will soon begin to crawl the links included in tweets and begin ...
Social Media Marketing is (Mostly) Legal. Is Modern PR Legal, Though?
Today, randfish over at SEOmoz explored the topic of the legality of social media marketing under the somewhat curious and seemingly arbitrary regulations defined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The article is written from an American SEO marketer’s perspective, obviously, but the implications and applications of the law can be followed into conversational marketing ...
Biz Stone: “We’re not for sale.”
Twitter has been officially declared “off the market” today by Biz Stone during today’s appearance on what has been loosely termed “daytime talk show,” The View. This follows a trail of red-hot rumors that all manner of large tech companies were in line to buy the company, ranging from Google to Microsoft, and most recently ...
Newspapers and Online Video: Being a Media Outlet
Just yesterday, I was talking about the importance of newspapers viewing themselves as a media outlet, rather than an ink and print organization. That was actually before I caught a posting from late last week by Andy Plesser over at Beet.TV. In it, he described a conversation he had with Chet Rhodes, the Assistant Managing ...
YouTube Demands Money from Content Creators [ClownCo]
MediaWeek and Podcasting News are both reporting on YouTube’s apparent crackdown on “branded integration,” the newspeak way of saying promotions and product-placement. It isn’t that they aren’t supportive of advertising (“They better be,” I can hear many of you saying…), it’s simply that they’re not to hep on people making money unless they’re making their ...
Unsolicited Advice for the Newspaper Industry
They say it’s generally not a good idea to start off a conversation with a potential client by insulting them. I say that because part of what we do here at SiliconANGLE is help out companies that are in need of social media life-coaching, in a manner of speaking, and what I’m about to say ...
Nielsen Says Money Moving to Online Video and Social Media
James Lewin over at Podcasting News has the bulletpoints from a recent Nielsen report on the constant migration of US ad dollars: – The number of American users frequenting online video destinations has climbed 339% since 2003 – Time spent on video sites has shot up almost 2,000% over the same period – In the ...
What is the Real Time Web, Really?
Much hay has been made the last few months in general, but the last couple of days in particular, of the Real-Time Web, and what it truly means. Robert Scoble has been beating the evangelist’s drum of the Real-Time Web, and even several of our contributors here at SiliconANGLE see it as a forgone conclusion ...
