Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Teaser: Future of Blogging Economics – Blogging is Changing and For The Better
This is a teaser post. I am waiting to talk about this further, but to tease out the future of blogging economics I wanted to point out a great post worth reading. Blogging and social media is changing and is very relevant. Advertisers just don’t know how to engage with it. Example quote from a ...
Crowdsourcing Promo for Valentines Day From SearchMe.com – Good But Why Would Anybody Want to See Britney Spears Anymore?
My friends Randy Adams and Nicole Adams over as Searchme.com are running a”Share the Love” contest where the first prize is an all expense paid trip for two to see Britney Spears in LA if you create the “most romantic” playlist from their music search. Although it escapes me why anyone would ever want to ...
Will This Be Mike Arrington’s Last Post? – Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Video Interview
Enjoy this interview Sheryl Sandberg the Facebook COO at Davos. Mike Arrington grabbed her for a 9 min interview. One thing that I would ask Sheryl is how they are handling the policy for kids. As Linda Furrier posted last week, she has an opinion on Facebook for Kids. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMgBORVqViw&hl=en&fs=1] Full transcript: Michael Arrington: I ...
My Favorite Super Bowl Ad 2009
This is my fav from the Super Bowl 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTlybfThauM&hl=en&fs=1]
Who Said Blogging Killed the Typewriter – My Cousin Tom Furrier – Typewriter Repair Featured in Boston Globe
My cousin Tom Furrier is featured in the Boston Globe today with his business as a typewriter repairman. Who said blogging killed the typewriter. Maybe he should go into blog repair ;-) Here is the link http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185071465http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=16988910 There is still a demand for typewriter repairs, from those, young and old, who love the sound and ...
Forget InterWebs Think InterClouds
I ran into this post by Cisco’s James Erquhart on Infra20.com titled – Is the Intercloud History Repeated? James writes: definitely some of the same elements are appearing in the Cloud Computing ecosphere that once helped build the Internet. Specifically, I see three key initiatives that have an analog in the Internet’s past: 1. The ...
Internet Traffic Explosion by 2015 – Next Phase is Rich Media for Infrastructure 2.0
The article today about Apple iPhone having video capabilities made me think about the scale of the net. We have to see full scale global video by 2015. However, first things first, we need an infrastructure revamp – Infrastructure 2.0. We need to handle the traffic explosion. Here is a great deep review of the ...
Silicon Valley Exec Mike Homer Died Sunday – The Lost Conversation
Kara Swisher has a classy post that pays tribute to Mike Homer. Mike died in his home on Sunday of a rare, neurodegenerative “prion” disease, which in Homer’s case has occurred sporadically rather than via infection (the well-known variant that occurs in animals is called mad cow disease), CJD’s incidence is one case in a ...
Good Bye Web 1.0 – AOL Now Hemmorging Just Like Yahoo – Hello Web 2.0
When I read the reports from Boomtown’s Kara Swisher, I had a personal sinking feeling. Now, Boomtown’s the latest memo from the CEO of AOL allowed me to just put my finger on why I’m sad by this. It’s the final ‘nail in the coffin’ of Web 1.0. Yahoo and AOL’s storied successes are crashing ...
Running Naked: Mark Cuban Just “Pulled Down the Shorts” of CDNs Everywhere
Mark Cuban just ran up behind the CDNs and pulled down their ‘shorts’ exposing a BIG problem. Video on the internet is far from democratized it’s a dictatorship. For once we are not talking about the cable companies or service providers (although they have issues). The Maverick strikes again. Where Mark does not talk about ...
