Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Thought for the Day as VMWorld Approaches [Inception Explained]
Not just a salient observation about movie-watching, but a good thing to remember as an IT professional! [source] Join us at VMWorld with #theCube.
GMail Adds Support for Office 2010 and Windows Mobile 6
Boy Genius Reports tells us today that Google’s lesser known GMail Sync utility will now support Office 2010. Google has announced that its calendar desktop syncing conduit for Outlook — Calendar Sync — is now compatible with Microsoft Outlook 2010. The blog writes that Outlook 2010 support has been one of the team’s top feature ...
How to Game the Human Brain: Copious Citations
I caught a quick post today from Tim Finin on Semweb-focused blog “UMBC ebiquity” that talked about the relationship between a high number of citations in scholarly and white papers and how often that paper itself is cited. The number of citations a paper receives is generally thought to be a good and relatively objective ...
Ambient Connectivity and the “Impending Social Crash”
I’ve got a pile of work to do today that (unfortunately) has very little to do with writing blog posts directly. I’ve also got a number of “must write” blog posts that are timely and need to go out as soon as possible. And then Chris Brogan has to go out and write one of ...
Imagine That: Price Something Affordably, and it Sells!
Sean P. Aune and I both spotted a couple of posts around the web today pointing to the fact that the Kindle, immediately following the new affordable pricing model, has sold out completely. Sean and I have been particularly attuned to significant pricing changes in the digital reader markets because we’ve long held that the ...
Unalienable Rights and the Psychological Dysfunction of US Immigration Policy
Robert Scoble just put out a thought-provoking video on his personal blog detailing the frightening bi-polar personality of US immigration policy. The three participants of note in the discussion Robert chronicles are Aye Moah, a brilliant Burmese UX designer who came to America based purely on her ability to do maths, Ronald Mannak, a European ...
Tweetdeck to Go True Realtime
This popped up in a few places yesterday – TweetDeck is slated to release a version of the Twitter client that shows updates in real time. That doesn’t sound particularly impressive until you actually see it in action. Take a gander. The functionality is soon to be available in a few other clients as well, ...
The FTC Ponders the Do-Not-Track Registry … Three Years Later
There’s nothing like bringing back a classic, something that Democrat senators Jay Rockefeller and John Kerry are trying this week at online privacy hearings this week in the Senate. I almost missed the news, but caught the recap this morning from Frank Reed over at Marketing Pilgrim: Don’t think that just because Facebook has managed ...
Friday Apple Event Liveblog
Apple is going to be launching something. I have my suspicions as to what it is, but we’re about to hear the answer from the horse’s mouth. Liveblog below. Apple Antennae Conference RSS readers must click through to view.
I Actually Agree: An iPhone Recall is Ridiculous
In case you haven’t heard, the idea that the iPhone 4 should be recalled over the antennae bridge issue is getting all sorts of play this week. A couple of weeks ago, I introduced the idea here that part of the blowback that Apple is currently experiencing over the iPhone 4 is what happens when ...
