Yahoo’s Mash Faces Two Big Challenges (Not The Least Of Which Is “Yet-Another-Itis”).
by Tony Hung on September 15, 2007
Yahoo has released its social network “Mash” into beta, with a limited number of invites circulating around your favourite social networking sites. I’ve yet to actually play with it myself (not deigned to being big or influential enough to get (…)
Lifehacker Reveals Greatest Hack Since Sliced Bread … Unfortunately.
by Tony Hung on September 15, 2007
Its nice to see it get some real publicity. I’m referring, of course, to the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) project, which I’ve written about before a few times. Its a open source linux project which allows you to turn your (…)
I Have A New Favourite News Aggregator. Have You Tried Blogrunner?
by Tony Hung on September 14, 2007
So, you might have your favourite news aggregator. God knows I love Techmeme. I read Megite for some different flavours. Tailrank from time to time. Perhaps you like to scan the socially driven headlines via popurls.com. My new favourite news (…)
With Its Acquisition By Yahoo!, BuzzTracker May Leap Over Rivals
by Tony Hung on September 14, 2007
So you may have heard that Yahoo! snapped up BuzzTracker, a rather small potato in a field of news/blog aggregators, for a cool $5 million dollars. The details can be found courtesy of Kara Swisher at AllThingsD.com over here. Like (…)
Web 2.0 Kitsch or Web 2.0 Learning Tool? You Decide.
by Tony Hung on September 13, 2007
I can’t decide if this is brilliant, or merely the sign of how far over the shark “Web2.0″ has gone. What I’m talking about is a deck of cards, a la Iraq’s Most Wanted, except that these cards feature Web2.0 (…)
* Propeller An Apt Name — Its Time To Sink Or Swim, Lads
by Tony Hung on September 13, 2007
Yes, its a few days late, but a few last thoughts about Netscape is moving its ‘social’ component to Propeller.com, namely that I “dig” the new name (sorry, I couldn’t help myself), I think its a good idea that its (…)