http://www.brianfeener.com Alexandria, VA | Business Analysis of Sports, Music, Tech, & More Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:06:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_564" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Jonathan Fanene, Mosi Tatupu, Aiulua Fanene"][/caption] On February 23, 2010, Mosi Tatupu passed away at the age of 54. Back in late-January, I had the opportunity to be around Mosi as part of Team USA vs. The World. While I didn't have much personal interaction with him, ... http://www.brianfeener.com/563/thoughts-on-mosi-tatupu-memorial-fund/ Joss Stone is on The Tonight Show singing her latest single. I'm glad to hear that she's realizing that trying for the pop hit isn't helping her career. It's not her fault that she can sing circles around Fergie. But it is her fault that she didn't recognize on her last effort ... http://www.brianfeener.com/560/josss-microcosm-joss-stone-on-the-tonight-show/ $1mm ... $4mm  ... whatever the amount, text message-based payments are a big deal for this Haiti rebuilding effort. And it makes perfect sense to me why - it's a painless payment. In less than 25 characters, you can pledge money to a charity through your cell phone bill, something you won't ... http://www.brianfeener.com/552/no-pain-payment-text-message-as-form-of-payment/ I only have one New Years Resolution this year - not to text and drive. Did you know! That 60% of texts are answered within 90 seconds. ... I know the culture is what the culture is but how is a text functionally different than an email? We don't have ... http://www.brianfeener.com/550/new-years-resolution/ (It's late and I need to wake up early tomorrow... I'm giving myself no more than 10 minutes to write/edit this...) SMH is Twitter-speak for "shaking my head."  Like when you see that your aunt and uncle are dancing a little bit too enthusiastically at your cousin's wedding.... Could they have messed ... http://www.brianfeener.com/542/smh-leno-conan/ Just a quick note on Ke$ha and her #1 song "Tik Tok" from NPR -- "The lyrics mean nothing, and the song is about nothing, and the song is not a very good song... but it sounds enough like a good song so that you can't tell the difference. Perfect description.  The ... http://www.brianfeener.com/527/k-to-the-e-to-the-dollar-sign/ I'm not even going to comment on how many times there was gratuitous product placement.  I get it. ("This pizza moment was brought to you by DiGiornio!") Not concerned with how many times they referred people to Twitter, even though I think that for corporate entities, the Twitter world is never ... http://www.brianfeener.com/525/peoples-choice-awards-and-myspace/ So I just finished posting enough content to the site that I feel comfortable enough broadcasting it out... Team USA vs The World can be found at http://www.usaVworld.com and if it doesn't get you pumped up about international football then I don't know what will. Huge thanks to Steve, Anthony, Alex & Nicole ... http://www.brianfeener.com/521/made-a-site/ Bold prediction: Facebook is 24 months away from being as relevant as MySpace is in 2009. The more stuff like Facebook Connect pushes every single action/comment power users do on the web into the site, the less people are going to use it. Tech companies are regularly recommending integrating it, ... http://www.brianfeener.com/516/bold-prediction-for-2010-regarding-facebook/ At our core,  it's a guitar and a voice. Regardless of where you think music is going, you can rest assured that the opportunity to give a view of your own humanity in a performance is still there.  It's for the taking. John Mayer, for all his talents, hasn't been able to ... http://www.brianfeener.com/514/purit/