Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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ExecTweets: Is it the Best Form of Twitter Advertising?
ExecTweets is the new monetization plan for Twitter put forth by a partnership between Twitter and Federated Media today. Remember that little ad widget that popped up on Twitter’s layout last week or so? According to MG Siegler over at Venturebeat, that little widget will be used to promote ExecTweets and possibly other similar services ...
Internet as Infrastructure: Why Pay for What You Aren’t Using?
Mark Cuban is once again beating the drum of ala carte Internet and anti-P2Pism in a blog post over at his site, BlogMaverick. In his trademark incendiary style, he asks his audience: “Why do Internet People Think Content People are Stupid?” In the update for his post, he puts it like this: I only go ...
Present.ly: Truly Valuable Enterprise Status Microblogging
I’ve generally made no secret of the fact that I’m not a fan of Yammer. It’s generally accepted as the default solution for businesses who want to implement a Twitter-like solution for the enterprise. The problem, at least for me, is that it brings very little value to the equation that wasn’t already there. There ...
SxSWi Keynote: Tony Hsieh Preaches the Value of Corporate Culture
I had hoped to liveblog the Tony Hsieh Keynote this afternoon at SxSW here at SiliconANGLE, but the sheer volume of people on their laptops completely took down all available bandwidth in the room. There is an incredible amount of palpable affection for all things Zappos, the company Tony is the co-founder of. If you’re ...
Ribbit: Powerful Developer Voice Platforms [video]
I’ve been absent the last couple hours due to my appearance on the live stream for SxSW over at UStream speaking with Peter Himmelman, Michael Sean Wright, Lucas Hendrickson, Evan White, and Brad Hunstable, and we had a fascinating conversation ranging from topics of augmented reality and the separation (and unification) with the performer and ...
Google Grandcentral Launching
Google launching GrandCentral tomorrow. SiliconAngle is my new group blog one edited by myself and community of contributors. Apparently this story might be under embargo or so I am hearing – well what can I say I am not under embargo. I have never broken an embargo ever. So if this was under embargo then ...
Breaking News: Google to Release GrandCentral Out of Beta as Google Voice – Hello Google Voice
Here is the official Google blog post announcing Google Voice I am hearing from a source that Google will soon be announcing availability of Google GrandCentral, web based voice services that will change the game on Unified Communications. Our Angle: This is Voice 2.0 or voice capabilities integrated into the web experience verses the other ...
Starting Friday: SiliconANGLE’s SxSW Coverage
You may have noticed a diminished posting volume from me lately. Preparing the schedule and pre-written posts for the SxSW conference has been a lot more work than I had anticipated, but the amount of interesting interviews and truly noteworthy startups that we’ll be privy to. You can catch the coverage across a number of ...
TV Industry debates their Future
I am in San Francisco this week covering the TV of Tomorrow show being held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. This two day event covers a wide range of topics from emerging technology standards to new end user experiences and revenue potential. One of the hot topics for day one was addressable ...
Tuesday DEMO Coverage Round-up
In our continuing coverage of the DEMO conference, we’re including today’s demonstrations scheduled for the conference. These are the demonstrators for today with links to other takes around the blogosphere and beyond, as well as what Rex, John and I thought based on our viewings of the demonstrations. Click through for the full list.
