Will Rogers Ripoff Canadians For the iPhone?

by Tony Hung on October 29, 2007

I’ve heard from more than one place — including at work, oddly enough — that the Jesus Phone iPhone is coming to Canada via Rogers (one of our few wireless carriers) before Christmas. Mat Ingram points out that the price (…)

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Tales From The Unit, Part II: On Making Impossible Decisions

by Tony Hung on October 19, 2007

At some stage in every medical trainee’s career, at some point you hear about someone describing being in a situation where not one, but *two* medical crises are happening at the same time — and there’s only one of you. (…)

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Netscape’s Traffic Takes A Dive After It Splits Off Social News Into Propeller?

by Tony Hung on October 11, 2007

About a month ago, I wrote about how Netscape dumped its social news component into its own site, Propeller.com and wondered rhetorically how it would turn out — with the subtext being, perhaps, how *Netscape* would really fare now that (…)

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Swag Alert: 100 Free Business Cards, Courtesy of Ziki

by Tony Hung on October 10, 2007

If you’re the type who likes free swag, then here’s a heads up. Ziki is a people-search engine (a la spock), which allows you to not only search for other people, but secure your own profile for others to see.  (…)

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… But Is The World Ready For Mobile Lifestreaming? (Or Microblogging? Or Presence Management?)

by Tony Hung on October 9, 2007

So it looks like Google bought the ‘other’ ambient broadcasting / lifestreaming / presence management / microblogging tool, Jaiku today. Mind, like Mat Ingram, I haven’t actually tried Jaiku, but from all accounts it has a great many similarities to (…)

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Mixaloo Brings Mixtapes To Social Media (In A Crippled Kind of Way)

by Tony Hung on October 9, 2007

Ah, the mixtape. Staple of the 80′s (and 90′s, I suppose as you got into mixCDs, perhaps), where has it gone in the latter half of the 2000′s? Its a question that’s better answered by music-ophiles (i.e. not me), but (…)

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Tales From The Unit

by Tony Hung on October 2, 2007

I’ve taken a short hiatus from DJI as a result of higher-than-usual work loads at hospital. The next month may (or may not) be spotty thanks to the fact that I am working in the intensive care unit, where we (…)

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