Friday, July 4, 2008
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What I've Been Busy With You may have noticed the lack of updates here. Several reasons for this. Chief amongst them is the fact that I've been increasingly busy with Mashable's new video podcast series, which is getting better and better by the episode (we're already worlds better than episode number two, which is the first episodes that I produced end to end).
In other news, I've been busy on projects away from Mashable, as well. I'm building up a queue of shows to release on my personal video podcast feed. I've got a couple screencasts and a few interesting discussion episodes, as well.
(By the way, if you're interested in spotting me some cash to run some ads in that show, I've already got a pretty impressive number of folks subscribed to the show, especially considering there haven't been any episodes released to the feed yet.)
At any rate, I'm pretty proud of the stuff I've been doing for Mashable. Check out the latest July 4 episode of Mashable Conversations, where Sean P. Aune and I discuss Twitter and Identi.ca
Aside from the work related things, I woke up early on Thursday to appear on an episode of Falken's Maze, a show about AI and the Semantic Web. You don't want to miss it, it was a lot of fun to do (my episode should be up on Monday).
/rizzn
Labels: identi.ca, mashable, sean p. aune, twitter
posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 11:29 AM[Blog] | [Home] | [Robots]
Twitter is Poo Poo Bad Hey folks. There's a lot of folks who've Direct Messaged me lately on Twitter.
I'm real sorry for not getting back to you. I'm used to Twitter sending me my DMs via Twitter. Unfortunately, I've been missing them all since Twitter's IM functionality has been all goofball for a good long while.
You probably know this.
At any rate, apologies go out to @technosailor, @duncanriley, @markdykeman, @patrickruffini, @micah, @calilewis, @seanpercival, and @sampad. Those that are timely for me to reply to, I will, for the rest, I extend my apologies.
/rizzn
Labels: direct messages, twitter
posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 1:37 AM Monday, May 26, 2008[Blog] | [Home] | [Robots]
Who Here Uses Kyte?
I've been tasked to look into Kyte over at Mashable in connection with one of our side projects. I used the product a long time ago, and I'm sure the service has changed radically since then. The last time I used it, it would crash my browser half the time, and the other half, it wouldn't really play anything resembling video.
None the less, it sounded like an interesting concept at the time. At this moment, though, I'm only nominally familiar with the product line over there. I'll likely be taking a close look at it during some point during the week, but I know a number of my readers have used it extensively (I'm looking at you Robert Scoble).
As I haven't gotten comments working using my FriendFeed engine yet, go ahead and head over to FriendFeed or Twitter or my email and respond with your thoughts on the topic.
Specifically: What is Kyte good for? What does it excel at? Where does it suck? Is it in the UStream space, the Utterz space, or some as of yet undefined space?
Thanks for all the response (how's that for optimism?).
Labels: friendfeed, kyte, mashable, robert scoble, twitter
posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 7:31 PM Sunday, May 18, 2008[Blog] | [Home] | [Robots]
Excuse the Dust My site (rizzn.com, for those of you viewing this somewhere else), is undergoing some major changes. Robert Scoble, a few days ago, was talking about his diminished influence via his blog somewhere (probably FriendFeed).
That got me to thinking of the value of my personal domain simply displaying only my blog content and a list of headlines of what I write at Mashable. My personal influence is distributed all over the place. Digg, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Mashable, Google Reader, and FriendFeed, in no particular order.
I suppose I could throw up a bunch of widgets here on the site and be done with it, but what I'd rather have is an integrated experience.
What I'm trying to create here at Rizzn.com, essentially, is a showcase for what I do everywhere. FriendFeed's API is going to be a central piece to all of this, since it's where I think the conversation is moving to for my circle of friends, but also because it aggregates everything I do elsewhere.
You'll see my FriendFeed, er, feed, along with what I say on these various items very prominently listed on the front page.
Within the next few days, you'll also see FriendFeed become the way I power my comments system. Goodbye Disqus (not that I didn't like you, I just like FriendFeed better!), and definitely goodbye Blogger comments.
And yes, I'll be making this available as a service or product or something soon. Stay tuned here.
Labels: comments, digg, disqus, friendfeed, reddit, robert scoble, twitter
posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins at 12:01 AM
