24
2010
Point 82: Marketing Tech News Roundup 9/20-9/24
With the return of network television, we realize you’re probably didn’t have time to follow the marketing and tech news across the Internets this week.
Dry your eyes friends, that’s why we’re here.
While laughing to the unpredictable hi-jinks of “Two and Half Men*,” Twitter went down, Facebook went down and whatever the next social network we’ll whine about was discussed at a super secret meeting.
On to the news.
Silicon Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors Colluding?
In the not too distant West Coast, a meeting of angel investors became the equivalent of front page tabloid material when the word “collusion” got thrown around. While you wonder how this is important, realize that the next shiny object we’ll slobber over will probably be funded by someone at that table. Do yourself a favor and read up.
Hack exposes Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability on the Twitters
On Tuesday morning, thousands of visitors to Twitter.com were greeted with a nasty worm that potentially sent thousands of less than safe tweets. Dubbed the “onMouseOver” incident, the vulnerability was resolved by 10 a.m. EDT. And we thought the fail whale was bad.
Productivity in the workplace hit a new high Thursday afternoon when Facebook went down for a few hours due to multiple errors. While we don’t revel in any site going down, a few more outages and any talk of a double dip recession will cease.
Apparently, the “wifi on steriods” era will be upon us soon. The FCC gave the go-ahead to open up the vacant spectrum between television channels to use for wireless devices. Everyone wins, the public, Google, Microsoft and corporate lobbyists.
Saudi Arabia Bloggers Need a License?
It’s obvious we like to poke fun here at Point to Point, like at the city of Philadelphia trying to raise revenues with a blogger license. But any potential regulation on the dissemination of information gets a big thumbs down from us.
That’s it for us, you’ve been great. Enjoy that first weekend of fall with your DVR.
*We kid. None of our readers watch “Two and Half Men.” At least not anymore.
Flickr photo courtesy of Erik K Veland
