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 (…)

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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 (…)

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The Recent Ad-Blocking Debate Is Absurd And Futile

by Tony Hung on September 14, 2007

There’s another debate about ad-blocking software on browsers and what kind of legal ramifications it might have — all of which is silly and futile.  I don’t know what might come out of that debate from a legal point of view, (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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* 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 (…)

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