DownloadSquad Discovers Splogs. Welcome to 2005, Guys.

by Tony Hung on July 31, 2007

Oh, how positively quaint. DownloadSquad, a fairly prominent blog on the Weblogs Network (featuring posts on free software and downloads) goes on a long rant on – my, how shocking — some blogs are stealing the content on DownloadSquad.com for (…)

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A Backlash Against Facebook Applications Will Come — This is How.

by Tony Hung on July 30, 2007

For those who follow popular tech bloggers (and I expect most, if not all of you do, if you’re reading this blog), there have been two interesting posts within the last 48 hours few days or so. One involves Jason (…)

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Stupid Question: When *WILL* Having A Business Plan Matter?

by Tony Hung on July 27, 2007

I only ask because, as you may or may not have heard, the ambient broadcasting / continuous partial attention phenomenon that is Twitter has stepped up to the big leagues and has acquired VC funding — so that it may (…)

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Dvorak Declares Apple “All Right”. Here’s My Own “Choose Apple” Story.

by Tony Hung on July 26, 2007

I’m not going to jump into the whole Mac vs. PC debate right now because, amongst many other things, its tiresome.  But John C. Dvorak, eternal curmudgeon of almost all things technology has recently declared that “Macs Are All Right” (…)

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TechCrunch Launches Spawn on the Sly: Crunchbase Debuted, Like 2 Weeks Ago.

by Tony Hung on July 25, 2007

Well, I must have missed the newsletter or something — but it seems like TechCrunch launched its database of Web2.0 companies about two weeks ago, with an appropriately/cringeworthy “crunch” like moniker: Crunchbase.  And in fact,it may yet be in ‘stealth’ (…)

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Can You Really Copyright “Social Networking … But For College Students”?

by Tony Hung on July 25, 2007

When something in the social mediasphere reaches people like my own *mother*, you know its penetrated the public consciousness.  Of sorts.  Yes, I am referring to the lawsuit leveled against Marc “I turned down a billion dollars” Zuckerburg for allegedly (…)

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When You Play With Fake, Expect To Be Found

by Tony Hung on July 18, 2007

Let’s put aside for a second that Fake Steve Jobs is neither funny nor witty, and ask ourselves why we should believe the shrill outrage of the author of a blog that is *purported* to be funny and witty. {I (…)

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