Andrew Keen Is A Royal Douchebag

by Tony Hung on August 29, 2007

I was recently catching up on a whole bunch of episodes of the Colbert Report the other day not knowing — to my great surprise — that he recently interviewed social media troll Andrew Keen. For those who are not (…)

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Skype Gives Back 7 Days for 2 Days Of Outage.

by Tony Hung on August 22, 2007

I was pretty harsh with this mealy mouthed response to the Skype outage a few days ago — but it looks like in a bid to make things right Skype is doing more than just making apologies. In giving a (…)

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Yes, Google / YouTube Introducing In Video Ads Is A “Big Deal”

by Tony Hung on August 22, 2007

If this isn’t the biggest news item of August 22nd, it should be. I’m referring of course, to Google / YouTube introducing in video ads, which is covered in detail by Jordan McCallum (who does a good job), and the (…)

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Tafiti: Slick and Somewhat Unusable

by Tony Hung on August 21, 2007

Microsoft released Tafiti recently, and its is new “visual” type of search engine that rides on the Silverlight engine.  Hearing that its a slick piece of work (and being the kind of person who likes to try slick pieces of (…)

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* Short Hiatus Explained In Two Words

by Tony Hung on August 21, 2007

Well, after a generally upbeat August — in terms of frequency of postings — you may have noticed an absence over the past few days.  The reason can be explained in two words: Harry Potter.  I picked up the Deathly (…)

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LA Times: “… Its Bigger Than Jesus, Worse Than Bin Laden!”

by Tony Hung on August 18, 2007

Well, it seems like I’m not the only one drinking Google’s Kool-Aid.  Its been a few days after Google News Comments were announced, and it seems like I’m not the only one who thinks its bigger than Jesus — although, (…)

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Newspapers vs. Google Round XII: “Please — Just Buy Us”

by Tony Hung on August 17, 2007

If it sounds as sad as I think it does, I worry that the ongoing debate (if it can be called a debate) about the evolution of newspapers in the face of Google has taken a turn for the pathetic. (…)

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