Technically Speaking

As of this morning, the experiment with the twitter hashtag has been a big #FAIL. No worries, many of you are probably asking “Why Church Tongue?”. Well it’s a friend of mine’s experimental gothic music mix send up. He asked me to help him promote the page, and I said, “Sure, why not.” Church Tongue isn’t your ordinary band or even your run of the mill music offering. That is exactly the point of it!

I know that those who have listened to the tracks probably have an opinion. If they saw the tweet on twitter or even not, they could easily leave an opinion with the hashtag system. That is all that Church Tongue is asking for. Right now, there is exactly ONE opinion - and looks like @klasinski is going to win the $25 eGift Card from RizzoTees by default. Quite sad.

I thought that the tweeps out there would have an opinion. I watch people be opinionated daily via twitter. Here is the chance to just take a few listens to some interesting music, and if you don’t like it, all you need to do is say so. If you love it or have suggestions, leave that also with the #freeschtuff hashtag.

Again, to date ONE opinion, looks like the winner will be easy to crown! Here are the details of this contest that is an easy chance to win a $25 eGift Card:

i’d f**k elvis (ruff memphis demo) - JUST released TODAY!

SEX KISS – semi-NEW SINGLE!

impress us with your drugs

MySpace Page – Church Tongue – leave comments/friend if you have a MySpace account!

This is your chance to leave your opinion via a twitter hashtag – #freeschtuff – and all you have to do is check out one or all of the Church Tongue songs above and leave your thoughts on twitter. Simple!

You’ll be entered for a chance to win a $25 eGift Card from RizzoTees.

Technically Speaking, it’s one of those things like the lottery – you can’t win if you don’t play – I posted the original details of this contest right HERE!

Literally in seconds after I posted that below post, @jamievaron was paying attention. She just showed and proved to me that she deserves the J-O-B @twitter. In fact, if I had influence over @ev and @biz, my advice would be to snap her up before someone else grabs her. Talent like this will get away really fast.

Technically Speaking, what do I know or what does it matter if I throw out an endorsement or not? – I’m just a former co-founder and publisher relations person from a small startup who is also looking for work.

Here are the latest ten posts on siliconANGLE. Be sure to start following us on twitter: siliconANGLE, John Furrier, Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins, Rex Dixon. Put us in your RSS feed!

Remember – Rizzn is reporting live from SXSW this week!

Blogging Lost Its Social Edge – How To View Communities – Worth Reading If Involved in Communities – John goes into more detail of why community blogging is important!

Ribbit: Powerful Developer Voice Platforms [video] – Rizzn’s first video from SXSW.

Inside A CEO Investor Pitch - Ever curious to see the inside stuff that a company shows at an investor pitch? Here is the PDF from Searchme’s pitch. They were nice enough to share it with us.

Twitter has Jimmy Fallon – Facebook has Oprah – You know it’s true!

DC Has Not Changed – Wow, I am getting schooled by an expert on the comments! Glad to see someone reading that knows the actual deal. Hopefully he will come write posts for siliconANGLE soon!

Broadband Stimulus Receives Positive Review – Of Course We’ve Been Waiting for This for 10 years – John talks about the broadband stimulus, and if you read the comments – I’d like to also know why the Asian region stormed pass America!

Breaking News: Google to Release GrandCentral Out of Beta as Google Voice – Hello Google Voice – For better or for worse, we did happen to get the news first from a reader who volunteered the information under no embargo clause, so we broke the story out there for everyone. Check out the comment stream on this post!

Starting Friday: SiliconANGLE’s SxSW Coverage – Rizzn letting everyone know he’ll be posting all over for SXSW.

One Poke Even Organizes Your Dating Sites – Weird how I come across sites, but figured I’d feature this site in a quick post.

Super Model Skype – Let’s hope things continue in the positive direction for Skype!

Now you have a quick summary of the latest Ten Posts over on siliconANGLE. One thing I have been helping other people with this past week is the twitter stream (thread-twitter) thing. I like the look of it, which you can see my twitter stream – but some themes such as @mrbusinessgolf was a real challenge to fix! At least I was able to get it working again after he switched to a more complex theme.

Technically Speaking, if you are seeking work – Sr. Java, Sr. Web Dev, Finance, Web Dev, Sr. Mgr/Dir - you really need to check out my post below, as the person that contacted me from the company is honest and trusted – meaning – they really have openings!

Not even a phrase until just now – Dumping Ground-Onomics. This means, I have a bunch of good stories that I won’t have time to write about today. Beyond a short blurb below, which has been called a Round Up in some circles, even by me. I figured it was time for a new term, and Dumping Ground-Onomics is that new term. Do you like it? Yes I could dump all of this on my tumblr blog, but figured that would be tumblr overkill.

Jive – Is going after the social business software market hardcore with their latest announcement today. Should be interesting how they fair in the corporate marketplace. The most interesting thing about this company is that they are not some new kids, but have been around since 2001.

drop.io – is rocking it right now with their real time conference room. Streaming is where it is at. The above chat/conference is really nice, and agree that streaming seems to be the key here along with real-time speed.

OneRiot – is the old medium resurrected. Looks like a good video search service.

Users will now be able to search through videos from more than 30 video hosts, and just as it handles Web queries, the engine will put recently “buzzing” videos on top. This means the results of any given search term will change on an almost daily basis depending on what’s trending, or as OneRiot calls it “raging.”

Guardian – They realized that newspapers are dying quickly. They also realized in the old saying of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em“. Nice to see a good newspaper keep it alive the best they can. More about their open platform can be found here.

A few more interesting items that you should know about – Paymo and Hi5 working together, music site for indie music called thesixtyone, and lastly music’s darker side – EMI or rather the old world order doing what it does best – suing the new world order and innovation.

While this serves as a “wrap up/round up” for this Tuesday, I did however post two blogs over on siliconANGLE this morning – the first one – Free Ride Era is Ending – and – this one here – Monkey in your old High School Cliq. We need more writers/bloggers like the blog that was written yesterday – Content Distribution is Changing Again – by Nova Spivack.

Technically Speaking, if you are a blogger, social media person, or someone that likes to write about what I just put here on the dumping ground-onomics post – you need to come over to the siliconANGLE and register to be a regular contributor!

I assume by the end of the weekend, the 1138 (I was 1139) followers will be in the neighborhood of 10 times more. Have you followed @finkd yet? What am I talking about? Well if you somehow just woke up, @finkd is the real Mark Zuckerberg. Apparently this so called secret account is no longer a secret after VentureBeat broke the news this morning.

While VB maintains, like other people do that search is going to make them money …

Which is funny, because Twitter’s real-time, open search capability is one of the features that Facebook seems intent on redesigning its site around. Twitter search could be a key way for the microblogging service to make money, because it helps you find current information that you care about based on what others are saying. As with Google, some fraction of such services involve a user’s intent to buy something, which is where advertisers want to be.

… and it’s a damn good guess. I’m going to back the position of old school business meets new school and utilizes a tried and tested formula as I blabbered on about in this morning’s siliconANGLE post I wrote ….

Think about it. All the parts are there. The VC’s are looking for a cash cow with a high user adoption rate. They are looking for something that will provide a consistent flow of money like an open water spigot. The music business has a high adoption rate of listeners. At one time, they controlled the water spigot. Right now twitter controls the water spigot with the same high and growing usage rate. They are the only game in town, your basic monopoly of the API. Understand now?

…. and Eric was lucky to be number 45 …

Right now, a range of current and former Facebook executives and associated tech types are some of the 44 people already following him (I just made myself number 45). Perhaps Zuckerberg will go cold as more people follow him? Or perhaps he’ll enjoy public sharing.

… as I just made 1139 as stated above!

Technically Speaking, what do you think the number of followers will be by Monday morning? I’m sure it will easily be 10 times the number now, maybe more!

The more twitter grows, the more people try to do something different with the API. Here is one that I thought was rather amusing. It’s called follow cost. After seeing this, you may not want to follow me!

Technically Speaking, the more we twitter and tweet, the more fun things that people will come up with.

It’s late on a Friday afternoon, and while siliconANGLE is a new blogging venture that John Furrier invited me in on, it’s certainly not lacking for content! Currently we are growing, and as we grow we should have even more content for you to read.

Here is a look at what has been happening just over the past couple of days:

It’s Almost Too Late to Save Print Media – Rizzn digs in here with a great post that of course was spurred on by the closing of the newspaper today – The Rocky Mountain News.

MicroPlaza Organizes URL’s That Tweet Past You – Yes as one of our readers pointed out – it’s not a twitter based company, but more like a company that has been created once again based on the twitter API!

iPhoneMania Only in Certain Locations – iPhone seems to be a no go in Japan.

DEMO 09 Class of Demonstrators! – John was given a schedule for DEMO09 last week, and we posted it. Later we did find out that it was under embargo, so while that looks bad on us, we as siliconANGLE the blog was never officially given this item with someone saying to John “Yo, it’s under embargo until such and such time!”

Facebook Decides To Be A Commune – After writing this one, I was sort of thinking, “That’s pretty damn good!” – and when I was linked later, I was quite pleased others had a similar line of thinking. Although as I watched Mark Zuckerberg this morning on Today, I was hoping, “Man, I hope he didn’t see that and make some rude comment about communes and hippies!” And if he did, well – that would have been even cooler!

Yahoo Re-Org Round-Up – Rizzn masterfully sorted out the mess known as the Yahoo re-organization memo(s) or rather, we found out that the new CEO likes to memo out the employees! Another skillful surgery through the massive amounts of Yahoo coverage, Rizzn’fied.

Will Michael Sit Become Web 2.0’s Kevin Mitnick? – Rizzn once again cuts through the noise, and this time pulls something to to the surface that is being buried. Yes, Michael Sit – the media ignores it, but Rizzn rips through the slime of cover up to pull the facts to the surface for the readers.

Twitterfied Yet? – Do we need more twitter coverage? Google coverage? Well maybe not, but we covered it anyways.

DEMO Changing Hands – Kara Swisher Interview with Matt Marshall and Chris Shipley – John has total respect for DEMO and the changes and posted the Kara Swisher interview with Matt and Chris.

Forget InterWebs Think InterClouds – John talks about the InterClouds.

Panther Express and CDNetworks Merger – Making sure we also try to keep up with the infrastructure.

Social Media Lessons Learned – What To Do – John talks about social media and what he has learned. This seemed to be a popular subject this week, and John addressed it well.

Technically Speaking that was just the past two days over at siliconANGLE and hopefully you had a chance to check in and read a few of those posts, and if not, well there is the weekend to catch up on the angles we presented over the past couple of days, and there is more if you want to dig back a little bit.

As we all know, Google is everywhere. There is really no big surprise by this article about Google showing up in news searches now. Not a big deal if you ask me. Soon enough, Google might morph into twitter as many reports are stating. For full disclosure, yes I wrote that.

One thing I did forget to mention in the above SiliconANGLE post is that Google, while just firing up their Google twitter yesterday, has other Google properties already on twitter. So while the “real” Google is now on twitter, Google properties has been around and have already enjoyed the benefit of twitter’s real life conversation search. There was really no need for people to point this out. It is quite obvious that twitter’s benefit’s are now coming to light.

Technically Speaking, since I wrote that above post earlier this morning, the followers of the Google account have jumped another 4,000! I wonder if these people are expecting a really cool announcement or something? Only time will tell, and what I really wonder is when twitter will have to take a piss in the cup – ie. – Twitter is on steroids – follow along and you’ll understand my sense of humor!

I decided to do a fun little experiment of sorts over the weekend. I wanted to see if a tumblr site could actually get traffic. Wondering if people actually would read other people’s opinions on snippets of news stories. Now many of you have tumblr sites, and if you do, you probably are wondering if it’s worth clipping some news you saw and leaving your 2 cents.

Here are some results I thought I’d share from statistics that I am pulling straight from MyBlogLog. Now while your results could vary, I think by looking at the stats below, Tumblr can be a traffic driver or rather your tumbl could very well be read by many.

Yes, there was a perfect tie for the #2 spot of read posts yesterday. It seemed that people were equally enthralled Microsoft screwing over their fired employees (TechCrunch post), and MySpace China. Think that one was due to Rupert’s daughter’s picture? Not sure, but the offclick’s indicated that even though it was tech dominating the read, somehow the other bay area house snuck in there at the #3 offclick site.

One of the more interesting things I found was articles that I thought (I guess I shouldn’t think!) would be interesting to people, were not. Such human interest stories as the Iraq Veteran getting a gift pulled due to a marijuana conviction in 2005, even though that was re-tweeted by someone – it never seemed to gain much traction as a read story. In fact, you could almost considered it a buried story.

The sad thing is that this is a real person’s true story of having something taken away that he fully deserves, at least in my opinion – all veterans of the Iraq conflict deserve anything America can give back to them. No matter what past violations they may have committed. Sadly enough, the stories that ranked over this one were only interesting for a minute such as the Food Network star that F-Bombed in front of the King and Queen of Spain, that $700k house in SF from the day before – this must be quite a deal or something – and even George W’s visit to a hardware store where he was offered a greeter job.

Two more stories that started to surge and just went flat were the guy that was working 50 jobs in 50 states all in one year’s time, and the 11 year old kid that killed his step mother with a kiddie shotgun. Both of those stories were surging, and somehow at the end of the day, just fell out of contention for the top spots. Very strange how a story can start to take off, and just die.

Technically Speaking, I guess I do not know what people like to read about, or can only guess what might be popular or interesting. So far today – a story about saying good-bye to former employers I found in the LA Times is #1, while the #3 read story is providing the #2 offclick. Interestingly enough it’s a search site(Kosmix) I wrote about here.