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Security Best Practices for Collective Digital Studio Talent - 2016
With YouTubers becoming larger celebrities every year, 2016 has started off with a hacker group getting access to YouTuber’s social, financial and management account and sharing their data via their Twitter feed. This obviously has some of talent very worried. Theories were flying: “They must have cracked 2-factor authentication!” “No, I bet the MCNs are getting hacked.
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Building Lego WALL-E
I got a Lego WALL-E for Christmas and I’m not sure there’s ever been a better use for time lapse than watching me in my basement workshop play with Legos on a Saturday night.
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How to Deploy Wordpress without Murderous Rage
Yes, it's possible to deploy Wordpress at scale without screaming.
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This Hotel is Awesome
In my continuing effort to make more videos, I give you a whirlwind tour of the hotel I visited while speaking at the Streaming Media West conference earlier this week.
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Speaking at the Variety Big Data Summit
My career in technology has taken me to some interesting places over the last 10+ years: St. Louis (less interesting), Mountain View, Jerusalem, New York, San Francisco, and Beverly Hills, but this last trip to Beverly Hills was the first time I got to speak at a Hollywood event. I recently had the opportunity to be on a panel at the Variety Big Data Summit, and it was…well, I’m pretty sure I’m officially a fancy media executive now.
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Amazon Dash Buttons are Awesome For Everything but Buying Stuff
Sell a wifi-enabled button to buy stuff on Amazon? Sure you’d have to make sure you can’t easily modify the button so that people can buy them and not buy stuff on Amazon with them, but that shouldn’t be too hard. Amazon had barely started selling their $5 “Dash Buttons” before this post on Medium showed up: “How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button to track Baby Data”.
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