http://www.mixx.com/users/erictheinfonaut Mixx of activity by erictheinfonaut en-us There are certain hallmarks of the past Bat-franchises that we really, really DON'T want to see in any upcoming Batman movies, and we're worried enough about those things that we feel they justify immediate discussion. Wed Jul 16 18:16:25 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/1083309/seven_things_we_don_t_want_to_see_in_batman_3 thingy_1083309 erictheinfonaut http://www.movieretriever.com/blog/editors/85/Seven-Things-We-DON%27T-Want-to-See-in-Batman-3 With Great Power Comes... Some Really Bad Movies: for every Iron Man, Superman: The Movie, or Spider-Man 2 there are a dozen lesser flicks spit out by Hollywood. Here's our list of the worst superhero movies ever made. Wed May 28 19:20:32 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/340051/top_ten_worst_superhero_movies_ever_made thingy_340051 erictheinfonaut http://www.movieretriever.com/blog/editors/32/With-Great-Power-Comes...-Some-Really-Bad-Movies:-VideoHound%27s-Top-Ten-Worst-Superhero-Movies-Ever-Made Using flow charting software, self-proclaimed social media junky Andrew Shuttleworth has created a diagram detailing how information flows through the social networking and media sites that he uses. The results are surprisingly complex. Fri Feb 08 20:27:55 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/95733/visualizing_social_media_fatigue thingy_95733 erictheinfonaut http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/visualizing_social_media_fatigue.php Techcrunch is reporting hat Yahoo will acquire video startup Maven Networks for $150 million today or tomorrow. Thu Jan 31 21:42:22 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/85044/rumor_yahoo_to_announce_large_video_acquisition_maven_networks_for_150_million thingy_85044 erictheinfonaut http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/rumor-yahoo-to-announce-large-video-acquisition-today/ Why would the brilliant businessmen at Microsoft buy a share of Facebook for that ridiculous amount of money? The answer lays on Facebook's potential to dominate Microsoft's current advertising competition. Thu Jan 31 16:00:19 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/84443/seomoz_the_definitive_reason_why_facebook_is_worth_at_least_15_billion thingy_84443 erictheinfonaut http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-definitive-reason-why-facebook-is-worth-at-least-15-billion New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that he is investigating whether Intel Corp. illegally coerced its customers into buying its PC microprocessors rather than those of rival Advanced Micro Devices. Wed Jan 30 22:46:26 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/83371/andrew_cuomo_v_intel thingy_83371 erictheinfonaut http://socialissues.wiseto.com/Articles/173289802/ Apparently, Business Week is actively seeking out sites deep linking to them and requesting that those links be removed: "Yes, that’s right, an ad-driven publication doesn’t want us to drive traffic to them." Mon Jan 28 16:37:10 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/79803/why_traditional_print_media_is_doomed thingy_79803 erictheinfonaut http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/01/24/why-traditional-print-media-is-doomed/ Is this serious? Sat Jan 26 04:57:37 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/76553/myspace_news_the_digg_killer comment_27181 Great post from CNET blogger Chris Soghoian who argues that Facebook's permissive policies regarding application access to user data poses a serious threat to user privacy that could seriously damage Facebook's reputation. Fri Jan 25 17:49:34 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/76407/the_next_facebook_privacy_scandal thingy_76407 erictheinfonaut http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9854409-46.html From the Inside AdWords blog: demographic bidding and reports are available to advertisers who run contextually targeted or placement-targeted campaigns (with CPC or CPM bidding) on certain sites in the Google content network. Thu Jan 24 19:08:09 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/74836/google_introduces_demographic_targeting_in_adwords_bidding thingy_74836 erictheinfonaut http://adwords.blogspot.com/2008/01/demographic-bidding-beta-test.html Blaming "human error", the MPAA has retracted its claim that college students were responsible for 44 percent of the total lost revenue from illegal downloading of movies, now saying the number is closer to 15 percent. Wed Jan 23 04:25:26 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/72649/mpaa_comes_clean_admits_piracy_stats_are_bogus thingy_72649 erictheinfonaut http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j33CBI8sUdc5ni7RlxSj5SIEc2mwD8UB6S0O2