Quantifying How Influential Early Adopters Are

by Tony Hung on April 15, 2007

Wonderful article in the New York Times today about a study that was done online regarding music preferences done with, and without, social influences. Paul Kedrosky says that it largely recapitulates the Matthew effect, wherein “the rich get richer, while (…)

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The First Law of Ambient Broadcasting (Or, Twitter)

by Tony Hung on April 15, 2007

The answer is that its all relative.

Is This Google’s Achilles Heel?

by Tony Hung on April 14, 2007

While I am utterly convinced of Google’s omnipotent base-owning and world-eating status, one does wonder if there is a message behind Matt Cutt’s (i.e. Google’s herald and wielder of the power cosmic) latest post on paid links. To summarize, it (…)

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The Nature of New Media: Its Neither the ClueTrain Manifesto (Nor Andrew Keen)

by Tony Hung on April 14, 2007

Its somewhere in the mushy middle.

Google Buys DoubleClick: Now, Master of The Ad-Serving Universe

by Tony Hung on April 13, 2007

Watch out, the echochamber is going to reverb endlessly throughout the weekend with this late friday announcement: Google has purchased DoubleClick for an astounding price of 3.1 billion dollars. And unlike YouTube, this deal has been in all cash. Valleywag (…)

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Tech Bloggers: We’re Pathetically Easy Hoax Bait

by Tony Hung on April 13, 2007

So just moments before I was about to push “publish” on an article named “CBS is Crazy: I Love Tech, But It Makes No Sense” about how CBS was “going” to replace Don Imus’s radio show (who I presume you (…)

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Joost Gets Huge Boost in Deal With CBS

by Tony Hung on April 12, 2007

Finally! A reason for my mother to start using Joost!