Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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What’s Going on with Twitter’s Security?
Twitter keeps having high-profile security problems. There’s been a long history of instances of Twitter worms and hacks over the years of the service’s existence, but the fact that in the space of only a couple days both the administrative panel and the President’s Twitter account have both been compromised by hackers. Just two days ...
House Democrats Seek to Outlaw Distressing Speech Online
Is it time to revive the Blue Ribbon campaign? If a bill highlighted over at the Volokh Conspiracy blog today gains any traction, we might just need to do that. The bill is proposed by Representative Linda T. Sanchez, a Democrat from California, and co-sponsored by 14 others aims to halt and make a felony ...
Mr. Youth Hires a Miss Man for Marshalls
Mr. Youth, one of the first profiles we did here at SiliconANGLE of an ideal take on New Media marketing, has put their money where their mouth is, and put together a campy ad series for Marshalls clothing stores starring a cross-dressing YouTube producer named Kelly. The ad campaign falls in line exactly with what ...
Corporate Journalism: All That’s Old is New Again
Michelle Haimoff at HuffPo:Media advance a “startling” possible future, probably a dark one in her view: a future where former employees of failed journalistic organizations must take jobs tapping out content for the online entities of large corporations. She paints this “disturbing” vision of the future: At present, Starbucks.com is a static corporate website. ...
RSS Reader Feed Demon Enhances Sharing Capabilities
In the RSS world, Google Reader has become the defacto standard for reading the feeds quickly and absorbing the information you need. Before Google Reader achieved dominance, FeedDemon was the gold standard, and still maintains impressive usage numbers to this day. Steven Hodson today reports over at Shooting at Bubbles that FeedDemon now supports synchronization ...
♫ My WAN Ain’t Your WAN, My WAN is My WAN… ♫
Associate Editor Stan Schroeder over at Mashable today brought up an interesting issue that’s rearing it’s ugly head more and more on today’s internet: fragmentation. Stan lives in Europe, and thus is better equipped to talk about this issue than most folks. The issue arose when popular video purveyor Veoh made the decision public to ...
How to Buy Your Way Into the Conversation
If you’re one of those folks, like most of us, that have an unexplainable compulsion to click on any link that has anything to do with Twitter, you’re likely acquainted with a unique ad network called Magpie. I’ve spoken about Magpie a number of times all over the web. They’re a company, much like Izea, ...
Simon Cowell, ITV, and YouTube Can’t Figure Out How to Take Free Money
When I read the headline today at the UK TimesOnline: “ITV, YouTube and Simon Cowell miss out on Susan Boyle windfall,” my first thought was “Are you freakin’ kidding me?” In monitoring the buzz of hordes of technological and pop culture opportunists, I’ve personally witnessed the creation, monetization and sale of at least a dozen ...
Owen Van Natta to be Next MySpace CEO
Speculation has run rampant the last few days as to who would be assuming the helm of MySpace. Current CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe has been rumored to be on the way out as advanced talks with his replacement were well underway. Kara Swisher at AllThingsD today reports that according to her sources, the former ...
Apple Q209 Earnings: Good Execution in a Distracting Quarter
Apple’s earnings report for the second quarter for 2009 was released today, and showed quarterly net profits of an impressive $1.21 billion in a time period where most tech giants are experiencing a slow-down. Net earnings showed a rise year-over-year from $1.05 billion in Q208, even though Mac sales were down 3% year-over-year. John Furrier ...
